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BY ADVOCATE STAFF Statistics issued by the Central Alberta Realtors Association suggest that the local residential resale market is off to its fastest start in years.

The association reported on Tuesday that January home sales in Red Deer and the surrounding region were the highest for that month in seven years, and the third highest tally ever for a January. The 261 sales processed through the Multiple Listing Service system marked an eight per cent improvement over the same month in 2013.

It was also the 13th consecutive month that sales have exceeded the figure for the same period a year earlier.

The average price of the homes sold in January was $313,550 — a 13.4 per cent improvement from a year ago.

However, because average prices include homes of various types, sizes and locations, they may not provide an accurate indication of market trends.

Meanwhile, the inventory of used homes in Red Deer and the rest of the area covered by the Central Alberta Realtors Association continues to decrease. The 2,003 active residential listings in the association’s MLS system as of the end of January was down nine per cent from a year earlier.

Last month, the association processed 565 new listings, which were six per cent fewer than in January 2013. It said the supply of homes available for resale has been in decline since fall.

The Central Alberta Realtors Association represents more than 560 Realtors in the region.

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The wicked Queen from Snow White performs in the Cornerstone Youth Theatre production of “Grimm Fairytales,” which opens to the public this Friday at the First Church of the Nazarene at 2 McVicar Street in Red Deer. This production, one of three the troupe is doing this year, asks the question, ‘What if happily ever after simply disappeared?’ For information on tickets and shows call 403-986-2981 or log onto www.cornerstoneyouththeatre.org.

If Alberta is serious about a highspeed rail line the government should pick a route and acquire the land now, said a number of those who addressed an all-party MLA committee on Tuesday.

Former Red Deer mayor Morris Flewwelling said if the province doesn’t start buying up land now for a high-speed corridor property prices will keep rising and become a “major stumbling block” for the project.

The success of a high-speed rail link between Edmonton, Red Deer and Calgary also relies on travellers being able to access efficient city transportation systems at their destinations, said Flewwelling. Bus or LRT fares could even be built into high-speed rail ticket prices.

“I think it’s really critical (that) it’s seamless, you just keep moving,” he told the Legislative Standing Committee on Alberta’s Economic Future at a public session in Red Deer on Tuesday night that drew about 40 people.

“It doesn’t make any sense if you spend 40 minutes getting to Edmonton and then wait an hour to get to the university.”

Lacombe-area farmer Tony Jeglum joked that the time to buy the highspeed rail corridor land was probably in 1905.

Even if the rail system remains on the back burner, the least that should be done soon is to secure the corridor, he suggested.

“It’s time to make that first step forward.”

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Provincial budget tour touches on poverty, education

BY RENÉE FRANCOEUR ADVOCATE STAFF Poverty, growing classroom sizes and standardized tests were some of main topics discussed on Tuesday evening in Red Deer for the Alberta New Democrats’ provincial budget tour stop.

David Eggen, NDP MLA for Edmonton-Calder led the discussion for the public tour dubbed “Making Life Affordable,” with former Red Deer mayor Morris Flewwelling and local educator and author Joe Bower also on the panel.

“We’re hear to listen first and foremost . . . It’s for us to gain insights in regards to what people want their budget to look like so we can take these concerns back to the legislature,” Eggen said of the annual tour. “The PC

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Eggen said his party has been especially concerned with the budget ever since the major cuts last year, the bulk of which were felt in the post secondary education field.

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the economy is continuing to grow and the population is growing rapidly and we see the effects of last year’s shrinking budget — negative effects in education and health care. The budget last year was out of keeping with the reality in this province. It was irresponsible.”

The NDPs want to see a respect for working people, well-funded social services and a fair tax and royalty scheme, Eggen said.

While steering clear of aligning with any particular political party ideology during his talk, Flewwelling focused on the large gap in Red Deer between the households pulling in over $100,000 and those below the poverty line.

“During my time as mayor I was made painfully aware of poverty in our community. We are a very wealthy community . . . but 16 per cent of our population live with depravation and the bulk of those people are children,”

he said. “I am about province building and nation building and we have to have strong communities for that.”

Flewwelling also highlighted the revenue imbalances between governments.

“If you were to take a dollar and say what percentage of it goes to the municipally, it would be five per cent.

And in that five per cent is a chunk of education tax, don’t forget . . .The province reaps 37 per cent,” he said.

Flewwelling said Alberta doesn’t need new taxes but that it needs to redistribute what it already has.

Bower, who has been teaching for 14 years, said Albertans also need to be careful when it comes to education and not reduce it to simply an economic and labour debate, calling out faults in standardized testing.

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RAIL: Skeptical of benefits Before high-speed rail is developed it might make sense to restore traditional rail passenger service, similar to the Dayliner that used to run between the province’s two major cities, he said.

Gavin Bates, a retired mechanical engineer from Innisfail, said the province will likely have its work cut out for it trying to find a corridor, based on the difficulties in routing a proposed north-south transmission line.

It will be “almost impossible” to find a route that is acceptable to rural landowners, he predicted.

Ralph Cervi, a former Red Deer Mountie, said the government missed a perfect opportunity to create an infrastructure corridor when it was looking for the power line route.

When a high-speed route is mapped out, it should be wide enough to provide for any future infrastructure needs, whether roads, pipelines, or transmission lines so repeated land expropriation is not required.

Calgary-East MLA and committee chair Moe Amery said many of the comments received in Red Deer about the need to get going on land acquisition echoed similar views heard at the committee’s meeting in Calgary on Monday night.

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Price for Sylvan Lake fire hall spikes

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF Sylvan Lake’s new fire hall is already behind schedule and now council has learned the price tag could jump $1.6 million.

A new cost projection presented to council on Monday estimates the project will cost around $6.2 million.

That spike gave council pause and a motion to approve that budget was defeated. Instead, council asked staff to bring back some more information on the project and its rising costs no later than the March 24 meeting.

Mayor Sean McIntyre said for most of council last night’s presentation was their first introduction to the project. They were reluctant to go ahead with a $5 million borrowing bylaw without more background.

They wanted to know how the design and location about the cost of the line.

“It’s prudent thinking to do the grass roots work right now,” he said.

The cost of high-speed rail varies widely depending on the source. A 2009 government study pegged the bill at between $3 billion and $20 billion depending on the technology and type of train chosen.

Some of the 15 people who made presentations to the committee were skeptical of the benefits of highspeed rail.

Norman Wiebe, of Red Deer, said he is concerned that existing high-speed rail systems around the world are heavily subsidized by governments. Improving Hwy 2 would make more financial sense and provide immediate results.

Wiebe also wondered if high-speed rail could deliver on its promise of shaving significant time off journeys to Edmonton or Calgary, when checking in and passing through security are factored in.

TOUR: Use information in legislature “When we reduce something as magnificently messy as education down to a test score, we always conceal far more than we ever reveal because we’re simplifying it to one number. . . We would like to think the scores tell us about the quality of our schools but they are not,” he said. “They are telling

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Bower said he’d found that schools that score in the top 20 are typically made up of students from higher income families.

He also called attention to the consistently growing sizes of Alberta classrooms.

“I bring it up as related to the budget because I do believe it can used as a cost savings way of slashing the public education budget. Have more teachers and stick more kids in all the classes,” he said. Bower quoted school situations in urban centres with as many as 40 to 50 children in one class.

“You have high school kids writing the minister themselves saying that this is affecting their learning,” he said.

Other points of concern shared by the dozen members of the public who showed up for the NDP event at the Pioneer Lodge included the spiking costs of propane, the shrinking Canadian Pension Plan, the lack of a province-wide poverty reduction strategy, expensive and substandard senior care in long term and assisted living care facilities and the question of how to ensure the protection of the province’s water in the face of expanding industry.

“We use this information directly in the legislature,” Eggen said. “We consider our seats as a forum to help amplify concerns of regular working people.

Not everyone is a millionaire in this province and we recognize that we have to ensure that the wealth of this province is benefiting everyone.” rfrancoeur@reddeeradvocate.com

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were chosen as part of a full review of the project.

McIntyre said the initial numbers were a preliminary estimate. When the project went to the architects, a more detailed estimate was provided based on recent similar projects around the province.

One of the big cost increases is related to the site work for the fire hall that is proposed for a site just north of the town’s RCMP station on Beacon Hill on 50th Street a few blocks south of town centre.

Preliminary budgeting tagged site improvements as a $125,000 item, but the revised budget boosts the costs of getting the site ready for a building to $900,000. The increase is largely to reconfigure the site that slopes five metres from one corner to the other.

“The costs to reshape the land are definitely the biggest issues we’re facing right now,” McIntyre acknowledged.

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A Lacombe teenager faces a jail sentence for a spree of paintball gun shootings, including entering a McDonalds, covering his face with his shirt and firing paintballs at employees.

Justin Calderbank, 19, of Lacombe pleaded guilty to assault with a weapon and mischief charges in October 2013 for the March 14, 2013, incident. He was sullen in Red Deer provincial court Tuesday as judge Gordon Deck passed sentence, a 90-day intermittent sentence to be served on weekends.

Calderbank, along with three others, was arrested on March 14 after reports of people being shot with paintball guns throughout north Red Deer.

Crown Prosecutor Robin Snider called the incident terrifying, adding it was completely disturbing behaviour that could have been more serious.

She showed footage taken by the people arrested on a camera phone of the incidents to the court.

In all of the videos Calderbank is shown firing the paintball gun.

In the first video he is seen outside the Tim Hortons, near the intersection of Gaetz Avenue and 67th Street, firing at the building. Then they went to the Boston Pizza on Gaetz Avenue near 76th Street where Calderbank fired on people smoking outside of the restaurant. In the final video he is seen entering the McDonalds just south of Boston Pizza on Gaetz, his face is covered and he starts firing paintballs aimed at employees behind the counter.

In each incident a girl is heard laughing in the background as the shootings occur.

Snider suggested a six month jail term for the teenager, who was 18 at the time of the incident.

Calderbank had his head down throughout the showing of the three videos. His defence counsel, Murray Shack, called the behaviour shocking and said Calderbank was physically sick while watching the videos.

Shack said when Calderbank was arrested he clearly indicated he was the shooter and gave a full statement to police. He was told of his rights to obtain legal counsel, but said he was the shooter and gave a full statement without counsel.

On his first court appearance Calderbank wanted to enter a guilty plea, but because of the seriousness of the charges he was referred to obtain some legal advice.

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Wildrose budget targets bureaucracy CLIPPING REDFORD’S TRAVEL WINGS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Alberta’s official Opposition says it’s time to clip the premier’s travel wings to help balance the provincial budget.

The Wildrose party says the province should ratchet back travel by Redford and her MLAs to $500,000 a year so it can begin to pay down a capital debt pegged at more than $8 billion.

It was one of 16 proposals released Tuesday by the Wildrose in its alternative budget plan.

Finance Minister Doug Horner is to deliver the actual 2014-15 budget on March 6.

Wildrose finance critic Rob Anderson said his party’s plan would balance the budget within one to three years. It couldn’t be done any sooner without cutting front-line jobs, he added.

“We want to stay away from cuts to the front lines — nurses, doctors, teachers, social workers — and instead focus on the bureaucracy,” Anderson said in an interview.

“We think we can do that with the revenues that are coming in.”

Anderson suggested that the best way to balance the books is to eradicate administrative bloat, starting with Redford’s office.

He said leaders must “lead by example,” but Redford has not done so, particularly with a recent trip to South Africa for Nelson Mandela’s funeral.

Redford has apologized for the $45,000 trip, which included first-class airfare for herself and her aide and use of a government plane when commercial flights were available.

Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil went to the Mandela funeral for under $1,000.

Critics have questioned other expensive travel by Redford, including last month’s appearance at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

Wildrose figures indicate travel costs under Redford have grown every year — from $626,000 in 2012 to a projected $1.4 million in 2014.

Derek Cummings, press secretary for International and Intergovernmental Relations Minister Cal Dallas, disputed the Wildrose projection and questioned the basis for it but would not suggest an alternative figure.

“The number of missions and the associated expenses related to ministerial and MLA international missions are different from year to year, depending on our estimation of the opportunities to support Alberta’s advocacy and trade and investment priorities,” Cummings said in a statement.

“I would note that expenses last year were only slightly more than the approximately $730,000 in 2008.”

The Opposition is also proposing other savings such as cutting 10 associate ministers from Redford’s 29-member cabinet.

Another $10 million could be saved, it said, by cutting in half the size of the government’s communica-

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tions arm, the Public Affairs Bureau.

Anderson said the non-partisan bureau is not only too large but has become a de facto partisan bullhorn for Redford’s Progressive Conservatives.

The Wildrose would place caps on bonuses and severance payouts and claw back an eight per cent salary increase Redford’s government granted all members of the legislature following the 2012 election. The premier has said that it’s actually an eight per cent cut compared with what MLAs were making before the last election.

The base pay for Alberta politicians is $156,000.

Caucus leaders and cabinet ministers earn more.

The Wildrose said it would also put an end to corporate subsidies and reduce expenditures on government bureaucracy by 20 per cent.

Total savings would be $1.9 billion in the first year alone, Anderson said.

But the Wildrose would also spend money — $48 billion over the next decade to fund priority infrastructure such as schools and roads.

The Redford government is faced with borrowing $17 billion by 2016 to pay for schools, roads, hospitals and other infrastructure for the hundreds of thousands of newcomers coming to live in Alberta.

Horner could not be immediately reached for comment Tuesday.

However, he and others in government have challenged similar Wildrose plans as rose-coloured blueprints for a crippling infrastructure deficit and mass layoffs.

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Man charged with murder has other trial postponed A man awaiting trial in the shooting death of his father and a former Red Deer city councillor had a trial on other matters postponed.

Aaron Guilbault, 31, faces charges of criminal harassment and breaching release conditions, in addition to a second degree murder charge. He was arrested on Nov. 5 in Stettler shortly after the body of his father, Tim Guilbault, was discovered in a family residence near Red Lodge Park, west of Bowden.

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PAINTBALL: Banned for life from owning firearm Shack said the shooting was not his idea, but instead the suggestion of the laughing woman from the videos.

To counter what he called a harsh sentence, Shack suggested a 90-day sentence to be served intermittently, allowing Calderbank to maintain his employment.

Deck said he thought Calderbank’s remorse was genuine, but he was in a difficult spot in passing sentence. While he wanted to give Calderbank credit for the remorse shown, he also wanted the sentence to be a deterrent to other young people who could commit a similar offence.

Deck agreed with Shack’s suggestion of a 90-day sentence, but also included a suspended sentence of 18 months and a total fine of $500.

As well, Calderbank received a lifetime ban from owning firearms and was ordered to provide a DNA sample.

Two other adults were charged in the incident, Lucas Andreef, 21, and Ashley Young, 19. A youth was also arrested. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

FIRE HALL: Delayed until July 2015 When the site was chosen several years ago it was picked for its geographic advantages and proximity to future growth areas on the west side of town. The existing fire hall is located further to the east side of

Trial dates on the harassment and breaching charges, for which Guilbault has pleaded not guilty, had been set for May 21 and 26, 2013. Crown Prosecutor Jason Snider and defence counsel Patty McNaughton said because these charges stem from the same incident they should be set for after the second degree murder trial Guilbault faces. That trial is currently scheduled for Jan. 12, 2015.

The other matters were adjourned to the case management office to set a new court day.

Police end Amber Alert for baby; child found on doorstep, three arrests GRANDE PRAIRIE — Police have cancelled an Amber Alert for a seven-month-old baby girl who was in a pickup truck when it was stolen in northwestern Alberta.

RCMP said Tuesday that a person in a rural home

town.

“Topographically, is where we’re running into challenges on this site,” he said, adding council wants to see if there are ways to reduce site development costs.

Another location has not been considered at this point, “however we’re not ruling anything out,” he added.

This is not the first time the town has had to wrestle with fire hall costs. The cost of the building alone was estimated at $3.3 million, but when estimates came in the price had climbed to $4.3 million.

To trim the budget, the original 19,000-square-foot building was reduced to 13,925 square feet (later increased to 14,500 square feet). New pre-tender estimates put the building cost at $3.7 million.

The latest estimate puts the cost of the building alone at just under $5.1 million.

Council was informed last month the fire hall

south of Grande Prairie found baby Addison sitting in a car seat on the front porch.

The temperature was -24 C with the windchill when the child was taken.

Police said it appeared the child was not injured, but she was taken to hospital as a precaution.

“It’s obviously very cold right now in Grande Prairie,” said Cpl. Roy Kennedy. “This could have turned out a lot worse if that person hadn’t come out of their house.”

RCMP said three people have been arrested after a police helicopter found the stolen truck at a forestry mill south of the city.

Officers chased the suspects on foot before taking them into custody.

Kennedy said he didn’t know if the person who found the girl was alerted by a doorbell or why they opened the door.

He said he didn’t known how long the child was outside.

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The clock is ticking on the Town of Sylvan Lake’s drinking water supply.

To ensure water is there to meet future growth, town council is backing a $100,000 plan to hire consultants to identify new potable water sources.

Despite its lakeside location, the town is served by seven shallow wells, which provide only enough water to serve a population of about 18,000. Based on present growth rates, the town could hit that by 2020.

“Only a relatively short window exists for finding additional supply to allow continued growth,” says a report to council.

Water must be found to cover the period from 2018 to around 2023-25, when a pipeline from the Red Deer River is likely to supply water. Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development does not permit withdrawing water from the lake.

The most likely source will be from wells deeper than the shallow wells the town now uses.

Aquifer mapping, well reports and a detailed hydrological report will be needed before the town can apply to the province for additional licences.

Once feasible water sources are found, the town will need to negotiate with landowners for wells and pipeline easements.

Consultants are expected to be chosen in April. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

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Is Alberta undertaxed?

BY MARK MILKE SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE As Albertans approach another provincial budget, the usual fables about Alberta’s finances often crop up. To inoculate ourselves in advance, let’s look at two myths.

Myth No. 1: Alberta’s wealth is a result of luck.

This tall tale assumes that the existence of natural resources automatically results in wealth creation, jobs and a higher standard of living. That’s hardly the case. Plenty of jurisdictions have little in the way of natural resources but prosper, while others have plentiful natural resources yet flounder.

Resource-poor city-states such as Hong Kong and Singapore have done well on multiple measures of wealth creation. They score well on the knockoff benefits of employment, a high standard of living and moderate tax levels, and even government revenues that accrue for education, health care and the like.

By contrast, resource-rich (but poverty-ridden) Venezuela has lots of oil.

What it doesn’t have are people beating a path to its door to invest or a high standard of living (and the two are con-

nected). According to the Fraser Institute’s annual global petroleum survey, investor perceptions about the desirability of doing business there are the worst in the world. (Oklahoma tops the list.)

The causal difference between a prosperous jurisdiction and a poor country is found in the strength of its formal and informal institutions and in government policies on multiple fronts: property rights, taxes, sound money, freedom to trade, regulation, and the rule of law. All help or hinder a society’s prosperity.

Such policies matter because, as the Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto once wrote, assets alone do not change behaviour: “They do not produce incentives, they make no person accountable, no contract enforceable.” Whether land, a factory or resources, it takes proper, clear and enforceable rules and a modest tax regime for people to do something with such assets. Otherwise, such possessions are merely what de Soto called “dead capital.”

Point is, Alberta didn’t just get “lucky.” Over the decades, the provincial and federal governments (whose policies also obviously affect Alberta) have created or kept policies that allow people to invest a buck and make a profit.

Myth No. 2: Alberta is undertaxed.

According to the Alberta government, if Albertans paid the same level of taxes as the next lowest province in Canada (British Columbia), combined they’d pay $10 billion more every year.

Some have interpreted this figure to mean Albertans are undertaxed.

But to capture another $10 billion, and assuming no effect on behaviour (good luck there), the province would have to more than double personal income taxes (worth $9.6 billion last year), or raise royalty rates by 132 per cent (worth $7.6 billion). Or jack up business taxes by 208 per cent (worth $4.8 billion).

Comparisons aside, the tax-us-more argument has a big blind spot, which is that the provincial government already spends plenty.

Alberta’s per person program spending — not capital spending but program spending alone — is near an all-time high. In the last fiscal year, 2012-13, and adjusted for inflation, the province spent $10,564 per person on programs. That is not as nose-bleeding as the $11,905 spent per person on programs in 1985-86, but it is 57 per cent higher than the lowest per capita amounts seen in the mid-1990s.

Even with reference to more recent years, that $10,564 is higher, by nine

per cent, than the pre-recession figure in 2006-07 when Alberta’s government spent $9,690 per person. But that was back when Alberta’s treasury was bursting at the seams with boom-time natural resource revenues.

The tax-happy crowd miss an obvious point: Alberta’s relatively lower tax haul and historically friendly proentrepreneur attitude is precisely why the province prospers. It is why Alberta, routinely, has one of the lowest unemployment rates in the country, despite having the highest in-migration rate and the highest labour force participation rate.

Those who think Alberta can “afford” to raise taxes neglect something else: People don’t move to Alberta for the weather or the beaches. They move here for opportunities, ones linked to entrepreneur-friendly policies and others on investment and taxes.

So whatever rhetoric one hears over the next few weeks, cratering such a solid foundation is the last thing any sensible Albertan, from the politicians on down, should desire.

Mark Milke is a senior fellow with the Fraser Institute and author of Tax Me I’m Canadian — A Taxpayer’s guide to Your Money and How Politicians Spend It. This column was supplied by Troy Media (www.troymedia.com).

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

More to worry about in High River than the seizure of firearms Re: Gun seizures key issue in nomination race, Advocate, Feb. 24, 2014 There is no such thing as a Conservative seat being in jeopardy in Alberta. Goes without saying. The problem with never having any opposition is that issues become non-issues. High River is a prime example.

If gun seizures are the key issue, are the people in this province to conclude that everything else of importance in High River has been made right? All the families who had been wiped out are back on their feet? The infrastructure is once again on track?

No one is living in holiday trailers? The schools are sound, secure, mildew free?

How many people were charged and convicted resulting from seized guns in High River? How many people with proper registration have lost their guns for ever?

The cops did law-biding citizens a favour by securing property that legally has to be secure. And American wannabe gun owners and Conservatives who want a shot at a lifetime of living in Ottawa with a good income and more impressive pension (all the things Conservatives hate about the civil service and police) don’t need to concentrate on issues their government has no intention of helping decent people resolve.

Firstly, the town was closed to the public and property owners, but that in no way guarantees security of firearms. The town, while flooded, was huge in area, and far stranger things than theft by boat have happened.

Secondly, Canada doesn’t have the same gun laws as our American neighbours. Guns have never made the U.S. more free than Canada, but have made it much more dangerous than our home and native land. So there is little use in pretending the police have offended the rights of our gun owners by protecting the public from stolen firearms, and the owners themselves from being the victims of theft.

The prime minister’s office had no business commenting on the national police force working in conjunction with the attorney general doing a difficult necessary job.

I suspect they wouldn’t have bothered at all had they not been having so many problems with the Senate and other expense scandals.

It may actually have been the lowest point for a prime minister who has not shown a trace of concern for the people who will send him to office simply because he isn’t a Liberal. All he has to do is keep us angry at the other guy.

I have wondered all winter about what has happened to the town of High River. I have heard it hasn’t been too easy for many of the citizens who have either had to, or chosen to, remain there. Gun seizures that were done for safe keeping are the very least of their problems, and until either Melissa Mathieson or one of her Conservative counterparts looking for an unaccountable life in another province picks up the ball and does something for the unarmed, unworried about, un-newsworthy citizens of a once beautiful town, it is a shame on all of us living in Alberta.

Ian McLean Sylvan Lake

attended this family history and technology conference.

What our children and grandchildren wish that we had done? Get involved today with all the individuals named in the obituaries of your antecedents.

It is not sufficient to merely pass on family information orally because that record is generally lost within three generations and cannot be relied upon to always be accurate. We do not know about the ancestors who preceded us because we have not recorded their history.

The massive floods experienced here this summer should alert us all to the vulnerable methods we may utilize to preserve our family history. Is it prudent to rely on a box in our closet to preserve great grandmothers pictures and letters? Possibly not. We are told that the documenting of genealogy is now the Facebook for our dead. An old proverb tells us that “dead men tell no tales,” but their obituary records do. We can all preserve very accurately while our parents and grandparents are still alive.

We come in all shapes and sizes, but then we eventually go out as memories and history. Only soundly reasonable researched and written information in a genealogy report as a valid family tree will preserve our information. We are family, sometimes from birth and sometimes emotionally, but there is always a rush against time and loss of records.

Don’t you wish you could go back in time and hand your great-grandfather a journal and a pen? I have become captivated with finding out who I really am; please consider venturing on your journey as your children and grandchildren will thank you for having done so.

Jesse J. Mlynarski Red Deer

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Sex assaults net 10 years TORONTO — An anesthesiologist was sentenced to 10 years in prison Tuesday for what a judge called “reprehensible� sexual assaults on 21 sedated women during surgeries — violations that left his victims with lasting emotional damage.

Dr. George Doodnaught, 65, exploited the extraordinarily high degree of trust the patients placed in him, said Ontario Superior Court Justice David McCombs. “The profound psychological impact of the physical violations has been compounded by the victims’ deep feelings of betrayal — that these offences were committed during surgery, by a medical doctor, in an operating room, a place of ultimate vulnerability and Dr. George trust,� McCombs said in sen- Doodnaught tencing Doodnaught. “His conduct did enormous damage and was reprehensible in the extreme.�

Many of Doodnaught’s victims were in the courtroom and wiped tears from their eyes as the sentence was read. Their victim impact statements at an earlier sentencing hearing told of “debilitating� feelings of anger and bitterness, shame, panic attacks, loss of self-worth, distrust of doctors and an inability to form intimate relationships, McCombs said.

“In several cases (Doodnaught) compounded his victims’ sense of violation and humiliation by manipulating them to try to make them believe they were somehow responsible — that they had initiated sexual contact or had engaged in sexually explicit conversations,� McCombs said.

Though Doodnaught was sentenced to 10 years, he may not spend much time in custody. Doodnaught intends to appeal his convictions, and the Court of Appeal for Ontario is set to hear an application Wednesday to let him out on bail pending the appeal.

He was on bail throughout the trial, so his victims stayed in the courtroom after the sentence was read to see the handcuffs slapped on and the disgraced doctor led out of the room.

One of his victims — the one who sparked the investigation — clapped as he was led away. Outside court she said the prospect of more court hearings as Doodnaught proceeds with his appeal is “devastating,� but she will keep attending and fighting to be heard. “At this point I’ve come this far and I need to show my children how to do the right thing and how to stand up (against) what’s wrong and this is so wrong on so many levels and I need to do that for them,� she said with her husband by her side.

The woman, who can’t be identified due to a publication ban, had a mass on several organs when she went in for a hysterectomy in 2010. During the surgery Doodnaught fondled her breasts, kissed her and put his penis in her mouth, the court found.

When she was in the recovery room, Doodnaught leaned in close to her and said, “As soon as you were out, the first thing you reached for was my...(penis),�

Watchdogs warn Tory bill could hamper their work

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Parliament’s key watchdog agencies say a Conservative bill aimed at exposing potential partisanship in their offices raises problems of basic fairness and could actually stop or hamper their own investigations.

Tory MP Mark Adler’s private member’s bill would allow any MP or senator to accuse an employee of an office such as the Auditor General’s or Elections Canada of partisan conduct and demand an investigation.

It also proposes to force employees of those agencies to make a public declaration of their political activities going back a decade.

That’s not sitting well with eight officers and agents of Parliament, who wrote to the Commons ethics committee to register their concerns. Three of appeared before MPs at a hearing Tuesday.

Ethics Commissioner Mary Dawson, Chief Electoral Officer Mark Mayrand and Auditor General Michael Ferguson all questioned the necessity of the bill when other statutes and codes already require the non-partisanship of their employees.

They took issue with the fact an MP or senator could lodge a public complaint against an employee for “partisan conduct,� but that the bill has no definition of that term nor a specific threshold for when an investigation must be launched. “The problem is that there’s absolutely no test as to when somebody can make a complaint. At least in my act you have to have reasonable grounds...,� Dawson said of the Conflict of Interest Act she enforces. “Under this (bill), nobody has to even think up reasonable grounds; they can just fling mud.�

In the letter sent to the committee, the agents also warned that such probes could “halt or hinder an ongoing file, audit or investigation and cause undue

delay.�

And Ferguson raised privacy concerns of having a junior or mid-level employee’s past political jobs and current employment posted publicly for the world to see. He and his colleagues worried the bill might also run afoul of hiring rules that are focused entirely on merit. “The way that it is drafted now, there are some irritants in it that it would cause that really aren’t necessary and wouldn’t help our independence,� he said.

Adler, who appears to have the backing of the prime minister’s office on his bill, said it was drafted in keeping with the government’s general commitment to transparency and accountability. “This bill identifies nine specific offices with unique responsibilities and roles,� said Adler. “Given their specific watchdog duties, it is imperative that the so-called agents of Parliament are seen to be non-partisan and free of political influence.�

NDP ethics critic Charlie Angus pressed Adler unsuccessfully to provide an example of partisanship at any of the watchdog agencies, which also include the offices of the privacy and information commissioners.

Angus suggested that the bill could allow an MP or senator under investigation to deliberately derail the work of someone like the auditor general by casting aspersions on an employee. “Tell me if I’m wrong, if Mike Duffy was still a sitting senator, Mike Duffy would be able to demand an investigation of the ethics commissioner, even though the ethics commissioner couldn’t investigate Mike Duffy, is that correct?� Angus asked, referring to the former Tory senator facing unproven RCMP allegations of bribery and fraud.

Adler did not stop to speak to reporters following his appearance at the committee Tuesday.

Income splitting ‘good policy’: Harper that he has not decided whether he’ll run again in 2015. The Prime Minister’s Office repeated the emphatic defence of income splitting. “It is a good policy,� Jason Macdonald, Harper’s director of communications, said in an email. “It has been good for seniors and it would be good for families but, as the prime minister has said, we aren’t in a position to talk about additional tax relief until we have the fiscal room to do so. That means balancing the budget and creating a surplus before we talk about additional relief.�

Seniors have been allowed to split pension income to reduce their tax burden since 2007.

Studies by respected think-tanks such as the C.D. Howe Institute have found that family income-splitting would benefit only about 15 per cent of Canadian families and the benefits would disproportionately go to the wealthiest, single-income households.

Nonetheless, a number of Conservative MPs — including some high-profile cabinet ministers — appeared to be caught flat-footed when Flaherty questioned the soundness of income-splitting as a policy, and there was some grumbling about how Conservative voters would react to any policy shift.

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Stephen Harper is hinting that the key Conservative campaign plank from the 2011 federal election that earned him a majority may not be pitched overboard after all.

Income-splitting for couples with children under 18 was a multibillion-dollar pledge during the last election — a Conservative promise that would kick in as soon as the government balanced the federal budget.

But Finance Minister Jim Flaherty began publicly questioning the policy even before his Feb. 11 budget that effectively balanced the books this year and projected a surplus for 2015. “I think income-splitting needs a long, hard analytical look ... to see who it affects and to what degree, because I’m not sure that overall, it benefits our society,� Flaherty told the Ottawa Chamber of Commerce during a televised post-budget interview.

Under questioning in the House of Commons, Harper refused to repeat his 2011 income-splitting pledge after budget day. Government sources, meanwhile, spread word that the prime minister and his finance minister were of one mind on the matter.

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BRIEF Trudeau sorry for Ukraine joke OTTAWA — Justin Trudeau was back on Parliament Hill on Tuesday to face the music for his flippant joke about Ukraine, as the Conservatives and NDP pondered once again how to make the Liberal leader’s latest so-called gaffe stick.

Trudeau told the media he waited until Tuesday to apologize for his remarks because he “wanted to make sure that I had the chance to express directly to leaders in the Ukrainian community ... how seriously the Liberal party takes the situation in Ukraine.�

He added that his joke during a pre-taped appearance on a Radio-Canada current affairs program “made light of some very real fears and concerns that Ukrainians have about Russian intervention.�

Trudeau apologized earlier in the day to the Ukrainian ambassador to Canada after making a quick visit to the embassy. Vadym Prystaiko, who had called for the apology a day earlier, praised Trudeau for being the first Canadian politician to sign a book of condolences.

The Liberal leader also took to Twitter to say he’d made amends with Paul Grod, head of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress.

Organ donations from deceased donors up 17% over past decade TORONTO — There’s a spot of needed good news in the arena of organ transplant as donations from deceased donors rose by 17 per cent in the 10 years leading up to 2012, according to a new national report.

The number of deceased donors surpassed the total number of living donors — by one — in 2012, the report said.

As well, the report from the Canadian Institutes of Health Information said the number of transplant procedures in the country rose by five per cent in 2012 from the previous year.

Still, the total number of deceased donors in the country in 2012 was 540 people — a small number given the large need for donated organs.

While there were 2,225 transplant procedures performed in 2012, virtually double that number of people remained on the waiting list needing donor hearts, lungs, livers or kidneys. And 230 people died before a donor organ became available.

Amber Appleby, provincial operations director for BC Transplant, the agency that co-ordinates that province’s transplant efforts, said the reality is that few people die in a way that would allow them to become organ donors.

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the court found.

Doodnaught declined the opportunity to make a statement before he was sentenced, which the victim said was telling. “Never once during this whole process, even when I was on the stand, when I was giving my victim impact statement, at any time, did he look at me,� she said outside court. “He’s a coward.�

Greenspan said his client was “disappointed� with the sentence. “He continues to enjoy widespread support not only with his family but amongst his colleagues, patients,� he said outside court.

The judge noted that the defence filed 49 letters of support from Doodnaught’s family, former colleagues, patients and friends. “They are uniformly shocked that the man they know has been found to have committed these crimes,� McCombs said. “His family members and supporters describe him as a modest, caring and loving person and a supportive and generous mentor, who took great pride in his work as an anesthesiologist and most of all, in his family.�

When Doodnaught was convicted in November, McCombs found the doctor relied on his three decades of operating room experience to avoid detection as he kissed women, fondled their breasts and put his penis in their mouth or hand.

Doodnaught was known as a “touchy feely� doctor, often stroking a patient’s cheek or hair to soothe them during surgery, so the judge found his physical proximity during surgery didn’t arouse suspicion with other staff even as he sexually assaulted the women while concealed only by a surgical drape.

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DARKTIMBER OUTDOORS HOPING TO IMPRESS VIEWERS, JUDGES WITH HUNTING FOOTAGE

BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR A group of hunting enthusiasts from Central Alberta are shooting their shoots with an eye to bringing them to TVs and computers across Canada, and beyond.

Mitch Lilley, Graham Mihaychuk and Adam Scott are the founders of DarkTimber Outdoors. Working with hunting professionals Ryan Monk and Randy Monk, they’ve recorded eight hunts, with these in-

volving black bears, pheasants, whitetail and mule deer, wild hogs, wolves and coyotes.

Some or all of these hunts will be broadcast this year on The Search, a hunting show that airs weekly on specialty channel Wild TV. Each episode of The Search will feature two or three Canadian hunts, with viewers able to vote online for their favourites.

At the end of the season, the winning hunters will receive airtime for more shows — and the opportunity to stake out a place in the outdoors entertainment industry.

“The Search is the only thing in Canada like this

Net wealth growing, but housing prices a cause for concern

BY JULIAN BELTRAME THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Canadian families have become wealthier over the past several years, with net worth rising despite the well-documented growth in household debt and a setback from the recession, a new Statistics Canada study shows.

In a report that takes a long view on the state of Canadian finances, the agency finds that the 2012 medium net worth among family units — of two or more persons and unattached individuals — has risen 44.5 per cent since 2005 to $243,800 and up almost 80 per cent since 1999.

Those family units have also accumulated more debt, a total of $1.34 trillion in 2012, up from $864.6 billion in 2005. Most of the debt — about $1 trillion — has been used to finance home purchases. All figures are in inflation-adjusted dollars.

The Conservative government said the report shows that Liberal criticism of their policies as not benefiting Canadians generally is wrong.

“That is a very significant increase . . . after-tax disposable income has increased by 10 per cent across all income bracket,” said Employment Minister Jason Kenney.

But while the overall picture of family finances was positive, the report also pointed to continuing disparities across regions, age groups and types of families.

The biggest single reason for the improvement in finances overall has been due to house prices reaching record levels, notes economist Andrew Jackson of the Broadbent Institute, and those prices are widely projected to moderate or even fall in the next few years.

“The big question is if and when we get a housing price correction, individuals will still be holding the debt and that is a cause for concern,” he said.

Real estate prices have risen faster than mortgage debt and other assets, he notes, but if the trend reverses, some Canadian families may discover their wealth rests on “shifting sand.”

For those who owned their homes, the median

reported value of the residence was $300,000, up 46.6 per cent from 2005 and 83.2 per cent from 1999.

In terms of inequality, the report found that the wealthiest 20 per cent of family units accounted for 67.4 per cent of the total national net worth, although that was slightly lower than the 69.2 per cent the top quintile possessed in 2005.

Meanwhile, the top 40 per cent of families possessed 88.9 per cent of total net worth, leaving the bottom 60 per cent with a mere 11.1 per cent of the pie. The lowest quintile — the poorest 20 per cent of families — had an overall negative net worth, meaning that as a group they had more debts than assets.

That segment of the population saw its family median net worth drop from about $1,300 in 1999 to $1,100 in 2012. By contrast, the top quintile saw its family median net worth rise from $981,400 in 2005 to $1.38 million in 2012.

Bank of Montreal chief economist Doug Porter said the data, while positive, still shows household debt remains a concern.

“The standout is the tremendous growth in net worth over the 13-year period. It works out to average annual increases of better than five per cent, which is quite impressive,” he said.

But that doesn’t mean household debt is a non-issue, he added, predicting that the biggest impact on the economy will be to act as a check on consumer spending going forward.

Overall, total family assets in Canada rose to $9.4 trillion in 2012, with the value of families’ principle home representing one third of the total assets. Pension assets, including employer plans and private pension plans, made up 30 per cent of the total, while other real estate holdings — rental properties, cottages, timeshares and commercial properties — represent almost 10 per cent.

But the report confirms large disparities in net worth depending on age, the nature of the family unit and regions of the country.

For instance, median net worth was highest for families where the person with the highest income was 55 to 64 years old in 2012. For that group it came in at $533,600, more than double that of the overall population.

right now,” said Lilley, who’s optimistic DarkTimber Outdoors’ entries will impress viewers and the judges.

“There are a lot of good ones; the wolf footage is awesome.”

Regardless of their success on The Search, Lilley and his counterparts plan to broadcast more hunts in 2015.

“We’ve signed contracts, so we air in the second quarter on Wild TV as DarkTimber Outdoors.”

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Sask. premier says time to eye shipping grain south in light of backlog REGINA — Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall says it may be time to look at shipping grain south through the United States instead of east and west to Canadian ports.

Wall says the U.S. transportation system isn’t perfect, but he says it hasn’t had as much trouble as the Canadian system in getting a bumper crop to market.

The premier says there seems to be greater competition in the U.S. and a greater capacity to handle the grain.

Saskatchewan said Monday that it wants the federal government to oversee negotiations between grain and rail companies about clearing a backlog that has left a record crop is sitting in bins across the Prairies.

Grain-handling companies have told the province that it may be well into 2015 before the backlog is cleared.

Wall says he raised the issue Monday in a phone call with Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

Bank of Montreal reports Q1 profit up two per cent to $1.06 billion TORONTO — Bank of Montreal (TSX:BMO) saw its profits grow to $1.06 billion in its latest quarter, boosted by improved results across its business and lower provisions for bad loans.

BMO chief executive Bill Downe said Tuesday the quarter saw growth in its Canadian banking operations as well as in wealth management and capital markets business.

“We gained market share in domestic personal banking, complemented by double-digit growth in both commercial loans and deposits,” Downe told a conference call with financial analysts.

“Our U.S. banking team also continued to deliver excellent balance sheet momentum . . . margins were stable on both sides of the border and wealth management and capital markets posted robust revenue growth.”

Trust an essential ingredient to creating a destination workplace A great team is one of the key factors to business success. Building that team, with the unemployment numbers in this area as they are, may seem impossible.

To be successful, you basically have to create a “destination workplace,” where people actually choose to work for you over other companies.

WestJet is a great example.

You may say, “I am not WestJet,” but the same principles applies no matter the size of the business.

Accomplishing this takes knowledge, experience and JOHN time. No magic transformaMACKENZIE tion exists.

The following six elements ACTION COACH are key factors to consider in developing this destination workplace.

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Strong leadership creates a working environment that encourages team co-operation. Strong leadership maximizes discretionary effort — that extra effort which team members make in order to meet company goals.

Jim Collins wrote a best-selling book called Good to Great. In it, he identifies common leadership elements that top-performing organizations have in place to allow them to tap into this wealth of discretionary effort.

Collins talks about Level 5 leadership. These leaders have the ability to motivate their teams and generate higher performance. They also demonstrate a unique blend of personal humility and professionalism as they lead from the front to create the discretionary effort from all team members.

When things are going well, Level 5 leaders look out the window and credit their team for the success; when things are going poorly, they need to look in the mirror and take the responsibility for poor performance.

2. Common goals Sports teams provide an excellent example of this concept. If the team understands that a common goal

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is to win the championship, then it will be easier for all team members to focus.

If one or more team members are focused on individual goals, such as winning the scoring title, the performance of the entire team can be negatively affected.

Business is similar in this respect. If the salesperson is just focused on bringing in orders regardless of the cost to produce and ship that order, the common goal of maximizing profit will be at risk.

The owner’s vision and mission are the cornerstones for the business. These living documents set the common goals.

As people do what they are recognized and rewarded for, it is critical that the performance structure is consistent with the company’s common goals.

3. Rules of the game Employees must understand the rules that govern the way the owner conducts the business. The rules must be written down and available to them.

If the owner doesn’t provide employees with the rules of the game, they will make up their own.

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Bad day for bitcoin DISAPPEARANCE OF VIRTUAL CURRENCY EXCHANGE BREEDS MYSTERY, MISTRUST

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TOKYO — The sudden disappearance of one of the largest bitcoin exchanges only adds to the mystery and mistrust surrounding the virtual currency, which was just beginning to gain legitimacy beyond the technology enthusiasts and adventurous investors who created it.

Prominent bitcoin supporters said the apparent collapse of the Tokyo-based Mt. Gox exchange was an isolated case of mismanagement that will weed out “bad actors.” But the setback raised serious questions about bitcoin’s tenuous status and even more tenuous future. At least one supporter said the blow could be fatal to bitcoin’s quest for acceptance by the public.

A coalition of virtual currency companies said Mt. Gox went under after secretly racking up catastrophic losses. The exchange had imposed a ban on withdrawals earlier this month.

By Tuesday, its website returned only a blank page. The collapse followed the resignation Sunday of CEO Mark Karpeles from the board of the Bitcoin Foundation, a group seeking wider use of the exotic currency.

Mt. Gox’s origins are rooted in fantasy instead of finance. The service originally specialized in trading colorful cards featuring mythical wizards and derives its name from a game. The initials stand for, “Magic: The Gathering Online Exchange.”

San Francisco-based wallet service Coinbase and Chinese exchange BTC China sought to shore up confidence in the currency by saying the Mt. Gox’s situation was isolated and the result of abusing users’ trust. They offered no details.

“As with any new industry, there are certain bad actors that need to be weeded out, and that is what we are seeing today,” the statement said.

Since its creation in 2009, bitcoin has become popular among tech enthusiasts, libertarians and riskseeking investors because it allows people to make one-to-one transactions, buy goods and services and exchange money across borders without involving banks, credit card issuers or other third parties.

Criminals like bitcoin for the same reasons.

For various technical reasons, it’s hard to know just how many people worldwide own bitcoins, but the currency attracted outsize media attention and the fascination of millions as an increasing number of large retailers such as Overstock.com began to accept it.

Speculative investors have jumped into the bitcoin fray, too, sending the currency’s value fluctuating wildly in recent months. In December, the value of a single bitcoin hit an all-time high of $1,200. In the aftermath of the Mt. Gox collapse Tuesday, one bitcoin stood at around $470.

Central banks across the globe have been hesitant to recognize bitcoin as a form of money, and Tuesday’s vanishing act isn’t helping.

Japanese government officials at the Finance Ministry and the Fiscal Services Agency said Wednesday that a virtual currency like bitcoin was not under their jurisdiction. Japanese Tokyo police declined comment.

Mt. Gox “reminds us of the downside of decentralized, unregulated currencies,” said Campbell Harvey, a professor at the Duke University Fuqua School of Business who specializes in financial markets and global risk management. “There is no Federal Reserve or IMF to come to the rescue. There is no deposit insurance.”

However, Campbell said, Mt. Gox’s disappearance “doesn’t mean the end of the road” for bitcoin and other virtual currencies.

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Bitcoin trader Kolin Burges, right, of London and American Aaron (only his first name was given) hold protest signs as they conduct a sit-in in front of the office tower housing Mt. Gox in Tokyo Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2014. The website of major Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox is offline Tuesday amid reports it suffered a debilitating theft, a new setback for efforts to gain legitimacy for the virtual currency

Be your own bank SUDDEN SHUTDOWN OF MT. GOX A LESSON FOR CANADIAN BITCOIN ENTHUSIASTS: EXPERTS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — The head of the Bitcoin Alliance of Canada says the collapse of a major currency exchange in Japan, following months of secret catastrophic losses, serves as a warning to those who buy and trade in the popular digital currency.

Anthony Di Iorio, the executive director at the non-profit organization, advises that the lesson to be learned is that large amounts of Bitcoins should not be left on any exchange or service due to possible security risks.

“The great thing about Bitcoin is that you can be your own bank and nobody has access to your funds,” he said Tuesday.

“But if you are putting them in an exchange, and you’re buying and selling, you have to have them stored there at least for a small amount of time.”

The risk with leaving money languishing with a third-party is that if the site shuts down, the investment can be gone with it.

That appears to be what happened at the Tokyo-based Mt. Gox where it’s estimated as many as 740,000 Bitcoins are missing, roughly translating to hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of losses.

Speed the name of the game as Tim Hortons shifts operations

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Tim Hortons Inc. (TSX:THI) is planning a flurry of changes to its operations, including healthier food choices and the addition of 800 new stores over the next several years as it looks to maintain its edge in an increasingly competitive market.

Chief executive Marc Caira, who took the helm of the popular coffee and doughnut chain eight months ago, says speed will be a key component, saying he wants to see the company “move and move quickly.”

“The plan is aggressive but very achievable,” Caira said during an investor day in Toronto.

“It’s a very pragmatic plan where we need to make choices. We will not do everything, we cannot do everything. It’s a plan that forces us look at our business differently, but with a very high sense of urgency.”

The plan includes a big focus on Canada, where the company is seeking to improve the customer experience at its stores and make better use of technology.

“We believe that our enviable guest loyalty, strong

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DARKTIMBER: Looking for sponsors Derrick Wiebe, Dallas Wiebe, Blaze Miner and Myles Thorpe have joined the DarkTimber Outdoors crew to help with the next series of hunts, said Lilley. All nine members are from Red Deer or Sylvan Lake, he added, with several working professionally in the hunting industry.

“Some of these guys are guides from the Yukon and Northern B.C. that we’ve brought on, so we’ll be expanding more to Western Canada for the DarkTimber show.”

Lilley, who has experience shooting freestyle motocross and off-road events, recorded last year’s hunts and will do the same this year. Nature Productions Canada looks after production work.

DarkTimber Outdoors already has some sponsors, and is seeking more. It will also generate revenue through product placement and advertising, and even from the sale of DVDs and branded clothing, said Lilley.

“We’re just going to attack the hunting networks with the show.”

New episodes of The Search, which is now in its second season, will appear starting March 31. Lil-

Di Iorio said the collapse will serve as an important lesson to consumers about how their Bitcoins are secured.

“People are really going to be looking at their security and they are going to probably using this as warning that their security is up to snuff,” he said.

“I think the biggest thing is that this is not a problem with Bitcoin itself. It’s a problem with a private company.”

But others view the troubles with Mt. Gox as the beginning of the end for the popular digital currency.

Lisa Kramer, an associate finance professor in Toronto, said the shut down is not a surprise because Mt. Gox has been dealing with serious security issues for several months, including users recently being banned from making withdrawals.

“Bitcoin has been operating in limbo for some time. The writing has been on the wall,” said Lisa Kramer, with the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto.

“A lot of economists had been predicting that Bitcoins days are numbered.”

Kramer said people use Bitcoin due to convenience and ease, and Mt. Gox shows that these reasons may no longer apply.

TransCanada audit raises red flags: pipeline critics

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restaurant base and differentiated brand position, coupled with initiatives planned in our strategic plan, will present significant opportunities to grow our Canadian business over the next five years,” said Caira.

But the company is also “energizing the Tim Hortons brand in all of our geographic markets and we are focusing on driving long-term, sustainable profitable growth, which we believe will return us to above market total return to shareholders.”

Tim Hortons plans to add 500 locations in this country and 300 in the United States by 2018.

It expects between 215 and 255 new restaurants will be added this year, including between 140 and 160 in Canada, building on the 3,588 restaurants Tim Hortons currently has in its Canadian system, the 859 in the United States and 38 in the Persian Gulf region.

Canadian competitor Second Cup operates more than 350 coffee shops across the country, while Starbucks has more than 1,300 stores in Canada and is planning to open 100 stores per year over the next five years.

CALGARY — Problems flagged in the National Energy Board’s audit of TransCanada Corp.’s pipeline safety practices should have Canadians worried, a group fighting that company’s proposed Energy East pipeline said Tuesday.

The audit report, released Monday, found TransCanada (TSX:TRP) to be non-compliant in four of nine areas it examined: hazard identification, risk assessment and control; operational control in upset or abnormal operating condition; inspection, measurement and monitoring, and management review.

“It’s a real cause for concern considering that they want to build the biggest pipeline in Canada, the Energy East pipeline. People should be very worried about that,” said Mark Calzavara, Ontario regional organizer with the Council of Canadians.

Energy East would involve converting a portion of TransCanada’s existing natural gas mainline between Alberta and Quebec to oil service, and then laying down new pipe all the way to Saint John, N.B. TransCanada expects to file a regulatory application for the $12-billion proposal this summer.

ley and his hunting counterparts don’t know when DarkTimber Outdoors’ submissions will air, but they urge Central Albertans to watch and register their support online through Wild TV or on DarkTimber Outdoors’s Facebook page. hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

A good action plan will assign ownership of tasks, identify what resources are required, set timelines for when tasks should be completed, and provide measurement details of the current status of the tasks over the defined time periods.

5. Support risk-taking To make the business grow, a leader must be willing to support prudent risk-taking. If the owner doesn’t support risk-taking, the business will lag behind market leaders.

The level of risk-taking is usually related to the company’s culture.

Most individuals want to have a positive impact. If positive behavior is supported they feel safe to contribute opinions and offer feedback.

6. 100 per cent inclusion and involvement The art of inclusion is driven by communication to all team members. The goal is to have each and every member giving your business all of their attention, effort and commitment. The company’s culture (and culture statement) should state 100 per cent inclusion; therefore the owner should expect 100 per cent involvement.

People base their behavior and ultimately their performance on their beliefs about themselves and their environment. In a working environment, trust is the essential ingredient for the employee-employer relationship.

ActionCoach is written by John MacKenzie of ActionCoach, which helps small- to medium-sized businesses and other organizations. He can be contacted at johnmackenzie@actioncoach.com or by phone at 403-3400880.

WORKPLACE: Develop a formal culture statement The company’s culture and values statements state what’s acceptable and what’s not. Share these documents with potential employees at the recruitment stage. If no formal culture statement exists, employees will develop their own.

Individual roles and responsibilities should be clearly defined in the positional contracts (job descriptions). And updated operations and procedures manuals should be used and reviewed.

All of these should be done with initial input from the team members. It is much easier to buy into something you have had input into rather than something that was dictated to you.

4. Action plan Another key element for a winning team is a strong action plan that spells out in clear and unambiguous terms who does what by when. While the common goals identify what the owner and the business want to do, the action plan identifies how the goals will be achieved.

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MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto stock market closed lower Tuesday as concerns about China’s economy depressed commodity prices and resource stocks while two major banks posted solid earnings reports.

The S&P/TSX composite index dropped 38.1 points to 14,188.98.

Bank of Montreal (TSX:BMO) had $1.06 billion or $1.58 of net income in the first quarter, up two per cent from a year earlier and five cents higher than forecast.

Adjusted net income was $1.08 billion or $1.61 a share, which was also ahead of estimates.

At the National Bank (TSX:NA) quarterly net income ex-items came in at $384 million or $1.09 per share, well above expectations of $1.05 per share.

Bank of Montreal stock edged up six cents to $72.63 while National Bank gained 62 cents to $44.23.

“What has worked in the banks’ favour is the fact that the markets have been improving,” said Kash Pashootan, portfolio manager and vice-president at First Avenue Advisory in Ottawa, a Raymond James company.

“And as they have improved, assets under management naturally have grown from the market increasing their value and as assets grow, the fees that they collect on those assets have grown.”

The Canadian dollar slipped 0.16 of a cent to 90.2 cents US. U.S. indexes were lower amid data showing the latest weatherrelated impact on economic data.

U.S. home prices fell for the second straight month in December as severe winter weather, tight supply and higher costs combined to slow sales.

The Standard & Poor’s/CaseShiller 20-city home price index declined 0.1 per cent from November to December.

The Dow Jones industrials fell 27.48 points to 16,179.66, the Nasdaq was down 5.38 points to 4,287.59 while the S&P 500 index gave back 2.49 points to 1,845.12.

Other data showed a dip in American consumer confidence.

The Conference Board’s index showed the index declined to 78.1 in February from 79.4 in January because of adverse weather conditions.

Commodity prices declined with markets rattled by a deceleration in the rise of Chinese housing prices in January and weakness in China’s currency.

Last week’s decline in the tightly controlled yuan prompted suggestions that Beijing might be trying to support exporters and help offset weakening domestic demand. That came after a HSBC survey showed Chinese manufacturing activity in February tumbled to a seven-month low.

The base metals component was off 0.88 per cent while March copper fell for a second day, down one cent to US$3.26 a pound.

The energy sector drifted 0.52 per cent lower as the April crude contract on the New York Mercantile Exchange fell 99 cents to US$101.83 a barrel.

The gold sector was also a laggard, down about 1.1 per cent while April bullion gained $4.70

to US$1,342.70 an ounce. But the sector has rallied in recent weeks and is up 30 per cent year to date.

BlackBerry (TSX:BB) was a major gainer, up 86 cents or 7.91 per cent to $11.73 as the smartphone maker continued to benefit from a report from Bloomberg that automaker Ford will base its next-generation Sync system on the smartphone maker’s QNX and no longer use a system from Microsoft. The strong showing followed a run-up of almost seven per cent on Monday.

Meyers scores a winning debut

day Late Night in nine years. The network says it also beat the 2009 debut of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon by more than a half-million viewers.

Fallon began last week as host of The Tonight Show. On Monday, he drew 6.3 million viewers. That’s the largest Monday audience for Tonight in four years.

NEW YORK — Nielsen says Seth Meyers is off to a good start hosting NBC’s Late Night.

The premiere of Late Night with Seth Meyers averaged 3.4 million viewers in “fast official” ratings from Nielsen.

NBC says that’s the biggest audience for a Mon-

FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS TORONTO — Highlights at the close of Turesday at world financial market trading.

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 14,188.98, down 38.10 points TSX Venture Exchange — 1,010.74, down 8.21 points TSX 60 — 814.23, down 1.59 points

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Konstantinos Vasilopoulos operates a machine that washes olives at his family-owned olive oil business in Velanidi village, 320 kilometers west of Athens, on Saturday, Nov. 30, 2013 . Plans to extend a brutal efficiency drive to olive oil production in Greece have been met with anger and disbelief. If proposals from a government funded study are adopted, olive oil blended with cheaper vegetable oils will soon go on sale as part of an effort to modernize Greece’s economy, which was rescued from near bankruptcy four years ago.

Conference aims to revitalize space sector

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS LONGUEUIL, Que. — About 100 key players, including representatives from industry, academia and government, met at the Canadian Space Agency on Tuesday for what was billed as the country’s first annual space conference.

The event took place just a few weeks after Industry Minister James Moore announced Canada’s new space policy framework.

The federal policy framework makes sovereignty and security the top priority and one presentation at Tuesday’s conference focused on the Department of National Defence’s involvement in space strategies.

Space agency boss Walt Natynczyk, whose mandate is to revitalize the space sector, opened the daylong conference.

The morning session focused on presentations from several senior government officials who D are in charge of the use I of Canadian space assets.

L Federal officials with B Defence Research and E Development Canada, R T the National Research Council and Environ-

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ment Canada also spoke.

All government departments had been asked to take stock and articulate what their requirements in space would be.

The afternoon sessions dealt with a number of themes which included commercialization, the key capabilities of the industry, space exploration and earth observation and satellite services.

The space conference took place under tight federal budget restraints although Moore said earlier this month the Canadian Space Agency under Natynczyk has plenty of money to achieve its goals.

The current CSA budget is $260 million.

During a conference call to discuss MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (TSX:MDA) fourthquarter results, CEO Daniel Friedmann said Tuesday that there was no money in the recent federal budget for the Canadian Space Agency.

Make every day feel like your lucky day.

Currencies at close: Cdn — 90.20 cents US, down 0.16 of a cent Pound — C$1.8481, up 0.49 of a cent Euro — C$1.5232 up 0.34 of a cent Euro — US$1.3740, up 0.07 of a cent Oil futures: US$101.83 per barrel, down 99 cents (April contract) Gold futures: US$1,342.70 per oz., up $4.70 (April contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $25.276 oz., down 18.8 cents $812.62 kg, down $6.05 ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: March ’14 $3.40 higher $415.10; May ’14 $3.00 higher $425.00; July ’14 $3.10 higher $435.00; Nov. ’14 $2.80 higher $452.20; Jan ’15 $2.50 higher $459.40; March ’15 $2.50 higher $466.50; May ’15 $2.80 higher $470.70; July ’15 $2.80 higher $473.40; Nov ’15 $2.80 higher $469.60; Jan. ’16 $2.80 higher $469.60; March ’16 $2.80 higher $469.60.

Barley (Western): March ’14 unchanged $126.50; May ’14 unchanged $128.50; July ’14 unchanged $128.50; Oct. ’14 unchanged $128.50; Dec. ’14 unchanged $128.50; March ’15 unchanged $128.50; May ’15 unchanged $128.50; July ’15 unchanged $128.50; Oct. ’15 unchanged $128.50; Dec. ’15 unchanged $128.50; March ’16 unchanged $128.50.

Tuesday’s estimated volume of trade: 458,600 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 458,600.

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B4 Saving a spot among the best

WEDNESDAY, FEB. 26, 2014

BARTOSAK CONTINUES TO BUILD UPON THE REBELS’ SAVES RECORD AS SEASON WEARS ON

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR With every puck that he stops during tonight’s WHL clash with the visiting Kamloops Blazers, Patrik Bartosak will establish a new Red Deer Rebels franchise record.

The Rebels netminder has, in fact, been building on the total since breaking the franchise mark for most saves in a single season during a 7-1 loss to the Calgary Hitmen Feb. 17.

The 20-year-old turned aside 29 shots on that date and finished the game with 1,739 saves for the season, 12 more than the previous all-time tally of 1,727 set by Shane Bendera during the 1999-2000 season.

To his credit, the 2012-13 CHL goaltender of the year hasn’t been worn down or even fazed by the heavy workload.

“It seems to me that I made more saves last year,” said the Czech import, who stopped 1,695 shots during 3,134 minutes of action over 55 games last season. “I seriously don’t know why, but it feels like I made more saves last year.

“But, yeah, obviously it feels unreal. It’s a great honour for me and hopefully I can keep it going.”

Barring injury, Bartosak’s save total at season’s end will go down in the books as a record that won’t soon be surpassed, if ever. With nine games remaining in the regular season and Bartosak almost certain to start every one as long as the Rebels are in playoff contention, he could easily surpass 2,000 stops.

Considering Bartosak has made 1,815 saves in 3,197 minutes this season while Bendera played just over 4,000

minutes in ‘99-00, the record becomes that much more impressive.

Bartosak would be excused if he sued for lack of support, but the man who has established himself as one of the top three goaltenders in the 22-year-history of the franchise says it’s all in a day’s work, or even a full season’s work.

In fact . . .

“I like seeing lots of shots much rather than getting three or four shots a period.

I like this kind of hockey and I’m enjoying it for sure,” he insisted. “It’s my job. I don’t really think about rather I’m too busy or not. My job is to be there and stop the puck whenever it comes my way. If it comes there 45 times a night then I’ll have to be there 45 times. If it comes five times, I’ll be there five times.

“Like I said, it’s just my job to be there to stop the puck and not worry about how many times I have to do it.”

With Red Deer tied with Prince Albert — prior to the Raiders playing Tuesday at Seattle — for the eighth and final playoff berth in the Eastern Conference and the regular season growing increasingly old, Bartosak will have to be at his best down the stretch.

The third-year keeper is ready for the challenge, but stressed that the entire team will have to pull together in order to earn a post-season spot.

“It’s not about me stopping the shots. It’s about all of us and I’m pretty sure if everyone pulls the right way we’ll be able to make the playoffs . . . make the final push and get at least the eighth playoff spot,” he said. “But we’re not just aiming there, we’re

File photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

Calgary Hitmen Calder Brooks looks for a rebound after Red Deer Rebel goaltender Patrik Bartosak makes a save during the WHL Eastern Conference semifinal at the Centrium last season.

Bartosak has cemented his status as one of the Rebel’s all-time elite goaltenders and will continue to mark his legacy by adding to his franchise record for saves in a season with each game. aiming a little bit higher, for sixth or seventh spot.

I’m pretty sure if everyone does their job we’ll be fine.”

The Rebels face a tough schedule down the stretch. Following tonight’s outing, Red Deer will play Medicine Hat three times — including two on the road — the Kootenay Ice

home-and-away, the Swift Current Broncos March 7 at the Centrium and the Edmonton Oil Kings twice, March 15 and 16 in Red Deer and Edmonton.

“We try not to focus on who are we playing against,” said Bartosak, whose agent is working with the Los Angeles Kings regarding a contract for the

goaltender, selected by L.A. in last year’s NHL entry draft.

“We have to focus on how we play and how we do things.

We have to be the team that leads the way on the ice and the other team has to play the way we want them to play.” gmeachem@reddeeradvocate. com

Raptors keep rolling with win over Cavs

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Toronto Raptors’ Terrence Ross dunks the ball in the third quarter of an NBA game against the Cleveland Cavaliers, Tuesday, in Cleveland. Toronto defeated Cleveland 99-93.

Raptors 99 Cavaliers 93 CLEVELAND — With his team in trouble, DeMar DeRozan flashed his All-Star form at the finish.

DeRozan scored 16 of his 33 points in the fourth quarter, and the Toronto Raptors won for the sixth time in seven games with a 99-93 victory over the injury-riddled Cleveland Cavaliers on Tuesday night.

“DeMar was huge down the stretch,” Toronto coach Dwane Casey said. “He made shots, he made plays, he made some free throws.”

DeRozan also made a key defensive play with the Raptors leading 94-91 and 32 seconds remaining. He stole a pass from Spencer Hawes by knocking Tyler Zeller to the floor and then made two free throws for a five-point lead.

“I don’t have too many of those left in me,” DeRozan said of the hard hit. “I kind of anticipated that.”

Terrence Ross hit a 3-pointer with 3:02 remaining to put Toronto ahead 90-89. DeRozan dunked on a baseline drive and added two free throws to give the Raptors a 94-91 lead with 1:23 remaining.

Kyrie Irving, who played 45 minutes and the entire second half because of Cleveland’s depleted roster, scored 25 points and had nine assists. Cleveland has lost three straight after winning six in a row and fell 5 ½ games out of the final playoff spot in the Eastern Conference.

Irving had no problem with coach Mike Brown’s decision to leave him in the game.

“I told Coach I’m willing to do whatever it takes for us to get a win,” Irving said after playing a career high in a 48-minute game.

The Cavaliers again played without centre Anderson Varejao (sore back) and guards Dion Waiters (hyperextended left knee) and C.J. Miles (sprained left ankle).

Ross scored 19 points while Greivis Vasquez add-

ed 15 for the Raptors, who beat the Cavaliers 98-91 in Toronto on Friday and have won three in a row.

Toronto leads the Atlantic Division and is in third place in the Eastern Conference.

Hawes, making his first start for Cleveland since being acquired from Philadelphia last week, scored 15 points.

Cleveland took its last lead at 89-87 with 3:11 to play on Zeller’s two free throws, but Ross’ 3-pointer put Toronto ahead for good.

Irving, the MVP of the All-Star game, was called for charging into Kyle Lowry in the final minute. The call was upheld after officials viewed a replay. Irving was bumped on his way to the basket on Cleveland’s next possession but no call was made.

“It’s part of the game,” he said of the officiating.

“The refs are going to make their call. That’s their job. You move on to the next play and the next game.

I’m going to pick myself up and get ready for Oklahoma City (Wednesday night).”

The Raptors went on a 15-0 run over a span of 6:46 in the first and second quarters to take a 14-point lead, but Casey was displeased his team let the Cavaliers get back in the game.

“We’re nowhere near where we can walk in a game and expect to win,” he said. “All of our games are grind it out. We’re going to see everyone’s best haymaker. They threw their best haymaker at us, they played desperate. Give credit to them.”

The early offensive struggles were a major reason Brown didn’t take Irving out in the second half.

“When I pulled him in the first half we had a little trouble scoring,” Brown said. “I thought he was in a little bit of a groove. He’s our best player so I wanted to leave him on the floor and see if he could help the second unit generate some easy baskets.”

Toronto had a five-point possession in the second quarter that began when Vasquez hit a 3-pointer.

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Fifth-year players leading Kings into another championship Over the last half dozen years the RDC Kings have Neither of the two dreamed of still being at the developed into one of the premier college basketball college in their fifth season. programs in the country.

“It wasn’t the plan, but it’s how it worked out and A pair of fifth-year guards — Lloyd Strickland and I don’t regret it for one momentum,” said Strickland.

Jacob Cusumano — have played a major role in that “This is a great school, a great program and I’m glad development. to be part of the foundation.”

Strickland joined the Kings in 2009 “I went to the States for a year and didn’t after helping lead the Raymond Comets like it, so when I got the opportunity to to the provincial 4A high school chamcome here I went for it,” said Cusumano. “I pionship. A year later Cusumano came didn’t know anything about it, but it was the in from Windsor, Ont., after spending a best decision of my life. season in the States.

“It’s been a riot and to see where we “They are the poster boys of fifth-year started and to where we are now . . . the players,” said Kings head coach Clayton growth of the program and the players has Pottinger, who replaced Craig Behan in bene a real treat. Three years ago we were 2011 and has taken the Kings to the naa middle of the pack team that excelled at tional finals the last two seasons. the right time. That helped build the proTwo years ago the Kings finished secgram to where it is now. The transition was ond in the ACAC behind Mount Royal, good to bring in players who work hard and DANNY then won the championship last year. put together a positive culture.”

RODE They go for the ACAC title again this Strickland knows the team’s success season when the finals open at RDC comes down to hard work and preparation.

Friday.

“The guys are dedicated and buy into the “It’s super exciting to be able to play program and want to be part of the team. I for the championships on our home court, in front of know myself it’s hard to walk away.” friends and family for a last time,” said Strickland.

Both will be done this year and will move on.

“There’s nothing better than that.”

Strickland may look at going overseas to play and Cusumano agreed. “maybe look at being an assistant coach.”

“It’s special to get to play in front of our home Cusumano may also look at going to Europe, but crowd one last time,” he said. hasn’t decided.

COLLEGE

Greg Meachem, Sports Editor, 403-314-4363 E-mail gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

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“I’ll have my degree in sociology and may just work, we’ll see what happens.”

The Kings face the Medicine Hat Rattlers in their opening game Friday at 6 p.m. The Rattlers are one of three teams to beat them during the regular season.

“That gives us added motivation,” said Strickland.

“It’s a scary matchup, but then I believe this is the toughest playoff we’ve been in. There are no easy teams. Any team from one to eight can win this.”

The Kings will be without outstanding forward Clay Crellin for their opening game after he received a technical foul against Lethbridge in the Kings final league game.

“It’s a big loss, but it means someone else has to pick up the slack,” said Cusumano, who hit 51.7 per cent of his three-point shots this season, one of the best in the country.

“I worked hard during the summer and my teammates helped me a lot. They were so talented it gave me more room,” he said.

Lethbridge and Briercrest Bible College open the tournament Friday at 1 p.m. with Grant MacEwan and Concordia clashing at 3 p.m. NAIT and Keyano meet at 8 p.m. The semifinals go Saturday at 6 and 8 p.m. with the final at 3:30 p.m. Sunday.

The top two teams advance to the nationals, March 12-16 at Quest University in Squamish, B.C..

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SCOREBOARD Hockey

CENTRAL DIVISION GP W LOTLSOL 61 44 15 1 1 63 41 15 3 4 63 38 22 3 0 62 35 23 2 2 63 29 30 1 3 64 12 47 2 3

GF 256 253 225 207 185 150

WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION GP W LOTLSOL GF x-Kelowna 61 48 9 0 4 260 x-Victoria 64 43 17 1 3 213 Vancouver 64 30 24 7 3 216 e-Prince George 65 26 31 3 5 218 e-Kamloops 63 13 45 2 3 160

GA 214 196 233 222 246 267

Pt 76 68 66 62 41 37

GA 149 181 172 180 205 313

Pt 90 89 79 74 62 29

GA Pt 155 100 161 90 217 70 269 60 268 31

U.S. DIVISION GP W LOTLSOL GF GA Pt x-Portland 63 46 12 2 3 299 190 97 x-Seattle 62 37 19 2 4 208 208 80 x-Spokane 63 36 21 3 3 219 189 78 Everett 62 30 23 7 2 177 185 69 e-Tri-City 62 27 28 3 4 158 188 61 d-division leader; x-clinched playoff berth. Note: Division leaders ranked in top three positions per conference regardless of points; a team winning in overtime or shootout is credited with two points and a victory in the W column; the team losing in overtime or shootout receives one point which is registered in the OTL or SOL columns Tuesday’s results Regina 8 Lethbridge 0 Moose Jaw 5 Saskatoon 2 Edmonton 5 Medicine Hat 2 Prince Albert at Seattle, late Prince George at Kelowna, late Wednesday’s games Lethbridge at Brandon, 6 p.m.

Kootenay at Moose Jaw, 6 p.m.

Regina at Swift Current, 6 p.m.

Kamloops at Red Deer, 7 p.m.

Medicine Hat at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Prince Albert at Everett, 8:05 p.m.

Kelowna at Tri-City, 8:05 p.m.

Friday’s games Lethbridge at Moose Jaw, 6 p.m.

Swift Current at Regina, 6 p.m.

Kootenay at Saskatoon, 6:05 p.m.

Kamloops at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Medicine Hat at Red Deer, 7 p.m.

Victoria at Prince George, 8 p.m.

Vancouver at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

Portland at Spokane, 8:05 p.m.

Tri-City at Everett, 8:35 p.m.

Tuesday’s summaries Oil Kings 5, Tigers 2 First Period 1. Edmonton, Kulda 24 (Sautner, Lazar) 3:59.

2. Medicine Hat, Labelle 9 (Penner) 4:23.

3. Medicine Hat, Ast 14 (Sanford, Lewington) 5:08.

Penalties — Penner MH (tripping) 8:35, Lewington MH (roughing) 16:15, Ast MH (hooking) 17:11.

Second Period 4. Edmonton, Kieser 12 (Samuelsson) 7:14 (shorthanded-SH).

5. Edmonton, Eller 6 (Ralph, Sautner) 17:08.

6. Edmonton, Samuelsson 30 (Moroz, Sautner) 18:14.

Penalties — Orban Edm (tripping) 1:03, Orban Edm

(inter. on goaltender) 5:59.

Third Period 7. Edmonton, Sautner 8 (Pollock) 15:38 (pp).

Penalties — Corbett Edm (hooking) 2:51, Petryk Edm (inter. on goaltender) 11:50, Allan MH (interference) 14:27, Lazar Edm (instigator) 15:47, Lazar Edm (fighting) 15:47, Lazar Edm (game misconduct) 15:47, Eisenschmid MH (Major-Boarding) 15:47, Eisenschmid MH (fighting) 15:47, Eisenschmid MH (game misconduct) 15:47, Cox MH (kneeing) 17:44, Lewington MH (cross-checking) 19:35.

Shots on goal Edmonton 16 12 13 — 41 Medicine Hat 11 4 6 — 21 Goal — Edmonton: Jarry (W, 39-12-1); Medicine Hat: Langhamer (L, 19-12-2).

Power plays (goal-chances)Edmonton: 1-7; Medicine Hat: 0-4.

Attendance — 4,006 at Medicine Hat. Pats 8, Hurricanes 0 First Period 1. Regina, Stevenson 30 (Williams, Klimchuk) 12:20.

2. Regina, Stevenson 31 (Klimchuk) 14:23.

3. Regina, Stevenson 32 (Williams, Stephenson) 18:28.

Penalties — Walters Let (roughing) 15:50.

Second Period 4. Regina, Klimchuk 26 (Zgraggen) 5:04.

5. Regina, Christoffer 11 (McVeigh) 12:13.

6. Regina, D’Amico 4 (Klimchuk, Sinitsyn) 19:23.

Penalties — Sayers Let (delay of game) 0:10, Sayers Let (fighting) 3:50, Sinitsyn Reg (fighting) 3:50, Zgraggen Reg (cross-checking) 6:23, Klimchuk Reg (cross-checking) 15:13, Klimchuk Reg (tripping) 15:13, Folk Let (roughing) 17:55, Stephenson Reg (kneeing) 17:55.

Third Period 7. Regina, Stevenson 33 (Klimchuk, Stephenson) 3:23 (pp).

8. Regina, D’Amico 5 (Gay, Stephenson) 17:57 (pp).

Penalties — Folk Let (elbowing) 2:58, Wagner Reg (inter. on goaltender) 7:54, Reagan Reg (holding) 12:22, Amson Let (fighting) 14:57, Christoffer Reg (fighting) 14:57, Wong Let (holding) 16:44, Foulk Let (roughing) 17:24, Foulk Let (fighting) 17:24, Stevenson Reg (fighting) 17:24.

Shots on goal Lethbridge 9 14 6 — 29 Regina 11 12 12 — 35 Goal — Lethbridge: Sacher (L, 4-11-0); Regina: Macauley (W, 23-14-3).

Power plays (goal-chances)Lethbridge: 0-6; Regina: 2-6.

Attendance — 3,346 at Regina.

Warriors 5, Blades 2 First Period 1. Saskatoon, Harland 9 (Sanvido, Millette) 14:39.

2. Moose Jaw, Forsberg 6 (Rodewald, Point) 16:04.

Penalties — Cooke MJ (cross-checking) 8:33, Nemecek Sas (roughing) 8:33, Busenius Sas (hooking) 10:36, Rodewald MJ (interference) 12:27.

Second Period 3. Moose Jaw, Eberle 17 (Point, Rodewald) 5:19.

4. Saskatoon, Harland 10 (Sherbak) 6:20.

Penalties — Eberle MJ (tripping) 9:35, Johnston Sas (tripping) 13:31.

Third Period 5. Moose Jaw, Fioretti 15 (Sleptsov, McCarthy) 1:41.

6. Moose Jaw, Uhrich 9 (Duperreault, Warkentine) 2:35.

7. Moose Jaw, Sleptsov 3 (White, Point) 3:48 (pp).

Penalties — Sherbak Sas (high-sticking) 3:43, Eberle MJ (slashing) 14:41, Zalitach MJ (boarding) 19:46, Lipon Sas (10-minute misconduct) 19:46, Zajac Sas (roughing) 19:46, Forsberg MJ (10-minute misconduct) 19:46.

Shots on goal Moose Jaw 8 6 11 — 25 Saskatoon 11 11 11 — 33 Goal — Moose Jaw: Sawchenko (W, 7-10-0); Saskatoon: Trombley (L, 9-23-1).

Power plays (goal-chances)Moose Jaw: 1-3; Saskatoon: 0-3.

Rebels vs.

Kamloops Blazers Tonight, 7 p.m., Centrium The Blazers are 2-8-00 in their last 10 games and sit 10th in the Western Conference with a 1345-2-3 record . . . LW Cole Ully leads all Kamloops scorers with 29 goals and 65 points. D Josh Connolly has racked up 44 points (11-33) and C Matt Revel has scored 14 goals and collected 42 points. Former Rebels winger Matt Bellerive is next with 36 points (15-21), of which 14 (6-8) have come since being dealt to the Blazers last month. Other Blazers with 30 or more points are C Matt Needham (10-22-32) and RW Chase Souto (20-11-31) . . . Former Red Deer winger Tyson Ness contributed 12 goals and 24 points in 48 games prior to suffer-

Attendance — 4,423 at Saskatoon.

Today

National Hockey League EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts Boston 57 37 16 4 78 Tampa Bay 58 33 20 5 71 Montreal 59 32 21 6 70 Toronto 60 32 22 6 70 Detroit 58 26 20 12 64 Ottawa 59 26 22 11 63 Florida 58 22 29 7 51 Buffalo 58 16 34 8 40

GF 176 168 148 178 151 169 139 113

GA 125 145 142 182 163 191 183 174

Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts Pittsburgh 58 40 15 3 83 N.Y. Rangers59 32 24 3 67 Philadelphia 59 30 23 6 66 Columbus 58 29 24 5 63 Washington 59 27 23 9 63 Carolina 58 26 23 9 61 New Jersey 59 24 22 13 61 N.Y. Islanders60 22 30 8 52

GF 186 155 162 170 171 146 135 164

GA 138 146 167 161 175 161 146 200

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts St. Louis 57 39 12 6 84 Chicago 60 35 11 14 84 Colorado 58 37 16 5 79 Minnesota 59 31 21 7 69 Dallas 58 27 21 10 64 Winnipeg 60 28 26 6 62 Nashville 59 25 24 10 60

GF 196 207 174 145 164 168 146

GA 135 163 153 147 164 175 180

Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Anaheim 60 41 14 5 87 196 147 San Jose 59 37 16 6 80 175 142 Los Angeles 59 31 22 6 68 139 128 Phoenix 58 27 21 10 64 163 169 Vancouver 60 27 24 9 63 146 160 Calgary 58 22 29 7 51 137 179 Edmonton 60 20 33 7 47 153 199 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Tuesday’s Games Buffalo 3, Carolina 2 Wednesday’s Games Boston at Buffalo, 5:30 p.m.

Detroit at Montreal, 5:30 p.m.

Los Angeles at Colorado, 8 p.m.

St. Louis at Vancouver, 8:30 p.m.

Tuesday’s summary Sabres 3, Hurricanes 2 First Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Scott Buf (tripping) 7:50, Myers Buf (interference) 11:32.

Second Period 1. Buffalo, Ehrhoff 5 (Stafford, Miller) 5:54 (pp).

2. Carolina, Staal 15 (Faulk) 16:52.

Penalties — Nash Car (tripping) 4:53, Flynn Buf (delay of game) 6:40, Bellemore Car (tripping) 14:50, Foligno Buf (high-sticking) 17:57.

Third Period 3. Buffalo, Ennis 14 (Moulson, Stafford) 12:13.

4. Carolina, Semin 15 (Sekera) 16:00.

5. Buffalo, Ehrhoff 6 (Miller) 19:16.

Penalties — D’Agostini Buf (holding) 1:42, Nash Car (hooking) 5:46.

Shots on goal Carolina 11 10 17 — 38 Buffalo 5 4 9 — 18 Goal — Carolina: Ward (L, 6-8-5); Buffalo: Miller (W, 15-22-3).

Power plays (goal-chances)Carolina: 0-5; Buffalo: 1-3.

ing a season-ending injury . . . Bolton Pouliot, traded from Red Deer to Kamloops in September, is 28th among WHL goalies with a 3.92 goals-against average.

The 19-year-old stopped 36 shots in a 4-1 win over his former team Nov. 5 at Kamloops.

Injuries: Kamloops — RW Luke Harrison (upper body, indefinite), G Justin Myles (upper body, indefinite), LW Tyson Ness (upper body, indefinite), RW Chase Souto (upper body, day-to-day).

Red Deer — C Lukas Sutter (upper body, indefinite).

Special teams: Kamloops — Power play 17.2 per cent, 22nd overall; penalty kill 71.3 per cent, 21st. Red Deer — Power play 19.4 per cent, 18th overall; penalty kill 82.2 per cent, fourth.

Scouting report

Transactions Tuesday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL American League HOUSTON ASTROS — Named Amanda Rykoff social media manager.

SEATTLE MARINERS — Agreed to terms with RHPs Blake Beavan, Danny Farquhar, Yoervis Medina and Tom Wilhelmsen; OF Ji-Man Choi; and OFs Abraham Almonte, Xavier Avery and James Jones.

National League ATLANTA BRAVES — Agreed to terms with RHPs David Carpenter, Cory Gearrin, David Hale, Juan Jaime, Aaron Northcraft, Wirfin Obispo and Anthony Varvaro; LHPs Luis Avilan, Ryan Buchter, Carlos Perez and Alex Wood; INFs Ernesto Mejia, Tyler Pastornicky and Elmer Reyes; OFs Jose Constanza, Todd Cunningham and Joey Terdoslavich; and Cs Christian Bethancourt and Evan Gattis on one-year contracts.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association MIAMI HEAT — Signed G DeAndre Liggins to a 10-day contract.

ORLANDO MAGIC — Signed C Dewayne Dedmon and G-F Adonis Thomas to 10-day contracts.

● JV basketball: Notre Dame at Innisfail, Lacombe at Rocky Mountain House, Stettler at Ponoka, Lindsay Thurber at Camrose, Hunting Hills at Wetaskiwin; girls at 6 p.m., men to follow. ● WHL: Kamloops at Red Deer, 7 p.m., Centrium. ● Midget AAA hockey: UFA at Red Deer, first game of best-of-five division semifinal, 8 p.m. Arena. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Blackfalds at Three Hills, second game of best-ofseven North Division semifinal, 8 p.m.

Thursday

● Men’s basketball: Carstar vs. Wells Furniture, Bulldog Scrap Metal vs. Dream Team, 7:15 and 8:30 p.m., Lindsay Thurber. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Three Hills at Blackfalds, third game of best-of-seven North Division semifinal, 7:30 p.m.

Friday

● College men’s basketball: ACAC championship at RDC, RDC Kings vs. TBA, 6 p.m. ● Archery: Central Alberta Association Mother of all Shoots competition, Westerner Agricentre. ● WHL: Medicine Hat at Red Deer, 7 p.m., Centrium. ● Major midget girls hockey: Southeast at Red Deer, third game of best-of-five division semifinal, 7:15 p.m., Collicutt Centre. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Stettler at Mountainview, fourth game of best-ofseven North Division semifinal, 8 p.m., Didsbury. ● Senior AAA hockey: Fort Saskatchewan at Innisfail, fifth game of best-of-seven provincial semifinal, 8:30 p.m.

Saturday

● College men’s basketball: ACAC

championship at RDC. ● Archery: Central Alberta Association Mother of all Shoots competition, Westerner Agricentre. ● Minor midget AAA hockey: Airdrie/ Cochrane at Red Deer Northstar, 11:30 a.m., Arena. ● Martial arts: Adam Tai Kwon Do tournament. ● Major midget girls hockey: Southeast at Red Deer, fourth game of best-of-five division semifinal, if necessary, 12:30 p.m., Collicutt Centre. ● College men’s hockey: Portage at RDC, 7:15 p.m., Penhold Regional Multiplex. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Blackfalds at Three Hills, fourth game of best-of-seven North Division semifinal, 8 p.m.

Sunday ● Minor midget AAA hockey: Calgary Stampeders at Red Deer Aero Equipment, noon, Arena. ● Archery: Central Alberta Association Mother of all Shoots competition, Westerner Agricentre. ● Major bantam girls hockey: Calgary Rangers at Red Deer, 12:45 p.m., Kin City B. ● Midget AAA hockey: UFA at Red Deer, third game of best-of-seven division semifinal, 3:15 p.m., Arena. ● College men’s basketball: ACAC championship at RDC, final at 3:30 p.m. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Three Hills at Blackfalds, fifth game of best-of-seven North Division semifinal, if necessary, 3:30 p.m. ● Men’s basketball: Grandview Allstars vs. Carstar, Vikings vs. Rusty Chuckers, Sheraton Red Deer vs. Woody’s RV, 4:15 p.m.; Monstars vs. Orangemen, Gord Scott Nissan vs. The Secret Runs, Triple A Batteries vs. Triple Threat, 5:30 p.m.; all games at Lindsay Thurber. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Mountainview at Stettler, fifth game of best-of-seven North Division semifinal, if necessary, 5 p.m.

Basketball National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB Toronto 32 25 .561 — Brooklyn 26 28 .481 4 1/2 New York 21 36 .368 11 Boston 19 39 .328 13 1/2 Philadelphia 15 42 .263 17 Southeast Division W L Pct GB Miami 40 14 .741 — Washington 29 28 .509 12 1/2 Charlotte 27 30 .474 14 1/2 Atlanta 26 30 .464 15 Orlando 17 42 .288 25 1/2 Central Division W L Pct GB Indiana 43 13 .768 — Chicago 30 26 .536 13 Detroit 23 34 .404 20 1/2 Cleveland 22 36 .379 22 Milwaukee 11 45 .196 32 WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct GB San Antonio 40 16 .714 — Houston 39 18 .684 1 1/2 Dallas 35 23 .603 6 Memphis 31 24 .564 8 1/2 New Orleans 23 33 .411 17 Northwest Division W L Pct GB Oklahoma City 43 14 .754 — Portland 39 18 .684 4 Minnesota 28 29 .491 15 Denver 25 31 .446 17 1/2 Utah 20 36 .357 22 1/2 Pacific Division

L.A. Clippers Golden State Phoenix Sacramento L.A. Lakers

W 39 35 33 20 19

L 20 22 23 37 38

Pct .661 .614 .589 .351 .333

GB — 3 4 1/2 18 19

Monday’s Games Milwaukee 130, Philadelphia 110 Golden State 104, Detroit 96 Dallas 110, New York 108 L.A. Clippers 123, New Orleans 110 Utah 110, Boston 98 Tuesday’s Games Indiana 118, L.A. Lakers 98 Washington 115, Orlando 106 Toronto 99, Cleveland 93 Chicago 107, Atlanta 103 Minnesota 110, Phoenix 101 Portland 100, Denver 95 Houston 129, Sacramento 103 Wednesday’s Games Orlando at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

Atlanta at Boston, 5:30 p.m.

Golden State at Chicago, 6 p.m.

New Orleans at Dallas, 6 p.m.

Cleveland at Oklahoma City, 6 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at Memphis, 6 p.m.

Detroit at San Antonio, 6:30 p.m.

Phoenix at Utah, 7 p.m.

Brooklyn at Portland, 8 p.m.

Houston at L.A. Clippers, 8:30 p.m.

Thursday’s Games Milwaukee at Indiana, 5 p.m.

Washington at Toronto, 5 p.m.

New York at Miami, 6 p.m.

Brooklyn at Denver, 8:30 p.m.

SRING TRAINING BASEBALL

Canadian Bedard hopeful of winning spot in Rays’ rotation

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FOOTBALL Canadian Football League WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS — Signed DB Donovan Alexander.

HOCKEY National Hockey League ANAHEIM DUCKS — Reassigned D Sami Vatanen to Norfolk (AHL).

DETROIT RED WINGS — Recalled D Ryan Sproul from Grand Rapids (AHL).

NEW YORK RANGERS — Recalled C J.T. Miller from Hartford (AHL).

SAN JOSE SHARKS — Reassigned F Bracken Kearns to Worcester (AHL).

WASHINGTON CAPITALS — Reassigned D Jack Hillen to Hershey (AHL) on a long-term injury/ illness exception conditioning loan.

American Hockey League AHL — Suspended Hershey RW Brandon Segal two games.

ABBOTSFORD HEAT — Returned G Aaron Dell to Utah (ECHL).

WILKES-BARRE/SCRANTON PENGUINS — Recalled F Denver Manderson from Wheeling (ECHL).

ECHL CINCINNATI CYCLONES — Released G Tony

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RAPTORS: Technical Hawes was called for a foul when he and Tyler Hansbrough went to the floor. Hawes was then given a technical for arguing the call, and DeRozan and Hansbrough each made a free throw.

Hansbrough completed another three-point play after DeRozan’s basket. Jarrett Jack was called for a foul after Hansbrough was knocked to the floor. Jack was also hit with a technical.

Toronto built a 36-22 lead but Cleveland cut the margin to 47-41 at halftime and scored the first seven points of the third quarter to take a one-point lead.

NOTES: Brown said it was unlikely that Varejao, Waiters and Miles would make the trip to Oklahoma City. Varejao has missed the last seven games while Waiters has been out four straight and Miles three in a row. Brown said Varejao and Waiters have begun some on-court work. ... Raptors C Jonas Valanciunas had two points in 17 minutes and played only seven minutes in the second half. ... Zeller started the first six games Varejao missed.

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ELMIRA JACKALS — Released G Russ Stein as emergency backup.

ORLANDO SOLAR BEARS — Released G Brooks Ostergard.

SOUTH CAROLINA STINGRAYS — Added G John Havrilack as emergency backup.

STOCKTON THUNDER — Loaned F Joey Martin to Bridgeport (AHL).

Central Hockey League ALLEN AMERICANS — Signed F Anthony Maiani and G Eric Levine.

WICHITA THUNDER — Signed D Jarkko Leppanen. Waived F Ryan Hand.

Southern Professional Hockey League PEORIA RIVERMEN — Signed D Ben Oskroba.

LACROSSE Major League Lacrosse OHIO MACHINE — Forfeited 2015 third- and seventh-round draft picks to acquire M Kyle Harrison and F Erik Krum. Waived M Cameron Mann.

SOCCER Major League Soccer PORTLAND TIMBERS — Signed Ms George Fochive and Aaron Long.

championships, March 6-8 in Moose Jaw, as the top ranked team and face St-Jerome Cheminots of Quebec in their first game at 1 p.m. (CST) March 6.

The host Briercrest Clippers are ranked sixth and face Douglas College Royals of New Westminster, B.C. Other games has Humber College of Toronto clashing with the CBC Bearcats of Abbotsford and the Mohawk Mountaineers of Hamilton meeting St. Thomas Tommies of Fredericton, N.B. The Queens go into the women’s nationals at Seneca College in Toronto ranked third and meet the Capilano Blues of North Vancouver in their first match at 1 p.m. (MST) March 6. The Grande Prairie Wolves are ranked fifth and face Humber College. The Garneau Elans of Quebec City are ranked No. 1 and face Seneca College while Vancouver Island University of Nanaimo meets the Mount St. Vincent University Mystics of Halifax. ● The hockey Kings finish their regular season this weekend against Portage College and a weekend sweep will give them third place.

The team meet Friday at Portage and Saturday at 7:15 p.m. at the Penhold Regional Multiplex. ● Volleyball stars Sam Brisbane and Amber Adolf share the Boston Pizza RDC athlete of the week awards. Brisbane was the MVP of the men’s playoffs and Adolf the MVP of the women’s championships.

The volleyball teams shared the Breathing Room team of the week award. drode@reddeeradvocate.com

Ottawa’s Erik Bedard is excited about the prospect of helping the Tampa Bay Rays get back to the playoffs.

The 34-year-old left-hander signed a minor league contract on the eve of the start of spring training and is being given an opportunity to compete for a job as the team’s No. 5 starter.

Bedard struggled the past two seasons, going 11-26 with a combined 4.78 ERA for the Pittsburgh Pirates and Houston Astros. The Rays will decide over the next few weeks if he’s capable of filling in for the injured Jeremy Hellickson, who’s expected to miss the first six to eight weeks of the season after undergoing elbow surgery.

Bedard, who turns 35 on March 5, was 4-12 with a 4.59 ERA in 32 games, including 26 starts, for the Astros in 2013. Two years ago, he went 7-14 with a career-worst 5.01 ERA in 24 starts for the Pirates.

“You look at his numbers last year, and obviously the wonloss record wasn’t the greatest, but he did a lot of things well and pitched better than those numbers indicated,” said manager Joe Maddon, who remembers how effective Bedard pitched early in his career with AL East rival Baltimore.

“You’d like to think that putting him in front of our defence is going to make (his numbers) even better. ... He could be better than a .500 pitcher,” Maddon said, adding that one of the keys to Bedard’s success with the Orioles was “he was able to throw something other than a fastball in a fastball count for a strike.

He was uncanny at that. That’s why I thought he really ruled when he was with Baltimore.”

Bedard was 40-34 in five years with the Orioles. He won 15 games in 2006 and was just as impressive the following year, when he was 13-5 with a 3.16 ERA in 28 starts.

Injuries curtailed his production following a trade to Seattle in 2008, and Bedard is happy to have an opportunity to get his career back on track with a contender.

The Rays have made the playoffs four of the past six seasons.

“They’re a winning organization. They’ve been consistent the last five, six years, and everybody wants to be a part of that. I’ve always heard good things from other players that it’s fun to be here, relaxed, and you just play ball,” Bedard said after throwing a batting practice session.

The lefty isn’t making any predictions about the competition for the fifth starter’s spot. Among the others in the running are right-handers Jake Odorizzi and Alex Colome. If Bedard doesn’t win the job, he conceivably could wind up in the bullpen.

“You’re just trying to throw strikes, get your arm in shape for games and go from there,” Bedard said. “It’s a process. You don’t try to make the team in BP. ... I’m throwing strikes. That’s the main thing. Not everything is sharp right now, but it’ll get there and I’ll get better.”

Maddon likes what he’s seen from the veteran of 10 seasons — on and off the field.

“I never knew, but he’s kind of gregarious. The guy is affable.

He talks. He’s funny. You never got that watching from a distance,” the manager said. “I like his personality. I think he fits in well here.”

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NHL heads back to the ice

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Sochi Olympics are over and the NHL is back after freezing its schedule so that the world’s best hockey players could compete for gold — perhaps for the last time.

Sidney Crosby won another Olympic championship with Canada. Now, Sid the Kid wants to help the Pittsburgh Penguins hoist the Stanley Cup again.

Crosby and the Penguins host Montreal on Thursday, the third day of league games after the Olympic break, just four days after helping the Canadians beat Sweden in the gold-medal game in Russia.

“In some ways, it will help, playing at this speed in one-game elimination with desperation,” Crosby said Sunday after the final competition of the Sochi Games. “I haven’t really had this transition midseason with Olympic ice, going back to regular size, but I don’t think it’s a bad thing.”

In the East, Boston holds a sevenpoint lead over Tampa Bay in the Atlantic Division coming out of the Olympic break. Pittsburgh holds a 16-point lead over the Rangers in the Metropolitan.

It’s much tighter in the West, where St. Louis and defending champion Chicago are tied atop the Central Division, just five points in front of Colorado.

The Ducks have the conference’s top mark and a seven-point lead on San Jose.

The NHL is going to have its fifth and sixth outdoor games of the season on Saturday, when the Chicago Blackhawks play Pittsburgh at Soldier field, and the next day in a Vancouver-Ottawa matchup at BC Place.

Despite seemingly having success with the expansion of the concept beyond an annual Winter Classic, NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman isn’t ready to say there will be more than one game exposed to the elements next season.

“We haven’t made any decisions about how many games next year (will

be outdoors), but the games this year so far have been nothing short of spectacular,” Bettman said in an interview with The Associated Press during the Olympics. “The Winter Classic had over 100,000 people in Michigan, played in the snow, and at two games in Yankee Stadium and the game in Los Angeles, fans couldn’t have been more engaged.

“When you think about the impact of these regular season games have had, it shows you how excited our fans get about the outdoor games.”

The Detroit Red Wings lost to Toronto in a shootout at the Big House on New Year’s Day, giving the Maple Leafs an extra point that could prove to be pivotal when the regular season ends April 13. The storied franchises are likely competing for one of the two wild-card bids in the Eastern Conference.

If the playoffs began today, the Red Wings would extend their post-season streak to 23. Detroit made it last year by only one point and the race might be as tight again with Columbus, Ottawa, Washington, Carolina and New Jersey within a win or two of moving into a wild-card spot.

“When we play teams like Montreal and Toronto, those are really like fourpoint games,” Red Wings general manager Ken Holland said.

In the Western Conference, which appears to be filled with better teams, it looks like Dallas, Phoenix, Vancouver, Winnipeg and Nashville may be vying for the eighth and final spot in the playoffs. The Buffalo Sabres, meanwhile, have an NHL-low 38 points — nine fewer than the last place team, Edmonton, in the Western Conference.

That gives Buffalo plenty of incentive to shop goaltender Ryan Miller and his expiring contract. Miller was primarily used as a backup for the United States in the Olympics.

The Sabres are running out of time to get something in return for the face of their franchise. The NHL’s trade deadline is March 5.

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Buffalo Sabres left winger Marcus Foligno (82) raises his arms after he scored the game winning goal over Carolina Hurricanes goaltender Cam Ward (30) during the third period of an NHL game in Buffalo, N.Y., Tuesday. Buffalo won 3-2. ries during the Olympics may make moves to replace the players they lost.

Others, such as Buffalo, might decide

to trade talented or expensive players if it appears they have no shot to be a part of the post-season.

Flames’ get feisty during Tavares won’t need surgery post-Olympic practice but out for rest of season

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A little pushing and shoving, it happens all the time. I think we’re all antsy here to get back to playing games.

You can ask anybody in this room and we’re going to be ready for Thursday.

— ChrisButler On his shoving match with Calgary Flames teammate Matt Stajan day break where I don’t think guys saw a ton of ice time.”

The Flames returned to the ice last Wednesday for what Hartley referred to as “training camp, part 2” and went through five days of on- and office sessions before getting a well-deserved day off on Monday.

“Right now we’re telling them playoff mentality,” Hartley said. “It’s time to get going. We had a good day off yesterday.

Today we had a great practice. The boys were flying. They were sharp.”

Forward Mike Cammalleri didn’t mind seeing his teammates go at it in the heat of battle during practice.

“A little owly today,” Cammalleri said. “I think it’s time to play some games.”

With the NHL trade deadline approaching on March 5, there’s much speculation around whether Cammalleri will get dealt. Cammalleri could also sign a contract extension with the Flames before the deadline.

Cammalleri confirmed that the Flames have made him an offer and that talks with interim general manager Brian Burke are ongoing.

“I’m not ignorant to the fact that there’s a deadline coming up that might have implications,” said Cammalleri, who is set to become an unrestricted free agent at the end of the season.

“Brian’s been great just as far as being open and honest. The lines of communication have been good. I’m sure that’ll continue.

“Plain and simple, I do like it here. I like the guys a lot and I like the coaching staff. I have a lot of respect for them and what they’re doing.

I’ve got nothing but fantastic things to say about Calgary, especially the people here.”

After playing for Switzerland at the Sochi Winter Games, goalie Reto Berra took part in his second practice with the Flames on Tuesday.

“It’s good to be back,” said Berra, who wants to do everything he can in Calgary’s final 24 regular season games to prove he belongs in the NHL. “Now it’s not that many games left. Especially me, I don’t know what’s going on next year. I want to show myself on the best side again.”

Whether or not he gets the call on Thursday against the Kings — featuring Olympic gold medallists Drew Doughty and Jeff Carter — Berra said he’ll be ready for the challenge.

“They’re good skaters, good shooters, a good skilled team,” Berra said. “It’s going to be a big challenge again, but I like that and I’m really excited for Thursday.”

With Karri Ramo still nursing a groin injury, Joni Ortio is also in the mix to draw his first-ever NHL start.

“It’s been exciting and obviously it would be awesome to get some action and get a game, but that’s something that I can’t control,” said Ortio, who was recalled last week by the Flames from the Abbotsford Heat of the American Hockey League.

UNIONDALE, N.Y. — John Tavares’ opinion on NHL players participating in the Olympic Games hasn’t changed even though his New York Islanders’ season ended on the other side of the world while he was wearing the colours of Canada.

“It’s obviously a tough situation,” the injured Islanders captain said Tuesday following his return from the Sochi Games. “I certainly love playing for my country, and if I got the call again, I would.”

The 23-year-old Tavares tore the MCL and meniscus in his left knee a week ago against Latvia. He missed the final two games of Canada’s march to the gold medal, and he will sit out the rest of the Islanders season.

The lone bright spot is Tavares was told by team doctors on Monday that he won’t need surgery. After a rehab period of eight to 12 weeks, Tavares should be able to begin training for next season.

“It’s been a pretty good first few days, actually,” Tavares said Tuesday as he stood in front of reporters and cameramen for about 10 minutes inside the Islanders’ dressing room while his teammates practiced at Nassau Coliseum.

“My knee has responded really

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CALGARY — The feisty Calgary Flames are clearly done with the Olympic break.

Intensity ramped up at practice on Tuesday at the Scotiabank Saddledome as forward Matt Stajan and defenceman Chris Butler got into a shoving match before cooler heads prevailed.

“It was like two brothers fighting for their Tonka truck in the sandbox,” said Calgary coach Bob Hartley, who intervened before the skirmish went any further. “I was the third man. I was the closest guy. You appreciate the feistiness and everything, but you don’t want to get it overboard.”

Hartley was happy to see his two players tap each other on their shin pads with their sticks shortly after the altercation.

“It’s water under the bridge,” Hartley said.

“Maybe it’s just a sign that times are changing. We want competitors. That’s what we’re preaching. That’s what we’re getting, so I can’t be here saying that it’s something that I don’t want to see.”

The Flames (22-29-7) have one day of practice remaining before they host the Los Angeles Kings (31-22-6) on Thursday for their first game in 19 days since losing 2-1 to the Philadelphia Flyers at home on Feb. 8.

“You get that itch to start for real and that’s where we’re at right now,” said Stajan, who downplayed his tussle with Butler. “Sometimes emotions get high in practice and things happen. It was nothing.

I don’t think we need to blow it up here.

“A little pushing and shoving, it happens all the time. I think we’re all antsy here to get back to playing games. You can ask anybody in this room and we’re going to be ready for Thursday.”

Butler chalked up his run-in with Stajan to restlessness due to too much practising and not enough playing.

“It’s over with,” he said. “I’m sure we’ll laugh about it now. You go almost 20 days in between a game. Everybody enjoys a game of hockey, but these practices haven’t been easy.

Guys are worn down.

That five days last week was physically demanding, especially after a 10-

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well. Having a gold medal has helped that as well, I think. It certainly was a tremendous experience.

“I’m still having a tough time (knowing) I’m not going to be playing for quite a while. I missed the last couple of games there, and those two games that I missed were the biggest ones, and ones as a kid if you ever got those opportunities ... there only might be one chance at that.”

That is truer now than at any time since the NHL decided in 1998 it would take a multi-week break during Olympic years so its players could represent their countries.

Debate is heating up regarding whether the NHL benefits enough from the sacrifices it makes for the Olympics. Start times in this year’s tournament were often early in the morning, and the time difference in four years in South Korea will be even less userfriendly for fans in North America.

Islanders forward Kyle Okposo wasn’t picked for the U.S. team this time, but he said he isn’t concerned about what will be in 2018.

“If guys aren’t going to go, there is going to be some type of World Cup that guys are going to participate in,” he said.

“To represent your country at the Olympics is one of highest honours you can receive in your sport. Whatever they decide, I am sure the guys will still want to go regardless.”

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Bullets a mystery TWO LANCASTER BUILDINGS HIT Red Deer RCMP are still trying to piece together how at least one Lancaster garage and a house came to be punctured with bullets last weekend.

Police are not saying much about the incident because it is under investigation but they have confirmed it was not gang related or a targeted incident.

“We are still trying to see where the shots came from,” said acting RCMP Supt.

The singing Doll Sisters plan to captivate the audience at the Friends of the Library fundraiser in Sylvan Lake. The young Celtic-roots duo from Rocky Mountain House will perform some original tunes with haunting harmonies and beautiful melodies from 2 to 4 p.m. on Sunday at the Royal Canadian Legion in the Town of Sylvan Lake.

Tickets are $25 from the Sylvan Lake Public Library.

All proceeds will go to library programs. For more information, call 403-5983252.

TREATY 6 DISCUSSED Woody Nook Christian Reformed Church near Blackfalds is hosting a free evening of history on March 11 at 7 p.m.

Musqua Roy and Judy Louis of Maskwacis will present the story and history of the Mackwacis First Nations and Treaty 6 to increase understanding and build relationships.

The talk has been presented all over Alberta to professionals and members of the general public. It acts as a key source of information prior to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission scheduled for March 27 to 30 in Edmonton, the seventh and final national event. The church is located Woodynook Road (Range Road 28-1), west of Hwy 2 and south of Gull Lake. For more information, call 403-8854427.

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Elliott was reluctant to speculate but he said the house is on the edge of the city and the bullets could have travelled in from the country. He also said the bullets were down, which indicates they were fired from a distance.

“They may not at the end have a lot of velocity,” said Elliott. “They are slowing down, falling out of the sky. That could have happened in this case.”

Library prepares collection for new branch

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Another chapter in the Red Deer Public Library’s history will be written when the Timberlands branch opens in September.

Located within École Barrie Wilson Elementary School, the new branch will expand library services to three locations in Red Deer.

The library will open when school starts on Sept. 2.

The branch will operate much like the G.H. Dawe branch with similar hours and about 40 per cent (390 square metres) of the size of that branch.

Christina Wilson, Red Deer Public Library CEO, said this is exciting because there hasn’t been a new branch in Red Deer for a long time. Wilson said library cards are available that can be used at all three branches. Wilson encourages book lovers to pick up a library card today to avoid the long lineups in September.

“I can’t think of a better way to celebrate Red Deer Public Library’s 100 years of library service in Red Deer than to open up a branch,” said Wilson.

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Clark Builders site supervisor Tony Icke walks through the new public library at the École Barrie Wilson Elementary School, which is under construction in the Timberlands subdivision in east Red Deer.

The library is still building the Timberlands collection and Wilson estimated it will be about half the size of the Dawe collection. No precise figures were provided.

The Timberlands library will feature a special early literacy personal computer geared for children, with plans to install one at the main library and another at the G.H. Dawe branches.

Wilson said the computer does not access the Internet and comes with pre-loaded software that will help children navigate the digital world and sharpen

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BRIEFS Candidates for top police officer to be interviewed in April A selection panel made up of the City of Red Deer and the RCMP will interview candidates for the city’s top policing position in April.

City manager Craig Curtis said time for the interviews has been set aside the first week in April.

Curtis expects to have the list of candidates in March after the posting for the job closes.

Curtis said the new person will be hired in April but a start date would depend on the person’s ability to relocate.

Former Supt. Warren Dosko stepped down in a surprise move in late December. Acting RCMP Supt. David Elliott is in charge of the detachment until a replacement is found.

Former councillor’s widow elected in Bentley The widow of the late Bentley town councillor will fill his seat on council.

Cora Knutson came out on top in Tuesday’s civic byelection, securing 102 votes.

In second place was Greg Knutson with 78 votes, followed by Raymond Williams with 55 votes.

Third-term council member Cliff Knutson died in December.

Cora Knutson said she is looking forward to working with council over the next

their literacy skills in a safe environment.

“We will be trying it out in the Timberlands because it fits the young nature of the community that surrounds it — the kindergarten to Grade 5 grade school kids,” said Wilson.

“Many libraries have tried this out and declared this is something people should have. We feel it is something Red Deer should have, too.”

The City of Red Deer committed $450,000 for construction in the 2012 capital budget and another $131,955 in operating costs for staffing (2.5 full-time

four years.

She said she will strive for a strong and effective council that focuses on serving all citizens and making decisions that benefit the entire town.

“Hopefully, I will bring common sense and practicality to council,” she said.

Knutson said she will focus on the town’s residential and industrial infrastructure, and maintaining safe and healthy environments.

Robbery suspects arrested chasing deer in Innisfail Three robbery suspects in Innisfail are in the running for the title of one of the dumbest moves in Central Alberta.

Innisfail RCMP received complaints of a pickup truck speeding through the streets chasing a group of deer through the town around 1 a.m. on Sunday.

When police pulled over the vehicle, they found roughly $4,800 worth of 24-inch LED light bars from at least six vehicles.

The bars are believed to have been stolen sometime during Saturday night.

One victim has been identified. Police are looking for the other five.

A 19-year-old man and two youth were arrested. Charges are pending. The investigation is ongoing.

If you have any information about this crime or are a victim, contact the Innisfail RCMP at 403-227-3342.

Antique signs stolen from Spruce View hall Innisfail RCMP are asking for the public’s help to find the culprit who stole more than 30 antique signs worth between

$30,000 and $40,000 from the Community Hall in Spruce View on Sunday.

Police say the assortment includes old Pepsi, Crush, Coca Cola and tobacco signs that were set up for an auction that day.

The theft occurred sometime between midnight to 8 a.m.

Police ask the community to report any suspicious persons or vehicles that they observed in the area between that time period.

If you have any information on this or any other crime, you are asked to contact the Innisfail RCMP at 403- 227-3342, or if you wish to remain anonymous, contact Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS or at www.tipsubmit.com.

United Way reaches goal with last-minute donations Last-minute donations totalling more than $50,000 have pushed the United Way of Central Alberta past its goal to its best finish ever.

The tally for the 2013 effort now stands at $2,255,000. When the campaign officially ended in January, the total was $2.2 million, just shy of its $2.25-million goal.

“This is great news and once again demonstrates that we live in a very generous community that truly values the work that United Way does in the community,” said Dustin Sundby, volunteer campaign cochair.

Robert Mitchell, CEO of the United Way, said he was thrilled with the achievement.

The funds are already being invested in services to impact the community, he said.

Funding and support are provided to more than 30 agencies and programs in Central Alberta. The geographic region stretches from Ponoka to Olds and Sundre, and from Nordegg to Stettler.

Carolyn Martindale, City Editor, 403-314-4326 Fax 403-341-6560 E-mail editorial@reddeeradvocate.com

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In 2015, when the library is open for the entire year, the ongoing operating costs will ring in slightly higher at $160,093.

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David Elliott. “A bullet can travel along way. They can travel up to two miles, depending on the calibre of the bullets.”

The type of gun or the number of bullets have not been confirmed. Elliott said there have been no more complaints of stray bullets since Saturday.

Stray bullets punctured at least one garage and one house early Saturday afternoon. No one was injured.

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A tinder pot in the making TENSIONS SOAR IN UKRAINE’S PRO-RUSSIAN REGION OF CRIMEA

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SEVASTOPOL, Ukraine — Dozens of pro-Russian protesters rallied Tuesday in the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea against “the bandits” in Kyiv who are trying to form a new government — with some even speaking of secession. A lawmaker from Russia stoked their passions further by promising them that Russia will protect them.

As a Russian flag flew Tuesday in front of the city council building in Sevastopol — a key Crimean port where Russia’s Black Sea Fleet is based — an armoured Russian personnel carrier and two trucks full of troops made a rare appearance on the streets of the city.

The Crimean Peninsula — a pro-Russian region about the size of Massachusetts or Belgium — is a tinder pot in the making.

Protesters had torn down the Ukrainian flag a day ago, pleading with Moscow to protect them from the new authorities in Ukraine who have forced President Viktor Yanukovych to flee Kyiv, the capital, and go into hiding.

“Bandits have come to power,” said Vyacheslav Tokarev, a 39-year-old construction worker in Sevastopol. “I’m ready to take arms to fight the fascists who have seized power in Kyiv.”

Yanukovych’s whereabouts are unknown but he was last reportedly seen in the Crimea. Law enforcement agencies have issued an arrest warrant for

Yanukovych over the killing of 82 people, mainly protesters, last week in the bloodiest violence in Ukraine’s post-Soviet history.

Chanting “Russia, save us!” the protesters gathered for a third day before administrative buildings in Sevastopol and in other Crimean cities. The protests Sunday numbered in the thousands.

“We won’t allow them to wipe their feet on us,” protester Anatoly Mareta said in Sevastopol, wearing the colours of the Russian flag on his arm. “Only Russia will be able to protect the Crimea.”

“I hope for the Ossetian way,” he said, referring to the brief but fierce 2008 Russian-Georgian war in which Russian tanks and troops helped the separatist provinces of South Ossetia and Abkhazia to break free of Georgian control. Russia has recognized both as independence states, but few other nations have.

Russia, which has thousands of Black Sea Fleet seamen at its base in Sevastopol, so far has refrained from any sharp moves in Ukraine’s political turmoil but could be drawn into the fray if there are confrontations between Crimean population and supporters of the new authorities.

The open movement of Russian military vehicles — normally avoided in Sevastopol per Ukrainian request — was seen as a reflection of the tensions gripping the city.

A senior Russian lawmaker, meanwhile, promised protesters that Russia will protect its Russian-speaking compatriots in Ukraine.

“If lives and health of our compatriots are in danger, we won’t stay aside,” Leonid Slutsky told activ-

ists in Simferopol, the regional capital of Crimea.

Slutsky, who heads a parliamentary committee in charge of relations with other ex-Soviet republics, also promised that the Russian parliament is considering a bill to offer Crimea residents and others in Ukraine a quick way of getting Russian citizenship.

He also declared that Yanukovych remains the only legitimate leader of Ukraine, adding there is a “big question mark” over the legitimacy of the decisions made by the Ukrainian parliament since he left the seat of power.

Ukraine’s new authorities are clearly concerned about the tensions in Crimea. The country’s interim leader, Oleksandr Turchinov, met with top security officials Tuesday to discuss the situation there.

In Moscow, Russian President Vladimir Putin also summoned his top security officials Tuesday to discuss the situation in Ukraine, but no details of the meeting were released.

Some in the Crimea have voiced fears that radical nationalists, who played a prominent role in the protests in Kyiv that toppled Yanukovych, could launch forays into the region to punish it for its pro-Russian stance.

Many in Russia have been dreaming about regaining the lush peninsula, which was conquered by Russia in the 18th century under Catherine the Great.

Crimea only became part of Ukraine in 1954 when Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev handed it over from Russia to Ukraine, his native land. The move was a formality until the 1991 Soviet collapse meant Crimea landed in an independent Ukraine.

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and from the descriptions they can tell who these people are,” he said.

Few Ugandans identify themselves publicly as gay, and the tabloid’s actions recalled a similar list published in 2011 by a now-defunct tabloid that called for the execution of gays. A prominent Ugandan gay activist was killed after that list came out.

“The media witch hunt is back,” tweeted Jacqueline Kasha, a well-known Ugandan lesbian activist who is among those listed in the Red Pepper story.

Uganda’s new anti-gay law also creates the offences of “conspiracy to commit homosexuality” and “aiding and abetting homosexuality,” both of which are punishable by seven years behind bars. Those convicted of “promoting homosexuality” face similar punishment.

In signing the bill, Museveni said the measure is needed because the West is promoting homosexuality in Africa, and he rejected international criticism of the law as interference in Uganda’s internal affairs.

KAMPALA, Uganda — A Ugandan newspaper published a list Tuesday of what it called the country’s “200 top” gays, outing some Ugandans and raising fears of violence against those named just a day after the president enacted a severe anti-gay law.

Many on the list “are scared and they need help,” said Pepe Julian Onziema, a prominent Ugandan gay activist who was named in in the Red Pepper tabloid. “Some want to leave the country and they are asking to be helped.”

Meanwhile, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Monday’s signing of the bill by President Yoweri Museveni marked “a tragic day for Uganda and for all who care about the cause of human rights.”

He warned that Washington could cut aid to the East African nation over the new law, which punishes gay sex with up to life in prison.

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LOS ANGELES — A California couple out walking their dog on their stumbled across a modern-day bonanza: $10 million in rare, mint-condition gold coins buried in the shadow of an old tree.

Nearly all of the 1,427 coins, dating from 1847 to 1894, are in uncirculated, mint condition, said David Hall, co-founder of Professional Coin Grading Service of Santa Ana, which recently authenticated them. Although the face value of the gold pieces only adds up to about $27,000, some of them are so rare that coin experts say they could fetch nearly $1 million apiece.

“I don’t like to say once-in-a-lifetime for anything, but you don’t get an opportunity to handle this kind of material, a treasure like this, ever,” said veteran numismatist Don Kagin, who is representing the finders. “It’s like they found the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.”

Kagin, whose family has been in the rare-coin business for 81 years, would say little about the couple other than that they are husband and wife, are middle-aged and have lived for several years on the rural property where the coins were found. They have no idea who put them there, he said.

The pair are choosing to remain anonymous, Kagin said, in part to avoid a renewed gold rush to their property by modern-day prospectors armed with metal detectors.

They also don’t want to be treated any differently, said David McCarthy, chief numismatist for Kagin Inc. of Tiburon.

“Their concern was this would change the way everyone else would look at them, and they’re pretty happy with the lifestyle they have today,” he said.

They plan to put most of the coins up for sale through Amazon while holding onto a few keepsakes.

They’ll use the money to pay off bills and quietly donate to local charities, Kagin said.

Before they sell them, they are loaning some to the American Numismatic Association for its National Money Show, which opens Thursday in Atlanta.

What makes their find particularly valuable, McCarthy said, is that almost all of the coins are in near-perfect condition. That means that whoever put them into the ground likely socked them away as soon as they were put into circulation.

Because paper money was illegal in California until the 1870s, he added, it’s extremely rare to find any coins from before that of such high quality.

“It wasn’t really until the 1880s that you start seeing coins struck in California that were kept in real high grades of preservation,” he said.

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1979 — Total solar eclipse crosses Western Canada, casting a moving shadow 250 km wide.

1973 — Triple Crown champion horse Secretariat sold for a record $5.7 million.

1857 — The Assembly of the Province of Canada formally requests Queen Victoria to choose a new permanent capital, after a deadlock between supporters of Quebec, Montreal, Kingston and Toronto.

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HOROSCOPES Wednesday, Feb. 26 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Teresa Palmer, 28; Nate Ruess, 32; Michael Bolton, 61 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: There’s a cool energy surrounding us today as the Moon glides through friendly Aquarius. While it makes a rather tense aspect to Mars, we may act too headstrong.

A chance that Venus is in town as it will send sweet smooches to us. To avoid taking thing the wrong way, we need to take everything with a ASTRO grain of salt today.

DOYNA HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today is your birthday, you will enjoy an entire year full of social gatherings and making new acquaintances. A friend could become more than just another friend. Watch for all the signals being sent to you and listen to what others are trying to tell you. There’s a whole lot more to learn just by paying extra special attention.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Your domestic environment will start feeling more comforting and pleasing. Your sense of safety and security increases. You may decide to host more events at your own place. Stability and a strong foundation bring you much inner contentment.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Your list of contacts and acquaintances multiply. An active cycle will make you move around quite frequently. Education and communication instill in you the desire to strengthen your own skills. Your outlook on life becomes more enlightened.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Your attitude about your finances becomes more optimistic to the point that you are tempted to splurge yourself. Watch however your purchase habits and appraise if you really need to buy the same item in every possible colour.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): You are entering a rather cheerful phase in your life. A radiant, positive attitude attracts positive individual and circumstances. You are able to improve your general emotional and physical state by learning how to relax and enjoy living in the moment.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Your sensitivity and your empathy towards others increase during this time. If you are not the pardoning type, this period might soften you a bit and you may forgive more easily. Give to the needy. Volunteer to do some charitable work.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Your network circle broadens and the number of your fans increases. Benefits will come to you through someone you may already know and who will eagerly support you in achieving victory. It is easier for you now to become successful in your personal endeavours.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Your professional standing in the world is starting to gain popularity. Everyone tends to look upon you quite favourably and encourage you to continue progressing. You attain greater freedom of choice and expression within your career.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Plan an escapade in a faraway land. Your timing couldn’t be more perfect than now when you got all the celestial support lying around on your side. You derive much satisfaction from interactions with foreign people and import-export operations.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Your tact and your negotiating skills will allow you to achieve equal share and satisfaction when dealing with other people’s money. Deep, emotional experiences are plentiful for you. Your awareness of your own spirituality evolves.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Hope for a loving partnership is definitely in the air. Your optimism will attract the right kind of partners who shares a similar understanding of life. You will learn so much more about your own self through your interaction with another.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You will willingly take charge of your health situation. Your co-workers will benefit you in a way that will help you in your current projects. You gain more contentment from your daily job. Services you present now will go well.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You can’t stop smiling these days as you are infused with lots of warmth, creativity and joy.

Love and romance have a special spot for you in your heart.

Gear up as the good times are starting to roll for you. Your relationship with your children will start improving.

Astro Doyna is an internationally syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate.

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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES — A polio-like illness has afflicted a small number of children in California since 2012, causing severe weakness or rapid paralysis.

The Los Angeles Times reports that state public health officials have been investigating the illness since a doctor requested polio testing for a child with severe paralysis in 2012. Since then, similar cases have sporadically been reported in the state.

Dr. Carol Glaser, leader of a California Department of Public Health team investigating the illnesses, called the doctor’s request “concerning” because polio has been eradicated in the U.S. and the child had not travelled overseas.

The symptoms sometimes occur after a mild respiratory illness. Glaser said a virus that is usually associated with respiratory illness but which has also been linked to polio-like illnesses was detected in two of the patients.

Dr. Keith Van Haren, a pediatric neurologist at Stanford University’s Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital who has worked with Glaser’s team, will present the cases of five of the children at the American Academy of Neurology’s upcoming annual meeting. He said all five patients had paralysis in one or more arms or legs that reached its full severity within two days.

None had recovered limb function after six months.

“We know definitively that it isn’t polio,” Van Haren added, noting that all had been vaccinated against that disease.

Glaser wouldn’t provide the number of illnesses. Van Haren said he was aware of around 20. She urged doctors to report new cases of acute paralysis so they can figure out a possible cause.

Time to broaden circle instead of hanging on to one-sided friendship Dear Annie: I am a ship is not healthy for young man looking for a you. girlfriend.

Dear Annie: It’s hapI have liked this pened again. young lady for seven I’ve left another nail years — since high salon because the techschool. Our nician workrelationship ing on me MITCHELL has been on began talk& SUGAR the friend ing to other side, although manicurists I have shown in their lanher that I like guage. her.

Am I wrong to find Recently, she started this practice rude? to talk to another young If I am paying for man who has quite a histheir time, shouldn’t tory with girls. He has their focus be on me and cheated on the last two not on what I assume is of his three girlfriends. idle gossip?

I am fine if she dates One technician even someone else, but I am took glances at the TV concerned that she will while using the sanding end up hurt if she sets file on me. her sights on this particular guy.

I do not mind if we don’t date, but our friendship is in jeopardy.

We used to talk every day during lunch, but now she is talking to another “friend” and ignores me.

She told me that she wants our friendship to continue, but she is the one destroying it. I am confused.

How do I preserve this friendship? — Concerned Friend Dear Concerned: Is your friend aware of this guy’s history?

You can express your concern, but then please back off. She is apparently willing to be hurt, and if you try to protect her too much, she may end the friendship altogether.

You’ve been carrying a torch for this young woman for many years, and she has yet to return your affections.

We think it’s time you broadened your circle.

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I worked for a large company and taught new hires overseas. We asked them not to converse in their language in front of customers.

I guess my question is: Should I say something?

To them or to the owner?

Or should I simply accept that this is the norm in nail salons? — Spokane Dear Spokane: This is not a personal conversation where two people are talking in a foreign language and ignoring you. That would be rude.

At a nail salon, however, as long as the service is being performed satisfactorily, it doesn’t matter what language

they are speaking or to whom.

Of course, if they are so distracted that the professional quality of their work suffers, this is cause for complaint.

You should first ask the technician to focus on the services being provided, and if that doesn’t help, notify management.

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BRIEF Disney launching digital movies app LOS ANGELES — Disney is launching a digital movies app that allows fans to store movie purchases online and play them back over Apple devices and computers.

The launch of Disney Movies Anywhere coincides with the release of hit film Frozen on digital platforms. Users who link the app account to Apple’s iTunes digital store will receive a free copy of The Incredibles.

The app is built on The Walt Disney Co.’s KeyChest technology, which stores and records consumers’ purchases of digital movies on distant servers. The app also recognizes codes that have enabled digital downloads of Disney movies since 2008.

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ESSAY ‘ALL THE GOOD GUYS IN ‘CADDYSHACK’ REPRESENT THE MIDDLE AND LOWER-MIDDLE CLASSES FIGHTING THE SNOBBISM OF THE COUNTRY CLUB SYSTEM. THE SAME THING IS OPERATING IN ‘ANIMAL HOUSE.’’ — HAROLD RAMIS

protagonist pursues a pretty, idealistic colleague played by Andie MacDowell.

But, within the deceptively simple confines of a glossy, accessible rom-com, the story achieved Beckettian heights of absurdity, skepticism and doubt.

“This is not an antisocial comedy,” Ramis told Washington Post special correspondent Pat H. Broeske in describing Groundhog Day in 1993. “Nor is it yuppie-bashing. It really has to do with his character’s narcissism, but it also has to do with anyone who feels they’re stuck in a rut, living the same day over again. How do you deal with it? How do you change the quality of your life without changing the circumstances?”

Is it any accident that both Ramis and John Hughes — his fellow avatar of 1980s cinema — both hailed from Chicago? The world they collectively depicted on screen was by no means representative; it was blindingly white, conspicuously male and indeterminately middle class. But they nonetheless captured enough of the zeitgeist to touch a universal nerve — or, in Ramis’s case, funny bone — having to do with love of the underdog, congenital

mistrust of authority and ragged, sometimes self-deceiving, perseverance.

Just as TV anchors historically sought to acquire a flat, Midwestern accent, the better to appeal to the broadest swath of regions and states, Ramis’s work broadly represents the America of its time. (The antic military satire Stripes may be his most thoroughly internalized film, if Twitter remembrances on Monday were any indication.)

His films landed in that fertile middle ground somewhere between sophisticated and slapstick, outrageous and relatable, naughty and nice: They were flyover comedies, in the most compassionate, populist sense of the term.

Ramis saw his work as a continuation of the humanist tradition. “I think comedy without morality stops at a certain point,” he told Diana Loevy, writing in The Post in 1983. “As simplistic as all the films I’ve worked on have been, they all have a simple Disney-Capra morality operating in them because that’s what I grew up with. In Capra films the common man triumphed against the hypocrisy of

people with power. All the good guys in Caddyshack represent the middle and lower-middle classes fighting the snobbism of the country club system.

The same thing is operating in Animal House.”

Animal House ushered in a new, anarchic era of movie comedies, Ramis recalled to Broeske. “There was no comedy that came out of the late ’60s that wasn’t straight antiwar satire, the Smothers Brothers type of thing,” he said. “But when we put Nixon away, a lot of energy was released.”

Ensuing generations of filmgoers probably know Ramis best as the nerdy, Proton pack-wearing Dr. Egon Spengler in the Ghostbusters movies or, more recently, Seth Rogen’s dad in Knocked Up. He was a gracious straight man, especially in his work with Murray, whose eye never veered from the larger comic enterprise. “I didn’t think I would be a happy person if my life depended on whether I was acting or not,” Ramis told Loevy. “Fortunately, I had other work. Most actors act because they can’t do anything else.

Directing is the synthesis of those things.”

Knocked Up, of course, was directed

by Judd Apatow, who counted Ramis as an influence on his own films, which took raunch and ribaldry to the next level, for better or worse. A glance back at Ramis’s career invites us to reflect on less cynical, hard-edged times and tastes. As Bill Murray discovered in Groundhog Day, it’s usually a good idea to drink to world peace. But today, let’s drink to Harold Ramis.

Star Wars filmmaker George Lucas and his wife donate $25 million to prestigious Chicago school CHICAGO — Filmmaker George Lucas and his wife, Mellody Hobson, are donating $25 million to a prestigious private school on Chicago’s South Side.

The University of Chicago says Tuesday the grant from The George Lucas Family Foundation will pay for a new arts hall at the university’s Laboratory Schools.

The 86,000-square-foot building will open in 2015 and will be named after Gordon Parks, a photographer, musician and social justice advocate.

Hobson is president of the Chicagobased Ariel Investments. She married the Star Wars filmmaker in 2013.

Lucas says in a statement that art can “transform lives and communities” and says he hopes Parks’ legacy will inspire future generations.

The Hyde Park school has about 1,800 students in nursery school through 12th grade.

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Andie MacDowell and Bill Murray in a scene from ‘Groundhog Day,’ The film, which Harold Ramis co-wrote and directed (and played a small role in), has come to be considered a perfectly written film. Its screenplay is regularly taught as a textbook example of structure, pacing, dialogue and swift, vivid characterization.

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“I always drink to world peace.”

That’s just one of the myriad oft-quoted lines from Groundhog Day, by many lights the life’s masterwork of Harold Ramis, who died Monday at 69.

The 1993 film — which starred Bill Murray as a cynical weath- Harold Ramis erman who goes on a fugue-like journey through the time-space continuum while covering the holiday in Punxsutawney, Pa. — has entered the pantheon of classic American comedies, revered for its philosophical loop-de-loops, unabashed romance and characteristically deadpan Murray performance.

Before Groundhog Day, Ramis — who cut his teeth editing party jokes for Playboy magazine — had delivered a batch of comedies now considered emblematic of the late 1970s and the ‘80s: Animal House, Meatballs, Caddyshack, Stripes, Ghostbusters. Most of them starred Murray, whom Ramis met while they were in Chicago’s Second City (that’s also where Ramis met John Belushi, for whom Animal House was a breakout hit).

At a time when so many Americans are getting their comedy by way of YouTube links and late-night shticks, when what we find amusing is as narrow-cast and fragmented as how we vote and where we shop, Ramis’s oeuvre allows us to reflect on a moment, now distant, when we could all laugh together.

Groundhog Day, which Ramis cowrote and directed (and played a small role in), also has come to be considered a perfectly written film — its screenplay, along with Chinatown and The Godfather, is regularly taught as a textbook example of structure, pacing, dialogue and swift, vivid characterization.

Granted, Ramis was working with an original script written by Danny Rubin, who according to Hollywood lore had delivered a famously flawless first draft. But through their collaborative efforts — and thanks to Murray being willing to take new, darker risks with his heretofore lovably goofy persona — Groundhog Day has stood the test of time, taking pride of place alongside It’s a Wonderful Life as a go-to holiday tradition for families the world over.

In many ways, Groundhog Day hews to the age-old conventions of romantic comedy, as Murray’s self-involved

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BARAGAR Dorothy Rosalie June 5, 1923 - Feb. 21, 2014 In loving memory of Dorothy Baragar, who passed away peacefully at her new residence Villa Marie, Red Deer, Dorothy was predeceased by her husband, Gordon, in 1997 after 53 years of marriage. She is survived by her three sons; Donald and Jack ( Grande Prairie) and Ray (Sylvan Lake); two sisters, Lillian McKeand (Price Albert), Minnie Borshowa (Weyburn), along with numerous grandchildren and greatgrandchildren. Born in Brocklington, Sask., she attended North Star School, while growing up on the family farm. She married Gordon Baragar in 1944 and they lived in B.C. and Sask. before settling in Alberta.

They both worked at Deerhome until retirement and a move to Alix, where they resided until Gordon’s passing in 1997. Dorothy moved back to Red Deer and enjoyed many good years.

Dorothy was an avid crafter, and her afghans and crochet creations were family favorites.

She enjoyed a good game of cards, and socializing with family and friends. Her home-made bread was her specialty. The Sylvan Lake Seniors Lodge was her home for several years and the Symphony Seniors Living, Red Deer, and her final home - Villa Marie. As per Dorothy’s request, there will be no service following cremation. Donations may be made in her memory to the Sylvan Lake Seniors Lodge, #100, 4620 47 Ave. Sylvan Lake, AB. T4S 1N2 or the donors choice of charities.

CRAIGIE Harvena Lillian It is with great sorrow and profound grief that the family of Harvena Lillian Craigie announces her passing at the Red Deer Regional Hospital on Wednesday, February 19, 2014 at the age of 80 years. She will be sadly missed by her husband, Verne Craigie of 56 years and her daughter, Cheryl Craigie, as well as her three grandchildren, her sisters, numerous nieces and nephews, as well as many wonderful friends. A memorial service will be held at Eventide Funeral Chapel, 4820-45 Street, Red Deer on Friday, February 28, 2014 at 1:00 p.m. Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com Arrangements entrusted to EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL 4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer.

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EBELING Barry Edward It is with heavy hearts we announce the passing of Barry Edward Ebeling on Saturday, February 22, 2014 at the Red Deer Regional Hospital Palliative Care Unit at the age of 55 years. Our beloved husband, father, grandfather, brother, uncle, nephew and dear friend was born in Fairmont, Minnesota, USA to Gaylord and Rosella Ebeling and raised with 11 siblings. Barry came to Canada in 2009 and made his home in Red Deer with his wife, Karen (nee Ilk). He loved his work at the Westerner Exposition Associationriding his paint sprayer he nicknamed “Hardley Davidson”.

He also enjoyed small engine repair, wood projects, karaoke and triking.

Those we love don’t go away; they walk beside us every day.

Unseen, unheard, but always near; still loved, still missed, still very dear.

Love you Bear.

A Celebration of Barry’s Life will be held on Saturday, March 01, 2014 at 2:00 p.m. at Living Stones Church, 2020 - 40 Avenue, Red Deer.

Barry’s urn will be laid to rest with military honors in the early Spring of 2014 in the USA. Memorial donations in Barry’s honor may be made directly to the Red Deer & District SPCA, 4505 - 77 Street, Red Deer, AB T4P 2J1. Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.reddeerfuneralhome.com Arrangements entrusted to RED DEER FUNERAL HOME & CREMATORIUM 6150 - 67 Street, Red Deer.

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CARLSON Marie Eugenie Nov. 21, 1946 - Feb. 23, 2014 Marie Carlson passed away with family at her side at the Red Deer Hospice on Sunday, February 23, 2014. Marie contacted Polio at the age of 6 and spent a lot of her childhood life in hospitals.

She managed to graduate from Marion High School in 1965. In May of 1968, she was united in marriage to Eldon Carlson, together they raised a family of four; Gregory (Kathy) of Marwayne, AB, Curtis of Red Deer, AB, Danette (Scott) Bonter of Red Deer, AB, and Christopher (Michelle) of Sylvan Lake, AB. Marie is grandmother to ten grandchildren and five great grandchildren. Marie and Eldon have lived in Bowden, Rocky Mountain House, Red Deer, and finally settling in Delburne for the last 34 years. A good lover, mother, friend, grandmother, and great-grandmother. She was predeceased by brother-in-law Bernard Delorme, sister Delia Cossette, one brother Francis, infant sister Marianne, her parents; Ernest and Marie Bourassa, and father-in-law Lloyd Carlson. Marie is survived by sisters: Cecile Delorme, Philomene (Jerry) Brochu, Marty (Doug) Barker, brother-in-law Cien (Dianna) Cossette, brothers; Marius (Elaine) Bourassa, Rene Bourassa, and Michael (Shelley) Bourassa, sister-in-law Mavis (Art) Gessner, Audrey (Lyle) Carlson, Eileen (Brian) Tranquilla, brothers-in-law; Cal (Cheryl) Carlson, Phillip (Debbie) Carlson, Lorne (Helen) Carlson, and Garnett Carlson. She will be missed by all who knew her.

A Prayer Service will be held at Eventide Funeral Chapel, 4820-45 Street, Red Deer, on Thursday, February 27, 2014 at 7:00 p.m. Funeral Mass will be held at St. Mary’s Catholic Church, 6 McMillan Avenue, Red Deer, on Friday, February 28, 2014 at 1:00 p.m. It is our wish that in lieu of flowers, please forward memorial contributions on Marie’s behalf to the Red Deer Hospice Society, 99 Arnot Avenue, Red Deer, AB, T4R 3S6.

Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com Arrangements entrusted to EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL 4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer.

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WAGNER Marica (nee Dellaire) Marica Wagner, beloved wife of Glen Wagner, passed away peacefully at the Bethany Collegeside Nursing Home on Saturday, February 22, 2014, at the age of 75 years.

Marica was born on February 6, 1939 in Nesterville, ON., to Pascal and Loretta Dellaire.

She was one of six girls raised in Sault Ste. Marie, ON. Marica joined the Royal Canadian Airforce in 1959 as a fighter control operator.

While stationed in St. Sylvestre, QC., she met her husband. Marica married Glen in 1961 on St. Joseph’s Island, ON. She was honorably discharged from the RCAF in 1963. She spent many years living on military bases with her family throughout Canada and the U.S. before settling in Red Deer in 1983. Marica worked as a civil servant from 1982 to 1997 at CFB Penhold.

Marica had many passions in life. She loved having her family together for the holidays and enjoyed playing cards and games.

She joined the Art Club in Red Deer where she developed a passion for painting. She also enjoyed knitting, ceramics, and curling. Marica will be sadly missed by her husband Glen, daughter: Kathy (Brent) McKinnon and their children; Lindsay, Mitchell, and Sarah of Calgary, and daughter: Tracy (Robert) Carr and their children; Ryan and Meredith of Vernon Hills, Illinois. She will also be missed by her sisters; Theresa Dellaire, Evelyn (Ellis) Moore, and Velma (Terry) Lewis, and brother-in-law Fred Court.

Marica was predeceased by Doreena (Nyle) Junor and Claudette Court. At the family’s request, there will be no memorial service held at this time. A celebration of Marica’s life will be held at a later date at the time of her interment at Alto Reste Cemetery.

If friends so desire, memorial donations may be made directly to the Alzheimer’s Society, 105-4419 50 Avenue, Red Deer, AB, T4N 3Z5 or to Bethany Care Collegeside, 99 College Circle, Red Deer, AB, T4N 7G2.

Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com Arrangements entrusted to EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL 4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer.

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STONE Mary Margaret Oct. 1, 1938 to Feb. 16, 2014 Mary Margaret Stone, beloved daughter of the late Catherine and Robert Stone of Alix and Lacombe, passed away peacefully at Advance Residence in Innisfail on February 16, 2014.

Mary leaves behind her brother Charles (Gwen) Stone of Alix, Alberta and sister Flora (Bob) McLean of Kimberley, B.C. Their families include: Darren (Jeanine, Katelyn, Sarah) Stone, Michelle (Maurice, Matejah, Micah) Quintin, Kelly Schultz, Morris Schultz (Jessica), Gordon (Haydn, Hannah) McLean and many extended family. Mary spent her first 30 years with her loving parents on their farm in Alix. When Robert and Catherine retired to Lacombe in 1975 her dad drove her to Penhold daily to experience a work program. For a short time she resided at the V.I.R. in Calgary. In 1986 Mary moved to her second home and loving family at Advance Residence in Innisfail where she lived until passing. In her 76 years, Mary gave endless joy to many family and friends. She will be sorely missed. We love you, Mary.

Mary’s Celebration of Life will be held at St. Mark’s Anglican Church in Innisfail (4915 52nd Street) at 2:00 P.M. on Saturday, March 1st, 2014. Mary would appreciate any Memorial Donations be made to Advance Society, Innisfail Alberta. Please include your mailing address to receive a charitable donation receipt.

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In Memoriam ALICE ATCHISON Oct. 24, 1945 - Feb. 26, 2009 Gone are the days we used to share, But in our hearts you’re always there.

It’s been 5 years since you went away.

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Love Ivan, Kevin, Kellie and families

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Bar W Petroleum & Electric ADMINISTRATIVE CLERK Fast paced Service Company is currently looking for an ADMINISTRATIVE CLERK to provide a wide variety of office duties: Data entry, filing, creating and tracking spreadsheets, making travel arrangements, answering multi-line phone system, coordinate with other departments to ensure timely production of a variety of documents.

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SPYCE John R. John R Spyce passed away in Red Deer, Alberta on January 29, 2014 at the age of 63. John is survived by his son Aaron (Brenda) and their children Stephanie and Jennifer; daughter Amanda Spyce and her daughter Ana Maria; loving sister Catherine (Don) Smith and their children Stephanie, Duncan and Derek. A Time of fellowship and Refreshments for John will be held at the Catholic Social Services 5104-48 Ave Red Deer, Alberta on Friday, February 28, 2014 from 1:00 to 4:00 P.M. As an expression of sympathy memorial donations may be made in John’s name to the Trout Unlimited Canada, the CNIB of Canada or the Catholic Social Services.

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Registered Dental Assistant required for new clinic opening up in Penhold, minutes south of Red Deer. Position will be part-time to start (3 days), with the potential to expand to full-time.

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Duhamel Manning Feehan Warrender Glass LLP Legal Assistants

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HIGHLAND PARK MEDICAL CLINIC Looking for medical receptionist for busy walk in medical clinic for weekends and evenings.

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A RED DEER BASED Pressure Testing Company req’s. Operators for testing BOP’s throughout AB. Only those with Drilling rig exp. need apply. Fax resume & driver’s abstract to: 403-341-6213 or email mikeoapt@gmail.com Only those selected for interview will be contacted.

Bar W Petroleum & Electric Dispatcher/Service Coordinator Assistant Fast paced Service Company is currently looking for a Service Coordinator Assistant.

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Bearspaw currently has a position in our Stettler field operations for an intermediate oil and gas operator. Applicants must have experience as a heavy duty mechanic or journeyman instrument mechanic and possess strong mechanical skills, be quick learners, motivated and hard working and live or be willing to relocate within a 20 minute commute to workplace location. This position offers a challenging work environment, attractive benefits with competitive pay and significant room for promotion.

Please submit resumes Attn: Human Resources email:kwolokoff@ bearspawpet.com Fax 403-252-9719 Mail: Suite 5309 333 96 Ave. NE Calgary, AB T3K 0S3

SOAP Stories is seeking 5 F/T Beauty Treatment O/P, selling soap & bath products $14.55/hr. + bonus & comm. Beauty cert. req’d. Location Parkland Mall - 4747 67th Luau Investments Ltd. St. Red Deer. email o/a Tim Hortons premierjobrdbto@ #100, 4217 - 50 Ave gmail.com #7, 6721 - 50 Ave Busy road construction SOAP Stories is seeking 5 62 Carleton Ave retail sales reps. Selling company req’s 1 st. or 2nd Food Service Managers yr. apprentice heavy duty soap & bath products.

Full Time/Part Time/ mechanic for shop. Fax $12.10 hr + bonus & comShift Work resume to 403-309-0489 mission. Ft No exp. req`d.

Night/Overnight/ Early Morning/Weekend. Parkland Mall 4747 67 St. High School Diploma, plus Red Deer. email resume to 3 years related experience premierjobrd@gmail.com $14 to $18/hr depending WIRELESS WORLD on experience/availability requires 2 Retail Sales Apply in person from Associates for Bower 9am to 5pm Place Mall, 149A 4900 C & C COATINGS in Or by fax at 403-341-6006 Molly Banister Drive., Innisfail is seeking F/T Red Deer, AB; FT, perm Laborers, sandblasters, Luau Investments Ltd. to start ASAP; Will train, powder coaters, and induso/a Tim Hortons provide direct mobile trial painters. Competitive #100, 4217 - 50 Ave phone sales and customer wages and benefits. Fax #7, 6721 - 50 Ave support services at resume to: 403-227-1165.

7111 - 50 Ave location & other duties; 62 Carleton Ave $12.00/hr. Email Resume: CARPENTERS and Food Service Supervisors retailjobs@ laborers with exp. in farm Full Time/Part Time/ mywirelessworld.ca buildings. 403-318-6406 Shift Work Night/Overnight/ Experienced Siders Early Morning/Weekend Teachers/ Needed Call 403-588-3210 Some high school education, Tutors F/T SATELLITE INSTALLERS plus 2 years related experience - Good hours, home every $10 to $13.50/hr depending CERTIFIED TEACHER night, $4000-$6000/mo. on experience/availability REQUIRED Contractor must have truck Apply in person from with a Bachelor of Education or van. Tools, supplies & 9am to 5pm from Alberta for a .5 ladders required. Training Or by fax at 403-341-6006 position in a private ESC. provided, no experience Start your career!

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Top paid wages.

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Bearspaw Petroleum Ltd is seeking exp’d FLOORHANDS & DERRICK HANDS Locally based, home every night! Qualified applicants

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Please submit resumes: Attn: Human Resources Email: hr@bearspawpet.com Fax: (403) 258-3197 or Mail to: Suite 5309, 333-96 Ave. NE Calgary, AB T3K 0S3

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Currently accepting resumes for the following: SENIOR H2S SAFETY SUPERVISORS: Minimum 3 year’s safety experience on Drilling and Service Rigs.

SHOPHAND Experience working on Breathing Apparatus and Breathing Air trailers.

Send resume and certificates to sitesafe@telusplanet.net or fax to: 403-887-8864

Experienced Oilfield Construction Lead Hands Experienced Oilfield Construction Labourers Experience Oilfield Project Foreman Sylvan Lake. Openings for

LUCKY’S LOUNGE located in Jackpot Casino, requires Experienced P/T Servers. Has potential to become Full Time.

Please apply in person at 4950 47 Ave. No phone calls please

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ELEMENTS is looking 5 Beauty Treatment Operators.

Selling seasonal gift packages & personal care products in Parkland Mall-4747 67th St Red Deer, $14.55/Hr. Plus bonus & commission, F/T, Beauty certification req’d email resumes: elementsreddeerbto@ gmail.com ELEMENTS is looking for 5 retail sales reps. selling season gift packages and personal care products in Parkland Mall, 4747 67 St. Red Deer. $12.10 hr. + bonus & comm. FT. No exp. req`d. Please email elementsreddeer@gmail.com FULL-TIME SALES position available. A knowledge of woodwind and brass instruments would be a definite asset, but not a requirement.

Apply in person or e-mail resume to reddeer@ 53rdstreetmusic.ca.

NICE STUFF LTD. has a Part Time RETAIL SALES position available.

Nights and Weekends.

Must have own transportation, be 24 plus. Must be reliable and responsible.

Only those being considered for the position will be contacted. Please submit resume with references to. nicestuff_420@yahoo.ca

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Hiring full time Operation Coordinator/Field Supervisor for local oilfield testing company Must be local (Red Deer area) Must have testing experience Competitive salary Health benefits offered Send resume to ken@darkstarproduction. com

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Motor coach company looking for 4th year or journeyman. Experience with motor coaches preferred. Send resume to frontbus@platinum.ca or fax 403.-347-4999 QUICKLINE CRANE INC. in Blackfalds is looking for a

MOBILE CRANE & HOISTING OPERATOR with experience.

Must be a minimum third year apprentice & have good knowledge of truck mount & all terrain cranes.

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RED DEER ELECTRIC Is currently seeking Experienced Residential Electricians for work in Red Deer.

Top wages & full benefits.

Please send resumes email: rdelectric@shaw.ca or fax 403-342-2521

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BUSY Central Alberta Grain Trucking Company looking for Class 1 Drivers and/or Lease Operators.

We offer lots of home time, benefits and a bonus program. Grain and super B exp. an asset but not necessary. If you have a clean commercial drivers abstract and would like to start making good money. fax or email resume and comm.abstract to 403-337-3758 or dtl@telus.net CLASS 1 driver with fluid hauling experience, local runs. 403-373-3285 or fax resume and copies of all valid tickets to 403-986-2819 EXP’D CLASS 1 end dump driver for local haul. Please fax resume with driver’s abstract 403-342-6881 NEED EXPERIENCED Class 1 drivers for short and long haul. Full Time.

Runs AB., SASK, Manitoba & BC. Please call PROMAX TRANSPORT at 227-2712 or fax resume w/abstract 403-227-2743

Sylvan Lake. Openings for drivers for winch tractor and swampers. Safety bonus program, top wages and benefits. Email resume tom@roncooilfield.ca or fax. 403-887-4892

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ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of the morning ADVOCATE in Red Deer (Reliable vehicle needed.)

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ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Sunday Life ONLY 4 DAYS A WEEK

in Kentwood Kennings Cres. & Kirby St.

ACADEMIC Express RENTAL & TRUCKING ADULT EDUCATION Company looking for class or equivalent skill level.

AND TRAINING 1 picker/winch operator to Normandeau Required immed. Resume join our team. 15 on 6 off & references required. schedule, salary plus SPRING START Apply to 6758 52 Ave. bonus and benefits. Please JUNIOR SERVICE Nellis & Norton Ave. send current resume & TECHNICIAN required.

• Community Support Blown-in Attic drivers abstract to Must have some Worker Program also Insulation Installer info@ experience with service Exp’d Blown-In Attic Nordegg Cres. & gsequipmentcanada.com and repair of furnaces/air • Women in the Trades Insulation Installers req’d, conditioners and would like or fax 403-346-5127.

76 St. Program must have experience to expand on his/her driving a 3 ton truck with van. knowledge base. We • Math and Science for Duties: Install attic provide training and work the Trades Program insulation into houses, experience in a supportive shops and barns, etc., Oriole Park West environment. Must have • GED Preparation drive 3 ton trucks to and strong people skills and from job sites, maintain mechanical aptitude.

Gov’t of Alberta Funding trucks and equipment.

SIDING INSTALLER FAX: 403-309-8032 or may be available.

Must know the proper RO’Brien Cres & with or without trailer & e-mail: brad@ Values for blow-in tools.

F.T. year round Oxley Cl. comfortecheating.com 403-340-1930 insulation. If you are a work, must have truck and www.academicexpress.ca Classifieds...costs so little Team player who is 2 yrs. exp. 90 cents - $1 customer orientated, Saves you so much! per sq.ft. 403-358-8580 Classifieds reliable and have your Call Joanne Your place to SELL own transportation to and 403-314-4308 info Your place to BUY Truckers/ from work with a clean Class 5 driver’s license, Drivers please apply. We offer: 40+work week, benefits and safety program.

Is Currently Resumes will be accepted Looking to hire by email only, please no BOBCAT FOR FLYERS, RED DEER SUNDAY LIFE & EXPRESS phone calls. Only those selected will be contacted OPERATORS. ROUTES IN: for an interview. Email: Offering High Paced Work with Competitive bbcowie@telus.net ANDERS AREA Wages and Local Job Sites. Applicant Must BUSY DEALERSHIP Have A Valid Class 3 License with Air. REQUIRES Valid Driver’s Licence preferred. Fax or email info@goodmenroofing.ca or (403)341-6722 NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE!

860

CARRIERS NEEDED

LUBE TECH

Possibility of leading to apprenticeship.

Fax resume to: 403-341-5066 Attn. Greg Rempel DAIRY EQUIPMENT SUPPLIER looking for a detail oriented

850

Anders St. / Armstrong Close

Experience in Fine Grading and Finishing is a Must. Knowledge of the Area Would Be an Asset. A Positive Attitude is a must.

Addinnell Close / Allan St. Abbott Close / Anders St.

Please Submit Resume with Driver’s Abstract in person to:

Anders Close

5913 Len Thompson Drive Lacombe, AB

INGLEWOOD AREA

E-mail: db-front@telus.net or by Fax: 403-782-7786

Isherwood Close

PARTS PERSON

Strong computer skills and clean Class 5 req.

Equal opportunity employer.

Competitive wage & benefits package. Email resume: lindsay@prolineinc.ca

No Phone Calls Please

Misc.

Help

Issard Close LANCASTER AREA

880

Law Close / Lewis Close Langford Close

drivers for winch tractor and swampers. Safety bonus program, top wages and benefits. Email resume tom@roncooilfield.ca or fax. 403-887-4892

Restaurant/ Hotel

820

CALKINS CONSULTING o/a Tim Hortons Food Service Manager 5 positions, F/T & P/ T, $9.95 - $18/hr. depending on exp. and availability.

Permanent shift work, weekends, days, nights and evening shifts. 3-5 yrs. exp., completion of secondary school. Start date ASAP. Apply in person 6620 Orr Drive.

Fax: 403-782-9685 Call 403-848-2356 HIRING F/T Kitchen and front staff. $11./hr. Drop resume off at 6730 Taylor drive #200. R.D.

790

Blackfalds Base

Ferus Inc. specializes in the production, storage, supply and transport of liquid nitrogen and liquid carbon dioxide for the energy industry.

www.ferus.com Ferus is currently seeking a Parts Person to join the team in Blackfalds. Reporting to the Equipment Coordinator, the ideal candidate will have effective organizational and communication skills. The selected incumbent would need to have the ability to meet deadlines, be a selfstarter and a quick learner.

RN / RPN

FULL TIME POSITION Work days & evenings. Salary commensurate with training and experience. Excellent benefit package. Must have valid registration for RN/RPN. Position to start immediately.

If you are interested in working in a positive and dynamic environment, please email your resume by March 1st, 2014 to:

humanresources@ferus.com or fax 1-888-879-6125 367635B26-C4

Lund Close

Full Time, 37.5 hours a week. $14.67/hr. to $20.39/hr.

Depending Experience

MORRISROE AREA Vista Village

The candidate would be responsible for the recruitment of carriers for delivery of Advocate, EMC and CAL routes by various methods incorporated by the Circulation Department.

This would include telephone calls, distribution of recruitment flyers, posters, networking, group presentations, advertising, use of social media, along with various other methods.

The position would require interviewing, screening and signing up carriers for delivery, along with cold calling.

The candidate should have an outgoing personality, along with the ability to multi task.

This should be complimented with excellent written and oral presentation skills. The position requires very good organization skills, the ability to work independently and in a group setting.

For this position you must have good computer skills, a valid driver’s license with good driving record.

A company car may be available during working hours.

The candidate must be able to pass a criminal background check.

Please forward resume to: Red Deer Advocate, Attention Doug Sibbet 2950 Bremner Ave., Red Deer, AB T4R 1M9 Email: dsibbet@reddeeradvocate.com Fax: 403-341-4772

Ferus offers a competitive compensation package including a competitive base salary, bonus incentive plan & an excellent Benefits Package, including a Group RSP Savings Plan.

SUNNYBROOK AREA Somerset Close Springfield Ave. Savoy Cres. / Sydney Close Sherwood Cres.

VANIER AREA Viscount Drive Vickers Close Volks Place / Vanier Drive Vanson Close / Visser St. Call Prodie @ 403- 314-4301 for more info ********************** TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 403-314-4300

IS HIRING! -

We are currently seeking the following to join our team in Blackfalds for all shifts: PRECAST INSTALLATION LABORERS CONCRETE FINISHERS CARPENTERS/ WOODWORKERS STEEL REINFORCEMENT LABORERS OVERHEAD CRANE OPERATORS GENERAL LABORERS Top wages paid based on experience. Full Benefits and Uniform Package included.

Visit our website for more detailed job descriptions at

www.eaglebuilders.ca

Please reference: Ad #PP-0214-BLK We thank you for your interest; however, only those applicants considered for the position will be contacted.

CARRIER SUPERVISOR

The hours for this position would be Monday to Friday, working every 6th Saturday, 7.5 hours a day, with start times at 10 a.m. or earlier.

Responsibilities • Purchasing and Receiving parts through computer software system • Dispensing of parts as required • Shipping/Receiving • Maintain inventory levels/ warehouse organization • Maintain vendor relations • Maintain a network of qualified vendors • Provide quality customer service to our external and internal customers • Following up on timelines for delivery, monitoring progress and dealing with vendor delays • Ensuring all appropriate paperwork associated with equipment is on file • Knowledge of Heavy Duty Tractor/Trailer parts, maintenance and repairs Qualifications: • Knowledge of Safety Manuals, safety practices, safe work methods and safety regulations pertaining to the work • Proficient skills level in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel & Outlook) • Able to prioritize tasks in a dynamic and challenging environment • High School Diploma or GED equivalent • Purchasing systems experience would be an asset • Mechanically inclined and willing to learn • Valid Class 5 license (abstract required)

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

Apply in writing to: Donna Lantz Care Manager Northcott Care Centre 4209 48 Ave., Ponoka, AB T4J 1P4 dlantz@northcottcarecentre.com Ph. 403-783-4764 Fax 403-783-6420

PARTS PERSON

365670B27

“Committed to enriching the lives of our workforce, while Providing quality energy construction solutions”

850

Lamont Close

SYLVAN Lake. Opening for pilot car drivers. Only exp’d need apply. Safety bonus program, top wages and benefits. Email resume tom@roncooilfield.ca or fax. 403-887-4892

If you have a Desire to be Part of a Growing Company Please apply on our Career Section on our website www.alstaroilfield.com

Trades

840

Please fax resumes to: 403-347-9310 or email administration @ barwpetroleum.com

Alstar Oilfield is looking for highly motived individuals to join our Team in Hinton.

Alstar has been serving the oil and gas construction industry since 1969.

850

Applicants are able to apply online or fax resume to 403-885-5516 ATTN: Human Resources or email: hr@eaglebuilders.ca.

We thank all applicants but only those selected for interviews will be contacted.

366001B20

780

365773B13-28

Legal

RED DEER ADVOCATE Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2014 D3

the n o d e t is l e l ic h e v r u Get yo

ADVERTISE YOUR VEHICLE IN THE CLASSIFIEDS AND GET IT

2006 PONTIAC Solstice 26080 kms., 5 speed,

2005 HUMMER H2

DO YOU HAVE AN ATV TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

$24,888

Sport & Import 348 8788

2007 SPORTSMAN

LX, 3254, 3 slides,thermo windows, fireplace, lots of extras. MINT $27,900. trades cons. 403-598-0682

$19,888.

348-8788 Sport & Import

2005 KIA SORENTO, silver, 147,000 km.

DO YOU HAVE A TENT TRAILER TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

$6000.

4X4, 114903 kms.,

2008 TOYOTA Tacoma

2011 CHEV Silverado LTZ 6.2 L, lthr.,

Denali AWD

$18,888.

2007 TOYOTA Tacoma V6

ALL WHEEL DRIVE 2007 530 XI BMW. Original Owner, 143,000 km. Exc. Cond. Regularly Maintained,

348-8788 Sport & Import

DO YOU HAVE A HEAVY TRUCK TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2008 GMC Yukon XL

$27,888.

Fully Loaded!

$19,888.

348-8788 Sport & Import

4WD, V6, 4 auto, cruise, air, 227,000 km. $14,900. 403-505-3113

2005 LEXUS ES 330

2007 CHRYSLER 300 103198 kms.,

2008 Audi A4 2.0T

2008 VW GOLF CITY

$19,888.

348-8788 Sport & Import

Sport & Import 348 8788

$9,888.

$15,888. SOLD

$10,888

Sport & Import 348 8788

DO YOU HAVE A TRUCK CAMPER TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2006 34’ Gulf Stream Yellowstone. Sleeps 4, 3 slides, new awning, washer, dryer hookup, equipped w/Arctic & Sub Arctic pkgs, custom skirt & more! $34,900. 403-8878405

2007 COLORADO, 28RK, Dutchman, 32’, slideout, back kitchen, shower, king bed, TV, stereo, air. loaded

2008 BMW X5 3.0si

DO YOU HAVE A DIRT BIKE TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2011 FORD FIESTA. $8200, 5 spd, 11,000 km.

Exc. cond. Great on gas.

Medical reasons.

Ask for Doug **SOLD**

2002 VOLKSWAGEN Jetta GLS 1.8L,

2006 ACURA RSX Premium auto 57,000 kms.

DO YOU HAVE A MOTORHOME TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

DO YOU HAVE A TRUCK TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2009 RANGER XLT 4x4, 70,000 kms.,

2011 GMC Sierra 1500 Hybrid 4X4, 6.0L, lthr., 81735 kms.,

TRADES CONSIDERED 403-598-0682

348-8788 Sport & Import

2007 FORD F-150 Lariat 4X4, htd. lthr., sunroof,

2008 Escalade ESV. Nav. Dvd camera 6 pass

2009 VW GOLF, manual, 90,000 km.

Winter pkg,

2012 CHEV Silverado 2500 LTZ, diesel, lthr., tonneau cover,

$12,888.

Sport & Import 348 8788

403-347-0461

Call 403-350-4323

DO YOU HAVE A SPORTS CAR TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

FWD, lthr., 41,100 kms,

348-8788 Sport & Import

$10,888.

Sport & Import 348 8788

DO YOU HAVE A SEADOO TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2006 CADILLAC ESCALADE ESV platinum, mint

DO YOU HAVE

DO YOU HAVE A BOAT TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

$27,888.

348-8788 Sport & Import

$22,900. 403-784-2482

$12,888

348-8788 Sport & Import

AWD, htd. lthr., panaroof,

$21,888

Sport & Import 403-348-8788

$32,888

TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2007 H2 hummer, mint condition, 59,000 kms, new tires & rims, original rims and tires to buyer. Call Art 403-304-0727.

DO YOU HAVE A HOLIDAY TRAILER TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

$15,900.

$28,888.

$10,500.

348-8788 Sport & Import

VEHICLE ACCESSORIES

348-8788 Sport & Import

2008 FORD F-250 XL 4X4, 6.4L, 92754 kms.

348-8788 Sport & Import

2010 ACURA MDX tech package 91,000 kms

2012 INFINITI G37X

$30,888

Sport & Import 348-8788

$26,888.

Sport & Import SOLD

2008 FORD F150.

2010 CHEV 1500 4x4 8 cyl. Kuhmo Tires.

348-8788 Sport & Import

$36,888

403-391-1770

$27,888

2007 INFINITI G35X

403-741-6844

403-304-2118

348-8788 Sport & Import

403-845-4146, 844-5698

DO YOU HAVE A JEEP TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2006 MERCEDES Benz CLS 500 lthr., sunroof, 115057 kms., $25,888 348-8788 Sport & Import

2007 PONTIAC G5.

Manual, 130,000 km. Great cond. Winter & Summer tires. Well. maint. N/S.

$6000 FIRM.

$10,000.

$15000.

$39,888.

$17,900.

8th Annual Red Deer Collector Car Auction & Speed Show.

Mar 14 - 16. Westerner Park, Red Deer. 150,000 sq.ft. indoor show. Exhibitors space avail.

Consign today 1-888-296-0528 Ext. 102 EGAuctions.com

DO YOU HAVE A CAR TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

T@B 14’, 1200 lbs., loaded.

Like New. $10,999.

403-755-2760

403-346-9816

2008 GMC Acadia SLE AWD, 8 passenger, 90,485 kms,

$19,888.

$5,550.

348-8788 Sport & Import

403-342-4318

FANTASTIC FEBRUARY SAVINGS $

0

$

Down!

2010 FORD ESCAPE XLT Stk #VP4650A. fully loaded, 1 owner,

2010 TOYOTA PRIUS PREMIUM Stk #VP4598. hybrid drive, fully load-

$

only 75,000 kms

14,990 or $111/bw

$

$

0

Down!

ed, moonroof, only 33,000 kms

18,999 or $139/bw

0

$

2008 VW RABBIT

Stk #VP4641. 2.5 L, auto, loaded, heated seats, only 66,000 kms

$

14,990 or $127/bw

GARY MOE

VOLKSWAGEN

$

0

0

Down!

Down!

Stk #V34690A. turbo diesel, 60 mpg., auto, loaded, certified pre-owned VW

Stk #VP4824. highline, 60 mpg., turbo diesel, 6 spd., leather, loaded, moonroof, 84,000 kms

Down!

2011 VW GOLF TDI

$

18,990 or $139/bw

$

22,990 or $167/bw

0

Down!

2011 VW JETTA TDI

$

$0 DOWN

2012 HONDA CIVIC EX

Stk #V44716A. 5 spd. manual, loaded, moonroof, tint, alloy wheels, only 47,000 kms

$

14,990 or $111/bw

Gasoline Alley South, (west side) Red Deer

403.342.2923

Locally Owned & Family Operated

Visit garymoe.com

353123B26

2006 GMC C4500 4X4, Duramax, 170,000 kms.

102504B6

2004 DODGE RAM 1500 4x4, quad, gold , c/w topper, 2 sets of tires. Exc. cond.

AWD, auto., loaded.

Summers & snows, 106,000 km, 1 owner, exc. cond.

Must sell.

D4 RED DEER ADVOCATE Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2014

880

Misc.

Help

GLIDER CHAIR, green, $25.

WICKER plant stand, $25.

3 VINTAGE wooden dining room chairs, $30/ea.

3 UPHOLSTERED card table chairs, $10/ea.

SOLID wood magazine rack, $15.

403-309-3475

AFTERNOON newspaper carriers needed in the following areas: Road construction company looking for a parts person.

Willing to train. Must be able to work away from home for 6 months a year and have a class 5 licence.

Fax resume to 403-309-0489

BOWER MOUNTVIEW

TURPLE BROS. LTD.

WEST PARK

Is taking resumes for:

WESTLAKE

•

Accessories Dept. with experience in clothing or power sport industry.

Also looking for a Receiver.

For more information • phone Quitcy at 403-314-4316 DISPATCHER REQ’D. Knowledge of Red Deer and area is essential.

Verbal and written communication skills are req’d. Send resume by fax to 403-346-0295 LOOKING for P/T person to clean motor coaches.

Must be willing to work evenings and weekends.

Transportation required: location 10 miles from Red Deer. Please forward resume to frontbus@platinum.ca or fax to 403-347-4999 LOOKING FOR SCREENPRINTER. Will train the right person.

Apply in person to Grand Central Stitchin’ #7, 7439 49th Ave. Cr. Red Deer

F/T positions avail.

Please forward resume to HR Department Fax: 403-341-4910

wegot

stuff CLASSIFICATIONS 1500-1990

Clothing

1590

JACKET, ladies chocolate brown suede, size large, from boutique of leather.

Good cond. $20.

403-314-9603 JONES OF NEW YORK LADIES NAVY SUIT. Size 14W. Like new. $10.

403-343-1112

MORNING newspaper carriers needed in the following areas:

Computers

1600

CORNER computer desk. $75. 403-343-6218

WESTPARK

TRENDNET WiFi, wireless Router, $25; Motorola surf board cable modem, $10; D-Link Router, $10.

403-755-2760

WESTLAKE For more information phone Quitcy at 403-314-4316

EquipmentHeavy

1630

TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, office, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS REQUIRED

Firewood

1660

AFFORDABLE

Homestead Firewood

To deliver 1 day a week in BOWDEN

Spruce & Pine - Split 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472

LOGS

Please call Debbie at 403-314-4307 P/T CASHIER Clerk. Apply with resume to Highland Green Value Drug Mart.

RENTAL STORE REQUIRES AN EMPLOYEE FOR COUNTER SALES. Must have equipment and small engine knowledge.

Retail and parts inventory experience are assets.

Must be physically fit.

Full time position with OT in busy season. sales@parklandrentals.com or fax 403-347-7066 SWAMPERS F/T needed immediately for a fast growing waste & recycling company.

Heavy lifting involved (driver’s helper) position.

Reliability essential. Own transportation required.

Please email resumes to canpak@xplornet.ca

1720

Household Furnishings

Semi loads of pine, spruce, tamarack, poplar.

Price depends on location.

Lil Mule Logging 403-318-4346 Now Offering Hotter, Cleaner BC Birch. All Types. P.U. / Delivery. Lyle 403-783-2275

Lumber

1670

PARTICAL Shelf Boards, 6, 5.8” x 16”. various lengths. All for $40.

403-314-2026

Household Furnishings

1720

DBL. box spring and mattress, clean, free for pick up 403-346-9886

Misc.

Help

880

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Sunday Life ONLY 4 DAYS A WEEK in CLEARVIEW RIDGE AREA Crossley St., Cooper Cl., Carter Cl., Connaught Cres. & Cody Pl. $190/mo.

LOVESEAT, light brown year and half old good shape. $75. phone 403-986-2849

Travel Packages

1900

TRAVEL ALBERTA Alberta offers SOMETHING for everyone.

Make your travel plans now.

Wanted To Buy

1930

WANTED: SNOWBLOWER 403-886-5194, 304-5974

Buying or Selling your home?

Check out Homes for Sale in Classifieds

WANTED

1730

Stereos TV's, VCRs

PS2 w/15 games, $75.

XBOX w/15 games, $75.

PS1 w/8 games, $60.

403-782-3847 Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds

3060

THE NORDIC

1 & 2 bdrm. adult building, N/S. No pets.

403-596-2444

Rooms For Rent

3090

BDRM. w/private bathroom, parking spot,, $590/mo. + DD 403-588-6268 after 6 pm.

FULLY Furn. BDRM. $450 rent/sd 403-342-4604

AGRICULTURAL

Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514

Suites

CLASSIFICATIONS 2000-2290

Horses

2140

Offices

Large office or retail space downtown.

homes

Rowell Cl. & Ritson Cl. $87/mo.

ALSO West half of Robinson Cres, Rich Cl., & Ryan Cl. Area. $84/mo.

Call Jamie 403-314-4306

Automotive Services

5010

Keep Keep the the Car Car,,

Farms/ Land

4070

Take Take the the Money!

Money!

If you you own own aavehicle, vehicle, get up up to to $10,000 $10,000today! today!

Trucks

5050

2003 F350 Diesel. For parts or to fix up. Lots of new parts. $3000 obo. 403-588-2298

Holiday Trailers

5120

www.thetitlestore.ca www.thetitlestore.ca RED RED DEER DEER 403-754-5104 403-754-5104 4971 4971 Phelan PhelanSt. St.

Antique & Classic Autos 455 ACRES AGRICULTURAL

5020

T@B 14’, 1200 lbs., loaded. Like New. $10,999. 403-755-2760

5180

4100

wegot

5030

5190

VIEW ALL OUR PRODUCTS

5200

rentals

4010

3020

4020

3030

4110

5240

4160

6020

3050

Property For Sale By Tender

1830

3060

1840 1860

Goods

ATOMIC ARC skis, downhill, $50. 403-342-7460 BAR BELL BENCH, with bars & weights. FREE. 403-347-9843 DEER Shoulder Mount on Shield. $200.

403-314-2026

MORRISROE MANOR

1 & 2 bdrm., Avail. immed.

Adult bldg. N/S No pets 403-755-9852 PONOKA, lrg. 1 bdrm apt. incld’s, laundry & all utils. $750. Avail. end of Feb. no pets, n/s 403-993-3441

4040

EXCLUSIVE LUXURY RIVERFRONT CONDOS FOR SALE in Downtown Red Deer.

Call Renee at 403-314-1687 for Inquiries.

NEW CONDO

1000 sq.ft. 2 bdrm., 2 bath. $192,000. 403-588-2550

wegot To Advertise Your Business or Service Here

Call Classifieds 403-309-3300 classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com

Accounting

1010

INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp. with oilfield service companies, other small businesses and individuals RW Smith, 346-9351

Contractors

1100

DALE’S Home Reno’s Free estimates for all your reno needs. 403-506-4301 RMD RENOVATIONS Bsmt’s, flooring, decks, etc.

Call Roger 403-348-1060

Handyman Services

1200

ATT’N: Are you looking for help on small jobs around the house or renovate your bathroom, painting or flooring, and roof snow removal?

Call James 403-341-0617 AVAILABLE NOW! Reno’s & handyman service.

Call Trent 403-358-1415

Massage Therapy

1280

FANTASY MASSAGE International ladies

Escorts ROSEDALE AREA

5000-5300

wegot

ALSO

43 Ave. Area between 39 St. and 43 St. $61/mo

CLASSIFICATIONS

2010 ESCAPE top of line, leather, heated seats, sunroof, etc, new Michelin tires, fully inspected, $13,900 403-343-1021

2190

1760

Erickson Dr., Eldrige Cr., Everitt Cr., Elkin Cl., $187/mo.

ALSO

wheels

5040

5170

CLASSIFICATIONS 1000-1430

40A, 41 & 42 Ave. between 39 St. & 44 St. $120/mo.

SUV's

wegot

WANTED: all types of horses. Processing locally in Lacombe weekly.

403-651-5912

EASTVIEW

ALSO

& home on 24 acres, located on Blindman Valley, 15 mins. to Red Deer 4 bdrm., (2) full & (2) 1/2 baths. Arena is 60x250, 5 paddocks, 2 large pastures, pipe fencing. $1,290,000.

Dave 403-304-9770 Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much!

3110

services

41 Ave. from Ross St. to 44 St. + 4000 Block of 47 St. and 44 Block of 40A Ave. $63/mo

Horse Riding Facility

ROOM in Westpark, n/s, no pets. Furnished. TV & utils incl. 403-304-6436

74 to 129 Block of Dunning Cres., Depalm St. and approx. 3 blocks of Douglas St. $108/mo.

GRANDVIEW AREA

4050

Great high traffic location; land, 12 mi. E. of Ponoka, Easy to find; Lower level 1 mi. off pavement, good surface lease revenue. space with 3 lrg rooms, an Inquire with your name Snowmobiles office & storage; Signage avail; and address to: Box 1079, Rent $975 plus gst & pwr. c/o Red Deer Advocate, Darryl Sim with Sim Mgmt POLARIS, older, complete 2950 Bremner Ave., & Realty 403-358-9003.† Grain, Feed tuneup, $1500.; trailer 8TH ANNUAL RED DEER Misc. for Red Deer, Ab T4R 1M9 PM 307 ~ 5007 - 50 St ~ $600. obo 403-340-1403 COLLECTOR CAR Hay Sale www.simproperties.ca Looking for a place AUCTION & SPEED SHOW. to live?

Mar 14 - 16. Westerner 2 QUEEN COMFORTERS, TIMOTHY & Brome square Take a tour through the Park, Red Deer. 150,000 Tires, Parts bales, great for horses, ap$30/ea or 2/$50. sq.ft. indoor show.

Acces.

CLASSIFIEDS prox. 60 lbs. put up dry 2 THICK WARM BLANKETS, Exhibitors space available. and covered, $5/bale like new, $35/ea.

Western Canada’s Largest SNOW TIRES - Radial Sylvan area. 403-887-2798 QUEEN QUILTED Income Collector Car Event.

- set of 4. 225/50RF17.

MATTRESS COVER, $10.

Consign today $100 obo for the set.

Property ELECTRIC ROASTING 1-888-296-0528 Ext. 102 403-755-2760 PAN, like new, $30.

EGAuctions.com TURN KEY Business for 403-348-6449 CLASSIFICATIONS sale in Ponoka. 15 unit Auto 4 LARGE TUPPERWARE 4000-4190 complex. 100% occupancy.

CONTAINERS & LIDS, Wreckers Earns $10,000/mo. Asking Cars square & rectangular, $577,000. 403-963-0204 CLASSIFICATIONS Realtors $2.50/ea.

RED’S AUTO. Free Scrap 403-309-3475 2000 Chrysler Neon, 2L, 4 dr., Vehicle & Metal Removal.

FOR RENT • 3000-3200 & Services Commercial 5 spd. Clean. 403-318-3040 AMVIC APPROVED. D.V.D’s and VHS, 10 for WANTED • 3250-3390 We travel. May pay cash Property $5. 403-314-9603 1999 PONTIAC Bonneyville for vehicle. 403-396-7519 4 dr., saftied. 403-352-6995 DIE cast models, cars, Houses/ 6581 SQ. FT. BEAUTIFUL Vehicles truck, and motorcycles, OFFICE SPACE fairies, dragons and biker Duplexes Wanted in Riverside I1 with bay & gifts. #14 6350-67 St. east To Buy fenced yard. Must be seen.

3 FLR, 3 Bdrm house w/3 end of Cash Casino Glenn Moore at C21 bath, new paint & carpets RED’S AUTO. Free scrap 403-346-6655.

DISHES, 3 sets of 8 place & deck at 7316-59 Ave. vehicle & metal removal. setting, $45. each.

Avail. to over 30 tenants.

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Arizona Gov. Islamic militants attack Jan Brewer jets Nigerian school, kill dozens home amid

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

DAMATURU, Nigeria — Islamic militants set fire to a locked dormitory at a school in northern Nigeria, then shot and slit the throats of students who tried to escape through windows during a pre-dawn attack Tuesday. At least 58 students were killed, including many who were burned alive.

They “slaughtered them like sheep” with machetes, and gunned down those who ran away, said one teacher, Adamu Garba.

Soldiers guarding a checkpoint near the coed government school were mysteriously withdrawn hours before it was targeted by the militants, said the spokesman for the governor of northeastern Yobe state.

Female students were spared in the attack, said the spokesman, Abdullahi Bego, though girls and women have been abducted in the past by militants of the Boko Haram movement, whose name means “Western education is forbidden.”

This time, the insurgents went to the female dormitories and told the young women to go home, get married and abandon the Western education they said is anathema to Islam, Bego said. All of the dead were teenage boys or young men.

The militants, whose struggle for an Islamic state has killed thousands and made them the biggest threat to security in Africa’s top oil producer, have increasingly preyed on civilians, both Muslim and Christian. Some 300 people have died in attacks this month alone.

Local officials buried the bodies of 29 victims and another 29

were taken to Damaturu Specialist Hospital, according to the hospital records and an Associated Press reporter who went to the mortuary. Most of the victims appeared to be between 15 and 20 years old, Bego said.

Eleven wounded survivors of the attack were being treated at the hospital.

Touring the smouldering ruins Tuesday at the Federal Government College of Buni Yadi, Gov. Ibrahim Gaidam decried the federal government’s failure to protect the population.

“It is unfortunate that our children in schools are dying from lack of adequate protection from the federal government,” Gaidam told reporters.

He called on President Goodluck Jonathan to deploy more troops to the region.

Jonathan, who rarely comments on individual attacks, said in a statement that he felt “immense sadness and anguish” by the loss of life at the school, and vowed that the military would “continue to prosecute the war against terror with full vigour, diligence and determination.”

Garba said the militants locked the door of a dormitory where male students were sleeping, then set it on fire.

Some students were burned alive in the attack that began around 2 a.m., he said.

The governor said it took hours for troops to arrive, giving the assailants plenty of time to set the rest of the school campus ablaze— six dormitories, the administrative building, staff quarters, classrooms, a clinic and the kitchen.

Bego, the governor’s spokesman, said the governor will be looking into why the school was

left unprotected. “The community complained to the governor that yesterday the military were withdrawn and then the attack happened,” he said.

Soldiers from Damaturu, the state capital located some 45 miles (70 kilometres) away, did not arrive until noon, hours after the attackers had taken off, according to community leaders.

Military spokesman Eli Lazarus confirmed the attack, but could not give an exact death toll because soldiers were still gathering corpses. He had no immediate comment on the charge that soldiers withdrew before the attack.

Nigeria’s military has reported arresting several soldiers accused of aiding and passing information to Boko Haram extremists; a senator has also been accused of similar charges.

On Monday, Jonathan dismissed suggestions the military was losing the war to halt the 4-year-old Islamic uprising in the northeast.

Tens of thousands of Nigerians have lost family members, houses, businesses, their belongings and livelihoods to the rebellion and the fallout from a military state of emergency by soldiers accused of gross human rights violations, including setting ablaze entire villages and summary executions of suspects.

Tuesday’s attack is only the latest in a string of deadly assaults

by Islamic militants.

Entire towns and villages were under the sway of Boko Haram when Jonathan declared a state of emergency in May. The military quickly forced the insurgents out of urban areas, only to have them regroup in forests and mountain caves where it has proved difficult to flush them out.

Judge rules parts of Pistorius murder trial can be broadcast on live TV THE ASSOCIATED PRESS JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Parts of Oscar Pistorius’ murder trial can be broadcast live on television by three remote-controlled cameras in court, but testimony given by the double-amputee Olympian can’t be shown, a judge ruled Tuesday.

Pistorius’ lawyers failed in their bid to stop any part of the trial being broadcast as a judge sitting in the North Gauteng High Court, where the trial will open next week, ruled mostly in favour of the South African TV and radio applicants. A live audio-only feed can broadcast the entire trial.

Judge Dunstan Mlambo’s decision opens up much of Pistorius’ blockbuster trial to the expected scrutiny of millions of fascinated followers around the world.

“Court proceedings are in fact public and this objective must be recognized,” Mlambo said.

The decision came two days after a Twitter site to be used by members of Pistorius’ family during the trial became active. It already has more than 20,000 followers.

Mlambo, who won’t preside over the trial, granted permission to the South African media houses to install unmanned television cameras in unobtrusive locations in the courtroom before the trial starts Monday. Still photographs can be taken by two mounted cameras operated by photographers, but TV footage or photographs cannot show “extreme” close up images of anyone and some witnesses who object can stop their testimony from being broadcast.

Trial judge Thokozile Masipa can stop the recordings at any time, Mlambo said.

Pistorius’ lawyers argued that broadcasting the trial in any way would harm his chances of a fair trial. Brian Webber, a lawyer for Pistorius, declined to comment on the ruling, saying he had yet to study it.

Pistorius was charged with murder for the shoot-

ing death of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp a year ago, unleashing a wave of intense interest in the already world-famous disabled athlete. He faces 25 years in prison if he is convicted on the main charge of premeditated murder, which he denies.

Mlambo called Pistorius “a local and international icon” and said the broadcast decision was a “balancing act” between guaranteeing him a fair trial and also respecting the freedom of the media.

South African democracy is relatively young and the justice system is “still perceived as treating the rich and famous with kid gloves whilst being harsh on the poor and vulnerable,” Mlambo said.

“Enabling a larger South African society to follow firsthand the criminal proceedings which involve a celebrity so to speak will go a long way into dispelling these negative and unfounded perceptions about the justice system,” he said.

The broadcasts also can be made available to international stations through a sharing agreement.

Opening and closing arguments can be shown along with the presiding judge’s decision and sentencing should Pistorius be convicted, Mlambo ruled. Expert state witnesses’ and police officers’ testimonies can be broadcast on television and photographed, but not those of Pistorius or his defence witnesses. The judge did not explain the reason for blocking images of Pistorius and defence witnesses.

The court could consider showing some testimonies from behind the witness stand, obscuring faces or using a general wide shot of the court. No parts of confidential discussions between Pistorius and his lawyers can be broadcast in any way, nor can discussions at the bench among the prosecution, defence and judge, Mlambo said.

The broadcast applications were brought by a South African television news station, a radio network and a cable provider which plans to launch a 24-hour TV channel dedicated to the Pistorius trial on Sunday.

furor over bill allowing denial of service to gays

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOENIX — Gov. Jan Brewer returned to Arizona on Tuesday and faced a pressing decision about a bill on her desk that has prompted a national debate over religious and gay rights.

The Republican governor has been in Washington the last five days for a governor’s conference, and she is returning to a political climate that is much different from just a week ago.

The Arizona Legislature passed a bill last week allowing businesses whose owners cite sincerely held religious beliefs to deny service to gays. It allows any business, church or person to cite the law as a defence in any action brought by the government or individual claiming discrimination.

The legislation has caused a national uproar. The chorus of opposition has grown each day, with the business community, the state’s Super Bowl Committee and both Republican U.S. senators calling for a veto.

Former GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney was the latest prominent voice to weigh in and urge Brewer to veto the bill.

Brewer will likely spend the next day or more pondering Senate Bill 1062 before deciding whether to sign or veto the legislation.

There is widespread speculation that Brewer will veto the bill, but she has not said how she’ll act, as is her longtime practice with pending legislation.

Political observers in Arizona cautioned that the governor is deliberate and not prone to act hastily, despite the growing calls from business, politicians of all stripes, and civil rights groups for a veto.

“She’s no rookie to these high-profile deals — she gives both sides their due,” said Doug Cole, a political consultant whose firm has run all of Brewer’s campaigns for decades.

“She’s going to get a very detailed briefing from her legal team, and give the proponents their best shot, and the opponents their best shot,” he said.

“Everybody’s going to get their say, and they’ve giving it.”

Some Republican senators who pushed the bill through the Legislature are now calling for a veto as well, but they cite “inaccurate” information about the measure for igniting a firestorm.

They argue the bill is designed only to protect business owners with strong religious beliefs from discrimination lawsuits that have happened in other states. Some blame the media for blowing the law out of proportion.

Democrats say that argument doesn’t wash and call SB1062 “toxic” legislation that allows discrimination. They said they warned Republicans who voted for the bill that it was destined for trouble.

“We brought this to their attention five weeks ago,” said Sen. Steve Gallardo, D-Phoenix. “We said this is exactly what is going to happen. You have a bill here that’s so toxic it’s going to divide this Legislature. It’s going to be polarizing the entire state.

And that’s exactly what happened.”

The bill was pushed by the Center for Arizona Policy, a social conservative group that opposes abortion and gay marriage.

The group says the proposal simply clarifies existing state law and is needed to protect against increasingly activist federal courts.

The centre’s president, Cathi Herrod, has been deriding what she called “fear-mongering” from the measure’s opponents.

“What’s happened is our opponents have employed a new political tactic, and it’s working,” she said. “Throw out the threat of a boycott to attempt to defeat a bill, and you might just be able to be successful.

Herrod added she was surprised and disappointed that “in America today, false attacks and irresponsible characterizations about a piece of legislation can so intimidate and persuade people to change their opinion about religious liberty.”

Senate panel says U.S. government moving too slow to pursue tax evasion via Swiss banks WASHINGTON — Billions of dollars in U.S. taxes are going unpaid because Americans are exploiting Swiss bank accounts, and the U.S. government has failed to aggressively pursue Switzerland’s second-largest bank, a Senate investigation has found.

The bank, Credit Suisse, has provided accounts in Switzerland for more than 22,000 U.S. clients totalling $10 billion to $12 billion, according to a report issued Tuesday by the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. The U.S. government has received only 238 names of U.S. citizens with secret accounts at Credit Suisse, or just 1 per cent of the estimated total, the investigation concluded.

Credit Suisse recruited U.S. clients to open Swiss accounts from 2001 through 2008, helped them conceal the accounts from the Internal Revenue Service and enabled misconduct by bank employees, the subcommittee asserted.

For five years, the Senate panel has been examining Swiss banks’ use of secrecy laws to enable tax evasion by Americans. The main focus of its latest report was Credit Suisse.

Credit Suisse had no immediate comment on the Senate report.

Responding to the report in a statement, the Justice Department said it is investigating up to 14 Swiss financial institutions, “and we won’t hesitate to indict if and when circumstances merit.” It did

not name the banks.

The Senate subcommittee asserted that the Swiss government, with its famous banking secrecy, has continued to obstruct U.S. authorities’ ability to learn the names of U.S. bank customers and former customers.

The report detailed cloakand-dagger tactics used by Credit Suisse bankers who were said to travel to the United States to secretly service accounts and recruit customers — including at golf tournaments in Florida and the annual “Swiss Ball” in New York.

Over breakfast at a hotel, one banker handed a U.S. customer bank statements hidden in a Sports Illustrated magazine, the report said. The bank filed visa applications for employees that falsely portrayed them as tourists and maintained a New York office with lists of middlemen who set up offshore shell companies for some U.S. customers, the committee asserted.

Credit Suisse “aided and abetted U.S. tax evasion, not only from behind a veil of secrecy in Switzerland, but also on U.S. soil by sending Swiss bankers here to open hidden accounts,” Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., the subcommittee’s chairman, said at a news conference Tuesday.

Levin said the Justice Department has failed to use legal tools with Credit Suisse that were used earlier to pry the names of U.S. account holders from No. 1 Swiss bank UBS. The Justice Depart-

ment has instead used treaty requests for the names, relying on Swiss courts and getting stymied, he said.

“It’s time to ramp up the collection of taxes due from tax evaders on the billions of dollars hidden offshore,” Levin urged.

Justice officials are scheduled to testify and explain the government’s actions at a hearing Wednesday by the subcommittee.

Also expected to testify are four executives of Credit Suisse, including CEO Brady Dougan.

In its statement Tuesday, the Justice Department said that since 2009, it has charged 73 account holders, and 35 bankers and advisers with violations related to offshore tax evasion.

The spotlight on Americans’ use of Swiss accounts comes amid a debate in Washington over whether and how to raise revenue to help reduce the budget deficit.

Many Democrats say the government is missing out on billions because companies are stashing profits abroad to avoid taxes. Republicans want to cut the corporate tax rate and ease the tax burden on money that U.S. companies make abroad to encourage companies to invest at home.

In the UBS case, the Justice Department threatened the bank with criminal prosecution. UBS entered a deferred prosecution agreement with the department in 2009. It agreed to pay $780 million in fines and turn over 4,400 names of customers suspected of evading U.S. taxes.

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