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THRONE SPEECH PROMISES NEW DEAL, RENEWED FUNDING FOR CITIES BY DEAN BENNETT THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Premier Alison Redford is promising to deliver on a pledge to strike a new deal with Alberta’s two big cities. “Your government focuses the unique challenges faced by our two largest cities and will finalize the Calgary and Edmonton city charters,” Lt.-Gov. Don Ethell read from the speech to the throne Monday. The intent is to find a better way for the two cities to manage issues unique to each metropolis rather than falling under the one-size-fits-all parameters of the Municipal Government Act. The project, first outlined in June 2012, was delayed last year when the province had to deal with widespread flooding in Calgary and other parts of southern Alberta. The throne speech said there will be help for other municipalities as well. The government plans to renew a multibillion-dollar long-term municipal sustainability initiative. The program delivers lump sums to municipalities to spend on roads, community buildings and sports facilities. And funding for a program that grants money for public transit projects is also to be renewed. The current budget allocation for GreenTrip is $200 million. Ethell said the province will also finish overhauling the Municipal Government Act and figure out ways to solve overlapping growth in a rapidly developing province. “We know that Alberta’s success depends on all regions of the province — no matter how small — being able to meet that growth head on.”
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Rod Claveria of Rico’s Landscaping uses a ice scraper and an gas powered blower to remove packed snow and ice off the sidewalk outside the Belvedere Estates buildings on 32 Street in Red Deer Monday morning. “I am predicting five more days of winter,” said Claveria. “I am done with winter,” he said. BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF Good riddance February. The past month was the coldest February in 20 years, with an average mean temperature of -17.3 C. That’s a whopping 7.3C degrees colder on average than the 30-year mean of -10C, based on the average between 1971 and 2001. “That is a huge departure from normal,” said Environment Canada meteorologist Bill McMurtry. “When you see three or four degrees departure from normal, that’s significant. But when you see over seven — that’s a big number.” The last time Red Deerians had to bundle up for a colder February was in 1994, when the mean temperature was -18C. But that’s nothing compared to the coldest February on record books that go back to 1904. In 1936, the mean for the month was a “brutally cold” -27.5C, said McMurtry. According to Environment Canada’s public website, a new record low was set on Feb. 24 when the temperature sank to -33.6C. The online records date only to 1938, and it’s likely a colder day could be found going back to 1904, but McMurtry didn’t have access to that data on Monday. The reason for the extended cold snap can largely
be attributed to an upper cold low that has been sitting over Hudson’s Bay for some time. “That’s what everyone has been calling the polar vortex. It’s just a fancy word for upper low,” he said. “Any time we had a bit of a northerly or northeast wind, it would push that cold air right across the Prairies and we’d see well below normal temperatures. “That’s pretty much been the pattern for a significant portion of February.” The further east you go in the Prairies, the colder it’s been, he said. In the United States, the expression ‘polar vortex’ caught on as a description for the spells of intense cold experienced through many upper and midwest states, and even down into the south. While it’s a routine weather phenomena, it got more attention this year in the U.S. because the region got more blasts of colder air than usual, he said. The vortex specifically refers to the core where the coldest temperatures are. “They jumped on it this year, thinking it’s something new. But it’s one of the oldest known meteorological phenomena that’s out there. “It’s just been getting a lot of play because it has been colder than normal across a significant portion of central and northeastern United States.”
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Canada mulls Crimea observer mission to debunk Russia BY MIKE BLANCHFIELD THE CANADIAN PRESS
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OTTAWA — Canada is considering taking part in a special observer mission to Ukraine’s troubled Crimea region to debunk Russian claims that people there are at risk, The Canadian Press has learned. Ukrainian ambassador Vadym Prystaiko said many governments are looking at how to get into Crimea to see the situation on the ground and to “take this pretext from the Russians,” which they are using to support their invasion of the Crimean peninsula. “We are open for anyone who wants to come to Ukraine and see for themselves,” he said in an interview Monday at the Ukrainian embassy in Ottawa. Prystaiko was speaking just as Russia’s ambassador to the United Nations, Vitaly Churkin, told the Security Council that Russian interests faced threats
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in the region. He read from what he said was a letter from the fleeing President Viktor Yanukovych that asked for the Russian military “to establish legitimacy, peace, law and order, stability and defending the people of Ukraine.” Prystaiko said he would like to see Canadians take part in future election observer missions as it has done so in the past, but added: “The mission to observe the tensions and Crimea (is) ... even more important than bringing people to observe the presidential election in May.” The envoy said he planned to meet Tuesday with Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird “to discuss the details.” “We are consulting with Foreign Affairs,” Prystaiko said, but stressed there’s been no decision by
Canada to participate and the matter is simply under discussion. Baird’s office had no immediate comment. Prystaiko also questioned the buildup of Russian troops across Ukraine’s northern border. “We have to confirm it, but the local governments on the Russian side are preparing the refugee camps,” he said. Prystaiko said he was grateful for the political support from Canadians “of all political parties, the government side, the opposition.” Asked about last week’s decision by the Conservative government to exclude opposition MPs from a trip to Ukraine, Prystaiko replied: “Every Canadian politician is welcome nowadays. a If anybody wants to go to Ukraine and had a plan now to help it, we will be more than happy to accommodate the ideas.”
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B.C. appeal court dismisses drunk-driving law challenge BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — The British Columbia Appeal Court has refused to water down the province’s tough drunk-driving laws that allow for heavy fines, penalties and immediate roadside suspensions. The unanimous decision by the three-judge panel ends a four-year debate over rules that the government says saves lives, but are condemned by civil liberties advocates as unconstitutional. The appeal court case involves six motorists who
challenged their immediate 90-day roadside prohibitions after either blowing a “fail” or refusing to provide a breath sample. B.C. Civil Liberties Association, an intervener in the case, argued that the drivers should have the right to be presumed innocent until proven guilty, instead of being given automatic penalties. But in the ruling released Monday, B.C. Appeal Court Justice Catherine Anne Ryan agreed with a lower court that the impaired driving laws do not concern criminal matters, so the right to be presumed innocent until proven guilty doesn’t apply.
“The legislation does not supplant the Criminal Code, its purpose and effect is to regulate highways and enhance public safety,” Ryan said in a written decision. The legislation, introduced in 2010, allows police to issue driving prohibitions for up to 90 days for people who fail a roadside screening test or who refuse to take the test. Impaired drivers may also have to pay fines of up to $500 and cover the costs of vehicle impoundment and storage, taking a remedial driving program, and the installation of an ignition interlock program.
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SPEECH: Outlines priorities The throne speech outlines the priorities and plans for Redford’s government as it reaches the mid-term of a four-year mandate. Details of the municipal financing will be unveiled when Finance Minister Doug Horner delivers the 2014-15 budget on Thursday. Indications are that while the province still intends to borrow $17 billion for infrastructure, the books for day-to-day operational spending will be balanced or in surplus. Redford’s government, however, has signalled it will hold the line on spending, which NDP Leader Brian Mason labelled unfair to working Albertans. “The expenditures until 2016 will fall behind inflation and population growth, so we’re going to see more program cuts in a number of areas,” said Mason. Wildrose Leader Danielle Smith said Alberta should not be running up debt given it’s leading the country in population and economic growth. “It’s a government in trouble,” said Smith. “Albertans of this generation can’t afford this government’s spending, and clearly we’re going to see that Albertans of the next generation can’t afford it either.” The flagship bill of the sitting is the creation of two new endowment funds to fund agricultural research and to find ways to alleviate poverty and family violence. Redford’s Progressive Conservatives have been lobbying for new pipelines to take oil to British Columbia’s west coast for export and to the U.S. Gulf Coast. To that end, the province says it will partner with industry to create a pipeline training school to teach the skills of working heavy machinery, laying pipe and reclaiming land. The throne speech says Alberta will meet its obligations to build flood mitigation projects in southern Alberta and to undertake new flood hazard mapping. The government is also promising changes to make public more information on children who die in government care. And Ethell said Redford plans to pursue efforts with other provinces to make it easier for goods and services to move across the country in a Canadawide free-trade zone. The spring sitting comes as the premier faces public discontent and free-falling poll numbers over lavish spending for herself and members of her inner circle, including a $45,000 trip for Redford and her aide to go to Nelson Mandela’s funeral in December. Redford has apologized for the high cost of the Mandela trip, but has refused to pay any of it back. On Monday, Postmedia published a Leger poll suggesting two out of every three Albertans disapprove of Redford’s leadership and with the Conservatives now trailing the Opposition Wildrose party in overall support.
WEATHER: Temperatures expected to rise Now for some good news locally. The temperature is expected to start rising by the weekend. Environment Canada is forecasting highs of 8C on both weekend days. However, McMurtry says keep your hopes in check. “The numbers might be overdoing it a little bit. Typically, what happens when we get this cold air coming in it takes a while to scour out. “Even though we’re looking at warming, probably a better number for the weekend might be highs of 0C on Saturday and 2C on Sunday.” In the meantime, we’re dealing with a continu-
ation of below-normal temperatures. Today’s projected high is only -13C and it should dip to -16C on Wednesday before returning to -13C on Thursday. Normally at this time of year, the high is around 0C and the low is -11C. Overall, it’s been an up and down winter. December was colder than normal with a mean temperature of -8.9C, compared with the average -5.4C. However, January was considerably milder than usual with a mean of -7.6C, compared with the -13.2C average. And never mind the brutally cold first few days of March. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com
UKRAINE: ‘Nobody wanted to provoke Russia’ Prystaiko was one of his country’s top negotiators behind Ukraine’s stalled bid to join NATO. “If we were in NATO now, maybe Russia wouldn’t get so smart,” he said. He said Ukraine’s bid never came to fruition because “nobody wanted to provoke Russia.” Still, Prystaiko said he understands why Western countries, including Canada, are taking the military option off the table. “Nobody wants to fight. Nobody wants their kids and fathers to die,” he said. “The first ones who do not want it, that’s Ukrainians. Believe me we don’t want to fight and to have war on our own soil,” he added. “I understand the reluctance of everybody. The only player who seems to be less reluctant is Mr. Putin.” Earlier Monday, Prime Minister Stephen Harper telephoned his Ukrainian counterpart to offer Canada’s unwavering support. “Prime Minister Harper condemned in the strongest terms President (Vladimir) Putin’s military intervention in Ukraine,” said Jason MacDonald, Harper’s spokesman. He said Harper spoke to Ar-
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REGIONAL OUTLOOK Calgary: today, 60% snow. High -10. Low -19. Olds, Sundre: today, increasing cloudiness. High -10. Low -24. Rocky, Nordegg: today, periods of snow. High -13. Low -24. Banff: today, periods of snow. High -5. Low -17. Jasper: today, 60% snow. High -10. Low
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seniy Yatsenyuk from Toronto. “He expressed to Prime Minister Yatsenyuk that Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity must be respected and that the Ukrainian people must be free to determine their own future.” At an event in Toronto, Harper again called on Putin to withdraw Russian forces. Canada has summoned its ambassador to Russia home for consultations and, along with some major allies, has suspended preparations for the G8 summit that is to be held in Russia in June. Harper said Monday that Canada was reviewing “all planned bilateral interactions” with Russia. “President Putin’s actions have put his country on a course of diplomatic and economic isolation that could see Russia exit the G8 entirely,” Harper said. “We will also continue to work closely with our G7 partners and our allies.” In his telephone call, Harper said he delivered a direct message to the Ukrainian people from Canadians. “Canada pledges ongoing friendship and steadfast support for your efforts to defend your sovereignty and to restore economic and political stability.” Tensions were running high in Crimea as Russia threatened to seize a Ukrainian warship. Russia’s military invasion of the peninsula sparked concern in European capitals as diplomats met in Brussels, Kyiv and Geneva. The House of Commons unanimously adopted a motion Monday that supports Ukraine and calls for a Russian withdrawal. “We, on this side of the House, stand with the government and with Canadians who are condemning these very troubling actions,” said New Democrat MP Megan Leslie. “We all stand in solidarity with Ukraine’s thirst for freedom, democracy, human rights and the civilized rule of law both domestically and internationally,” said Liberal MP Ralph Goodale. Prystaiko said his embassy has been flooded with messages, letters, emails and general good wishes from Canadians. “Sometimes we have up to hundreds a day,” he said. “People are bringing flowers and candles ... they support us much.”
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No motive in warehouse rampage SUSPECT APPEARS IN COURT BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — The baffling motive for a bloody and deadly attack on workers at an Edmonton grocery warehouse remained a mystery Monday as an accused made his first court appearance, but police were at least able to say they believe the victims were chosen at random, not targeted. Police Chief Rod Knecht told reporters that investigators are continuing to talk to dozens of witnesses in order to understand more about the crime and the alleged killer. And although all six men who were stabbed — two of them fatally — at the huge Loblaws distribution complex in northwest Edmonton on Friday are black, Knecht said it doesn’t appear race was a reason for the rampage. Knecht said officers believe the victims were selected at random as their attacker walked through the building. “We’re obviously keeping
our minds open to potential motives,” Knecht said. “We continue to investigate, glean more information, learn more about the individual that’s been charged.” Witnesses have said a Caucasian man wearing a militarystyle vest went through the workplace, slashing and stabbing with a knife in each hand. Police quickly identified Jayme Pasieka as a suspect and distributed his photo. The 29-year-old was arrested a few hours later without incident as he sitting in a vehicle in an industrial area on the opposite end of the city. He faces several charges — first-degree murder, attempted murder, aggravated assault and weapons offences. Police said as they continue to investigate and talk to witnesses, there could be more charges. A handcuffed Pasieka appeared on closed-circuit TV from the Edmonton Remand Centre. He confirmed his name to
the judge but said nothing else. The judge accepted a request from defence lawyer Brandon Tralenberg that the case be put over to May 5. “Obviously there’s a lot of things that have happened. There’s a lot of people that want some answers,” Tralenberg said outside the courtroom. “There’s a lot of information that’s come from the police interviews, people that are apparent witnesses, so this is going to take some time.” Assistant chief Crown prosecutor Kimberley Goddard told media that her office is taking the case “very seriously.” “Given the large number of civilian witnesses and the large amount of evidence we have, it could be a very complicated case,” she said. “In terms of length of time and putting it all together properly, we’re prepared to put as many resources and as much time as required to make sure
that this case goes off without a hitch.” Search warrants for Pasieka’s apartment and vehicle show police were looking for any writings “that indicate workplace conflict, mind set or pre-planning or motive for the incident.” The documents also indicate that police believe Pasieka had been drinking wine. Other court records show Pasieka has a history of erratic behaviour. He was convicted in 2010 of assault with a weapon and uttering threats and sentenced to 15 months probation. Court heard that he egged a neighbour’s vehicle and set a heart-shaped fire on their street. He told police he did what he did in the name of the Queen and that he one day wanted to join either the police or military. His father testified Pasieka had trouble understanding things following a concussion in an accident a few years earlier.
Loblaws also said Monday it was reopening the warehouse for those workers who wanted to return. “We had initially anticipated a longer closure,” said a statement from the company. “But the decision was advised by professional grief counsellors, based on their belief in the value of work and workplace interactions following traumatic events of this sort.” Thierno Bah, 41, and Fitzroy Harris, 50, have been identified as the men killed in the warehouse attack. Friends said Bah, originally from Guinea, came to Montreal in 2009. He had a master’s degree in nanotechnology but had trouble finding work in his field because his English was weak. He moved to Edmonton a few months ago with his wife and four children. Harris’s family described the married grandfather as a talented DJ who loved reggae music.
Oilsands capital not crime-ridden: study
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Taking part in the after school program Zoe Layden, Keyauna Applegarth and Deneja Beaulieu improvise a puppet show for their fellow club members on Monday at The Boys and Girls Club Kids Club after school program.
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RCMP suspect pickup veered off path before fatal crash on Alberta highway BY THE CANADIAN PRESS GRANDE PRAIRIE — RCMP think a pickup truck may have crossed a highway centre line in northwestern Alberta before it slammed into a transport truck, killing the driver of the first vehicle. The crash happened late Sunday night on Highway 40 south of Grande Prairie. A 29-year-old man who was driving the pickup died at the scene. He was a resident of High Prairie but his name has not been released. There was no immediate word on the status of the second driver.
Impaired charges laid after deadly crash CLAIRMONT— A charge of impaired driving causing death has been laid after a crash in northwestern Alberta that killed a 49-year-old woman. RCMP say a pickup truck collided with a car at an intersection on Highway 2 near Clairmont late Friday night. They say the woman, who was driving the car, died at the scene and that a male passenger was taken to hospital. The driver of the truck was not hurt. A 29-year-old man from Clairmont has also been charged with driving with a blood-alcohol level over .08. Nathaniel Onezime Plamondon has been released on bail and will appear in a Grande Prairie courtroom on March 24.
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A study is suggesting that Alberta’s oilsands capital is not the wild and woolly, crime-ridden boomtown it’s sometimes painted to be. “It seems clear, by looking carefully at the best available data, that crime is not rampant in the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo,” writes author Neil Boyd, head of criminology at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia. Municipal officials put out a call for someone to do a crime study in Fort McMurray after repeated magazine and news stories suggested the city was a dangerous place to live. Boyd concluded that while “Fort McMoney” may have a bit of a cocaine problem, violent and property crimes are not only lower than national averages but are falling faster. A British outlet said Fort McMurray was “synonymous with crime, an explosion in prostitution and the tough, young, bored single men with too much money and little to do, who are fuelling the chaos.” A Canadian magazine used official statistics to rank the city as the eighth most dangerous in Canada. Those statistics are part of the problem, said Boyd, whose bid to conduct the study was chosen by the municipality. Federal census figures don’t count Fort McMurray’s so-called “shadow population.” Including people who live in work camps in the area adds 80 per cent to the number, making a huge difference to the crime rate. “We’re not calculating crime rates on the right population,” said Boyd. He calculates Fort McMurray’s rates of breakand-enter, robbery and sex assault are substantially lower than seven other similar-sized cities. They are also lower than the Alberta and Canadian average. The city’s sex assault rate is slightly more than half the Alberta average and its robbery rate is threequarters the provincial one. And while crime is decreasing across Canada, it’s falling faster in Fort McMurray. Boyd said his figures show the amount of all Criminal Code violations fell by 47 per cent between 20032012 in Fort McMurray. The Canadian average was 28 per cent.
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Finding the common good I’ll bet very few Canadians know (or care) about the Manning Networking Conference that occurred in Ottawa over the weekend. But the value of networking couldn’t have been better expressed by the agreement announced there regarding the Canada Jobs Grant. Some important deadlines GREG needed to be NEIMAN met here: the Labour Market Agreements (LMAs) that currently take federal money to fund employment training programs in the provinces all expire on March 31. The provinces seemed to be happy with their LMA programs and probably would have quickly signed on for another round of the same. But the feds and a lot of business groups were not happy. The disconnect is most visible in Alberta and Saskatchewan, where unemployment is not the problem. Lack of skills in the labour force for the jobs available is. And for reasons not explained, LMAs haven’t been filling the gap. Consider: 2013 was a weak year for job growth in Canada. It was the weakest since 2009, actually — and that was during the so-called Great Recession.
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You wouldn’t know that here, because 70 per cent of all job growth in Canada took place in Alberta. But in reality, 95 per cent of all new net jobs created were part time. The Canadian Chamber of Commerce suggests this reflects the large numbers of baby boomers who are not going into full retirement, but are staying on as part-time workers. Older females taking part-time jobs, for instance, comprised a large component of that growth. But even as unemployment remains stubbornly high in Canada, businesses are complaining they can’t find workers qualified for the jobs they’re offering. That may be explained by demographics — how many older workers want to be welders or long-haul truckers? Just the same, the feds put about $4 billion a year into a whole platform of job training programs. It’s the highest public investment in the OECD. For that much money, a government should expect better results in matching people with good jobs. At the same time, Canadian business investment in skills training is the lowest in the OECD — yet a sector that invests very little is griping about the quality of workers the training programs produce. Kind of a disconnect there, wouldn’t you say? So in the 2013 budget, the Canada Jobs Grant was announced to replace the LMA programs set to expire at the end of this month. The plan was that the federal government, the provinces and industry
would become equal partners in job training, for careers that Canadian industry can offer immediately. Each would contribute to a maximum total of $15,000 per worker — with a guaranteed job at the end for each participant. Guess what? The provinces went ballistic. They weren’t consulted. A lot of current LMA funding is going to areas of chronic low employment: among aboriginals, disabled people and immigrants. By their own parameters, the programs are working. But not too many aboriginals want to leave home provinces to come to Alberta to work in camps building refineries or oilsands plants. Small business groups also complained. You can’t ask a contractor to put up $5,000 to train a worker who will promptly leave for more pay at a larger firm — which then gets a trained worker for free. In the end, the federal government discovered they had to play nice with everyone. After first asserting that they would proceed after March 31, with or without provincial participation (and the loss of funding for the LMAs), Employment Minister Jason Kenney started listening. Now, small businesses need only put up a few hundred dollars per worker — and even that much money can be accounted for in wages or presumably the supply of tools or equipment. The provinces get four years to either wind down their LMAs, or slowly find provincial dollars to replace federal money that will be gradually
withdrawn. The whole program gets a review in 2015. And nothing changes until July, instead of March. Only Quebec remains outside of the program. But that province already has a European-style three-part program for jobs training that includes the cooperation of government, business and trade unions. In fact, Kenney says he’s soon to visit Germany to study their skills training network — and it looks a whole lot more like Quebec’s than Alberta’s. The bottom line is that everyone found out they need to co-operate if they want to see the money put where it’s needed. They all also need to put some skin in the game if they want credible comment on the outcome. And everyone needs to keep a little perspective here. The experience of Alberta and Saskatchewan is vastly different than that of high-immigrant B.C., for instance, or of Nova Scotia, which has far less wiggle room in its budget to replace any lost federal dollars. One size does not fit all. Kenney likes to repeat he is confident the program will become so attractive, it will quickly be oversubscribed. Is that a signal of new re-allocations of their $4 billion-per-year training investment, of which the Canada Jobs Grant is only a small part? If so, let’s hope there’s a bit more co-operation and consultation, next time around. Greg Neiman is a retired Advocate editor. Follow his blog at readersadvocate. blogspot.ca or email greg.neiman.blog@ gmail.com.
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A premature history of the second Cold War The first mistake of the Ukrainian revolutionaries was to abandon the agreement of Feb. 23 to create a national unity government, including some of the revolutionary leaders, that would administer the country until new elections in December. It would have left President Viktor Yanukovych in office until then, but with severely diminished powers, as the constitution would have been changed to restore the authority of parliament. Leaving a man who ordered the murder of dozens of protesters in power even temporarily was a bitter pill to swallow, but it had tacit Russian support because it saved President Vladimir Putin’s face. GWYNNE However, the crowds on InDYER dependence Square refused to accept the deal, and Yanukovych was forced to flee. Parliament subsequently ratified his removal, but it was the mob, and especially the right-wing fighting groups like Praviy Sektor, who led, and the leadership who followed. Putin was humiliated, and he was given the pretext for claiming that Ukraine had fallen to a “fascist coup” as a justification, however flimsy, for rejecting the legitimacy of the new Ukrainian government. The second grave error — and this one was entirely unforced — was the new government’s decision to
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repeal the law giving Russian equal status as an official language in provinces with large Russian-speaking populations. It delighted Ukrainian-speaking ultra-nationalists in the west of the country, but it needlessly alienated the two-fifths of Ukraine’s population who speak Russian as their first language. So now Putin is bringing pressure on the new Ukrainian government by backing a secessionist movement in Crimea (where three-fifths of the people speak Russian). The rubber-stamp Russian parliament has also granted him authority to use Russian troops elsewhere in Ukraine to “protect” Russians — by which it seems to mean Ukrainians in eastern Ukraine who speak Russian, although they are not actually under attack. The Ukrainian army has been mobilized, and actual fighting could be only days away if the Russians invade eastern Ukraine, or attack the encircled Ukrainian garrisons in Crimea. Maybe Putin is just bluffing; more likely, he doesn’t yet know himself how far he is willing to go. But one thing generally leads to another, and some bluffs are hard to walk away from. Are we on the brink of a new Cold War? It wouldn’t be a hot war, except in Ukraine. Nobody will send troops to defend Ukraine, nor should they. Nobody is in position to stop Russia from conquering Ukraine if it chooses to, and turning it into a wider European war (or a world war) would not help. In any case, Moscow would probably not try to conquer all of Ukraine. Kyiv and the west would fight very hard, and after they were defeated they would continue to resist a Russian occupation with guerilla
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tactics, including terrorism. Putin doesn’t need that, so part of Ukraine would remain free, and call for outside help. It would come, in the form of financial and military aid, and maybe even what has hitherto been rigorously excluded from the discussion: NATO membership. And there Russia and everybody in NATO would sit for the next five or 10 or 20 years in a frozen confrontation that would include a trade embargo, an arms race, and a remote but real possibility of a nuclear war. This is not at all what Putin intends or expects, of course. He is calculating that once he controls the Russian-speaking parts of Ukraine, he will be able to enforce a restructuring of the country as a federation in which the government of the eastern, Russianspeaking part will be permanently under Russia’s thumb, and will have a veto on the decisions of the central government. But Putin’s calculations about Ukraine have been wrong every single time since the turn of the century. He backed Yanukovych before 2004, and the Orange Revolution proved him wrong. He backed Yanukovych even more enthusiastically after 2010; the policy blew up in his face again. And here he is yet again, backing Yanukovych as the president-in-exile of his Russia-friendly fantasy version of Ukraine. His calculations are wrong. If he continues down this road, he will cause a quite needless political disaster. Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.
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TUESDAY, MARCH 4, 2014
Legal threats dropped News anchor after student leader defends himself speaks out on ‘rape culture’ after report of PETER MANSBRIDGE
BY THE CANADIAN PRESS A student union leader at the University of Ottawa is no longer facing legal threats after going public about an online conversation in which she was the target of sexually graphic banter. But Anne-Marie Roy said she’s had to grapple with backlash from some who suggest she may be magnifying what she has called a clear example of “rape culture.” “I’m not surprised this is the reaction they’re having because rape culture has been so normalized that it’s very subtle, it’s hard to point out because it’s something that we see on a regular basis,” the 24-year-old said on Monday. “I don’t think I’m blowing this out of proportion.” Roy’s story spread over the weekend, just a day before the University of Ottawa suspended its men’s varsity hockey program over allegations several players were involved in a sexual assault in Thunder Bay, Ont. In Roy’s case, she received an anonymous email on Feb. 10 with screenshots of a private Facebook chat between five male students.
The conversation 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 initially feeling “torn up” by the incident, Roy decided she wanted to openly share the Facebook conversation to draw attention to what she saw as a perpetuation of “rape culture.” She was warned by four of the five participants that doing so would be a violation of their privacy rights and would lead to legal action, but she spoke out nonetheless. After her story spread, Roy says she got a phone call Sunday night from one of the group’s members saying the men were backing down from their legal threats. “I’m happy to see that the men understand that taking legal action and threatening to sue me is actually not them taking responsibility,” she said, adding that the
legal threat was the toughest part of her entire experience. “I felt like it was very important for me to speak out against this, to denounce it...Feeling like my hands were tied when I wanted to take action was definitely incredibly difficult.” An apology email sent by all five men on the same day Roy received a copy of the Facebook chat identifies the participants as Pat Marquis, Alexandre Larochelle, Alexandre Giroux, Michel Fournier-Simard and Robert-Marc Tremblay. Marquis, Larochelle, Giroux and Fournier-Simard were all elected student representatives who resigned from their posts over the weekend after a mounting outcry from their peers. Tremblay volunteered on occasion with the university’s Faculty of Arts student association but was not an elected member. The University of Ottawa said it was “appalled” at the conversation and is working with Roy on “an appropriate response.” After a brief conversation with the university’s president on Monday, Roy said the institution was considering a campus audit on issues related to student safety.
Medical marijuana program seriously compromised by growth BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The unforeseen growth of the federal medical marijuana program has “seriously compromised” the goal of providing the drug to patients while ensuring public safety, the government says. The number of people authorized to possess — and often grow — marijuana under the federal program has risen to 37,000 this year from fewer than 100 in 2001, resulting in “significant unintended consequences.” In a court document defending imminent changes to the program, the government says growing marijuana at home poses hazards including mould, fire, toxic chemicals and the threat of home invasion by criminals. It says the number of licensed users could climb as high as 400,000, adding it is not possible for Health Canada to effectively inspect tens of thousands of production sites across the country. The government also rejects legal arguments that denying people the right to produce their own pot would violate their Charter of Rights guarantee of “security of the person.” Under the existing program, people are issued licences to cul-
tivate marijuana for personal use to help ease painful symptoms. Beginning April 1, the government plans to allow only select commercial producers to grow marijuana under “secure and sanitary conditions” for distribution to approved patients by mail. Several British Columbia residents are asking the Federal Court of Canada for an injunction that would allow them to continue producing their own pot or have a designated person do so for them. They argue the planned new system would deny them a safe, affordable supply of the particular strain of marijuana that meets their medical needs. “I would no longer have quality control assurance over my organically grown cannabis herbs and fear that my safe access to medical cannabis will be essentially compromised,” one man behind the legal action, Neil Allard of Abbotsford, B.C., says in a court filing. In its submission, the government says the new system would allow people who currently grow their own pot to sell seeds to a licensed producer, making it possible for that producer to cultivate a patient’s “preferred strain.” As of late January, about 70 strains of medical marijuana were available from licensed produc-
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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CBC News anchor Peter Mansbridge defended himself after a report that he made a paid speech to petroleum producers, saying he has never publicly promoted or opposed oilsands development. “If I leave a speech and those in attendance think they know where I stand on any controversial issue, then they’re guessing. Because they won’t find it in the words I’ve spoken,” he wrote in a blog post on the CBC website. “I would not, do not, and have not, given a speech either promoting oilsands development or opposing it.” The anchor of The National said he gives about 20 speeches each year, about half of them unpaid. When he receives a fee, he often donates part or all of the money to charity, he said. Mansbridge said the network’s senior management has always approved his speaking engagements and known when he is paid for them. Some media watchers have suggested it’s not appropriate for journalists to accept money from groups or industries that are the subject of their reports. On Wednesday, a CBC report on its president Hubert Lacroix’s appearance before a Senate committee said the anchor’s speaking engagements are vetted in advance. “And each one is looked at to make sure there is no conflict of interest with respect ... to editorial coverage and to make sure that our rules are respected,” Lacroix told the committee. “He knows that he never offers up his opinion or takes a position on anything that is in the news when he makes those speeches.” This comes after a published report said Mansbridge was paid to speak to the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers in 2012. He is the second CBC personality recently to face questions for reportedly receiving payment in exchange for speaking at events organized by members of the oil industry. The network has acknowledged that Rex Murphy, who hosts the show Cross-Country Checkup, has given speeches supporting oilsands development. Murphy stood by his comments in a column published last week in the National Post, saying he always speaks his mind and his opinions can’t be bought. To suggest otherwise is “an empty, insulting slur against my reputation as a journalist,” he wrote. A former executive director of the Organization of News Ombudsmen told CBC Radio that neither journalist should have accepted money — and that in doing so, they’ve undermined the broadcaster’s credibility. “The problem is in the money received,” Jeffrey Dvorkin, a former managing editor for CBC Radio, told As It Happens. “In the end, there is a suspicion laid on all of the CBC,” he said. “It’s about reputation here and what Rex has done, he has, frankly, I think, sullied the reputation of all CBC journalists by doing that and Peter Mansbridge hasn’t helped particularly in taking money from that source either.” The CBC has defended Murphy’s actions, saying he is a freelance commentator paid to take a “provocative stand” on issues. In a blog post published earlier this month and updated Thursday, CBC News editor-in-chief Jennifer McGuire said freelancers are given more leeway to express their views. Full-time staff, however, must abide by an internal policy that states “CBC journalists do not express their own personal opinion because it affects the perception of impartiality and could affect an open and honest exploration of an issue,” she said.
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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS An already wicked winter that refuses to let go its frigid grip on much of the Prairies is playing havoc with waterworks in major cities across the region. In Winnipeg, which is experiencing its secondcoldest winter in 75 years, people in more than 500 homes have asked the city to come and thaw out their pipes. The city has said it will take up to two weeks to deal with all the requests and so has opened shower facilities at indoor pools for the general public. In Saskatoon, where temperatures dropped to -50 C with the wind chill over the weekend, crews were trying to repair 15 different water main breaks. The city blames deeper than normal ground frost for putting more pressure on pipes and causing them to snap. Broken water pipes were also being reported in Calgary, where the temperature was -28 C with the wind chill. City workers in Winnipeg use specialized electrical thawing equipment, towed from house to house on a trailer, to deal with frozen pipes. But thawing a frozen pipe can take anywhere from 20 minutes to several hours. The temperature was -25 C with the wind chill in Winnipeg on Monday. Officials in Saskatoon warned residents near broken mains to keep extra drinking water on hand — enough for 72 hours. Emergency water supplies were being trucked into affected neighbourhoods by trailer. Saskatoon was also experiencing temperatures of -25 C with the wind chill Monday.
ers for as little as $5 a gram, with some offering discounts for lowincome individuals, the government says. Allard says paying even $5 a gram for pot would consume more than his monthly income. In its filing, the government allows that the cost of marijuana may initially increase for those who now produce their own, but says “that cost is likely to decrease significantly over time” as a result of competition, economies of scale, lower fees for skilled labour and technological innovation. Federal lawyers also dismiss the challengers’ key constitutional argument. “The rights to life and security of the person do not encompass a right to produce one’s own medication in order to avoid the cost of purchasing commercially available equivalents.” The court documents say Health Canada expects more than 20 producers will be licensed to produce marijuana for medical purposes. In addition, the department has purchased a “significant quantity” of overstock marijuana from a private company in case of a supply shortfall during the transition period.
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Russia driving agenda in Ukraine USING COMBINATION OF DIPLOMACY AND MILITARY THREAT BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS KYIV, Ukraine — Russia called for the adoption of a national unity deal in Ukraine even as it tightened its stranglehold over Crimea, an audacious combination of diplomacy and escalating military pressure. The U.S. and European Union floundered for solutions — while global markets panicked over the prospect of violent upheaval in the heart of Europe. Fears grew that the Kremlin might carry out more land grabs in pro-Russian eastern Ukraine, adding urgency to Western efforts to defuse the crisis. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was heading to Kyiv in an expression of support for Ukraine’s sovereignty, and the EU threatened a raft of punitive measures as it called an emergency summit on Ukraine for Thursday. But it was Russia that appeared to be driving the agenda. Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at a U.N. Human Rights Council session in Geneva that Ukraine should return to an agreement signed last month by pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych — but not Moscow — to hold early elections and surrender some powers. Yanukovych fled the country after sealing the pact with the opposition and foreign ministers of France, Germany and Poland. “Instead of a promised national unity government,” Lavrov said, “a government of the victors has been created.” Meanwhile, Ukrainian authorities said that Russian troops had issued an ultimatum for two Ukrainian warships to surrender or be seized — prompting the country’s acting president to accuse Russia of “piracy.” Ukraine’s corvette Ternopil and the command ship Slavutych were being blocked by four Russian navy ships in Sevastopol’s harbour, a Ukrainian military spokesman said. Acting president Oleksandr Turchynov said commanders and crew were “ready to de-
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Russian President Vladimir Putin, centre, and Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu, left, and the commander of the Western Military District Anatoly Sidorov, right, arrive to watch military exercise near St. Petersburg, Russia, Monday. Putin has sought and quickly got the Russian parliament’s permission to use the Russian military in Ukraine. fend their ships. ... They are defending Ukraine.” Vladimir Anikin, a Russian defence ministry spokesman, dismissed the report of a Russian ultimatum as nonsense but refused to elaborate. Warning of a “dangerous escalation,” the Obama administration said Washington would hold Moscow directly accountable for any threat to Ukraine’s navy. Russia is “on the wrong side of history” in Ukraine, President Barack Obama said, adding that continued military action would be “a costly proposition for Russia.” Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, Obama said the U.S. was considering economic and diplomatic options that
will isolate Russia, and called on Congress to work on an aid package for Ukraine. Still, it was not clear what the West could do to make Russia back down. The clearest weapon at the disposal of the EU and U.S. appeared to be economic sanctions that would freeze Russian assets and pull the plug on multi-billion dollar deals with Russia. Late Monday, the EU threatened to freeze visa liberalization and economic co-operation talks and boycott the G8 summit in Russia if Moscow does not back down. Already the economic fallout for Russia was being intensely felt: Russia’s stock market dropped about 10 per cent on Monday and its cur-
rency fell to its lowest point ever against the dollar. But the economic consequences of antagonizing Russia were also acute for Western Europe: The EU relies heavily on Russian natural gas flowing through a network of Ukrainian and other pipelines. By Monday, it was clear that Russia had complete operational control of Crimea. Russian soldiers controlled all Crimean border posts, as well as all military facilities in the territory. Troops also controlled a ferry terminal in the Crimean city of Kerch, just 20 kilometres (12 miles) across the water from Russia. That intensified fears in Kyiv that Moscow would send even more troops into the peninsula via
that route. Border guard spokesman Sergei Astakhov said the Russians were demanding that Ukrainian soldiers and guards transfer their allegiance to Crimea’s new pro-Russian local government. “The Russians are behaving very aggressively,” he said. “They came in by breaking down doors, knocking out windows, cutting off every communication.” He said four Russian military ships, 13 helicopters and eight transport planes had arrived in Crimea in violation of agreements that permit Russia to keep its Black Sea fleet at the naval base in Sevastopol, but limits the deployment of additional forces at the base. Ukraine’s prime minister admitted his country had “no military options on the table” to reverse Russia’s military moves into Crimea. Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk appealed for outside help and said Crimea remained part of his country, as European foreign ministers held an emergency meeting on a joint response to Russia’s military push into Crimea. “Any attempt of Russia to grab Crimea will have no success at all. Give us some time,” he said at a news conference with British Foreign Secretary William Hague. But he added that “for today” there were “no military options on the table.” He said his country was “urgently” asking for economic and political support from other countries. The fears in the Ukrainian capital and beyond are that Russia might seek to expand its control by seizing other parts of Ukraine in the proRussian east of the country, the country’s industrial powerhouse and agricultural breadbasket. Hague said “the world cannot just allow this to happen.” But he, like other Western diplomats, ruled out any military action. “The U.K is not discussing military options. Our concentration is on diplomatic and economic pressure.”
Russia says Yanukovych requested troops in Crimea UKRAINE SAYS 16,000 ARE THERE NOW BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Ukraine’s fugitive president requested Russian soldiers in the strategic Crimea region “to establish legitimacy, peace, law and order,” Russia’s U.N. ambassador said Monday, contradicting the president’s own comments last week, while Ukraine’s ambassador said 16,000 troops are now deployed there. The third emergency Security Council meeting in four days came amid fears that the Kremlin might carry out more land grabs in pro-Russian eastern Ukraine. Russia faced demands from almost all council members to pull its troops out of Crimea and got no support for its military action from close ally China. “With the exception of one member of the Security Council — the Russian Federation — we have heard overwhelming support for the territorial integrity of Ukraine, and for peaceful dialogue,” U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power said. Action by the U.N.’s most powerful body appears unlikely, though Britain’s U.N. Ambassador Mark Lyall Grant said, “We certainly do not rule out presenting resolutions in the Security Council in the next few days.” Russia has veto power as a permanent member and can block the council from adopting any resolution criticizing or sanctioning Moscow.
During the heated meeting, Russian Ambassador Vitaly Churkin strongly defended his government’s actions as “fully appropriate and legitimate” to defend the human rights of the Russian-speaking minority in Ukraine, which he claimed is under threat of oppression from the north and west after violent protests swept in a new government. He told the council he was authorized to read a statement from fugitive President Viktor Yanukovych — he showed council members a copy — requesting Russian President Vladimir Putin to use his armed forces to restore peace and defend the people of Ukraine. Yanukovych fled the former Soviet republic to Russia after his ouster and had said Friday that he would not ask for Russian forces. Churkin quoted Yanukovych as saying “Ukraine is on the brink of civil war,” people particularly in the Russian-speaking Crimea are being persecuted for language and political reasons and “there are open acts of terror and violence” under the influence of Western countries. French Ambassador Gerard Araud said the letter was just a piece of paper handed to Yanukovych which “got his signature.” Asked if the letter was phoney, Araud replied, “It’s not a false letter, it’s a false president.” Power, the U.S. envoy, dismissed Moscow’s contention that it intervened
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Russian soldiers sit atop an armored vehicle outside of Ukrainian military base in the village of Perevalne, outside of Simferopol, Ukraine, on Sunday. militarily in Crimea to protect the human rights of Russian civilians there as “baseless,” insisting there is no evidence of any threats against ethnic Russians in Ukraine. “One might think that Moscow has just become the rapid response arm of the High Commissioner for Human Rights,” she told the council. Ukraine’s U.N. Ambassador Yuriy Sergeyev again pleaded for help and sent a letter to all 193 U.N. member states detailing Russia’s takeover of crucial government and military facilities. The letter described what could be the first reported casualty of the crisis. Sergeyev claimed that Russian forces trying to capture the armoury of the Ukrainian Air Tactical brigade near Sevastopol used stun grenades against Ukrainian soldiers Sunday, leaving
an officer with a brain injury and in shock. The letter also said Russian aircraft illegally entered Ukrainian airspace twice Monday night. It said all main roads in Crimea are blocked, military bases and Ukrainian ships in Sevastopol Bay are surrounded and an attempt has been made to capture the Ukrainian Navy Headquarters. Power said the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe — which includes Russia, the U.S., and all European countries — was deploying monitors to Ukraine on Monday night. She urged Russia to allow the monitors to go to Crimea, an appeal echoed by many other council members. Churkin didn’t rule that out but said it must be considered by the government in Crimea.
U.S., Europe try to rally strong Western front to get Russia to back down BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — The U.S and major allies strained on Monday to rally a strong Western front to persuade Russia to step back from a military takeover of Ukraine’s strategic Crimea region. But several acknowledged there are few options beyond already-threatened economic and diplomatic penalties, and critics said Obama administration efforts were too little, too late after years of pressing for friendlier relations with Moscow. President Barack Obama called the Russian advance in Crimea a violation of international law. He urged Congress to approve an aid package for the Ukrainian government, and repeated earlier threats that the U.S. would take steps to hurt Russia’s economy and isolate it diplomatically if President Vladimir Putin does not back down. Obama met Monday evening with his national
security team, including Secretary of State John Kerry and Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel, to discuss Ukraine. Hours later, Kerry was to leave for Kyiv to reinforce U.S. support for the new Ukrainian government that only weeks ago ousted its pro-Russian president. But French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said Russia’s control of Crimea would not be easy to reverse. And the suggestions he offered — sending in observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation, questioning Russia’s membership in the Group of Eight economic organization and holding out for a diplomatic dialogue proposed by Germany — were an indication of how limited the options were for the U.S. and Europe. Still, alternately threatening and cajoling Putin, Western leaders pointed to the damage that his nation’s natural gas, uranium and coal industries could suffer if sanctions cut off exports to the European Union, its largest customer.
Britain’s prime minister warned of diplomatic, political, economic “and other pressures” that could be brought against Moscow. And the European Union’s foreign ministers issued a Thursday deadline for Putin to pull back his troops or face a rejection of visaliberalization and economic co-operation. “I think the situation is relatively clear, you need to see a return to barracks,” EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said in Brussels, where ministers also froze preparations for the G-8 summit. In Washington, Obama declared, “The strong condemnation that has proceeded from countries around the world indicates the degree to which Russia is on the wrong side of history.” “So there are really two paths that Russia can take at this point,” Obama said. “Over time, this will be a costly proposition for Russia, and now is the time for them to consider whether they can serve their interests in a way that resorts to diplomacy as opposed to force.”
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TUESDAY, MARCH 4, 2014
Britain wants input on making embryos from people’s DNA BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Elana Simon, 18, of New York, in a laboratory at The Rockefeller University in New York. The teen survivor of a rare liver cancer spearheaded a study, published in the journal Science, that led a team of researchers to find a gene flaw involved with the disease.
Teen survives rare cancer and then wants to study it HELPS SCIENTISTS FIND A GENE MUTATION BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — First the teenager survived a rare cancer. Then she wanted to study it, spurring a study that helped scientists find a weird gene flaw that might play a role in how the tumour strikes. Age 18 is pretty young to be listed as an author of a study in the prestigious journal Science. But the industrious high school student’s efforts are bringing new attention to this mysterious disease. “It’s crazy that I’ve been able to do this,” said Elana Simon of New York City, describing her idea to study the extremely rare form of liver cancer that mostly hits adolescents and young adults. Making that idea work required a lot of help from real scientists: Her father, who runs a cellular biophysics lab at the Rockefeller University; her surgeon at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; and gene specialists at the New York Genome Center. A second survivor of this cancer, who the journal said didn’t want to be identified, also co-authored the study. Together, the team reported Thursday that they uncovered an oddity: A break in genetic material that left the “head” of one gene fused to the “body” of another. That results in an abnormal protein that forms inside the tu-
mors but not in normal liver tissue, suggesting it might fuel cancer growth, the researchers wrote. They’ve found the evidence in all 15 of the tumors tested so far. It’s a small study, and more research is needed to see what this gene flaw really does, cautioned Dr. Sanford Simon, the teen’s father and the study’s senior author. But the teen-spurred project has grown into work to get more patients involved in scientific research. Scientists at the National Institutes of Health are advising the Simons on how to set up a patient registry, and NIH’s Office of Rare Diseases Research has posted on its website a YouTube video in which Elana Simon and a fellow survivor explain why to get involved. “Fibrolamellar Hepatocellular Carcinoma. Not easy to pronounce. Not easily understood,” it says. Simon was diagnosed at age 12. Surgery is the only effective treatment, and her tumour was caught in time that it worked. But there are few options if the cancer spreads, and Simon knows other patients who weren’t so lucky. A high school internship during her sophomore year let Simon use her computer science skills to help researchers sort data on genetic mutations in a laboratory studying another type of cancer. Simon wondered, why not try the same approach with the liver
cancer she’d survived? The hurdle: Finding enough tumors to test. Only about 200 people a year worldwide are diagnosed, according to the Fibrolamellar Cancer Foundation, which helped fund the new study. There was no registry that kept tissue samples after surgery. But Simon’s pediatric cancer surgeon, Sloan-Kettering’s Dr. Michael LaQuaglia, agreed to help, and Simon spread the word to patient groups. Finally, samples trickled in, and Sanford Simon said his daughter was back on the computer helping to analyze what was different in the tumour cells. At the collaborating New York Genome Center, which genetically mapped the samples, co-author Nicolas Robine said a program called FusionCatcher ultimately zeroed in on the weird mutation. Sanford Simon said other researchers then conducted laboratory experiments to show the abnormal protein really is active inside tumour cells. He calls it “an exciting time for kids to go into science,” because there’s so much they can research via computer. As for Elana Simon, she plans to study computer science at Harvard next fall. Online: http://www.youtube. com/watch?vY5lkp— uK9Ww&featureyoutu.be
LONDON — Britain is inviting the public to weigh in on draft rules allowing scientists to create embryos using DNA from three people — a man and two women — to prevent mothers from passing on potentially fatal genetic diseases. The latest public review should be the last step before politicians consider changing the law to let doctors offer the new fertilization techniques to patients. That would make Britain the first country in the world to allow the procedure to help people have children. Britain’s department of health said Thursday the government hopes to gather as many views as possible before introducing its final regulations. The proposed rules have been published online and the government is inviting people to respond by late May. The public input isn’t meant to debate whether the controversial techniques should be permitted. Instead, it concerns how they should be used to prevent relatively rare diseases caused by DNA defects in parts of the cell called mitochondria. Mistakes in the mitochondria’s genetic code can result in diseases such as muscular dystrophy, epilepsy, heart problems and mental retardation. Mitochondria are energy-producing structures outside the cell’s nucleus. The new techniques involve removing the nucleus DNA from the egg of a prospective mother and inserting it into a donor egg, from which the nucleus DNA has been removed. That happens either before or after fertilization. The resulting child ends up with the nucleus DNA from its parents, but the mitochondrial DNA from the donor. Scientists say the DNA from the donor egg amounts to less than 1 per cent of the resulting embryo’s genes. “Allowing mitochondrial donation would give women who carry severe mitochondrial disease the opportunity to have children without passing on devastating genetic disorders,” Dr. Sally Davies, the chief medical officer, said in a statement. Last year, Britain’s fertility regulator said it found broad public support for the technology, but some concerns were raised about safety. British law currently forbids altering a human egg or embryo before transferring it into a woman, and such treatments are only allowed for research purposes in a laboratory. The department of health said it hopes legislation will be in place so patients can receive the treatment by the end of the year. When mitochondrial donation was first reportedly used to create an embryo in a British laboratory in 2008, tabloid headlines declared scientists had created a child with three parents — two biological mothers and a father. But scientists said that was inaccurate, since there are only trace bits of genetic material from one woman. If the procedure is approved by Parliament, experts say it would likely only be used in about a dozen British women every year. “Genetic alteration of disease risk is an important step for society and should not be taken lightly,” said Dr. Peter Braude, an emeritus professor of obstetrics and gynecology at King’s College London. But he said the proposed regulations would ensure the techniques would be limited to informed couples with personal experience of mitochondrial diseases. Similar experiments are being conducted in the United States, where the embryos are not being used to produce children but only for research purposes. Critics have slammed it as a breach of medical ethics and said women at risk of passing on mitochondrial diseases already have other safe ways of having children, such as using donated eggs.
Schumacher’s two-month coma bad news for recovery BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON — Nearly two months after Michael Schumacher suffered serious head injuries in a skiing accident and was placed in a drug-induced coma, some neurologists say the seventime Formula One champion seems unlikely to make a full recovery. The 45-year-old Schumacher fell while skiing in France and hit the right side of his head on a rock, cracking his helmet. Doctors operated to remove blood clots from his brain but some were left because they were too deeply embedded. Schumacher’s condition stabilized after he was placed in the coma. Late last month, doctors began the process of withdrawing sedatives to try to wake him up. His agent, Sabine Kehm, said in an email on Friday that “Michael is still in the wake-up phase” and that
“this phase can be long.” Schumacher’s family has released few details. “It does not bode well,” said Dr. Tipu Aziz, professor of neurosurgery at Oxford University who is not connected to Schumacher’s care. “The fact that he hasn’t woken up implies that the injury has been extremely severe and that a full recovery is improbable.” Patients who have had major head injuries are sometimes put in a druginduced coma to give the brain a chance to heal; a coma reduces the need for blood flow and may help the swelling go down. Aziz said doctors typically try every few days to bring someone out of a coma. “If you don’t start getting any positive signs, that becomes very worrisome,” he said, adding that Schumacher’s doctors are probably doing regular brain scans to look for signs of activity — though such signs may be difficult to
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Ukraine crisis adds economic risks ECONOMIC RIPPLES FROM RUSSIA’S WIDELY CONDEMNED ACTION ALREADY HITS MARKETS BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The Russian army’s march into Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula has added to the already formidable risks facing the global recovery and by extension Canada’s economy, according to analysts and business leaders. The economic ripples from Russia’s widely condemned action over the weekend began being felt as markets opened for business Monday, with the Russian exchange tumbling 12 per cent and the ruble falling to the lowest point ever against the euro and U.S. dollar. Markets in Europe and New York also fell.
The Toronto Stock Exchange avoided the worst, closing marginally higher as rising gold an energy stocks offset declines elsewhere and also helped support the Canadian dollar, which fell less than most amid a flight to the perceived safe have of the U.S. greenback and treasuries. Whether the political crisis has a profound, longer-term impact on the Canadian economy will depend on how long it lasts, whether it escalates, and on the West’s response, says Bank of Montreal chief economist Doug Porter. Some western governments have ramped up the tough talk, with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry opening the doors
to sanctions. On Monday, Prime Minister Stephen Harper warned Moscow it faced “diplomatic and economic isolation” and the risk of being kicked out of the Group of Eight leading industrial countries. In a further response, Harper spokesman Jason MacDonald said that the prime minister had instructed officials to review “all planned bilateral interaction with Russia.” “We will continue to work with our allies as we consider the full range of bilateral and economic consequences, such as travel bans and sanctions,” he added. In direct terms, Russia is a small but growing player in
the Canadian economy. According to government figures, Canada-to-Russia exports have grown eight-fold in the past decade to $1.5 billion in 2011, and investment hit almost $5 billion in 2012 with a number of large Canadian firms having either planted their flag or begun the process of establishing a presence in the country. Among then are Kinross Gold (TSX:K) and other mining concerns, as well as other well-known names such as Bombardier (TSX:BBD.B), Pratt&Whitney Canada and SNC-Lavalin (TSX:SNC). As well, Ottawa has been actively courting a wider engagement. With a population of 140 million, it has identi-
fied Russia as a priority market and Trade Minister Ed Fast led a trade mission to the former communist country in June 2012. Recent events are not good news for that initiative, nor for Canadian firms with dealings in Russia, says Dan Kelly, president of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business. He notes any firm involved with the country likely has a large tolerance for risk. “But these kinds of things do spook business owners when they are looking at expanding abroad,” he said, and doing business in Russia was already “not for the fainthearted.”
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Mike Jaroslawsky and Ted Wirth enjoy a break at the Bayview Café and Bakery, which is located in Sylvan Lake’s newly renovated Cobb’s Block Central.
Cobb’s Block Central opens BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR The transformation of the former Cobb’s AG Foods building is in its final stages, with the first tenants customizing their premises. The decades-old structure at 5015 50th St. was gutted and redesigned following the closure of Cobb’s AG Foods two years ago. Ken Wessel, whose company River City Developments Ltd. bought and renovated the property, estimates the value of the project at between $4 million and $5 million. Renamed Cobb’s Block Central, the enclosed shopping mall boasts some 26,000 square feet of space over two levels. One of the larger tenants, Cobb’s Clothing, occupied the building before Cobb’s AG Foods and has retained its 3,630-squarefoot bay. It’s now been joined by Guy’s & Doll’s hair salon and Bayview Café and Bakery, both of which were existing businesses in Syl-
spective tenants are negotiating leases, and another party is looking at purchasing a bay. Since the building has been condominiumized, ownership and rental are both possible. “We’re getting good action on it,” said Wessel, noting that interest increased following the Christmas season. “Now people are starting to take notice before summer.” Although the renovations took longer than he initially anticipated, Wessel is pleased with the results. “Everyone who sees it loves it. It’s pretty unique.” The Town of Sylvan Lake even nominated River City Developments for a Central Alberta Economic Partnership Achievement Award in the Innovative Business category. Municipal officials have praised the project for its positive impact on the downtown. hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is back on top of the list of the world’s richest people after a fouryear hiatus. Forbes magazine announced its ranking of the world’s billionaires Monday. Gates, who led the list for 15 of the past 20 years, won the spot back from Mexican telecom mogul Carlos Slim Helu, who had topped the list for the past four years. Gates’ net worth is estimated at $76 billion; Slim Helu follows at $72 billion. Spanish clothing magnate Amancio Ortega, known for the Zara retail chain, maintained his third-ranked spot and came out ahead of famed U.S. investor Warren Buffett, who ranked fourth. Larry Ellison of Oracle came in fifth. Forbes says a record 1,645 billionaires made the list this year, with an average net worth of $4.7 billion.
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That’s up from 1,426 billionaires last year with a net worth of $4.2 billion. Total net worth of this year’s list was $6.4 trillion, up from $5.4 trillion last year. David Thomson and his family were the highest ranked Canadians at 27th on the list and the only one to crack the top 100 with a total value of $22.6 billion. Galen Weston and family were 153rd with $8.5 billion and Jim Pattison was 184th with $7.3 billion. The magazine said that 1,080 of the billionaires were self-made, 207 inherited their wealth and 352 inherited a portion but are still growing it. The largest net worth gainer on the list was Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, who more than doubled his fortune to $28.5 billion as the value of his company’s stock soared. He ranks 21st on the list.
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The Lacombe and District Chamber of Commerce is gearing up for its 2014 Trade Show, which will take place April 11 and 12 in the Lacombe Arena and Sports Complex. A release issued by the Chamber said it’s redesigned the event’s layout to increase the number of booth spaces by about 20 per cent. More children’s attractions are also being incorporated into this year’s show, including balloon animals, face painting, a 4H petting zoo, free cotton candy and entertainment. Hours will be 1 to 8 p.m. on Friday and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday. There will be no charge to attend.
Speedpro Signs top in Canada Speedpro Signs of Canada has named its Red Deer franchise tops in the country for 2013. Speedpro Signs Red Deer, which is owned by Tammy Schlamp, has received the Franchise of the Year Award. Nearly 50 other franchises were in the running for the award. A release issued by Speedpro Signs of Canada said the award was based on a variety of criteria, including sales volume and growth, ethics, innovation, employee satisfaction and community involvement. Speedpro Signs Red Deer was also recognized in other award categories. Speedpro is the largest sign franchise in Canada. It provides a wide range of signage and vehicle graphics.
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FORMER COBB’S AG FOODS BUILDING van Lake. “That will be our restaurant component,” said Wessel of Bayview. “We’re not going after any other restaurants in the building now.” Bayview owner Sheree Davies is pleased with her new premises, which at 2,555 square feet are about 50 per cent larger than her old space in Chateau Suites at Sylvan Bay. That’s allowed her to consolidate her restaurant, kitchen and bakery together. “There are opportunities for evening functions and live music and meetings, because it’s in one large room now,” she said. Modifications continue, added Davies, who plans to introduce new items and services at Bayview. Currently, its menu is similar to before, with breakfast and lunch items prepared on-site — including baked goods. Hours are 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily. Wessel said three other pro-
Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development has advanced the timing for producers to apply for special funding to enhance their farm biosecurity systems. The change was announced as Alberta pork producers scramble to safeguard their herds from porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDv), which has devastated operators in the United States and spread to several Canadian provinces. PEDv has a mortality rate of up to 100 per cent in nursing piglets, although health officials say the disease cannot be transmitted to humans and is not a food safety concern. Two dozen cases have been confirmed in Ontario, with infections also found in Quebec, Manitoba and Prince Edward Island. No outbreaks have been detected in Alberta. Alberta Pork has been urging producers here to review their biosecurity protocols to reduce the risk of transmission from outside sources. These include such things as transport trailer cleaning, washing, disinfecting and drying practices, as well as controls governing people and materials entering pig barns. The Growing Forward 2 animal health biosecurity producer program and the farm service providers portion of the delivery agent program provides funding to producers, truckers and other organizations to implement biosecurity practices. New applications for this support were being accepted, as of Monday.
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The Bison Producers of Alberta plans to pitch its industry to prospective producers this month in Ponoka. The association’s annual Wildrose Bison Convention, Show and Sale, which runs March 14 and 15, will kick off with a free session entitled, Bison Ranching — Is It For You? The Friday morning presentation, scheduled to run from 10:30 a.m. to noon at the Ponoka Legion, will be followed by a bison sausage and bun luncheon. “With demand high, strong prices holding and the supply of bison
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soft, the business case for entering or expanding bison production in Alberta is attractive and profitable,” said Thomas Ackermann, chair of the Bison Producers of Alberta. The group has even posted a video on its website that extols the virtues of life as a bison producer. The afternoon of March 14 will feature learning sessions on topics like feeding and marketing bison, with an evening banquet and awards also on tap. On Saturday, the Bison Producers of Alberta will hold its annual gen-
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Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 103.54 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 51.83 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48.15 BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . 11.49 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.58 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 45.07 Cdn. National Railway . . 62.23 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 173.08 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 39.11 Capital Power Corp . . . . 24.15 Cervus Equipment Corp 24.05 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 48.44 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 46.87 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 30.85 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 30.60 General Motors Co. . . . . 36.21 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 19.65 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.45 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 48.51 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 65.80 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 39.13 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . 12.69 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 49.06 Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . . 99.75 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 14.45 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 15.20 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 45.32 Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 15.99 MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto stock market closed little changed Monday, one of the few global markets to avoid racking up sharp losses in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula. The S&P/TSX composite index edged 3.15 points higher to 14,212.74 with any TSX losses held in check by energy and gold stocks, which rose alongside oil and bullion prices as traders generally avoided riskier assets such as equities and base metals. Gains in oil and gold also helped support the Canadian dollar, which was faring better than some other currencies. The loonie declined 0.08 of a cent to 90.22 cents US. Investors sought the perceived safe haven of U.S. dollars and Treasuries after Russia took effective control of the Crimean peninsula, calling it a necessary protection for citizens living there. There are worries that Russia might seek to expand its control by seizing other parts of eastern Ukraine. U.S. indexes tumbled as traders weighed the potential economic consequences of Russia’s move and the effect of possible sanctions. The Dow Jones industrials dropped 153.68 points to 16,168.03, the Nasdaq gave back 30.82 points to 4,277.3 and the S&P 500 index fell 13.72 points to 1,845.73. European stocks also tumbled with Frankfurt’s DAX falling three per cent and the Paris CAC 40 down 2.66 per cent. Russia’s benchmark stock index plunged 12 per cent. The gold sector led TSX advancers, up about 1.65 per cent as traders seeking safety pushed April bullion up $28.70 to US$1,350.30 an ounce. The energy sector rose 0.23 per cent with oil prices spiking more than $2 as Russia’s military advance into Ukraine raised fears of economic sanctions against a country that is
Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.51 Shoppers . . . . . . . . . . . . 60.07 Tim Hortons . . . . . . . . . . 60.00 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74.12 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 25.53 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 22.73 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 27.21 First Quantum Minerals . 20.96 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 30.32 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 8.93 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 5.75 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 37.13 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.03 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 24.30 Energy Arc Energy . . . . . . . . . . . 29.89 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 33.50 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 63.21 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . 15.91 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 54.64 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 40.83 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . 21.13 Canyon Services Group. 12.02 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 29.39 CWC Well Services . . . . 0.860 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 21.45 Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 2.64 Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 95.50 one of the world’s major energy producers. The April contract in New York jumped $2.33 to US$104.92 a barrel. Pengrowth Energy Corp. (TSX:PGF) had an $91.1-million net loss, equivalent to 17 cents per share, in the fourth quarter. Analysts had expected a net loss of three cents a share and its stock slipped 45 cents to $7.01. The TSX was also supported by a strong earnings report from auto parts giant Magna International (TSX:MG). Its quarterly net earnings rose 31 per cent from a year ago to US$458 million or $2.03 a share as sales jumped 14 per cent to US$9.17 billion. The company also raised its quarterly dividend by 19 per cent to 38 cents per share and Magna shares gained $5.18 to $103.75. The base metals component was down 2.57 per cent as May copper lost two cents to US$3.17 a pound. Prices for the metal were also pressured by Chinese data as both the official and HSBC versions of the country’s monthly manufacturing survey showed the sector was weaker last month than in January. MARKET HIGHLIGHTS TORONTO — Highlights at close Monday. Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 14,212.74, up 3.15 points TSX Venture Exchange — 1,018.10, down 7.26 points TSX 60 — 814.29, up 1.04 points Dow — 16,168.03, down 153.68 points S&P 500 — 1,845.73, down 13.72 points Nasdaq — 4,277.30, down 30.82 points Currencies at close: Cdn — 90.22 cents US, down 0.08 of a cent Pound — C$1.8463, up 0.22 of a cent
Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 56.38 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.79 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 33.67 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 50.02 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 7.01 Penn West Energy . . . . . . 8.98 Pinecrest Energy Inc. . . . 0.210 Precision Drilling Corp . . 12.30 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 36.65 Talisman Energy . . . . . . . 11.39 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 13.42 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . 10.82 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 63.87 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 72.23 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 63.03 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92.80 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 36.35 Carfinco . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.37 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 30.59 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 53.70 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 66.84 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 20.99 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 44.00 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.70 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 71.90 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 38.42 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49.93 Euro — C$1.5221 down 0.67 of a cent Euro — US$1.3732, down 0.73 of a cent Oil futures: US$104.92 per barrel, up $2.33 (April contract) Gold futures: US$1,350.30 per oz., up $28.70 (April contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $24.829 oz., up 34.6 cents $798.25 kg, up $11.12 TSX VENTURE EXCHANGE TORONTO — The TSX Venture Exchange closed on Wednesday at 1,018.10, down 7.26 points. The volume at 4:20 p.m. ET was 180.03 million shares. ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: March ’14 $9.80 lower $427.80; May ’14 $7.30 higher $437.20; July ’14 $7.40 higher $447.10; Nov. ’14 $7.90 higher $464.10; Jan ’15 $8.20 higher $471.80; March ’15 $8.20 higher $479.30; May ’15 $8.00 higher $484.10; July ’15 $8.00 higher $488.80; Nov ’15 $8.00 higher $485.00; Jan. ’16 $8.00 higher $485.00; March ’16 $8.00 higher $485.00. Barley (Western): March ’14 unchanged $126.50; May ’14 unchanged $128.50; July ’14 unchanged $128.50; Oct. ’14 unchanged $128.50; Dec. ’14 unchanged $128.50; March ’15 unchanged $128.50; May ’15 unchanged $128.50; July ’15 unchanged $128.50; Oct. ’15 unchanged $128.50; Dec. ’15 unchanged $128.50; March ’16 unchanged $128.50. Monday’s estimated volume of trade: 318,500 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 318,500.
REGINA — Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall is going to Washington to highlight his province’s work on carbon capture and storage. Wall is to be a panellist at a coal technology symposium of U.S. legislators and energy experts Wednesday on Capitol Hill. He says he’ll talk about carbon capture and storage research that has taken place in Saskatchewan over the last 30 years, as well as about a project at the Boundary Dam power station near Estevan. “We’re trying to commercialize that technology through SaskPower and sell it around the world. You know, benefit from it here but maybe expand its use around the world, so we’ll promote that clean coal technology,” Wall said Monday at the legislature in Regina. The plan is to capture CO2 emissions from the coal-fired power plant and sell the carbon dioxide to oil and gas companies, which use it to push more oil out of the ground in what’s called enhanced oil recovery. The facility was supposed to start storing carbon emitted from the power plant in April, but SaskPower said last month that it will be delayed. The Crown corporation said there have been some unexpected findings on the
power plant side. The plant is being rebuilt and the utility says there have been some design changes and retrofitting delays. It preferred not to give a new date for the startup, but Wall said he expects that will happen in June. “The new technology is on time and on budget and it works. It’s the old generating facility (that’s delayed), because it has to generate coal power in the first place, the old generating facility we found asbestos,” he said. “Our story is solid ... any delays in the project are on the old technology, not the new carbon capture unit.” Wall says he also plans to make another push for approval of the Keystone XL pipeline and to talk about the negative impact of a country-of-origin labelling law for meat that recently passed in the United States. The premier says the labelling law is “a discriminatory trade practice” against Canadian livestock producers. Wall also touted the $1.3-billion Boundary Dam project on that trip as proof of Canada’s intent to cut its greenhouse gas emissions. “Again, we should say to Americans, look we know we need to do better, but who has a record better than this? “When you deal with Canada with energy, you are dealing with a place that prizes environmental sustainability of energy development.”
Michelin to reduce tire manufacturing, dropping 500 jobs in northern Nova Scotia BY THE CANADIAN PRESS PICTOU, N.S. — Michelin Canada is phasing out production of small tires at its oldest Canadian factory, dealing a sharp economic blow to the economy of northern Nova Scotia. The company said its decision, which will see about half of its 1,000 employees at its plant in Granton, N.S., laid off, is a response to a continuing shift towards larger tires in the North American car tire market combined with the limits of the facility. “People are in shock,” said Andy Thompson, the deputy warden of the Municipality of Pictou County. “You’ll not replace those jobs that easily.” Grant Ferguson, president of Michelin North America (Canada), said the company will offer transfers to employees who are willing to work at one of two other Michelin factories in Nova Scotia. Ferguson said he thinks between 100 and 200 employees will decide to take that offer. Michelin is also offering severance packages and early retirement for employees who don’t want to take jobs
in the other communities, which are more than 200 kilometres away. “We have a long history of manufacturing here, and we care deeply about the well-being of our workforce and the community,” Ferguson said. The company said market demand for the 14- to 16-inch tires produced at the Granton plant is diminishing and it’s not worthwhile to upgrade the 43-year-old operation. Michelin said the layoffs will occur in two phases. By June 30, 200 employees will be laid off when a tire manufacturing production line permanently closes. A year later, the remaining tire production activity at the site will be reduced, affecting 300 more people. The company said the plant will still be operational, including some highperformance car tire production and tire membrane production. It will also still receive a $10-million investment to improve its rubber mixing facilities, Ferguson said. He said Michelin will also set up a development fund to provide lowinterest loans to employees who want to start their own companies.
Mt. Gox bitcoin exchange looks into criminal complaint, blames Division of Telus buys B.C.-based theft by hacking for bankruptcy electronic medical records company BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TOKYO — The Tokyo bitcoin exchange that filed for bankruptcy protection blamed theft through hacking for its losses Monday, and said it was looking into a criminal complaint. In an announcement posted on the Mt. Gox exchange’s website, CEO Mark Karpeles outlined the events that resulted in the company’s insolvency and said there was a “high probability” theft was behind the disappearance of bitcoins. “We will make all efforts to ensure that crimes are punished and damages recovered,” Karpeles said. He said Mt. Gox will try to resume business as a way of increasing repayments to its creditors. The online exchange was unplugged early last week as rumours of its insolvency swirled, adding to doubts about the viability of bitcoins overall. Its woes are a setback for bitcoin, a virtual currency that has grown in popularity since its 2009 creation as a way to make transactions across borders without third parties such as banks. Bitcoin has also become a highly
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speculative form of investing. But it has comes with risks, as the Mt. Gox debacle has illustrated, partly because bitcoins are not regulated by central banks or other financial authorities. The statement said illegal access to Mt. Gox in early February abused a bug in its computer system. It also said “large discrepancies” were found between the amount of cash held in financial institutions and the amount deposited by users, meaning that about 2.8 billion yen ($28 million) was unaccounted for. Karpeles said Friday that 750,000 bitcoins deposited by users and another 100,000 belonging to the company disappeared. That would amount to about $425 million at recent prices. He repeated the bitcoin numbers in Monday’s statement but said also the complete extent is not yet known. A huge number of transactions must be investigated for a variety of problems to establish the truth, Karpeles said. Mt. Gox set up a call centre at a Tokyo telephone number, open during business hours Monday through Friday, to answer any queries. Forbes said 268 billionaires were new to the list, beating out a prior high of 226 newcomers in 2008. And a record number of women made the list this year, with 172 women joining, up 25 per cent from last year. Altogether 100 people dropped out of the rankings, while 16 passed away. The U.S. was the country with the greatest number of billionaires at 492, followed by China with 152 and Russia with 111. Billionaires from four new countries joined, adding Algeria, Lithuania, Tanzania and Uganda to the geographic mix.
BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — A division of Telus is buying B.C.-based electronic medical records company Med Access Inc., expanding the telecommunications company’s reach into health-care technology services. Med Access Inc., based in Kelowna, provides electronic medical record services to 2,000 specialty and general practice doctors in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Ontario. Telus Health didn’t disclose the financial terms of the deal on Monday, but said the latest acquisition will bring the total number of doctors who use its electronic medical records technology to more than 12,500 across the country. Telus (TSX:T) identified electronic health services a number of years ago as an area of growth to offset declines
in some of its older telecommunications services. It hasn’t pursued a strategy of buying content to put on mobile phones and tablets it sells, while its competitors Bell (TSX:BCE) and Rogers (TSX:RCI.B) have bought television and radio stations and sports teams for growth and content. Telus Health said it plans to integrate Med Access’s electronic referral system, which allows healthcare teams to electronically forward any information in a patient’s chart directly to another healthcare provider potentially reducing data entry errors and helping provide better care. “We believe that connecting healthcare providers together and with their patients is a natural extension of our core business of connecting millions of Canadians with the people and information that matters most to them,” Paul Lepage, president of Telus Health, said in a news release.
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MONTREAL — As objects like TVs and alarm systems continue to get connected to the Internet, more money and personal information are potentially out there for hackers to exploit and companies to profit from, experts say. The growing network of connected objects is referred to as the “Internet of Things” and it’s estimated there will be billions of web-enabled devices by 2020, such as fridges and other appliances, wristwatches, thermostats, weight scales, and so on. Software security companies have started to see threats to connected security cameras, Internet routers and even baby monitors, said Kevin Haley, a director with Symantec’s security response team in Culver City, Calif. Unlike for computers and mobile phones, there’s no anti-virus software to prevent hacking on those devices. “Will someday, somebody attack your refrigerator, or your television set, or your scale?” asked Haley. “Today, there’s not a lot of benefit to that. They’re probably not going to attack until they can figure out a way to make money.” But Haley said information can be collected about individuals and businesses from their connected “things.” “What is happening to this data? Is it secure?” For example, smart TV makers could potentially sell information to advertisers about what consumers are watching, he said. Would health information be sold based on data gathered from a connected scale, about a person’s weight or how much she exercises? Could hackers exploit this information? “If that data is running around the Internet because it’s easier to access and use, it almost always means that it’s easier for others to access. What are the repercussions of that?” Haley said. Internet equipment maker Cisco has estimated that there will be 50 billion
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“things” connected to the Internet by 2020. For businesses, intellectual property could be at stake. Hacked security cameras can give criminals or competitors access to how products are made, said Haley. He said when he talks to business people about this he can “see their jaws drop.” “It’s not a PC so you never thought you had to worry about it and now you do.” Last year, a Texas couple reported that their daughter’s connected baby monitor had been hacked and the hacker took control of the camera, spying on the child and saying sexually explicit things. Home routers that get computers and other devices on the Internet can be a weak spot for hacking. Consumers should change the default password on their routers to make them more secure, said Haley. It’s up to consumers to be proactive and check manufacturers’ websites for any vulnerabilities with connected objects, at this point, he added. But Queen’s University Prof. David Skillicorn said consumers often choose convenience over security when it comes to embracing technology. “So there isn’t going to be a huge amount of push back from consumers,” said Skillicorn, who teaches in the university’s school of computing in Kingston, Ont. “I think at the moment that people dive in thinking, ’Wow, that’s cool,’ without stopping to think about what else is going on here.”
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON — A Swedish doctor says four women who received transplanted wombs have had embryos transferred into them in an attempt to get pregnant. He would not say on Monday whether any of the women had succeeded. In all, nine women in Sweden have received new wombs since 2012, but two had to have them removed because of complications. The women received wombs donated by their mothers or other close relatives in an experimental procedure designed to test whether it’s possible to transfer a uterus so a woman can give birth to her own biological child. The women had in vitro fertilization before the transplants, using their own eggs to make embryos. “We have already begun transferring embryos into four of the women and plan to make attempts with the others when they are ready,” said Dr. Mats Brannstrom, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Goteburg, who is leading the research. Brannstrom predicted that three or four of the seven women might successfully give birth. “One or two more will perhaps get pregnant and miscarry, and one or two won’t be able to get pregnant,” he said. There have been two previous attempts to transplant a womb — in Turkey and Saudi Arabia — but both failed to produce babies. Doctors in Britain and Hungary also are planning similar operations, but using wombs from women who had just died. Brannstrom said any woman in the
study who does get pregnant will be on a low dose of drugs to keep from rejecting the transplanted womb and will be monitored as a high-risk pregnancy. The transplants are intended to benefit women unable to have children because they lost a uterus to cancer or were born without one. Some doctors said women who got pregnant with a new uterus would have to be watched carefully for how the womb progresses throughout pregnancy. “There are questions about how the physiological changes in the uterus will affect the mother and whether the transplanted uterus will be conducive to a growing baby,” said Dr. Charles Kingsland, a spokesman for Britain’s Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and a gynecologist at Liverpool Women’s Hospital. In a study published last week, Brannstrom and colleagues described the procedures used to transplant the nine wombs and said there were “mild rejection episodes” in four patients. He said the transplanted wombs would be removed after a maximum of two pregnancies. Other experts called it a promising step but said it would be crucial that babies get enough nutrients from the mother’s blood supply. “We really don’t know if the blood flow to the uterus will increase and adapt in the same way,” as in a regular pregnancy, said Dr. Yacoub Khalaf, director of the Assisted Conception unit at Guy’s and St. Thomas’ hospital in London. “It is a good sign they have done the (embryo) transfers,” Khalaf said. “But a live birth will be the best validation that this works.”
Weight, stress central to couple’s lack on intimacy Dear Annie: I’d give anything to be intimate with my wife, in any form. We’ve been married for 18 years. We have not made love in more than three. We also don’t hold hands, hug, kiss or cuddle. We have pleasant conversations, and I would classify us as compatible roommates. My wife once had a very active libido, but there was a decline in sexual frequency after the birth of our second child. We had many conversations about it, but she and I both attributed it to crazy schedules and her moderate weight gain. She joined Weight Watchers and lost the weight. In the meantime, I gained 65 pounds. I help out around the house as best I can. I bathe and groom regularly. I went for counselling by myself and then started hinting to her about wanting to resume sex. Last year, I finally asked her why we don’t make love anymore. Her answer stunned me. My weight gain was such that she no longer finds me physically attractive. I thought I was a good person and a good husband. Apparently none of that mattered enough. She finally agreed to couples counselling. We went once and things im-
proved for about two weeks, but then her mother’s health declined and everything was put on the back burner. I started going to the gym and lost five pounds, but no more. Our bed is MITCHELL a dead zone. & SUGAR I don’t know whether it’s better to be lonely in a marriage or to be alone. I know we should return to counselling, but between her mother’s health, financial issues, underachieving teenagers and my own depression, I am not seeing the point and no longer believe all of this effort will make any difference. Any suggestions? — Frustrated on the West Coast Dear West Coast: Right now, you don’t have the energy to work on your intimacy issues on top of everything
else. And even if you did, your wife might not. Life is full of stressful periods, and you cannot let the overriding problem in your marriage slide by while you wait for things to settle down. Get back into counselling for your own sake, whether your wife goes or not. It will help you reach clarity about your situation and how to proceed. And please work on your weight to get healthier. You’ll feel better mentally, as well as physically. Dear Annie: A person I know gossips nonstop. She can tell you the latest about everyone in the neighbourhood. She also badmouths people behind their backs. She uses the guise of caring to find out whatever she can so she can spread more gossip. She is manipulative and deceitful and uses people to get what she wants, including favors and free rides. Worse, she presents herself as deeply religious. Am I wrong to want as little as possible to do with this woman? — Don’t Know Dear Don’t Know: You do know. This woman sounds toxic. She doesn’t deserve an audience. Avoiding her won’t make her stop gossiping about you or
badmouthing you behind your back. But at least you won’t have to listen to the malicious things she says about others, which can colour how you perceive them. Dear Annie: I am writing about the letter from “Not the Company’s Bank,” the wife whose husband was not being reimbursed for his business expenses in a timely fashion. I am happy to suggest an easy solution. Hubby should go to the boss or accounting department and ask for a company credit card to be used solely for his business expenses. Instead of needing reimbursement, each month’s bill would be sent directly to the firm. The husband could have a copy in order to break down the expenses by client for billing purposes or to justify a questionable expense. The responsibility for timely payment would be squarely in the firm’s control. — A Former Bookkeeper Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@ comcast.net, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.
fitness regime or with a morning jog around the park. Don’t overdo yourself just to beat boredom. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You Tuesday, March 4 are pondering over domestic issues. CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Patricia Heaton, 56; Landon Someone in your family must be starts spending more time in your mind. DeDonovan, 32; K Michelle, 28 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: The morn- spite the ongoing cerebral activities on ing hours salutes the Aries Moon and your mind, you would rather keep it all as the day unfolds, the Moon make its to yourself for now. Not everything is monthly visit through down-to-earth meant for sharing. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Today’s Taurus. Don’t rush into harmonious celestial forcanything while the Moon es are endowing you with is in realistic Taurus. Oldmuch optimism and posifashioned is in and newtivity. Your get-togethers ness is out. Beautiful stelare running smoothly as lar vibes are promising to you start developing new bring us staying powers to contacts that promise to be this day. The Moon makes helpful to you in the longcumbersome aspects to Veterm. nus and Mars. Desires and LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): head-strong moves should You have a stronger sense be carefully taken into conof purpose and you are besideration today. coming more confident in HAPPY BIRTHDAY: your own self-esteem. At If today is your birthday, the same time, you are also ASTRO hopefully you have built a facing some uncertainties plan shaped for your next DOYNA in regards to your money, move. This is a year where which are still pulling you you will go forward with all back. You need to remove your intentions and purposthis cloudy situation. es. Projects or work you do VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): overseas will fructify you in Your day promises to be filled with the long-term. Let your heart be your lots of rewarding activities. Keep an travelling guide. ARIES (March 21-April 19): Your open mind, but don’t omit the details. days of domestic turmoil and inner You may want to give someone the benwar are coming to an end or at least, efit of the doubt, but you are not seeing will lessen quite considerably. Your the picture too clearly. Don’t decide mood starts to stabilize while you are anything yet. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Use today’s developing thicker skin. Little annoynot-so-obvious energies to rid yourself ances will soon be forgotten. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The day of outworn feelings or thoughts. It’s begins on a very slow and lazy note. As time to put certain facets of your life your progress throughout the day, you and certain worries where they should may experience some inner restless- remain, in the past. Give yourself more ness. Keep yourself busy with some peace of mind and tolerate yourself more easily. Guilt has no place for you
today! SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Liberate your schedule and leave some room for distractions. During this time, you may benefit from the people you know and not what you know. Mingle around and develop as many connections as possible. Success is just around the corner. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You may hear some interesting news where your professional life resides. While you are shining up there on your ladder of success, try to not get caught up in unnecessary domestic disputes. Focus on your road ahead. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Your spectrum of colours widens and you are willing to invite newness into your life. A philosophical inclination may
capture your attention and at the same time, confuse you. Differentiate what is worth believing. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You ponder deeply upon issues on life having to do with your most intimate spheres. You seek further understanding and clarity in your own purposes. Making sense of it will open up a world filled with fascinating solutions. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You need to say what’s on your mind and you certainly want to be heard. One-on-one discussions will help you understand where you stand in your current relationship. Having each other’s roles defined, clears your entire picture. Astro Doyna is an internationally syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate.
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COOK HALF A MEAL AND ROUND IT OUT WITH PREPARED FOODS BY DAVID HAGEDORN ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES A few months ago, I bypassed the corner store in D.C. where about once a month for seven years I had resorted to buying last-minute, uninspiring staples. I headed two blocks northwest for my first visit to Each Peach Market, which opened in August. There were no sticks of Kirkland brand butter or blocks of Kraft cheddar cheese there. Instead, I found items that roused my creative juices, such as Cured DC charcuterie, Pequa Valley whole-milk
yogurt, vibrant leeks, grass-fed strip steaks and good olive oil. In the center of the room, a farm table was graced with bunches of fresh herbs standing in jars, like small floral arrangements. And then I saw Frenchie’s croissants, the best in town, and a basket of fresh everything bagels. A perfect Sunday was in the works. “Do you have smoked salmon?” I asked the young lady behind the counter. “We do,” she said. “But we also cure our own. Would you like to try some?” You bet. If there is any doubt that a food movement is gaining traction in Washington, step into some of the small markets that have opened in the past few years. They aren’t the typical corner stores to duck into just for milk, eggs and mayonnaise. They are micro-grocers that carry squid-ink pasta, vegan faux gras, duck confit, fresh kale, farro and bloomy rind cheese from West Virginia. The eggs are most
Spaghetti With Baby Clam and Arugula Pesto
advance and gently reheated, but you risk drying out the sausages that way.
MAKES: 6 servings PREPARATION: The pesto can be refrigerated for up to 2 days.
2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil Four 4-ounce fresh sausages, such as chicken, pork or turkey 12 ounces peppered bacon, cut into 2-inch pieces 1 large yellow onion, cut into very thin slices 1 large leek, white and light-green parts, halved lengthwise, cut into 1-inch pieces and washed well 8 ounces cremini mushrooms, stemmed and sliced thick 4 large cloves garlic, crushed 1 teaspoon caraway seed 1 teaspoon juniper berries 1 large bay leaf 1 small head (2 pounds) white cabbage, cored and shredded 1 cup hard cider 2 cups sauerkraut, squeezed dry Dijon mustard or whole-grain mustard, for serving
INGREDIENTS For the pesto 2 ounces (2 cups packed) arugula, coarsely chopped 1 small clove garlic, crushed 3 tablespoons shredded Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese 2 tablespoons canola oil 1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt 1/8 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper For the pasta 3 tablespoons kosher salt, for the cooking water 1 pound dried spaghetti or linguine 1/2 cup dry white wine, such as sauvignon blanc 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice 20 ounces canned baby clams 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil 1/2 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes STEPS For the pesto: Combine the arugula and garlic in a mini food processor or blender; pulse until the greens are finely chopped. Add the cheese, the canola and extra-virgin olive oils, and the salt and pepper; process until smooth. The yield is 1/2 cup. Bring a large pot of water to a boil over medium-high heat. Add the salt, then the pasta, and cook according to the package directions. While the pasta is cooking, heat the wine in a large, nonreactive saute pan over medium-high heat; cook until most of its alcohol burns off, about 2 minutes. (You’ll be able to tell when you sweep your hand over the pan, toward you, and can’t smell the wine.) Add the lemon juice, the clams and their can juices, the extra-virgin olive oil and the crushed red pepper flakes. Transfer 1/2 cup of the pasta cooking water to the saute pan. Reduce the heat under the saute pan to medium; cook for 5 minutes, stirring occasionally. Remove from the heat. Drain the pasta well, then add to the saute pan along with 1/4 cup of the pesto (reserve the rest for another use). Return the pan to medium heat for 1 minute, tossing to coat the pasta completely and warm through. Divide among individual wide, shallow bowls. Serve right away.
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STEPS Heat the oil in a large, straight-sided saute pan over mediumhigh heat. Once the oil shimmers, add the sausage; brown them for about 2 minutes on each side, then transfer to a plate. Add the bacon, onion, leek, mushrooms, garlic, caraway seed, juniper berries and bay leaf to the pan; cook for 8 to 10 minutes, stirring occasionally, until the leek and onion have softened, the bacon has browned and the liquid released from the vegetables has evaporated. Stir in the cabbage; cook, stirring occasionally, until it softens and begins to brown, about 5 minutes. Add the cider to deglaze the pan, stirring to dislodge any browned bits on the bottom. Stir in the sauerkraut until well incorporated. Return the sausages to the pan, seating them deep into the cabbage mixture. Reduce the heat to medium, cover and cook for 30 minutes, until the sausages are cooked through. Discard the bay leaf and juniper berries. Serve hot, with mustard at the table.
Spinach, Farro and Duck Confit Salad With Poached Egg MAKES: 2 servings PREPARATION: The farro and the eggs can be cooked a day in advance. Bring them to room temperature before serving. INGREDIENTS
Quick Choucroute MAKES: 6 servings PREPARATION: The choucroute can be made a day or two in
For the eggs 2 large duck eggs (may substitute chicken eggs) 6 cups water 1 teaspoon kosher salt
likely from free-range chickens, the milk is organic and the mayo might be flavored with rosemary or white truffle. Their owners prefer to source locally. They curate the offerings based, in part, on their own tastes and are likely to have bona fide cooking credentials; many of them are chefs who realized their customers were cooking at home more, but in a different way. “They are 50-50 cooks,” says Tracy Stannard, who co-owns Broad Branch Market in Chevy Chase D.C. “They’ll cook half a meal and round it out with prepared foods.” I visited many of these markets with the idea of putting together a meal as a busy cook on the way home from work might, the 50-50 way. The best strategy is to let each place guide your menu. David Hagedorn is co-author with chef Cathal Armstrong of My Irish Table: Recipes From the Homeland and Restaurant Eve.
1 teaspoon distilled white vinegar For the salad 2 cups water 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt 1/2 cup semi-pearled farro Two 6-ounce, store-bought duck confit legs 4 ounces shiitake mushrooms, stemmed and sliced thick 3 tablespoons finely chopped shallot 2 teaspoons Dijon mustard 1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar 3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper 4 ounces (4 cups packed) baby spinach leaves STEPS For the eggs: Line a plate with paper towels. Fill a bowl with water and ice. Crack each egg into its own ramekin or small bowl. Combine the water, salt and vinegar in a 3-quart saucepan over medium-high heat. Once small bubbles form at the edge of the water, reduce the heat to medium. Hold each ramekin or bowl close to the water’s surface. Gently slip 1 egg, then the other, into the water, leaving plenty of space between them. Cook undisturbed for 30 seconds, then use the edge of a flexible spatula to make sure neither egg is sticking to the bottom of the pan. Use the spatula to bring the white up, over, and all around each yolk. Cook for 2 1/2 minutes to soft-poach them. Use a slotted spoon to transfer the eggs to the ice-water bath to stop their cooking, then transfer them to the lined plate to drain. Use a paring knife to trim the eggs into neat ovals. At this point, if you’re not serving the salad right away, the eggs can be placed in an airtight container and refrigerated for up to 2 days. For the salad: Combine the water, salt and farro in a medium saucepan; bring to a boil over medium-high heat. Cook uncovered for 25 to 30 minutes or until the farro is tender. Drain in a colander, then rinse with cool running water and drain. Preheat the oven to 300 degrees. Line a plate with paper towels. Have a baking dish at hand. Place the duck legs skin side down in a saute pan over medium heat; cook until the skin crisps and releases easily, about 5 minutes. Transfer to the baking dish skin side down; bake to warm the meat through, about 10 minutes. Remove all but 1 tablespoon of duck fat from the pan; reserve that fat for another use. Increase the heat to medium-high; add the mushrooms and stir to coat; cook until they begin to brown, about 2 minutes. Transfer them to a paper towel-lined plate. Whisk together the shallot, mustard, vinegar, oil, salt and pepper in a large salad or mixing bowl. Add the spinach, farro and mushrooms to the bowl and dress them well. Divide the salad between individual plates. Top each with a duck leg and a poached egg. Serve right away.
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From Broadway music and percussion to a free comedy — Red Deer College offers three evenings of diverse entertainment this week. ● Dancing Through Time, on Thursday features music from the theatre and ballet, performed by the RDC Symphonic Winds and the Red Deer Community Youth Orchestra. Tickets for the 7:30 p.m. concert at the RDC Arts Centre are $19.25 ($16.25 students/ seniors) from the Black Knight Ticket Centre. ● An evening of Latin, jazz, and rock will be performed on Friday on marimbas, vibraphones, xylophones and drums by the RDC Percussion Ensemble. The 7:30 p.m. presentation is at the RDC Arts Centre. Tickets are $19.25 ($16.25 students/seniors) from the Black Knight Ticket Centre. ● The Ballad of Chewie and Hack, a 40-minute social-issue comedy that’s suitable for the whole family, will be presented on Saturday. The free presentation is by first-year RDC’s Theatre Studies students, in conjunction with Butt Ugly, a local tobacco prevention program that also promotes youth leadership. The 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. shows will be followed by an interactive and improvised presentation. Although there’s no admission fee, there’s limited seating in Studio A of the RDC Arts Centre.
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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS As the Shins’ James Mercer and highly sought-after producer Danger Mouse were preparing their second album as Broken Bells, they noticed some new benefits to their increasingly worked-in collaboration. “It’s easier to be blunt,” said Mercer with a laugh on Monday in Toronto, seated in a hotel conference room next to his bandmate. “(Brian can say): ‘I don’t like that.’ And I’m just like, ‘OK. On we go.”’ The duo had travelled north for a pair of shows — Monday in Toronto and Tuesday in Montreal — a little over a month following the release of After the Disco. The band’s sophomore effort opened at No. 3 on the Canadian Billboard chart, its highest placement worldwide (“Better taste up here,” murmured Mercer when asked to muse on their north-ofthe-border success.) True to its title — referencing the post-party come-down — “After the Disco” is a rather down affair. Where the first record mixed Mercer’s winsome whine with eclectic ear-candy arrangements polished to a lavish sheen by Danger Mouse — whose real name is Brian Burton — its follow-up varies its mood more judiciously, even as certain tunes (especially the title track) dial the tempo upward. “We both have that affinity for melancholic music,” explained Mercer. If the sound of the record is slightly different, the process behind it really wasn’t. Again, Mercer went down to L.A. and stayed in Burton’s guestroom. Together they worked every day at Burton’s studio, staying up late into the night penning lyrics together. Largely it seems as though the collaboration is fuelled by their friendship, which has only grown closer since they linked up to work on the first album. And Burton — who has produced albums for a range of high-profile artists including Norah Jones, Beck, the Black
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Recording artists Brian Burton, left, and James Mercer in New York. Keys and Cee Lo Green (as the duo Gnarls Barkley) — says Mercer is indeed easier to work with than most. “This one, there’s no politics involved,” said Burton, who first gained wide notice for the Beatles/Jay Z mashup The Grey Album. “There’s no watching what you say or what you do so much. It’s just me and James.” Discussions of Burton’s personal studio might conjure images of a plush musical retreat — but it was actually much more modest. “It was like a crappy lawyer’s office,” said a laughing Mercer. “Small and dingy. ... It was really that sort of innocuous suburban strip mall office type of thing. “The vocal booth is pretty hilarious,” he added. “There’s an auto body shop right behind where the vocal booth sits ... (so) you can hear someone grinding the bondo off (a car).” Mercer, who has worked in isolation through much of his run creating witty, affecting music with the Shins, seems to relish having a partner in Burton. His high-pitched vocals have become more and more pliant — check the Bee Gees-indebted Holding on For Life, for instance — and he credits the change to work-
The emotion-filled watercolour paintings of Sonja Zacharias are featured for most of this month at Gallery on Main in Lacombe. The Inner Journey Through Landscape contains artworks that seek to capture a wide range of moods with colour and light. “I explore moods and emotions in my landscape watercolours, such as feelings of joy, serenity, awe, doubt, even apprehension,” said Zacharias, an artist from Clive. The watercolour exhibit runs to Friday, March 21.
ing with Burton. “I’ve gotten better, I think, at singing,” he said. Burton likewise admitted he was sometimes caught off guard by Mercer’s range: “I do get surprised every once in a while — ‘Where did that come from?’ But then after you do that so many times, you’re almost not surprised (anymore).” For his part, Burton also prizes Broken Bells as a creative outlet over which he has uncommon control. Although both artists are extremely busy — Burton is currently helming the upcoming U2 record, but declines to offer any details on the long-awaited album — they’re insistent that Broken Bells is a going concern. Burton, especially, has tired of the widely held presumption that this was a collaboration with an expiration date. “It seems like we could keep doing this forever, really,” Mercer said. “It’s a band,” added Burton. “It would be no different than some band coming in on their second album and asking if they’re planning on doing it forever — they’d probably look at you like you’re kind of nuts. “We’re a band, why wouldn’t we?”
Choir Kids program returning The popular Choir Kids program that brings elementary school choirs together with the Red Deer Symphony Orchestra is continuing for its 16th year. Four performances are scheduled over two Monday evenings on March 10 and March 17. They will involve 17 choirs from regional schools performing with the RDSO at 6 and 7:30 p.m. at the New Life Fellowship Church. Each choir will get to perform two musical selections, which were orchestrated by RDSO music director Claude Lapalme. The concerts will end with a massive choral piece involving all participants, called Ye Shall Have a Song. Over the past five years, the RDSO has spent more than $170,000 connecting with the community through education and outreach programs, such as this one. They provide many adults and children their only chance to experience live symphonic music. The Choir Kids concerts are open to the public. Tickets are $10 ($5 children/$25 for families of up to five members) by calling participating schools, or the RDSO office at 403-340-2948.
Mysteries, doors and peace to be explored FIRST FRIDAY Akkermans in her artist statement. A First Friday reception will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. The Arts A la Carte group presents The Colours of Inner Peace, a joint exhibit at the Marjorie Wood Gallery in the Kerry Wood Nature Centre. A reception will be held on Friday from 5 to 7 p.m. The Wonders of Anime, art by Deborah Torrance and Sheldon Rabbit Wheatley, is showing at The Hub on Ross until March 28. An opening reception will be held on Friday from 4 to 6 p.m. Two downtown businesses are also featuring original art throughout the month. Untitled paintings by Sasha Grinnell are displayed at The Velvet Olive, while works by Monica Sheline can be seen at Cafe Pichilingue.
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for the stage version. Songs include the film’s Oscar-winning title tune as well as Maniac, Gloria, Manhunt and 16 brand new tracks. Robbie Roth penned the music for the new tunes and co-wrote
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The mysteries of “morphoids,” closed doors and inner peace will be explored in Red Deer’s First Friday gallery openings for March. Open and Closed, a show of mixed media works by Red Deer artist Wendy Meeres, is showing in the Kiwanis Gallery, operated by the Red Deer Arts Council. The exhibit, downstairs at the Red Deer Public Library, hints at secrets that lie behind various doors. Meeres’ depictions of doorways were inspired by antique keys and her travels, and contain a strong architectural component. The show runs to April 27. An opening reception will be held Friday from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. An imaginative art installation, IMR Institute of Morphoid Research, by artist Jennifer Akkermans, is showing in the Harris-Warke Gallery until March 22. “The Institute of Morphoid Research invites you to learn about the Morphoids, fantastical creatures recently discovered within Alberta,” writes
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FRONT École La Prairie School is inviting members of the public to attend a FrancoAlbertan flag raising ceremony on Friday at 10 a.m. This is the sixth year that Francophone communities across Alberta are celebrating March 7 as the kickoff event to National French Canadian Heritage Week. The event will also feature special guest speakers: Red Deer North MLA Mary Anne Jablonski and city Councillor Lynne Mulder. The flag raising will take place at the school at 4810 35th St. in Red Deer. Last year, over 6,000 people participated in similar ceremonies throughout Alberta.
BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Central Alberta Theatre is nearing a new deal with the City of Red Deer over a longterm loan. City council agreed on Monday to a new deal on the outstanding $30,700. The deal will extend the repayment to a seven-year term with a lower interest rate, at 2.9 per cent. The original four-year loan was set at 5.33 per cent. About $28,000, plus interest, remains of the total $40,000 loan. CAT requested loan forgiveness because of its recent financial hardships. Council reasoned the revised term was
a good solution because it’s similar to other arrangements with various non-profit groups. Paolo Mancuso, CAT president, said having more time to pay back the loan will make it easier for the group.
tertainment season. Mancuso said he attributes this to the new operations and facility manager, and new series of shows for the CAT Studio. Mancuso said there are some nights they are not hitting the attendance numbers hoped for and they believe that offering dinner theatre would be the fix. “That’s the direction we’re — PAOLO MANCUSO, CAT PRESIDENT going in for the next season,” said Mancuso. “We’re He applauds council’s decision, and the working very hard to secure a venue for fact the city is acknowledging the work CAT dinner theatre for the 2014-2015 season so has done and the leadership in the com- can make up for those numbers. We still munity. want to put in some interesting, edgy stuff “It’s month to month for us but we are in the Nickle (Studio).” making it,” said Mancuso. Second and third reading of the required He said the Memorial Arts Centre is bylaw will be heard in six weeks. booking more shows now than in 2012-2013 and there’s still four months left in the enPlease see COUNCIL on Page B2
‘WE’RE WORKING VERY HARD TO SECURE A VENUE FOR DINNER THEATRE FOR THE 2014-2015 SEASON SO CAN MAKE UP FOR (THE) NUMBERS.’
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SPORTS LEGENDS AT CARD SHOW Meet hockey legend Glenn Hall, former Calgary Stampeder Larry Robinson and former boxing champ Scotty “Bulldog” Olson at the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame and Museum on Sunday. They will be the featured guests at the Sports Card Show and Swap from noon to 3 p.m. Bring your collectible sports cards to have them appraised by Bill Ranford Sr. and trade with other sports memorabilia collectors. There will be door prizes. Regular admission rates will apply. Adults pay $5; youth pay $3 and $12 for a family. For more information, visit www.ashfm.ca or call 403341-8613.
SURFACE RIGHTS MEETING The Alberta Surface Rights Federation is holding its annual meeting in Camrose this year. On March 13, the day starts at 9 a.m. with registration and continues all day. The event includes a presentation from Daryl Bennett, of My Landman Group Inc., who has represented landowners, which is what he will speak to. A second guest speaker may be included but has not been finalized yet. The meeting takes place at the Norseman Inn, 6505 48th Ave. in Camrose. Registration costs $30, which includes lunch at noon and coffee. For more information, call president Perry Nelson at 780-753-6860, vice-president Stephan Hodgetts at 780-672-6494 or executive secretary Tom Nahirniak at 780-6726021.
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Ex-Lacombe student helping build Alberta’s first satellite NEEDS $45,000 TO COMPLETE PROJECT, LAUNCH BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF A Lacombe high school graduate is on a team that needs $45,000 more to launch Alberta’s first satellite into space. Charles Nokes is a third-year engineering physics student at the University of Alberta. He graduated from Lacombe Composite High School in 2011, knowing he wanted to get into engineering, but never really believing he would be a part of this type of project so soon. “I hoped I would be doing this,” said Nokes. “I’ve always been interested by aerospace, but I had no idea.” But now the 20-year-old is working on both the design aspect of a satellite and will have a hand in studying the data it collects. The satellite, EX-Alta 1, will enter a low Earth orbit and study space weather. To put it into space, they are hoping a crowd-funding campaign will bring donations from all over. Nokes said it costs $60,000 to launch the satellite and so far they have raised slightly more than $15,000. Nokes is part of the Alberta Sat team, a student group that hopes to develop a space program starting with the first made-in-Alberta satellite. The cube satellite has three units: each is 10 by 10 by 10 cm. On the exterior, solar panels will generate power. Inside is a computer and the mechanics to control the satellite, as well as two payloads aimed at studying Earth’s magnetic field. “The sun quite frequently gives off big energetic bursts of high-energy
particles,” said Nokes. “When those come and hit Earth’s magnetic field, they can cause disruptions that can damage telecommunications infrastructure.” Nokes pointed to an occurrence in 1859 called the Carrington Event in which a solar storm hit Earth and knocked out all telegraph lines, even electrocuting some telegraph operators. A smaller solar storm in March 1989 knocked the Hydro-Quebec electrical grid offline for nine hours. “That sort of thing can still happen and with the infrastructure we have today, something like that would be catastrophic,” said Nokes. The satellite will be in space for about three months. For Nokes, the thrill of being part of the team behind the satellite is twofold. As an engineering project he said it is a big challenge, which he enjoys. And once it is in space, he will have a hand in studying the data the satellite collects. This summer, he will do some research with the head of the space physics research team at the University of Alberta, Ian Mann, related to what the satellite will measure when it is launched. “It will be really cool when it does go up to have a chance to see how the data it (the satellite) collects compares to what we have collected so far with ground stations and satellites that are higher up in space,” said Nokes. “I’m really invested in both aspects of the project.” Anyone interested in donating to the project can visit www.ualberta.useed. net/projects/90/home. Donations start at $5 and increase with gifts for people who donate more money, including having the donor’s name engraved on a chip on the satellite for $100; getting a large colour poster of the satellite and two names engraved for $250 or, for $10,000, a potential donor can have a 3D model of the satellite. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com
People are creating data at an unprecedented rate because of technology and social media, and what is being done with that data can benefit or concern those who post it, says the next Red Deer College perspectives speaker. Nora Young, the host of CBC radio’s Spark, will be in Red Deer on March 11 to talk about new technology, how people can protect themselves and how this newly created data be used to benefit people and communities. “I’m talking about the amount of data you and I and everyone is starting to gener- Nora Young ate about their daily lives,” said Young. “First of all, looking at why we’re doing this because it is kind of strange, but more broadly what that information can be used for. So part of it is looking at the useful stuff we can do with that, but also some of the potentially scary implications, especially around privacy.” This includes people who post photos of brandname items, tweet about products, post reviews on websites like Yelp.com or status updates. Young said on its own that information could be considered fairly trivial, but when it is aggregated it shows trends and helps advertisers. “I think that’s the interesting thing (but) we don’t tend to think about it that way (as data),” said Young. “When you actually look at all of these little pieces of the puzzle coming together, you can think about it as data. “Businesses are starting to think about it as data. In the fall, Twitter and Facebook started making the kinds of information people post about television shows available to TV networks. It’s essentially research data for them.” But people don’t think about it this way. Instead, users share the information on these social media sites with people they think may be interested in it. Young will do two talks at RDC: one in the evening aimed at the general public and one in the afternoon talking with students. “In the afternoon it’s going to be a little more informal and is a little bit more structured around privacy and how privacy is changing,” said Young. The evening talk will touch on privacy concerns as well. “What’s really happening is we’re seeing a sea of change in terms of not only the amount of information out there about us, but also the kinds of things it can be used for. Both for good and for ill,” said Young. “What I would like people to think about is their data and their information. To think about the fact their data has value to them and other people and to think about the fact they can be activists about what their data is used for. “As we go forward, we’re going to see the use of data as a political issue. What I really want to do is raise people’s level of awareness about that and to be aware of how quickly our lives are changing and how quickly data is becoming a force for social benefit, and a force that could potentially compromise your privacy.” Young will take the stage at the RDC Mainstage, 100 College Blvd., starting at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 11. Tickets cost $42 and are available through the Black Knight Inn ticket centre, by calling 403-7556626 or 1-800-661-8793, or online at www.bkticketcentre.ca. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com
Police hunt for witnesses to brutal beating Police are looking for witnesses who saw a brutal beating in downtown Red Deer early Sunday morning. RCMP said patrolling officers were flagged down by security at The Gents Club at 4620 50th Ave. about 2:30 a.m. after a man was found injured outside. Witnesses said the man had been attacked outside the bar
after he came to the aid of a homeless man who was being harassed by five men. The injured man asked the five to leave the man alone and they turned on him and badly beat him. Witnesses said he was kicked in the head several times. The victim was taken by ambulance to hospital with a
concussion, bruises and cuts requiring stitches. All five suspects left in a taxi before police arrived. Most of the witnesses had also left because of the extreme cold. Police are reviewing surveillance video from the bars and working with taxi companies to identify the culprits.
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Two of the suspects are described as black and a third as aboriginal. Police are asking any witnesses to come forward and call police at 403-343-5575 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477). Anonymous tips can also be made online at www.tipsubmit.com.
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BRIEFS Killing accused faces 18-month wait for trial The Red Deer man accused of killing a Calgary woman and then dumping her body in the trash will remain in custody for another 18 months awaiting trial. Talia Meguinis, 27, died during a visit to Red Deer two years ago. Her body was found on Feb. 27, 2012, while a recycling truck was unloading at a depot in Red Deer. Nathan Michael Desharnais, now 25, was arrested on Sept. 14, 2012, and charged with second-degree murder and interfering with human remains. Desharnais was ordered to stand trial after evidence against him was examined during a preliminary hearing in Red Deer provincial court last December. He is to be tried before judge and jury in the Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench, scheduled for four weeks staring Sept. 8, 2015.
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Oilfield shop damaged in fire A six-bay oilfield shop is likely a write-off after a fire on Friday morning. Red Deer County Fire Services and their city counterparts responded to the blaze at about 11 a.m. in Blindman Industrial Park just north of Red Deer. County fire chief Tom Metzger said the fire was quickly brought under control. There were no injuries. The cause of the fire is still under investigation. No further information was available on Monday.
Trial dates set Trial dates have been set for two Central Alberta men accused of kidnapping, beating and robbing an acquaintance. Daniel Huddlestone, 35 and Cameron Glen Monkman, 29, are charged with attempted murder, armed robbery and aggravated assault after police were called to investigate when a man suffering gunshot wounds was found walking along a roadside hear Benalto on June 3, 2013. Both were ordered to stand trial following a preliminary hearing held
late in December to test the Crown’s evidence against them. They are set to stand trial for two weeks, starting June 15, 2015, by judge and jury in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench. Huddlestone remains in custody while Monkman was granted release in mid-June on $2,000 cash bail.
AltaLink hearings set A public hearing into proposed transmission line upgrades in Central Alberta will begin next Tuesday, March 11. Nearly 70 intervenors had signed up to take part in the Alberta Utilities Commission (AUC) hearing into the AltaLink project to rebuild some transmission lines, as well as build new lines and substations from Didsbury to Ponoka. In Red Deer, there has been opposition voiced by the City of Red Deer and locals to proposed line routes in the West Park and Pines neighbourhoods. The city wants to see the line in the Pines, which is due to be replaced, moved to the bottom of the escarpment further away from homes and trails in the area. In West Park, neighbours want to see a small stretch of line moved to preserve a treed area and have less impact on nearby homes. Other portions of the project include new substations in Didsbury, Innisfail and Ponoka, as well as 35 km of lines in those areas. A 71-km line overhaul is proposed from Benalto to the Nova Chemicals plant in Joffre. Upgrading transmission in the area has been touted as a necessary step to upgrade capacity in the fast-growing Central Alberta corridor. The hearing begins at 9 a.m. at Holiday Inn and Suites at 33 Pretrolia Drive in Gasoline Alley. It is expected to last about two weeks.
Robbery trial in 2015 One of two men arrested in connection with an armed robbery at a Red Deer pizza store will remain jail for another year awaiting trial. Ernest Bedore, 42, is charged with robbery, forcible confinement and choking with intent to overcome resistance in connection with an incident at the Dominos Pizza on Jan. 30, 2013.
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COUNCIL: Sign motion In other council news: ● Red Deer Coun. Lawrence Lee wants to curb the election sign eyesore that litters the streetscape during municipal, provincial and federal elections. Lee introduced a notice of motion on Monday that limits the length of time that the signs are in place and the number of signs for candidates. Lee said he noticed the visual blight during the October municipal election. He said the election signs can cause distracted driving. He said a shorter time frame will also reduce vandalism and improve safety. “One month is sufficient to use that form of communication,” said Lee. “We live in a society now that
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Trial opens in March 2015 for a man accused of robberies at two Servus Credit Union branches in Red Deer. Philip Glen Noel, 52, was arrested and charged in October 2012 in connection with armed robberies on July 9 and Oct. 4 of that year. Charged with armed robbery, robbery, possession of a dangerous weapon (a handgun), wearing a disguise to commit an offence, possession of stolen property and breaching release conditions, Noel pleaded not guilty and asked for trial by judge alone in the Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench. He was committed to stand trial in mid-January of this year after the evidence against him was tested in a preliminary hearing in Red Deer provincial court. Noel will remain in custody awaiting his trial, scheduled for five days starting on March 16, 2015. He is facing similar charges in Edmonton.
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A handful of Red Deer’s park trails will be closed starting on Wednesday until March 21 to accommodate the installation of a new water main. Construction will take place near Spruce Drive and 32nd Street, on the north and south sides of 32nd crossing over Piper Creek, just west of the intersection. The nearby trails leading to the Piper Creek crossing area and the Kin Canyon parking lot will be closed for public safety. The parking lot will be used for construction crew access. Traffic is not expected to be impacted. The project is part of regular infrastructure improvement and replacement work, said Alexander Monkman, environmental planning engineer at the City of Red Deer. The construction area will be fenced and trail heads will be signed. Work will also be done on the northwest corner of the 32nd Street and Spruce Drive intersection. Drivers are asked to give crews room to work and obey all signs.
“Music makes an incredible impact on everyone, and this program makes it possible for more organizations to continue making an impact on our youth,” said Alan Convery, community relations manager with TD bank Group. Kevin Drew, a musician from Broken Social Scene, inspired the initiative to support programs that serve at-risk youths, who may not get the chance to be exposed to music through their schools. “Kids today (need to find) an opportunity that can evoke passion. Music does exactly this,” said Drew. Allan Reid, director of Musicounts, was “moved by the unique stories of the many programs that applied for funding” in previous years. Past applicants selected to draw from the program’s total pot of $200,000 include the Eka Cooperative Highland Gong Society of Vancouver, The Heart of the City Piano Program in Edmonton, the Broadway Avenue Hip Hop Academy in Winnipeg, and The Salvation Army in Scarborough, Ont. Applications for this year’s grant program are being accepted until May 9. Successful applicants will be announced in July. Applications can be found by visiting www.musicounts.ca.
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is driven a lot by social media and through other forms of campaigning. I think that those allow you to advocate yourself and campaign appropriately.” The motion permits signs to be put in place as of nomination day in the year of a municipal election or on the dropping of the writ for provincial and federal elections and limits the number of signs for any one candidate to one sign per contiguous designated sign location. Currently signs are permitted six weeks in advance of the election. Council will consider the motion at its next meeting on March 17. ● Two Red Deer city councillors want to save the honey bees. Councillors Paul Harris and Lynne Mulder introduced a notion of motion that calls on the city to explore dedicated pollinator park or garden for pollinating insects, and to explore the banning of pesticides that have adverse affects on the health of pollinator populations. Harris said bees and other pollinating insects
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Arrested shortly afterward, Bedore was released from custody after a bail hearing, but was returned to jail on July 27 after missing a court appearance. He was ordered to stand trial on all charges after a preliminary hearing in Red Deer provincial court on Jan. 31. Bedore is to be tried by judge alone in the Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench on Feb. 17 to 19, 2015. Also arrested after the incident was David Fehr, 45, who pleaded guilty last March 15 to a charge of robbery. Fehr was sentenced to 21 months in jail with 12 months of probation to follow.
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Red Deerians are invited to provide input on the piece of legislation that sets out the functions and rules for municipalities over two days later this month. Consultations on the Municipal Government Act will be held at the Harvest Centre on March 12 and 13. The first session on March 12 is geared for municipal professionals and others who are well-versed in municipal governance, from 10 a.m. to noon. The next session is geared toward municipal taxation and assessment processes, from 1 to 3 p.m. At 4 p.m., there will be a planning and development technical session. On March 13, a business and industry session takes place from 9 a.m. to noon, followed by a public open house from 6 to 8 p.m. Items under review are planning and development, assessment and taxation and how local decisions are made. The act was last updated in 1994. The province began the consultations in January. They are expected to wrap up in April. Proposed changes to the act are expected to be presented at the legislature in 2015. To register or to find out more information, visit www.mgareview.alberta. ca/consultations/.
Damien Perreault and Shirley Piro look on as Sandra Ladwig holds her cards at the Golden Circle on Monday afternoon. Ladwig said she had a pretty good hand as they played a game of Canasta during the weekly card game at the seniors centre. Each Monday from 1-3 p.m. the card tables are brought out and play begins. For information on other Golden Circle Senior Resource Centre activities go to www.goldencircle.ca or call the centre at 403-343-6074.
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It all began a year or so ago, when bukes me for losing a level on his bemy darling brother decided to intro- loved Super Mario “Bruhzers”, I reduce wee innocent Lars to the Angry alize the madness MUST come to an Birds. end! It was a day like any other, aside I think about the great adventures I from the fact that the kid had as a child, the imaginawas bored and bugging us at tion that guided my day to any chance he had. day existence, the pure fun So Dustin, with his inof simply playing pretend. tuitive way with children, And I wonder if he will handed him his iphone and have this ability, or are proceeded to show the child these electronic games afhow to hurl small ugly lookfecting his mind so he might ing birds at disgruntled be unable to play in such a green pigs. way? It was then that the horSo yesterday while bearror began. ing these heavy thoughts in The playing of Angry mind, we made our way out Birds evolved into engaging to Aunty Gemma’s house in LINDSAY in computer games on the Trochu for a visit. BROWN net… Aunty Gemma, Lars, SoWhich resulted in many a phie, Cousin Hannah, GranME PLUS THREE virus as the kid cannot read ny and myself made our way and would click on any popto the park to have a play. up that presented itself. Upon arrival we found This in turn started the begging the playground was buried in heaps of for the dreaded DS which his Aun- deep snow! ty Heather gave him for Christmas in Of course the kids ran and frolicked an attempt to save our disease ridden over the top layer of frozen white stuff computer. easily … Gemma and I though, were To which Uncle Dustin AGAIN pro- sinking into 2-3 feet drifts with each vided a classic game called, Super Ma- step taken. rio Brothers (in Lars’ words Super MaI was stuck in a considerably deep rio “Bruhzers”). one, when Lars asked to play Super Now, for the last few months each Mario Bruhzers. I explain, whilst tryindividual in our family, from gran- ing to heave my leg out of its entrapnies to aunties, uncles and anyone in ment that we did not have his DS. The between has been accosted as soon as boy then proceeds to say, “No Mom, they walk in our front door to the in- let’s play that WE ARE Super Mario sanity of this video game mania. Bruhzers!” “Look Taylor (Aunty Heather’s boySo as it turns out we had a great friend) I’m already on level 5. … How time imagining that we were the charabout I watch you beat this level.” acters in this video game, that previThis is Lars’ not-so-discreet way of ously had me so worried that it was asking the adults in his life to assist scarring my boy’s childhood. him in his gaming feat and at first the Although running all over the playboy’s aunties and uncles obliged his ground pretending to be Bowser while adorable requests lovingly. Now in Gemma and Lars were Mario and Lupresent days I’m sure that this nov- igi, was rather exhausting ... it was SO elty has worn off as they all seem to be worth it! making less and less appearances at I guess it goes to show, that deour home. spite the technological advances in And I can’t say that I blame them. our children’s youth, to play will … Although I do, because they have always be an instinctive response in left ME to deal with this gamer a kid’s life. phase, this phase which I DIDN’T But…with that said, I think I will EVEN START! be bringing in a time limit on the I have never in my life been into the DS per day, to ensure that Lars will video game thing. have time to exercise that imaginaI don’t really see the point of it, and tion without a video game to distract in truth I have terrible co-ordination his thoughts. skills — my gaming aptitude goes about Because as I’ve said before, it is all as far as level 3 in the Bejeweled game about finding that happy medium. on my phone. So when my lovely little 5 year old Lindsay Brown is a Sylvan Lake mothson bests me in an online game or re- er of two and freelance columnist.
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Question: I’ve heard that you were Complications can include local abandoned and orphaned as a child, bacterial infections, allergic reactions and that Focus on the Family is en- and potential disfiguring skin reaccouraging adoption through the foster tions. care system. More serious infections, such as Can you provide my spouse and me hepatitis C, hepatitis B and HIV can with any guidance, or sugresult from tattoo needles gest any resources as we that have been contaminatconsider adopting a child? ed with infected blood. Jim: You’ve heard corPlus, as time passes, rectly, so I’m encouraged many regret the tattoos they to learn of your interest in got in their younger days. adoption. Removing them is not Currently, there are aponly costly, but may leave proximately 110,000 kids scarring. in North America waiting Piercings carry similar for permanent adoptive risks. families. Oral piercing carries a In each instance, parenhigher risk of infection than tal rights have been termiear piercing, and also opens JIM nated, so the only “parents” the door to dental and gum DALY the children have are the problems. states in which they live. Finally, there are sexual For this reason, to adopt and “subcultural” implicafrom foster care, it’s necestions associated with certain sary to work through a litattoos and piercings. censed placing agency. Your daughter may not intend to After selecting an agency, individu- send overtly sexual or rebellious sigals will need to complete an appli- nals through her choices, but that cation, have a background check and doesn’t mean others won’t perceive undergo a home study (conducted by them that way. the agency). Do some homework first to make I’d also encourage you to visit our sure she’s not communicating anything Adoption and Orphan Care Initiative dangerous or unnecessarily provocawebsite (www.iCareAboutOrphans.org) tive. from time to time to stay current on Like it or not, other people will ofmatters related to adoption. ten make assumptions about her charIt offers a wide range of current re- acter and personality based on her sources that will be of help, regard- appearance. less of where you are in the adoption This is especially true in job interprocess. views. I’d also strongly recommend readSo it’s worth taking the time to think ing David Sanford’s Handbook on Thriv- through the image she wants to poring as an Adoptive Family: Real-Life So- tray. lutions to Common Challenges (Focus on If, after examining all the evthe Family, 2008). idence, your daughter is still deIf we can be of further assistance, termined to go through with it, you please contact us at orphancare@fam- have two choices. ily.org or call 1-800-A-FAMILY. Given that this decision will have Question: My 16-year-old daughter lifelong consequences, you may feel wants to get a tongue ring and a tattoo. it’s in her best interest to exercise I’m skeptical. What are your thoughts your authority as parents and ask your on this? daughter to hold off until she’s 18. Dr. Greg Smalley, Vice President, On the other hand, since she’s conFamily Ministries: Piercings and ink sidering something that is not inherare becoming more and more popu- ently immoral or illegal, is this worth lar among youth and even adults. But creating a potential rift between you? there are some things you and your May God grant you wisdom in this prodaughter need to be aware of before cess! she takes the plunge. Catch up with Jim Daly at www.jimWhen it comes to tattoos, there are dalyblog.com or at www.facebook.com/ health risks to consider. DalyFocus.
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Need a jumpstart? Here are some tips “I really appreciate this.” “No problem,” Mark replied, popping the hood of his truck. “You got cables?” “Sure do,” I said. I had found my old booster cables buried deep in the garage. My vehicle was in the shop for service. As a courtesy, the garage had lent me a new car off the lot. Despite searching for one, I could not find the block heater cord. I gambled that it wouldn’t get too cold overnight. My gamble did not pay off when the overnight temperature MURRAY dropped to minus 35. I had FUHRER cranked the engine over only a few times when the battery died. With both hoods now open, we connected the batteries and I tried cranking over the engine again. It still wouldn’t start. It growled like an old bear waking up after a winter of hibernation. Mark shook his head. “Maybe we should let these two talk for a while.” “Let who talk?” I was confused. Mark motioned to the batteries. I understood. Leave the batteries connected. “You got coffee?” he asked. “I got coffee,” I replied and we trudged off into the house where it was warm. Connecting a live battery to a dead battery is often called a boost or, as some prefer, a jumpstart. For the longest time I used to carry booster cables with me. When I would see someone on the side of the road or in a parking lot with a dead battery, I often would roll up next to them and offer a boost. Most of the time, the other vehicle would crank over and fire right up. Remembering Mark’s comment about letting the two batteries talk for a while got me thinking. I love writing about and teaching self-esteem concepts. To me, it’s a way to remind people of the greatness that lies within. And sometimes when I’m explaining a concept or offering sincere advice, it feels like I have just performed a type of spiritual and emotional jumpstart. And it occurred to me that during that process of providing a boost, my functioning battery provides
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life energy to the dead or nearly dead battery. It doesn’t have to teach the dead battery how to be a battery. In a metaphorical sense, all the living battery does is remind the dead battery of its initial potential. Reminds it of its power. Once the dead battery is back to functioning within its potential, we disconnect the cables and wave goodbye. In a sense, it’s the same with helping people. Many times people have commented that a conversation we’d had sparked their enthusiasm and reminded them of what they’d always known but simply forgotten. When people email me about my weekly columns, or speak to meet at a workshop, in a counselling session or following a speaking engagement, they often thank me for helping them to become whole again. Again, I think back to the jumpstart scenario. I didn’t teach them to be whole; they were already whole. I didn’t teach them to be resilient; they were already resilient. I didn’t teach them to be resourceful; they were always resourceful. What I did was simply give them a boost, reminding them of their potential for a happy and empowered life. Need a jumpstart? Here are a few simple tips that may help to connect the cables. ● Learn something new. Buy a book, take a class, sit down and chat with someone who inspires you. Commit to ongoing learning. The more knowledgeable you become, the more empowered you’ll feel, and the more empowered, the more confident and willing you’ll be. ● Seek out a mentor. Look for someone who is doing what you’d love to do or living an inspired life that you’d like to emulate. Ask someone who walks with confidence and acts with integrity if he or she has some time to talk. I’ll wager you’ll get a yes. Want to get in great shape? Ask a fit friend about exercise and nutrition. Want to learn about the world of finance? Ask someone who manages money well to offer you some advice. Empowered people are always happy to help and typically, the first to encourage others — the first to offer a jumpstart. ● Be kind to yourself. Drop your baggage and let go of past hurts and failings. Forgive others but most importantly, forgive yourself. Learn to love and accept every aspect of yourself. You don’t need to be perfect. Every act of self-kindness helps to build selfesteem. ● If you really want to jumpstart your life then be willing to offer others a boost. When you come across people in need, offer them a spiritual and emotional jumpstart. Connect with these folks and remind them of their greatness, their beauty, their worth and innate strength. The 14th-century Persian mystic and poet Hafiz once wrote, “I wish I could show you, when you are lonely or in darkness, the astonishing light of your
own being.” When Mark and I came out of the house, I hopped in the car and pushed the start button. The car immediately roared to life. Mark carefully disconnected the booster cables. “Must have been a successful conversation,” I said. Marked looked at me and smiled. “My battery knows what to say.” On a cold day, if you see someone with a vehicle that won’t start, stop and offer a boost. If you encounter someone whose life has stalled — someone who has forgotten or lost sight of his or her greatness and potentiality – stop and offer a jumpstart. Murray Fuhrer is a self-esteem expert and facilitator. His new book is entitled Extreme Esteem: The Four Factors. For more information on self-esteem, check the Extreme Esteem website at www.extremeesteem.ca.
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Can girls be saved from cutting? ENDING GENITAL CUTTING IS OPPOSED BY THOSE WHO WANT BRIDES TO BE VIRGINS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HARGEISA, Somalia — The 30 Somali teenagers — both boys and girls — all agreed: Female genital mutilation is harmful and the practice should be abandoned. But what they really meant, they revealed moments later, is that girls should have their genitalia cut — just not sewn shut. “It’s our tradition and if the girls are not subjected to suna (cutting) she will not be accepted for marriage,” said Asthma Ibrahim Jabril, 17. The students, who are part of an after-school club in Somaliland that the UN children’s agency helps fund, discuss issues like child labour, early marriage, and female Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS genital mutilation in a classroom with several Teenage girls attend an after-school club that the UN children’s agency UNICEF large hearts scrawled helps fund, one of whose subjects is discussion of the practice of female genital along the walls. UNICEF is weaving a mutilation (FGM), at the Sheik Nuur Primary School in Hargeisa, Somaliland, a delicate campaign to edu- breakaway region of Somalia. Child rights advocates in nearly 30 countries are cate communities in So- fighting to reduce the number of girls subjected to the cutting of their genitalia maliland about the harms and last month about 60 religious and civic leaders in the capital of Somaliland, a of female genital mutilation and to get leaders, semi-autonomous region in northern Somalia that has remained largely peaceful who are meeting there during Somalia’s decades of conflict, attended a daylong seminar and debate on this month to debate the the subject. practice, to denounce it. Child rights advocates in the capital of Somaliland — a semi-autonomous renearly 30 countries are fighting to reduce the num- gion in northern Somalia that has remained largely ber of girls subjected to the cutting of their genitalia, peaceful during Somalia’s decades of conflict — ata practice that goes back thousands of years and that tended a daylong seminar and debate on female Somali practitioners often link to Islamic require- genital mutilation. ments. Sheik Khalil Abdulai Ahmed, the government All 15 girls sitting opposite the boys at Sheik Nuur minister of religious affairs, told the room that fePrimary school have undergone suna — the removal male genital mutilation can lead to death, pain and of the clitoris and the labia minora. They all said it mental issues. Amina Mohamed Jirde, the wife of Sowas the right thing to do. maliland’s president, pleaded with the group to stop Female genital mutilation comes in many differ- genital mutilation. “This practice is not good for the ent forms. The other form known by the Somali teens girl,” Jirde said. “It is good for you to marry all the is sewing the vagina shut until marriage. Everyone girls without discrimination.” agreed that this should be ended. Officials with UNICEF tried to underscore that “I want it to be eradicated. It’s an old tradition,” they do not believe female genital mutilation is resaid Ikram Ismail, a confident 18-year-old in a pink quired by Islam, though it is not strictly practiced headscarf and a black hijab. “When my mother was by Muslims. Haydar Nasser, a UNICEF official who young no one could speak about it publicly, but now is Iraqi by birth but now a Canadian citizen, told people understand that it causes a lot of harm so the leaders that they were following a custom first that’s why we talk about it.” practiced by the Egyptians some 6,000 years ago, long Female genital mutilation can cause severe bleed- before Islam was founded. ing and problems with urination, cysts, infections, in“So the question to you to discuss today is why as fertility and complications with childbirth, including a Muslim practice do you employ a pharaoh practice, an increased risk of newborn death. More than 125 pharaohs who went to hell because they are kaffirs,” million girls and women alive today have been cut in he said, using the Arabic word for someone who 29 African and Middle Eastern countries, the World doesn’t believe in Islam. Health Organization says. Islam’s holy book, he continued, says that human In Somalia, the cultural expectation for girls to beings are created perfectly. “So if a human is in a undergo genital mutilation comes down to sex and perfect way, why do we practice something that” almarriage. Men expect to marry a virgin. If a girl has ters the body, he said. not undergone female genital mutilation, she is conAt a small community centre made of metal sheetsidered unclean. ing in one of Hargeisa’s lower income communities, “It’s that she is not pure,” said Charity Kinya Ko- two dozen women and girls, who have been in an ronya, a child protection officer for UNICEF who education program run by aid group Tostan, and was raised in a community in Kenya where young supported by UNICEF, spoke about their views on girls undergo genital mutilation. Her father would the practice. not allow the procedure to be done on her. Amran Mohamud, 40, spent 15 years cutting girls. “You are stitched and not opened up until the day She remembers the girls who wouldn’t stop bleedof your marriage,” Koronya continued. “They say ing. She remembers the infections that set in. After someone who is open, anyone can go in.” she began attending Tostan classes four years ago, Last month, about 60 religious and civic leaders in she abandoned the trade, a profession she learned
from her mother that paid between $30 and $50 per procedure. Mohamud carried out the cutting procedure on her oldest daughter. But her granddaughters will not have it done. Mohamud said even her mother is against the practice now. “I reminded her of the problems we’ve seen,” Mohamud said. An imam from the small community in Hargeisa, Mohamed Said Mahmood, 54, said the world is changing. “There are men willing to get married to uncut girls,” he said, while acknowledging not all men his age back his viewpoint. At the end of the daylong meeting that UNICEF had hoped would end in a decision to abandon female genital mutilation, the religious leaders — including the minister of religious affairs — say they cannot agree to abandon suna. The practice of female genital cutting will continue.
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KAMLOOPS, B.C. — In the 4.5-billion history of Earth, 80,000 years is the blink of an eye. But in terms of human evolution, it has the potential to be a drastic shift. A team of archaeologists and anthropologists believe that length of time may be just how much earlier our ancestors began using their brains to develop basic skills. It has been commonly believed that around 200,000 years ago, human ancestors began to become cognitively “modern.” “That is, when did we begin to think in ways that are common for humans today and distinct from non-modern humans?” said Karl Hutchings, an assistant professor in sociology and anthropology at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, B.C., and a member of a team of researchers on a recent dig in Ethiopia. Some members of the research team speculate discoveries at the site, known as the Gademotto Formation, could move the timetable for brain development to about 280,000 years ago. A research paper published by the team said the discovery is significant “because it provides direct evidence for a highly advantageous, complex technology that pre-dates the emergence of Homo sapiens.”
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Karl Hutchings, an assistant professor in sociology and anthropology at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, B.C., and a member of a team of researchers on a recent dig in Ethiopia, holds a spear point in a recent photo. Hutchings, however, is doubtful, because the new data would indicate a different date for the emergence of Homo sapiens — a group that includes humans and their ancestors — and because there have been no sites found with similar tools that were used in that time period. “I’m not as convinced,” he said.
The area has several sites where hominids, a subgroup of Homo sapiens, have been found. Hutchings said he was invited because he is the only person who does the type of archeological analysis necessary — one that uses sound waves and measurements to break stones and, from that, determine how they were made and why they
were used. He studied more than 200 javelin-shaped, mostly obsidian projectiles found at the site along a large collapsed volcano crater in the country’s Rift Valley. His research involved analyzing the fractures in the stone and using the results to determine how the objects were used. Fractures are different based on whether the objects are thrown or used as a hand tool, for example. He hopes to return to Ethiopia to visit the Gademotto Formation again for further investigation. Whatever the results of the study, Hutchings said the work will have an impact. He said we can better understand our place in the cosmos and where we are headed if we better understand ourselves. “Of course, we can’t witness or dig up these behaviours, so archaeologists look for indications of these behaviours among things that do preserve; in this case, specific stone tools, since stone preserves so well,” he said. “So, I am seeking to identify that place and time where we began to think in ways that characterize modern humans.” Once the timeline of where and when our ancestors began to evolve is more clear, research can concentrate on why, he said. “It’s always the ’why’ questions that are most fascinating.”
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Flames can’t answer call of Wild FORMER REBEL KUEMPER SOLID IN NET AGAIN IN 15TH STRAIGHT START FOR WILD BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Wild 3 Flames 2 ST. PAUL, Minn. — Surging into and out of the Olympic break, the Minnesota Wild have created a significant cushion between them and their competitors for the two Western Conference wild-card playoff spots. That’s not enough. With five days before they play next, this was still a game they were worried about — and had to win. Jared Spurgeon and Zach Parise scored in the third period, and the Wild notched their season-high fifth straight victory, 3-2 over the Calgary Flames on Monday night. “You don’t want to go a week without getting any points the way things are, even if you have a cushion,” Wild coach Mike Yeo said. “The cushion to me is nothing ... because it’s not about where the people are behind you. To me it’s much more of a race of what you need to get to.” The Wild have 75 points, nine ahead of the cut, but they are off until Saturday. Then they will launch their final stretch of 20 games in 37 days. “I don’t think we were at our best. I don’t think we played at a level we need to play. But it doesn’t matter when you look back at the score,” Parise said. Kyle Brodziak also scored, rookie Darcy Kuemper stopped 21 shots during his 15th start in a row, and the Wild raised their record at home to 22-7-2 while playing in front of their fans for the first time in 25 days. Captain Mikko Koivu, back from a 17-game absence due to a broken ankle, skated on the second line with Dany Heatley and Charlie Coyle, apart from Parise for the first time. Parise gave the Wild some insurance by camping in the crease and deflecting a shot past Reto Berra with
5:16 remaining for his 21st goal. Just 77 seconds later, Mark Giordano scored to bring the Flames back within a goal. But Kuemper hung on to raise his record to 11-3-2. Kuemper has played so well in place of Josh Harding and Niklas Backstrom that the Wild might not need to trade for a goalie before the deadline. “The confidence he has now, you can see that, and it’s just kind of the edge he’s playing with that’s good to see,” Koivu said. “He’s playing winning hockey right now, so obviously that’s a huge part of the team.” Mikael Granlund had two assists while playing in the NHL for the first time against his brother Markus Granlund, who was called up from the AHL last week by the Flames. After a scoreless, sluggish and penalty-free first period, the pace picked up in the middle frame. Matt Cooke swooped in behind the net to poke the puck away from Berra. Brodziak crept toward the crease to corral the puck and knocked it in for the game’s first goal. “If you make a mistake the puck ends up in the net. I feel bad for the team because they played really hard tonight and we had a great chance to win,” Berra said. Mike Cammalleri, playing perhaps his last game for the Flames with the NHL trade deadline looming on Wednesday, tied it 1-1 in the second period when Koivu’s pass ricocheted across the slot to him for an easy tap-in that Kuemper had no chance to stop. “No moral victories. We know they’re playing well, but we’d like to win,” Cammalleri said. With Coyle screening Berra on a power play, Spurgeon sent a slap shot through traffic for the lead.
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Calgary Flames’ Paul Byron, left, and Minnesota Wild’s Nate Prosser do some shoving as the puck rolls between them in the first period of an NHL game, Monday, in St. Paul, Minn.
Koe stops Stoughton to tie for Brier lead BY THE CANADIAN PRESS KAMLOOPS, B.C. — Alberta’s Kevin Koe set up a three-way tie for first at the Canadian men’s curling championship Monday night with a 10-4 win in eight ends over previously unbeaten Jeff Stoughton from Manitoba. John Morris of B.C. then beat Eddie MacKenzie of Prince Edward Island 10-4, leaving Morris, Koe and Stoughton all tied at 4-1 at the Tim Hortons Brier in Kamloops, B.C. Newfoundland and Labrador’s Brad Gushue improved to 2-3 with a 9-7 win over James Grattan of New Brunswick, who won his first game in the earlier draw. Northern Ontario improved to 2-3 by beating still winless Jamie Murphy of Nova Scotia 9-6. Koe grabbed a three in the third end and stole a crippling four in eight when Stoughton was forced to try a low percentage angle raise into a crowded four-foot and his stone sailed past. Stoughton shook hands at that point. In afternoon play, it’s one game Kevin Koe never looks forward to playing. “This one, you don’t get a lot of enjoyment out of,” the Alberta skip said, after beating younger brother Jamie Koe from the Northwest TerritoriesYukon 8-3 in eight ends Monday at the Canadian men’s curling championship. “It’s never fun beating them because I’m always cheering for them every year they’re here,” he said. “That being said, we needed a win.” Alberta improved to 3-1 at the Tim Hortons Brier, at least until the evening draw, when he was set to face unbeaten Manitoba and Jeff Stoughton. The Territories fell to 1-3.
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Alberta skip Kevin Koe directs the sweep as they play Manitoba at the Tim Hortons Brier in Kamloops, B.C. on Monday. “It’s good that it’s early in the week so hopefully both of us win the rest of our games,” he added. “They’re obviously better,” Jamie said of the encounters with his brother. “We’re going to have to play our best and hope for some breaks but it’s a fair battle.” Jamie Koe has represented the Territories four out of the last five years but when Kevin has been there he has always won the brother-vs.-brother tussle.
Monday also saw New Brunswick’s James Grattan score his first win this year against Greg Balsdon of Ontario 9-6. Grattan gave Stoughton a fight Sunday as well and said it felt good to get a monkey off his back with the win. “When we went to bed last night we felt pretty good about it,” he said of the Manitoba game. “The team in the last two games has really shown up.” He says getting used to the ice has been an issue. They lost their first game 13-5 and the second 10-1.
“We come from an area of the world where the ice is fairly straight all the time . . Coming out here and all of a sudden you’re taking the 12-foot to get to the lid and it’s a different ball game.” It’s also important to win games at the Brier if you want a reserved spot in the future. A new system is coming into place that will force the bottom finishers to compete for the right to return. It’s being brought in to keep the field the same size with the addition of a Team Canada and new rinks from Nunavut and Yukon, instead of just one Territories team. P.E.I.’s Eddie MacKenzie also grabbed a share of second place as he climbed to 3-1 after beating Quebec’s Jean-Michel Menard. But, that could change after the evening draw. MacKenzie has already matched his combined record at his first two Brier appearances for Prince Edward Island , in 2011 and 2013. “It’s definitely better than 0-5 or 0-6 like we were the last couple of times,” he said. “I’d say being here the last three out of four years helps for sure, playing on arena ice a little more.” Saskatchewan’s Steve Laycock also sat at 3-1 after beating still winless Nova Scotia 5-3. “We kind of figured 3-1 or 4-0 was where we’d want to be after this stretch because we do have some of the favourites coming up,” he said. Nova Scotia skip Jamie Murphy isn’t too thrilled at the Canadian Curling Association for the changes coming in 2015 that could see Nova Scotia have to fight for the right to play in the Brier.
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Imagination required to make trade deadline deals Took ’em just over two months to get it all done. nization to the Panthers — do those two franchises But finally, the NHL will stay indoors the rest of share a phone? — but that didn’t exactly budge the the way. wow meter. Yessir, that’s six stadium games up and six down, Buffalo continues to be the team to watch, but with an estimated 375,000 fans having jammed build- having seen president Pat LaFontaine walk out the ings from Ann Arbor to L.A. to catch a door just hours after the Miller deal in one glimpse of hockey from a distance. of the more bizarre NHL stories in recent Total revenue — who knows? $25 miltimes, you have to wonder if the Sabres lion? $30 million? More? Plus all that organization can get out of its own way merchandise folks just had to have. enough to do all the things it might want to That’s a golden goose that, for now, do. just keeps getting a little shinier. That said, new GM Tim Murray seems But all that business and all that monfully in control, and continues to field calls ey flowing into the league won’t help the on assets like Matt Moulson, Chris Stewart 30 clubs much right now as they try to and other experienced players. squeeze every last dime out of either the The Maple Leafs are a team that might league’s salary cap or their own budget like Moulson. But at what price? He could over the next few days. help their secondary scoring, but he’s unThere’s a lot of teams without much restricted in July and probably looking for DAMIEN room to take on salary, folks, which is a significant bump on his $3.13 million per COX partly why the Ryan Miller deal on Friyear contract. day — one in which the Buffalo Sabres A second-round pick, perhaps. Maybe agreed to pay about $300,000 of Miller’s the Leafs would be willing to relinquish remaining salary, by the way — wasn’t one of their bevy of blue line prospects followed up immediately by a series of other deals. that includes Stuart Percy, Matt Finn, Petter GranTeams might like to do something, and probably berg and Andrew MacWilliam. will. But if they can, they’ll wait until the last posAnd, even if GM Dave Nonis can make a deal for a sible moment to save every cent possible. player like Moulson, he’ll have to find a way to make Sure, there was the Brandon Pirri transaction on room for that salary. Sunday that moved him from the Blackhawks orgaThe other team to watch has to be Vancouver,
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beaten at B.C. Place by Ottawa on Sunday and now in the midst of yet another full-blown goalie crisis, with Roberto Luongo sitting out the Heritage Classic against the Sens in favour of the hot hand of Eddie Lack. Didn’t GM Mike Gillis just extricate himself and his team from this kind of problem eight months ago? Slump-ridden Daniel Sedin, meanwhile, got dinged in that game, and while the ’Nucks are anything but out of it in the Western Conference playoff race, there’s no shortage of opinions that the window of opportunity for a Stanley Cup has closed on this group and it’s time to cut bait. Ryan Kesler, despite all the denials, is being shopped, and Pittsburgh, undaunted by the lack of success rentals Jarome Iginla and Brandon Morrow brought them last year as deadline acquisitions, makes a lot of sense as a destination. The Penguins have the youngsters and prospects to make this happen as long as Gillis doesn’t get too greedy. Alex Edler seems much less likely to move, and we know poor Luongo is stuck there. So Gillis might be active, or he might play this hand out and deal with the aftermath in June when he, and every other GM, has a much bigger cap number with which to work.
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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. Red Deer Rebels Scoring
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WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION GP W L OTL SOL GF GA Pt z-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 e-Prince George68 26 34 3 5 227 285 60 e-Kamloops 66 13 48 2 3 162 282 31 U.S. DIVISION GP W L OTL SOL GF GA Pt y-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 d-division leader; x-clinched playoff berth. Note: Division leaders ranked in top three positions per conference regardless of points; a team winning in overtime or shootout is credited with two points and a victory in the W column; the team losing in overtime or shootout receives one point which is registered in the OTL or SOL columns
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WHL EASTERN CONFERENCE EAST DIVISION GP W L OTL SOL GF x-Regina 66 37 23 3 3 236 Swift Current 66 33 24 3 6 224 e-Brandon 66 31 26 6 3 247 e-Prince Albert65 30 30 3 2 209 e-Moose Jaw 65 17 39 3 6 173 e-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 e-Red Deer 65 30 30 1 4 189 e-Lethbridge 67 12 50 2 3 158
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GOALTENDING (Minimum 1,260 minutes played) W L OT Tristan Jarry, Edm 39 13 3 Jordon Cooke, Kel 36 6 4 Brendan Burke, Por 31 10 4 Eric Williams, Spo 30 16 4 Patrik Bartosak, RD 28 24 5 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 63 32 23 8 72 Detroit 60 28 20 12 68 Ottawa 61 27 23 11 65 Florida 61 23 31 7 53 Buffalo 61 18 35 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 61 31 25 5 67 New Jersey 62 26 23 13 65 Carolina 61 26 26 9 61 N.Y. Islanders 63 23 32 8 54
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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 62 34 21 7 75 153 150 Dallas 61 29 22 10 68 173 171 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 61 23 31 7 53 141 185 Edmonton 62 20 34 8 48 154 204 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. 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 2, Toronto 1 Dallas 3, Buffalo 2 Minnesota 3, Calgary 2 Montreal at Los Angeles, Late Tuesday’s Games Florida at Boston, 5 p.m. Detroit at New Jersey, 5 p.m. Dallas at Columbus, 5 p.m. Colorado at Chicago, 6 p.m. Tampa Bay at St. Louis, 6 p.m. Pittsburgh at Nashville, 6 p.m. N.Y. Islanders at Winnipeg, 6 p.m. Vancouver at Phoenix, 7 p.m. Ottawa at Edmonton, 7:30 p.m.
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Monday’s summaries Wild 3, Flames 2 First Period No Scoring. Penalties — None. Second Period 1. Minnesota, Brodziak 5 (Cooke) 9:02. 2. Calgary, Cammalleri 14 (Wideman) 16:41. Penalties — Backlund Cgy (holding) 4:31. Third Period 3. Minnesota, Spurgeon 2 (Suter, Granlund) 5:49 (pp). 4. Minnesota, Parise 21 (Pominville, Granlund) 14:44. 5. Calgary, Giordano 10 (Granlund, Colborne) 16:01. Penalties — Ballard Minn (goaltender interference) 3:28, Giordano Cgy (hooking) 4:55. Shots on goal Calgary 7 7 9 — 23 Minnesota 9 12 6 — 27 Goal — Calgary: Berra (L, 9-17-2); Minnesota: Kuemper (W, 11-3-2). Power plays (goal-chances)Calgary: 0-1; Minnesota: 1-2. Stars 3, Sabres 2 First Period 1. Buffalo, Ennis 15 (Stafford, Moulson) 17:17. Penalties — Scott Buf (tripping) 2:39, Hodgson Buf (hooking) 6:19, Girgensons Buf (tripping) 15:01. Second Period 2. Dallas, Benn 3 (Whitney, Seguin) 1:30. 3. Dallas, Goligoski 3 (Horcoff, Garbutt) 19:54. Penalties — McCormick Buf (slashing) 5:32. Third Period 4. Buffalo, Ennis 16 (Moulson, McBain) 3:23. 5. Dallas, Chiasson 10 (Benn, Whitney) 10:25 (pp). Penalties — Roussel Dal (hooking) 3:57, D’Agostini Buf (hooking) 8:40, Buf Bench (too many men) 17:40. Shots on goal Buffalo 5 9 9 — 23 Dallas 16 11 12 — 39 Goal — Buffalo: Enroth (L, 3-13-5); Dallas: Lehtonen (W, 24-16-10). Power plays (goal-chances)Buffalo: 0-1; Dallas: 1-6. Blue Jackets 2, Maple Leafs 1 First Period No Scoring. Penalties — Jenner Clb (holding) 7:15, Dubinsky Clb (slashing) 11:59. Second Period 1. Columbus, Prout 1 (Mackenzie, Calvert) 9:44. 2. Columbus, Anisimov 16 (Nikitin, Foligno) 12:38. Penalties — Franson Tor (hooking) 2:16. Third Period 3. Toronto, Raymond 17 (Lupul, Rielly) 15:45. Penalties — None. Shots on goal Columbus 8 12 13 — 33 Toronto 12 5 12 — 29 Goal — Columbus: Bobrovsky (W, 22-15-3); Toronto: Reimer (L, 10-7-1). Power plays (goal-chances)Columbus: 0-1; Toronto: 0-2. NHL Scoring Leaders Sidney Crosby, Pgh Phil Kessel, Tor Ryan Getzlaf, Ana John Tavares, NYI Alex Ovechkin, Wash Patrick Kane, Chi Corey Perry, Ana Kyle Okposo, NYI Claude Giroux, Pha Martin St. Louis, TB Patrick Sharp, Chi Evgeni Malkin, Pgh Nicklas Backstrom, Wash Joe Pavelski, SJ Joe Thornton, SJ Jonathan Toews, Chi Tyler Seguin, Dal Taylor Hall, Edm Erik Karlsson, Ott Chris Kunitz, Pgh
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Curling 2014 Tim Hortons Brier KAMLOOPS, B.C. — Results and standings after the sixth draw at the 2014 Tim Hortons Brier, the Canadian men’s curling championship, March 1-9 at Interior Savings Centre: MEN ROUND ROBIN Team (Skip) W L Manitoba (Stoughton) 4 0 P.E.I. (MacKenzie) 3 1 B.C. (Morris) 3 1 Alberta (K.Koe) 3 1 Saskatchewan (Laycock) 3 1 Ontario (Balsdon) 2 2 Quebec (Menard) 2 2 N.L. (Murphy) 1 3 N.B. (Grattan) 1 3 Northern Ont. (currie) 1 3 Yukon/NWT (J.Koe) 1 3 N.S. (Murphy) 0 4 Monday’s results Sixth Draw Alberta 8 Yukon/NWT 3 New Brunswick 9 Ontario 6 P.E.I. 7 Quebec 6 Saskatchewan 5 Nova Scotia 3 Seventh Draw - late Nova Scotia vs. Northern Ontario Manitoba vs. Alberta New Brunswick vs. Newfoundland & Labrador B.C. vs. P.E.I. 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 Alberta 9 Newfoundland & Labrador 4 Manitoba 9 New Brunswick 5 P.E.I. 10 Northern Ontario 7 B.C. 8 Nova Scotia 6 Tuesday’s games 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.
winner, 10 a.m. Wednesday’s games Bronze Medal Game Canada-Switzerland loser vs. Semifinal loser, 5 a.m. Gold Medal Game Norway-Scotland winner vs. Semifinal winner, 5 a.m.
World Junior Curling Championships FLIMS, Switzerland — Round-robin standings and playoff results Monday from the 2014 world junior women’s curling championship, Feb. 26-March 5 at Waldhaus Arena (all times Eastern): MEN ROUND ROBIN Country (skip) W L x-Norway (Mjoeen) 7 2 x-Scotland (Smith) 6 3 x-Canada (Calvert) 6 3 t-Italy (Mosaner) 6 3 t-Switzerland (Schwaller) 6 3 Sweden (Nyman) 5 4 Russia (Ali) 4 5 Austria (Wunderer) 3 6 U.S. (Vukich) 2 7 China (Shao) 0 9 x — clinched playoff berth; t — played tiebreaker.
WOMEN ROUND ROBIN Country (skip) x-South Korea (Kim) x-Canada (Rocque) x-Russia (Kovaleva) t-Switzerland (Mani) t-Sweden (Wranaa) U.S. (Christensen) Czech Rep. (Hajkova) Scotland (Aitken) Italy (Zappone) Denmark (Svensen) x — clinched playoff berth; t — played tiebreaker.
Sunday’s results Eighth Draw Canada 8 U.S. 1 Italy 8 China 1 Norway 10 Sweden 9 Scotland 5 Russia 3 Switzerland 10 Austria 2 Ninth Draw Canada 9 Austria 1 Italy 4 Norway 3 Russia 8 U.S. 7 (extra end) Scotland 9 China 6 Switzerland 11 Sweden 6 End of Round Robin PLAYOFFS Monday’s result Tiebreaker Switzerland (Schwaller) 4 Italy (Mosaner) 3 Tuesday’s games Page Playoffs, 4 a.m. One vs. Two Norway (Mjoeen) vs. Scotland (Smith) Three vs. Four Canada (Calvert) vs. Switzerland (Schwaller) Semifinal Norway-Scotland loser vs. Canada-Switzerland
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Sunday’s results Eighth Draw Canada 7 Scotland 6 Russia 7 Czech Republic 2 South Korea 7 Italy 5 Sweden 9 U.S. 3 Switzerland 10 Denmark 8 Ninth Draw Canada 12 Denmark 5 Scotland 8 Italy 7 South Korea 8 Czech Republic 6 Sweden 7 Switzerland 6 U.S. 8 Russia 7 End of Round Robin PLAYOFFS Monday’s results Tiebreaker Sweden (Aitken) 7 Switzerland (Mani) 6 Page Playoffs One vs. Two Canada (Rocque) 7 South Korea (Kim) 6 Three vs. Four Sweden 5 Russia 4 (extra end) Tuesday’s games Semifinal South Korea (Kim) vs. Sweden (Wranaa), 10 a.m. Wednesday’s games Bronze Medal Game Russia (Kovaleva) vs. Semifinal loser, 5 a.m. Gold Medal Game Canada (Rocque) vs. Semifinal winner, 5 a.m.
Transactions Monday’s Sports Transactions FOOTBALL National Football League BUFFALO BILLS — Released LB Willie Jefferson. CLEVELAND BROWNS — Designated C Alex Mack as the transition player for 2014. MIAMI DOLPHINS — Signed CB Brent Grimes to a four-year contract. PITTSBURGH STEELERS — Designated LB Jason Worilds as the transition player for 2014. TENNESSEE TITANS — Agreed to terms with S Bernard Pollard on a multiyear contract. WASHINGTON REDSKINS — Placed the franchise tag on LB Brian Orakpo. Canadian Football League WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS — Acquired QB Brian Brohm from Hamilton for a conditional 2015 draft pick.
HOCKEY National Hockey League NHL — Suspended Washington D Dmitry Orlov two games for boarding Philadelphia F Brayden Schenn during a March 2 game. CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS — Agreed to terms with F Brandon Bollig on a three-year contract extension through the end of the 2016-17 season. EDMONTON OILERS — Agreed to terms with G Ben Scrivens on a two-year contract extension. FLORIDA PANTHERS — Announced the resignation of president and CEO Michael Yormark. MINNESOTA WILD — Signed RW Kurtis Gabriel to a three-year entry-level contract. MONTREAL CANADIENS — Assigned D Davis Drewiske to Hamilton (AHL). NASHVILLE PREDATORS — Recalled G Pekka Rinne from Milwaukee (AHL). NEW YORK ISLANDERS — Signed F Justin
Johnson to a two-way contract for the remainder of the 2013-14 season and assigned him to Bridgeport (AHL). TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING — Recalled G Anders Lindback from Syracuse (AHL). Reassigned G Kristers Gudlevskis to Syracuse. WASHINGTON CAPITALS — Recalled D Jack Hillen from Hershey (AHL). American Hockey League MILWUAKEE ADMIRALS — Recalled G Scott Darling from Cincinnati (ECHL). Central Hockey League DENVER CUTTHROATS — Announced D Mikael Tam was recalled by Lake Erie (AHL). Announced F Daniel Amesbury was granted a leave of absence by league. Signed F A.J. Gale. QUAD CITY MALLARDS — Announced F Gergo Nagy was returned on loan from Chicago (AHL).
49ers, WR Anquan Boldin agree to two-year deal BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN FRANCISCO — While chatter has swirled about Jim Harbaugh’s future with the 49ers in recent weeks, wide receiver Anquan Boldin has secured his status in San Francisco — and even credited the coach for his decision to come back. The franchise gave him a few million other reasons, too. The 49ers signed Boldin to a twoyear, $12 million contract with $9 million guaranteed Monday, keeping quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s top option from last season from hitting free agency. “He’s a guy I had a real good relationship with,” Boldin said about head coach John Har-
baugh. “Me and him were able to talk about anything. And I just like his demeanour, the way he approaches the game. He’s a guy that wants to win. I’m the exact same way.” Boldin, who was set to become a free agent next week, led San Francisco with 85 catches for 1,179 yards to go with seven touchdowns last season. He was traded from John Harbaugh’s Ravens to the 49ers in the off-season for a sixthround pick after helping Baltimore win the Super Bowl. While the salary cap strapped Ravens failed to make the playoffs, the 49ers finished 12-4 during the regular season — in part because Boldin filled the void created by an off-season torn right Achilles tendon that sidelined Michael Crabtree for the first 11 games.
● 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.
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● 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.
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● 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 W L Pct GB d-Indiana 46 13 .780 — d-Miami 43 14 .754 2 d-Toronto 33 26 .559 13 Chicago 33 27 .550 13 Washington 31 29 .517 15 Brooklyn 29 29 .500 16 Charlotte 27 33 .450 19 Atlanta 26 32 .448 19 Detroit 24 36 .400 22 Cleveland 24 37 .393 23 New York 21 40 .344 26 Boston 20 40 .333 26 Orlando 19 43 .306 28 Philadelphia 15 45 .250 31 Milwaukee 12 47 .203 34
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WESTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GB d-Oklahoma City 45 15 .750 — d-San Antonio 43 16 .729 1 1/2 Portland 41 18 .695 3 1/2 d-L.A. Clippers 41 20 .672 4 1/2 Houston 40 19 .678 4 1/2 Golden State 36 24 .600 9 Phoenix 35 24 .593 9 1/2 Dallas 36 25 .590 9 1/2 Memphis 34 25 .576 10 1/2 Minnesota 30 29 .508 14 1/2 Denver 25 34 .424 19 1/2 New Orleans 23 36 .390 21 1/2 Utah 21 39 .350 24 L.A. Lakers 20 39 .339 24 1/2 Sacramento 20 39 .339 24 1/2 d-division leader
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 110, Washington 104 Brooklyn 96, Chicago 80 Miami 124, Charlotte 107 Detroit 96, New York 85 Milwaukee 114, Utah 88 Minnesota 132, Denver 128 L.A. Lakers at Portland, late New Orleans at Sacramento, late Tuesday’s Games Golden State at Indiana, 5 p.m. San Antonio at Cleveland, 5 p.m. Miami at Houston, 6 p.m. Philadelphia at Oklahoma City, 6 p.m. L.A. Clippers at Phoenix, 7 p.m. New Orleans at L.A. Lakers, 8:30 p.m. Wednesday’s Games Houston at Orlando, 5 p.m. Utah at Washington, 5 p.m. Indiana at Charlotte, 5 p.m. Memphis at Brooklyn, 5:30 p.m. Golden State at Boston, 5:30 p.m. Chicago at Detroit, 5:30 p.m. Dallas at Denver, 6 p.m. New York at Minnesota, 6 p.m. Sacramento at Milwaukee, 6 p.m. Atlanta at Portland, 8:30 p.m.
Baseball MLB Spring Training Glance AMERICAN LEAGUE W L Seattle 5 1 Cleveland 4 1 Minnesota 4 1 Oakland 4 1 Houston 3 1 Chicago 2 1 Detroit 4 2 New York 4 2 Tampa Bay 2 1 Kansas City 3 2 Baltimore 2 2 Los Angeles 2 2 Toronto 3 3 Boston 1 3 Texas 1 3
Milwaukee 6, Colorado 5 Pct .833 .800 .800 .800 .750 .667 .667 .667 .667 .600 .500 .500 .500 .250 .250
NATIONAL LEAGUE W L Pct Pittsburgh 4 1 .800 Washington 3 1 .750 Miami 3 2 .600 Cincinnati 3 3 .500 Milwaukee 3 3 .500 Arizona 3 4 .429 Los Angeles 2 3 .400 San Francisco 2 3 .400 Chicago 1 3 .250 Colorado 1 3 .250 New York 1 3 .250 St. Louis 1 3 .250 San Diego 1 4 .200 Philadelphia 1 5 .167 Atlanta 0 6 .000 NOTE: Split-squad games count in the standings; games against non-major league teams do not. Sunday’s Games Boston 8, Baltimore 6 Tampa Bay 6, Minnesota 3 Washington 10, Miami 3 Pittsburgh 4, Philadelphia 1 N.Y. Yankees 8, Toronto 2 Atlanta (ss) 0, Detroit 0, tie, 10 innings St. Louis 7, N.Y. Mets 1 Houston 7, Atlanta (ss) 4 Kansas City 5, Chicago Cubs 3 Chicago White Sox 9, Texas 7 L.A. Dodgers 3, San Diego (ss) 3, tie Cincinnati 15, San Diego (ss) 4 Oakland 3, L.A. Angels 2 San Francisco 5, Arizona 3 Cleveland 6, Seattle 3
Monday’s Games Detroit 8, St. Louis 5 N.Y. Mets 6, Atlanta 2 Pittsburgh 7, Boston 6 N.Y. Yankees 4, Washington 2 Tampa Bay 6, Philadelphia 1 Minnesota (ss) 12, Toronto 2 Houston 4, Miami 0 Minnesota (ss) 9, Baltimore 2 Chicago Cubs 4, Milwaukee 2 Cleveland 6, Texas 5 Seattle (ss) 8, Colorado 1 Seattle (ss) 6, Cincinnati 5 Chicago White Sox 9, Kansas City 7 San Diego 7, San Francisco 2 Oakland 7, L.A. Dodgers 3 L.A. Angels 3, Arizona 2 Colorado vs. Arizona at Scottsdale, Ariz., Late Tuesday’s Games Minnesota vs. Miami 11:05 a.m. Pittsburgh vs. Detroit 11:05 a.m. Washington vs. Atlanta 11:05 a.m. Tampa Bay vs. Boston 11:05 a.m. Houston vs. N.Y. Mets 11:10 a.m. Arizona vs. San Diego 1:05 p.m. Seattle vs. L.A. Dodgers 1:05 p.m. Texas vs. L.A. Angels 1:05 p.m. Chicago White Sox vs. Cleveland 1:05 p.m. Milwaukee vs. Oakland (ss) 1:05 p.m. Cincinnati vs. Kansas City 1:05 p.m. Oakland (ss) vs. Chicago Cubs 1:05 p.m. San Francisco vs. Colorado 1:10 p.m. Toronto vs. Philadelphia 4:35 p.m. Baltimore vs. N.Y. Yankees 5:05 p.m. Wednesday’s Games Atlanta vs. Philadelphia 11:05 a.m. Baltimore vs. Minnesota 11:05 a.m. Boston vs. St. Louis 11:05 a.m. N.Y. Yankees vs. Tampa Bay 11:05 a.m. Detroit vs. Houston 11:05 a.m. N.Y. Mets (ss) vs. Washington 11:05 a.m. Pittsburgh vs. Toronto 11:05 a.m. Miami vs. N.Y. Mets (ss) 11:10 a.m. Colorado (ss) vs. Chicago Cubs 1:05 p.m. L.A. Angels vs. San Francisco 1:05 p.m. Cleveland vs. Seattle 1:05 p.m. Colorado (ss) vs. Texas 1:05 p.m. San Diego vs. Chicago White Sox 1:05 p.m. Oakland vs. Milwaukee 1:05 p.m. Kansas City vs. Arizona 1:10 p.m. L.A. Dodgers vs. Cincinnati 7:05 p.m.
Blackhawks’ Hossa out for 2 to 3 weeks with upper-body injury BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CHICAGO — Marian Hossa will be sidelined for two to three weeks because of an upper-body injury, leaving the Chicago Blackhawks without one of their top scorers. Hossa was injured Saturday night during Chicago’s 5-1 victory over the Pittsburgh Penguins outside at Soldier Field. It is unclear exactly when Hossa got hurt, but he took a hard hit from Penguins forward Craig Adams during Chicago’s second power play of the first period. The announcement on Monday is a big blow for the defending Stanley Cup champions, who lead the NHL with 213 goals this season. Chicago is competing with St. Louis and Anaheim for the top spot in the Western Conference. The Blackhawks and Blues also are tied for the Central
Division lead with 86 points apiece. The 35-year-old Hossa has 24 goals and 26 assists in 57 games. He needs 15 points to reach 1,000 for his career. Brandon Saad moved up to take Hossa’s spot on the right side of Chicago’s top line against the Penguins. Blackhawks coach Joel Quenneville also could put Patrick Kane back together with centre Jonathan Toews, but that move would weaken the scoring depth on the Blackhawks’ lines. Hossa’s absence likely means more playing time for Peter Regin, who was scratched against Pittsburgh. The 21-year-old Saad has a career-high 18 goals and 23 assists in his second full NHL season. Quenneville also indicated Hossa’s injury likely won’t affect how the team approaches Wednesday’s NHL trade deadline.
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IN A GAME OF STREAKS AND SLUMPS, PAST PERFORMANCE DOESN’T MEAN THAT MUCH HOCKEY ANALYTICS IAN COOPER AND PHIL CURRY SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE It’s NHL trade deadline time, and fans of middling teams are no doubt dreaming of a shining knight who will ride into town and inspire the team president to dust off his long abandoned Stanley Cup parade map. But do deadline acquisitions actually work, or is adding a key part now like trying to fix a plane mid flight? Or maybe athletes are like old houses, where the seller knows about the leaky roof, and the buyer’s going to find out soon enough. The Department of Hockey Analytics decided to answer this question the only way we know how - by digging up the facts. We started by looking at every significant deadline acquisition over the past 15 seasons. We considered a deal significant if it involved someone who was in the top 100 in scoring or average ice time. We ended up with 90 trades in total, 70 of which involved teams that made the playoffs. We tallied up each player’s offensive production and compared how he did with his old team vs. his new team, both during the regular season and playoffs. The results were a little surprising. As the table shows, on average players performed identically with their new teams for the rest of the regular season and then became less productive in the playoffs. Because playoffs tend to be lower scoring, the drop-off there is about what you’d expect. In other words, trades don’t seem to have any impact on production. This is comforting to GMs be-
“We had to kind of grind that one out. I had a feeling this was going to be a difficult game for us right from the start,” Yeo said. The Flames, buried in the Western Conference playoff race, could make some moves this week. Cammalleri scored for the first time since Jan. 6. He missed nine games during that stretch because of a concussion. “Cammi, you always know that he’s going to show up to work,” coach Bob Hartley said. NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman, as a guest of Wild owner Craig Leipold, watched from a suite. Leipold took him earlier in the day to Target Field, where baseball’s Twins play, and TCF Bank Stadium, the football home of the University of Minnesota, for tours of possible outdoor game venues. The NHL put on six this season. Bettman has assured the Wild they will be awarded an outdoor game but hasn’t committed to a timeframe.
BRIER: Relegation “We’re firm believers that messing with traditions such as the Brier doesn’t seem like a smart decision,” he said of the new system, popularly known as relegation, although it seems anything but popular. “We’re obviously biased when we say that because we’re probably going to be in the relegation pool.”
COX: Brodeur situation cause it means they generally get what they’re paying for. So trade away, right? Well, not so fast. Remember we got here by looking at a lot of trades, 90 of them to be precise. But if you’re looking for that white knight, you’re getting one player, not 90. Although production stays constant on average, there’s a huge range of possible outcomes for each guy. In our chart, each of our 90 players is a dot. On the horizontal axis, we have his points per game with the old team, while the vertical axis is points per game after the trade. The diagonal line represents identical production with each team. Anybody who is above the line did better after being moved; anyone below did worse. So, for example, when Theo Fleury went from Calgary to Colorado in 1998-99, his production soared from a solid 69 points in 60 games (1.15 points per game) to a walloping 24 in 15 (1.6 points per game). But for every Fleury, there are just as many guys who stiff. Keith Tkachuk tallied 71 points in 64 games with Phoenix in 200001 (1.109 points per game), before dropping to 8 in 12 (0.667 points per game) with St. Louis. The range of outcomes gets par-
ticularly wide for the biggest scorers. If you think about it, this isn’t all that surprising. All players are prone to streaks and slumps, and scorers are often the worst offenders. Over an entire season it all evens out, but deadline acquisitions happen when there are very few games left. Chances are, all the new team will get is a single streak or slump. Which leaves us with a cautionary message for GMs for the coming week: if you’re looking to add that final piece and go for it all now, it may work out. But it’s also pretty likely that instead of getting the high scoring prince, you’ll wind up overpaying for the frog. Maybe keep that parade route in a drawer until June after all. The Department of Hockey Analytics employs advanced statistical methods and innovative approaches to better understand the game of hockey. Its three founders are Ian Cooper, a lawyer, former player agent and Wharton Business School graduate; Dr. Phil Curry, a professor of economics at the University of Waterloo; and IJay Palansky, a litigator in Washington, D.C., former highstakes professional poker player and Harvard Law School graduate.
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The Martin Brodeur situation in New Jersey, meanwhile, will be intriguing to watch, with the future Hall of Famer clearly indicating that not only would he like to play more now, he’s looking to play next season, even if it means for somebody else other than the Devils. But is there a team out there currently heading toward the post-season that would install Brodeur as the No. 1 netminder? Minnesota, perhaps? The Islanders, after beating the Leafs last week, have now dropped two straight, and most are pretty sure that both Thomas Vanek and defenceman Andrew MacDonald will be heading out of town by the deadline on Wednesday. Another team to watch? How about Carolina, a disappointing squad to be sure. That’s another situation that might hold until June, but if opportunities are there, the ’Canes could get active. The good news for those imagining lots of activity in the first three days of this week is that there seems to be at least six teams ready to sell, and maybe more. But with so many teams tight to the cap, it’s going to take some imagination. A dozen or more teams, it seems likely, will look different by Wednesday night, either by a little or a lot. There may not be lots of cap room out there. But there’s no shortage of ambition.
CAREY PRICE Montreal goaltender Carey Price has been placed on the Canadiens’ injured reserve retroactive to Feb. 26. Price originally suffered a lower-body injury at the Sochi Olympics, where he had a 24-save shutout in Team Canada’s 3-0 gold-medal victory over Sweden. After returning from Sochi, the 26-year-old tried to practise with his Montreal teammates on Feb. 26, but left the ice after moving laterally to make a save during a power-play drill.
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The NHL’s trade deadline is Wednesday at 3 p.m. ET. Now that the biggest fish, Ryan Miller, has already been traded from the Buffalo Sabres to the St. Louis Blues, here are the 10 players most likely to get dealt before time runs out: Thomas Vanek The New York Islanders gave up Matt Moulson along with a first- and a second-round pick to get Vanek earlier this season. It’s safe to say general manager Garth Snow’s gamble did not pay off. After Vanek rejected a contract offer to stay on Long Island, it’s up to Snow to cut his losses and build toward the future, when franchise centrepiece John Tavares is back and healthy. Jaroslav Halak Buffalo got Halak from St. Louis in the Miller trade and could easily flip him for more assets. The Minnesota Wild are looking for a goaltender with so much uncertainty surrounding Josh Harding and not a long resume on rookie Darcy Kuemper. Halak could even see the Blues in the first round if that were to happen. Matt Moulson Former Sabres GM Darcy Regier was the one who pulled the trigger on the Vanek trade that brought in Moulson plus-picks. But new GM Tim Murray could take the next step if he gets another first-round pick or something close for the 30-year-old winger. Moulson put up 11 goals and 16 assists in his first 43 games in Buffalo, so his value is pretty good. Ales Hemsky It may finally be time for the last Oilers player who was on the 2006 Stanley Cup final team to go. GM Craig MacTavish made it abundantly clear last summer he was trying to trade Hemsky, but his US$5.5million salary and $5 million cap might not seem so bad as a late-season rental. Martin Erat Sent from the Nashville Predators to the Washington Capitals for prospect Filip Forsberg and grinder Michael Latta at last year’s deadline, Erat asked for a trade earlier this season after being on the fourth line and in the press box as a healthy scratch. Erat has one year left at a cap hit of $4.5 million, but the Capitals might have to suck up some of that and take a mid-round pick just to move on. Ryan Kesler Rumours that Kesler wanted out of Vancouver came just after he returned from Sochi, where he suffered a hand injury while playing for the United States. An injury to Daniel Sedin suffered during the Heritage Classic could keep GM Mike Gillis from making any move involving Kesler, but there should be no shortage of demand for the strong two-way centre. Chris Stewart Buffalo’s First Niagara Center might as well have a neon “For Sale” sign on it, and that includes the recently acquired Stewart who was also part of the Miller trade. Among the five true so-called “sellers,” the Sabres have the most assets and therefore could end up with the biggest windfall. Or they could keep the 26-year-old who has one year left on his deal at a cap hit of $4.15 million. Christian Ehrhoff If there’s anyone Murray and the Sabres have time to move it’s Ehrhoff, who’s in the third season of a US$40-million, 10-year deal. That length of contract could make the 31-year-old defenceman more valuable or hinder a deal, depending on the viewpoint, but with the salary cap going up he’s locked in at $4
U16A ringette provincials starts Friday The Red Deer Radha will see their first action at 11 a.m. Friday in the provincial U16A ringette championships at the Dawe Centre. The Radha will face the Medicine Hat P.U.R.E, in their opening game and clash with Calgary NW Triumph at 8 p.m. They finish roundrobin play Saturday at 12:30 p.m. against South Calgary Strive. Top two teams in each pool advance to the semifinals set for 7:30 and 9:15 p.m. Saturday. The final goes at 2:15 p.m. Sunday. Meanwhile the Red Deer Reign will compete in the U19A championships in Delburne.
The Reign opens pool play Friday facing Sherwood Park at 1 p.m. and NW Calgary Legacy at 7 p.m. They meet the Beaumont Daunt Saturday at 11 a.m. with the top two teams in each pool competing in the semifinals at 7:30 and 9:15 p.m. The final is Sunday at 2:15 p.m.
Sheraton edges Woody’s Sheraton Red Deer got 21 points from James Johanson in edging Woody’s RV World 62-58 in Central Alberta Senior Men’s Basketball Association play Sunday. Matt Thomson added 12 points for the winners while Jose Vizcarra had 19 in a losing cause. In other action Ray Teskey hit 16 points and Lars Plaetner 15 as the Orangemen downed Monstars 82-69.
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Vancouver Canucks’ Ryan Kesler celebrates his shorthanded goal against the Minnesota Wild during an NHL game on Feb. 28. An injury to Daniel Sedin could keep Canucks’ GM Mike Gillis from making any move involving Kesler, but there should be no shortage of demand for the strong two-way centre. million for the length of it. Andrew MacDonald The NHL’s leader in blocked shots — no one else is even close — also possibly has best value of any defenceman with a salary of US$575,000 and cap hit of $550,000 in the final year of his contract with the Islanders. MacDonald is due a big raise in the offseason, maybe in the neighbourhood of $4 million annually, and he’s a strong defensive option as a rental or long-term piece. Henrik Tallinder At a cap hit of $3.375 million, the 35-year-old is the perfect low-risk rental for a contender in need of some help on the blue-line. With plenty of other pieces to trade, the Sabres might not need much for Tallinder, either, as they likely wouldn’t re-sign him this summer anyway. Others potentially on the move: Ryan Callahan, Rangers; Mike Cammalleri, Lee Stempniak, Flames; Brad Boyes, Panthers; Ryan Smyth, Corey Potter, Oilers; Martin St. Louis, Lightning; Chris Phillips, Senators; Cam Ward, Hurricanes; Martin Brodeur, Devils.
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DAVIDUCK Ernest Maurice 1936 - 2014 It is with great sadness that we announce that our beloved husband, father, and grandfather Ernie Daviduck was called to eternal rest on February 27, 2014 at the Lacombe Hospital surrounded by family members at the age of 77. Ernie was born on November 2, 1936 in Barrhead, AB, son of Max and Anne Daviduck. He will be dearly missed by his loving wife Joan of 57 years and his four surviving children and families. Cameron (Arlene) of Ladysmith, BC., Wendy (Blaine) Mathieu and Aiden of San Francisco, CA., Darcy (Joanne) Ashlee, (Aaron) and Jessica of Lacombe, AB., and Darren (Carolynn) Katelynn, Gregory, Emilee and Brendan of Kelowna, BC. He also leaves to mourn his sister Shirley Mueller of Kelowna, BC., and sister-in-law Maxine (Ed) Kary of Hines Creek, AB. Survived by sisters-in-law Marie (Ernie) Kuryluk of Hines Creek, AB., Rhonda Heck of Clairmont, AB., and brother-in-law John (Sharon) Isinger of Grimshaw, AB., also numerous nieces and nephews. Ernie was predeceased by his mother Ann, in 1989 and his father Max, in 2002, his mother-in-law and father-in-law Tillie and John, niece Tracy Kary and brothers-in-law Al Mueller and Wilfred Heck. Ernie was an entrepreneur throughout his whole life and had various business ventures including a Farm Equipment Dealership and Gulf Service Station in Manning, AB. In Grimshaw, AB., he owned Mobile Home and RV Sales and Flair Furniture Store. In Kelowna, BC., he owned a Farm Equipment Dealership. In Grande Prairie, AB., he owned Countryside RV’s and then moved to Lacombe in 1993 where he established the A & W Restaurant, Work World and Home Furniture store. After retiring from business, he and Joan became Snowbirds who travelled to Arizona and Southern California every winter. He enjoyed working in his Wood Shop building small furniture and items for his wife, children and grand kids. Ernie was very proud of his Ukrainian Heritage and he wanted his grand children to appreciate that by experiencing it also. This included summers camps spent at the Ukrainian Village and RV road trips to visit family at reunions from Alberta to Manitoba and Yellowknife, NWT. Donations can be made to the Lacombe Palliative Care Society or charity of choice. A huge thank you to Dr. Olivier and the nurses and staff at the Lacombe Hospital for their wonderful care. In keeping with Ernie’s wishes, we will have a Celebration of Ernie’s Life which will be announced and held at a later date. Expressions of sympathy may be made by visiting www.wilsonsfuneralchapel.ca. WILSON’S FUNERAL CHAPEL & CREMATORIUM, of Lacombe and Rimbey in charge of the arrangements. 403-782-3366 403-843-3388 “A Caring Family, Caring For Families”
HEEMERYCK George Wilfred Jan. 13, 1921 - Feb. 28, 2014 It is with great sadness that the family of George Heemeryck announces his passing. He will be lovingly remembered by his four children, George (Charlotte), Ken (Barb), Barrie (Bev), and Marlene (David); as well as 13 grandchildren and 20 great grandchildren. He was predeceased by his wife Mary. George was a WWII Veteran and a proud member of the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 104 in Innisfail. In the 65 years he was married to Mary, they enjoyed many trips around the word and cruises to warmer climates. As an avid outdoorsman he enjoyed fishing, hunting, and gardening. He was a handy-man, who’s projects are still being enjoyed by his children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren. From doll houses to the game of “cuss” his projects continue to create treasured memories. He will be sadly missed and fondly remembered by all who were fortunate enough to know him. George’s family want to thank the entire staff at Sunset Manor for their compassionate care. As well, we have appreciated the outstanding care shown by Dr. G. Miller. There will be no memorial service held at this time. A family celebration of George and Mary’s life will be held at a later date. HEARTLAND FUNERAL SERVICES, LTD., INNISFAIL entrusted with arrangements. Phone: 403-227-0006. www.heartlandfuneralservices.com
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KNIGHT Robert Owen Feb. 14, 1930 - Feb. 27, 2014 Robert Owen Knight passed away in his home on Thursday, February 27, 2014. He is lovingly remembered by his children; Ken (Lois), Janin (John), Don (Louise) and Diane (Rich). His grandchildren, Angela (Ky), Sarah (Shawn) and Conor. Also by his great-grandson Kache. Robert was predeceased by his wife Anne Mary (nee Hewens) and his granddaughter, Jennifer as well as his four older brothers. Cremation entrusted to PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM Red Deer, Alberta. A private family service will be held at a later date.
BOOMER Harry Rae After a valiant 12 1/2 year struggle with Alzheimer’s we announce the passing of Harry Boomer of Sylvan Lake, Alberta on Wednesday February 19, 2014. Harry Rae Boomer was born April 13, 1928 in Alix, Alberta. He was raised in Joffre and Red Deer areas. His love for the construction industry started at 16 yrs old when he drove his first caterpillar tractor for Pat Beckley. Soon it became Boomer Bros Construction with his brothers Gerald and Allan. Construction took Harry on many projects all over Alberta and Northern B.C. He loved a challenge. One of his proudest achievements was the development of the Fox Fun Sub Division of Sylvan Lake. His love for dancing and music kept his toes tapping right till the end. Harry’s sense of humor and gentle manner will be deeply missed. He leaves behind his loving wife of 64 years Dorothy (Dot); two children Leonard (Valerie), Donna Boomer; three grandchildren Keir Hyde (Mandy) and great granddaughter Josephine, Mitch Boomer (Kristin) with baby due at the end of March, Lisa Boomer (Cameron). He is also survived by his sisters Vivian and Aileen; brothers Allan (Irene), Darl (Lynette); sister-in-law Mary Boomer and many cousins, nieces, nephews and many friends. Harry was predeceased by his parents Russell and Florence; brothers Leonard and Gerald Boomer. We are very grateful for all the out pouring of love and care from family, friends and wonderful Centennial Center staff at Ponoka. A Celebration Of Harry’s Life will be held at the Alliance Community Church 4404-47 Ave Sylvan Lake on Friday, March 7, 2014 at 2:00 P.M. Private graveside was held at the Alto Rest Cemetery. As an expression of sympathy memorial donations may be made in Harry’s name to STARS Foundation or the Alzheimer’s Society. SYLVAN LAKE AND ROCKY FUNERAL HOMES AND CREMATORIUM, your Golden Rule Funeral Homes, entrusted with the arrangements. 403-887-2151
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DAVIDSON 1934 - 2014 It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Shirley Irene Davidson on Saturday, March 1, 2014 at the age of 80 years. Shirley was born on January 23, 1934 at Burnaby, British Columbia and moved out to Alberta to reside in the Lacombe Area on a farm during her middle school years. She married Bill in 1958 and lived the Haynes Area until the time of her passing. Shirley was a devoted wife, mother and grandmother. Her joy was her family life. Shirley had a long battle with Huntington’s Disease. She was able to stay in her home during her illness with grateful thanks to her wonderful caregivers; Marissa, Shelima, Samia, Alice and Kristel. We would also like to extend our gratitude to Dr. Kinash and the Nurses and Staff at Lacombe Acute Care Centre for their compassion extended to the family during Shirley’s last days while she was in Hospital. Shirley will be lovingly remembered by her husband of fifty-five years, Bill Davidson and her children; Darrell (Karen) Davidson, Dave (Ann) Davidson and Marlene (Terry) Capton and her grandchildren; Cory Staples, Jamie Staples, Kimberley Davidson, Brenden Davidson, Kaden Davidson, Brooklynn Capton, Brittney Capton and Luke Capton. She is also survived by her brothers; Keith (Beth) Hand, Doug (Trudy) Hand, sister-in-law, Rene (Melvin) Homme and sister-in-law, Audrey Davidson, as well as many nieces and nephews, cousins and relatives whom she dearly loved. Shirley was predeceased by brothers, Melvin (Florence) Hand and Howard Hand; brother-in-law, Harvey Davidson and parents, Roy and Irene Hand. A Funeral Service will be held at Parkland Funeral Home and Crematorium, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer, on Thursday, March 6, 2014 at 2:00 p.m. Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com Arrangements in care of Lenore Jacobson, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer. 403.340.4040.
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Obituaries 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. Goodbye my Love MEANINGFUL MEMORIALS Funeral Service Red Deer 587-876-4944
In Memoriam BILL MUNDLE March 3, 2010 Thinking of you always and remembering all the good times we had as a family. ~ Wife Marlene, Children Linda & David Deschner, Chris & Maggie Mundle, Kraig Mundle, Arlene & Tom Vis, Grandchildren & Greatgrandchildren
WILL-WATSON Bonny Devoted mother and active community member Bonny Will-Watson, 70, peacefully passed away after a hard fought battle with cancer on Sunday February 23rd, 2014 in Lexington Kentucky with her family by her side. Born August 5th, 1943 in Grande Prairie, Alberta, she was the eldest daughter of the late Phil and Agnes Lessoway. Bonny married her first husband David Will in 1963. They moved to Red Deer and worked together growing their hotel businesses and raising their two children. Bonny later married Bill Watson of Calgary, Alberta. They moved to Kentucky in 2006 where they spent their final years together until Bill’s passing in 2010. Bonny was a lover of animals - large and small, an active member of her community, and a devoted mother. Her zest for life and her positive spirit will be missed by all who knew her. She had the unique ability to help people believe that they could accomplish anything. She was immensely proud of her children and grandchildren. They were the pride of her life. Bonny is survived by her two children, Darcy (Janet) Will and their children Ashley, Lauren, and Andrew of Red Deer, Alberta and Samantha Will and her husband Chris Baccari of Lexington, Kentucky, and her first husband David Will (Denise Town). She is also survived by her siblings, Laverne, Ron, Dale and Mary-Rose Lessoway, and sister Joan Topilko. She was preceded in death by her second husband Bill Watson and her sister Marian Lessoway. The family will be privately celebrating Bonny’s life on the farm in Lexington, Kentucky in the spring when the flowers are blooming, the sun is shining and the new foals are running. In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be made to a local animal shelter in her name, as this would make Bonny smile.
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PITCHERS/PLAYERS Wanted. RD men’s hardball league 403-302-7778
HELP WANTED Medical Office Assistant For New Family Practice Walk-in Clinic In Penhold, AB Full time position Mon. - Fri. Medical training or experience an asset. Please submit resume to: Innisfail Medical Clinic Atten: Dr. Hrdlicka Fax: 403-227-2702 or in person to: 5031 49th Street Innisfail
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HARVEST Operations Corp. is a significant operator in Canada’s energy industry offering exploration, development and production of crude oil and natural gas (Upstream), an oil sands project under construction and development in northern Alberta and refining and marketing distillate, gasoline and fuel oil (Downstream) operations. Harvest is offering a challenging opportunity for a
(Measurement Specialist / Supervisor) that is open to a long term commitment. The position could be located in any of our Harvest site locations in Alberta. We offer a competitive compensation package. Interested individuals are encouraged to apply on-line: www.harvestenergy.ca Hiring full time Operation Coordinator/Field Supervisor for local oilfield testing company Must be local (Red Deer area) Must have testing experience Competitive salary Health benefits offered Send resume to ken@darkstarproduction. com You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!
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FT LIVE-IN CAREGIVER REQ’D IN R.D. DUTIES INCL: CHILDCARE FOR 3 BOYS, ALSO PERFORMING BASIC HOUSEHOLD TASKS PH 403-314-2240 TO APPLY WANTED F/T live-in nanny for infant in Red Deer. $10.19/hr 40/week. Call Michael (403)396-4480
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IMMEDIATE OPENINGS Night Foremen, Day & Night Operators Must have H2S, First Aid, valid driver’s license. Pre-employment Drug screening Competitive Wages. Benefit Package Please submit resume with references to: apply@wespro.ca or by fax to (403) 783-8004 Only individuals selected for interviews will be contacted
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PRODUCTION TESTING EXPERIENCED SUPERVISORS and TESTERS Dental Day & Night Must have tickets. Registered Dental Top paid wages. Assistant required for new OIL & GAS OPERATOR Bearspaw currently has a Based out of Devon, AB. clinic opening up in Email resume to: Penhold, minutes south of position in our Stettler field kathy@dragonsbreathpt.ca Red Deer. Position will be operations for an intermediate part-time to start (3 days), oil and gas operator. Applicants REQUIRED IMMED. must have experience as a with the potential to HOT SHOT DRIVER. heavy duty mechanic or expand to full-time. Benefi ts after 3 months. instrument Looking to fill position by journeyman Fax resume & abstract to mechanic and possess April 2014. Training in 403-342-2152 strong mechanical skills, RDA program is a must; be quick learners, motivated experience is an asset. Please send resume with and hard working and live or be willing to relocate references to within a 20 minute commute centralabdentist to workplace location. This @gmail.com SERVICE RIG position offers a challenging Classifieds...costs so little work environment, attractive Bearspaw Petroleum Ltd is seeking exp’d Saves you so much! benefits with competitive FLOORHANDS & pay and significant room DERRICK HANDS for promotion. Locally based, home every Please submit resumes night! Qualified applicants Farm Work must have all necessary Attn: Human Resources valid tickets for the position F/T AND P/T JOB AVAIL. email:kwolokoff@ being applied for. bearspawpet.com ON DAIRY FARM, Bearspaw offers a WEST OF BLACKFALDS., Fax 403-252-9719 very competitive salary Mail: Suite 5309 333 96 Email: wildroseholsteins and benefits package Ave. NE Calgary, AB T3K 0S3 @cciwireless.ca along with a steady work schedule. Please submit resumes: Medical Attn: Human Resources Email: hr@bearspawpet.com Fax: (403) 258-3197 or Mail to: Suite 5309, 333-96 Ave. NE EMPLOYMENT Calgary, AB T3K 0S3
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SPRING into fabulous. Shop handmade items. Mar. 15, 9:30 am - 4:30 pm. IHotel on 67 St.
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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
is currently taking resumes for experienced Production Testing Personnel Email resume to: rdzubaroffice@telus.net or fax to (403)346-9420. Must have all valid tickets. Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much!
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CALKINS CONSULTING o/a Tim Hortons Food Service Manager 5 positions, F/T & P/ T, $9.95 - $18/hr. depending on exp. and availability. Permanent shift work, weekends, days, nights and evening shifts. 3-5 yrs. exp., completion of secondary school. Start date ASAP. Apply in person 6620 Orr Drive. Fax: 403-782-9685 Call 403-848-2356 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
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 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
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NEW EMPLOYMENT FOREMAN OPPORTUNITY We are a well established fabrication and repair CENTRAL CITY facility (10 employees) ASPHALT LTD. or equivalent skill level. looking for a skilled Required immed. Resume Experienced individual who has: Strong & references required. • Screedman organizational skills, ability Apply to 6758 52 Ave. to read, relay, modify C.A. D. • Rakerman and engineered drawings, • Finish Roller Operator Decoking Services †Email resume: strong mechanical skills for Company looking for office@ccal.com repair of small and large experienced pigging Fax resume: (403) 885-5137 equipment., ability to operators / foremen for instruct procedures in work in refineries cleaning Something for Everyone Ferrous and non Ferrous fired heaters. Northern Everyday in Classifieds welding. We offer a Alberta rates apply. comprehensive benefit Please fax resume to QUICKLINE CRANE INC. program and a starting 403 342 7447 attention: in Blackfalds salary of $70,000/yr. with human resources is looking for a incentives. Reply in confiMOBILE CRANE & F/T SATELLITE INSTALLERS dence to Box 639, c/o Red Deer Advocate, 2950 - Good hours, home every HOISTING OPERATOR Bremner Ave., Red Deer, night, $4000-$6000/mo. with experience. AB T4R 1M9 email: Contractor must have truck Must be a minimum third RedDeerFabrication@gmail.com or van. Tools, supplies & year apprentice & have ladders required. Training good knowledge of truck Classifieds provided, no experience mount & all terrain cranes. Your place to SELL needed. Apply to: Competitive salaries Your place to BUY satjobs@shaw.ca includes benefits. Must have a Class 1 license. LOOKING FOR Please submit all resumes MECHANIC EXPERIENCED by email to: REQUIRED kyle@quicklinecrane.com CLASS 1 DRIVERS Motor coach company AND EXPERIENCED looking for 4th year or HEAVY EQUIPMENT journeyman. Experience OPERATORS. with motor coaches Please email resume to preferred. Send resume to tarific@telusplanet.net frontbus@platinum.ca or RENTAL & TRUCKING or fax 403-340-1246. fax 403.-347-4999 Company looking for class 1 picker/winch operator to join our team. 15 on 6 off Misc. schedule, salary plus bonus and benefits. Please Help send current resume & drivers abstract to info@ gsequipmentcanada.com or fax 403-346-5127.
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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.
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BUSY Central Alberta Grain Trucking Company looking for Class 1 Drivers and/or Lease Operators. We offer lots of home time, benefits and a bonus program. Grain and super B exp. an asset but not necessary. If you have a clean commercial drivers abstract and would like to start making good money. fax or email resume and comm.abstract to 403-337-3758 or dtl@telus.net Looking for a place to live? Take a tour through the CLASSIFIEDS
EXP’D CLASS 1 end dump driver for local haul. Please fax resume with driver’s abstract 403-342-6881 CELEBRATIONS HAPPEN EVERY DAY IN CLASSIFIEDS Buying or Selling your home? Check out Homes for Sale in Classifieds
Sylvan Lake. Openings for drivers for winch tractor and swampers. Safety bonus program, top wages and benefits. Email resume tom@roncooilfield.ca or fax. 403-887-4892
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FOR FLYERS, RED DEER SUNDAY LIFE & EXPRESS ROUTES IN:
ANDERS AREA Addinnell Close / Allan St. Abbott Close / Anders St. Anders Close INGLEWOOD AREA Isherwood Close Issard Close LANCASTER AREA Lacey Close / Lennon Close
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
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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
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Landry Close / Lawson Close Addington Drive Lamont Close Lund Close MORRISROE AREA Vicar Street / McKee Close Marion Cres / McKenzie Cres
Experienced Automotive Business Manager
SUNNYBROOK AREA Sherwood Cres. VANIER AREA Viscount Drive
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.
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
Performance Criteria: • Gross profit achievement • Achievement of forecasted targets • Dealership sales penetration levels 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
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ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Sunday Life ONLY 4 DAYS A WEEK in CLEARVIEW RIDGE AREA
We offer a competitive commission based incentive plan.
Crossley St., Cooper Cl., Carter Cl., Connaught Cres. & Cody Pl. $190/mo.
Please send resume to andrea@pikewheatonchev.ca
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74 to 129 Block of Dunning Cres., Depalm St. and approx. 3 blocks of Douglas St. $108/mo.
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EASTVIEW Erickson Dr., Eldrige Cr., Everitt Cr., Elkin Cl., $187/mo. ALSO 37 Ave. from 39 St. to 44 St. and Exeter Cr. and 38A Ave. Area $111/mo.
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43 Ave. Area between 39 St. and 43 St. $61/mo
Wednesday, March 5, 2014 9:30 a.m. - Noon Alberta Works Centre 2nd Floor, First Red Deer Place 4920 - 51 Street, Red Deer
ROSEDALE AREA Rowell Cl. & Ritson Cl. $87/mo.
Bring your resumé For more info, call 403-340-5353
ALSO West half of Robinson Cres, Rich Cl., & Ryan Cl. Area. $84/mo.
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B10 RED DEER ADVOCATE Tuesday, March 04, 2014
Olympic medallists Chan, Virtue-Moir to skip world championships OTTAWA — Toronto’s Patrick Chan is giving the world championships a miss, but he isn’t finished with competitive figure skating just yet. Chan captured two silver medals at last month’s Sochi Winter Games — men’s singles and the inaugural team event. But he doesn’t have the urge to resume training to defend his world title when the event is held in Saitama, Japan, later this month. However, the 23-year-old said he’s committed to chasing a fourth world championship at some point. “Honestly, I know in my heart I want to win another world championship . . . I really don’t feel like this is the end,” Chan said during a conference call. “(After Sochi) I asked myself if I could see myself training at the immediate moment, like right now could I go into training like I did before the Games? “I really didn’t see that as a possibility. I already went to a world championships after an Olympic Games (2010 in Vancouver) so I really wanted to enjoy coming home and enjoying the medal and enjoying it with the rest of Canada this time because I
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ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Sunday Life
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Normandeau Nellis & Norton Ave. also Nordegg Cres. & 76 St.
ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of the morning ADVOCATE in Red Deer (Reliable vehicle needed.)
O’Brien Cres & Oxley Cl.
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FULL TIME SCREENPRINTER. Will train the right person. Apply in person to Grand Central Stitchin’ #7, 7439 49th Ave. Cr. Red Deer LOOKING for P/T person to clean motor coaches. Must be willing to work evenings and weekends. Transportation required: location 10 miles from Red Deer. Please forward resume to frontbus@platinum.ca or fax to 403-347-4999
Packages come ready for delivery. No collecting.
AFTERNOON newspaper carriers needed in the following areas:
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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 Àt. 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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TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, ofÀce, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721. Looking for a new pet? Check out Classifieds to find the purrfect pet.
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tion. “We travelled to Moscow and did two shows after the closing ceremonies and Meryl and Charlie also did their shows and it was a really nice way to cap off the Olympics with spending time with the two of them in a care-free, fun environment where we could just talk about our experiences. I think we probably talked more in that day than we have in the past few years because the pressure was off and we were able to just chat as friends again. It was a nice way to end that chapter with them.” While their competitive seasons are over, Moir, Virtue and Chan won’t be hanging up their blades. All three will tour and perform with Stars on Ice. “I think we’re more comfortable trying to take advantage of some of the opportunities after an Olympic Games,” Moir said. “We’re very much at peace with where we’re at.” Chan was second at the 2010 world championships after finishing fifth at the Vancouver Games, winning his first global crown the following year. The 23-year-old had a glorious opportunity to win gold in Sochi after 19-year-old rival Yuzuru Hanyu of Japan struggled in his free skate.
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didn’t have that chance last time. I really wanted to enjoy myself with these two medals.” Ice dancers Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir, who also earned two silver medals in Sochi, won’t compete at the world championships either. Both were noncommital about their future but the expectation is the two-time world champions and 2010 Olympic champions will retire. “We weren’t sure how we’d feel after the Olympics in Sochi and we ended on such a high note,” Virtue said. “We were so pleased with our performances, both short and free dance, and just thrilled with the experience we had at the Olympics it just seems like the right way to end the season. “Kind of a nice way to say good-bye to those two programs.” Virtue and Moir finished second in Sochi to Americans Meryl Davis and Charlie White, with the two teams sharing the same coach, Russian Marina Zoueva. Afterwards, the Canadians publicly questioned Zoueva’s loyalties. “Some of the things we were honest about at that press conference would come as no surprise to Marina,” Virtue said. “She was very aware of the situa-
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Seahawks never far from Russell Wilson SUPER BOWL WINNING QUARTERBACK ENJOYING TIME WITH TEXAS RANGERS AT SPRING TRAINING THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SURPRISE, Ariz. — Russell Wilson has enjoyed spending time with the Texas Rangers. Yet the Seattle Seahawks are never far from the young quarterback’s mind. While Wilson sat in the Texas Rangers dugout Monday, fans yelling “Seahawks” filled the spring training stadium. “I couldn’t expect anything less,” Wilson said. “The 12th man fans were unbelievable today. They’re everywhere. The 12th man fans are out in the outfield, they’re on third-base line, first-base line, chanting ‘Seahawks’ the whole way. Hopefully the Dallas fans didn’t get too mad.” Wilson threw for 3,357 yards and 26 touchdowns and helped the Seattle Seahawks rout the Denver Broncos 43-8 in the Super Bowl last month. He also happens to be a pretty good baseball player, drafted three times and hitting .229 with a .350 on-base percentage in 93 games in 2010-11 in the low minors in the Colorado Rockies system. But he’s had instant success in the NFL. “You never say never,” Wilson said. “I’ve always had the dream of playing two sports. If somehow it was a miracle that it could work out, I’d consider it. At the same time, my focus is winning the championship with the Seattle Seahawks and hope to be playing for a long time.
“For me, it only being my second year, yeah I won a Super Bowl and all that, but that’s not enough for me. It really isn’t. My goal is to be one of the best quarterbacks to ever play the game, if not the best. I’ve got a long ways to go. I make sure I get up earlier than Tom Brady and Drew Brees and they’re on the East Coast.” The Rangers picked Wilson for $12,000 in the Rule 5 minor league draft in December. He was in the Rangers’ camp Monday, took ground balls in morning drills and brought the Rangers’ lineup to the umpires before the game, but did not play in the 6-5 loss to Cleveland. “How much did I want to play an inning?” Wilson said. “How much did I want to play the whole game is the question.” He spoke at a Rangers’ dinner on Sunday night for sponsors, suite holders and players and addressed the minor leaguers Monday night. He said he would leave Tuesday for Seattle and “turn my focus back to football.” So what is most difficult, hitting a curveball or being hit by a 300-pound defensive end? “Hitting a curveball,” Wilson said. “The ball is so small. It looks like a pea.” Wilson worked on throws and pivots at second base in a group with young infielders Jurickson Profar, Luis Sardi-
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Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson throws to first after fielding a ground ball with the Texas Rangers during spring training baseball practice, Monday, in Surprise, Ariz. nas and Rougned Odor. “He surprised me for not being out on the baseball field for a while,” Rangers manager Ron Washington said. “I might have burned his legs up a little bit, but he made it through all the drills and did a fantastic job. He’s got tremendous aptitude. That’s why he is who he is. You give him something and he knows how to apply it.”
Rangers shortstop Elvis Andrus said Wilson is athletic enough to make it in baseball. “He’s got pretty good hands,” Andrus said. “I’ve got to see him hit so I can answer that, but so far what I saw today it was pretty impressive.” The Surprise Stadium shops selling official Major League gear, predominantly displayed Wilson’s Rangers No. 3 jersey.
Correia pitches three hitless innings as Twins beat Blue Jays BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FORT MYERS, Fla. — Kevin Correia threw three hitless innings and a split squad of Minnesota Twins beat the Toronto Blue Jays 12-2 Monday. Correia, who was 9-13 last year, permitted just one walk.“Trying to get command of all my pitches,” he said. Blue Jays starter J.A. Happ struggled, walking four and giving up a double and single while getting only one out. Six Toronto pitchers combined for eight walks. “Couldn’t throw strikes,” Blue Jays manager John Gibbons said. “We were allergic to the strike zone today on the mound.” He indicated Happ was not excessively wild. “It wasn’t like he was scattered all over,” Gibbons said. “He was close. So, you got to keep it on the zone. Let them hit the ball. That’s the approach you got to have. looking for contact.” Happ said he’s ready to put this outing behind him.“Just anxious to get out there and do it again,” he said. “I felt like I was making good pitches,” he said. “The ones they took were just off and I wasn’t as sharp with my fastball command as I need to be.” Jermaine Mitchell homered for the Twins. He went 3 for 3 with a double and drove in four runs. Brian Dozier hit two doubles. Edwin Encarnacion hit a two-run homer for Toronto. He hit 36 homers last season. “We don’t worry about Edwin,” Gibbons said. The game featured the first review under Major League Baseball’s expanded replay system. Gibbons asked umpires to review a play in the sixth. Chris Rahl was called safe at first base when Toronto shortstop Munenori Kawasaki’s throw pulled Jared Goedert off the bag. After a wait of 2 minutes, 34 seconds, the call was upheld. In the eighth inning, replay confirmed another Twins runner was safe at first. STARTING TIME Twins: Minnesota won its other split-squad game, with starter Vance Worley tossing three shutout innings in a 9-2 win over Baltimore. Manager Ron Gardenhire went with the team to Sarasota while bench coach Terry Steinbach stayed in Fort Myers. “No complaints about our pitching,” Steinbach said. DOUBLE TROUBLE Twins second baseman Brian Dozier hit doubles in each of his first two at-bats. He had 33 doubles last year. BUS LEAGUES The Blue Jays’ 132-mile ride to Hammond Stadium was the longest of the spring for Toronto, four miles more than the one to JetBlue Park, the Fort Myers home of the Boston Red Sox. The Blue Jays’ shortest trip is three miles to Clearwater’s Bright House Field, the spring home of the Philadelphia Phillies.
Three Exelta athletes finish well in Calgary CALGARY — The Red Deer Exelta Gymnastics Club placed three athletes in the top five in the girls’ tyro division of the Ed Vincent artistic gymnastics meet during the weekend. Casey Patsula placed first after winning the vault, finishing second on the beam, fourth on the floor and tying for sixth on the uneven bars. Keara Slimmon was third and Ruby Butler fifth. Slimmon was second on the bars, third on the beam, sixth on the floor and tied for seventh on the vault while Butler won the bars and floor while taking second on the vault and ninth on the beam. Exelta members took the top two places in both the boys’ U13 and open women’s divisions. Kaelan Hayter won the open title with Hannah Bilsborrow second out of the three competitors. Hayter won the vault, beam and floor.
Brayden Lord won the U13 title with Jared Hoffman second out of five athletes. Lord won the floor and high bar titles, was second on the parallel bars and third on the pommel horse and rings. Hoffman won the horse, rings and parallel bars while taking fourth on the floor and high bar. Sydney Larsen was second in the girls’ provincial 4 12-and-under division while winning the uneven bars, taking second on the vault, tying for second on the beam and finishing third on the floor. Lina Koller was fifth in the P5, 14-and-over girls division while placing second on the vault, third on the beam, fifth on the bars and seventh on the floor. Molly Hall-Jarratt was fifth in the P5 13-and-under competition after placing third on the beam and fifth on the vault, bars and floor.
Katherine Stuber tied for fifth in the argo division while placing fifth on the beam, sixth on the vault and bars and tying for seventh on the floor. Karis Wygeria was in a tie for seventh in the tyro class with a fifth on the beam while Rachel Hyrink placed eighth in the P4 13-and-over division. She had a third on the floor, tied for fourth on the vault, was seventh on the bars and eighth on the beam. ● Meanwhile in the second Alberta Cup trampoline and tumbling meet Tess McLachlin, Carter Pisko and Paige Tiegs all won silver medals. McLachlin was second in the national women’s tumbling and seventh
in the double-mini trampoline (DMT) while Pisko took second in the provincial 3 DMT to go with a fourth on the trampoline. Tiegs was second in the P1 DMT and sixth in tumbling. Mickayla Murray was third in the national women’s trampoline and eighth in DMT. Benn Bilsborrow had a pair of top five finishes, taking fourth in the P3 DMT and fifth on the trampoline while Erika Blair was fifth on the P3 trampoline, eighth in the P4 DMT and 10th in P4 tumbling. Mackenzie Schneider was fifth in the P5 trampoline with Savanna Chanminaraj fifth in the P5 DMT.
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“It’s amazing. It’s unexplainable right now, it’s so exciting,” said Rocque following her win. “We really just wanted to come here and hopefully medal. “Now that we’re guaranteed one, we are so excited. Hopefully the gold but we’ll be happy either way. I blinked and that game was over. It was a really fast-paced game with a lot of good shotmaking. It was an exciting game to play in.” Canada led 5-4 after eight ends but got into trouble in the ninth when Rocque slid wide
on a draw that allowed South Korea to steal two. But in the 10th end, Rocque faced a draw for two and the win and this time made the shot. “I’m just so proud of the girls, they’ve played so well,” Rocque said. “We wanted this so badly, it’s awesome and we’re glad all the hard work is finally paying off.” Winnipeg’s Braden Calvert takes on Switzerland in the men’s Page 3 versus 4 contest Tuesday. The Canadians finished third with a 6-3 record.
Oilers sign Scrivens to extension THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — The Edmonton Oilers have agreed to terms with goaltender Ben Scrivens on a two-year contract extension. The Spruce Grove, Alta., native has posted a 3-4-0 record including one shutout since being acquired by the Oilers in a trade with the Los Angeles Kings on January 15th. The 27-year old has posted a 10-9-4 record with Edmonton and the Kings, including four shutouts and a league leading .934 save percentage. “It’s a great opportunity,” Scrivens
said. “Now the real work begins... It’s great to be here in Edmonton playing at home.” He made an immediate impact when acquired by his hometown team, making 59 saves in a 3-0 win over the San Jose Sharks on Jan. 29. That set an NHL record for most saves in a regular-season shutout. The six-foot-two, 193-pound goaltender has a record of 21-23-6 and six shutouts over three NHL seasons with Toronto, Los Angeles and Edmonton. In four years at Cornell University, Scrivens appeared in 117 games posting a record of 65-37-13, a 1.93 goals against average, and 19 shutouts.
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FLIMS, Switzerland — Canada’s Kelsey Rocque edged South Korea’s Kyeong-Ae Kim 7-6 to advance to the women’s final at the world junior curling championship Monday. Canada and South Korea played in the Page 1-2 playoff game. South Korea will now face Sweden in the semifinal. Rocque, of Edmonton, finished tied with South Korea atop the overall standings with identical 7-2 records. But the Koreans earned first after beating Canada 8-6 during the round robin.
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