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Dialysis turns critical RED DEER HOSPITAL HAS RUN OUT OF DIALYSIS SPACES

BY RENÉE FRANCOEUR ADVOCATE STAFF Dialysis treatment at the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre has reached a critical stage, says the head of internal medicine at the hospital.

Dr. Kym Jim, a kidney specialist, says the hospital has reached its capacity to dialyze 120 patients and has been over capacity intermittently for the past six months.

Dialysis is an artificial means to remove waste from the blood of patients who have lost kidney function.

“Dialysis is a life sustaining therapy for which if you don’t have it and you need it, then you expire without it . . .

It’s definitive.

“That’s why this is so critical because basically what’s happened is the Red Deer site has ran out of dialysis spaces,” said Jim.

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HOPE VS DEATH

Quidditch players have tons of fun

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Debt debate returns EDMONTON — Alberta politicians return to work today at the legislature to resume what is becoming an annual political-existential debate over the definition of debt.

Is debt the destroyer of worlds, a “trap” that “has proven the death of countless dreams” as Alison Redford told the legislature in her maiden speech as premier in October 2011?

Is it a “parochial” issue when set against the visionary quest to build a dynamic province, as Redford told reporters last March, a day before her government announced it was taking on $17 billion in debt?

Or is it, as Redford told an audience in Medicine Hat last October, the only salvation for a province blessed and burdened with hundreds of thousands of newcomers?

Debt, she said then, is not debt. It’s “hope.”

Hope versus death returns to centre stage on Thursday when Finance Minister Doug Horner brings in the 2014-15 budget.

If last year’s budget and last week’s thirdquarter budget update are any indication, the only constant will be confusion on how to get to the bottom of the bottom line on how much Alberta owes.

Under former premier Ralph Klein, the Tories wiped out $23 billion in debt, announcing a decade ago that the red ink was gone forever.

The Northern Alberta and the Territories branch of the Kidney Foundation of Canada is also concerned about the struggle for space for dialysis patients, said Flavia Robles, executive director.

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Red Deer College basketball Kings’ Clay Crellin drives on Concordia’s Ben Grimsrud during the Kings’ 67-62 victory over the Concordia University College Thunder at RDC Sunday afternoon. The Kings won the ACAC basketball championship in front of a home crowd. See story on Page B1.

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Playing a wizards’ sport in the Muggle world isn’t straightforward or easy — but it’s tons of fun, say members of Central Alberta Quidditch.

A couple of obvious differences emerge when comparing the magical quidditch matches, described in the Harry Potters books by J.K. Rowling, to the down-to-earth weekly drop-in sessions held by Central Alberta Quidditch at the Collicutt Centre.

For one thing, the broomsticks positioned between players’ legs in Red Deer can’t rocket off into the air, as they do at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

For another, the snitch — a golden ball with wings that’s caught to end games in the Potter books — is actually a human being in the sessions held at the Collicutt Centre.

Make that a human wearing gold-coloured shorts with a tennis ball hanging from her back waistband.

But just like her magical counterpart, the snitch played by Jillian Staniec, is elusive. She weaves around the quidditch pitch to avoid having her tennis ball pulled off — for all Harry Potter devotees know that catching the snitch would mean a team victory.

Staniec, who is a “huge” Harry Potter fan and founder of Central Alberta Quidditch, isn’t thrown by the disadvantages of playing the sport in a Muggle (non-magical) place like Red Deer.

While players can’t fly, “you’d be surprised what you can do when you run really hard and jump really high,” said the 32-year-old City of Red Deer archivist, with a chuckle.

Muggle quidditch was developed in 2005 at Middlebury College in Vermont and has largely taken off with the university crowd.

Just like in the fictional wizards’ sport, there are seven players to a team: two beaters who lob beaters (dodge balls) at opponents, three chasers, who pass the quaffles (volleyballs) and try tossing them through three hoops at either end of the pitch to score), a keeper who protects the hoops, and a seeker, who attempts to catch the snitch.

Staniec, who first saw the game played at a Harry Potter convention in Florida a few years ago, is now conventions manager for the International Quidditch Association, as well as organizer of the Central Alberta group.

She said she enjoys both the physical demands and the absurdities of the sport.

Her boyfriend, Brian Gallaway, a computer programmer, has been a member of the local quidditch group since it was formed last August.

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QUIDDITCH: A game that doesn’t make sense

DIALYSIS: Patients can die waiting for treatment “People need to understand that these patients can die while they’re waiting for the treatment. It’s chronic. The need is real,” Robles said.

Jim said there has been talk of busing patients from Red Deer to outlying dialysis units, probably in Stettler and Rocky Mountain House to accommodate the lack of space in Red Deer. He said this is a only one short term solution.

“Unfortunately this will be a tremendous hardship for some people to have to do this. So we’ll be asking for volunteers first, people who are able to travel.

“Beyond that, administration from Edmonton will be selecting which patients will have to travel due to a lack of space,” Jim said.

These patients will have to spend an hour and half travelling in each direction three times a week, spending four hours dialyzing at the site and spending half an hour getting ready to dialyze on top of that.

Jim said there are four available dialysis spots in Rocky right now. It is not known how many spots Stettler can afford to give up yet.

Patients will be advised on the specific details of the plan within the next couple of days or over the next week, Jim said.

The number of patients needing dialysis is swelling across the province, said Jim, noting a shortage of dialysis spaces in Edmonton and Calgary.

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by Sylvan Lake RCMP An armed robbery suspect is being sought by Sylvan Lake RCMP after a local convenience store was held up by a man with a handgun.

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Broomstick riding Red Deer quidditch player Ryan Tebb (left) tries to get the snitch, which is a tennis ball hanging from the back of Jillian Staniec’s yellow shorts, as Brian Gallaway intervenes.

That changed last year when Redford’s budget announced $17 billion will be borrowed by 2016 to build 50 new schools, improve roads and add 140 health clinics to take the burden off crowded emergency rooms.

She also split the budget into three budgets: dayto-day spending, capital spending, and savings, erasing the one consolidated number that previously determined whether a budget was balanced, or wasn’t balanced.

In last Wednesday’s third-quarter update for the

current budget year, Finance Minister Doug Horner announced the operational side was $1.4 billion surplus, while the capital side was $8.5 billion in the hole.

But he noted there will be $4.6 billion in a rainyday savings account and $17.3 billion in the longterm Heritage Savings Trust Fund.

“Alberta is in a good financial position right now,” said Horner.

The government pegged the consolidated debt number for this year at $335 million in the red, while opposition critics and the watchdog Canadian Taxpayers Federation pegged it at $3.5 billion.

Further clouding the issue is the government’s insistence that the debt is not true debt, but rather an investment, like a mortgage.

“As a typical Albertan. I pay for my groceries and I don’t borrow to do that. I have a mortgage on my house and that’s what we’ve got on infrastructure,” Redford told reporters last Thursday.

Horner himself has echoed that theme, saying that as a last resort, they could always sell hospitals, schools, and roads.

Wildrose finance critic Rob Anderson labelled the argument fatuous.

“I don’t know too many Edmontonians that would be too excited if we get a little cash-strapped we can always sell the Henday (ring-road freeway) and turn it into a toll road,” said Anderson.

“You don’t want to sell your bridges, your schools, your community infrastructure. That’s not what those assets are for.

“They’re assets in human capital.

“That’s why government debt is much different from business debt and personal debt.”

The Canadian Taxpayers Federation has set up a virtual debt clock to remind Albertans of the slide back into borrowing.

Federation spokesman Derek Fildebrandt said the math for this budget year is simple: The Tories are forecasting $40.5 billion in total cash revenue against almost $44 billion in total cash expenses — a $3.5 billion deficit.

NDP leader Brian Mason said Albertans will continue to endure random program cuts and layoffs while the Tories rely on the vicissitudes of oil prices until a fair progressive tax system is brought in.

The current 10 per cent flat tax favours the wealthy, he said.

“Thirty per cent of our program spending is funding by non-renewable resource revenue,” said Mason.

“Our budgeting process is like a yo-yo, and it’s got to stop.”

The sitting begins with a speech from the throne on Monday.

Along with the budget, Redford’s team is also bringing in reforms to public-service pensions and has promised new rules so the public can get more information on children who die in government care.

an armed robbery at the Bayshore Market in Chateau Suites on the lakeshore. A lone suspect had entered the store brandishing a handgun and demanding cash from the clerk.

He later fled the scene with an undisclosed amount of money. No one was injured.

A police service dog was used to try to track the suspect, but was unable to locate him.

RCMP are seeking a clean-shaven male, between 16 and 21 years old. He is about five-foot-eight inches tall and 160 lbs. He was wearing a black puffy winter coat, blue jeans, running shoes, and a black toque with some grey on it.

Anyone with information about the robbery is urged to call police are 403-887-3333, or Crimestoppers at 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS).

When the hospital reaches capacity, dialysis staff at Red Deer have been making it work by dialyzing already hospitalized patients in the hospital to free up spaces for some of the people who would typically use the outpatient facility.

“The difficulty is we’re out of space and we’re a long ways away from being able to get space in Red Deer itself because of planning difficulties really,” Jim said.

The Northern Alberta Renal Program plans to expand the provincial capacity for dialysis, said Jim, but that may take years to come to fruition.

“Planning for capacity has been ongoing but there’s been no approvals for plans yet,” he said.

“The dialysis staff and physicians are very concerned about the situation and we’ll do all we can do to make things better but we’re limited with what we can do when we have no space.”

Robles says the kidney foundation says it is doing what it can.

“We hear from the social workers that support those on dialysis about the need for more beds, about them having to shift around and go to different units,” Robles said.

“We’re advocating what we can do to help, which is provide some financial assistance. It doesn’t free up a bed, but it helps with travelling expenses for those who have to travel over 60 km or more for dialysis treatment.”

According to Robles, 4,500 Canadians are on the organ donation waiting list and 80 per cent of them need a kidney. The wait for a kidney transplant can be up to four years, she added.

With a kidney transplant, a patient saves over $200,000 over the first five years compared what they would be spending for dialysis treatment, said Robles. The average cost per patient for dialysis is $70,000 per year. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

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Gallaway said he likes that Rowling invented a game “that it doesn’t make sense . . . and yet people have managed to turn it into a real sport,” complete with referees and goal judges.

While Muggle quidditch hasn’t made it to the Olympics, it’s played competitively by teams from across the world. International quidditch tournaments are slated for North Myrtle Beach, S. C. in April, and Burnaby, B.C. in July.

Staniec would love to get enough people joining Central Alberta Quidditch to have a well-trained local team that could compete against Edmonton and Calgary teams.

A provincial tournament is set for Saturday, March 29, at the Red Deer Titans Rugby Club, pending reasonable weather.

Muggle quidditch has been called a cross between rugby, dodgeball, tag, wrestling, and lacrosse. Because only the players’ non-broomstick holding hand is available to catch and toss balls, it’s also similar to water polo.

The broomstick is one reason, “you can never take yourself too seriously,” said Gallaway. with a laugh.

Staniec agreed “You need a good sense of fun” to play, but it also helps to have an athletic background, since quidditch requires “fierce determination,” speed, strategy, and stamina. In early versions of the game, snitches could literally be chased across town.

Rules were later put into place to ensure snitches didn’t disappear from pitches.

“Some of them used to call in from home,” said Staniec. “They’d text pictures of themselves making a sandwich!”

Red Deer College nursing student Ryan Tebbs turned up at the last drop-in session because he was looking for an interesting activity to try and quidditch peaked his curiosity.

Daniel Hendrickson, age 31, already plays alternative frisbee, so he thought why not try another wacky sport?

“They’re nice people and it’s fun.”

For more information, please visit centralalbertaquidditch.com.

Drop-in sessions are at Collicutt Centre on Tuesdays from 9:15 to 10 p.m. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

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Getting past the ick factor PROJECT LEADER OF RETHINK RED DEER PRESSES FOR INDOOR WORM COMPOSTING

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF There’s an ick factor to having worms composting under your kitchen sink.

But Rene Michalak, project leader of ReThink Red Deer, thinks city residents should get past it for the sake of producing a clean, non-smelly and beneficial by-product year-round.

Organic kitchen waste can be broken down to create a nutrient-rich soil additive that’s great for gardens or indoor flower pots, said Michaelak at the ReThink Red Deer EcoLiving Fair on Saturday at Red Deer College.

“Sure, there’s an ick factor when people think of worm poo.

“But we have bags of it here, and it looks like coffee grinds and smells like clean earth,” added Michalak, who also had small indoor worm composters on hand at the 30-vendor ecological trade show.

He showed that the bins look “aesthetically benign” and not at all alarming.

Michalak knows the City of Red Deer’s Composting at Home Program does not yet encompass indoor worm composting.

But someday he hopes it will. The advantage is indoor composting can be done during summer and winter months, diverting even more waste from the landfill.

In the meantime, Michalak is glad to see the city’s outdoor composting program expanding to a third year.

The city’s worm-free backyard composters depends on heat caused by microbial activity to break down organic wastes.

Those interested in learning more can sign up for the third year of the program on March 7. The municipality is seeking 200 households that have never composted before.

Anyone interested can go to www.reddeer.ca/composting to register.

The program will provide participants with a free compost bin, tools, a kitchen catcher, and training and support.

In exchange, registrants must commit to attend a how-to workshop and yard composting until June 2015.

“We eliminate any reason for putting off composting,” said Lauren Maris, the city’s environmental program specialist.

By providing training and tools, local residents will learn how to compost the right way, eliminating the potential for smells or pests — which are common misconceptions.

Since the city program was launched in March, 2012, more than 450 local households have been trained to compost in their own backyards.

A study found at least 70 per cent of first-year participants were still composting a year later.

Michalak said “it’s very encouraging” to see the city program growing.

Eventually ReThink Red Deer would also like to see a local composting program developed for com-

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Rene Michalak, project leader of ReThink Red Deer, checks out some ducklings at the group’s EcoLiving Fair, held Saturday at Red Deer College. mercial businesses. the Sunnybrook Church in Red Deer.

The group is already trying out a 12-foot comThere were also vendors promoting organic or mercial composter containing horse droppings from “heirloom” seeds. ReThink Red Deer started its Heritage Ranch, own seed bank — distiller grains from featuring the germs a local brewery and of everything from coffee grinds. sunflowers to parsMichalak was ley, purple carrots pleased with the and “Amish” tomapublic turnout to toes. this year’s show, Many local gardespite Saturday’s deners don’t want frigid weather. to worry about po— RENE MICHALAK, PROJECT LEADER OF RETHINK RED DEER tentially growing The fair featured double the workgenetically modishops as in 2012. fied vegetables, said All kinds of green displays were available.

ReThink Red Deer board member Ashling Amato.

There were booths promoting a variety of organic “There’s food security in heirloom seeds.” meats and vegetables and an online local food disFor more information about the seed bank, please tributor — TheGreenPantry.ca which has a Lacombe call 403-986-7981. warehouse and makes weekly customer drop-offs at lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

‘... WE HAVE BAGS OF (WORM POO) HERE, AND IT LOOKS LIKE COFFEE GRINDS AND SMELLS LIKE CLEAN EARTH.’

sonating a peace officer, and refusing to provide breath samples.

He was released on $1,000 bail and will appear on March 25 in Red Deer provincial court.

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Man accused of impersonating officer, carrying weapon A 32-year-old Sylvan Lake man was charged by police with impersonating a peace officer and carrying a concealed weapon this weekend.

Sylvan Lake RCMP was called at 12:45 a.m. Saturday to the Hazzard County Bar, where a man had been allegedly telling people he was an undercover police officer who was looking for drugs.

A suspect was located by police in a vehicle outside the establishment, and was found carrying a handgun and showing signs of impairment.

Christopher Glen Smith, a part-time Sylvan Lake resident who also resides in Coquitlam, B.C,, was taken into custody and charged with multiple offences.

These include possession of a restricted and concealed firearm, imper-

Hwy 2 was closed for several hours early Saturday after the engine of a tractor trailer caught fire near Gasoline Alley.

According to Innisfail Freeway Patrol, the driver of a double-tanker truck pulled over on the west shoulder at about 6:50 a.m. after a fire started in his southbound vehicle’s engine.

Red Deer County firefighters arrived with four or five support vehicles, and had the fire under control before it spread from the cab to the tanks the tractor trailer was hauling, said Matt Firmston, acting sheriff sergeant for the Innisfail Freeway patrol.

“The tanks were not full, but there was some crude oil in the tanks,” he added.

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The vehicle’s driver was uninjured.

Firmston did not know what caused the engine fire.

Nominations Now Open Red Deer College is now accepting nominations for the awards that are presented annually at RDC’s Convocation:

G.H. Dawe Memorial Award of Excellence This memorial award is presented by RDC to a community member who best exemplifies the values of Mr. George Harold Dawe (1910-1999), cofounder of RDC and first administrative officer.

The recipient will have demonstrated excellence in the characteristics of the late Harold Dawe, including: • Commitment to the community, education and student success • Prominent leadership in the community • Personal warmth and generosity coupled with high integrity and ethical standards • Keen vision and appreciation for RDC In the nomination package, please include the nominee’s name, address and telephone number. A cover letter expressing your reasons for nominating the individual which includes a description of his or her achievements, along with three letters of support, should also be provided to the G.H. Dawe Selection Committee at Red Deer College.

Each nomination is considered by the Selection Committee for three consecutive years.

Nominations are reviewed annually and the recipient will be honoured at the RDC 50th Convocation Ceremony on June 6, 2014 Nominations should be forwarded to: G.H. Dawe Selection Committee, Red Deer College P.O. Box 5005, Red Deer, Alberta, T4N 5H5 Attn: Elaine Vandale, Executive Director, Board & Corporate Relations Phone: 403.342.3259 | Fax: 403.341.4899 | Email: elaine.vandale@rdc.ab.ca

Red Deer College Alumni Awards: Distinguished Alumnus of the Year Award The purpose of this award is to honour a Red Deer College alumnus who has distinguished him or herself in one of the following areas: • Professional Achievement • Academic Achievement • Public Service Achievement

Alumni Legacy Award The Alumni Legacy Award was established by the Alumni Association as a posthumous recognition to recognize an individual alumnus’ contribution to the community.

Nomination forms for both the Distinguished Alumnus & Alumni Legacy awards are available at: Alumni Legacy: www.rdc.ab.ca/legacy Distinguished Alumnus of the Year Award: www.rdc.ab.ca/distinguished-alumni For more information, contact 403.342.3308 | Email: alumni@rdc.ab.ca

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Middle class still exists

BY JOCK FINLAYSON SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE Statistics Canada’s new survey of household finances throws cold water on the often-voiced assertion that the ranks of the country’s middle class have been dramatically thinned by the combined forces of rising income inequality, globalization and disruptive technological change.

According to the Survey of Financial Security, the median net worth of Canadian families rose by an impressive 44.5 per cent between 2005 and 2012, after adjusting for inflation, reaching $243,800 in the latter year.

Since 1990, inflation-adjusted median family net worth has increased by almost 80 per cent.

The assets used to compute net worth include principal residences, pension-related assets[3], the business equity held by households, and various other non-pension financial assets.

The biggest liabilities of households,

in descending order, are mortgages, lines of credit, automobile loans, credit card debt, and student loans.

Because the Statistics Canada survey focuses on median rather than average net worth, the very high levels of wealth found at the top of the wealth distribution do not distort the overall findings. The median figures reported can be thought of as capturing the financial situation of the “typical” family units being measured.

Contrary to what many may believe, the rise in net worth was not limited to the most affluent Canadian families.

From 2005 to 2012 families in the third quintile had the largest increase in median net worth, while over the longer period from 1999 to 2012 the fourth quintile saw the biggest jump. The lowest income families (those in the first quintile) experienced a decline in inflation-adjusted net worth between 1999 and 2012. Most families in the lowest quintile actually have a negative net worth (liabilities exceed assets).

Turning to the survey results by

province, B.C. ranked first in the country in median net worth in 2012, at $344,000, followed by Saskatchewan and Alberta.

Of interest, B.C. also posted the biggest increase in median net worth from 1999 to 2012, at 128 per cent, which was well above the growth rates of the other provinces. Median net worth is lowest in Atlantic Canada.

British Columbia’s strong showing is mainly due to the high cost of housing in the province, which ends up being reflected in relatively high values for principal residences on the asset side of the household balance sheet (for families that are home-owners).

While high housing costs do translate into larger mortgages, it’s important to remember that most homeowners have significant positive equity in their properties, and many own their homes mortgage-free.

Overall, the new survey paints a more positive picture of financial wellbeing in Canada (including in British Columbia) than is often conveyed by

media commentaries and some other published reports. Among other things, the results challenge the idea that most middle income families have suffered a decline in economic fortunes.

The data also flatly undercut the claim that all of the gains in wealth in Canada have accrued to a narrow slice of the population.

It should be noted that the Survey of Financial Security focuses on wealth rather than income. Even if the trends in median net worth across households do not point to greater economic inequality, there is evidence that the distribution of income — particularly market income, which is calibrated on a pre-tax, pre-government transfer basis — has become more unequal.

However, it is encouraging to learn that Canada’s “middle class” seems to be holding its own based on the ownership of wealth.

Jock Finlayson is executive vice-president of the Business Council of British Columbia. This column was supplied by Troy Media (www.troymedia.com).

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Measuring progress with GDP a gross mistake Governments, media and much of the public are preoccupied with the economy. That means demands such as those for recognition of First Nations treaty rights and environmental protection are often seen as impediments to the goal of maintaining economic growth.

The gross domestic product has become a sacred indicator of well-being. Ask corporate CEOs and politicians how they did last year and they’ll refer to the rise or fall of the GDP. It’s a strange way to measure either economic or social well-being. The GDP was developed as a way to estimate economic activity by measuring the value of all transacDAVID tions for goods and services.

SUZUKI But even Simon Kuznets, an American economist and pioneer of national income measurement, warned in 1934 that such measurements say little about “the welfare of a nation.” He understood there’s more to life than the benefits that come from spending money.

My wife’s parents have shared our home for 35 years. If we had put them in a care home, the GDP would have grown. In caring for them ourselves, we didn’t contribute as much. When my wife left her teaching job at Harvard University to be a full-time volunteer for the David Suzuki Foundation, her GDP contribution fell. Each time we repair and reuse something considered disposable we fail to contribute to the GDP. To illustrate the GDP’s limitations as an indicator of well-being, suppose a fire breaks out at the Darlington nuclear facility near Toronto and issues a cloud of radioactivity that blows over the city, caus-

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ing hundreds of cases of radiation sickness. All the ambulances, doctors, medicines and hospital beds will jack up the GDP. And if people die, funeral services, hearses, flowers, gravediggers and lawyers will stimulate GDP growth. In the end, cleaning up the Darlington mess would cost billions and produce a spike in the GDP. Extreme weather-related events, such as flooding and storms, can also contribute to increases in GDP, as resources are brought in to deal with the mess.

Damage done by Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy and the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico added tens of billions to the GDP. If GDP growth is our highest aspiration, we should be praying for more weather catastrophes and oil spills.

The GDP replaced gross national product, which was similar but included international expenditures. In a 1968 speech at the University of Kansas, Robert Kennedy said, “Too much and for too long, we seemed to have surrendered personal excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things. … Gross national product counts air pollution and cigarette advertising, and ambulances to clear our highways of carnage. It counts special locks for our doors and the jails for the people who break them. It counts the destruction of the redwood and the loss of our natural wonder in chaotic sprawl.

It counts napalm and counts nuclear warheads and armored cars for the police to fight the riots in our cities ... and the television programs which glorify violence in order to sell toys to our children.

“Yet the gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages, the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of our public officials. It measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country. It measures everything in short, except that

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We deserve better indicators of societal well-being that extend beyond mere economic growth. Many economists and social scientists are proposing such indicators. Some argue we need a “genuine progress indicator,” which would include environmental and social factors as well as economic wealth. A number of groups, including Friends of the Earth, have suggested an Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare, which would take into account “income inequality, environmental damage, and depletion of environmental assets.” The Kingdom of Bhutan has suggested measuring gross national happiness.

Whatever we come up with, it has to be better than GDP with its absurd emphasis on endless growth on a finite planet.

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Baird rules out military response to Soviet-style intervention in Ukraine BUT NOT RULING OUT FURTHER SANCTIONS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird is ruling out western military intervention to force Russia to pull its troops out of Ukraine.

But he’s not ruling out further sanctions, including expelling Russia’s ambassador to Canada.

“I don’t think there’s anyone talking about western military intervention, none of our friends or allies,” Baird said Sunday in an interview with Global’s West Block.

“What we are doing is working together to say in no uncertain terms that this is completely unacceptable and to condemn (it) in the strongest language possible.”

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Minister of Foreign Affairs John Baird, centre, walks in Kiev’s Independence Square, the epicenter of the country’s current unrest, Ukraine, Friday.

Baird’s own language was harsh.

He called the invasion of Russian troops “old Soviet-style” aggression and dismissed Russian arguments that it needs to protect its Black Sea naval fleet, which is based in Sevastopol on Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula, and the Russian-speaking population in that region.

“There is absolutely no justification whatsoever,” Baird said.

“The claims that President (Vladimir) Putin puts forward are absurd and ridiculous. He has no right to invade another country, a neighbouring country that’s struggling for freedom and democracy.

“The excuses and the rhetoric that’s coming out of Moscow are unacceptable. No one is buying them in the western world and they make President Putin look ridiculous.”

On Saturday, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced that Canada is withdrawing its ambassador from Russia and will boycott preparatory meetings of ministers and officials for the G8 summit, which is supposed to be held in June in Sochi, where the Winter Olympic games just ended.

“Next month there’s a G8 foreign

ministers’ meeting and if (Putin) continues with this provocative action, there’s certainly no way I or Canada would want to have anything to do with Russian world leadership,” Baird said.

Whether the G8 leaders’ summit itself goes ahead will be up to Putin, he added, stressing that Russia must be made to realize that its actions “will have a major effect on Russia’s relationship, not just with Canada but the entire free and democratic world.”

Baird was returning Saturday from Kyiv, where he led a Canadian government delegation to show support for Ukraine’s new pro-western government.

In his absence, he said his deputy minister called in Russia’s ambassador to Canada, Georgiy Mamedov, and reamed him out “in the strongest terms certainly in my time at Foreign Affairs.”

He did not rule out expelling the ambassador.

“We’ll obviously be revisiting this on an hour by hour basis,” he said, adding that Canada wants to act “in unison” with its allies.

At a later news conference in Toronto, Baird did not rule out further

sanctions, including freezing Russian assets, trade and investment penalties and a ban on visas.

“It’s certainly something we’ll consider in the next few days.”

NDP Leader Tom Mulcair, who was briefed by Harper on the situation Saturday, threw his whole-hearted support behind the government’s response to the crisis.

“I think that Canada’s been getting it right in terms of our very strong reaction to what the Russians have done,” he told a news conference in Toronto.

“It’s absolutely unacceptable to be violating Ukraine’s sovereignty in this way and the prime minister and I have spoken and he has my full support with the steps that have been taken so far.”

Baird significantly turned down the volume on his own rhetoric at the later news conference, adopting a more diplomatic tone.

For instance, rather than repeat his assertion that Putin’s explanations for the invasion are absurd and ridiculous, he said: “We just disagree in the strongest of terms with the justifications, with the so-called justifications that are being put forward.”

He stressed the need “to be careful

that we take measured responses that actually will support the Ukrainian people” and insisted “our first goal is to de-escalate the situation.”

On Saturday, Harper spoke with U.S. President Barack Obama and the two agreed to “co-ordinate closely” their response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Harper has also spoken to German Chancellor Angela Merkel and British Prime Minister David Cameron.

On Sunday, Harper spoke to Paul Grod, president of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress, who is in Ukraine.

A senior government official said Harper reiterated the need for Russian troops to withdraw and emphasized that Canada recognizes the legitimacy of the transitional Ukrainian government, installed after massive pro-democracy protests forced proMoscow President Viktor Yanukovych to flee.

Grod thanked the prime minister for Canada’s leadership, the official said.

Russian Prime Minister Dimitry Medvedev, however, called the new government illegitimate and warned that continued “lawlessness” in Ukraine will end in revolution and bloodshed.

In his statement Saturday, Harper said Canada also supports the United Nations sending international monitors to Ukraine and is involved in multilateral talks to put together a financial aid package for Ukraine, which is on the brink of defaulting on its sovereign debt.

Employment Minister Jason Kenney told CTV’s Question Period on Sunday that Canada has indicated “support in principle” for an International Monetary Fund aid package. He said “basic economic stability for Ukraine at this sensitive moment is critically important.”

Despite the sanctions, Canada does not intend to withdraw its athletes from the Paralympics, set for March 7-16 in Sochi.

“We don’t want the athletes to pay the price for this,” Baird told Global.

However, he said no government representative will attend the games “to somehow glorify Russia’s time in the spotlight.”

Student leader denounces ‘rape culture’ BECOMES TARGET OF SEXUALLY GRAPHIC BANTER ONLINE AMONG FIVE FELLOW STUDENTS A student union leader at the University of Ottawa says an online conversation among five fellow students in which she was the target of sexually graphic banter shows that “rape culture” is all too prevalent on Canadian campuses.

Anne-Marie Roy, 24, is going public despite being threatened with legal action by four of the male students, who say the Facebook conversation was private.

Nonetheless, Roy — who received a copy of the conversation via an anonymous email — said she felt compelled to speak out, especially since the five individuals were in positions of leadership on campus.

“They should be held accountable for those actions.

Actions have consequences and I think that this is certainly something that can’t go unnoticed,” said Roy, who heads the Student Federation of the University of Ottawa.

“Rape culture is very pres-

ent on our campuses...I think that it’s very shameful to see that there are student leaders who are perpetuating that within their own circles.”

The incident was first reported in the Fulcrum, the university’s English language student newspaper.

Roy said she was sent screenshots of the Facebook conversation on Feb. 10, while student elections were being held on campus.

The online conversation — a copy of which was obtained

by The Canadian Press — included references to sexual activities some of the five individuals wrote they would like to engage in with Roy, including oral and anal sex, as well as suggestions that she suffered from sexually transmitted diseases.

“Someone punish her with their shaft,” wrote one of the individuals at one point. “I do believe that with my reputation I would destroy her,” wrote another.

After confronting a member of the conversation in per-

son, Roy said she received an emailed apology from all five men which emphasized that their comments were never actual threats against her.

“While it doesn’t change the inadmissible nature of our comments, we wish to assure you we meant you no harm,” the apology, written in French, read.

“We realize the content of our conversation between friends promotes values that have no place in our society and our campus, on top of being unacceptably coarse.”

But Roy felt the apology wasn’t enough.

“I was very torn up by the conversation,” she said. “I also think there needs to be a level of responsibility taken for the words that were said in that conversation.”

Roy decided she would bring it up at a Feb. 23 meeting of the student federation’s Board of Administration, which oversees the affairs of the student union.

Her plan was to distribute copies of the conversation to

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the board’s members while asking the board to move a motion to “condemn” those who engaged in the discussion, two of whom were board members. The other three were involved with organizing campus events.

After learning of Roy’s plan, four of the five individuals sent her a letter warning her that the conversation was a private one and that sharing it with others would amount to a violation of their rights.

After consulting with a lawyer, Roy chose to go ahead with sharing the conversation with the board, but received a cease and desist letter during the board meeting.

The letter — which identifies the four participants as Michel Fournier-Simard, Alexandre Giroux, Alexandre Larochelle and Robert-Marc Tremblay — threatened legal action against Roy if she did not “destroy” her copy of the online conversation and stop sharing it with others.

The letter also alleged that Roy, through an intermedi-

ary, had initially considered not sharing the conversation if the four participants would promise not to run for student leadership positions in the future. Roy told The Canadian Press that she never considered that.

After learning of the letter, the board decided to shelve the motion introduced at the meeting, but Roy said she wasn’t ready to drop the matter.

“It was kind of like getting a double whammy, you get put in a very difficult situation and to have these men try to take all power away from me by telling me that I need to be censored and that I can’t take action,” she said.

In a statement issued on Saturday, the University of Ottawa said it was “appalled” by the online conversation which it said demonstrated attitudes about women and sexual aggression that had “no place on campus, or anywhere else.” It said it was working with Roy to develop “an appropriate response.”

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FRONT COPS FOR CREPES Red Deer RCMP officers and staff will volunteer their time to raise money for Special Olympics on Saturday and Sunday.

They will serve coffee and breakfast, and clear tables at Cora restaurant during the Cops for Crepes fundraiser. Special Olympic athletes and police officers will work alongside restaurant staff. Diners pay for their meals and tip servers as usual. Separate envelopes will be placed on tables for those who choose to make a donation to the cause. Last year, the event raised nearly $6,000 for Special Olympics, said Const. Jeffrey Hewitt, a longtime volunteer for Special Olympics. Cops for Crepes will occur at Cora restaurants across the province. The Red Deer Cora restaurant is located at 6858 50th Ave. Cora restaurants serve breakfast and lunch, opening at 6 a.m. on Saturdays and 7 a.m. on Sundays. The restaurant closes at 3 p.m. daily.

ART AT THE HUB A collection of original and mixed media anime art will be on display at the Hub on Ross. The opening reception for The Wonders of Anime is Friday from 4 to 6 p.m.

Original anime art by Deborah Torrance and Sheldon Rabbit Wheatley will be on display until the end of March. Anime is a Japanese-inspired art form that often involves hand drawings or computer-generated drawings characterized by colourful graphics, vibrant characters and fantastic themes. The Hub is located at 4936 Ross St. in Red Deer. For details about this or other Hub events, call 403-340-4869.

TALK ABOUT BEHAVIOURS Parents and professionals concerned about people with learning challenges may want to attend a session on April 3. Doug Swanson will speak about how behaviours are affected by negative reinforcement. Swanson, who has a master’s degree in educational psychology, will speak from 7 to 9 p.m. in Room 1803 at Lindsay Thurber Comprehensive High School. The session costs $15. The event is free for members of the Learning Disabilities Association of Alberta. The event was originally slated for March 6, but had to be rescheduled. For more information or to RSVP, call 403-340-3885 or email execdir@LDRedDeer.ca.

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Live critters are a big draw at show REPTILE SHOW HOST’S ANIMALS PROVE TO BE BIGGEST KID MAGNETS AT RED DEER SPORTSMAN AND OUTDOOR ADVENTURE SHOW

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF An African spurred tortoise called Father Time and Leche, the Cuban rock iguana, were among the biggest kid magnets at the Red Deer Sportsman and Outdoor Adventure Show this weekend.

Despite the sight of taxiderm-ed deer and mountain goats at various trade show booths at the Westerner, children gravitated to the live animals every time — which doesn’t surprise Safari Jeff in the least.

The reptile show host, who recently relocated his family and menagerie of critters to Red Deer from Kamloops, B.C., knows from experience that the creatures kids find most fascinating are the ones they can engage with.

Jeff McKay routinely asks tykes at the end of his handson educational shows, “which animal was your favourite? And they almost always say the one they got the closest to . . .

“If they come nose-to-nose or touch something, it’s that experience, that personal contact, that makes the difference,” said McKay, who has been talking about reptiles for most of his life.

He said the goal of his live shows is to impart the idea that everything has a place in the ecosystem, even an anxiety inducing eight-foot boa constrictor, like his albino snake Bonita.

Although all of his dozen reptiles — including a cool, turquoise, turncoat of a chameleon — were born in captivity, McKay understands that many wild creatures are losing their rightful place in nature.

For instance, he believes the recent discovery of rats near Medicine Hat indicates too many snakes have been eradicated from that part of the province.

“Medicine Hat is the capital of Canada for bull snakes and rattle snakes, so I thought people there would have a better understanding.” But McKay found the opposite was true — there was more fearfulness in the community.

He hopes some good comes out of the rat infestation: “After years of killing snakes out of fear, more people will realize

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Safari Jeff holds Bagheera, the chameleon, after one of his Animology Reptile Shows in Red Deer last week. Safari Jeff’s reptiles were one of the many exciting features of the Red Deer Sportsman and Outdoor Adventure Show over the weekend. they have a place.”

McKay grew up in Ottawa, fascinated by creatures scaly and slimy.

He recalls overturning rocks and logs at the family cottage to find salamanders and frogs.

At age 13, he asked his parents for an crocodile. Rather than turning him down, his mother sent him to talk to a reptile expert at Ottawa’s natural history museum.

McKay recalled so impressing the herpetologist with his knowledge of reptiles and amphibians that he was asked to become a volunteer interpreter — a role he held for years. “And a week later, I got my crocodile,” he added.

Today, Safari Jeff doesn’t advocate owning exotic pets, and stresses he would never own a

reptile for which he couldn’t create a proper environment.

He hopes his show instills a conservation message in kids and adults.

“I have hunted and fished all my life . . . for the purpose of eating. I was raised by my parents to respect wildlife and just take what you need.”

The married father of a young son and daughter said he moved his family to Red Deer because of its central location, which he said, will make touring easier across Western Canada in the winter and to Eastern Canada in the summer.

“And we really love the people here,” added McKay, who’s friends with Gordie Johnson of the group Big Sugar.

Johnson, who lives between Auston, Tx., and Red Deer, gave

him a good review of this community, added McKay, who also appreciates Red Deer’s size.

McKay revealed he has plans by early 2015 to open a reptile cafe and play zone for kids in Red Deer. He’s still seeking a location.

Part of his motivation is the chance to raise his family with less time spent touring.

The reptile show host, who performs more than 220 live shows a year and has appeared on YTV’s The Zone, Canada AM, The Pet Guys, and other TV shows, said “I’ve been doing this for 27 years across Canada. I’m looking to slow down and get off the road, set up something fulltime.” lmichelin@reddeeradvocate. com

Concert will help women around globe EVENING OF INSPIRING WOMEN

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF Women will reach out to help women across the globe when seven Central Alberta singer/ songwriters perform at a fundraising concert in Red Deer.

Randi Boulton, Donna Durand, Charlin Henderson, Kristy Lawrence, Teresa Neuman, Olivia Smith and Justine Vandergrift will pool their considerable talents to entertain at the Evening of Inspiring Women on Friday, March 7, at The Hub on Ross.

The 7 pm. family concert will raise money for Amanda Lindhout’s charity, the Global Enrichment Foundation, through its local sister organization B.R.I.T.E. (Bringing Relief and Inspiration Through Education).

All proceeds will go towards creating educational opportunities for women in Somalia.

Education is power, noted Lacombe singer/songwriter Kristy Lawrence. And, since empowering local women is what Lawrence does when she isn’t performing, it made sense for her to participate in the benefit concert.

The 26-year-old who has a

day job helping young mothers through Lacombe’s Stepping Stones program, said any group that gives females a voice and lifts them out of oppression is worth supporting.

“I’ve heard Amanda Lindhout speak . . . and I’ve been a fan of her stance on social justice,” said Lawrence, who also admires the former Red Deer resident and freelance journalist for her “passion and heart.”

Lindhout made international headlines when she was kidnapped by Somali gangsters in 2008. She was freed after 15 months of captivity, having endured sexual abuse and torture, after a ransom was paid. Lindhout eventually wrote a bestselling memoir.

She also started the charitable Global Enrichment Foundation and returned to the African country to help Somali women attain more opportunities and a better life.

“She has gone above and beyond” to turn her horrific experience into something positive for other women, said Lawrence, who admires Lindhout for her “Christ-like stance.”

The singer and married mother of two looks forward to sharing her folk songs, includ-

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Kristy Lawrence will be among several women who will out to help women across the globe when seven Central Alberta singer/ songwriters perform at a fundraising concert in Red Deer. The concert will take place at the Evening of Inspiring Women on Friday; March 7; at The Hub on Ross. ing original material, with a Red Deer audience. (She stresses that men and children are most welcome to attend — the concert isn’t a women-only event.)

Lawrence is also excited about sharing the bill with some formidably talented local performers. Durand and Vandergrift are former Red Deer residents, who now live in Edmonton.

The rest of the line-up still reside in the area. All will bring various styles of music to the table, from opera to roots, blues and country-rock.

“It will be a fun, great evening of music,” promises Twyla Joy Lapointe, a Hub staffer The Hub supports the Global

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Enrichment Foundation and B.R.I.T.E. through weekly fundraising events, including used jewelry sales. Lapointe estimates $6,000 has been raised so far, and she believes there’s no ceiling on how much money could be put to good use by the foundation.

She calls the concert a “win-win,” since the volunteer performers will also benefit through more public exposure.

Tickets are $15 ($30 per family) at the door at 4936 Ross St. There will be door prizes, a bake sale and refreshments.

For more information, please call 403-340-4869. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate. com

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Economy will be watched TRADERS LOOK TO JOBS DATA, RATE ANNOUNCEMENT

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Traders will be looking at U.S. jobs data at the end of the week for further clues as to how much this year’s severe winter weather has depressed the American economy and employment.

“This is always looked at with some degree of trepidation and this will be no exception,” said Bob Gorman, chief portfolio strategist at TD Wa-

terhouse.

Job creation in January was a major disappointment with only 113,000 created that month. But much of the U.S. has laboured under severe weather this winter and traders largely have been willing to give the benefit of a doubt to those kinds of jobs numbers.

The expectation for February, for example, is that a modest 150,000 jobs were created.

Since the January data

came out, other data have also suggested winter-related weakness, including a report out at the end of last week showing the U.S. economy only grew by 2.6 per cent in the fourth quarter, down sharply from the initial estimate of 3.2 per cent.

U.S. Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen told senators last week that a number of data releases have pointed to softer spending than many analysts had expected but that it was

difficult to discern how much that had to do with the weather.

“When you drill down into the numbers, a lot of it is fairly clear, some is weather and we will see some more of that,” said Gorman.

“But people will start getting nervous if the data seems to represent a trend going forward. But I’m not too concerned — we’re holding to GDP growth in the US of 2.6 per cent, which is lower than

quite a number of folks who expected three and change.”

Canadian jobs data for February will also be released on Friday. Economists expect that about 17,000 were created during the month.

The other major economic event for the week happens on Wednesday when the Bank of Canada makes its next announcement on interest rates.

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Iraq crude exports jump

CALLED EXPLOITATION AMID HODGEPODGE OF LAWS

BAGHDAD — Iraq’s daily oil exports surged to 2.8 million barrels per day in February, some half million barrels more than in the previous month, as international oil companies developed fields and export infrastructure, a senior official said on Saturday.

The increase is crucial for Iraq, which sits atop the world’s fourth largest proven reserves of conventional crude but has been struggling to rebuild the sector after years of war, sanctions, neglect and more recently, sabotage.

Oil revenues make up nearly 95 per cent of its budget.

The country’s deputy prime minister for energy, Hussain al-Shahristani, also said Saturday in the southern of Basra that average production, including the exports, exceeded 3.5 million barrels per day last month.

He described the figures as “unprecedented.”

He said the daily production would have reached 4 million barrels if the country’s northern self-ruled Kurdish region had contributed its share of about 400,000 barrels a day to the figure, as had been estimated in the 2014 budget.

The Kurds, who stopped exporting oil more than a year ago over a payment row, have sought greater control over oil in their crude-rich region, while Baghdad argues that it should be under central government control.

Iraq has been struggling to develop its oil and gas sectors since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, when deteriorated security scared many investors away.

But since 2008, when security started to improve, the country has awarded more than a dozen oil and gas deals to international energy companies such as the U.S.’s Exxon Mobil, the UK’s BP, France’s Total and others.

Daily oil production and exports have climbed steadily since 2011, nearly two years after Iraq awarded rights to develop its major oil fields to international oil companies.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Nicholas Smith is a 22-yearold Torontonian, working on his second unpaid internship after graduating from the University of Toronto last year with an ethics degree.

Working without pay for months — and sometimes years — after graduating triumphantly wasn’t exactly what Smith and his friends had in mind when they toiled away along the path to what they believed was a bright future.

“I am working with people who’ve done their masters degrees, and definitely there’s an emotional toll in having to work for free,” said Smith, whose current unpaid internship is at a Toronto-based think-tank as a foreign policy analyst.

“I used to do marketing and there are a couple of marketing companies that are absolutely notorious — they have marketing graduates working 50-hour weeks and overtime without pay, and if you refuse to work the OT you don’t get a reference,” he said.

“And no one is picked up anyway at the end of the internships. It’s just exploitation.”

Unpaid internships are on the rise in Canada, with some organizations estimating there’s as many as 300,000 people currently working for free at some of the country’s biggest, and wealthiest, corporations.

The ranks of unpaid interns swelled in the aftermath of the 2008 economic recession, said Sean Geobey, a research associate with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and the author of a recent report entitled The Young and the Jobless.

Geobey says Canadians are starting to sit up and take notice.

“This is not the sort of social contract that today’s kids saw their parents and grandparents grow up under,” he said.

“We’re starting to see Canadians — young people and their parents in particular — seriously question what exactly is going on here, and why are we apparently returning to 19th-century labour practices.”

Last fall, Vancouver’s Fairmont Waterfront Hotel sparked an uproar after it posted an ad seeking people to bus tables for free.

“As a busperson you will take pride in the integral role you play in supporting your food and beverage colleagues and ‘setting the stage’ for a truly memorable meal.”

The ad was quickly taken down amid a social-media furor.

The United States is in the midst of a crackdown on unpaid internships by both state and federal authorities. In Canada, there’s a growing backlash, with a rally held last week in Toronto urging the Ontario government to do something about “unpaid internship scams.”

Federally, the NDP’s Andrew Cash tabled a private member’s bill last fall aimed at cracking down on what he calls “the Wild West” of illegal unpaid internships. He says what used to be entry-level positions paying minimum wage are now routinely morphing into unpaid internships.

“There’s a hodgepodge of laws across

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University of Victoria graduate students Isabelle Couture and James Attfield are pictured in Ottawa on Friday, February. Couture and her partner in research Attfield did a survey of unpaid internships with the Canadian Intern Association. the country and in some provinces there’s simply no regulation at all,” Cash said in a recent interview.

“And not only are we talking about young university graduates having to work for free, but also newcomers to the country who are desperate for Canadian work experience and are resorting to working without pay.”

An official at the federal Labour Department says there are laws on the books to protect interns. Under the Canada Labour Code, a department inspector will investigate a federally regulated employer if a complaint is filed for unpaid wages, overtime and vacation pay.

“If it’s determined an employer-employee relationship exists between interns and the employer, their rights will be protected as an employee,” the official said in a recent email.

Nonetheless two academics working on a comprehensive study of unpaid internships in Canada scoff at those laws, pointing out that they require a young employee who’s trying desperately to establish a career to rat out a possibly powerful corporation — and potential employer.

“There aren’t enough people coming forward, because there’s a huge disincentive to do that,” said Isabelle Couture, a graduate student who’s conducting a survey of

unpaid interns with the Canadian Intern Association to determine the scope of the problem in Canada.

“To go against your employer, you’re fearing being blacklisted. You want the experience and you want the reference and feel you have no other choice but to keep quiet.”

Couture and her partner in the research, James Attfield, say that as they prepare to release their study next month, they’ve been stunned to learn that no federal or provincial agency is tracking unpaid internships.

“When you ask a lot of these companies, like Bell — which has a massive internship program — they make it sound like they’re doing people a favour, that they’re generously providing work and experience,” says Attfield.

“But it’s really nothing more than a way to save money; they’re obviously not doing it out of generosity.”

A Bell spokeswoman says its internship program, which employs about 300 people a year, “offers learning opportunities in a real-world corporate setting. None of the participants’ activities replace work by Bell employees or support our business operations.”

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Canadians seeking safety of GICs (Editor’s note — the spelling of ffrench is correct)

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MONEYWISE

In turbulent economic times investors often look for security, and this year isn’t likely to be much different.

A recent study by BMO Bank of Montreal has found Canadians’ interest in purchasing guaranteed income certificates (GICs) increases as they look for safer investment options and

as investment returns increase.

Nearly two-thirds of Canadians are expecting a market correction in the next 10 years, and 51 per cent indicated they will look for safer investment options this year.

“More Canadians are looking for ways to protect their money,” says Ryan ffrench, director of term investments with BMO Financial Groups. “(GICs) provide a safe investment vehicle that

offers investors a flexible range of investment options and competitive returns.”

GICs are secure investments that guarantee to preserve principal. The investment earns interest, at either a fixed or a variable rate, or based on a predetermined formula. GICs often form the foundation of a wellbalanced portfolio.

With Canada’s prime lending rate hovering at three per cent

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and near historic lows, generating good returns and income from GICs becomes somewhat problematic. However, BMO and other financial experts are predicting that rates could begin to rise late next year and early in 2016.

“Knowing when, how much and how quickly rates will rise is tricky,” ffrench said.

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RATES: Hike far in future “Obviously any rate hike is far in the future,” observed CIBC World Markets senior economist Peter Buchanan. Many economists don’t expect the bank to move on upping rates from its one per cent level until early next year.

Buchanan thinks Bank of Canada governor Stephen Poloz will likely offer encouraging words about inflation, which in January came in at an annualized rate of 1.5 per cent, compared with a 1.2 per cent rise in December.

“They have some concerns in that area,” said Buchanan. “It’s moved a bit further away from the worrisome one per cent level. But we’re still probably not out of the woods yet.”

He adds that markets will also be interested in seeing the central bank’s assessment on how severe winter weather has impacted the Canadian economy.

Data released on Friday showed that Canadian gross domestic product contracted a worse than expected 0.5 per cent in December, a month that saw severe ice storms in Ontario and Quebec.

Meanwhile, geopolitical anxiety centred around Ukraine had yet to make itself felt significantly at the end of last week.

The TD’s Gorman observed that there are events that take place when traders get a bad case of nerves, avoid risky assets and seek safety. These include higher gold prices, falling equities and a flight to the U.S. dollar and American Treasuries. But none of these events have taken place.

“The markets are more less taking this in stride with the proverbial grain of salt because the view is that it won’t escalate into a big geopolitical event,” he said.

“That could be proven right or wrong — stranger things have happened. But that’s what the market is saying at the moment.”

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Sony devices become wet with water at the Mobile World Congress, the world’s largest mobile phone trade show in Barcelona, Spain, Thursday, Feb. 27, 2014. The global wireless show has seen a push to get mobile devices cheap enough to reach emerging markets without sacrificing so much performance.

Promise and peril WIRELESS COMPANIES, GADGET MAKERS TRYING TO CONNECT EVERYTHING

BY ANICK JESDANUN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BARCELONA, Spain — We’re in the beginning of a world in which everything is connected to the Internet and with one another, while powerful yet relatively cheap computers analyze all that data for ways to improve lives.

Toothbrushes tell your mirror to remind you to floss. Basketball jerseys detect impending heart failure and call the ambulance for you.

At least that’s the vision presented this past week at the Mobile World Congress wireless show in Barcelona, Spain.

The four-day conference highlighted what the tech industry has loosely termed “the Internet of things.”

Some of that wisdom is already available or promised by the end of the year.

Fitness devices from Sony and Samsung connect with your smartphones to provide digital records of your daily lives.

French startup Cityzen Sciences has embedded fabric with heart-rate and other sensors to track your physical activities.

Internet-connected toothbrushes are coming from Procter and Gamble’s Oral-B business and from another French startup, Kolibree.

The mirror part is still a prototype, but Oral-B’s smartphone app does tell you to floss.

Car makers are building in smarter navigation and other hands-free services, while IBM and AT&T are jointly equipping cities with sensors and computers for parking meters, traffic lights and water systems to all communicate.

Internet-connected products represent a growth opportunity for wireless carriers, as the smartphone business slows down in developed markets because most people already have service.

With the technological foundations here, the bigger challenge is getting people, businesses and

But Attfield and Couture, who are both working toward master’s degrees in public administration, point out that unpaid internships pose an array of social and economic problems.

They give the children of well-heeled parents an advantage over those with no one to support them if they want to compete with their peers for valuable CV references by working for free, they say.

They also contribute to youth unemployment rates, and prevent young Canadians from fully participating in Canada’s economy.

“It’s so short-sighted, because these companies are withholding pay from people who might be able to pay for their goods and services and to contribute economically to society,” said Attfield.

“There’s a cost to everyone as a result of these internships — to the employees who don’t get paid, to their parents, to the economy — at absolutely no cost to the companies.”

Geobey says it all represents a startling throwback to another era.

“This is what union organizers faced prior to the First World War. There’s the threat of blacklisting, the threat that their skills are not going to be used because the employer will call them troublemakers for wanting to be paid for their work.”

Smith, the 22-year-old intern, isn’t quite as contemptuous, saying he’s grateful for the experience he’s currently getting from his unpaid internship.

“I can’t say that I’ve got job prospects, but the networking opportunities have been really helpful.”

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al managing director for Cityzen, said he’s had interest from a U.K. car insurance company and Chinese hospitals. Health data can tell you whether you’re fit to drive and can call paramedics in an emergency.

Some customers might worry about security, given recent breaches compromising credit and debit card numbers at Target and other major retailers.

Determined hackers seem to constantly find loopholes.

Imagine someone spying on you remotely through security cameras in your home or tricking your home security system into believing your car is approaching, so it opens your garage door automatically.

AT&T emphasizes that it uses encryption and other safeguards for its connected services, which include security monitoring and energy-efficiency controls in homes. Glenn Lurie, AT&T’s president of emerging enterprises and partnerships, said the U.S. wireless carrier goes through extensive security certification and exceeds industry recommendations.

Reveillon said any data sharing by Cityzen will be in aggregate form, with users’ identities removed.

He said individual users could decide to share more, but that would be up to them. He said French regulators are quite strict on that.

But U.S. regulation isn’t, and a government subpoena is typically enough to override any promises of privacy. Once the information is available, privacy advocates say, it’s tempting to find other uses for it.

Jonathan Zittrain, a law professor at Harvard University, said it’s difficult for people to say no when presented with immediate benefits because any potential problems are vague and years away.

“Information seems harmless and trivial at the moment, but can be recorded forever . and can be combined with other data,” he said. “I don’t think we’ve come to terms with that yet.”

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INTERNS: Array of problems

municipalities to see the potential. Then there are security and privacy concerns — health insurance companies would love access to your fitness data to set premiums.

At a more basic level, these systems have to figure out a way to talk the same language. You might buy your phone from Apple, your TV from Sony and your refrigerator for Samsung. It would be awful to get left out because you aren’t loyal to a single company.

Plus, the smartest engineers in computing aren’t necessarily the best in clothing and construction.

Expect companies to work together to set standards, much the way academic and military researchers created a common language decades ago for disparate computer networks to communicate, forming the Internet.

Gadget makers are starting to build APIs — interfaces for other systems to pull and understand data.

Building everything is too much for a single company, yet “they want all this stuff to work together,” said Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation, a backer of the Tizen project for connecting watches, cars and more. Samsung’s new fitness watches will use Tizen, and tools have been built to talk with Samsung’s Android phones.

As for persuading customers, IBM executive Rick Qualman said the emphasis now is on pilot projects to demonstrate the benefits, such as better deployment of equipment and personnel during a natural disaster.

At the wireless show last week, Zelitron, a Greek subsidiary of Vodafone, showed how retailers can keep track of refrigerators used to dispense bottled drinks.

The system tracks temperatures and inventory, and knows if a fridge is inadvertently unplugged.

Meanwhile, Cityzen hired athletes to demonstrate its connected fabric by playing basketball. Data get sent to a smartphone app using Bluetooth wireless technology.

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OMAHA, Neb. — Warren Buffett’s company said Saturday that fourth-quarter earnings rose 10 per cent to nearly $5 billion as its insurance, rail and energy businesses generated major gains in the improving economy.

Berkshire Hathaway’s insurance companies, which include Geico and General Reinsurance, reported a $394 million underwriting profit for the final three months of 2013, compared with a $19 million loss a year earlier. The Omaha, Neb., company also benefited from the strong performance of its noninsurance companies including BNSF railroad and electric utility MidAmerican Energy.

Berkshire Hathaway Inc. owns roughly 80 subsidiaries, including railroad, clothing, furniture and jewelry firms.

Its insurance and utility

businesses typically account for more than half of the company’s net income. The company also has major investments in such companies as CocaCola Co., IBM and Wells Fargo & Co., and last year bought NV Energy and a major stake in H.J. Heinz.

Berkshire’s fourthquarter report and Buffett’s annual letter to shareholders released Saturday show the company doesn’t face any significant business issues in the coming year, said author and investor Jeff Matthews, who wrote “Warren Buffett’s

Successor: Who It Is and Why It Matters.”

“Life is good at Berkshire Hathaway,” Matthews said Saturday.

Quarterly net income rose to $4.99 billion on revenue of $47.05 billion from $4.55 billion on revenue of $44.72 billion in 2012.

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“In a low-interest-rate environment there are strategies investors can use to protect their principle and still achieve more upside potential.”

The first strategy is to create a GIC ladder. This is achieved simply by buying a number of GICs over a period of time with staggered maturity dates.

An investor could buy five different GICs with one-, two-, three-, four- and five-year maturities. As each one matures, it can be reinvested in a new fiveyear GIC. This way, you’re always able to reinvest at higher rates if rates do rise and minimize risk while increasing average yield. This is an excellent strategy when rates are moving higher.

Another strategy is to invest in market-linked GICs. These are GICs that are linked to the performance of a market like the S&P/TSX index and give you the potential growth of equity markets without risking your capital.

Many Canadian investors are not adequately prepared for the impact of rising rates.

A recent poll from CIBC Asset Management found that almost 60 per cent of Canadians with a retirement portfolio are unaware that rising interest rates can erode the value of some of their investments.

That figure is even higher (65 per cent) among baby boomers between the ages of 55 and 64.

Rising rates can negatively impact investors who own bonds or fixed income securities because bond prices fall when rates go up. An extended period of falling interest rates and a flight to safety from equity market volatility has resulted in many Canadians investors loading up on bonds in recent years, but most experts agree that this era of record-low interest rates have come to an end, CIBC said.

“Nobody knows exactly when and how fast interest rates will rise, but Canadians need to understand the risk this poses to their retirement funds and plans,” said Steve Geist, president of CIBC Asset Management. “Canadians understand the impact that rising rates have on household expenses, such as mortgages and loans, but it’s equally important, especially for those approaching retirement and preparing to draw income from their portfolios, to be aware of the impact rising rates can have on their investments.”

CIBC recommends floating rate investments for additional protection from rising rates and shorter bond durations. Duration is a measure of how sensitive the price of a bond is to changes in interest rates. The shorter the length of time for a bond to reach maturity the less interest rate risk is involved.

Portfolio managers often will use this strategy to mitigate risk in actively managed mutual funds.

Work with an adviser to find the right fixed income mix. An adviser can help you assess your portfolio and understand its overall sensitivity to interest rate changes.

Talbot Boggs is a Toronto-based business communications professional who has worked with national news organizations, magazines and corporations in the finance, retail, manufacturing and other industrial sectors.

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A10 Russia tightens grip on Crimea MONDAY, MARCH 3, 2014

U.S., UKRAINE URGE PUTIN TO PULL BACK HIS TROOPS

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PEREVALNE, Ukraine — Warning that it was “on the brink of disaster,” Ukraine put its military on high alert Sunday and appealed for international help to avoid what it feared was the possibility of a wider invasion by Russia.

Outrage over Russia’s military moves mounted in world capitals, with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry calling on President Vladimir Putin to pull back from “an incredible act of aggression.”

A day after Russia captured the Crimean Peninsula without firing a shot, fears grew in the Ukrainian capital and beyond that Russia might seek to expand its control by seizing other parts of eastern Ukraine. Senior Obama administration officials said the U.S. now believes that Russia has complete operational control of Crimea, a pro-Russian area of the country, and has more than 6,000 forces in the region.

Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said there was no reason for Russia to invade Ukraine and warned that “we are on the brink of disaster.”

“We believe that our western partners and the entire global community will support the territorial integrity and unity of Ukraine,” he said Sunday in Kyiv.

World leaders rushed to try to find a diplomatic solution to the crisis.

NATO held an emergency meeting in Brussels, Britain’s foreign minister flew to Kyiv to support its new government and Kerry was to travel to Ukraine Tuesday. The U.S., France and Britain debated the possibility of boycotting the next Group of Eight economic summit, to be held in June in Sochi, the host of Russia’s successful Winter Olympics.

In Kyiv, Moscow and other cities, thousands of protesters took to the streets to either decry the Russian occupation or celebrate Crimea’s return to its former ruler.

“Support us, America!” a group of protesters chanted outside the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv. One young girl held up a placard reading: “No Russian aggression!”

“Russia! Russia!” the crowd chanted in Moscow.

Kerry, interviewed on U.S. television news shows, talked about boycotting the G-8 summit, as well as possible visa bans, asset freezes and trade and investment penalties against Russia.

All the foreign ministers he talked to were prepared “to go to the hilt” to isolate Russia, Kerry said.

President Barack Obama also spoke Sunday with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, British Prime Minister David Cameron, and Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski.

NATO issued a statement saying it “condemns Russia’s military escalation in Crimea” and demanding that Russia respect its obligations under the U.N. charter. Ukraine is not a NATO member, meaning the U.S. and Europe are not obligated to come to its defence, but the country has taken part in some alliance exercises.

“We are on a very dangerous track,” German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said. But “it is still possible to turn around. A new division of Europe can still be prevented.”

So far, however, Ukraine’s new government and the West have been powerless to counter Russia’s tactics. Armed men in uniforms without insignia have moved freely about Crimea for days, occupying airports, smashing equipment at an air base and besieging a Ukrainian infantry base.

Putin has defied calls from the West to pull back his troops, insisting that Russia has a right to protect its interests and those of Russian-speakers in Crimea and elsewhere in Ukraine. His confidence is matched by the knowledge that Ukraine’s 46 million people have divided loyalties. While much of western Ukraine wants closer ties with the 28-nation European Union, its eastern and southern regions like Crimea look to Russia for support.

Russia has long wanted to reclaim the lush Crimean Peninsula, part of its territory until 1954. Russia’s Black Sea Fleet pays Ukraine millions every year to be stationed at the Crimean port of Sevastopol and nearly 60 per cent of Crimea’s residents identify themselves as Russian.

During a phone conversation Sunday with Merkel, Putin “directed her attention to the unrelenting threat of violence from ultranationalist forces (in Ukraine) that endangered the life and legal interests of Russian citizens,” according to a Kremlin statement.

“The measures taken by Russia are fully adequate with regard to the current extraordinary situation,” it said.

Russia’s state-controlled media has played almost nonstop footage of the Ukrainian crisis, highlighting what it says are ultranationalist attacks on Russians and pro-Russian Ukrainians by activists from Kyiv or regions further west.

However, AP reporters in Ukraine witnessed no acts of violence directed at Russians or Russian sympathizers in Crimea.

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Unidentified armed men patrol around a Ukraine’s infantry base in Perevalne, Ukraine, Sunday.

Hundreds of armed men in trucks and armored vehicles surrounded the Ukrainian military base Sunday in Crimea, blocking its soldiers from leaving. The outnumbered Ukrainians placed a tank at the base’s gate, leaving the two sides in a tense standoff.

Crisis in Ukraine could be gamechanger for U.S. national security policy in dealing with Russia

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Western powers on Sunday prepared a tough response to Russia’s military advance into Ukraine and warned that Moscow could face economic penalties, diplomatic isolation and bolstered allied defences in Europe unless it retreats.

The crisis may prove to be a game-changer for President Barack Obama’s national security policy, forcing him to give up his foreign policy shift to Asia and to maintain U.S. troop levels in Europe to limit Russia’s reach.

The ill will and mistrust also could spill over on two other global security fronts — Syria and Iran — where Russia has been a necessary partner with the West.

Russian President Vladimir Putin gave no indication that he would heed the West’s warnings. Hundreds of armed men surrounded a Ukrainian military base in Crimea, a pro-Russian area. In Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk alerted allies that “we are on the brink of disaster.”

Senior Obama administration officials said they believe Russia now has complete operational control over Crimea and has more than 6,000 forces in the region. The U.S. was also watching for ethnic skirmishes in other areas of eastern Ukraine, where there is a large Russian-speaking population, though the officials said they had not yet seen Russian mili-

tary moves elsewhere. The officials were not authorized to publicly discuss the situation and spoke on condition of anonymity.

Secretary of State John Kerry said he has consulted with other world leaders, and “every single one of them are prepared to go to the hilt in order to isolate Russia with respect to this invasion.” President Barack Obama spoke Sunday with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, British Prime Minister David Cameron, and Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski.

Kerry planned to travel to Kyiv Tuesday for meetings with the Ukrainian government. Officials said the Obama administration would also focus this week on putting together a package of economic assistance for Ukraine.

In Brussels, NATO’s secretary-general, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, said Russia’s actions have violated the U.N. Charter. He said the alliance was re-evaluating its relationship with Russia.

“There are very serious repercussions that can flow out of this,” Kerry said.

Beyond economic sanctions and visa bans, freezing Russian assets, and trade and investment penalties, Kerry said Moscow risks being booted out of the powerful Group of Eight of world industrial powers as payback for the military incursion.

Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew told a Washington audience on Sunday that the United States is ready to work with other countries and the International Monetary Fund to provide support to bolster Ukraine’s economy. He said he had been assured in discussions with Ukrainian officials that the new government is prepared to pursue the reforms needed to overhaul the country’s ailing economy.

Separatists blamed for knife attack in China that leaves 33 dead KUNMING, China — Authorities on Sunday blamed a slashing rampage that killed 29 people and wounded 143 at a train station in southern China on separatists from the country’s far west, while local residents said government crackdowns had taken their toll on the alleged culprits.

Police fatally shot four of the assailants — putting the overall death toll at 33 — and captured another after the attack late Saturday in Kunming, the capital of Yunnan province, the official Xinhua News Agency said. But authorities were searching for at least five more of the black-clad attackers.

State broadcaster CCTV said two of the assailants were women, including one of the slain and the one detained.

“All-out efforts should be made to treat the injured people, severely punish terrorists according to the law, and prevent the occurrence of similar cases,” said China’s top police official, Politburo member Meng Jianzhu, who arrived in Kunming early Sunday, an indication of how seriously authorities viewed the attack.

The attackers’ identities have not been confirmed, but evidence at the scene showed that it was “a terrorist attack carried out by Xinjiang separatist forces,” Xinhua said. The far western region of Xinjiang is home to a simmering rebellion against Chinese rule by some members of the Muslim Uighur (pronounced WEE’-gur) population, and the government has responded there with heavy-handed security.

Police in Kunming on Sunday were rounding up members of the city’s small Uighur community, believed to number no more than several dozen, for questioning in the attack and information about the assailants.

“How do we know them?” said a Uighur man who gave only his first name, Akpar. “We could not tell if the assailants were Uighurs as they were all dressed in black. We did not like the attack either.”

Most attacks blamed on Uighur separatists take place in Xinjiang, where clashes between Uighurs and police or members of China’s ethnic Han majority are frequent, but Saturday’s assault happened more than 1,500 kilometres (more than 900 miles) to the southeast in Yunnan, which has not had a history of such unrest.

Kunming residents expressed dismay at both the attack and the conditions within China that could have allowed it to happen. Restaurant worker Xie Yulong said the attackers were “worse than animals.” But he also expressed sympathy toward ethnic Uighurs, saying their region has come under severe security crackdowns in recent months under the government of President Xi Jinping.

“It’s the pressure,” Xie said. “Beijing has put too much pressure on them since Xi Jinping took over.

They are under so much pressure they do not want to live, and they did that.”

Another Kunming resident, Jiang Hua, said the attack has made people scared to go out at night.

“I think we should chase off the Uighurs and let them be independent,” Jiang said. “And local authorities should be held accountable for providing public safety.”

Witnesses described assailants dressed in black storming the train station late Saturday evening and slashing people indiscriminately with large knives and machetes. Student Qiao Yunao, 16, was waiting to catch a train at the station when people started crying out and running, and then saw a man cut another man’s neck, drawing blood.

“I was freaking out, and ran to a fast food store, and many people were running in there to take refuge,” she told said via Sina Weibo, a Chinese microblog. “I saw two attackers, both men, one with a watermelon knife and the other with a fruit knife. They were running and chopping whoever they could.”

Alarms over a possible spread of militant attacks to soft targets beyond the borders of Xinjiang were first raised in October when a suicide car attack blamed on three ethnic Uighurs killed five people, including the attackers, at Beijing’s Tiananmen Gate.

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MONDAY, MARCH 3, 2014

Jesse Cook treats fans to exuberance Jesse Cook sure produces a kaleidoscopic soundscape for a man with a supposedly blue guitar.

The virtuoso classical guitarist, now on the second leg of a ongoing tour to support his last album, The Blue Guitar Sessions, put on an exuberant concert Friday at the Memorial Centre in Red Deer.

His red-hot flamenco and rumba-style instrumentals left 480 fans clapping along, even leaping out of their seats to give Cook and his band of four crack musicians a series of standing ovations at the end.

But where were the quiet, greyed down, introspective numbers that Cook said he wrote as “the soundtrack of your misery” for survivors of relationship breakups? After all, the Toronto-based guitarLANA ist admitted his Blue Guitar MICHELIN album features songs that are “completely, unapologetically a bummer.”

Maybe he had the wrong play list, for the Central Alberta audience was grooving to largely sunny, upbeat tunes that didn’t leave a lot to be bummed about.

Cook, who promised to play some old and new selections, started the show with a favourite, Mario Takes A Walk.

The gypsy-like, percussive tune helped secure his international fan base, including Russian figureskater Irina Slutskaya, who won a bronze medal dancing to the melody at the Turin Olympic Games in 2006.

Gravity, another Cook standard, followed. Its confident staccato beat was soothed by some soulful violin playing by multi-instrumentalist Chris Church, and once again, toes were left a-tapping. The crowd responded enthusiastically.

Cook wasn’t sure what to expect with Europa, a “studio” melody he doesn’t often perform live. He and the other musicians recorded some hand claps that kept the beat throughout the atmospheric, newage instrumental that also spotlighted an electric guitar melody. Cook needn’t have worried — it got a huge reaction, which became the standard for the night.

Later, all five musicians came downstage to perform the Spanish-flavoured Cancion Triste, which involved the percussionist keeping beat on a box drum.

Azul was a more reflective tune, with a duet between Cook and rhythm guitarist Nicolas Hernandez.

But before long, both sped up so that their hands were strumming as fast as hummingbird’s wings — yet they didn’t miss a note.

Gipsy, Rain and Bogota By Bus respectively featured African drums and shakers, some nearly melancholy guitar riffs, and French-sounding accordion.

Most memorably, Cook and his band marked the concert’s halfway point with a performance of Incantation.

It involved Church playing the Armenian duduk, an ancient instrument that looks like a short recorder.

But this forerunner to the saxophone produces a haunting sound that sends chills up your back. Fans of the movie Gladiator would immediately recognize it from the soundtrack, for if ever an instrument had an old, old soul, it is the Armenian duduk.

The rest of the show included more flamencostyle melodies in Tempest, a syncopated hook in Cafe Mocha, and Rumba Medley.

While “depressing” never sounded as good as Cook’s Fields of Blue, of all the selections, the experimental Waiting for Tide and Luna Llena offered the most welcome change.

The first offered some groovy hand drumming and a mellow vibe, and the latter, a moody, tempestuous, Spanish-style guitar solo.

Both beautiful instrumentals had darker edges than most of Cook’s concert selections, which made them stand outs.

Cook, who accepted a gift of a handmade cigarbox guitar from a local craftsman during the show, is a remarkably talented musician and composer, and is an amazing showman. But a similar tempo and instrumental arrangements cast a uniformly sunny glow over most of his song selections for the Red Deer show.

That’s in part why the encore cover tunes, performed by Cook and the band — Simon and Garfunkel’s Cecilia, Crowded House’s Fall At Your Feet, and the Beatles’ Two of Us — sounded so fresh, with their varying moods and rhythms. Too bad he didn’t intersperse them throughout the concert.

Only these songs featured vocals.

And Church sang lead on an acoustic rendering of Fall At Your Feet (is there anything this man can’t do?)

It was the evening’s most emotionally charged performance — and not just because it took place in the aisle of the Memorial Centre.

Interestingly, Two of Us included Cook’s vocal contributions which, while not quite up to his stellar guitar-playing standards, were not bad at all!

Cook’s bright, bold sound palette can be likened to the post-Impressionist paintings of Paul Gauguin.

Both are masters of serving up generous dollops of spectacular colour. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

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Alfonso Cuaron accepts the award for best director of the year for Gravity during the Oscars at the Dolby Theatre on Sunday, in Los Angeles.

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Matthew McConaughey accepts the award for best actor in a leading role for Dallas Buyers Club during the Oscars at the Dolby Theatre on Sunday, in Los Angeles. Right, Cate Blanchett accepts the award for best actress in a leading role for Blue Jasmine. billion globally, the film was sure to be the biggest hit to take home an Oscar on Sunday. The film’s Let It Go won best original song.

“We’re all just trying to make films that touch people,” said co-director Chris Buck backstage. “Once in a while, you get lucky.”

Though the Oscar ceremony is usually a glitzy bubble separate from real-world happenings, international events were immediately referenced. In his acceptance speech, Leto addressed people in Ukraine and Venezuela.

“We are here and as you struggle to make your dreams happen, to live the impossible, we’re thinking of you,” said Leto. Russian state-owned broadcaster Channel One Russia said it would not broadcast the Oscars live because of the necessity for news coverage of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine’s Crimea peninsula. It will instead transmit the Oscars early Tuesday morning, local time.

Venezuelan protesters, via social media, urged Oscar winners to bring attention to their plight.

Anti-government protests have roiled the country in recent weeks.

Italy’s The Great Beauty won the Oscar for best foreign language film. In accepting the award for his rumination on life and Rome’s decadence, director Paolo Sorrentino thanked his heroes, including Federico Fellini, Martin Scorsese and soccer star Diego Maradona.

In her opening, DeGeneres gently mocked Hollywood’s insularity, referring to the headlines that have swamped the Los Angeles area lately with a slightly less serious news event.

“It has been raining,” said DeGeneres. “We’re fine. Thank you for your prayers.”

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The 3-D space spectacle was the most honoured film at the Dolby Theatre ceremony hosted nimbly

by Ellen DeGeneres.

The Mexican Cuaron is the first Latino filmmaker to take best director.

“It was a transformative experience,” said Cuaron, who spent some five years making the film and developing its visual effects. “For a lot of people, that transformation was wisdom. For me, it was the colour of my hair.”

He thanked his star, Sanda Bullock, the sole person on screen for much of the lost-in-space drama: “Sandra, you are Gravity.”

Bullock lost the best actress award to Cate Blanchett, the star of Woody Allen’s Blue Jasmine.

Matthew McConaughey won best actor honours while Lupita Nyong’o and Jared Leto took supporting acting prizes in a smooth if safe Oscar ceremony Sunday punctuated by politics, pizza and photobombing.

Wearing a dress of Nairobi blue, the 31-year-old Nyong’o, breakout star of the historical drama 12 Years a Slave, accepted the award for best supporting actress.

In her feature film debut, Nyong’o made an indelible impression as the tortured slave Patsey.

“It doesn’t escape me for one moment that so much joy in my life is thanks to so much pain in someone else’s, and so I want to salute the spirit of Patsey for her guidance,” said Nyong’o. Glowing backstage, she cradled her statuette: “I’m so happy to be holding this golden man.”

DeGeneres’ second stint was a kind of amiable, light-footed correction from last year’s We Saw Your Boob-singing host Seth MacFarlane.

After warmly needling stars in a dance-free opening monologue, she circulated freely in the crowd.

DeGeneres had pizza delivered, appealing to Harvey Weinstein to pitch in, and gathered stars to snap a selfie she hoped would be a record-setter on Twitter, (1.4 million tweets in an hour and still counting). One participant, Meryl Streep, giddily exclaimed: “I’ve never tweeted before!”

Leto won best supporting actor for his acclaimed, gaunt performance as a theatrical transgender suffering from AIDS in the Texas drama Dallas Buyers Club. He thanked his mother, his date on the night.

“Thank you for teaching me to dream,” said Leto.

Later backstage, he passed around his Oscar to members of the press, urging them to “fondle” it.

The long-haired actor, who has devoted himself in recent years to his rock band 30 Seconds to Mars, gravely vowed: “I will revel tonight.”

Though the ceremony lacked a big opening number, it had a steady musical beat to it.

To a standing ovation, Bono and U2 performed an acoustic version of Ordinary Love, their Oscarnominated song from Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, a tune penned in tribute to the late South African leader Nelson Mandela.

Singing his nominated Happy from Despicable Me 2, Pharrell Williams had Streep and Leonardo DiCaprio dancing in the aisles.

Pink was cheered for her rendition of Somewhere Over the Rainbow, part of a 75th anniversary tribute to The Wizard of Oz. And Bette Midler sang — what else? — Wind Beneath My Wing for the in memoriam segment — an especially heartfelt one, considering the deaths of Philip Seymour Hoffman, Harold Ramis, James Gandolfini and others.

Best documentary went to the crowd-pleasing backup singer ode 20 Feet From Stardom.

One of its stars, Darlene Love, accepted the award singing the gospel tune His Eye Is on the Sparrow: “I sing because I’m happy/ I sing because I’m free.”

Disney’s global hit Frozen won best animated film, marking — somewhat remarkably — the studio’s first win in the 14 years of the best animated feature category. (Pixar, which Disney owns, has regularly dominated.) With box-office that recently passed $1

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Red Deer resident Mark Freeman took it upon himself to make a parking spot when one couldn’t be found near his home on Cosgrove Cres. on Thursday.

It’s a good thing Freeman’s truck is capable of making the climb as it doesn’t look like it’s a parking spot just anybody would be able to take advantage of.

At least he won’t have problem getting boxed in by other vehicles.

Polar Bears pose for Google’s Street View

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Google Maps users can now virtually trek across the frozen tundra outside Churchill, Man., and spy on the local residents, who weren’t shy about posing for the cameras.

Known as the “Polar Bear Capital of the World,” Google visited Churchill with the assistance of the non-profit Polar Bears International to capture images of the majestic animals and their habitat for its Street View feature.

“Churchill is a unique place because you have polar bears that come off the ice when it breaks up in midsummer and they wait on land until it freezes up again in the fall. And so you have an opportunity to actually see bears in the wild due to this migration,” says Polar Bears International executive director Krista Wright.

Her favourite scene captured by Google’s cameras is of two male polar bears sparring.

“You get a sense of how these animals interact with one another and you also

have the opportunity to see their size and the power,” Wright says.

“It connects people to the Arctic, the imagery is really spectacular, and so there’s this opportunity for people to become connected to the ... polar bears and the unique ecosystem that very few people get to actually go see.”

Wright says the footage recorded by Google will also be used by researchers to track the effects of climate change in the region.

“It’s one of the most southern (polar bear) populations — that and the southern Hudson Bay — and because of that we’re seeing climate change impact that population due to this ice-free period of time,” she says.

“The breakup is happening earlier in the midsummer ... and essentially the less time bears spend on the ice the less time they have for feeding primarily.”

Wright says the Google Maps project creates a baseline that is critical for understanding and communicating the impact of climate change on polar bear habitats.

HOROSCOPES Monday, March 3 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Jessica Biel, 32; Buddy Valastro, 37; Julie Bowen, 44 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: The Aries Moon will change the rhythm to today’s melody. It will be anything but dull or monotonous. Gear up for an upbeat kind of day encouraging us to act quite spontaneously. A conjunction to Uranus signals us to expect a few surprising throughout the day. A square to Jupiter and Pluto denotes that this grand trine will push us towards progress, yet not without challenging forces working against us. Mood fluctuations and sporadic behaviours also mark our general tendency.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today is your birthday, it will be primordial for you to avoid risky monetary transactions this upcoming year. You may feel overly optimistic in speculative or gambling activities, ASTRO yet, they will not work in your DOYNA favour. Your secret motto for this year is to resist temptation in all your expensive purchases!

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Your immediate predisposition for today will be to act quite rebelliously. You seek independence and liberation in most endeavours. This inner restlessness makes you go after what you want without second thought. Welcome to wonderland!

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You may feel challenged by ambiguous energies in terms of your own beliefs. You feel that your own life principles are being tested or even pondered by external forces. You question yourself persistently by tapping into your higher consciousness.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You are being hit by a bolt dose of genius ideas! It seems that answers are falling perfectly into its place today without your conscious knowledge. Whatever you find out today, you will prefer to keep it to yourself rather than share with the rest of the world.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): You may welcome interesting possibilities where your career is concerned. Some out-of-the-blue opportunities may knock on your door. Opt for choices that promise you more stability in the end. A change in routine can take you on interesting paths today.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You may find yourself changing your life philosophy quite often today. One second you have a strong opinion about a certain truth and the other second you are convinced it’s something else. Your mind wonders through a variety of fantasies.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): An inner restlessness haunts you to seek more answers to pending dilemmas in your life. Your self-awareness about the world at hand becomes suddenly more acute and clear. You may also be making interesting travel plans today.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Dealings with others may not seem as reliable as you had hoped. Everyone

Dear Annie: My sister complains it’s Grandma’s responsibility to inithat our mother (who can be narcis- tiate contact, Mitch won’t do anysistic and self-centered) has never thing. And if Grandma is narcissisreached out to her son. “Mitch” is tic and self-centered, she may have now 25, and Mom has never tried no interest in Mitch, because it reto get to know him. Mom sent my quires too much of her. This kid daughter (now 33) on trips to Eu- may not be easy, but he has been rope and would visit us often, but rejected by members of his family did not do the same for Mitch. for most of his life. Please be kind.

Mitch is not easy. I used to send Dear Annie: Our daughter is gethim gifts for birthdays and other ting married in the fall, and we are milestones and never received any having the wedding and reception response, so I finally stopped. In in our backyard. How can we ask person, he is monosyllabic and qui- guests not to use their cellphones et. When he was 2, I remember see- or text during the festivities? This ing him bite my sister and throw rudeness has become acceptable, tantrums. but not to my wife or me. - Jim Mitch is very bright. He’s been Dear Jim: It’s perfectly OK to ask in college off and on for the past your guests to turn off or mute their six years, but still has cellphones during the not finished his degree. ceremony. The minister I am fairly certain that or best man can make he was into pot through the announcement behigh school and may fore the wedding bestill be. He has never gins. But you will have had a real job, although less luck at the recephe’s worked part-time tion. People want to temp positions. take photos of themMy sister’s relationselves and their friends ship with our mother and text a play-by-play has always been slightly to those who couldn’t problematic. She is now attend. You can ask divorced and struggling the guests to put their financially, and my phones away so they MITCHELL mother is well off. can enjoy the real-time & SUGAR Mitch could use help fun, but you cannot with tuition and books. force them. If there is When I suggested that a band, even a muted she call or email his noise level should be grandmother occasionenough to lessen the ally to let her know what’s going on distraction. in his life, my sister became angry.

Dear Annie: This is in response She blames Mom for never reach- to “Polly Positive,” whose husband ing out to the “child” and claims a is dealing with cancer, and family normal grandparent would show and friends keep telling him horan interest in her grandson. She in- ror stories about death. sists the onus is on the adult in the My nephew was recently diagrelationship. Is there an answer to nosed with cancer. He invited me this dilemma? - Confused Sister and for Thanksgiving, and I was dreadAunt ing it. One of the first things I did Dear Confused: First of all, let’s was go online and look up “what eliminate what Mitch did when he NOT to say to cancer patients.” I was 2. It is ridiculous and unforgiv- was amazed to see what comes out ing to stigmatize a child as “diffi- of the mouths of otherwise intellicult” because he bit and threw tan- gent people. I encourage all of your trums as a toddler. And yes, your readers to do this. It may save them mother should have made an effort from stepping on their tongues to know and love her grandson re- Prayerful in K. Falls gardless of how difficult he may Annie’s Mailbox is written by have been.

Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, That said, however, Mitch is an longtime editors of the Ann Landers adult now and is responsible for column. Please email your questions his own behavior. If he believes his to anniesmailbox@comcast.net, or grandmother doesn’t care about write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators him, he’s unlikely to email her. If Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa your sister reinforces the idea that Beach, CA 90254.

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seems to have a mind of their own and it’s almost hard to keep up with other’s mood swings. Luckily, you are accommodating and can easily adapt to their changing attitudes.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You are desperately seeking for a new commitment that will fill a great void within your heart. Strong desires for a passionate encounter ponder on your mind quite heavily for you today. A certain fear pulls you back from acting.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Exciting passionate encounters can take you by surprise today. Be ready to feel more daring and sexy than usual. A certain love interest will make you rock your boat enticing you to purr like a kitten inside.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You seek more independence from your family ties. You will be longing for deliverance from certain of your daily

obligations which seem to keep you tied down from fully expressing yourself. Release your inhibitions without fearing the unknown.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Some of your ideas may seem either way out of the ordinary or even quite eccentric. The response you get today will be anything but predictable. Therefore, don’t be surprised if you get unsystematic type of reactions.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Keep your bank and your credit cards in their allotted place: away from your sight. Otherwise, you risk making some spuron-the-moment acquisitions or purchases which you may regret later. Temptation seems unpredictable today, but nonetheless exciting!

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Flames 2 Oilers 1 OT EDMONTON — Much has been made of the Edmonton Oilers growing stockpile of young talent, but it was a Calgary Flames rookie who stole the show on Saturday night.

Sean Monahan scored two goals, including the overtime winner, as the Flames snapped a two-game losing skid with a 2-1 victory over the Oilers in a game between two of the NHL’s current lesser lights.

Paul Byron won a battle behind the net with Edmonton defender Martin Marincin 1:50 into the overtime session and sent the puck in front to Monahan, who scored his 18th goal of the season.

“In overtime (Byron) was just buzzing all over the puck and made a great pass to me which fortunately enough I was able to bury,” Monahan said. “I was surprised that I had so much room. That was pretty awesome. That is my first overtime goal in the NHL.” Flames captain Mark Giordano said that Monahan has become a real go-to guy.

“One thing we have learned about (Monahan) is that he doesn’t miss too many of those chances around the net,” he said. “He has a knack for putting those ones in. Good on him. I am happy for him.”

The Flames (23-30-7) have won seven of their last 10 games.

David Perron responded for the Oilers (20-34-8) who have lost three in a row and sit in second last in the NHL, five points back of fourth-worst Calgary.

“In our own zone for the most part, I thought we were alright,” said Oilers head coach Dallas Eakins.

“The last goal was just a great lesson for our defencemen there. You have to win the battle. It’s a simple battle and that’s what happens when you lose a battle like that, especially four-on-four.”

One especially troubling area for the Oilers of late has been the power play, which has now gone 0-19 in Edmonton’s last six games.

“On the power play we’re having troubles entering and we’re having troubles finishing,” said Oilers forward Jordan Eberle. “On the one power play there, we must have had four or five chances and we couldn’t capitalize. When that starts to happen, that starts to wear on you and you start doubting yourself.

“For me personally the biggest thing with our lack

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Calgary Flames Sean Monahan (23), Markus Granlund (60), Joe Colborne (8) and Mark Giordano (5) celebrate a goal against the Edmonton Oilers during first-period action in Edmonton, on Saturday. of offence, and we seem to go through it every season, is that our power play is dead.”

The Flames started the scoring just past the midmark of the opening period as Monahan was left alone in front of the net to coral a bouncing rebound and the Flames rookie sent the puck past Oilers starting goalie Ilya Bryzgalov.

The goal was immediately followed by a heated tilt between Edmonton’s Luke Gazdic and Calgary’s Kevin Westgarth, with Gazdic landing a punch that

floored Westgarth to the point that he had to be helped off the ice and to the dressing room.

“It was a good fight and both guys were throwing good punches,” Giordano said. “At the end of the day you care about the person and it is hard to see something like that. Hopefully he recovers quickly and can get back in the lineup.

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Kings wins second straight ACAC title

BY DANNY RODE ADVOCATE STAFF Kings 67 Thunder 62 Winning a championship is rewarding in itself, but winning at home is altogether another thrill.

“It was electric at the final buzzer” said Kings head coach Clayton Pottinger following the Kings 67-62 victory over the Concordia University College Thunder in the Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference men’s basketball gold medal game before an overflow crowd at RDC Sunday afternoon.

“With the crowd chanting ‘R-D-C, RD-C’, I had chills. It was awesome to do this at home, in front of our fans.”

It was the second straight league title for the Kings and third time in a row they’ll compete at the national finals, which are set for March 12-15 at Quest University in Squamish, B.C. Kings fifth-year point guard Lloyd Strickland has played a major role in the Kings success, but he stressed the past doesn’t compare to Sunday afternoon.

“You can put all five years in one big bundle . . . one last game is worth the gold. This puts my whole career in perspective. This one last game (here) is all I can ask for.”

Tournament MVP Clay Crellin, who joined the Kings this year, agreed.

“The crowd was great, for both sides,” he said. “As for the MVP it was amazing, but every player on this team deserves this, especially big Sam (Lolik). It’s great playing alongside him.”

Lolik joined the Kings at Christmas.

“That a great way to play my final game in this gym,” said Lolik, who not only played basketball, but had a family and other work commitments.

“It was all worth it.”

The Thunder were the surprise of the tournament after coming in ranked sixth. They needed a final second three-point shot to upset Grant MacEwan 72-71, then downed Lethbridge College Kodiaks 63-61 in the semifi-

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RDC Kings basketball coach Clayton Pottinger cuts down the net after his team’s victory over Concordia University College in the ACAC gold medal game at RDC on Sunday. nals.

They then gave the Kings all they could handle and it wasn’t until Crellin took over the game late that the RDC squad was able to gain any breathing room. Crellin hit a driving layup, then stole a rebound off a missed free throw and was fouled. He hit both free throws to put the Kings up by seven late.

“He was great down the stretch, but we also started rebounding better and playing better defence,” said Pottinger, who went 10 deep while the Thunder’s starting five all played over 37 minutes.

“Because we were able to substitute we were fresh down the stretch, which was key for us,” said Pottinger. “They were about seven deep and most of their top guys played close to 40 minutes, so we felt it was a matter of time before they started to wear down. But full credit to them. they came to play.”

“Concordia played their butts off,” added Crellin. “We watched them against MacEwan and we knew they would be tough. This was one of the toughest games we’ve played all season.”

The Thunder led 12-8 after the first

quarter with RDC taking a 32-29 lead at the half and extended it to 49-41 after three quarters.

The Thunder’s defence was a key to their success during the weekend, earning them a wild card berth to the nationals.

“We’ve run a program for years where we’ve been solid defensively,” said Thunder head coach Reagan Wood. “There were periods during the season we struggled with that, but we were able to keep that up this weekend. We have a great group of veteran guys who know what it takes to win big games and they know defence is a key.”

Wood felt the free throw line and the Kings depth and experience were the difference in the game.

“We missed a few free throws (20 of 32), plus Red Deer is such a great team.

They have so much talent, so much depth. Plus they made a couple of key shots down the stretch. But it was a well-played game on both sides.”

It’s the first time Concordia has qualified for the nationals.

“It’s exciting. We want to do our conference proud.”

While the final was a battle, Strickland felt the Kings needed to be at the top of their game in all three games.

“Although some of the scores didn’t show it, the whole tournament was close,” he said.

“That final was a grind. But at the same time it was more rewarding because we earned it. It wasn’t given to us. No one laid down for anyone. We definitely took it, which is the best feeling in the world.”

Crellin led the Kings in the final with 19 points and seven rebounds while Rob Pierce added 13 points and seven boards and Strickland 12 points.

Lolik had nine points and seven rebounds.

David Shantz, a fifth-year guard out of Wetaskiwin, had 25 points and 11 rebounds for the Thunder.

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Stoughton only unbeaten rink at Brier after four games

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS KAMLOOPS, B.C. — Manitoba’s Jeff Stoughton made it look hard again Sunday night but he improved to 4-0 at the top of the standings at the Canadian men’s curling championship He was actually down a point coming home at the Tim Hortons Brier in Kamloops, B.C. against winless New Brunswick and James Grattan but scored five in the 10th end to win 9-5.

B.C.’s John Morris also had trouble with winless Jamie Murphy and Nova Scotia and was down a point coming home in 10. But third Jim Cotter’s final rock scored three to give them an 8-6 win and improve their record to 3-1.

Alberta’s Kevin Koe now sits at 2-1 after handing Newfoundland and Labrador’s Brad Gushue his second loss of the day, 9-4 in eight ends.

P.E.I.’s Eddie MacKenzie also improved to 2-1 with a 10-7 win over Northern Ontario’s Jeff Currie.

Two-time world champion Jeff Stoughton needed an extra end to grind out a 7-6 win over the Northwest-Yukon Territories Sunday afternoon. It might not have been pretty but, with a loss for John Morris

and his B.C. squad, Stoughton and Manitoba claimed sole possession of first place as the only unbeaten squad at the Tim Hortons Brier with three straight wins.

“A little surprise we’re the only ones,” Stoughton said, starting to add they were lucky to win before checking himself.

“We hung in there and battled and made a couple of shots finally in 9, 10 and 11 and got the W,” he said instead. “We know we can play a heck of a lot better than that. . . We were just missing too many draws heavy today and finally got it together late in the game. . . . If we’re a little off, as we’ve been, we’re squeaking by.”

Morris and his B.C. rink fell 7-4 to Quebec’s JeanMichel Menard after Menard jumped into an early lead with a four in the first end, thanks to a packed four-foot that Morris couldn’t clear.

“Four was like a blessing from heaven,” said the Quebec skip, adding that they thought they might end up with two or maybe three.

“If we can play like we played the first three games, we’ve got a sniff at making the playoffs,” added the 2006 Brier champion, who also won silver at the world championship the same year.

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Morris was disappointed in the way he played.

“Those guys were great and we were average and that was the difference,” he said. “We have to step our game up a bit for sure. I can call a better game.”

It was Menard’s second win of the day after beating Saskatchewan’s Steve Laycock 7-5 in the morning draw. But Laycock bounced back in the afternoon, beating Northern Ontario’s Jeff Currie 6-4.

There is now a four-way tie for second at 2-1 between Menard, Morris, Laycock and Ontario’s Greg Balsdon, playing in his first Brier, who took down 2006 Olympic gold medallist Brad Gushue and his Newfoundland and Labrador rink 7-6.

Balsdon scored two in the 10th end to win 7-6 and was continuing to celebrate just being able to curl for the men’s title, after a morning 5-4 loss to Jamie Koe and the Territories, who sat at 1-2, along with Currie and Gushue.

“We’re having fun, it’s been a blast, we’re playing pretty well but the experience has been nothing like we’ve ever curled before,” said Balsdon, a 36-yearold golf pro from Toronto, who works and curls out of the Glendale Golf and Country Club in Hamilton.

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Sens down Canucks in Classic goaltender Craig Anderson shut them out the rest of the game. Anderson, who appeared to have little difficulty playing in a stadium venue with different lighting than a traditional arena, posted his 20th win of the season, recording 29 saves as Vancouver outshot the Sens 31-28.

MacLean praised Anderson for making difficult saves look easy, but the goaltender’s calm demeanour between the pipes defied how he actually felt at the outset of the game.

“It was one of those things where you have the butterflies going and the nerves going,” he said.

“Everything’s just a little bit different than your usual normal routine. a It’s a big win for us and it’s a great venue and it’s one of those things that we’ll be smiling about for while, because it’s kind of a once-in-a-lifetime experience.”

Canucks goalie Eddie Lack, who appeared to be fighting the puck at times and gave up more rebounds than usual, suffered the loss as he drew his third consecutive start following the NHL’s Olympic break.

Nominal No. 1 Roberto Luongo watched from the bench while sporting a toque and replica vintage pads and gloves.

Vancouver coach John Tortorella spent much of his post-game news conference talking about his goaltending decision rather than Vancouver’s continued scoring struggles, which were made worse by Daniel Sedin’s departure due to injury in the second period.

“Before this game, the way Eddie was playing, I thought (he) was our best chance to get these two points,” said Tortorella.

HERITAGE CLASSIC

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Senators 4 Canucks 2 VANCOUVER — Senators rookie Cody Ceci is trying to help his team by helping his own cause.

Ceci’s second-period goal stood up as the winner as the Ottawa Senators downed the Vancouver Canucks 4-2 before a disappointed crowd of more than 50,000 people Sunday in the NHL Heritage Classic.

“It means a lot,” said Ceci, a 20-yearold Ottawa native. “These are points that we need right now going down the stretch, and it means a lot to me. I’m just trying to earn my spot here.”

The Senators (27-23-11) posted their first win in three games and kept pace in the race for the eighth and final playoff berth in the Eastern Conference. The Canucks (28-25-10) suffered their ninth loss in 10 games and remained on the bubble in their quest for eighth in the Western Conference.

Ceci put the Senators ahead 3-2 midway through the second. The defenceman moved up, took a pass from Jason Spezza, and fired home a shot from right wing on a three-on-two rush.

He helped the Sens make a classic comeback as they produced four unanswered goals after trailing 2-0 in the first five minutes. The score was tied 2-2 after the first period before Ceci decided the outcome in the second and Greening closed out the scoring in the third.

“I think it was huge that we tied the game before going into the intermission,” said Ceci. “That was big for us,

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Ottawa Senators defenceman Cody Ceci tries to clear the puck from in front of Senators goalie Craig Anderson as Vancouver Canucks’ center Henrik Sedin looks on during the third period of the Heritage Classic at BC Place in Vancouver, B.C. Sunday. just because we’ve had it tough lately before the (Olympic) break and the game right after it.”

The Senators bounced back from a humiliating 6-1 home loss to Detroit on Thursday in their first game after the Olympic break. Ceci went minus-2 in the loss.

“It’s great to be young,” said Senators coach Paul MacLean. “They have

Canadians head to playoffs at world junior curling championships

DeRozan dominant as Raptors get win back against Warriors

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FLIMS, Switzerland — Winnipeg’s Braden Calvert and Edmonton’s Kelsey Rocque are headed for the playoffs at the world junior curling championships after both Canadian teams won their final two games on Sunday, the last day of the round-robin portion of the tournament.

Rocque and her rink of Keely Brown, Taylor McDonald, Claire Tully, alternate Alison Kotylak and coach Amanda-Dawn Coderre secured their spot in the Page 1-2 playoff against Korea after defeating both Scotland and Denmark to finish in second place.

The Canadians needed an extra end to squeak out a 7-6 win over Scotland’s Gina Aitken in their first game on Sunday.

Riding a four-game winning streak into the final game of the round robin, Rocque scored a huge seven points in the eighth end to nail down a 12-7 victory over Denmark’s Christine Svensen (0-9).

“They had an unfortunate break in that end and we were fortunate enough to capitalize,” said Rocque about the unusual score of seven. “It was the wrong side of the inch for Denmark with a lot of their stones in that end.”

The Canadian women enter the playoffs in second place with a 7-2 record behind South Korea’s Kyeong-Ae Kim, also at 7-2, who defeated Canada in the round robin.

Calvert and his junior men’s team of Kyle Kurz, Lucas Van Den Bosch, Brendan Wilson, alternate Matt Dunstone and coach Tom Clasper are also off to the playoffs after wrapping up the round robin with two lopsided victories.

The Canadians needed only six ends to dispatch American Jake Vukich 8-1 in a game that Canada controlled from the start. They scored three in the first end and had built a 7-1 lead by the fifth-end break. A steal in six put the game away.

In their final game of the round robin, Calvert and crew cruised to a 9-1 win over Sebastian Wunderer of Austria who came into the game with a 3-5 record.

Canada scored four in the fifth and stole another two in the sixth to put the game out of reach.

Norway will play Scotland in the men’s Page 1-2 .

Calvert finishes the round robin in third place with a 6-3 record and will play the winner of the tiebreaker between Italy’s Amos Mosaner and Switzerland’s Yannick Schwaller in the Page 3-4 playoff on Tuesday.

Raptors 104 Warriors 98 TORONTO — DeMar DeRozan had zero intention of losing to the Golden State Warriors for a second time this season.

DeRozan had one of his best games of the season as he scored 32 points to lead the Raptors past the Warriors 104-98 on Sunday afternoon, with the memory of Toronto giving up a 27-point lead to Golden State in December still lingering in his mind.

“It was a big win, big win against a great Western Conference team,” DeRozan said. “Especially with the way we lost at their place. The way that we lost was definitely tough, we understood that coming into tonight so it was definitely a big win.”

Acknowledging that the December loss was something Raptors players had thought about coming into Sunday’s contest, DeRozan downplayed his own stellar offensive output.

“I just got out and played, to be honest,” DeRozan said.

“Just try to go out there and play to win. I understand that every game we go out and play, how important it is and everybody in this locker-room really wants to make the playoffs so I’m just going out there do-

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Olympic break on Thursday.

“It was kind of a must-win game for us,” he said. “It was pretty intense.

After (Westgarth) goes to war like he did, you have to find a way to win. Fortunately enough we did. We just want to win as many games as we can at this point.”

RDC: All-stars

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Toronto Raptors’ DeMar DeRozan (left) drives past Golden State Warriors’ Stephen Curry during second half NBA action in Toronto on Sunday. take a 92-86 lead with less than six minutes remaining.

Toronto’s fourth quarter scoring attack was led by DeRozan who scored 12 of his 32 in the quarter.

“We just lost our composure on the offensive end a little bit and didn’t play solid enough on the other end in the last five minutes,” Curry said.

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The game was close throughout, with Toronto holding a five-point lead at halftime. Things remained tight in the third with Curry scoring 14 in the quarter.

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The Kings reached the final with a 90-72 win over the NAIT Ooks with Crellin hitting 17 points and 14 rebounds while Mari Peoples-Wong had 16 points, Strickland 13 and Pierce 12.

Yonas Berhe had 25 points for NAIT. Lethbridge downed NAIT 81-53 to take third place while Grant MacEwan stopped Keyano 80-72 for fifth place. ● Berhe, Chris Maughan of Lethbridge, Shantz, Strickland and Peoples-Wong were tournament all-stars . . . The only negative of the tournament was the fact the RDC could have used more seating . . . Grant MacEwan won the women’s tournament in Olds with a 74-65 win over Augustana. NAIT stopped Lethbridge 78-75 for third place while SAIT downed Olds 75-67 for fifth place. On Saturday Olds beat Grande Prairie 85-71. drode@reddeeradvocate.com

ing whatever I can.”

DeRozan did more than just play on Sunday afternoon.

He won the efficiency battle against Stephen Curry to give Toronto its first victory against the Warriors with Golden State’s all-star guard in the lineup.

While Curry finished with 34 points on 13-for27 shooting, DeRozan put in an all-star performance, scoring his 32 points on 10-for-16 shooting from the floor and 11-for-12 from the line.

He also recorded four rebounds, six assists and a steal.

Kyle Lowry added 13 points and eight assists for Toronto (33-26), while Patrick Patterson had 12 points and five rebounds.

Curry’s 34 points for Golden State (36-24) were a game-high. David Lee added 20 points and 11 rebounds.

While DeRozan was quiet about his own big night, he was effusive in his praise of his point guard.

“Whatever I say about Kyle is an understatement,” DeRozan said.

“We go off him to be honest, man. We just ride off him, that’s a hell of a player right there. He’s there reason why I’m getting 30 points.”

Golden State went ahead by five points early in the fourth quarter before the Raptors reeled off an 11-0 run to

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Edmonton came close to tying the game just over a minute later when a puck landed behind goalie Reto Berra in the Calgary crease, but was quickly fished out and sent to safety by Giordano.

The solid pace of the first period dropped off during a sloppy second period as Edmonton outshot the Flames by just a 5-3 margin in the scoreless middle frame.

Calgary almost added to its lead seven minutes into the third period but a Giordano shot rang off the post.

The Oilers tied the game just before the midway point of the third as Perron emerged from the sideboards with the puck and fired a laser past Berra for his team-leading 23rd of the season.

It was the first goal Edmonton had scored in just shy of 160 minutes of play, extending back to before the Olympic break.

Edmonton picked up the pace for the remainder of the third, but the Flames held on to send the game to extra time to set up the victory.

Calgary has broken the remainder of the regular season into a pair of sevengame segments to approximate playoff series and with that in mind, Monahan said it was an important victory for the team coming off their eighth shutout of the season in a 2-0 loss to the Los Angeles Kings in their return from the

short memories.”

Both of Ceci’s goals this season have been game-winners. He led the Sens to a win over St. Louis in mid-December.

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SCOREBOARD Hockey WHL EASTERN CONFERENCE EAST DIVISION GP W L OTL SOL GF Regina 66 37 23 3 3 236 Swift Current 66 33 24 3 6 224 Brandon 66 31 26 6 3 247 Prince Albert 65 30 30 3 2 209 Moose Jaw 65 17 39 3 6 173 Saskatoon 66 16 45 2 3 189 CENTRAL DIVISION GP W L OTL SOL GF x-Edmonton 64 45 16 2 1 264 x-Calgary 65 43 15 3 4 261 x-Medicine Hat66 41 22 3 0 239 Kootenay 65 37 24 2 2 218 Red Deer 65 30 30 1 4 189 Lethbridge 67 12 50 2 3 158

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Local Sports GA 226 209 244 233 260 282

Pt 80 75 71 65 43 37

GA 156 184 178 187 208 331

Pt 93 93 85 78 65 29

WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION GP W L OTL SOL GF GA Pt x-Kelowna 65 52 9 0 4 282 164 108 x-Victoria 66 45 17 1 3 220 165 94 x-Vancouver 66 30 26 7 3 217 226 70 Prince George 68 26 34 3 5 227 285 60 Kamloops 66 13 48 2 3 162 282 31 U.S. DIVISION GP W L OTL SOL GF GA Pt x-Portland 65 47 13 2 3 302 194 99 x-Seattle 65 39 20 2 4 217 215 84 x-Spokane 65 36 23 3 3 219 194 78 x-Everett 65 33 23 7 2 188 189 75 Tri-City 65 28 29 3 5 166 195 64 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 Saturday’s results Calgary 3 Edmonton 2 Prince Albert 4 Kootenay 2 Swift Current 7 Lethbridge 4 Brandon 8 Saskatoon 5 Regina 7 Moose Jaw 3 Medicine Hat 7 Kamloops 1 Victoria 2 Prince George 1 Kelowna 3 Vancouver 1 Tri-City 3 Spokane 0 Seattle 4 Portland 1 Sunday’s results Edmonton 3 Saskatoon 0 Swift Current 4 Brandon 3 (SO) Everett 3 Seattle 1 Tuesday’s games Calgary at Brandon, 6 p.m.

Edmonton at Swift Current, 6 p.m.

Moose Jaw at Prince Albert, 6 p.m.

Red Deer at Kootenay, 7 p.m.

Kelowna at Everett, 8:05 p.m.

Wednesday’s games Calgary at Moose Jaw, 6 p.m.

Edmonton at Regina, 6 p.m.

Red Deer at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.

Kamloops at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

Spokane at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

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

Sunday’s summaries Silvertips 3, Thunderbirds 1 First Period 1. Everett, Nikolishin 16 (Mueller, Bajkov) 15:03 (pp).

Penalties — Henry Sea (tripping) 6:32, Pufahl Eve (fighting) 14:09, Kolesar Sea (boarding) 14:09, Kolesar Sea (fighting) 14:09, Hickman Sea (delay of game) 14:12.

Second Period 2. Seattle, Yakubowski 10 (Maxwell) 5:43.

3. Everett, Fonteyne 3 (Mueller, Lotz) 18:35.

Penalties — Betker Eve (fighting) 0:10, Hickman Sea (fighting) 0:10, Betker Eve (roughing) 5:56, Macdonald Eve (high-sticking) 8:49.

Third Period 4. Everett, Stadnyk 19 (Leedahl, Mueller) 19:21 (-EN.PP).

Penalties — Jones Eve (elbowing) 2:16, Gropp Sea (tripping) 17:23, Pufahl Eve (cross-checking) 19:41.

Shots on goal Everett 16 7 7 — 30 Seattle 6 12 7 — 25 Goal — Everett: Lotz (W, 25-18-3); Seattle: Kozun (L, 18-24-2).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Everett: 2-4; Seattle: 0-4.

Broncos 4, Wheat Kings 3 (SO) First Period No Scoring.

Penalties — None.

Second Period 1. Brandon, Hawryluk 23 (Hunter, Roy) 1:10.

2. Swift Current, Johnson 9 (Cave, Honka) 5:29.

3. Brandon, McGauley 20 (Nejezchleb, Lindgren) 13:32.

4. Swift Current, Merkley 27 (Black, Lernout) 14:58.

5. Swift Current, Johnson 10 (unassisted) 19:18.

Penalties — Gawdin SC (slashing) 7:00, Gordon SC (roughing) 16:36.

Third Period 6. Brandon, Hawryluk 24 (Pilon, Quenneville) 17:21.

Penalties — None.

Overtime No Scoring.

Penalties — None.

Shootout Brandon : Shmyr miss, Nejezchleb miss.

Swift Current : Gordon goal, Black miss, Gawdin goal.

Shots on goal Brandon 8 12 7 1 2 — 28 Swift Current 9 14 13 3 3 — 39 Goal — Brandon: Papirny (LS, 19-12-4); Swift Current: Laurikainen (W, 21-19-1).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Brandon: 0-2; Swift Current: 0-0.

Oil Kings 3, Blades 0 First Period 1. Edmonton, Corbett 16 (Mayo, Samuelsson) :56 (pp).

2. Edmonton, Moroz 33 (Petryk) 4:31.

Penalties — Nikkel Sas (tripping) 0:23, Kulda Edm (hooking) 8:39, Harland Sas (hooking) 12:35.

Second Period 3. Edmonton, Kieser 13 (Bertolucci) 16:27.

Penalties — Zajac Sas (roughing) 0:50, Zajac Sas (fighting) 0:50, Orban Edm (fighting) 0:50, Sherbak Sas (slashing) 9:07, Samuelsson Edm (hooking) 14:00, Irving Edm (hooking) 19:00.

Third Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Millette Sas (high-sticking) 1:46, Nikkel Sas (fighting) 2:44, Kulda Edm (fighting) 2:44, Ralph Edm (tripping) 9:55, Hebig Sas (boarding) 10:48, Orban Edm (holding) 14:18, Sherbak Sas (inter. on goaltender) 15:49, Dea Sas (fighting) 18:17, Ralph Edm (fighting) 18:17, Adamson Sas (fighting) 19:35, Millar Sas (boarding) 19:35, Millar Sas (fighting) 19:35, Millar Sas (game misconduct) 19:35, Irving Edm (fighting) 19:35, Orban Edm (fighting) 19:35, Nikkel Sas (instigator) 20:00, Nikkel Sas (fighting) 20:00, Nikkel Sas (game misconduct) 20:00, Zajac Sas (game misconduct) 20:00, Reinhart Edm (fighting) 20:00.

Shots on goal

Saskatoon 6 7 7 — 20 Edmonton 12 16 13 — 41 Goal — Saskatoon: Trombley (L, 9-26-1); Edmonton: Santos (W, 6-3-0).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Saskatoon: 0-5; Edmonton: 1-8.

National Hockey League EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts Boston 60 38 17 5 81 Montreal 62 34 21 7 75 Tampa Bay 61 34 22 5 73 Toronto 62 32 22 8 72 Detroit 60 28 20 12 68 Ottawa 61 27 23 11 65 Florida 61 23 31 7 53 Buffalo 60 18 34 8 44 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts Pittsburgh 60 40 16 4 84 Philadelphia 62 32 24 6 70 N.Y. Rangers 62 33 26 3 69 Washington 62 29 23 10 68 Columbus 60 30 25 5 65 New Jersey 62 26 23 13 65 Carolina 61 26 26 9 61 N.Y. Islanders 63 23 32 8 54

GF 188 159 177 185 159 174 151 122

GA 137 152 156 191 165 199 197 180

GF 192 174 162 184 178 148 151 173

GA 149 180 157 186 169 153 173 215

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA St. Louis 60 40 14 6 86 200 139 Chicago 62 36 12 14 86 213 166 Colorado 61 39 17 5 83 188 164 Minnesota 61 33 21 7 73 150 148 Dallas 60 28 22 10 66 170 169 Winnipeg 62 30 26 6 66 174 178 Nashville 61 26 25 10 62 150 185 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Anaheim 62 43 14 5 91 202 150 San Jose 62 39 17 6 84 188 151 Los Angeles 62 34 22 6 74 150 133 Vancouver 63 28 25 10 66 150 166 Phoenix 61 27 23 11 65 169 180 Calgary 60 23 30 7 53 139 182 Edmonton 62 20 34 8 48 154 204 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Saturday’s Games Washington 4, Boston 2 New Jersey 6, N.Y. Islanders 1 Philadelphia 4, N.Y. Rangers 2 Columbus 6, Florida 3 Winnipeg 3, Nashville 1 Tampa Bay 4, Dallas 2 Los Angeles 3, Carolina 1 Montreal 4, Toronto 3, OT Chicago 5, Pittsburgh 1 Calgary 2, Edmonton 1, OT Sunday’s Games Philadelphia 5, Washington 4, OT San Jose 4, New Jersey 2 Florida 5, N.Y. Islanders 3 Ottawa 4, Vancouver 2 Boston 6, N.Y. Rangers 3 Colorado 6, Tampa Bay 3 St. Louis 4, Phoenix 2 Anaheim 5, Carolina 3 Monday’s Games Columbus at Toronto, 5 p.m.

Buffalo at Dallas, 6 p.m.

Calgary at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

Montreal at Los Angeles, 8:30 p.m.

Sunday’s summaries Ducks 5, Hurricanes 3 First Period 1. Anaheim, Perry 31 (Penner, Getzlaf) 6:39.

2. Anaheim, Beauchemin 2 (Perry, Penner) 13:38.

3. Anaheim, Perry 32 (Fowler) 16:26.

Penalties — Fowler Ana (hooking) 4:12, Staal Car (boarding) 19:19.

Second Period 4. Anaheim, Cogliano 19 (Koivu) 3:31 (sh).

5. Anaheim, Silfverberg 7 (Palmieri) 8:47.

6. Carolina, Sekera 11 (Hainsey, Nash) 15:20.

Penalties — Bonino Ana (hooking) 2:56, Koivu Ana (goaltender interference) 6:55, Car Bench (too many men) 8:35, Palmieri Ana (high-sticking) 10:44, Beauchemin Ana (roughing) 13:40, Staal Car (roughing) 13:40, Silfverberg Ana (hooking) 17:21.

Third Period 7. Carolina, Dwyer 6 (Liles, Gerbe) 11:29.

8. Carolina, Semin 16 (unassisted) 18:55.

Penalties — Maroon Ana (fighting) 7:43, Bellemore Car (fighting) 7:43, Lindholm Ana (hooking) 16:09, Staal Car (high-sticking) 19:19.

Shots on goal Carolina 12 14 26 — 52 Anaheim 13 13 8 — 34 Goal — Carolina: Ward (L, 6-9-5); Anaheim: Andersen (W, 15-3-0).

Power plays (goal-chances)Carolina: 0-6; Anaheim: 0-3.

Blues 4, Coyotes 2 First Period 1. Phoenix, Bissonnette 2 (Stone) 2:56.

Penalties — Ribeiro Phx (hooking) 9:09, Jackman StL (hooking) 12:28.

Second Period 2. Phoenix, Halpern 3 (Yandle, Chipchura) 7:09.

Penalties — Klinkhammer Phx (high-sticking) 7:41.

Third Period 3. St. Louis, Berglund 9 (Schwartz, Tarasenko) 3:18.

4. St. Louis, Paajarvi 5 (Pietrangelo) 7:39.

5. St. Louis, Shattenkirk 9 (Schwartz, Steen) 12:46 (pp).

6. St. Louis, Berglund 10 (unassisted) 18:21.

Penalties — Halpern Phx (hooking) 12:02, Shattenkirk StL (interference) 15:54, Oshie StL (slashing) 19:32.

Shots on goal St. Louis 12 7 11 — 30 Phoenix 12 8 5 — 25 Goal — St. Louis: Miller (W, 16-22-3); Phoenix: Smith (L, 20-18-10).

Power plays (goal-chances)St. Louis: 1-3; Phoenix: 0-3.

Avalanche 6, Lightning 3 First Period 1. Tampa Bay, Pyatt 2 (Purcell, Salo) 16:49.

2. Colorado, Barrie 8 (Stastny, MacKinnon) 17:19.

3. Colorado, O’Reilly 23 (Parenteau, Duchene) 19:01.

Penalties — None.

Second Period 4. Tampa Bay, Thompson 7 (Kostka, Carle) 6:40.

5. Tampa Bay, Thompson 8 (Kostka) 17:37.

Penalties — Duchene Col (hooking) 13:47, Namestnikov TB (goaltender interference) 18:32.

Third Period 6. Colorado, Holden 5 (O’Reilly, Duchene) 5:12 (pp).

7. Colorado, Johnson 8 (unassisted) 16:05.

8. Colorado, Holden 6 (Talbot) 19:06 (en).

9. Colorado, Stastny 19 (MacKinnon, Landeskog) 19:53 (en).

Penalties — Salo TB (hooking) 3:31, Hedman TB (hooking) 7:29, Killorn TB (delay of game) 9:55, Hejda Col (tripping) 16:54.

Shots on goal Tampa Bay 13 10 11 — 34 Colorado 9 13 13 — 35 Goal — Tampa Bay: Bishop (L, 29-10-4); Colorado: Varlamov (W, 30-11-5).

Power plays (goal-chances)Tampa Bay: 0-2; Colorado: 1-4.

Bruins 6, Rangers 3 First Period 1. NY Rangers, Miller 3 (Stepan) 3:20.

2. Boston, Iginla 18 (Krejci, Hamilton) 18:07.

Penalties — Boychuk Bos (interference) 4:54.

Second Period 3. Boston, Hamilton 7 (Lucic, Iginla) 4:04.

4. Boston, Soderberg 10 (Eriksson, Hamilton) 9:34.

5. NY Rangers, Richards 16 (Callahan, Stralman) 16:53.

Penalties — Kelly Bos (interference) 5:44, Marchand Bos (high-sticking) 19:32, McDonagh NYR (high-sticking) 19:32.

Third Period 6. Boston, Campbell 4 (Eriksson, Boychuk) 9:04 (sh).

7. Boston, Campbell 5 (Paille) 13:26.

8. NY Rangers, McDonagh 9 (Kreider, Stepan) 15:18 (pp).

9. Boston, Lucic 19 (Bartkowski, Krejci) 18:24.

Penalties — Hamilton Bos (delay of game) 8:02, Miller Bos (holding) 15:13, Carcillo NYR (roughing) 15:13, Krug Bos (roughing) 15:13.

Shots on goal Boston 9 12 12 — 33 NY Rangers 20 14 8 — 42 Goal — Boston: Rask (W, 26-14-4); NY Rangers: Lundqvist (L, 22-20-3).

Power plays (goal-chances)Boston: 0-0; NY Rangers: 1-4.

Senators 4, Canucks 2 First Period 1. Vancouver, Garrison 7 (Hamhuis, Hansen) 4:54 (pp).

2. Vancouver, Kassian 11 (unassisted) 11:27.

3. Ottawa, MacArthur 19 (Condra, Gryba) 15:15.

4. Ottawa, Karlsson 16 (MacArthur) 17:03 (pp).

Penalties — Greening Ott (high-sticking) 3:17, Neil Ott (high-sticking) 8:44, Stanton Vcr (tripping) 16:03.

Second Period 5. Ottawa, Ceci 2 (Spezza, Michalek) 10:11.

Penalties — Gryba Ott (hooking) 5:29, Hansen Vcr (diving) 5:29, Kassian Vcr (roughing) 15:09.

Third Period 6. Ottawa, Greening 6 (Neil, Smith) 18:27 (en).

Penalties — Neil Ott (unsportsmanlike conduct) 1:41, Sestito Vcr (unsportsmanlike conduct) 1:41, Phillips Ott (roughing) 5:38, Burrows Vcr (roughing) 5:38, Gryba Ott (high-sticking) 14:11, Richardson Vcr (tripping) 15:47.

Shots on goal Ottawa 10 12 6 — 28 Vancouver 12 8 11 — 31 Goal — Ottawa: Anderson (W, 20-12-8); Vancouver: Lack (L, 9-9-4).

Power plays (goal-chances)Ottawa: 1-3; Vancouver: 1-3.

Panthers 5, Islanders 3 First Period 1. NY Islanders, Vanek 20 (Clutterbuck, De Haan) 6:41.

2. NY Islanders, Vanek 21 (Visnovsky, Nielsen) 7:39 (pp).

Penalties — Barch Fla (fighting) 2:25, Boulton NYI (fighting) 2:25, Carkner NYI (roughing) 2:33, Huberdeau Fla (tripping) 2:33, Matthias Fla (roughing) 2:33, Strait NYI (roughing) 2:33, Strait NYI (high-sticking) 2:33, Huberdeau Fla (roughing) 2:33, Kulikov Fla (delay of game) 6:53, Winchester Fla (roughing) 9:28, Gudbranson Fla (cross-checking) 9:28, Cizikas NYI (holding) 12:18, Gudbranson Fla (unsportsmanlike conduct) 12:18, McDonald NYI (unsportsmanlike conduct) 12:18.

Second Period 3. Florida, Matthias 8 (Upshall) 18:15.

4. NY Islanders, Strome 2 (Vanek, Okposo) 19:14.

Penalties — Carkner NYI (delay of game) 1:50, Huberdeau Fla (roughing) 2:29, Clutterbuck NYI (roughing) 2:29, Gudbranson Fla (tripping) 4:38, Bergenheim Fla (hooking) 14:23.

Third Period 5. Florida, Goc 11 (Huberdeau, Gilbert) 3:16.

6. Florida, Matthias 9 (Hayes, Huberdeau) 4:18.

7. Florida, Upshall 11 (Matthias, Campbell) 10:31.

8. Florida, Upshall 12 (Olsen, Kulikov) 15:26 (pp).

Penalties — Bergenheim Fla (interference) 0:18, Carkner NYI (holding) 14:13, Cizikas NYI (slashing) 15:26, Kulikov Fla (roughing) 19:27, Okposo NYI (roughing) 19:27.

Shots on goal Florida 11 10 13 — 34 NY Islanders 14 13 11 — 38 Goal — Florida: Thomas (W, 16-19-3); NY Islanders: Nilsson (L, 1-3-2).

Power plays (goal-chances)Florida: 1-4; NY Islanders: 1-6.

Sharks 4, Devils 2 First Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Elias NJ (hooking) 19:36.

Second Period 1. San Jose, Couture 17 (Marleau, Demers) 3:26.

2. New Jersey, Henrique 18 (Bernier, Gelinas) 4:43.

3. New Jersey, Elias 13 (Merrill, Henrique) 14:22.

4. San Jose, Torres 3 (Pavelski, Sheppard) 15:54.

Penalties — Couture SJ (high-sticking) 9:08, Vlasic SJ (tripping) 18:52.

Third Period 5. San Jose, Nieto 7 (Pavelski, Thornton) 6:20.

6. San Jose, Marleau 25 (unassisted) 17:35.

Penalties — Demers SJ (tripping) 6:50, Braun SJ (hooking) 14:25.

Shots on goal San Jose 9 9 4 — 22 New Jersey 8 6 9 — 23 Goal — San Jose: Stalock (W, 10-4-0); New Jersey: Schneider (L, 12-12-9).

Power plays (goal-chances)San Jose: 0-1; New Jersey: 0-4.

Flyers 5, Capitals 4 (OT) First Period 1. Washington, Orlov 2 (Brouwer, Erat) 6:06.

2. Philadelphia, Giroux 20 (Timonen, Voracek) 11:22 (pp).

3. Washington, Johansson 8 (Chimera, Green) 13:56.

Penalties — Downie Pha (tripping) 7:14, Wilson Wash (roughing) 11:01, Schenn Pha (roughing) 11:53, Read Pha (tripping) 16:14.

Second Period 4. Philadelphia, Hall 4 (Couturier) 12:50 (sh).

5. Washington, Beagle 2 (Ward, Green) 13:44.

6. Washington, Orlov 3 (Green, Fehr) 16:23.

Penalties — Downie Pha (high-sticking) 9:05, Laich Wash (slashing) 9:32, Hartnell Pha (roughing) 19:23, Carlson Wash (roughing) 19:23, Alzner Wash (high-sticking) 19:39.

Third Period 7. Philadelphia, Voracek 16 (Timonen, Giroux) 11:58 (pp).

8. Philadelphia, Giroux 21 (Voracek, Coburn) 18:55.

Penalties — Simmonds Pha (roughing) 0:40, Orlov Wash (boarding - major) 9:33, Downie Pha (roughing) 10:58, Erskine Wash (roughing) 10:58.

Overtime 9. Philadelphia, Lecavalier 14 (Timonen, Coburn) 2:45.

Penalties — None.

Shots on goal Philadelphia 6 14 14 2 — 36 Washington 17 9 3 0 — 29 Goal — Philadelphia: Mason (W, 25-15-5); Washington: Holtby (LO, 19-13-3).

Power plays (goal-chances)Philadelphia: 2-4; Washington: 0-6.

Curling 2014 Tim Hortons Brier KAMLOOPS, B.C. — Results and standings after the fourth draw at the 2014 Tim Hortons Brier: ROUND ROBIN Province (skip) W L Manitoba (Stoughton) 3 0 Ontario (Baldson) 2 1 Quebec (Menard) 2 1 B.C. (Morris) 2 1 Saskatchewan (Laycock) 2 1 Alberta (K.Koe) 1 1 P.E.I. (MacKenzie) 1 1 N.L. (Gushue) 1 2 Northern Ont. (Currie) 1 2 Yukon/NWT (J.Koe) 1 2 N.B. (Grattan) 0 2 N.S. (Murphy) 0 2 Sunday’s results Third Draw Alberta 10 New Brunswick 1 Quebec 7 Saskatchewan 5

P.E.I. 7 Nova Scotia 5 Yukon/NWT 5 Ontario 4 Fourth Draw Manitoba 7 Yukon/NWT 6 (extra end) Ontario 7 Newfoundland 6 Quebec 7 B.C. 4 Saskatchewan 6 Northern Ontario 4 Fifth Draw Manitoba vs. New Brunswick; Northern Ontario vs.

P.E.I.; Nova Scotia vs. B.C.; Alberta vs. Newfoundland & Labrador. - Late Monday, March 3 Sixth Draw, 2:30 p.m.

Alberta vs. Yukon/NWT; Nova Scotia vs. Saskatchewan; Quebec vs. P.E.I.; Ontario vs. New Brunswick.

Seventh Draw, 7:30 p.m.

Nova Scotia vs. Northern Ontario; Manitoba vs.

Alberta; New Brunswick vs. Newfoundland & Labrador; B.C. vs. P.E.I. Tuesday, March 4

Eighth Draw, 9:30 a.m.

Saskatchewan vs. Newfoundland & Labrador; B.C. vs. Yukon/NWT; Northern Ontario vs. Ontario; Manitoba vs. Quebec.

Ninth Draw, 2:30 p.m.

New Brunswick vs. B.C.; P.E.I. vs. Newfoundland & Labrador; Manitoba vs. Nova Scotia; Northern Ontario vs. Alberta.

Draw 10, 7:30 p.m.

Ontario vs. P.E.I.; Quebec vs. New Brunswick; Alberta vs. Saskatchewan; Nova Scotia vs. Yukon/ NWT. Wednesday, March 5 Draw 11, 9 a.m.

Northern Ontario vs. Manitoba; Alberta vs. Nova Scotia; P.E.I. vs. New Brunswick; Newfoundland & Labrador vs. B.C. Draw 12, 2 p.m.

Newfoundland & Labrador vs. Quebec; Onatrio vs.

B.C.; Yukon/NWT vs. Northern Ontario; Saskatchewan vs. Manitoba.

Tuesday

● WHL: Red Deer at Kootenay, 7 p.m.

(The Drive) ● Peewee AA hockey: Okotoks at Sylvan Lake, third game of best-of-three North semifinal, 7 p.m. ● Midget AAA hockey: Red Deer at UFA, fourth game of best-of-five South semifinal, 7:30 p.m., Strathmore.

Wednesday

● Senior high basketball: 4A girls zone semifinal — Notre Dame at Hunting Hills, 6 p.m.; 4A boys zone semifinal — Notre Dame at Lindsay Thurber, 6 p.m. ● WHL: Red Deer at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.

(The Drive).

Thursday

● AJHL: Olds at Okotoks, first game of best-of-five South Division quarter-final, 7 p.m.

at RDC, first game of best-of-three quarter-final, 7:15 p.m., Penhold Regional Multiplex. ● Midget AAA hockey: UFC at Red Deer, fifth game of best-of-five South semifinal, if necessary, 8 p.m., Red Deer Arena.

Saturday ● Ringette: Provincial U16A championship at G.H. Dawe Arena, first game at 8 a.m., last game at 9:15 p.m. ● Ringette: Provincial U19 A championship at Delburne Agriplex, first game at 8 a.m., last game at 9:15 p.m. ● JV basketball: Central Alberta League tournament at Lindsay Thurber. ● WHL: Red Deer at Medicine Hat, 7:30 p.m. (The Drive). ● Senior hockey: Innisail at Bentley, first game of best-of-seven provincial AAA final, 8 p.m., Red Deer Arena.

Sunday

Friday

● Ringette: Provincial U16A championship at G.H. Dawe Arena, first game at 8 a.m., last game at 8 p.m. ● Ringette: Provincial U19 A championship at Delburne Agriplex, first game at 8:30 a.m., last game at 7 p.m. ● JV basketball: Central Alberta League tournament at Lindsay Thurber. ● WHL: Swift Current at Red Deer, 7 p.m., Centrium. ● AJHL: Olds at Okotoks, second game of best-of-five South Division quarterfinal, 7 p.m. ● College men’s hockey: Grant MacEwan

● Ringette: Provincial U16A championship at G.H. Dawe Arena, first game at 9 a.m., bronze-medal game at 12:30 p.m., gold at 2:15 p.m. ● Ringette: Provincial U19 A championship at Delburne Agriplex, first game at 9 a.m., bronze-medal game at 12:30 p.m., gold at 2:15 p.m. ● College men’s hockey: Grant MacEwan at RDC, third game of best-of-three quarter-final, if necessary, 7:15 p.m., Penhold Regional Multiplex. ● AJHL: Okotoks at Olds, third game of best-of-five South Division quarter-final, 7:30 p.m.

Basketball National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB Toronto 33 26 .559 — Brooklyn 28 29 .491 4 New York 21 39 .350 12 Boston 20 40 .333 13 Philadelphia 15 45 .250 18 Southeast Division W L Pct GB Miami 42 14 .750 — Washington 31 28 .525 12 Charlotte 27 32 .458 16 Atlanta 26 32 .448 17 Orlando 19 43 .306 26 Central Division W L Pct GB Indiana 46 13 .780 — Chicago 33 26 .559 13 Cleveland 24 37 .393 23 Detroit 23 36 .390 23 Milwaukee 11 47 .190 34

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WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct GB San Antonio 43 16 .729 — Houston 40 19 .678 3 Dallas 36 25 .590 8 Memphis 33 25 .569 9 1/2 New Orleans 23 36 .390 20 Northwest Division W L Pct GB Oklahoma City 45 15 .750 — Portland 41 18 .695 3 1/2 Minnesota 29 29 .500 15 Denver 25 33 .431 19

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

21 38 .356 Pacific Division W L Pct 41 20 .672 36 24 .600 35 24 .593 20 39 .339 20 39 .339

23 1/2 GB — 4 1/2 5 20 20

Saturday’s Games Washington 122, Philadelphia 103 Miami 112, Orlando 98 Houston 118, Detroit 110 Indiana 102, Boston 97 Brooklyn 107, Milwaukee 98 Memphis 110, Cleveland 96 Portland 102, Denver 96 Minnesota 108, Sacramento 97 L.A. Clippers 108, New Orleans 76 Sunday’s Games Chicago 109, New York 90 Toronto 104, Golden State 98 Orlando 92, Philadelphia 81 Indiana 94, Utah 91 Oklahoma City 116, Charlotte 99 San Antonio 112, Dallas 106 Phoenix 129, Atlanta 120 Monday’s Games Memphis at Washington, 5 p.m.

Chicago at Brooklyn, 5:30 p.m.

Charlotte at Miami, 5:30 p.m.

New York at Detroit, 5:30 p.m.

Utah at Milwaukee, 6 p.m.

Minnesota at Denver, 7 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at Portland, 8 p.m.

New Orleans at Sacramento, 8 p.m.

Golf Honda Classic Sunday At PGA National Resort and Spa, The Champion Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. Purse: $6 million Yardage: 7,140; Par 70 Final (x-won on first playoff hole) Russell Henley, $1,080,000 64-68-68-72 — 272 Russell Knox, $448,000 70-63-68-71 — 272 Rory McIlroy, $448,000 63-66-69-74 — 272 Ryan Palmer, $448,000 68-66-69-69 — 272 Billy Hurley III, $240,000 70-67-67-69 — 273 David Hearn, $208,500 67-70-70-67 — 274 Will MacKenzie, $208,500 67-68-69-70 — 274 Stuart Appleby, $168,000 69-69-65-72 — 275 Luke Donald, $168,000 67-68-68-72 — 275 Sergio Garcia, $168,000 72-68-68-67 — 275 David Lingmerth, $168,000 69-68-68-70 — 275 Keegan Bradley, $94,800 69-68-66-73 — 276 Paul Casey, $94,800 72-68-69-67 — 276 Martin Flores, $94,800 69-70-68-69 — 276 Freddie Jacobson, $94,800 69-69-67-71 — 276 Chris Kirk, $94,800 69-67-72-68 — 276 Matteo Manassero, $94,800 67-71-71-67 — 276 George McNeill, $94,800 70-67-69-70 — 276 Andres Romero, $94,800 70-68-71-67 — 276 Adam Scott, $94,800 68-69-70-69 — 276 Chris Stroud, $94,800 69-66-73-68 — 276 Daniel Summerhays, $94,800 70-65-69-72 — 276 Jhonattan Vegas, $94,800 70-66-66-74 — 276 Matt Every, $45,400 66-73-65-73 — 277 Gonzalo Fdez-Castano, $45,40071-69-68-69— 277 Rickie Fowler, $45,400 69-69-69-70 — 277 Luke Guthrie, $45,400 67-73-65-72 — 277 Chesson Hadley, $45,400 73-66-69-69 — 277 Patrick Reed, $45,400 71-67-70-69 — 277 Brian Stuard, $45,400 72-68-65-72 — 277 Ty. Van Aswegen, $45,400 67-71-68-71 — 277 Nick Watney), $45,400 71-69-70-67 — 277 Derek Ernst, $30,375 66-69-71-72 — 278 Zach Johnson, $30,375 67-70-68-73 — 278 Brooks Koepka, $30,375 71-68-68-71 — 278 Seung-Yul Noh, $30,375 69-68-72-69 — 278 Rory Sabbatini, $30,375 65-71-68-74 — 278 Brendan Steele, $30,375 69-66-71-72 — 278 Josh Teater, $30,375 70-68-71-69 — 278 Nicholas Thompson, $30,375 68-70-66-74 — 278 Jason Kokrak, $22,200 70-66-70-73 — 279 Ted Potter, Jr., $22,200 71-66-67-75 — 279 Cameron Tringale, $22,200 69-69-66-75 — 279 Camilo Villegas, $22,200 71-68-69-71 — 279 Boo Weekley, $22,200 68-67-73-71 — 279 HSBC Women’s Champions Sunday At Sentosa Golf Club (Serapong Course) Singapore Purse: $1.4 million Yardage: 6,611; Par: 72

Final a-amateur Creamer won on second playoff hole Paula Creamer, $210,000 67-73-69-69 Azahara Munoz, $133,681 69-72-67-70 Karrie Webb, $96,976 66-69-70-74 Morgan Pressel, $52,477 71-69-70-71 Suzann Pettersen, $52,477 71-70-70-70 Angela Stanford, $52,477 68-69-69-75 So Yeon Ryu, $52,477 71-71-73-66 Inbee Park, $52,477 70-72-71-68 Teresa Lu, $31,106 68-70-70-75 Michelle Wie, $31,106 73-71-69-70 Eun-Hee Ji, $25,689 71-73-71-69 Na Yeon Choi, $25,689 71-70-71-72 Chella Choi, $25,689 73-71-69-71 Ha Na Jang, $22,542 73-69-71-72 Lydia Ko, $21,224 73-69-73-71 Sandra Gal, $17,956 75-76-68-68 Caroline Hedwall, $17,956 67-73-72-75 Lexi Thompson, $17,956 71-71-72-73 Brittany Lang, $17,956 73-74-68-72 Se Ri Pak, $17,956 75-71-72-69 Karine Icher, $17,956 72-72-72-71 Jenny Shin, $15,370 72-72-73-71 Gerina Piller, $15,370 70-75-70-73 Jaye Marie Green, $13,979 75-70-73-71 Anna Nordqvist, $13,979 73-67-74-75 Jiyai Shin, $13,979 74-70-71-74 Pornanong Phatlum, 12,698 73-75-69-73 Sun Young Yoo, 12,698 72-73-73-72 Nicole Castrale, $10,832 73-68-76-74 Hee Kyung Seo, $10,832 76-67-71-77 Mika Miyazato, $10,832 75-73-69-74 Ilhee Lee, $10,832 76-73-69-73 Hee Young Park, $10,832 75-74-71-71 Amy Yang, $10,832 70-73-73-75 Haeji Kang, $8,636 76-71-70-75 Yani Tseng, $8,636 73-71-74-74 Jennifer Johnson, $8,636 72-81-69-70 Alison Walshe, $8,636 73-71-81-67 Cristie Kerr, $8,636 72-73-74-73 Meena Lee, $7,173 74-72-70-77 Danielle Kang, $7,173 70-70-79-74 Stacy Lewis, $7,173 75-72-73-73 Shanshan Feng, $7,173 72-72-74-75 Katherine Kirk, $6,441 75-71-71-77 Catriona Matthew, $5,782 73-77-71-74 Julieta Granada, $5,782 72-75-74-74 Brittany Lincicome, $5,782 71-71-75-78 Jodi Ewart Shadoff, $5,782 77-75-70-73 Mina Harigae, $5,782 75-76-72-72 Carlota Ciganda, $5,050 73-73-74-76 Ayako Uehara, $5,050 75-73-75-73 Moriya Jutanugarn, $4,830 71-72-78-76 Xiyu Lin, $4,611 75-74-75-74 Candie Kung, $4,611 74-73-77-74 Lizette Salas, $4,391 75-76-72-77 Mo Martin, $4,172 74-79-73-76 Jessica Korda, $4,172 75-79-71-77

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Lacrosse National Lacrosse League East Division GP W L Pct. GF Buffalo 8 6 2 .750 95 Rochester 9 6 3 .667 97 Toronto 10 4 6 .400 127 Philadelphia 10 3 7 .300 114 Minnesota 9 2 7 .222 91 West Division GP W L Pct. GF Edmonton 8 8 0 1.000 95 Calgary 9 6 3 .667 125 Colorado 11 4 7 .364 118 Vancouver 10 3 7 .300 112

GA GB 83 — 77 1/2 128 3 122 4 112 4 1/2 GA GB 64 — 113 2 1/2 149 5 1/2 126 6

Saturday’s results Calgary 19 Toronto 13 Rochester 11 Colorado 9 Friday’s result Edmonton 11 Toronto 10 Saturday, March 8 Minnesota at Buffalo, 5:30 p.m.

Philadelphia at Rochester, 5:30 p.m.

Calgary at Colorado, 7 p.m.

Vancouver at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Transactions Saturday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL American League CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Agreed to terms with LHP Jose Quintana, RHP Nate Jones, OF Avisail Garcia, OF Adam Eaton, OF Jordan Danks, INF Matt Davidson, INF Conor Gillaspie, INF Marcus Semien, C Josh Phegley, C Adrian Nieto, RHP Erik Johnson, RHP Andre Rienzo, LHP Charlie Leesman, LHP Donnie Veal, RHP Daniel Webb, RHP Maikel Cleto, LHP Frank De Los Santos, RHP Nestor Molina, RHP Jake Petricka, LHP Eric Surkamp, INF Leury Garcia, INF Carlos Sanchez, OF Jared Mitchell and OF Trayce Thompson on one-year contracts.

DETROIT TIGERS — Agreed to terms with RHP Melvin Mercedes, RHP Bruce Rondon, LHP Jose Alvarez, LHP Ian Krol, C Bryan Holaday, INF Steve

Lombardozzi, INF Francisco Martinez and INF Hernan Perez on one-year contracts.

KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Agreed to terms with LHP Danny Duffy, INF Johnny Giavotella and OF Carlos Pegueroon on one-year contracts.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association OKLAHOMA CITY THUNDER — Signed F Caron Butler.

PHILADELPHIA 76ERS — Signed F Jarvis Varnado to a 10-day contract.

HOCKEY National Hockey League NHL — Suspended New York Islanders D Travis Hamonic one game for instigating a fight during the final five minutes of a March 1 game against New Jersey. Fined New York Islanders coach Jack Capuano $10,000.

ANAHEIM DUCKS — Agreed to terms with F Tim Jackman on a one-year contract extension through the 2014-15 season.

BUFFALO SABRES — Announced the resignation of Pat LaFontaine president of hockey operations.

NEW YORK ISLANDERS — Recalled G Anders Nilsson from Bridgeport (AHL). Loaned G Kevin Poulin to Bridgeport.

Sunday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL American League CLEVELAND INDIANS — Designated INF David Cooper for assignment.

KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Announced the retirement of RHP Guillermo Mota.

National League

LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Traded INF Justin Sellers to Cleveland for cash considerations.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association CHARLOTTE BOBCATS — Waived G Ben Gordon.

CHICAGO BULLS — Signed G Jimmer Fredette for the remainder of the season.

DALLAS MAVERICKS — Recalled G Shane Larkin and F Jae Crowder fromi Texas (NBADL).

HOCKEY National Hockey League CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS — Acquired a 2014 third-round and a 2016 fifth-round draft pick from Florida for F Brandon Pirri.

FLORIDA PANTHERS — Acquired RW Mark Mancari from St. Louis for LW Eric Selleck. Traded D Doug Janik to Chicago (AHL) for future consid-

erations.

NEW YORK ISLANDERS — Returned F Mike Halmo to Bridgeport (AHL). Activated F Frans Nielsen from injured reserve.

ECHL ECHL — Suspended Idaho D Patrick Cullity indefinitely and Florida D Tyson Gimblett five games and fined them, and Florida F Aaron Bogosian, Florida F Stefan Della Rovere and Gwinnett F Josh Currie undisclosed amounts for their actions in recent games.

LAS VEGAS WRANGLERS — Claimed G Josh Watson off waivers from Idaho. Released G Hector Toth as emergency backup.

Central Hockey League ARIZONA SUNDOGS — Signed G PJ Pinkerton.

ST. CHARLES CHILL — Signed F T.J. Moor.

B4 RED DEER ADVOCATE Monday, March 3, 2014

Harvik rolls to another Phoenix win NASCAR

SECOND WIN THIS SEASON AND FIFTH OVERALL IN THE DESERT

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AVONDALE, Ariz. — Kevin Harvick had a nice send-off with Richard Childress Racing, winning his penultimate race with the team at Phoenix International Raceway.

Back at Phoenix four months later, he stamped his arrival at Stewart-Haas Racing by winning the second race with his new team — doing it on the same weekend he celebrated his 13th wedding anniversary, no less.

Yeah, Harvick kind of likes it here in the desert.

Disappointed at the Daytona 500 after a last-lap crash, Harvick bounced back quickly by charging to the front and dominating the rest of the way Sunday to win consecutive races at PIR with different teams.

“Man, this is awesome,” Harvick said.

Harvick won the fall race after Carl Edwards ran out of fuel at the white flag.

He needed no help Sunday.

Harvick had the fastest car in practice and kept it rolling in the race, charging to the front after starting 13th and pretty much staying there. He led 224 of 312 laps on the oddshaped mile oval and pulled away on several late restarts for his fifth NASCAR Sprint Cup victory at PIR, passing Jimmie Johnson for the most at the track.

Not bad for someone who’s still trying to feel his way around with a new team and new crew chief Rodney Childers.

“It took long enough,” SHR co-owner Gene Haas joked.

“This phenomenal. I think

there was a lot of skepticism last year about what myself and Tony (Stewart) what we were up to, was there a lot of madness to this. Quite frankly, it’s a great team, there’s a lot of synergy at the shop, people working together. I don’t know what we did, but I think we put together a great organization.”

Daytona 500 winner Dale Earnhardt Jr. finished second, pole sitter Brad Keselowski was third and Penske Racing teammate Joey Logano fourth.

Jeff Gordon rounded out the top five on a warm and partly cloudy day after downpours wiped out the final 32 laps of Saturday’s Nationwide race, won by Kyle Busch Harvick won at Phoenix during the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship in the fall, giving him an outside shot at catching Johnson for the series title in his final season with Richard Childress Racing. He came up short, but the victory and a third-place finish in the standings gave him a bit of momentum heading into for his first season with Stewart-Haas.

Harvick had a solid finish in his sights at Daytona last week before a last-lap crash dropped him to 13th.

At Phoenix, Harvick just missed the final stage of knockout qualifying, nipped by 0.001 seconds, but had the fastest car in Saturday morning’s final practice session.

He had no trouble making his way through the field after the green flag dropped in the race, passing Keselowski on the apron, then Logano for the lead on lap 74. Harvick maintained the lead coming out of green-flag pit stops with just

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Brad Keselowski, right, and Brian Scott, left, lead the field of cars into the first turn at the start of a NASCAR Nationwide auto race Saturday in Avondale, Ariz. under 200 laps left and again with about 70 laps left.

A series of cautions came out late in the race and Harvick easily pulled away each time to earn a quick win with SHR a nice capper to his anniversary weekend with wife DeLana.

“I’m just the lucky guy who gets to drive around the race track when they have dialed in like they did today,” Harvick said. “We were able to put it altogether.”

Earnhardt had a whirlwind week after winning his second Daytona 500, needing his girlfriend to get him extra clothes while he went on a media tour.

He had a solid follow-up, putting the distractions aside to qualify fifth.

Earnhardt worked his way

up in the opening third of the race, passing Logano and Keselowski to pull up behind Harvick. He dropped back a couple times and fought back to get Harvick within his sights again, but didn’t have enough to track him down.

“I’ve got to congratulate Kevin. Those guys were twotenths faster than everyone all weekend in practice. They were just phenomenal,” Earnhardt said. “To be able to run with them all day was a big confidence builder for us.”

NASCAR’s new knockout qualifying system made its Sprint Cup debut at Phoenix and Keselowski came out on top, edging Logano for his fourth career pole.

Not long after that, Keselowski found out he would be

without his crew chief for the race; Paul Wolfe left the desert back to North Carolina for the birth of his first child.

With team engineer Brian Wilson and its Nationwide Series competition director Greg Erwin at the helm, Keselowski ran near the front all day, but, like everyone else, didn’t have the speed to keep up with Harvick.

“They beat everybody before they came to the track today,” Keselowski said. “It’s a great combination. They were prepared for the weekend. To me, Randy Childers is like a rubber-stamp, carbon-copy of Paul Wolfe. He’s a great crew chief and it was just a matter of time before he found a combination that he excelled with.”

Henley makes good with second chance at Honda Classic

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. — Russell Henley chipped in for birdie and then hit into the water on his next shot for double bogey. He watched Rory McIlroy throw away a lead with a double bogey and a bogey, only to stand over a 12-foot eagle putt on the next hole with a chance to win.

A wild Sunday at PGA National ended in a four-man playoff, with Henley making good on his second chance at the par-5 18th to win the Honda Classic.

“This doesn’t feel real,” Henley said.

It didn’t look much differently, starting with Tiger Woods walking off the course after 13 holes because of lower back pain, and ending with a series of blunders over the closing holes of a tournament that no one seemed to want to win.

Eight yards away from where he had hit drive on the 18th in regulation, Henley ripped another 5-wood and aimed a little more right.

It barely cleared the bunker and stopped 40 feet away on the green for a two-putt birdie that was good enough to win when McIlroy, Ryan Palmer and Russell Knox could only make par.

In regulation, Henley turned what should have been a good chance at birdie into a struggle for par by missing the green well to the left and chunking his chip only halfway to the hole. He had to two-putt from 60 feet for a par

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Russell Henley, right, hugs his caddie after winning the Honda Classic golf tournament, Sunday, in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.

Creamer hits long putt to eagle in playoff and win HSBC Champions

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SINGAPORE — Paula Creamer sank a 75-foot eagle putt on the second playoff hole against Azahara Munoz to win the HSBC Women’s Champions on Sunday for her first LPGA title since the 2010 U.S. Women’s Open.

Creamer’s putt curled across the 18th green and then rolled slowly down the slope and directly into the hole. She ran across the green, then fell to her knees and put her head on the ground, laughing and pounding the grass.

“It’s one of those putts where if you just get it in the right spot, it’s going to fall down,” she said. “But I could stand there all day long and putt that and I don’t think get it within six, seven feet.”

Creamer and Munoz finished 72 holes tied at 10-under 278, one stroke ahead of Karrie Webb, who led after every round but bogeyed three of her last six holes to give up a three-shot lead and finish third.

Creamer captured eight titles early in her career before getting her break-

through win at a major at the U.S. Women’s Open.

After that title, though, Creamer found it tough to win again. She came close on a number of occasions, only to fall short every time.

Two years ago, she lost an LPGA record nine-hole playoff against Jiyai Shin at the Kingsmill Championship.

She was also third here in Singapore last year and finished in a tie for third twice to start this season.

“I just was struggling. I was enjoying what I was doing, but I wasn’t loving it,” she said.

“My expectations were way too high.”

In December, Creamer got engaged to Derek Heath, which she said put some of her past difficulties in perspective.

Then came Sunday’s victory against one of the toughest fields outside the majors, featuring 19 of the top 20 ranked players.

“It might be one of my favourite wins. ... It’s been almost three years and so much has happened,” she said.

“Holding that trophy, gosh, it was so nice.”

I had won, it would have felt a little bit undeserved in a way. So when you go out with a two-shot lead, you have to play well and you have to go out and win the thing. And if I had won today, I would have counted myself very lucky. Just got to pick myself up, get back at it and try and get myself into contention at Doral next week and try and get the job done.”

Palmer was the only player in the final six groups to break par with a 69 on a day when PGA National showed some bite, with an average score of 71.8. Even so, he missed putts inside 8 feet on the last five holes, including a 5-footer for par on the 18th that would have won it in regulation.

In the playoff, he missed a 10-foot birdie putt to the left.

David Hearn (67) of Brantford, Ont., finished 6-under par to tie with American Will MacKenzie for sixth.

Knox needed a birdie in regulation for a chance to win, and instead went from the bunker to deep rough to over the green before making a 10-foot par putt and a 71. He was the only player to lay up in the playoff, and he missed a 20-foot birdie attempt.

Woods missed all the action.

He was 12 shots out of the lead and 5-over par for the day when he began gingerly placing the ball on the tee and picking it out of the cup. He removed his cap to shake hands with Luke Guthrie on the 13th tee — the farthest point from the clubhouse — and called for a ride back to the parking lot.

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and a 72, joining the playoff at 8-under 272.

“So the next time, I just said, ‘All these guys are probably going to make birdie.’ And I just needed to trust my swing and put the best swing I can on it and not be too worried about where it goes,” Henley said.

For McIlroy, it was his tournament to lose, and he did just that.

He started with a twoshot lead and closed with a 74. The biggest blow came on the 16th hole, when he tried to hit 6-iron out of the bunker and over the water, caught too much sand and went in the water for double bogey. Still tied for the lead, he went long on the 17th and failed to save par from the bunker. Down to his last shot, he delivered the best one of the day — a 5-wood from 236 yards that dropped 12 feet from the hole.

His eagle putt for the win just slid by on the right. That turned out to be his best chance. In the playoff, with a drive about 10 yards longer, McIlroy went into a back bunker and couldn’t keep his next shot on the green.

“I didn’t play well enough to deserve a win today,” McIlroy said.

It was his second straight tournament in stroke play where he crashed out in the final group. Last month at the Dubai Desert Classic, he was two shots out of the lead and stumbled on the back nine to a 74.

“Seventy-four today wasn’t good enough to get the job done,” McIlroy said. “Even if

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MONDAY, MARCH 3, 2014

Chiefs can’t close out series LOSE TO BISONS IN GAME THREE, BUT STILL HOLD 2-1 ADVANTAGE IN BEST-OF-FIVE

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR Bisons 4 Optimist Chiefs 2 Perhaps the Red Deer Optimist Chiefs were already in celebration mode.

The Chiefs, with a 2-0 series lead, had an opportunity to close out their Alberta Midget Hockey League South Division semifinal with the UFA Bisons Sunday at the Arena, but as it turned out it was an opportunity wasted.

The Bisons got a 45-save performance from goaltender Carter Seminuk and took advantage of their scoring chances to post a 4-2 win over their hosts and prolong the best-offive set. Game 4 is set for Tuesday at Strathmore.

The Red Deer squad was outshot 13-8 and outscored 1-0 in the opening period, but carried the play the rest of the way.

“I thought we certainly started competing harder after the first period, but we had some real breakdowns defensively and they’re a team that has some skill and is very opportunistic,” said Chiefs head coach Doug Quinn.

While he agreed that Seminuk was lights out, Quinn felt his club’s firstperiod showing was reflective of the players’ train of thought heading into the contest.

“Their goalie played really well, but I thought in the first period we weren’t ready to play,” said the Rebels bench boss, who watched Chad Harrison stake the Bisons to an early lead.

“Unfortunately, sometimes kids at this age can get up by two wins and think because they’re coming back home it’s going to be easy,” said Quinn.

“But you know the other team is going to play with a certain level of desperation. We were just kind of flat-footed in the first.”

Red Deer forward Ross Heidt knotted the count late in the second period

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Red Deer Chief Tyler Steenbergen rips a shot on the UFA Bisons net while on a second-period breakaway during game three of the Alberta Midget Hockey League South Division semifinals at the Arena, Sunday. when he converted a two-on-one break with Trey deGraaf, but the Bisons responded in the final minute of the frame as Matthew Forchuk beat Red Deer netminder Jayden Sittler high to the blocker side with the visitors on the power play.

Red Deer Rebels prospect Mason McCarty increased the Bisons’ lead to two on a one-timer from the low slot midway through the final frame. Heidt stuck for his second of the afternoon just under two minutes later — following a faceoff win and assist by Jeff de Wit, another Rebels prospect — but UFA defenceman Brayden Biccum scored on a wrist shot from the point at 14:01 to seal the deal.

Sutter Fund Chiefs win series, advance to division final

BY DANNY RODE ADVOCATE STAFF Chiefs 1 Tigers 0 (OT) The Red Deer Sutter Fund Chiefs head coach Tom Bast is a stickler for details.

He calls himself a perfectionist, pushing his hockey team to work on fundamentals so they’re playing at the top of their game come playoff time.

It’s no different with the Chiefs, who downed the Southeast Tigers 1-0 in overtime Saturday afternoon at the Collicutt Centre to win their best-offive Alberta Major Midget Hockey League South Division semifinal 3-1.

“I’ve been very pleased with our progress,” said Bast, whose squad also won 3-1 at home Friday. “It’s been a rocky road at times as we have a lot of girls, who are learning to be accountable, leading to be accountable to each other and learning to play a system.

There has been rocky times, but we’re overcoming those and played like a hockey team today.”

The Chiefs, who lost three of four games against the Tigers during the regular season, controlled play territorially, but it wasn’t until 5:51 of the 10-minute overtime period that they were able to beat Tigers netminder Jessica Lohues. Shealee Dolan notched her first goal of the playoffs, shovelling home a rebound during a scramble.

The Chiefs held the Tigers to just one shot in the overtime and that was a nice leg save by Nisa Bartlett who finished with 17 saves. Her teammates had 26 shots.

“I certainly like the way our defence has been playing and we’re missing Mairead (Bast) as well,” said Bast.

“We’ve also moved a couple of girls back from up front and they’ve done a good job.”

Bast believes in having a team in top condition at this time of the season.

“If they are well conditioned and have a jump to their step it’s easier to play. When you’re trying to be reactive instead of proactive it’s hard and we want to be forcing the play.”

Bast knows a thing or two about playing playoffs hockey after taking the IROC Chiefs to the league and provincial 15-year-old championship two years ago.

“It’s always nice to play at the end of the season. Characteristically I want my teams to be ready to play in February and March and that comes down to conditioning.”

One aspect of the game that’s hurt the team during the season was a lack of scoring. That’s beginning to change of late.

“We have four or five girls who could be great goal scorers and that’s a matter of teaching them confidence that when they’re in the scoring areas to shoot the puck.”

On Friday, Cassidy Hollman and Erika Marshall gave the Chiefs a 2-0 first period lead with Raven Beazer narrowing the gap in the second period.

However, team scoring leader Becky Davidson put the game away at 17:25 of the third period.

Bartlett finished with 16 saves while her mates had 14 shots on Tigers goalie Mackenzie Fairbrother-Skinner. ● The Chiefs will face the Highwood Raiders in the South final . . . Mairead Bast has been out five weeks with a concussion. drode@reddeeradvocate.com

Eagles and Generals to meet in provincial finals The Innisfail Eagles and Bentley Generals will meet in a Central Alberta senior hockey playoff series for the ages when they hook up in the first game of a bestof-seven provincial AAA final Saturday at 8 p.m. at the Red Deer Arena.

The Eagles punched their ticket to the championship series Friday with a 5-4 win over the visiting Fort Saskatchewan Chiefs. Tyler Helfrich, Michael Kneeland, Adam McPherson, Wy-

SENIOR MEN’S AAA HOCKEY att Hamilton and Travis Dunstall scored for the Eagles, who won the best-of-seven provincial semifinal 4-1.

Replying for the Chiefs, who led 3-1 after one period before giving up two unanswered goals in the second, were Richard Kelly, Brett Holmberg, Landon Jones and Brian Woolger.

Eagles goalie Jonathan Larose and Chiefs

netminder Jim Watt each made 31 saves.

The second game of the provincial final is slated for March 14 at Innisfail, with the third and fourth games to be played March 15 in Red Deer and March 21 at Innisfail. Fifth to seventh games, if necessary, will go March 22 and 23 in Red Deer and Innisfail, and March 27 at the Arena.

The final shots on goal read 47-23 in Red Deer’s favour, but the Bisons were able to steal the win and get back into the series.

“They have just a hell of a team,” said Bisons head coach Dan MacDonald, in reference to the Chiefs. “We’re both good-skating clubs, but they’re a little bigger. I don’t think they have to work as hard as we do in the corners.

“You always want to make a series of it. Playing against a team like that, a very strong team, we have to do our very best to stay even with them and to come out with a win is a big bonus.

Our goaltender was outstanding. He’s had moments like that this season and tonight he was very good.”

The Optimist Chiefs remain in the driver’s seat with a 2-1 series lead and the knowledge that they will host a fifth game, if necessary, Friday at 8 p.m. at the Arena.

“The minute you think it’s going to be easy, usually that’s when it starts going sideways. It can be tough,” said Quinn. “We’re a little disappointed but in a short series you have to regroup quickly, learn from some of your mistakes and move on.”

The winner of the series will face the Calgary Buffaloes in the South final. The Buffaloes completed a semifinal sweep of the Calgary Royals with a 4-0 win Sunday. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

MINOR HOCKEY Midget AA Matt Krusky scored in overtime to give the Red Deer Indy Graphics Chiefs a 4-3 win over the Red Deer Elks 4-3 Saturday and complete a sweep of the South Central League North Division semifinal.

Tayler Sincennes and Brett Marsollier scored third-period goals for the Chiefs, who got a first-period marker from Keenan Scott. Mitchell Morrison and Mack Differenz replied for the Elks.

Rylan Bardick made 29 saves for the winners.

Elks netminder Carson Franks turned aside 40 shots.

Scott and James Gaume each fired two goals Friday as Indy Graphics cruised to an 8-1 win in the first game of the best-of-three set. Also scoring for the Chiefs were Shawn Rowe, Braydon Barker, Michael Pruss and Logan Linnell, who along with Barker added two assists.

Ryan Morrell notched the lone goal for the Elks, while Franks and Ky McLachlin combined to make 42 saves.

Bardick stopped 29 shots for the Chiefs.

Meanwhile, the Sylvan Lake Lakers edged

the Bow Valley Timberwolves 4-3 Saturday to take the other North semifinal 2-0.

Bailey Lawson tallied twice for the Lakers, with Austin Wilson and Ryley Smith also scoring for the winners.

Nicholas Herrebrugh came up extra big in the Sylvan Lake net, turning aside 55 shots. Ryan Ternes was also busy at the other end, making 57 saves.

The Lakers opened the series Friday with a 5-3 win at home, getting two goals from Brock Boguski and singles courtesy of Lawson, Wilson and Brody Bolton.

Herrebrugh made 35 saves as the Lakers held a 42-38 advantage in shots.

Major bantam girls The Red Deer Sutter Fund Chiefs closed out their regular-season schedule during the weekend with a 2-1 win over the host Calgary Outlaws and a 4-3 loss to the visiting Calgary Rangers.

Shae Demale and Kaitlan Linnell notched the Chiefs’ goals at Calgary. Chantelle Sandquist made 21 saves as Red Deer held a 23-18 edge in shots.

Demale, Linnell and Caleigh Meraw were

JUNIOR B HOCKEY The Blackfalds Wranglers and Stettler Lightning posted weekend victories to advance to the Heritage Junior Hockey League North Division final series.

The Wranglers completed a sweep of their best-of-seven semifinal set with the Three Hills Thrashers with a 5-3 road victory Saturday.

Trent Hermary scored twice for the visitors, who got additional goals from Chance Abbott, Bryce Boguski and Robin Carlson. Cam Braun, Lucas Deibert and Tyrel Severtson tallied for the Thrashers, who led 2-1 after one

the Sutter Fund snipers against the Rangers.

Cianna Weir stopped 13 shots in the Red Deer net while her teammates directed 37 at Rangers netminder Erin Fargey.

Bantam AA The host Red Deer Steel Kings fell 8-2 to the Wheatland Warriors Sunday and were eliminated from the South Central League playoffs.

Owen Cummerford and Austin Lawson scored for the Steel Kings.

Wheatland took a 1-0 series lead with a 5-2 win Saturday at Strathmore.

Lawson and Caden Depta accounted for the Red Deer goals.

Klayton Sandquist made 40 saves for the visitors, outshot 45-17.

Peewee AA Caileb Berge and Deegan Mofford each scored a pair of goals as the Sylvan Lake Lakers defeated the host Okotoks Oilers 5-2 Sunday to force a third and deciding game in the South Central League North Division semifinal.

Payton Wright also connected for the Lakers, while Ethan Weberg made 24 saves.

The third game goes Tuesday at 7 p.m. at the Sylvan Lake Multiplex.

period but trailed 3-2 after 40 minutes.

Thomas Isaman turned aside 19 shots in the Blackfalds net. Three Hills goaltender Brady Hoover stopped 46 shots.

Meanwhile, the Lightning downed the visiting Mountainview Colts 6-4 Sunday to take the best-of-seven series 4-1.

Stettler held a 48-34 advantage in shots. Additional details were unavailable.

The Colts prolonged the series with a 1-0 win Friday at Didsbury, getting a second-period goal from Rick Gundlock and a 36-save effort from Connor Slipp. Simon Thieleman made 28 saves for Stettler.

Grizzlys close out regular season on winning note OLDS — The Olds Grizzlys closed out their AJHL regular-season schedule on a winning note Saturday, downing the Calgary Canucks 3-1 before 647 fans at the Sportsplex.

BJ Duffin, Ty Mappin and Spencer Dorowicz

scored for the Grizzlys, while Landon Welykholowa had the lone goal for the visitors, who got a 34-save performance from Colin Cooper.

Ethan Jemieff made 28 saves for Olds.

The Grizzlys finished seventh in the South Di-

vision and will take on the second-place Okotoks Oilers in a best-offive quarter-final starting Thursday at Okotoks. The second game goes Friday at Okotoks, with the Grizzlys hosting Game 3 Sunday at 7:30 p.m.

B6 RED DEER ADVOCATE Monday, March 3, 2014

Kings can’t solve Halcrow, Voyageurs LOSS IN REGULAR SEASON FINALE DROPS KINGS TO FOURTH GOING INTO PLAYOFFS MEN’S HOCKEY

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR Voyageurs 5 Kings 2 The RDC Kings were hoping to use Saturday’s game as a means of clinching third place and also as tune-up for the playoffs, while the Portage College Voyageurs needed a win and some outside aid just to get into the post-season.

The Voyageurs, playing with a sense of urgency, rode the goaltending of Kirby Halcrow and a four-goal performance from Cory Giroux to a 5-2 win at the Penhold Regional Multiplex in the final Alberta Colleges Hockey League regular-season game for both clubs.

Halcrow made 53 saves as the Vovageurs were outshot 55-28 yet atoned for Friday’s 7-4 home-ice loss to the Kings and qualified for the playoffs with a combination of the win and a 4-2 victory by Camrose Augustana over Concordia.

The more they were thwarted by Halcrow, the more the Kings — who

finished in fourth place due to the defeat — seemed to lose their cool.

“The biggest concern we have as a coaching staff is the frustration the players showed,” said Kings head coach Trevor Keeper. “It could be immaturity and just the inexperience of having a young team. The guys got frustrated and lost control of their emotions a bit rather than finding a way to get one or two goals.”

Emotions aside, Halcrow was in top form and the Kings may have needed another 40 shots to beat him.

“He’s a big guy and he covers the bottom of the net well,” said Keeper.

“We got seven goals on him yesterday and he was making first saves from the outside. But we were getting to the front and getting rebounds up high.

Tonight we had a lot of second and third shots and he was still making pad saves and we just couldn’t quite get it through.”

Giroux opened the scoring with a power-play tally midway through the first period and defenceman Kirsten Odendaal replied for the Kings with a man-advantage marker two minutes later, skating into the high slot, taking a corner feed from Riley Simpson and

beating Halcrow with a one-timer.

Mike Marianchuk beat Halcrow high to the blocker side at 14:19 and the Kings had a 2-1 lead after the first period. But they never scored again, despite firing 42 shots at the Portage net over the final 40 minutes.

“Kirby has been like that all year,” said Voyageurs head coach Jim Knight.

“He has been very consistent, very stellar, and when he’s on he gives us a chance to win. I can’t ask for anything more.”

Giroux scored on a goalmouth tip 1:28 into the second period and Jesse Linner notched the eventual winner at 9:11 during a Portage power play.

Then, with the Kings operating with a man advantage, Giroux beat RDC netminder Mike Salmon on a short-handed breakaway to complete a surprising turn of events.

The Portage forward closed out the scoring with his fourth of the game at the 15-minute mark of the third. It was the fourth special-teams goal of the night for the visitors.

“Giroux got four tonight because his linemates were working hard to get pucks and he was in the right spot,” said Knight. “It was a total team effort.

“The last couple of weeks we’ve kind of backed ourselves into a corner. That’s one of the things we talked about going into tonight — that we had our fate in our own hands and we had to get a win by trying to win every shift.

“We were down 2-1 after the first period and I thought we played well outside of the couple of blatant mistakes they (Kings) capitalized on. After that I thought my guys played fairly well.”

While the Voyageurs finished in sixth place and earned a first-round playoff series against third-place Augustana, the Kings will prepare for a quarter-final series with fifth-place Grant MacEwan, a best-of-three set that opens Friday at 7:15 p.m. at Penhold.

“We’re going into the playoffs and we have four days to get ready,” said Keeper, whose squad would have earned a date with Concordia by beating Portage and finishing third.

“It’s nice to be able to pick your opponent, but sometimes it’s better just to be dealt the cards you’re dealt and do what you have to do regardless of who you play,” added the RDC bench boss. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

O’Connell gets quick, Sabres left dealing with more turmoil after Miller traded, bittersweet win LaFontaine’s resignation

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tial artist covered up well while weathering the initial onslaught, but after that the Red Deer boxer systematically broke down his opponent.

He initially hurt the Edmonton fighter with an overhand right.

Chapman spun out and tried to retreat, but O’Connell was quick to attack, landing a right hook to the body that caused Chapman to grimace and drop to one knee.

Still wincing, Chapman somehow managed to regain his feet, but then O’Connell stunned him with a left hook and then dropped him for the second time with a onetwo combination.

Again Chapman managed to get to his feet, but another jab and a straight right dropped him for the count at 2:49 of the first round.

“As soon as he threw his first punch I knew I could take my time,” said O’Connell, a former two-time Canadian amateur champion and Ringside world champion. “This guy (Chapman) came at a last -second notice and he is a good fighter. I give him all the props in the world for taking this bout.”

In other action, six-time world champion, and current WBC featherweight champ Jelena Mrdjenovich of Edmonton, 32-9-1, knocked down her opponent, Fatuma Zarika, 24-8-1, of Kenya in the first round with a double left-hook.

She then went on to post a near shutout, 100-89, 99-90, 98-91, on the judges’ scorecards, to win the 10-round non-title bout.

(Doug Rowe is a Red Deer freelance writer)

EDMONTON – For most professional fighters, a devastating firstround knockout is the ideal, but for Cam O’Connell Saturday night’s fight at the Shaw Convention Centre was an exercise in frustration.

When the Red Deer lightweight first found out he was fighting on the KO Boxing Promotions card, he expected a career-defining fight against Pedro Navarrette, 28-18-3, but instead O’Connell, 6-0-1, with five KOs, had to settle for a simple validation of his vastly improving professional boxing skills.

Navarrette had taken some of Canada’s top boxers the distance, including world-ranked Red Deer super-featherweight Arash Usmanee. But when Navarrette dropped out at the last minute because of a cut in training, promoter Mel Lubovac was left scrambling for an opponent, and in stepped mixed martial artist Reese Chapman.

“It is disappointing, but I love doing what I do,” explained O’Connell, 25.

“But when my coaches told me they got mentally prepared to fight another stepping stone, physically we were ready to take on anyone, mentally it was hard to downgrade,” explained O’Connell. “I want him (Navarrette) so bad, him or someone better, hopefully in June. I need to move up. I can’t be fighting like this anymore.”

O’Connell started the fight aggressively, pinning the debuting Chapman to the ropes. The mar-

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BUFFALO, N.Y. — Sabres forward Drew Stafford has witnessed plenty of turmoil during his eight seasons in Buffalo.

Following Stafford’s rookie season in 2007, the Sabres lost co-captains Chris Drury and Danny Briere to free agency.

Last year, long-time coach Lindy Ruff was fired.

What occurred during a 24-hour stretch this weekend has become the topper, leaving Stafford shaking his head in disbelief after returning to practice Sunday.

“I thought I had seen it all,” Stafford said. “But, I guess, there’s always room for more surprises. And this one’s definitely a shocker.”

On Friday, Stafford had difficulty keeping his emotions in check after star goalie Ryan Miller was traded to St. Louis. A day later, he was blindsided upon learning of Pat LaFontaine’s abrupt resignation as president of hockey operations.

“It’s tough,” Stafford said.

“It’s another challenge, a little more adversity that you’ve got to put on top of the pile.”

As if the Sabres (18-34-8) needed any more distractions during a season in which upheaval and dysfunction have been common threads for the NHL’s last-place team.

At 2-13-1, Buffalo got off to its worst start in team history. Leading scorer Thomas Vanek was traded to the Islanders in October. The Sabres opened 0-8-1 at home, before enjoying their first win on Nov. 12.

Three days later, general manager Darcy Regier and coach Ron Rolston were fired.

Now this.

Miller getting dealt along with captain Steve Ott, were widely anticipated moves because both were in the final years of their contracts. LaFontaine’s departure was a surprise, coming a little more than three months after his arrival was hailed as a positive turning point for a struggling team.

“It’s a lot for our fans to swallow in a short amount of time,” Sabres president Ted Black said. “It creates uncertainty.

And it’s something that fans are going to be upset by.”

Black failed to divulge any further details regarding the resignation except to reiterate LaFontaine wanted to resume his previous role working with the National Hockey League.

Black called the resignation a disappointment, but denied speculation that there had been any discord between LaFontaine and front-office staff or owner Terry Pegula.

LaFontaine has not returned messages, and on Sunday, his cell-phone mailbox was full.

CLUB VOLLEYBALL The Central Alberta Kings dropped a 15-13 decision to the Edmonton Nooks in the third and deciding set of a Premier 1 U14 boys volleyball tournament at Calgary during the weekend.

The Kings, consisting of players from Red Deer, Lacombe and Ponoka, reached the championship match with a three-set win over the Edmonton NAVC Bears, prevailing 15-10 in the deciding game.

Mushers start long trek as Iditarod begins in Alaska

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WILLOW, Alaska — A New Zealander was the first musher en route to the town of Nome when the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race began Sunday.

Curt Perano and 68 other mushers began the world’s most famous sled-dog race by crossing frozen Willow Lake about 50 miles (80 kilometres) north of Anchorage.

It was a staggered start, meaning one musher left every two minutes. The order was drawn at a musher’s banquet Thursday night in Anchorage.

The finish line is on Front Street in Nome, which runs parallel to the Bering Sea coast. Standing between the mushers and the finish line are about 1,000 miles of unforgiving Alaska terrain, including two mountain ranges, untamed wilderness, the mighty Yukon River and the windwhipped Bering Sea coast.

Among those in the field are Mitch Seavey, last year’s champion, and his son, Dallas Seavey, the 2012 winner.

“The last two winners might create more media interest,” Dallas Seavey said before the race started. “But it doesn’t mean that we’re necessarily the two most competitive racers this year.”

Adding to the uncertainty of this year’s race is an influx of Scandinavian mushers, including two-time champion Robert Sorlie.

“I don’t think we’re trying to take it over,” Sorlie said.

Instead, there are so many Scandinavians here because the Iditarod is the world standard for long-distance dog races, he said.

The influx of five Norwegians, or “invasion” as Yvonne Dabakk of Oslo described it, is likely just a coincidence, she

said.

Dabakk said she believes all had independent plans to race the Iditarod, “and it was this year.”

She is a rookie this year, and she wants the prize given to all first-year mushers to finish the race: a belt buckle.

If she gets it, the buckle goes to her husband. “Without him, I couldn’t be on the trail line at all, so I’m going to get him a buckle,” Dabakk said.

There are four Canadians in the field, including Whitehorse’s Hans Gatt, Karen Ramstead of Perryvale, Alta., Marcelle Fressineaux of Whitehorse and Michelle Phillips of Tagish, Yukon.

Aaron Burmeister wants to be the first musher from Nome to win the Iditarod.

We haven’t had a winner from Nome yet. I’m working as hard as I can to be able to do that,“ he said.

Burmeister welcomes the return of the Norwegian mushers because they bring more competition to the race.

“When I win the Iditarod, I want to have the best competition in the world there,” Burmeister said.

The trail conditions could prove to be an advantage for one musher’s wife.

Allen Moore of Two Rivers, Alaska, last month won his second consecutive Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race.

The conditions now are the same as they were for the start of the Quest, he said.

His wife, musher Aliy Zirkle, will be using this team on the race while Moore races other dogs.

Zirkle has finished second in the Iditarod the last two years, and her team might give her the needed boost this year because trail familiarity in the Yukon Quest.

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Dogs in Curt Perano’s team leave the starting line of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on Sunday, in Willow, Alaska.

“Our dogs have gone over 1,000 miles, and they know what to expect,” Moore said Newton Marshall of St. Anne, Jamaica, is another international musher at the race. He’s competing in his fourth Iditarod.

Marshall’s race strategy is simple: He just wants to finish the race. He plans to take it slow and simple “and get to Nome,” he said.

When asked how his team looks, Marshall said: “My team looks ... I’ll find out on the trail.”

The Sunday event in Willow followed a ceremonial start Saturday in downtown Anchorage. At that fan-friendly event,

mushers talked to people and had their pictures taken for hours before taking their sleds on a leisurely 11-mile (18-kilometre) run on urban trails in the city.

The race turned serious Sunday. The Iditarod had a late-afternoon start so fans from Fairbanks could get there.

It was a beautiful day for fans at the restart of the race, with temperatures in the high teens.

“Too warm for dogs,” said Eric Noble of Eagle River, Alaska.

Noble and his wife and son have attended for years because they help musher Jessie

Royer.

Another fan at the race, volunteering to work security, was Adam Redmon of Waynesville. N.C. Redmon said he and his wife put bucket-list vacation ideas into a teapot.

“We just reached in there New Year’s and picked it out,” he said. “It was just meant to be.”

The colder temperatures didn’t bother Redmon, who will graduate with a business administration degree in May. He started college after serving in the military.

“It’s been colder back home,” he said. “Golly, I’m not even wearing gloves.”

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DUNEDIN, Fla. — Carlos Beltran homered for his first hit this spring, leading the New York Yankees past the Toronto Blue Jays 8-2 on Sunday.

Jose Bautista hit his second homer in exhibition play for the Blue Jays.

Beltran’s solo home run came in the third off reliever Todd Redmond and landed far over the rightfield fence. It capped a four-run inning that included a two-run homer by Eduardo Nunez.

Beltran signed a three-year, $45 million contract with the Yankees in the off-season. He batted .296 with 24 homers and 84 RBIs with the St. Louis Cardinals last year.

“You want to see guys swinging the bat well, obviously, but it’s really important at the end,” Yankees manager Joe Girardi said.

“It doesn’t really matter sometimes. You can be swinging the bat horrible at the end of spring training and get off to a hot start and vice versa. But it’s always nice to see.”

Bautista connected off Vidal Nuno in the first.

Nuno struck out three and gave up two hits in two innings.

Toronto starter Esmil Rogers tossed two innings and allowed an earned run. The right-hander gave up three hits and struck out one.

Jose Reyes, Edwin Encarnacion, Melky Cabrera and Adam Lind each doubled for the Blue Jays.

Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter did not play.

STARTING TIME Blue Jays: Rogers threw 36 pitches and worked almost-exclusively on his changeup, which he said is progressing well.

“That’s what I was working for,” Rogers said.

“Down in the Dominican (Republic) during winter ball, I worked on my changeup and now I feel more comfortable. I got it before. The only reason is I didn’t have too much confidence to throw that. Right now, I can throw anything I want.”

Rogers was 5-9 with a 4.77 ERA in 44 games with the Blue Jays last season. He is a candidate for the fifth spot in the rotation.

Yankees: Nuno said he felt as if he “got a little happy with the fastball,” which led to Bautista’s home run.

Nuno, who is a contender for the fifth spot in the rotation, appeared in five games with the Yankees last season and made three starts. He finished 1-2 with a 2.25 ERA. “Overall, I’m just pleased a little bit with how the outcome came,” he said. “It was just one pitch and Bautista just hit it out. Location was good and everything. (My fastball) just got overused a little bit and I wasn’t using my secondary (pitches) like I was sup-

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Toronto Blue Jays third baseman Brett Lawrie waits for the ball as New York Yankees Brendan Ryan beats the throw during second inning spring training action in Dunedin, Fla. on Sunday. posed to do.”

TRAINER’S ROOM Blue Jays: Colby Rasmus was scratched from Sunday’s lineup because of a stiff neck.

Rasmus was set to bat seventh, but opted to sit as a precaution. He does not expect it to be a long-term issue and hopes to return in a “couple days.”

“I feel all right, I just woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning,” Rasmus said.

Anthony Gose took Rasmus’ place in centre field and was 0 for 3 with a strikeout.

Manager John Gibbons said closer Casey Janssen had an MRI on his sore right shoulder, but it did not show any damage.

“It’s just inflamed,” Gibbons said. “There’s a lot of wear and tear on a guy over the years. He’s smart, backed off and we’ll give him a little breather.

There’s still a full month (of spring training) left.

He’ll be ready to go.”

Janssen, who saved 34 games for the Blue Jays last season, said he plans to rest and start throwing again in a few days.

Yankees: Girardi said first baseman Mark Teixeira, limited to 15 games last season because of a right wrist injury, might play in his first spring training

game on Thursday or Friday.

Alfonso Soriano, recovering from flu-like symptoms, went through a workout Sunday morning that included batting practice and defensive drills.

The outfielder/designated hitter could play in his first exhibition game in the next few days.

FIRE DRILL The Yankees dealt with a minor scare before the game when a towel inside of a dryer caught fire in the grounds crew clubhouse located next door to the team’s clubhouse.

Girardi joked that “it got a little smoky” and said some players evacuated.

There was no reported damage or injuries.

PINEDA PITCHES Yankees fifth starter candidate Michael Pineda, who missed the past two seasons after right shoulder surgery, threw 21 of 35 pitches for strikes in a simulated game.

He faced 10 batters, allowing two hits, striking out one and walking his final two hitters.

Pineda and Hiroki Kuroda are scheduled to pitch in Friday’s game against the Tigers in Tampa.

Questions facing Tigers’ new-look lineup NEW MANAGER BRAD AUSMUS HAS DECISIONS TO MAKE WITH HITTERS KISSIMMEE, Fla. — Austin Jackson has already bounced around the batting order a bit at spring training, hitting fifth, sixth and even fourth for the Detroit Tigers.

That one start in the cleanup spot — in a split-squad game last week — amused the fleet-footed centre fielder a bit.

“If I’m hitting fourth, I think we might have some problems,” Jackson said.

Jackson may not expect to hit cleanup during the regular season, but at this point it’s not clear where he’ll end up in the lineup. He’s hit almost exclusively in the leadoff spot in his first four major league seasons, but the Tigers now have other potential options for the top of the order. New manager Brad Ausmus hasn’t tipped his hand about his plans, although he did say Jackson will probably hit higher in the order at some point this spring.

“Sometimes it’s about getting guys at-bats in spring training,” Ausmus said.

Jackson hit leadoff in 2013, followed

by Torii Hunter, Miguel Cabrera, Prince Fielder and Victor Martinez.

When those five players were in the lineup, that was generally the order, and it wasn’t until the post-season that manager Jim Leyland made a major switch, dropping the slumping Jackson to eighth during the AL championship

series against Boston.

Leyland stepped down after the season and was replaced by Ausmus, and Detroit made a blockbuster trade, sending Fielder to Texas in exchange for second baseman Ian Kinsler. That gave the Tigers another potential leadoff hitter while removing Fielder’s powerful bat.

The switch-hitting Martinez seems likely to bat cleanup now, behind Cabrera. But who would hit in front of those two remains an open question.

Jackson stole eight bases last year, which was enough for the team lead — but Ausmus wants a more aggressive approach on the bases this season.

Kinsler, a two-time 30-30 man, stole 15 bases in 2013 while posting an on-base percentage of .344. Jackson’s was .337.

The Tigers also signed outfielder Rajai Davis, who stole 45 bases in 51 attempts last year with Toronto. That’s 10 more than Detroit’s entire team stole in 2013.

The question is whether Davis can hit well enough to justify a spot high in the order. His career on-base percentage against left-handers is .354, but it’s 57 points lower against righties.

Ausmus is sensitive to the idea that players like to develop a routine — but he also reserves the right to be flexible with the batting order throughout the season.

“It’s a performance-based game, so you might have to adjust,” Ausmus said. “Everyday players generally ... they like to see their name in that same

Bills’ negotiations with safety Byrd at standstill HAVE UNTIL TODAY TO SIGN PRO BOWLER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BUFFALO, N.Y. — Contract talks between the Bills and safety Jairus Byrd were at a standstill on Sunday, a day before Buffalo faces a deadline to apply the franchise tag on the three-time Pro Bowl selection.

People familiar with the situation told The Associated Press talks have stalled and no further discussions are scheduled after the Bills made a lucrative, multiyear offer to Byrd. Without revealing the full value and length of the offer, one person said Byrd would have been paid about $30 million over the contract’s first three seasons.

The people spoke on the condition of anonymity because neither side has publicly discussed negotiations.

Unless a deal is reached, the Bills have until 4 p.m. Monday to apply the franchise tag on Byrd and retain the player’s rights before he would be eligible to become an unrestricted free agent on March 11.

The Bills took that approach last off-season, which led to Byrd playing under a one-year, $6.9 million franchise tag. The price for Buffalo to do so again would increase to about $8.4 million this year.

Byrd has been Buffalo’s best defensive back since being selected in the second round of the 2009 draft out of Oregon.

He enjoyed a breakout season as a rookie, when he finished tied for the NFL lead with nine interceptions — a rookie franchise record.

Last year, Byrd finished tied for the team lead with four interceptions, and added a sack and a forced fumble despite missing the entire off-season before reporting to the team in late August, when he accepted his one-year contract. Byrd then missed the first five games of the season because of plantar fasciitis in both feet.

Despite the time he missed, Byrd still earned his third Pro Bowl selection.

Byrd has 22 interceptions and 11 forced fumbles in 73 career games.

spot, but that doesn’t mean there won’t be adjustments.”

For Ausmus, there’s no rush to make any long-term decisions about the lineup. Spring training is a time to experiment — and also to try combinations that would probably never see the light of day during the regular season. For example, Ausmus says he might hit Martinez leadoff at some point. Martinez is Detroit’s designated hitter, but it’s possible he might go back behind the plate and catch a bit during the spring.

“If Victor Martinez is going to catch at some point, you may see Victor hit

leadoff because I don’t want him catching too many innings the first time he’s out there, but I want him to get a couple at-bats,” Ausmus said. “You may see Victor hit leadoff or second, just because we want to get the at-bats in a short amount of time.”

As for Jackson, he doesn’t sound anxious for any clarification on where he’ll hit this year. He just wants to be in the lineup.

“I think anybody on this team, honestly, can hit anywhere,” he said.

“We’re all capable of doing pretty much anything that we’re called upon to do.”

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BODWELL Joseph Kenneth It is with heavy hearts that we announce the passing of Joe Bodwell on Tuesday, February 25, 2014 at the age of 78 years. Joe will be sadly missed by Darlene, his soul mate and best friend of 56 years, their four children and their grandchildren: Lorri (Ron) Hortobagyi, (Elise and Stephanie); Joanne Courtice (Dale Vold), (Wade); Lucinda (Craig) Sheardown, (Cooper and Jake); Brad (Shauna) Bodwell, (Jordyn, Taylor and Colton). He will be lovingly remembered by his brothers and sisters from the Bodwell and Johannson families, numerous family members, as well as by many treasured friends. Joe was born to be a farmer.

He grew up on his family farm in the Springvale district east of Red Deer and he and Darlene went on to purchase the farm from Joe’s parents in 1967. He continued his passion of farming long after moving into Red Deer in 1998. He was in the fields cultivating this past fall and still checking farm machinery magazines this month. Joe was very proud to farm alongside his son, Brad. Joe was an avid curler in leagues and bonspiels, also curling competitively for many years. He served as President of both the Red Deer Curling Club and the Farmers Bonspiel. Joe was also very involved with the Red Deer Exhibition and its transition to the Westerner Exposition Association, of which he was a Board Member for many years. He was also instrumental in starting the Agri-Trade Exposition in Red Deer. Over the years, Joe and Darlene took many wonderful holidays, enjoying lots of laughs with family and friends. In later years, they spent several winters travelling to Arizona and eventually bought a winter home there where they continued to enjoy their friends as well as the game and camaraderie of golf. Joe was a warm, vibrant, fun-loving person who loved life.

People were drawn to Joe’s contagious smile and sense of humour. In keeping with Joe’s wishes, a Celebration of Life will be announced and held at a later date. In lieu of flowers, donations in Joe’s name may be made directly to the Central Alberta Cancer Centre, 3942 50A Ave., P.O. Bag 5030, Red Deer, AB T4N 4E7. E-mail condolences for the family may be forwarded to: meaningfulmemorials@yahoo.ca You placed gold on my finger You brought love like I’ve never known You gave life to our children And to me a reason to go on.

You’re my bread when I’m hungry You’re my shelter from troubled winds You’re my anchor in life’s ocean But most of all you’re my Best Friend.

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FRANCIS Elisabeth (Crosby) May 16, 1923 - Feb. 23, 2014 Elisabeth passed away peacefully at Extendicare, Red Deer on February 23, 2014. She is predeceased by daughter Beverley, son-inlaw Larry Reeves and husband George. She will be lovingly remembered by daughter Brenda Reid (Greg), son Ken Francis (Mary), and granddaughters; Sandra Reeves (Brian), Kathleen and Rhonda Reid (Chad), and Rita and Lena Francis, as well as several nieces and nephews.

Elisabeth lived her life with grace, kindness and humor.

She was deeply committed to her faith, family and friends.

A special thank you to Sidney Crosby and Ron MacLean for lasting memories. A Funeral service at Gaetz Memorial United Church, 4758 50th Street, Red Deer, will be held on Tuesday, March 4, 2014 at 1:00 p.m. In lieu of flowers, donations to Gaetz Memorial United Church or Alzheimer Society of Alberta appreciated.

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CONST. ANTHONY GORDON Oct. 6, 1976 - Mar. 3, 2005 The moment that you left us Our hearts split in two One side filled with memories the other died with you We think of you in silence We often speak your name We feel again the bitter blow that never should have came Each morning when we awake We know that you are gone We live with the heartache as we try to carry on.

Our thoughts are always with you, your place, no one can fill, In life we loved you deeply in death we love you still. ~Love and miss you, Mom SIDNEY THOMPSON 1911-1994 Farewells left unspoken, You quietly slipped away. ~Sadly missed by Jean, Mary,Foster, Heather, Anne and our families

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STUART Russell Hinds March 8, 1917 - February 12, 2014 Russ passed away peacefully at the age of 96 years in the Lacombe Hospital and Care Centre with family at his side.

Russ was born and raised at the family farm in the Satinwood District. He farmed until he retired to Red Deer in 1984. Throughout his farming career, he was innovative and positive. In his retirement years, farming continued to be his main passion in life.

He enjoyed playing horseshoes, playing cards, camping, curling, and golfing (which he continued until his 90th year).

Russ loved get togethers, sing alongs with friends and family and he very much enjoyed a good party. He was an active traveler to many parts of the world and especially enjoyed his stays at Fairmont. He enjoyed many afternoon drives around Central Alberta which usually included having a meal out or an ice cream stop. Russ cherished his lifetime membership with the Elks Club, making many lifelong friends. He was a great supporter of many charities. Russ is survived by his three children; Dianne (Guy) Berndtsson, Gary (Maxine) Stuart, and Hal (Coreen) Stuart, six grandchildren; Norman (Jacquie) Berndtsson, Michelle Berndtsson, Teresa (David) Fuerbringer, Gerald (Jody) Stuart, Taryn (Bradley) Chisholm, and Aubrey Stuart, and five greatgrandsons; Erik and Peter Berndtsson, Nathan and Lucas Fuerbringer, and Spencer Russell Stuart. Russ remained happily married for 60 years until Ruby’s passing in 2002. A Memorial Service to celebrate Russ’ life will take place at the Elks Hall, 6315 Horn Street, Red Deer, on Friday, March 7, 2014 at 1:00 p.m. We would be honored to have our family and friends share this celebration with us. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations in Russ’ name may be made directly to the charity of the donor’s choice.

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Truly Angels Are Among Us I just had to let the people of Red Deer and surrounding area know about the angels I have been introduced to. The staff of the Red Deer Hospice Society are truly angels as they have turned an incredibly painful journey into one of caring and compassion. Bear with me as I give a little history.

Mid August my mother Marie Carlson was diagnosed with cancer and given 2 weeks to live, after being admitted shortly before for what we thought was stressed induced vertigo. All of our family had already spent since May worrying about my mentally challenged brother almost losing his life to a rare allergy that caused his body to fill with blood clots and eventually lose the toes on one foot. Now our family already has this huge stress load hanging on our hearts and minds, and we are told the rock that has always done her best to keep us on an even keel is being ripped away from us. We are devastated to say the least, and it seems that the facility she is in doesn’t give a care to the quality of her final days. Somehow or other dad hears about the Red Deer Hospice and gets mom in there. You can imagine our collective frame of mind, a brother just barely starting to recover from deaths door and our mom with what sounded like minutes to live. Now we have been delivered to angels.

From the minute mom was wheeled into their care we knew they were incredible angels disguised as exceptional people. Every staff member from administration to janitorial made us feel that absolutely nothing else mattered but making moms last days as comfortable as possible. The care and compassion I witnessed being delivered by the staff could only be given by truly gifted people. Some of these moments were so caring they were almost intimate they were so touching. Luckily for our family under the angels care our mom rallied and we had 4 more months of laughter and tears. My dad was able to spend almost the entire time next to moms side and the angels became our family and best friends. The angels were almost as concerned for dads well being as they were for moms. The angels never ceased to amaze me with their actions towards mom. One of the many times that most sticks to my heart and memory is one of the angels walks right up to mom, leans over, takes moms face in both hands and asks in the most loving way how mom is doing. Several times a day we witnessed these moments in amongst the incredible care already given. Each and every member of my family was treated as if we were long time loves ones. I know my words can never emphasize all that these angles have done for our hearts and mental welfare, but I hope any of you that know anyone working there will give them a big hug each and every times you see them, they deserve it. These angels have taken a devastated family and walked with us to the journeys end in a dignified and caring way. I hope that someday I can do something as incredible as each and everyone of these angels did for us each and every day. From the bottom of my heart and my families, thank you with all we can give because you are truly angels. You have walked with us through our darkest days and have made me a better person through your compassion and care.

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Luau Investments Ltd. o/a Tim Hortons #100, 4217 - 50 Ave #7, 6721 - 50 Ave 7111 - 50 Ave 62 Carleton Ave Food Service Supervisors Full Time/Part Time/ Shift Work Night/Overnight/ Early Morning/Weekend Some high school education, plus 2 years related experience $10 to $13.50/hr depending on experience/availability Apply in person from 9am to 5pm Or by fax at 403-341-6006 Luau Investments Ltd. o/a Tim Hortons #100, 4217 - 50 Ave #7, 6721 - 50 Ave 62 Carleton Ave Food Service Managers Full Time/Part Time/ Shift Work Night/Overnight/ Early Morning/Weekend.

High School Diploma, plus 3 years related experience $14 to $18/hr depending on experience/availability Apply in person from 9am to 5pm Or by fax at 403-341-6006

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

Sales & Distributors

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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 Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds

880 CARRIER SUPERVISOR Full Time, 37.5 hours a week. $14.67/hr. to $20.39/hr.

Depending Experience

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.

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.

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

CARRIERS NEEDED FOR FLYERS, RED DEER SUNDAY LIFE & EXPRESS ROUTES IN:

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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 St. Red Deer. email premierjobrdbto@ gmail.com SOAP Stories is seeking 5 retail sales reps. Selling soap & bath products. $12.10 hr + bonus & commission. Ft No exp. req`d.

Parkland Mall 4747 67 St. Red Deer. email resume to premierjobrd@gmail.com WIRELESS WORLD requires 2 Retail Sales Associates for Bower Place Mall, 149A 4900 Molly Banister Drive., Red Deer, AB; FT, perm to start ASAP; Will train, provide direct mobile phone sales and customer support services at location & other duties; $12.00/hr. Email Resume: retailjobs@ mywirelessworld.ca

Teachers/ Tutors

840

CERTIFIED TEACHER REQUIRED with a Bachelor of Education from Alberta for a .5 position in a private ESC. Contract until June 2014.

Wages negotiable.

Experience with a blended class an asset. Apply to: Oriole@brightpathkids.com

Trades

850

AUTOBODY JOURNEYMAN MECHANIC

or equivalent skill level.

Required immed. Resume & references required.

Apply to 6758 52 Ave.

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Trades

850

BUSY DEALERSHIP REQUIRES

LUBE TECH

INGLEWOOD AREA

MOBILE CRANE & HOISTING OPERATOR

Decoking Services Company looking for experienced pigging operators / foremen for work in refineries cleaning fired heaters. Northern Alberta rates apply.

Please fax resume to 403 342 7447 attention: human resources

with experience.

Must be a minimum third year apprentice & have good knowledge of truck mount & all terrain cranes.

Competitive salaries includes benefits.

Must have a Class 1 license.

Please submit all resumes by email to: kyle@quicklinecrane.com

F/T SATELLITE INSTALLERS - Good hours, home every RENTAL & TRUCKING night, $4000-$6000/mo.

Company looking for class Contractor must have truck 1 picker/winch operator to or van. Tools, supplies & join our team. 15 on 6 off ladders required. Training schedule, salary plus provided, no experience bonus and benefits. Please needed. Apply to: send current resume & satjobs@shaw.ca drivers abstract to info@ LOOKING FOR gsequipmentcanada.com EXPERIENCED or fax 403-346-5127.

CLASS 1 DRIVERS AND EXPERIENCED Start your career!

HEAVY EQUIPMENT See Help Wanted

OPERATORS.

Please email resume to tarific@telusplanet.net or fax 403-340-1246.

Truckers/ Drivers

MECHANIC REQUIRED

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 NEW EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

CENTRAL CITY ASPHALT LTD. Experienced • Screedman • Rakerman • Finish Roller Operator †Email resume: office@ccal.com Fax resume: (403) 885-5137

860

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 EXP’D CLASS 1 end dump driver for local haul. Please fax resume with driver’s abstract 403-342-6881

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Experienced Automotive Business Manager The successful candidate will be a motivated, customer-focused and results-driven individual with minimum 3 years experience as a Business Manager in an Automotive Dealership with strong business office knowledge and skills. If you are an individual with a vision to help the department reach new height, we would be interested in discussing your potential future with our company.

Performance Criteria: • Gross profit achievement • Achievement of forecasted targets • Dealership sales penetration levels

We offer a competitive commission based incentive plan.

Please send resume to andrea@pikewheatonchev.ca

Kennings Cres. & Kirby St.

Packages come ready for delivery.

No collecting.

For more information phone Quitcy at 403-314-4316

Employment Training

MORRISROE AREA

1660

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

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For more information DBL. box spring and mattress, clean, free for pick phone Quitcy at up 403-346-9886 403-314-4316 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

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS REQUIRED

WANTED

Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514 WOOD DINING TABLE. pedestal leg, $35.

403-347-5912

To deliver 1 day a week in BOWDEN Please call Debbie at 403-314-4307

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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

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stuff

1790

YAMAHA electronic keyboard $175 403-309-1838

CLASSIFICATIONS 1500-1990

Clothing

1760

4 LARGE TUPPERWARE CONTAINERS & LIDS, square & rectangular, $2.50/ea. **SOLD** DIE cast models, cars, truck, and motorcycles, fairies, dragons and biker gifts. #14 6350-67 St. east end of Cash Casino DISHES, 3 sets of 8 place setting, $45. each.

403-343-6218 OSTRICH Belts, New size 36. $80. 403-347-5912 SMALL freezer 34”x 21” $80; guitar $50 403-346-4811 WEIGHTED Hula Hoop, $5.

NORDIC Walking Poles, $25.

Wooden Walking Stick, $5.

403-309-3475

Piano & Organs

1840

Dogs

1590

JONES OF NEW YORK LADIES NAVY SUIT. Size 14W. Like new. $10.

403-343-1112

900

Teeny Tiny Morkies extra fluffy and extremely cute!

Non shedding, shots done 587-987-3422 or email: wendyschedel@gmail.com

Travel Packages

ACCOUNTING

1900

TRAVEL ALBERTA Alberta offers SOMETHING for everyone.

Make your travel plans now.

Payroll Administrator Computerized Accounting Computerized Payroll Accounting and more!

ANDERS AREA

TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, office, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.

Household Furnishings

WESTLAKE

YOUR CAREER IN

(Reliable vehicle needed.)

INGLEWOOD AREA

MORNING

AFTERNOON

WESTLAKE

1630

Spruce & Pine - Split 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472

newspaper carriers needed in the following areas:

newspaper carriers needed in the following areas:

WEST PARK

EquipmentHeavy

AFFORDABLE

Call Joanne 403-314-4308 info

BOWER

CORNER computer desk. $75. 403-343-6218 Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much!

LOGS

Oriole Park West O’Brien Cres & Oxley Cl.

1600

Homestead Firewood

Normandeau Nellis & Norton Ave. also Nordegg Cres. & 76 St.

Computers

Firewood

Contact Quitcy at 403-314-4316

880

ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of the morning ADVOCATE in Red Deer

Looking for reliable newspaper carrier for 1 day per week delivery of the Central Alberta Life in the town of INNISFAIL

FULL TIME SCREENPRINTER. Will train the right person.

Apply in person to Grand Central Stitchin’ #7, 7439 ACADEMIC Express 49th Ave. Cr. Red Deer ADULT EDUCATION LOOKING for P/T person AND TRAINING to clean motor coaches.

Must be willing to work evenings and weekends.

SPRING START Transportation required: location 10 miles from • Community Support Red Deer. Please forward Worker Program resume to frontbus@platinum.ca or • Women in the Trades fax to 403-347-4999 Program Classifieds...costs so little • Math and Science for Saves you so much! the Trades Program P/T CASHIER Clerk. Apply with resume to Highland • GED Preparation Green Value Drug Mart.

Gov’t of Alberta Funding You can sell your guitar may be available. for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS 403-340-1930 and we’ll sell it for you! www.academicexpress.ca

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Kentwood

MOUNTVIEW

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

Qualifications: • 3 years automotive dealership Business Management experience • Knowledge & understanding of F & I products • Strong communication and business skills • Excellent organization and multitasking • Computer literate • Knowledge of ADP an asset

880

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Sunday Life

880

Financial Assistance available to qualified applicants.

SUNNYBROOK AREA

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.

DEER PARK AREA

Abbott Close / Anders St. Anders Close

QUICKLINE CRANE INC. in Blackfalds is looking for a

Possibility of leading to apprenticeship.

Fax resume to: 403-341-5066 Attn. Greg Rempel

Anders St. / Armstrong Close Addinnell Close / Allan St.

850

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74 to 129 Block of Dunning Cres., Depalm St. and approx. 3 blocks of Douglas St. $108/mo.

VANIER AREA

AGRICULTURAL

CLASSIFICATIONS

Call Prodie: 403-314-4301 for more info

2000-2290

Horses 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

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Call Today (403) 347-6676 2965 Bremner Avenue, Red Deer

352882A17-C18

SERVICE RIG

820

Sales & Distributors

368552C3-8

800

Oilfield

Restaurant/ Hotel

880

2140

WANTED: all types of horses. Processing locally in Lacombe weekly.

403-651-5912

Grain, Feed Hay

2190

TIMOTHY & Brome square bales, great for horses, approx. 60 lbs. put up dry and covered, $5/bale Sylvan area. 403-887-2798

Isherwood Close Issard Close

EASTVIEW

LANCASTER AREA Law Close / Lewis Close

Erickson Dr., Eldrige Cr., Everitt Cr., Elkin Cl., $187/mo.

Langford Close

ALSO

Lamont Close Lund Close

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FOR RENT • 3000-3200 WANTED • 3250-3390

37 Ave. from 39 St. to 44 St. and Exeter Cr. and 38A Ave. Area $111/mo.

Houses/ Duplexes

MORRISROE AREA Vista Village

GRANDVIEW AREA

SUNNYBROOK AREA

41 Ave. from Ross St. to 44 St. + 4000 Block of 47 St. and 44 Block of 40A Ave. $63/mo

Springfield Ave.

ALSO

Savoy Cres. / Sydney Close

40A, 41 & 42 Ave. between 39 St. & 44 St. $120/mo.

Sherwood Cres.

VANIER AREA Viscount Drive Vickers Close

ALSO 43 Ave. Area between 39 St. and 43 St. $61/mo ROSEDALE AREA

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

Rowell Cl. & Ritson Cl. $87/mo.

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3 FLR, 3 Bdrm house w/3 bath, new paint & carpets & deck at 7316-59 Ave. Avail. to over 30 tenants.

No pets. Off street parking for 3 vehicles. Rent $1500, D.D. $1500. 403-341-4627

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Parkland CLASS CBI Home Health Lacombe Action Group McMan Community Assoc Canadian Blood Services We Care Health Services Bayshore Home Health Care Alberta Council of Disability Services

Mini Job Fair Wednesday, March 5, 2014 9:30 a.m. - Noon Alberta Works Centre 2nd Floor, First Red Deer Place 4920 - 51 Street, Red Deer

4 Plexes/ 6 Plexes

Bring your resumé For more info, call 403-340-5353

3050

INNISFAIL 2 bdrm. in newer 4 plex, avail. Apr 1.

403-506-8730

West half of Robinson Cres, Rich Cl., & Ryan Cl. Area. $84/mo.

Call Jamie 403-314-4306

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ALIX, AB 2 bdrm. 2 bath condo, 1100 sq. ft., private entrance, 5 appls, balcony, $1050 + utils. 403-341-9974 SOUTHWOOD PARK 3110-47TH Avenue, 2 & 3 bdrm. townhouses, generously sized, 1 1/2 baths, fenced yards, full bsmts. 403-347-7473, Sorry no pets. www.greatapartments.ca

ORIOLE PARK

Government

366095C3-4

Somerset Close

3020

3 bdrm., 1-1/2 bath, $1175. rent, s.d. $650, incl water sewer and garbage.

Avail. Apr. 1. 403-304-5337

B10 RED DEER ADVOCATE Monday, March 3, 2014 y

3060

Suites

1 BDRM apt. to over 40 aged non partying tenant, no pets, private parking, laundry on site, security cameras, at Riverside Meadows, 5910-55 Ave. Rent/D.D. $750.00.

Ph:403-341-4627.

3 BDRM. Oriole Park, 4 appl., incl. water., avail.

April 1, $840/mo.

403-348-6594 3810 47 ST. Spacious 1 bdrm. suite w/balcony.

Stove, fridge, security.

Adult only, no pets. Rent $845. 403-343-0072 GLENDALE reno’d 2 bdrm. apartments, avail. immed, rent $875 403-596-6000 LACOMBE, 1 bdrm. w/balcony, recent reno, Apr.1, n/s, no children, no pets, $750/mo, DD same, 403-782-2681 LACOMBE, 2 BDRM. w/balcony, Apr.1, n/s, no children, no pets, $800/mo, DD same, 403-782-2681 LARGE, 1 & 2 BDRM. SUITES. 25+, adults only n/s, no pets 403-346-7111

MORRISROE MANOR

1 & 2 bdrm., Avail. immed.

Adult bldg. N/S No pets 403-755-9852

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Houses For Sale

FREE Weekly list of properties for sale w/details, prices, address, owner’s phone #, etc. 342-7355 Help-U-Sell of Red Deer www.homesreddeer.com

MUST SELL

New Home. 1335 sq.ft. bi-level, 24x23 att. garage.

403-588-2550

Pinnacle Estates

SUNNYBROOK

2 bdrm. Water & heat incld, clean and quiet, great location, no pets.

403-346-6686

THE NORDIC

1 & 2 bdrm. adult building, N/S. No pets.

403-596-2444

3090

Rooms For Rent

FULLY Furn. BDRM. $450 rent/sd 403-342-4604

3140

Warehouse Space

SMALL / LARGE SPACES -Free standing - fenced yards For all your needs.

400-46,000 ft. 403-343-6615

3190

Mobile Lot

PADS $450/mo.

Brand new park in Lacombe.

Spec Mobiles. 3 Bdrm., 2 bath. As Low as $75,000.

Down payment $4000. Call at anytime. 403-588-8820

www.laebon.com Laebon Homes 346-7273

Condos/ Townhouses

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

4070

Farms/ Land

455 ACRES AGRICULTURAL

land, 12 mi. E. of Ponoka, 1 mi. off pavement, good surface lease revenue.

Inquire with your name and address to: Box 1079, c/o Red Deer Advocate, 2950 Bremner Ave., Red Deer, Ab T4R 1M9

4100

Income Property

TURN KEY Business for sale in Ponoka. 15 unit complex. 100% occupancy.

Earns $10,000/mo. Asking $577,000. 403-963-0204

4160

Lots For Sale

Pinnacle Estates

(Blackfalds) You build or bring your own builder. Terms avail.

403-304-5555

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CLASSIFICATIONS 4000-4190

Realtors & Services

4010

Automotive Services

5010

at www.garymoe.com

Locally owned and family operated

5040

SUV's

2010 ESCAPE top of line, leather, heated seats, sunroof, etc, new Michelin tires, fully inspected, $13,900 403-343-1021

Auto Wreckers

5190

RED’S AUTO. Free Scrap Vehicle & Metal Removal.

AMVIC APPROVED. We travel. May pay cash for vehicle. 403-396-7519

Vehicles Wanted To Buy

5200

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Automotive

5240

FREE removal of scrap vehicles. Will pay cash for some. 403-304-7585

PUBLIC NOTICES

LARGE HEADING grabs your attention

the REVERSE is also true

6010

Public Notices

CALL

REPAIRERS LIEN ACT Jason Robert Belcourt

The following will be sold for monies owing to Kal Tire in the amount of $3,315.08 plus all fees incurred by this action on or after March 14, 2014.

2001 Chevrolet Monte Carlo VIN#2G1WX15K619106362 For further info: Contact Kal Tire Vancouver at 1-604-669-3124

309-3300 CLASSIFIEDS to find out more ...

Training for life First Aid Training teaches how to respond confidently when injuries occur.

Keep the Car, Take the Money!

If you own a vehicle, get up to $10,000 today! www.thetitlestore.ca

368275C3-29

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RED’S AUTO. Free scrap vehicle & metal removal.

We travel. May pay cash for vehicle. AMVIC APPROVED. 403-396-7519

5000-5300

homes

If you think an ad with a

(Blackfalds) Brand new 2067 sq.ft. fully dev. bi-level w/walk-out bsmt., 4 bdrm., 3 bath, 2 gas Àreplaces, vaulted ceilings & solid birch cabinets w/granite countertops.

4 stainless appls. And more. $354,900 w/net GST to builder. Immediate poss.

For more details call 403-304-5555

Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY

NOW RENTING 1 & 2 BDRM. APT’S. 2936 50th AVE. Red Deer Newer bldg. secure entry w/onsite manager, 5 appls., incl. heat & hot water, washer/dryer hookup, inÁoor heating, a/c., car plug ins & balconies.

Call 403-343-7955 PONOKA, lrg. 1 bdrm apt. incld’s, laundry & all utils. $750. Avail. end of Feb. no pets, n/s 403-993-3441

5030

Cars

RED DEER 403-754-5104 4971 Phelan St.

Antique & Classic Autos

5020

Central Alberta’s Largest Car Lot

HERE TO HELP & HERE TO SERVE Call GORD ING at RE/MAX real estate central alberta 403-341-9995 gord.ing@remax.net

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Houses For Sale

1722 SQ.FT. 2 storey 3 bdrm., 2.5 bath, over-sized dbl. garage.

Call Glen 403-588-2231 2 SPEC HOMES Ready for your colours.

Can be shown at any time.

10 & 98 MacKenzie Cres.

Lacombe. 403-588-8820

CUSTOM BUILT

NEW HOMES

by Mason Martin Homes Kyle, 403-588-2550

MUST SELL

8TH ANNUAL RED DEER COLLECTOR CAR AUCTION & SPEED SHOW. Mar 14 - 16. Westerner Park, Red Deer. 150,000 sq.ft. indoor show.

Exhibitors space available.

Western Canada’s Largest Collector Car Event.

Consign today 1-888-296-0528 Ext. 102 EGAuctions.com

IN TODAY’S

2000 Chrysler Neon, 2L, 4 dr., 5 spd. Clean. 403-318-3040 1999 PONTIAC Bonneyville 4 dr., saftied. 403-352-6995

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To Advertise Your Business or Service Here classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com

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INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp. with oilÀeld service companies, other small businesses and individuals RW Smith, 346-9351 Central Alberta’s Largest Car Lot in Classifieds

1100

Escorts

1165

EDEN 587-877-7399 10am-midnight LEXUS 392-0891 *BUSTY* INDEPENDENT w/own car Start your career!

See Help Wanted

Handyman Services

1200

DALE’S Home Reno’s Free estimates for all your reno needs. 403-506-4301

ATT’N: Are you looking for help on small jobs around the house or renovate your bathroom, painting or Áooring, and roof snow removal?

Call James 403-341-0617

RMD RENOVATIONS Bsmt’s, Áooring, decks, etc.

Call Roger 403-348-1060

Celebrate your life with a Classified ANNOUNCEMENT

Contractors

Massage Therapy

1280

FANTASY MASSAGE International ladies

Now Open

Specials. 11 a.m.-3 a.m.

Private back entry. 403-341-4445 MASSAGE ABOVE ALL WALK-INS WELCOME 4709 Gaetz Ave. 346-1161

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1290

5* JUNK REMOVAL

Property clean up 340-8666

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS JERUSALEM — Israel’s prime minister headed to Washington on Sunday for a high-stakes meeting with President Barack Obama about U.S.-led Mideast peace efforts, vowing to maintain a tough line in the face of heavy international pressure to begin making concessions to the Palestinians.

Benjamin Netanyahu’s defiant tone set the stage for what could be a difficult meeting today with Obama. But with the clock ticking toward an April target date for a preliminary agreement, the Israeli leader could soon be forced to begin laying out a clearer vision for a future peace deal with the Palestinians.

Shortly before takeoff, Netanyahu vowed to “stand steadfast” on Israeli interests.

“In recent years, the state of Israel has been under various pressures,” he said.

“We have rejected them in the face of the unprecedented storm and unrest in the region and are maintaining stability and security. This is what has been and what will be.”

After two decades of intermittent negotiations, including five years of deadlock following Netanyahu’s return to power in 2009, the United States relaunched peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians last July.

The sides agreed to a nine-month target for forging a final peace deal.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has travelled to the region more than 10 times for meetings with Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.

He has also talked to them on the phone repeatedly. But with no signs of breakthrough, Kerry has been forced to scale back his objectives.

The initial goal of a final deal by April was later replaced by more modest U.S. aspirations of brokering the contours of an agreement.

In recent weeks, there were expectations that Kerry would present his own ideas for such a framework, with Abbas and Netanyahu agreeing to

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continue talks for up to a year on that basis.

But the gaps between Abbas and Netanyahu remain wide, and it’s not certain Kerry will present a framework in such conditions.

Speaking on NBC’s Meet the Press Sunday, Kerry said Netanyahu’s White House meeting should not be viewed as a “showdown.” He said conversations would continue with both sides, “and hopefully, over the next weeks, we can reach some kind of understanding about how to negotiate a final status agreement.”

The Palestinians seek the West Bank, east Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip — territories captured by Israel in 1967 — for an independent state.

They have demanded that Israel agree to base the final borders with a future Palestine on the pre-1967 lines, with small land swaps that would allow Israel to keep some of the Jewish settlements it has built in the West Bank and east Jerusalem.

Netanyahu has refused to recognize the 1967 lines as a starting point.

He wants to retain an Israeli presence in a strategic area of the West Bank along the border with Jordan and keep large blocs of settlements closest to Israel.

He has given no indication as to how much territory he is willing to cede and he has rejected any division of east Jerusalem, the Palestinians’ hoped-for capital.

Netanyahu has also demanded that the Palestinians recognize Israel as the homeland of the Jewish people.

The Palestinians reject this out of hand, saying it would undermine the rights of displaced Palestinian refugees who claim properties in what is now Israel as well as the rights of Israel’s Arab minority.

Kerry apparently made little headway, most recently at a meeting with Abbas in Paris. The Palestinians fear the emerging American proposal will largely side with Israel, particularly on the Jewish state and by including only a vague mention of Palestinian “aspirations” in Jerusalem, rather than a specific reference to east Jerusalem.

Venezuelan protesters march again seeking to keep up momentum

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CARACAS, Venezuela — Thousands of anti-government activists marched peacefully Sunday to an upper-class Caracas district shaken by more than two weeks of unrest, trying to maintain the movement’s momentum during a long holiday break.

Afterward, several hundred protesters erected barricades, burned tires and threw rocks and fireworks at National Guard troops, who responded with tear gas in what has become a nearly nightly ritual of clashes since mid-February. No injuries were immediately reported.

President Nicolas Maduro had sought to dampen protesters’ spirits by declaring a seven-day holiday weekend coinciding with Carnival and historical commemorations and by promoting the Sunday sale of subsidized food at government-run markets.

“Happiness will conquer the embittered,” Maduro said in a TV appearance at a recreation centre.

“The Venezuelan people have won because happiness and peace have conquered.”

Whether they headed for balmy beaches or joined the barricades in anti-government protests, many people are fed up with crippling inflation, shortages of food stuffs and medicine, unchecked violent crime and government mismanagement of the economy in a nation with the world’s largest proven oil reserves.

Hundreds queued up at one central Caracas market, an increasingly common sight across the country, where coffee, flour, cooking oil, toilet paper and other staples have been in short

supply for a year. Longer lines have been seen at such markets in the provinces.

The unrest is Venezuela’s worst since President Hugo Chavez died of cancer a year ago and the opposition came within a hair of winning the presidency in April’s election, but it remains to be seen if it will spread to include the lower classes who benefited from Chavez’s generous social welfare programs.

Most of the marchers on Sunday, whether students or their grey-haired elders clad in white shirts and wearing hats with the Venezuelan flag’s colours, hailed from the upper classes. But there were some from poorer sectors.

One marcher from the poor district of Catia said many people there had been intimidated into silence by progovernment militias but are now beginning to join the protests. “People there are starting to wake up. The insecurity has become unbearable,” said Liomar Moreno, a 21-year-old graphic design student.

Saturday night had been the first evening in 16 days when the wealthy, opposition Chacao district where Sunday’s march ended was not shrouded in tear gas from pitched battles between young protesters and security forces.

But the confrontations resumed Sunday, and had about them a choreographed dynamic. Protesters, many of them teens, showed up with beer boxes full of Molotov cocktails and shields made of aluminum siding, handles fashioned from garden hoses.

National Guardsmen protected themselves not just with plastic shields but also with semi-permanent chain-link barricades.

North Korea says it will deport missionary detained for spreading Bible tracts

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SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea said Monday it will deport an Australian missionary detained for spreading Christianity in the country, saying he apologized for his anti-state religious acts and requested forgiveness.

Authorities in North Korea have been investigating John Short since his arrest for secretly spreading Bible tracts near a Buddhist temple in Pyongyang on Feb. 16, the birthday of late leader Kim Jong Il, the North’s official Korean Central News Agency said.

The report said that Short, 75, admitted he committed a crime that hurt the Korean people’s trust in their leaders and apologized for his behaviour.

“I now realize the seriousness of my insult to the Korean people on February 16th because I made the Korean people angry and for this I truly apologize,” Short was quoted as say-

ing in a written apology, according to separate KCNA report. “I am willing to bow down on my knees to request this tolerance of (North Korea) and the Korean people.”

KCNA says North Korea has decided to expel him as thanks for the tolerance of the country’s law and in consideration of his age.

North Korea’s constitution guarantees freedom of religion, but in practice only sanctioned services are tolerated by the government.

Defectors from the country have said that the distribution of Bibles and secret prayer services can mean banishment to a labour camp or execution.

North Korea typically frees foreign detainees after they’ve admitted their crimes but many say after their releases that their confessions were given involuntarily and under duress.

Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade said in a statement that it is aware of reports on North Korea’s announcement on Short and is seeking to confirm them.

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