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Cost of hospital stay has climbed

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF

CIHI REPORT

The cost of a stay at Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre climbed 18.8 per cent in 2012-13.

Recently, the Canadian Institute for Health Information’s compared data from Canadian hospitals with its interactive web tool — Your Health System — and showed the cost of a standard hospital stay was $7,018 at the Red Deer hospital, up from $5,907 in 2011-12.

The average length of stay in Red Deer is 6.7 days.

Between 2012-13 and 2010-11, the cost of care in

Red Deer jumped a whopping 39.2 per cent. A standard stay’s cost was $5,040 in 2010-11.

The CIHI says the cost of a standard stay provides a sense of how efficient acute care hospital services are provided, but does not tell how well those services were delivered.

Red Deer care cost 4.4 per cent less than the provincial average of $7,338 in 2012-13.

Provincially, costs have increased 9.6 per cent from 2011-12 when it cost $6,694. In 2010-11, it cost $6,493.

Compared to the national average of $5,567, care in

Red Deer was 26 per cent higher in 2012-13.

National costs have risen slower between 2012-11 and 2012-13 at 2.9 per cent. The national cost in 201112 was $5,409, up from $5,338 in 2010-11.

Kerry Bales, chief zone officer with Alberta Health Services Central Zone, said demands from the increasing population and labour costs particular to Alberta’s economy are two big factors that drive hospital costs and sets it apart from the national average.

“The result is what you see in the CIHI report,” Bales said on Monday.

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Big Wreck front man and guitarist Ian Thornley and the band took to the stage at the Memorial Centre Monday for a sold out show in Red Deer. The Canadian rock band is currently touring western Canada with dates in Grande Prairie, Vancouver, Victoria, Kamloops, Medicine Hat, Saskatoon, and Winnipeg before heading back to Ontario for more shows. For a review of the show, check out Wednesday’s Advocate and reddeeradvocate.com.

Red Deer could have bureau TFWs top list for for 24-hour TV news channel Prentice’s first CHANNEL COULD LAUNCH BY FISCAL 2016 IF CRTC APPROVES

BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR Shaw Media plans to create a 24-hour television news channel, with Red Deer one of its bureaus.

The parent company of Global Television confirmed on Monday that it’s applied to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission for a specialty programming channel that would combine a national news feed with local content from as many as 28 communities. Those communities would include the 12 where Global currently operates conventional television stations, as well as eight others where there’s no local television news or it’s limited. Red Deer and Fort McMurray would be among these.

Shaw Media is also proposing that eight smallmarket, independent broadcasters would add their local content as well.

“We’re hopeful that we can get a (CRTC) decision and move to the point where we’d be looking to launch by fiscal 2016 — so some time between next September and the following August,” said Troy Reeb, Shaw Media’s senior vice-president, news and station operations.

The channel, which would be called Global News 1, would employ about a half-dozen staff in Red Deer, said Reeb. These would consist primarily of journalists and sales people.

The national news feed would be interspersed with regular local newscasts in each market, he said.

“On a typical day, what you would see is Red Deer news updates at the top and bottom of the hour through the day,” said Reeb.

This local content would average about eight minutes per hour, he added.

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“What we told the commission is that in Red Deer we would have at least 10 ½ hours of local news a week on the channel.”

National news would also be pre-empted by local and even provincial breaking news, said Reeb. A continuous feed of local headlines and community events would also appear on the screen.

Red Deer was left without a local television station for the first time in more than 50 years when CHCA-TV shut down on Aug. 31, 2009. Its owner, Canwest Global Communications Corp., entered into bankruptcy protection soon after and its broadcasting division was sold to Shaw Communications Inc., Shaw Media’s parent.

Reeb said the way Global News 1 delivers news will contrast sharply with the practice of CHCA-TV, which aired newscasts at set times every evening.

“The staff were scheduled around the deadlines and the show production in the old model; the new model is one in which the staff are scheduled around the news events.

“As events are happening, journalists will be out covering it and as soon as the event is done they will be, in many cases, editing and filing from the field a full television package — that would be anchored form the field in some cases and in other cases back in the newsroom — and then that would go back into a digital server for playback at the next available opportunity.”

If approved by the CRTC, Global News 1 would be provided as part of a cable package, said Reeb.

He believes regional viewers will subscribe to it, despite the availability of alternatives like CBC News Network and CTV News Channel.

“We know that, all things being equal, local is going to win nine times out of 10.” hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

meeting with Harper

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CALGARY — Alberta Premier Jim Prentice says labour policy, including temporary foreign workers, will top his agenda when he gets a chance to meet with Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

Prentice served for years in Harper’s cabinet and wants to meet with the prime minister after dealing with provincial CITY PUSHES FOR FOREIGN issues, including a bye- WORKER SOLUTION C1 lection to get himself a seat in the Alberta legislature.

The federal government introduced new rules in June to limit the number of foreign workers that large- and medium-sized companies are permitted to hire.

The changes are aimed at ensuring Canadians are first in line for jobs.

Prentice said the new rules are making it very difficult for some businesses to fill jobs and hopes to work with Harper on a solution.

“With the population pressure we’re under, with the job creation pressure that we’re under in this province, I’ve heard loud and clear over the summer from business people that the changes on temporary foreign workers are going to be very, very difficult,” Prentice said Monday.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Netflix says it will not turn over confidential subscriber information to Canada’s broadcast regulator in order to safeguard private corporate information.

The video streaming company was ordered last week to provide the data to the Canadian Radiotelevision and Telecommunications Commission by the end of the day Monday.

It was also told to hand over information related to the Canadian content it creates or provides to subscribers. The CRTC issued its demands during public hearings on the impact of Netflix and other online video providers on the country’s traditional TV broadcasting sector.

A Netflix spokeswoman says while the company has responded to a number of the CRTC’s request, it is not “in a position to produce the confidential and competitively sensitive information ordered by the commission due to ongoing confidentiality concerns.”

Anne Marie Squeo says in a statement issued Monday night that the CRTC’s orders are “not applicable” to Netflix under Canadian broadcasting law.

But she says the company is “always prepared to work constructively with the commission.”

Netflix has argued that regulating the Internet to boost Canadian content would only hurt consumers, and that the CRTC should let market forces decide what people can watch.

CRTC spokeswoman Patricia Valladao said the commission was not prepared to comment on Netflix’s decision at this time, adding she wasn’t aware if the regulator had received notice of it in writing.

Valladao said the panel behind the order would have to discuss its next steps but couldn’t say whether a statement would be issued Tuesday.

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HOSPITAL : Direct reflection But there is always an opportunity to look at being more cost-effective, he said.

Patients requiring hip fracture surgery had longer waits in Red Deer in 2012-13 compared to provincial and national rates.

Bales said that’s also a direct reflection of the demand, along with the fact that Red Deer is the only regional health centre.

In Red Deer, 56.1 per cent of patients age 65 and older underwent hip fracture surgery within 48 hours of being admitted. The provincial rate was 81.8 per cent and nationally it was 82.5 per cent.

Between 2011-12 and 2012-13, Red Deer saw 25 per cent more patients waiting longer than 48 hours for surgery.

The CIHI says long wait times in older patients with a hip fracture are associated with a higher risk of complications following surgery, including death.

Bales said the project announced in January to develop two new obstetrical operating rooms at the Red Deer hospital will help.

“Once those new ORs come on line, it’s going to free up space in the main ORs to be able to actually put through other surgeries such as orthopedics and hip fractures.”

The project is in the design phase. Construction is expected to get underway in 2015 and the project completed some 18 months later.

Red Deer continues to perform more caesarian sections in low-risk births than the provincial or national average.

The Red Deer rate was 17.8 per cent, while the provincial rate was 13.3 and the national rate was 14.1 per cent.

According to CIHI, unnecessary C-section delivery increases maternal morbidity and mortality and is associated with higher costs. Lower rates may indi-

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The Alley behind the John Howard Society building on Ross Street in Red Deer has been transformed over the summer as a group of artists have created a project called ‘Art Alley’‚ It is hoped the project will help to create a space where graffiti tagging will become a thing of the past and people will feel comfortable walking in the area and enjoy the art on the walls. cate more appropriate as well as more efficient care.

In 2011-12, the rate in Red Deer was slightly higher at 18.7 per cent.

Bales said the increasing rate of C-sections could be due to different reasons and it’s a trend others are seeing beyond Red Deer and Alberta.

Hospital deaths in Red Deer dropped slightly in 2012-13.

The CIHI has developed a standardized mortality rate. In Red Deer, hospital deaths were at 90, which meant for every 100 patients likely to die, 90 of them actually died. In 2011-12, the rate was 92.

The provincial rate for 2012-13 was 84 and the Canadian rate was 89.

“For Red Deer in particular, what we’ve seen is a fairly consistent reduction in that number over time.

That’s really the piece we mostly look at. We’d like to continue to see it trend down,” Bales said.

Readmission of patients within 30 days of their initial discharge at the Red Deer hospital was 8.7 per cent, which was slightly lower than the provincial rate of 8.9 per cent and 8.8 per cent nationally.

In 2011-12, the rate was 9 per cent in Red Deer, and 8.7 per cent both provincially and nationally.

CIHI says that while not all readmissions can be prevented, the rate can often be reduced through better follow-up and coordination of care for patients after discharge.

In-hospital sepsis, which is a severe systemic infection, was lower in Red Deer with 2.8 per 1,000 patients discharged compared to 4.2 provincially and 4.4 nationally.

CIHI says appropriate preventive and therapeutic measures during a hospital stay can reduce the rate of infections and/or progression of infection to sepsis.

Bales credits Red Deer’s the low sepsis rate to the quality of work by hospital staff.

“It really is a large collaborative effort by many, many departments.”

To access the CIHI hospital review, go to yourhealthsystem.cihi.ca. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

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Prentice said Alberta has accounted for almost all of Canada’s job growth yet receives only two per cent of the immigration nominees.

“That clearly can’t continue,” he said.

He said the answer might involve increasing the number of immigration nominees that are available or some sort of program to lure other Canadians to Alberta to fill the vacancies.

Other changes to the program announced by Federal Employment Minister Jason Kenney in June included tougher penalties for companies that violate the new rules and inspections to uncover abuses.

Kenney told The Canadian Press Monday that he won’t compromise on ensuring that employers don’t use the temporary foreign worker program as a cheap source of labour.

He downplayed how the program is affecting Alberta.

“When fully implemented in 2016, the Temporary Foreign Worker Program reforms will bar the admission of about 8,000 low-paid TFWs in Alberta, relative to last year’s admissions,” Kenney wrote in an email.

Kenney said that’s the equivalent of 0.3 per cent of Alberta’s labour force, which is growing by 100,000 per year.

He said there are too many people capable of working who are still not in the work force and that Alberta’s food services sector has become too dependent on temporary foreign workers.

“In the Alberta food services sector, wages have gone up by only one per cent a year over the past 8 years, versus two per cent for inflation and three per cent for all jobs in Alberta,” he said.

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Man pleads Prentice announces $30M for Calgary schools guilty to Prentice didn’t rule out a similar announcement for other regions such as Edmonton.

NDP Leader Brian Mason said the Tories are CALGARY — Alberta Premier Jim Prentice has spending money to address a schooling crisis that announced $30.6 million to build “rapid-response” the government itself created.

“If proper schools had been planned and built classrooms to help deal with chronic overcrowding where they were needed and when they were needin Calgary schools.

Prentice says student enrolment in Calgary ed, temporary, so-called starter schools would not be schools is expected to grow by 5,000 students a year required,” Mason told reporters in Edmonton.

“This is simply another example of Jim Prentice for the next seven years.

The money will be used by the Calgary Board of going back and correcting previous mistakes of his Education to build four starter schools in phases to party in government.”

The Opposition Wildrose party approved of the get students into classes before the entire building is government’s move, but said much more is needed to complete. address the shortage “These are esprovincewide. sentially rapid-re‘THESE ARE ESSENTIALLY RAPID “I hope these sponse classrooms RESPONSE CLASSROOMS THAT ARE starter schools start that are made easing some of the available to accomMADE AVAILABLE TO ACCOMMODATE pressure for Calgary modate children CHILDREN MORE QUICKLY THAN IF WE parents, teachers and more quickly than students who’ve been if we followed a traFOLLOWED A TRADITIONAL APPROACH waiting patiently for ditional approach OF CONSTRUCTING THE ENTIRE SCHOOL the PCs to deliver of constructing the on their promise to entire school buildBUILDING FIRST .’ build 50 new schools ing first,” Prentice — JIM PRENTICE and modernize 70 by said Monday.

2016,” said Wildrose “They are a very education critic Bruce timely approach to our needs here in Alberta. Starter schools will en- McAllister.

“It’s encouraging to see that Mr. Prentice appears able children to attend schools in their own neighbourhoods. It will limit the amount of busing that to be willing to take some action on the serious needs to be done and will allow them to attend lack of schools in Alberta, but this announcement is merely a drop in the bucket compared to what’s schools sooner.”

The chair of the Calgary Board of Education wel- needed.”

The Liberals say the starter schools are just a comed the news.

“We are facing a severe accommodation crunch in “band-aid” approach.

“This is hardly ’Building Alberta,”’ said Liberal our CBE schools. At the moment we believe that we have 80 schools operating at more than 90 per cent education critic Kent Hehr.

“It is simply a short-term, temporary measure to of our capacity, which means learning commons and other spaces are being used for classrooms,” said Joy deflect attention away from the PCs’ massive failure to deliver on their promise to build 50 new schools Bowen-Eyre.

“In the far north and the south of Calgary we have by 2016,” he said.

“Our students need real, permanent schools, not many more students than we have student spaces trailer park schools.” for.”

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Officials reopen Edmonton hospital ER after ruling out an Ebola infection

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — An Edmonton hospital has become the latest in the country to temporarily close its doors over a possible case of Ebola, although the disease was ruled out after a few hours.

Dr. Gerry Predy, Alberta’s senior medical officer of health, said the ill patient had been waiting for a while Monday morning in the emergency room at Royal Alexandra Hospital. When he was seen by staff, he told them he had recently travelled from Africa, where there is an outbreak of the highly contagious virus.

Predy wouldn’t reveal the man’s symptoms but said his clinical condition was “suggestive” of Ebola.

Within a half hour, the hospital closed its emergency department and workers began cleaning and disinfecting the unit.

It was open again before noon.

“Even though at this point we’ve ruled it out, I think at the time the patient appeared it wasn’t quite

EDMONTON — The former president of the Alberta Medical Association says “turmoil” in the provincial government over the past year made it hard to get things done.

In a letter to physicians, Dr. Allan Garbutt says only a few of the desired changes to the health system were accomplished. He says physicians worked hard but could not get commitments from the provincial government.

Garbutt says he hopes Premier Jim Prentice and newly-appointed Health Minister Stephen Mandel will bring more stability to the health system. He says more changes are needed to primary care to better serve Alberta’s aging population and to deal with chronic diseases using a team-based system.

Garbutt has been succeeded by Dr. Richard Johnston, an intensive care physician and a University of Alberta clinical professor.

COUPLE HAD MOVED TO U.S. IN 2001 NORTH CAROLINA

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A Canadian man awaiting a new trial in the death of his wife six years ago pleaded guilty in North Carolina on Monday to lesser charges.

Multiple media outlets reported that Brad Cooper, 40, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder.

Cooper responded “yes” when Superior Court Judge Paul Gessner asked him if he killed Nancy Cooper in 2008 and dumped her body near their home in Cary, near Raleigh.

The Coopers, a Canadian couple, married in 2000 and moved to Cary, N.C., from Calgary a year later.

Nancy Cooper was a former Edmonton resident.

Gessner sentenced Cooper to at least 12 years in prison.

He will be given credit for the five years he has served.

Cooper had told authorities his wife had gone jogging and never returned when he reported her missing. Nancy Cooper died of strangulation.

Cooper was convicted of first-degree murder in 2011 in a trial that included 36 days of testimony from nearly 100 witnesses.

The North Carolina Court of Appeals overturned Cooper’s conviction last year.

The North Carolina Supreme Court refused the attorney general’s request to review the case.

Under the plea agreement, Cooper had to agree to the adoption of his daughters, now 8 and 10.

They are currently living with Nancy Cooper’s sister.

The evidence in the case was largely circumstantial.

The Court of Appeals said the evidence connecting Cooper to the crime “was primarily potential motive, opportunity, and testimony of suspicious behaviour.”

The Appeals Court also said Cooper should have been allowed to have his own experts testify about some of the evidence.

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that obvious,” Predy said.

“When we actually did a detailed analysis of the travel itinerary, he was not in any Ebola-infected area.”

The man remains in isolation while further test are being done, Predy said. Other people who were in the waiting room with him have also been notified.

“Any patients who were in the department at that time can be reassured that they’re not at risk of getting Ebola or other infectious diseases.”

There have been other Ebola scares at hospitals in Alberta and Canada in recent weeks. A hotel in Saint John, N.B. was also locked down for several hours after a woman who had been to Africa fell ill there. In all cases, it was determined people did not have the virus. New figures released Monday by the World Health Organization show Ebola has sickened more than 5,800 people in West Africa and killed about 2,800. The vast majority of cases have been in Liberia but the disease has also reached Guinea, Nigeria and Senegal.

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Worst to come in Scotland?

A week ago, the Kurdistan Times warned that “the British are exercising the old colonialist tongue to control the minds and dampen the aspirations of Scottish people who want to vote Yes (to independence).”

And lo! It came to pass just as the Kurdistan Times predicted. The silver-tongued colonialists lured the Scots into voting No, and by a fairly healthy margin, too: 55 per cent No, 45 per cent Yes. GWYNNE It is, indeed, DYER a much wider margin for the No than the last time a proposal for secession was voted on in a Western country, in Canada in 1995. In that referendum, just 50.5 per cent of Quebecers voted No, compared to 49.5 per cent who voted Yes. It was a near-death experience for Canada, in the sense that Quebec bulks much larger in Canada than Scotland does in the United Kingdom. It has almost a quarter of the Canadian population, whereas Scotland has only eight per cent of the U.K. population.

At the time, many Canadians thought that the country’s demolition had only been deferred, not averted. It

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was, after all, the second referendum on Quebec’s independence, and it was a lot closer to a Yes than the first one in 1980 (60 per cent No, 40 per cent Yes). Third time lucky, muttered the separatists of the Parti Quebecois. And everybody else assumed that they’d just keep holding referendums until they got the right answer.

That was when a Montreal journalist called Josh Freed coined the word “Neverendum” to describe the process, and for more than a decade that was the wheel that everybody in Quebec assumed that they were tied to.

But they turned out to be wrong. Almost two decades later there has been no third referendum, nor is there any on the horizon.

Indeed, there was a provincial election in Quebec in April, and the Parti Quebecois looked set to win it — until one of its star candidates started talking about another referendum on independence, and the PQ’s vote suddenly collapsed. A recent poll revealed that 64 per cent of Quebecers, and an even higher proportion of young Quebecers, don’t want another referendum.

Could it work out that way in Scotland, too?

That would be good, because what will probably happen if another referendum remains a possibility is what befell Quebec: a low-level depression that lasted for decades as investors avoided a place whose future was so uncertain, and existing businesses pulled out. It was not even that everybody knew that Quebec’s indepen-

dence would be an economic disaster; just that nobody could be certain it wouldn’t be.

The result was that Quebec’s share of Canada’s Gross Domestic Product, which was around 25 per cent when the separatist Parti Quebecois was first elected in 1976, is now less than 20 per cent. That is about $90 billion of lost economic activity in Quebec each year, even though another referendum on independence has been a rapidly receding prospect for at least the past dozen years.

How might Scotland avoid that fate?

The only way, really, is for “Devo Max” to work so well, and so thoroughly satisfy Scots’ understandable desire for more control over their own government and economy, that nobody talks about independence any more.

That will be more than a little tricky.

Devo Max — maximum devolution of power from London to Edinburgh — would leave little else but defence and foreign affairs to the U.K. parliament in London.

Everything else would be decided

by Scots, in Scotland, including rates of taxation and the level of spending on health and welfare.

So what’s the problem? Scotland was already more than halfway there before the independence referendum.

In the panicky last days before the vote, when it briefly looked like the Yes might squeak through to a narrow victory, all three major British parties promised to deliver the other half as

well.

But it will be very hard for them to keep their promises, which include placing what amounts to a proposal for a new British constitution before the Westminster parliament by next March. They are starting with three different versions of Devo Max for Scotland, and getting to a single agreed version (which also satisfies the great majority of Scots) in only six months is a tall order.

Even more difficult is the fact that Scotland cannot all be given all these powers while the other parts of the United Kingdom — Wales, Northern Ireland and even the various regions of England — stay just the same. There must be at least some more devolution for them too, but that debate has barely started.

What the United Kingdom must do in the next six months, in other words, is design and pass its first written constitution. And it will not just codify existing arrangements; it will radically change them. Meanwhile, the disappointed Scottish supporters of the Yes will be looking for opportunities to claim that the “English” (as they will put it) are reneging on their promises.

So what are the odds that Scotland will escape the “planning blight” of a long period during which a second referendum lurks in the shadows, and the economic damage accumulates? Not very good.

Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Prentice cabinet out of balance Usually in building a cabinet, geography plays an important role. So let’s analyze Premier Jim Prentice’s first whack at it: ● Calgary got seven cabinet ministers one of which is an associate minister; ● Edmonton got four, two of whom are associate ministers; ● The rest of the province got nine including one each in Fort McMurray, Grande Prairie, St. Albert and Wetaskiwin.

As the Advocate reported in its headline, Red Deer was shut out, but so was Lethbridge.

Prentice must have said to himself and his advisers: if not the one, then not the other big city either.

So Calgary won the cabinet battle hands down.

Jim, you can balance better than that!

Harlan Hulleman Red Deer

Still no sign of ethics at legislature Sir, I am writing to express my disgust and disappointment with what is going on in the political arena in our province.

First let me say I am not a Progressive Conservative member or supporter and admit to being biased in my opinions.

However, be that as it may, it seems to me that the two Red Deer MLAs have been insulted by the new premier, as he has ignored their past performance and service to their constituents.

Unfortunately, the present-day politician lacks the ethics that we have seen in the past.

I can guess they will both keep quiet and sit on the backbench so they can collect their pensions and perks when they leave the government.

I am very disappointed to see Premier Jim Prentice bring in unelected friends of his to take important positions in the government when competent elected people such as Cal Dallas and Mary Anne Jablonski sit on the backbench.

If they had any pride, they would quit immediately.

However, don’t hold your breath, remember the words of David Lloyd George: “If you want to succeed in politics, you must keep your conscience well under control.”

Are we expected to sit back and watch Prentice look after his buddies at the taxpayers’ expense?

George Croome Red Deer

Economic reality is far worse Not for the first time, economist and columnist David Crane gives us information that confirms that our present economic system is in long-term crises.

(Boosting growth is the key challenge, Advocate, Sept.

2, 2014) Although Crane remains optimistic, his observations are enlightening: “Moreover, despite cuts in corporate tax rates and the low interest rates policy of the Bank of Canada, business has not been investing for the future. Instead, it is sitting on record levels of cash, what former Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney described as dead money.”

A French economist, Thomas Pikitty, has achieved world fame on the basis of his new book, a best sell-

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Pikitty explains in clear terms, backed up by painstaking historical research, that the growing inequality between the owners of capital and the rest of society is now the normal state of affairs.

He demonstrates that periods of diminishing inequality, like the post-war boom from 1948 to 1975, are in actuality an exception — that economic stagnation and rising inequality are the new normal.

Crane’s optimism unfortunately leads him to the utopian conclusion that Canada can, by raising the productivity of labour, export its way out of the continuing crises.

Pikitty, however, fears for the very survival of the present economic system on a world scale and in his book he recommends something that is for the owners of capital a drastic unthinkable solution: a global tax on wealth.

This, of course, demonstrates that Pikitty must also be utopian to seriously believe that those who possess the wealth would willingly give it away.

The Economist writes on May 3, 2014: “The book’s success has a lot to do with being about the right subject at the right time. Inequality has suddenly become a fevered topic, especially in America — Americans stung by the excesses of Wall Street, are suddenly talking about the rich and redistribution.

Hence the attraction of a book, which argues that growing wealth concentration is inherent to capitalism and recommends a global tax on wealth as the progressive solution.”

The charity Oxfam revealed that 85 billionaires own as much as the bottom half of the world’s population and the wealth gap continues to grow.

After six years of economic crises, there is increasing concern for the future.

In stark contrast to austerity, unemployment and falling incomes, the banks and big business continue to make record profits.

What concerns the most far-sighted economists is the threat to the existing economic system from an enormous build up of discontent.

Resentment is building in populations who, while

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This situation has been called socialism for the rich and the market economy for the rest. The wealthy take no risks because they are bailed out by the state and the workers get the bill.

Both Crane and Pikitty would in all probability regard themselves as practical people and would probably regard socialists, who advocate a democratic planned economy, as utopians.

The present method of running society is nevertheless at an impasse, it is time we ended the injustice and inequality that is the result of the existing mode of production, distribution and exchange.

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ISIL adds Canada to global hit list OTTAWA — The federal government refused Monday to be specific about its efforts to neutralize the growing threat of Islamic extremism both at home and abroad — even in the face of an ominous new threat levelled directly at Canada.

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant is calling for supporters to kill westerners, be they military or civilian, from countries involved in the battle against ISIL in northern Iraq — including Canadians.

Canada’s decision to send special forces “advisers” to join the fight against ISIL is likely what prompted its inclusion on the global hit list, observers said, though the prime minister noted that such threats have been on the radar of security agencies for a long time.

But there were calls Monday for far more disclosure about what exactly the government plans to do about it.

Though the government has readily said they believe more than 130 Canadians are involved in terrorism abroad, Immigration Minister Chris Alexander cited privacy concerns in refusing to say how many passports he has revoked to prevent would-be attackers from moving around the globe.

The government also refused to disclose the status of a military mission it is joining in northern Iraq.

Canada is sending 69 special forces personnel to serve as advisers to Iraqi forces battling ISIL militants, in addition to humanitarian assistance. That mission is only supposed to last 30 days, although it remains unclear when that time frame began — or

even whether the clock has indeed started running.

“With any credible terrorist threat, the government must take appropriate security measures, but this must not become an excuse for rubber-stamping the Conservatives’ ill-defined military mission in Iraq,” MP Jack Harris said Monday during question period as he asked the government for more detail on the time frame.

None was forthcoming.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper suggested the government was still exploring further contributions to that mission and is also looking at what more it can do domestically.

The House passed legislation last year making it a criminal offence to leave Canada for the purpose of committing terrorism — a law the United Nations Security Council said Monday it now wants all of its members to copy.

But when asked specifically what more Canada was doing, Harper demurred.

“We have, as you know, strengthened laws in this country to deal with these kinds of threats,” Harper told a news conference on Parliament Hill.

“We are currently in the process of examining these laws and examining other means we may have to monitor and to take action against both organizations and individuals who may undertake activities that are potentially threatening to Canadians.”

The ISIL statement, contained in an audio recording, was released in Arabic by the group’s media arm, Al-Furqan, and appeared on militant sites used by the group.

The Associated Press reported the speaker sounded like that of previous recordings attributed to Abu

Harper views climate change as challenge for Canada

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS UNITED NATIONS — Prime Minister Stephen Harper says climate change is just one item on a long list of “significant challenges” Canada will be wrestling with in New York this week.

Harper will spend several days here, participating in a question-and-answer session with business leaders, speaking at the United Nations General Assembly and joining UN Secretary-General Ban Kimoon at an event on women’s health.

However, it will be Canada’s environment minister, Leona Aglukkaq, who attends Tuesday’s UN climate-change summit on behalf of the government.

When asked why he wasn’t attending himself, Harper suggested it’s because he already has a lot on his plate.

“Every year, when we go to New York this particular week — and obviously part of it which we we spend at the United Nations — we’re seized with any number of significant challenges that are before us,” he told a news conference Monday on Parliament Hill.

“If we look at this year, we have new and emerging peace and security threats that range from the form of terrorist organizations to major countries, in the case of the threat against Ukraine; we have

challenges of development, humanitarian aid, pandemics; we have challenges of human rights and governance; we have trade issues and the economy; and obviously, I try and touch on a number of these, including climate change.”

The Canadian government, however, is being confronted with an issue it might rather avoid.

The $860-million Rockefeller brothers charitable fund, created from a family oil fortune, has announced it will dump its fossil-fuel investments.

That brings to an estimated $50 billion the total amount institutional investors around the world have pledged to withdraw from fossil fuels over the next five years.

Harper will attend a working dinner Tuesday on climate change, where his office said in a statement he’ll discuss Canada’s efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, adapt to a changing climate, invest in research and work with other countries on climate change, “while still encouraging economic growth and job creation.”

“Canada will be very well represented at the climate change summit,” Harper said.

“I look forward to tomorrow evening with president Park and many other leaders in the important discussions we will have, hosted by the secretary general of the United Nations, on how we can work together collectively on how we can address this particular issue.”

Muhammad Al-Adnani.

In the 42-minute recording released online late Sunday, al-Adnani called on Muslims everywhere to kill anyone whose country takes part in the attack.

“If you can kill a disbelieving American or European — especially the spiteful and filthy French — or an Australian, or a Canadian, or any other disbeliever from the disbelievers waging war, including the citizens of the countries that joined a coalition against the Islamic State, then rely upon Allah, and kill him in any manner or way however it may be.”

The global reach of ISIL through social media is what makes threats like these particularly chilling, said Michel Juneau-Katsuya, a former Canadian intelligence officer who now heads up an Ottawa-based cybersecurity company.

“They have been capable (of recruiting) young people without speaking directly to them face to face,” Jueau-Katsuya said.

“If they’ve been capable ... through the Internet to reach them, I wouldn’t be surprised that they convince some of these people that instead of travelling to the Middle East to stay here and simply attack us here.”

Canadians need to know more about how far the government is willing to go to counter potential terrorism, said Liberal MP Wayne Easter, who was once the minister responsible for national security.

“We have defined a way of ensuring we protect ourselves against these radicalized individuals, but we also have to find a way to make sure that justice prevails in terms of a person’s right to fair play,” Easter said.

EMERGENCY ROOM DEATH

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS WINNIPEG — The family of a man who died during a 34-hour wait in a Winnipeg emergency room is asking Manitoba’s highest court to reinstate its lawsuit against a health authority.

Lawyer Murray Trachtenberg told three Appeal Court justices Monday that Brian Sinclair’s charter rights were violated when he died in a hospital waiting room in 2008.

Lower court judges struck down the heart of the family’s lawsuit against the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority, saying Sinclair’s charter rights died with him.

But Trachtenberg said it’s absurd that a man who died because he didn’t receive the care due him under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms isn’t allowed to sue because he’s dead.

“The breaches in question took place while Mr. Sinclair was alive,” Trachtenberg told the court.

“The alleged breaches are the very actions and inactions which caused his death and necessitate his personal representative to bring forward the claim as he is obviously incapable of doing so.”

Sinclair, a 45-year-old double amputee, died of a treatable bladder infection while waiting for care at Winnipeg’s Health Sciences Centre.

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Harper was understandably buoyant as he welcomed South Korean President Park Geun-hye to Parliament Hill, where the two leaders formally signed their bilateral free trade agreement, announced earlier this year, as well as a strategic partnership agreement.

Harper repeatedly referred to Park’s state visit, which included dinner at the Governor General’s residence on Sunday, as “historic.”

The Harper government has said the free trade deal, finalized after a decade of on-again, off-again negotiation, would increase Canadian exports to South Korea by 32 per cent and grow the economy by $1.7 billion.

As its first major trade deal in the Asia Pacific, it is also seen by many as a major stepping stone for Canada’s trade ambitions in the region.

Harper made it clear he shared that view.

“For getting a foothold in terms of free trade in the Asia Pacific, there’s just no better and no more ideal partner that the Republic of Korea,” he said, standing next to Park at a joint news conference on Parliament Hill.

In addition to the South Korean pact, Canada’s recent investment protection agreement with China is also seen as an important step towards the government’s goal of boosting business ties with Asia to help grow the economy.

Park and Harper both expressed confidence they could build on their agreement. The prime minister went one step further when he alluded to another similarity between the two countries: big neighbours such as China and the United States.

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New Brunswick election vote count suspended AFTER CONCERNS ABOUT DISCREPANCIES IN TABULATION

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS FREDERICTON — Vote counting in New Brunswick was suspended Monday night after technical glitches stalled the tally of ballots at the conclusion of the province’s election campaign.

New Brunswick’s Liberals and governing Progressive Conservatives were locked in an unusually tight contest but the race was put on hold at about 10:45 p.m. AT after officials with Elections New Brunswick said they became concerned about discrepancies in the tabulation.

A spokesman for Elections New Brunswick said the agency encountered a technical problem with the tabulation machines it was using to count

ballots.

Paul Harpelle said in an email that there were problems uploading data from memory cards and they were working “frantically” to resolve the delay in getting final results tallied.

With most polls reporting results before the vote count was suspended, the Liberals were leading and elected in 25 ridings compared to the Tories with 23.

Green Leader David Coon had a small lead in a close three-way race in the riding of Fredericton South.

But Liberal campaign manager Bertin LeBlanc said the uncertainty had put a damper on the excitement that was building early after the polls closed.

People are worried, LeB-

lanc said.

“You’re left in a very uncertain situation,” he said. “You don’t dare be too happy about what you’ve seen previously in the evening.”

LeBlanc said the problems raise questions about the decision to use tabulation machines. It was the first time New Brunswick used them for a provincial election.

The Liberals, led by political rookie Brian Gallant, had been the perceived frontrunner in the race long before the campaign even began. But the results indicated a much closer contest than polls suggested.

Like his main rival, Tory Premier David Alward, Gallant focused his campaign on employment growth, promising to create thousands of jobs by spending $900 million over six years to pave roads, repair bridges and upgrade other infrastructure.

By contrast, Alward sought a second mandate by commit-

ting to spur economic growth through expansion of the province’s relatively new but contentious shale gas industry.

Alward’s position was polarizing in the province, where public protests have raised concerns about the industry’s use of hydraulic fracturing.

But Alward, 54, said New Brunswick is on the verge of $10 billion in private investment if it develops its deposits of shale gas and welcomes the proposed Energy East Pipeline, which could see oil shipped from Alberta to Saint John. Alward and Gallant were both elected in their ridings by wide margins. But six of Alward’s cabinet ministers went down in defeat.

Gallant, 32, has said there should be a moratorium on fracking until the risks to the environment, human health and water are known.

However, Gallant has refused to rule out allowing fracking during the first term of a Liberal government,

prompting criticism from antifracking activists who say his stand is muddled.

As well, Gallant appeared to stumble late the campaign as his rivals pressed him to explain how the moratorium would work and how the province could afford a stimulus plan worth nearly a billion dollars when it is looking at carrying a projected deficit of $387 million.

The province’s economic growth rate was the worst in the country last year.

While the province’s jobless rate dipped to 8.7 per cent last month — slightly lower than its three Atlantic neighbours — that snapshot figure masks an annual trend that has seen steady increases since 2007.

Employment for workers between the ages of 25 and 44 has fallen by 3,800 people since 2010 when the Tories were elected to govern with a majority.

The public debt stands at $12.2 billion and rising.

Judge rules no mistrial in Saskatoon murder case featuring Mr. Big RCMP sting

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS SASKATOON — A judge has ruled he will not declare a mistrial in a high-profile Saskatoon murder case.

Justice Gerald Allbright was ready to deliver a verdict in the first-degree murder trial of Douglas Hales, who is accused of strangling and beating Daleen Bosse, a woman he had met at a bar where he worked as a bouncer, in 2004.

The case against Hales included evidence from a so-call Mr. Big sting, in which undercover RCMP officers posed as members of a criminal organization trying to recruit Hales.

But before Allbright could rule, the Supreme Court raised the bar for confessions extracted through such stings to be admissible in court.

On Monday, Allbright said there’s no reason why both sides can’t go back to evidence presented in the trial and apply a new test set out by the high court.

Under the new test, prosecutors must prove a Mr. Big confession is admissible by showing it’s reliable and that it won’t unfairly prejudice a crime suspect during court proceedings.

The Crown must also prove the confession was not obtained through po-

lice coercion, or was facilitated due to a suspect’s mental health or addiction issues.

Crown prosecutor Matthew Miazga said there is all kinds of evidence in the Hales case that meets the reliability test, including the fact that Hales confessed to Saskatoon police after the sting was over.

“Perhaps the most important part is that Mr. Hales took

the undercover police officers to the site of the Daleen’s remains, which was previously unknown to the police — that was probably the most powerful piece of confirmatory evidence,” he said outside court.

The defence had argued for a mistrial, saying that was the only fair way to apply the test.

“If Mr. Hales was being tried today, the presumption

would be that those statements would be inadmissible, not that they would be admissible, and that changes everything,” said lawyer Bob Hrycan.

“In our view, since the trial proceeded on a legal premise that we now know is no longer the law, that warranted a mistrial.”

Hrycan said Hales is aware of the ruling.

“It’s been very important for him in the sense he understands this affects his vital interests. So it’s a very important development and it’s one that he’s paying close attention to.”

Both sides will return to court on Oct. 22 to decide whether the court will permit the defence to reopen the case to present additional evidence.

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SURREY, B.C. — A man accused of the second-degree murder of a 17-year-old girl in Surrey, B.C., has a long history of violence, including a 1991 sex offence for which he served 22 years in prison.

Raymond Caissie, 43, is charged with killing Serena Vermeersch, whose body was found a day after her mother reported her missing on Sept. 16.

Caissie served his entire sentence without parole, and the B.C. Justice Ministry issued a public warning upon his release in June 2013.

The man has a “varied pattern of offending, having offended both violently and sexually, in both an opportunistic and impulsive manner,” said the warning distributed by RCMP. Police credited residents and businesses with providing information that led to his arrest Saturday morning in Vancouver.

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Leidenius, Lynn take top spots at provincial golf qualifier

BY JOSH ALDRICH ADVOCATE STAFF Shaye and Daria Leidenius have never had to look far for competition on the golf course.

The 17-year-old Ponoka twins have just had to look to each other.

On Monday at the Central Alberta High School provincial golf qualifier at Alberta Springs, the two dominated the leaderboard — Daria finishing first at 9-over-81 with Shaye three strokes back in a tie for third with Innisfail’s Courtney Dickson. Notre Dame’s Clare McMahon finished in second with an 11-over-83.

“We are pretty competitive, we try to beat each other all the time,” said Daria. “It’s good to have someone there to golf with and be close with on the course. If you’re having a bad day you have someone to lean on to help get your spirits back up.”

They have battled back and forth all season and will now have one more chance to see who is better at provincials in Bragg Creek on Monday and Tuesday at River Spirit Golf Club and Redwood Meadows Golf and Country Club.

This time, it just happened that Daria came out on top.

“I just played good shots, I was really happy with how I was plying the course — I screwed up a couple of shots, but overall I was pretty happy

with how I played and it was nice to win it,” she said.

It has been a successful year for the twins who competed on junior tours throughout Alberta and were always in contention.

“It’s been really good, I have been playing probably the best golf of my life this year, hopefully it keeps up,” said Shaye.

The twins are in Grade 12 this year and are just now starting to turn their attention to tracking down college or university scholarships, a strong finish at provincials will go a long way towards that push for scholarships, though they may take next year off.

While they would like to be at the same school, it’s not a requirement.

“It would be nice to be close to each other but if we’re separate, that’s what it is,” said Daria.

The Alberta Springs course was in great condition on Monday with temperatures reaching 28C. It made for some competitive play, with tricky greens proving to be the biggest challenge.

“It was in great shape, nothing to complain about, it was a little hot out there but you play through it,” said Shaye.

H.J. Cody School’s Jaxon Lynn won the boy’s division with an even-par 72, besting a pair of Hunting Hills golfers — Grant Numrich (1-over-73) and Bryce Kopec (5-over-77).

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Top - Ponoka’s Shaye Leidenius tees off on during the Central Alberta High School provincial golf qualifier at Alberta Springs on Monday.

She finished in a tie for third, three shots behind her twin sister Daria for first.

Right - Sylvan Lake’s Jaxon Lynn rolls a putt in on the 17th green of the Central Alberta High School provincial golf qualifier at Alberta Springs on Monday. Lynn won with an even-par-72. bling to stay in contention and needed a three-putt from Numrich on the 18th hole to win.

“It turned out well, I didn’t play too good — no putts dropped and I kind of just scrambled all day,” said Lynn.

Still he likes where his game is heading into provincials next week.

“I have been playing good lately, I think my last three rounds combined have been 12-under-par,” he said. “I just need to work on hitting my driver straighter and I’ll be fine, because apparently the course we are playing is fairly tight.”

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Bears 27 Jets 19 EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — The Chicago Bears took advantage of early mistakes by the sloppy New York Jets.

Then they had to hold their breath before hanging on for a 27-19 victory Monday night.

Jay Cutler threw two touchdown passes to Martellus Bennett and Ryan Mundy returned an interception 45 yards for a score. Cutler finished 23 of 38 for 225 yards and Alshon Jeffery caught eight passes for 105 yards for the Bears, who got a 45-yard field goal from Robbie Gould to make it an eight-point game with 3:10 remaining.

The Jets (1-2) had one last opportunity to tie, getting into Bears territory on Geno Smith’s 51-yard pass to Greg Salas. But Jeremy Kerley was out of bounds when he caught Smith’s desperation fourthdown heave from the Bears 9.

Cutler took a knee three times to seal the victory for the Bears (2-1).

“Right now I feel I’m very intelligent on the field,” said Bennett, now in his seventh NFL season. “The game is getting a lot easier. I know the offence better. I know what Jay wants.”

Smith was 26 of 43 for 316 yards and a touchdown with two interceptions — and nearly had a few others. Kerley finished with seven catches for 81 yards, and almost came up with a diving grab off a tipped pass in the end zone on the final drive.

“There were some plays you wish you could have back,” Jets coach Rex Ryan said.

The Jets lost wide receiver Eric Decker in the first half to a hamstring injury after he was questionable for the game with tightness in the ham-

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The Chicago Bears celebrate after breaking up a pass in the end zone to New York Jets wide receiver Jeremy Kerley (11) during the fourth quarter of an NFL football game, Monday, in East Rutherford, N.J. string.

The Bears went up 14-0 just over 5 minutes into the game.

On New York’s second play from scrimmage, Smith didn’t see Mundy lurking in the flat as he floated a screen pass to Chris Johnson. Mundy stepped in front of the toss and ran untouched into the end zone for a 45-yard score.

It was the sixth-year veteran’s third career interception, and first score.

After the Jets stopped the Bears on three plays on their first offensive series, rookie Jalen Saunders dropped Patrick O’Donnell’s punt at his 40 and it was recovered by Ahmad Dixon.

Cutler threw deep down the right sideline to Jeffery one play later, and cornerback Darrin Walls was called for pass interference to put the ball at the Jets 7.

Three plays later, Cutler rolled right and found Bennett in the back of the end zone to make it 14-0 — and get the MetLife Stadium crowd booing.

“There is a little lack of respect for me as a tight end,” Bennett said.

“It’s kind of like a chip on my shoulder. They never really mention me.”

The Jets got on the scoreboard on their next possession, capping an 11-play, 55-drive with Nick Folk’s 43-yard field goal.

Chicago answered with a 15-play, 79-yard drive helped by cornerback Antonio Allen’s holding penalty on a thirddown incompletion by Cutler.

Gould’s 24-yard field goal gave the Bears a 17-3 lead 66 seconds into the second quarter.

The Jets got their next series off to a good start with a 43-yard completion to rookie tight end Jace Amaro, but they stalled in the red zone again, settling for a 28-yard field goal.

New York got closer with a 77-yard drive on which Kerley accounted for 51 — including a 19-yard touchdown that cut the deficit 17-13.

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CALGARY — With a few more pounds of muscle on his frame, Calgary Flames forward Sean Monahan looks ready to build on an impressive rookie season and avoid a sophomore slump.

Monahan scored 22 goals as a rookie last season and was fifth on the Flames with 34 points in 75 games.

It’s easy to forget Monahan doesn’t turn 20 until next month. At six-foot-two and 185 pounds, he cruises into the faceoff circle with a confident demeanour. He says he’s about eight pounds heavier than his rookie weight.

“I focused on the stuff that I really needed to focus on, so I did a lot of strength training and explosive stuff and really focused on diet,” Monahan said Monday in Calgary.

When Monahan turned up wearing a tight T-shirt at a summer hockey camp run by Bob Hartley, the Flames head coach did a double take.

“He just said I look like a man,” Monahan said. “I worked hard this summer so I think it’s paid off. It obviously doesn’t matter to me if other people notice it. It all comes down to me. Whatever work I put in, I feel it on the ice and I think that’s the biggest thing.”

Drafted sixth overall by the Flames in 2013, the centre from Brampton, Ont., had a legitimate shot at making a rebuilding Flames roster as an 18-year-old last fall.

But his offensive contributions outstripped expectations.

Monahan was the first Flames rookie since Jarome Iginla in 1996-97 to score 21 goals.

Monahan did finish the season minus-20, but few Flames were in the black in plus-minus on a team that finished 27th in a 30-team league.

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numbers despite a hairline fracture in his foot that kept him out seven straight games in November and December.

With top-line centre Mikael Backlund sidelined with injury, Monahan averaged well over 18 minutes per game in the last five games of the regular season.

He was then invited to play for Canada at the world championships, where he had two assists in seven games, to pack even more experience into his rookie campaign.

“Suddenly he’s more talkative. It’s just part of feeling more confident,” Hartley said.

“Now he knows that he really has a spot on this team.

He knows about the NHL. We have big expectations about Monny, but what makes me feel the most comfortable is Monny by himself sets some real high expectations.”

There’s inevitable questions about avoiding “the sophomore slump.” Monahan will no longer surprise opposing teams, so he’ll need that additional strength.

“Here’s my explanation on sophomore slump,” Hartley began. “Number one, as a rookie, the other teams don’t know you very well so sometimes you get the fifth or sixth defenceman, you get the third line playing against you. Sean Monahan will get more attention from opponents this year.

“Number two, and that’s where I feel so good, is many young players get a great first year and they sit (on it).

Looking at Sean’s fitness test, just looking at him, you can tell that he spent the summer working out. He’s on a mission.”

New Flames winger Mason Raymond spent time on Monahan’s wing in a split-squad exhibition game Sunday against the Edmonton Oilers.

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Innisfail High School won the girls team title with a 267, beating Lacombe (308) and Notre Dame (318).

Hunting Hills ran away with the boy’s team title, shooting a oneover-217, followed by H.J. Cody (236) and Camrose (249).

Hunting Hills goes into provincials with a strong opportunity to win it all. Also on their team is Logan Hill who competed at junior nationals in Niagra Falls, Ont., this summer along side Lynn, but had an off day on Monday, though he finished strong with an eagle on 18.

“It’s really big for us, we have a couple of Grade 12s on our team this year so that helped a lot, we’ve been out practicing at Lakewood and I think that showed today,” said Hunting Hills golf coach Dylan Winnicky. “If we play as a team (at provincials) and fire it like we did today, we have a great shot.”

According to tournament director Dale Henderson, the Notre Dame golf coach, the region consistently produces some of the high school golfers in the province.

“Between Hunting Hills, Lindsay Thurber and ourselves, we’ve each one a gold medal at provincials twice over the last 15 years or more, Ponoka’s won medals, one of our teams is regularly in the medals,” he said.

Henderson adds that McMahon has the potential to make a podium run next week after a terrific summer season.

“It’s a two-day tournament at two different courses, so I think it evens the playing field for some kids. I think Clare has every possibility of getting a medal there if she plays to her top end next week,” he said. jaldrich@reddeeradvocate.com

“Yeah, young kid.

Here I am nine years older,” Raymond said.

“He’s very mature for his age. I’ve skated with him for the last month, but it’s impressive to see how he handles himself and understands what’s expected of himself.

“It’s a treat to play with him so far. We’re learning each other and starting to gel a bit.”

After a few skates and the exhibition game, Hartley has noticed there’s more authority in Monahan’s game.

“Battles in the corners, probably faceoffs also,” the coach said. “I felt like last night he won many big faceoffs with us. Going around the defencemen, battling for loose pucks, that’s where the opponents will notice it.

“He’ll be able to go with the big boys and play in those tough areas. It’s impressive.”

The Flames have several centres in camp and the depth chart is fluid up the middle.

Monahan, Backlund, Matt Stajan, Joe Colborne as well as prospects Matt Reinhart, Markus Granlund, Bill Arnold and Corban Knight are battling for ice time and jobs.

There’s room for Monahan to up his stock at main camp in the absence of 25-year-old Backlund, who has yet to participate in a full practice because of an abdominal injury.

“I don’t have any news to tell you, but I’m worried,” Hartley said ominously. “He’s still not on the ice. I’d like to see him on the ice, that’s for sure.”

Forward Sam Bennett, the highest draft pick in Calgary Flames history at No. 4 this year, is expected to practise

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS LANGFORD, B.C. — Jesse Lumsden is putting on a different set of cleats.

Lumsden, a former CFL star and Olympic bobsledder, will be training at the Canadian Rugby Centre of Excellence starting on Monday.

Lumsden will join Canada’s men’s rugby team in speed, fitness and skill assessments as part of Rugby Canada’s continued search for the best rugby sevens athletes.

“Having the opportunity to assess and develop an athlete of Jesse’s calibre is exciting for us as the profile of rugby sevens grows in the build-up to the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro in 2016,” said Steve Lancaster, high performance manager for Rugby Canada.

Lumsden is an ideal recruit for rugby sevens, having played for the CFL’s Hamilton Tiger-Cats, Edmonton Eskimos and Calgary Stampeders.

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A video review reversed a call late in the half on which the Jets might have taken the lead. Cutler was sacked

by David Harris and lost the ball, but was declared down by contact.

A review showed Cutler had fumbled, but Demario Davis’ return to the end zone was negated because the whistle had blown.

The Jets then went three-and-out.

Chicago opened the second half aggressively, marching 80 yards on six plays and capping the drive with Bennett’s 13-yard touchdown catch to make it 24-13.

The Bears nearly had a 12-yard TD by Marshall, but it was wiped out by an illegal hands to the face penalty on left guard Michael Ola, who started for the injured Matt Slauson.

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Rugby Canada is launching its Try 4 Gold campaign in October, a nation-wide search for highperformance athletes who’ve never played rugby Jesse Lumsden but are interested in participating.

“Jesse possesses a number of the qualities we’re looking for in a crossover athlete — explosive speed, power and mental toughness — through our Try 4 Gold Campaign,” said Lancaster.

“Our goal is to find and harness the best athletes and rugby players in the country to be successful at the Olympics.”

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fourth liner if he plays his role effectively as we heard he had done in B.C. prior.”

The Kings open their ACAC season this weekend with a home-and-home set with the University of Alberta Augustana — playing in Penhold on Friday at 7 p.m. and Camrose on Saturday at 7:30 p.m.

The Vikings beat the Kings 4-2 on Thursday in Penhold in an ACAC exhibition game.

“We lost to them last week but we thought we outplayed them, we outshot them by quite a bit but they won it on the scoreboard,” said Keeper. “We’re anxious to give it back to them this coming week in our first two league games.”

NOTES — Injured Kings goalie Mike Salmon is expected back from a hip/groin injury for the weekend. The Kings carry only two goalies but can affiliate with Heritage Junior B Hockey League teams, Red Deer Vipers and Blackfalds Wranglers. jaldrich@reddeeradvocate.com

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Tuesday after sitting out the first few days of main camp with a groin injury.

Calgary got down to 58 players Monday when the following players were assigned to their respective major junior teams: defenceman Jason Fram (Spokane Chiefs); winger Brandon Magee (Victoria Royals); goaltender Mason McDonald (Charlottetown Islanders); winger Hunter Smith (Oshawa Generals).

The Flames have three pre-season games in as many days starting Wednesday when they take on the Arizona Coyotes in Sylvan Lake. Calgary then plays a homeand-away against the Vancouver Canucks on Thursday and Friday.

Monahan’s mom Cathy relocated to Calgary last season to oversee her son’s first year in the NHL. Monahan has taken a step forward in off-ice independence by moving in with Flames forward Lance Bouma to start this season.

Who is going to cook?

“Lance,” Monahan said firmly.

rie Storm over three Alberta Junior Hockey League season and had originally committed to SAIT. But the fivefoot-nine, 165-pound forward changed his mind about the program he wanted to take and phoned Keeper to see if he could tryout.

Keeper says he had never even seen him play before.

“He has exceptional speed and is really gritty and works hard and competes hard and I think he surprised some people,” he said. “We didn’t know a lot about him coming in, but he earned a spot.”

The six-foot, 209-pound Berkholtz spent four years in the B.C. Hockey League, scoring 123 points (39-84-123) in 195 games with the Alberni Valley Bulldogs and the Trail Smoke Eaters.

Last year he played for Thompson Rivers University, but the team folded after the season.

Their loss is RDC’s gain.

“He’s a bigger, grittier winger that likes to hit,” said Keeper. “He has good speed and will probably be a third or

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The Red Deer College Kings roster has been finalized for their second Alberta Colleges Athletic Association men’s hockey season, but it was far from an easy task.

With a lot of returning players and two cuts to be made up front to get down to 25 players, head coach Trevor Keeper was forced to trim two mainstays from last year’s roster: Jared Ramstead and Andrew Coles.

They got bumped by Jordan McTaggart who walked on after changing his mind from SAIT to RDC and Tyler Berkholtz, a Thompson Rivers University transfer.

For the veteran coach, it was a decision he lost some sleep over.

“It’s really tough. They committed to a full season and they’re both exceptional individuals,” said Keeper. “You get to know each other, it’s not like in junior hockey when you cut some-

one after a few weeks; we had relationships established and they were good teammates. But it was tough because we had to pick the best 15 forwards that fit into the plan that we wanted moving forward.”

Ramstead Trevor Keeper played in 17 games for the Kings last year, recording seven points (five goals, two assists) and four penalty minutes.

Coles was more of a physical third and fourth liner, collecting 52 penalty minutes in 16 games with three points (12-3).

McTaggart was one of the bigger surprises in camp for Keeper. The Grande Prairie native scored 45 points (21-2445) in 147 games with the Grande Prai-

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The men finished tied for fourth overall with Olds College with a two day total of 680.

MacEwan University ran away with it with a 617 total.

Bennett Williams (8380-163) led RDC with a 163 to tie for 11th overall while Tim Hannebury was two shots back at 165 (79-86-165) for a tie for 16th. Tanner Shapka (9088-178) and Joel Carroll (91-87-178) tied for 31st while Chandler McLaren struggled to a 183 (87-96183) and a tie for 40th.

RDC had just one woman golfing, and Rochelle French finished seventh overall at 221 (108-113-221).

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Blue Jays blow up Paxton and Mariners

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Blue Jays 14 Mariners 4 TORONTO — The Toronto Blue Jays had James Paxton scouted _ literally.

Paxton, from Ladner, B.C., gave up nine runs _ eight earned _ as Toronto crushed the visiting Seattle Mariners 14-4 on Monday night.

The Blue Jays drafted Paxton in the supplemental first round of the 2009 draft with the 39th overall pick. Toronto and Paxton could not strike a deal and he was picked in the fourth round in the 2010 draft by the Mariners.

“I just didn’t have a good feel for it tonight,’’ said Paxton, who was playing against the Blue Jays for the first time.

“I felt like I was all over the place. When I was in the strike zone, it was the heart of the plate and they were hitting the ball hard. I think I probably just wanted it a bit too much.

“My stuff didn’t feel great tonight. I didn’t have a good feel for anything.’’

Mariners manager Lloyd McClendon agreed, pointing to the young pitcher’s nerves.

“I think he was probably a little bit too amped up,’’ said McClendon.

Danny Valencia drove in three runs with a triple and Jose Bautista, Kevin Pillar and Anthony Gose homered as the Blue Jays nearly equalled their total of 18 runs from the

1-6 road trip that ended Sunday.

“You try to do that every night but it’s not that easy,’’ Blue Jays manager John Gibbons said. “I thought we had a real good approach at the plate and made Paxton work.

We got some big hits. We haven’t had a laugher in a good while. I can’t remember the last time.’’

Paxton (6-4) did not survive the third inning, allowing seven hits and six walks in 2 2-3 innings.

Left-hander J.A. Happ (1011) became the fifth Blue Jays starter to reach double numbers in wins this season, allowing seven hits, including a home run by Kyle Seager, and two runs over seven innings.

“It feels good to go out and get deeper in the game, accomplish some of the goals that I kind of felt I could do and wanted to have the opportunity to do,’’ said Happ. “I haven’t taken a lot of time to reflect on the year but I just want to just keep going out and kind of keep us in the game for the most part.

“Play like we play tonight and we’re going to have a lot of fun.’’

It is the first time the Blue Jays (79-77) have had five starters win at least 10 games in one season. It is the third time they have had five pitchers with at least 10 wins when relievers are included.

The Blue Jays led 4-1 after the first inning and 9-1 after

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Toronto Blue Jays Jose Bautista (right) and Jose Reyes celebrate after scoring on a single by Edwin Encarnacion during third inning AL action against the Seattle Mariners in Toronto on Monday. three innings to hand Seattle (83-73) its third loss in a row.

The Mariners scored a run in the first when Robinson Cano doubled home Austin Jackson led off with an infield single.

Toronto replied with four runs in their first inning on a bases-loaded triple by Valencia and a single by Steve

Tolleson.

Valencia’s triple was not without some controversy. He was awarded third base when a video review determined he was safe after the Blue Jays challenged the out call.

Toronto chased Paxton in the five-run third to increase their lead to 9-1. The inning included Bautista’s 35th home

run of the season. That moved him past George Bell and tied Joe Carter for third on the Blue Jays’ all-time list with 203 homers.

Seager hit his 25th homer of the season in the sixth to cut the lead to 11-2.

Pillar hit his first homer of the season, a two-run shot, in the sixth.

Bettman understands scrutiny surrounding NFL quires setting a standard punishment.

In October 2013, Colorado Avalanche goaltender Semyon Varlamov was charged with felony kidnapping and assault for attacking his girlfriend.

Varlamov was not suspended, and the charges were dropped in December when prosecutors said they did not have enough evidence to convict.

Bettman was not specifically asked about Varlamov’s arrest in light of the NFL’s handling of domestic violence.

He said sports leagues have an obligation to try to do the right things.

“I don’t think anybody who’s in the league, be it as an owner, an executive or a player, has any illusions as to what’s expected of them,” Bettman said. “Our code of con-

the NHL would expand by four teams, one each in Quebec City, Las Vegas and Seattle and a second franchise in Toronto, by 2017. Asked by Stroumboulopoulos about his philosophical opinion on having two teams in one market, Bettman explained in hypothetical terms that there are pitfalls, especially in Toronto.

“If we decided that we were putting a second team in Ontario, and the year the team was supposed to start, the Leafs won the Cup, that second team wouldn’t exist,” Bettman said. “When you have historically established teams with great histories and traditions, the second team — even if the first team isn’t having tremendous success at the time — the second team will never quite get the premier coverage.”

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In a question-and-answer session with new Hockey Night In Canada host George Stroumboulopoulos and those attending the Canadian Club luncheon, Bettman also addressed expansion and other topics related to on-ice action.

Bettman reiterated that the NHL has no current plans to undergo a formal expansion process beyond the 30 teams.

“I’m not suggesting that at some point in the future we might not look at, but we’re not ready to do it now,” he said. “And I don’t want to build up anybody’s expectations because that’s not unfair to people in a community that want to have a franchise.”

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TORONTO — Gary Bettman understands the intense scrutiny NFL commissioner Roger Goodell is under.

Goodell has been harshly criticized for being too lenient or not acting quickly enough to punish Ray Rice, Adrian Peterson and other players involved in a rash of recent domestic violence incidents.

“I think he’s working very hard in a difficult situation,” Bettman, the NHL’s longtime commissioner, said Monday.

Bettman, who has been in his position longer than any current commissioner in North American professional sports, said it’s impossible to be too comfortable in a job like his or Goodell’s because unpredictable things happen. Comparing it to being a CEO of any major company, he added there’s no luxury of having a night off.

“Whenever that phone rings, and sometimes it does at two in the morning, you’ve got to respond and you’ve got to have your A-game otherwise you’re liable to make a mistake, and when you make a mistake in this position, it gets magnified,” Bettman said at a meeting for The Canadian Club of Toronto. “And it doesn’t matter if you’re right 99 out of 100 times, which is a pretty good batting record, it’s that one that you’ll have to live with and deal with.”

Bettman said the NHL’s security department and behavioural health counsellors have talked to players about the topic of domestic violence for more than a decade.

“Based on our experience to date, we believe that the appropriate procedures are in effect that we can do what we need to do on a case-by-case basis,” he said. “I am extraordinarily proud of our players and how they conduct themselves. If and

when something needs to be addressed in terms of discipline, it will be. But more importantly we try to focus, with the Players’ Association, on educating and counselling.”

The collective bargaining agreement includes procedures on how to handle off-ice incidents and gives the NHL power to suspend a player amid a criminal investigation if failing to do so would “create a substantial risk of material harm to the legitimate interests and/or reputation of the league.”

After the NFL instituted a new policy that made a first domestic-violence offence a six-game suspension, Bettman said the NHL would continue to handle incidents on a case-by-case basis because it has not been an issue that re-

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WHL EASTERN CONFERENCE GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Pt Swift Current 2 2 0 0 0 11 2 4 Medicine Hat 2 2 0 0 0 8 3 4 Brandon 2 2 0 0 0 10 3 4 Prince Albert 2 2 0 0 0 8 4 4 Edmonton 1 1 0 0 0 4 2 2 Kootenay 2 1 1 0 0 7 7 2 Red Deer 2 1 1 0 0 7 6 2 Calgary 1 0 1 0 0 1 4 0 Saskatoon 2 0 2 0 0 4 8 0 Lethbridge 2 0 2 0 0 3 8 0 Regina 2 0 2 0 0 3 10 0 Moose Jaw 2 0 2 0 0 2 11 0 WESTERN CONFERENCE GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Pt Kelowna 1 1 0 0 0 6 1 2 Spokane 1 1 0 0 0 4 2 2 Vancouver 1 1 0 0 0 3 1 2 Everett 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 2 Tri-City 2 1 1 0 0 9 4 2 Seattle 2 1 1 0 0 4 2 2 Kamloops 2 1 1 0 0 7 9 2 Prince George 2 1 1 0 0 6 10 2 Victoria 2 0 2 0 0 4 9 0 Portland 2 0 2 0 0 4 10 0 z-league title; y-conference title;d-division leader; xclinched 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 Sunday’s results Tri-City 7 Prince George 0 Friday, September 26 Saskatoon at Brandon, 6:30 p.m.

Edmonton at Swift Current, 7 p.m.

Medicine Hat at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Regina at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m.

Kelowna at Prince George, 8 p.m.

Kamloops at Victoria, 8:05 p.m.

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

Portland at Vancouver, 8:30 p.m.

Sunday, September 28 Lethbridge at Calgary, 4 p.m.

Victoria at Vancouver, 6 p.m.

Everett at Portland, 6 p.m.

Scoring +/-Maxwell Cote

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2 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

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Goaltending MP GA SO GAASv%Toth 1 0 1.00 .950 59 4 0 4.04 .826 WHL Scoring Leaders G 5 0 2 1 0 3 3 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0

Jay Merkley, SC Cole Sanford, MH Brian Williams, TC Jake Debrusk, SC Brandon Carlo, TC Reid Gardiner, P.A. Jesse Gabrielle, Bra Travis Brown, Vic Matt Revel, Kam Steven Owre, MH Parker Bowles, TC Chase Witala, PG Kris Schmidli, Kel Tyson Baillie, Kel Cole Ully, Kam Josh Connolly, Kam Sawyer Lange, P.A. Brooks Maxwell, RD Kyle Becker, MH Ryan Pilon, Bra Duncan Campbell, Bra Brett Cote, RD Coda Gordon, SC

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A 2 5 2 3 4 0 0 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 3

National Hockey League Preseason EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts Detroit 1 1 0 0 2 Toronto 1 1 0 0 2 Ottawa 2 0 1 1 1 Boston 0 0 0 0 0 Florida 0 0 0 0 0 Montreal 0 0 0 0 0 Tampa Bay 0 0 0 0 0 Buffalo 1 0 1 0 0

Saturday, September 27 Kootenay at Red Deer, 7 p.m.

Saskatoon at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m.

Regina at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.

Brandon at Swift Current, 7 p.m.

Edmonton at Medicine Hat, 7:30 p.m.

Kelowna at Prince George, 8 p.m.

Everett at Portland, 8 p.m.

Kamloops at Victoria, 8:05 p.m.

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

Red Deer Rebels GP G A Pts 2 1 2 3 2 0 3 3

Polei de Wit Dixon Fafard Nell Doetzel Feser Johnson Musil Burman Toth Charif Chorney Kopeck Mahura McCarty Pawlenchuk Strand

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Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts Columbus 2 2 0 0 4 N.Y. Islanders 2 2 0 0 4 Philadelphia 2 1 0 1 3 New Jersey 1 1 0 0 2

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Pts 7 5 4 4 4 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3

GF GA 2 1 3 2 4 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 GF GA 8 6 6 4 7 7 5 4

Washington Carolina N.Y. Rangers Pittsburgh

2 1 1 1

1 0 0 0

1 1 1 1

0 0 0 0

2 0 0 0

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts Dallas 1 1 0 0 2 Winnipeg 1 1 0 0 2 St. Louis 2 0 1 1 1 Chicago 0 0 0 0 0 Nashville 0 0 0 0 0 Minnesota 1 0 1 0 0 Colorado 2 0 2 0 0

5 3 4 1

5 4 5 2

GF GA 4 3 2 1 6 8 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 9

Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Anaheim 2 2 0 0 4 9 2 Calgary 2 2 0 0 4 2 3 Arizona 1 1 0 0 2 5 4 Los Angeles 1 0 0 1 1 4 5 Edmonton 2 0 1 1 1 3 2 San Jose 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Vancouver 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Sunday’s Games Edmonton (ss) 3, Calgary (ss) 1 Columbus (ss) 4, Carolina 3 Washington 1, Buffalo 0 Columbus (ss) 4, St. Louis 3, OT Calgary (ss) 1, Edmonton (ss) 0 Monday’s Games N.Y. Islanders (ss) 3, Ottawa (ss) 2, SO Toronto 3, Philadelphia (ss) 2, SO Arizona (ss) 5, Los Angeles (ss) 4, SO N.Y. Islanders (ss) 3, Ottawa (ss) 2 New Jersey 5, N.Y. Rangers 4 Detroit 2, Pittsburgh 1 Philadelphia (ss) 5, Washington 4 Winnipeg 2, Minnesota 1 Dallas 4, St. Louis 3 Anaheim (ss) 5, Colorado (ss) 2 Anaheim (ss) 4, Colorado (ss) 0 Arizona (ss) at Los Angeles (ss), late

GP 12 11 12 11

PF 308 246 230 173

PA 325 261 306 293

Pt 8 8 8 2

GP Calgary 12 Saskatchewan12 Edmonton 12 B.C. 12 Winnipeg 12

West Division W L T 10 2 0 9 3 0 8 4 0 7 5 0 6 6 0

PF 347 296 317 268 293

PA 232 265 252 236 308

Pt 20 18 16 14 12

Toronto Hamilton Montreal Ottawa

Owens, Tor Walker, Ott x-Dressler, Sask Banks, Ham Cunningham, Cgy Guyton, Edm Kelly, Wpg Kohlert, Wpg Marve, Wpg Parker, Cgy Rodgers, Mtl Slaton, Tor T.Smith, Sask Tasker, Ham

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0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

National Football League AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct Buffalo 2 1 0 .667 New England 2 1 0 .667 N.Y. Jets 1 2 0 .333 Miami 1 2 0 .333

Week 13 Sunday’s results Montreal 31 Calgary 15 Saskatchewan 35 Ottawa 32 Week 14 Friday, September 26 Montreal at Ottawa, 5 p.m.

Friday, September 26 Saskatchewan at Edmonton, 8 p.m.

Saturday, September 27 Hamilton at Winnipeg, 4:30 p.m.

B.C. at Calgary, 7:30 p.m.

Canadian Football League Scoring Leaders TD C FG S Pt Waters, Tor 0 29 27 8 118 McCallum, BC 0 22 29 3 112 Whyte, Mtl 0 19 26 11 108 Hajrullahu, Wpg 0 26 25 6 107 Milo, Sask 0 27 25 4 106 Paredes, Cgy 0 37 22 2 105 Medlock, Ham 0 23 25 6 104 Shaw, Edm 0 21 23 7 97 Maher, Ott 0 16 18 5 75 Grigsby, Wpg 9 0 0 0 54 Allen, Sask 7 0 0 0 42 Arceneaux, BC 7 0 0 0 42 Ford, Sask 7 0 0 0 42 Bowman, Edm 6 0 0 0 36 A.Harris, BC 6 0 0 0 36 Tate, Cgy 6 0 0 0 36 x-Cornish, Cgy 5 2 0 0 32 Fuller, Cgy 5 0 0 0 30 Steele, Tor 5 0 0 0 30 O’Neill, Edm 0 10 5 3 28 Barnes, Tor 4 0 0 0 24 D.Carter, Mtl 4 0 0 0 24 Gable, Ham 4 0 0 0 24 LeFevour, Ham 4 0 0 0 24 Marsh, Mtl 4 0 0 0 24 McDaniel, Cgy 4 0 0 0 24 Miles, Ott 4 0 0 0 24 Mitchell, Cgy 4 0 0 0 24

24 24 20 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18

Tuesday’s Games Carolina at Buffalo, 5 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Columbus, 5 p.m.

Philadelphia at Toronto, 5:30 p.m.

Boston at Montreal, 5:30 p.m.

Nashville at Tampa Bay, 5:30 p.m.

Detroit at Chicago, 6:30 p.m.

San Jose (ss) at Vancouver (ss), 7 p.m.

Arizona at Anaheim, 8 p.m.

Vancouver (ss) vs. San Jose (ss) at Stockton, CA, 8:30 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games Washington at Boston, 5 p.m.

Carolina at N.Y. Islanders, 5 p.m.

Arizona vs. Calgary at Sylvan Lake, 5 p.m.

Ottawa (ss) at Toronto (ss), 5:30 p.m.

Toronto (ss) at Ottawa (ss), 5:30 p.m.

Dallas at Florida, 5:30 p.m.

Edmonton at Winnipeg, 6 p.m.

Houston Indianapolis Tennessee Jacksonville

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South L 1 2 2 3

T 0 0 0 0

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PF PA 64 50 95 78 43 69 44 119

Cincinnati Baltimore Pittsburgh Cleveland

W 3 2 2 1

North L 0 1 1 2

T Pct 0 1.000 0 .667 0 .667 0 .333

PF PA 80 33 65 50 73 72 74 77

W 2 2 1 0

West L 1 1 2 3

T 0 0 0 0

PF PA 75 67 69 49 61 65 37 65

Denver San Diego Kansas City Oakland

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NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF PA Philadelphia 3 0 0 1.000 101 78 Dallas 2 1 0 .667 77 69 N.Y. Giants 1 2 0 .333 58 77 Washington 1 2 0 .333 81 64

Atlanta Carolina New Orleans Tampa Bay

W 2 2 1 0

South L 1 1 2 3

T 0 0 0 0

Pct .667 .667 .333 .000

Detroit Chicago Minnesota Green Bay

W 2 2 1 1

North L 1 1 2 2

T 0 0 0 0

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PF PA 61 45 75 62 50 56 54 79

Arizona Seattle St. Louis San Francisco

W 3 2 1 1

West L 0 1 2 2

T Pct 0 1.000 0 .667 0 .333 0 .333

PF PA 66 45 83 66 56 85 62 68

Thursday’s Game Atlanta 56, Tampa Bay 14 PF PA 62 52 66 49 62 72 58 83

PF PA 103 72 63 58 78 72 45 95

Sunday’s Games Dallas 34, St. Louis 31 New Orleans 20, Minnesota 9 San Diego 22, Buffalo 10 Philadelphia 37, Washington 34 N.Y. Giants 30, Houston 17 Cincinnati 33, Tennessee 7 Baltimore 23, Cleveland 21 Detroit 19, Green Bay 7 Indianapolis 44, Jacksonville 17 New England 16, Oakland 9 Arizona 23, San Francisco 14 Seattle 26, Denver 20, OT Kansas City 34, Miami 15 Pittsburgh 37, Carolina 19 Monday’s Game Chicago 27, N.Y. Jets 19 Thursday, Sep. 25 N.Y. Giants at Washington, 6:25 p.m.

NFL Odds (Odds supplied by SportsBetting.ag; favourites in capital letters) Spread O/U Thursday NY Giants at WASHINGTON 3 45 Sunday MIAMI at Oakland 4.5 40.5 Detroit at NY Jets Pick NA Carolina at BALTIMORE 3 40.5 Tennessee at INDIANAPOLIS 7 45.5 Buffalo at HOUSTON 3 40.5 Green Bay at CHICAGO 1 NA Tampa Bay at PITTSBURGH 7 44 Jacksonville at SAN DIEGO 13 44.5 Philadelphia at SAN FRANCISCO 4.5 50.5 ATLANTA at Minnesota 2.5 47 NEW ORLEANS at Dallas 3 53 Monday NEW ENGLAND at Kansas City 4 45

Baseball x-Baltimore New York Toronto Tampa Bay Boston

Detroit Kansas City Cleveland Chicago Minnesota

Central Division W L Pct 86 70 .551 85 71 .545 82 75 .522 72 84 .462 66 90 .423

GB — 1 4 1/2 14 20

West Division W L Pct 96 60 .615 85 70 .548 83 73 .532 69 88 .439 63 93 .404

GB — 10 1/2 13 27 1/2 33

Oakland Kansas City Seattle Cleveland New York

Wild Card W L 85 70 85 71 83 73 82 75 81 75

Wednesday

● NHL preseason: Calgary vs. Arizona, 5 p.m., Sylvan Lake Multiplex.

Thursday

● High school football: Rocky Mountain House at Stettler, 7 p.m.

Friday

● High school football: Ponoka at Sylvan Lake, 4:30 p.m. ● College men’s hockey: Camrose Augustana at RDC, 7 p.m., Penhold Regional Multiplex. ● High school exhibition football: Cochrane at Notre Dame, 7:30 p.m., Great Chief Park.

GB — 12 14 18 25

Pct WCGB .548 — .545 — .532 2 .522 3 1/2 .519 4

Sunday’s Games N.Y. Yankees 5, Toronto 2 Boston 3, Baltimore 2 Chicago White Sox 10, Tampa Bay 5 Cleveland 7, Minnesota 2 Kansas City 5, Detroit 2 Houston 8, Seattle 3 Texas 2, L.A. Angels 1 Oakland 8, Philadelphia 6, 10 innings Monday’s Games Cleveland 4, Kansas City 3, 10 innings, comp. of susp. game N.Y. Yankees 5, Baltimore 0 Kansas City 2, Cleveland 0 Toronto 14, Seattle 4 Chicago White Sox 2, Detroit 0 Texas 4, Houston 3 Arizona 6, Minnesota 2 L.A. Angels at Oakland, late Tuesday’s Games Baltimore (U.Jimenez 5-9) at N.Y. Yankees (McCarthy 7-4), 7:05 p.m.

Kansas City (Ventura 13-10) at Cleveland (Salazar 6-7), 7:05 p.m.

Seattle (F.Hernandez 14-5) at Toronto (Dickey 1312), 7:07 p.m.

Chicago White Sox (Carroll 5-10) at Detroit (D.Price 14-12), 7:08 p.m.

Tampa Bay (Cobb 9-8) at Boston (Buchholz 8-9), 7:10 p.m.

Houston (Oberholtzer 5-12) at Texas (N.Martinez 4-11), 8:05 p.m.

Arizona (Chafin 0-0) at Minnesota (Gibson 12-11), 8:10 p.m.

L.A. Angels (LeBlanc 0-1) at Oakland (Gray 13-9), 10:05 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Washington 2, Miami 1 Pittsburgh 1, Milwaukee 0 N.Y. Mets 10, Atlanta 2 L.A. Dodgers 8, Chicago Cubs 5 Oakland 8, Philadelphia 6, 10 innings Colorado 8, Arizona 3 San Diego 8, San Francisco 2 Cincinnati 7, St. Louis 2

Wednesday’s Games Baltimore at N.Y. Yankees, 1:05 p.m.

Chicago White Sox at Detroit, 1:08 p.m.

Arizona at Minnesota, 1:10 p.m.

L.A. Angels at Oakland, 3:35 p.m.

Kansas City at Cleveland, 7:05 p.m.

Seattle at Toronto, 7:07 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Boston, 7:10 p.m.

Houston at Texas, 8:05 p.m.

AMERICAN LEAGUE LEADERS G AB R Altuve Hou 153 641 84 VMartinez Det 145 544 85 Brantley Cle 152 596 93 Beltre Tex 142 527 77 Cano Sea 151 574 77 JAbreu CWS 140 537 78 MiCabrera Det 153 587 98 MeCabrera Tor 139 568 81 Eaton CWS 117 463 72 HKendrick LAA 152 600 85

H 221 183 194 170 184 171 184 171 138 175

Pct. .345 .336 .326 .323 .321 .318 .313 .301 .298 .292

Home Runs NCruz, Baltimore, 39; Carter, Houston, 37; JAbreu, Chicago, 35; Bautista, Toronto, 35; Ortiz, Boston, 35; Trout, Los Angeles, 35; Encarnacion, Toronto, 33.

Runs Batted In Trout, Los Angeles, 109; NCruz, Baltimore, 106; JAbreu, Chicago, 105; MiCabrera, Detroit, 104; Ortiz, Boston, 104; Bautista, Toronto, 103; Pujols, Los Angeles, 101.

Pitching Weaver, Los Angeles, 18-8; Scherzer, Detroit, 17-5; Kluber, Cleveland, 17-9; Shoemaker, Los Angeles, 16-4; WChen, Baltimore, 16-5; Lester, Oakland, 1610; PHughes, Minnesota, 15-10.

x-Washington Atlanta New York Miami Philadelphia

National League East Division W L Pct 91 64 .587 76 80 .487 76 80 .487 74 81 .477 71 85 .455

GB — 15 1/2 15 1/2 17 20 1/2

z-St. Louis Pittsburgh Milwaukee Cincinnati Chicago

Central Division W L Pct 88 69 .561 85 71 .545 80 76 .513 72 84 .462 69 88 .439

GB — 2 1/2 7 1/2 15 1/2 19

West Division W L Pct GB z-Los Angeles 89 67 .571 — San Francisco 84 71 .542 4 1/2 San Diego 75 81 .481 14 Colorado 65 92 .414 24 1/2 Arizona 63 94 .401 26 1/2 z-clinched playoff berth x-clinched division

Pittsburgh San Francisco Milwaukee

Wild Card W L 85 71 84 71 80 76

Pct WCGB .545 — .542 — .513 4 1/2

Monday’s Games Pittsburgh 1, Atlanta 0 St. Louis 8, Chicago Cubs 0 Arizona 6, Minnesota 2 San Diego 1, Colorado 0 San Francisco at L.A. Dodgers, late Tuesday’s Games N.Y. Mets (B.Colon 14-12) at Washington (Roark 14-10), 7:05 p.m.

Milwaukee (Fiers 6-3) at Cincinnati (Cueto 18-9), 7:10 p.m.

Philadelphia (Hamels 9-7) at Miami (H.Alvarez 116), 7:10 p.m.

Pittsburgh (Cole 10-5) at Atlanta (A.Wood 11-10), 7:10 p.m.

St. Louis (S.Miller 10-9) at Chicago Cubs (Hendricks 7-2), 8:05 p.m.

Arizona (Chafin 0-0) at Minnesota (Gibson 12-11), 8:10 p.m.

Colorado (J.De La Rosa 14-11) at San Diego (Erlin 4-4), 10:10 p.m.

San Francisco (Bumgarner 18-9) at L.A. Dodgers (Greinke 15-8), 10:10 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games Arizona at Minnesota, 1:10 p.m.

N.Y. Mets at Washington, 7:05 p.m.

Milwaukee at Cincinnati, 7:10 p.m.

Philadelphia at Miami, 7:10 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Atlanta, 7:10 p.m.

St. Louis at Chicago Cubs, 8:05 p.m.

Colorado at San Diego, 9:10 p.m.

San Francisco at L.A. Dodgers, 10:10 p.m.

NATIONAL LEAGUE LEADERS G AB R H Pct. Morneau Col 131 491 60 157 .320 JHarrison Pit 137 494 72 157 .318 AMcCutchen Pit 140 529 83 164 .310 Posey SF 142 530 69 164 .309 Revere Phi 145 577 69 178 .308 Lucroy Mil 147 564 72 171 .303 Puig LAD 142 539 88 162 .301 Span Was 143 600 93 179 .298 DanMurphy NYM137 573 76 169 .295 SCastro ChC 134 528 58 154 .292 Home Runs Stanton, Miami, 37; Rizzo, Chicago, 31; Duda, New York, 28; Frazier, Cincinnati, 27; JUpton, Atlanta, 27; Byrd, Philadelphia, 25; AdGonzalez, Los Angeles, 25; LaRoche, Washington, 25.

Runs Batted In AdGonzalez, Los Angeles, 112; Stanton, Miami, 105; JUpton, Atlanta, 97; Howard, Philadelphia, 93; Desmond, Washington, 89; Holliday, St. Louis, 88; LaRoche, Washington, 88.

Pitching Kershaw, Los Angeles, 20-3; Wainwright, St. Louis, 20-9; Bumgarner, San Francisco, 18-9; Cueto, Cincinnati, 18-9; WPeralta, Milwaukee, 16-11; Fister, Washington, 15-6; Greinke, Los Angeles, 15-8.

Stettler at Lindsay Thurber, 3:30 p.m., Great Chief Park; Drumheller at Innisfail, 4 p.m. ● Peewee football: Rockyview at Red Deer Hornets, 11 a.m., Great Chief Park; Red Deer Steelers at Lacombe, 11 a.m., MEGlobal Athletic Park; Drumheller at Olds, 11 a.m.; Innisfail at Sylvan Lake, 1:30 p.m. ● Major bantam hockey: Rockyview at Red Deer Black, 2 p.m., Arena. ● Bantam AA hockey: Okotoks at Red Deer Ramada, 3:15 p.m., Kin City A. ● Midget AAA hockey: Southeast at Red Deer, 4:45 p.m., Arena. ● WHL: Kootenay at Red Deer, 7 p.m., Centrium. ● Midget AA hockey: Red Deer Indy Graphics at Red Deer Elks, 7:15 p.m., Collicutt Centre. ● High school exhibition football: Grande Prairie St. Joe’s at Hunting Hills, 7:30 p.m., Great Chief Park. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Airdrie at Red Deer, 8 p.m., Arena; Blackfalds at Ponoka, 8 p.m.

Sunday

● College women’s/men’s soccer: SAIT at RDC Queens, noon; SAIT at RDC Kings, 2 p.m. ● College cross-country running: ACAC #3 at RDC. ● Bantam football: Ponoka at Hunting Hills, 1 p.m., Great Chief Park; at Lacombe, 1 p.m., MEGlobal Athletic Park; Rocky Mountain House at Olds, 1 p.m.;

● College women’s/men’s soccer: Olds at RDC Queens, noon; Olds at RDC Kings, 2 p.m. ● Bantam AA hockey: Okotoks at Red Deer Steel Kings, 12:45 p.m., Kin City A; Foothills at Olds, 2:45 p.m. ● Midget AA hockey: Lacombe at Red Deer Elks, 4 p.m., Arena; Sylvan Lake at Olds, 5:30 p.m.

Soccer Burnley Newcastle

MLS Eastern Conference GP W L T GF D.C. 29 14 9 6 45 Kansas City 29 13 10 6 43 New England 29 13 13 3 41 New York 29 10 8 11 48 Columbus 29 10 9 10 41 Philadelphia 29 9 9 11 45 Toronto 28 10 11 7 39 Houston 28 9 13 6 33 Chicago 28 5 7 16 37 Montreal 29 6 17 6 34

GA 34 34 40 42 36 43 43 50 43 52

Pt 48 45 42 41 40 38 37 33 31 24

Western Conference GP W L T GF Seattle 28 17 8 3 52 Los Angeles 29 15 5 9 59 Salt Lake 29 13 6 10 49 Dallas 29 13 10 6 49 Portland 29 9 8 12 52 Vancouver 29 8 8 13 36 Colorado 29 8 14 7 40 San Jose 28 6 12 10 33 Chivas 29 6 17 6 23

GA 41 31 36 39 48 39 53 41 54

Pt 54 54 49 45 39 37 31 28 24

Saturday’s results Portland 3 Vancouver 0 Philadelphia 0 Houston 0 New York 4 Seattle 1 Montreal 2 San Jose 0 Columbus 1 New England 0 Chicago 3 D.C. 3 Los Angeles 2 Dallas 1 Sunday’s results Toronto 3 Chivas 0 Wednesday’s games Seattle at Dallas, 9 p.m.

Friday, September 26 New England at Kansas City, 8 p.m.

Saturday, September 27 Portland at Toronto, 1 p.m.

Philadelphia at D.C., 3 p.m.

Chivas at Seattle, 4 p.m.

Salt Lake at Vancouver, 7 p.m.

Montreal at Columbus, 7:30 p.m.

San Jose at Colorado, 9 p.m.

English Premier League GP W Chelsea 5 4 Southampton 5 3 Aston Villa 5 3 Arsenal 5 2 Swansea 5 3 Manchester City 5 2 Leicester City 5 2 West Ham 5 2 Tottenham 5 2 Hull City 5 1 Liverpool 5 2 Man. United 5 1 Stoke 5 1 Everton 5 1 Crystal Palace 5 1 West Brom 5 1 Sunderland 5 0 QPR 5 1

5 5

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2 2

1 5

4 11

3 3

Saturday, Sept. 20 Queens Park Rangers 2, Stoke 2 Aston Villa 0, Arsenal 3 Burnley 0, Sunderland 0 Newcastle 2, Hull City 2 Swansea 0, Southampton 1 West Ham 3, Liverpool 1 Sunday, Sept. 21 Leicester City 5, Manchester United 3 Tottenham 0, West Brom 1 Everton 2, Crystal Palace 3 Manchester City 1, Chelsea 1 Saturday, Sept. 27 Liverpool vs. Everton, 1145 GMT Chelsea vs. Aston Villa, 1400 GMT Crystal Palace vs. Leicester City, 1400 GMT Hull City vs. Manchester City, 1400 GMT Manchester United vs. West Ham, 1400 GMT Southampton vs. Queens Park Rangers, 1400 GMT Sunderland vs. Swansea, 1400 GMT Arsenal vs. Tottenham, 1630 GMT Sunday, Sept. 28 West Brom vs. Burnley, 1500 GMT

D 1 1 1 3 0 2 2 1 1 3 0 2 2 2 2 2 4 1

L 0 1 1 0 2 1 1 2 2 1 3 2 2 2 2 2 1 3

GF GA Pts 16 7 13 9 3 10 4 4 10 10 6 9 8 6 9 8 5 8 9 8 8 9 8 7 7 6 7 7 7 6 7 8 6 9 8 5 4 5 5 11 13 5 8 10 5 3 7 5 5 6 4 3 11 4

England Championship GP W Nott. Forest 8 5 Norwich City 8 5 Wolverhampton 8 5 Watford 8 5 Middlesbrough 8 5 Shef. Wednesday 8 4 Ipswich 8 4 Charlton Athletic 8 3 Derby County 8 3 Blackburn 8 4 Reading 8 4 Leeds 8 4 Millwall 8 3 Brentford 8 3 Bournemouth 8 2 Cardiff 8 2 Wigan Athletic 8 2 Brighton & Hove 8 2 Rotherham United 8 2 Birmingham 8 1 Bolton 8 1 Hudd. Town 8 1 Blackpool 8 0 Fulham 8 0

D 3 2 2 1 0 3 2 5 4 1 1 1 2 2 3 3 2 2 2 4 2 2 2 1

L GF GA Pts 0 17 7 18 1 17 7 17 1 8 3 17 2 15 8 16 3 13 7 15 1 8 4 15 2 11 7 14 0 12 9 14 1 15 10 13 3 14 14 13 3 11 11 13 3 10 10 13 3 8 8 11 3 9 13 11 3 12 11 9 3 10 11 9 4 10 10 8 4 8 10 8 4 6 10 8 3 7 14 7 5 7 13 5 5 7 18 5 6 3 10 2 7 6 19 1

Saturday, Sept. 20 Watford 1, Bournemouth 1 Brighton & Hove Albion 0, Blackpool 0 Derby County 2, Cardiff 2 Fulham 0, Blackburn 1 Leeds 3, Huddersfield Town 0 Middlesbrough 4, Brentford 0 Millwall 0, Nottingham Forest 0 Norwich City 2, Birmingham 2 Rotherham United 1, Charlton Athletic 1 Sheffield Wednesday 1, Reading 0 Wolverhampton Wanderers 1, Bolton 0 Monday, Sept. 22 Wigan Athletic 1, Ipswich 2

Transactions Monday’s Sports Transactions

American League East Division W L Pct 93 63 .596 81 75 .519 79 77 .506 75 81 .481 68 88 .436

x-Los Angeles Oakland Seattle Houston Texas x-clinched division

● AJHL: Brooks at Olds, 7 p.m. ● Heritage junior B preseason hockey: Red Deer at Blackfalds, 7:30 p.m. ● College men’s volleyball: RDC Alumni at RDC Kings, 8 p.m., main gym.

Saturday

Football CFL East Division W L T 4 8 0 4 7 0 4 8 0 1 10 0

Today

BASEBALL Major League Baseball MLB — Suspended Pittsburgh 3B Johan De Jesus (DSL Pirates) 72 games following a positive test for a metabolite of Nandrolone, a performance-enhancing substance, in violation of the Minor League Drug Prevention and Treatment Program.

American League NEW YORK YANKEES — Designated LHP Josh Outman for assignment. Claimed OF Eury Perez off waivers from Washington.

National League ATLANTA BRAVES — Fired general manager Frank Wren. Named John Hart interim general manager.

American Association FARGO-MOORHEAD REDHAWKS — Released INF Michael L. Thompson and RHP Matt Schuld.

Can-Am League TROIS-RIVIERES AIGLES — Exercised the 2015 contract options on RHP Matthew Rusch, RHP Edilson Alvarez, RHP Mike Bradstreet, RHP Francois LaFreniere, RHP David Leblanc, RHP Nick Purdy, RHP Jadd Schmeltzer, LHP Alex Szymanski, C Kyle Lafrenz, C Elvin Millan, INF Eric Grabe, INF Josh Hampton, INF Danny Mateo, INF Brandon Newton, OF Steve Brown, OF Michael Hernandez, OF Alexandre LaGarde, OF Drew Miller and OF Will Walsh.

Frontier League SCHAUMBURG BOOMERS — Traded INF Gerard Hall to Lancaster (Atlantic) for future considerations.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association CHICAGO BULLS — Re-signed C Nazr Mo-

hammed.

DALLAS MAVERICKS — Signed G Doron Lamb.

SACRAMENTO KINGS — Signed G Ramon Sessions.

FOOTBALL National Football League NFL — Named Dawn Hudson chief marketing officer.

DALLAS COWBOYS — Waived LB Keith Smith.

NEW YORK GIANTS — Signed G Eric Herman to the practice squad. Terminated the practice squad contract of OL Mark Asper.

Arena Football League AFL — Named Scott Butera commissioner.

HOCKEY National Hockey League DETROIT RED WINGS — Sent F Tyler Bertuzzi to Guelph (OHL), F Zach Nastasiuk to Owen Sound (OHL), F Dominic Turgeon to Portland (WHL), D Marc McNulty to Prince Albert (WHL) and D Mitchell Wheaton to Kelowna (WHL). Released F Blake Clarke, Hayden Hodgson, Darby Llewellyn, Brandon Robinson and Jerome Verrier; D Ty Stanton and G Lucas Peressini.

MONTREAL CANADIENS — Named Vincent Riendeau assistant general manager for Hamilton (AHL).

SOCCER Major League Soccer D.C. UNITED — Signed coach Ben Olsen to a multiyear contract extension.

COLLEGE BARUCH — Named Joanna Quirindongo and Nicole Flint assistant softball coaches.

MOUNT ST. MARY’S — Named Ryan Browning men’s assistant lacrosse coach.

RHODE ISLAND — Named Justin Lang men’s assistant basketball coach.

RDC ATHLETES OF THE WEEK Soccer players Chelsea Webster and Alex Ingraham are the Boston Pizza RDC athletes of the week.

Webster, from Calgary, was solid defensively and was named player of the game in the RDC Queens’ 2-1 win at Medicine Hat Saturday, while Ingraham, a Saskatoon native, turned in a pair of stellar performances and scored once for the RDC Kings in their 2-1 win at Medicine Hat and 3-3 tie at Lethbridge.

RDC men’s golf team member Tim Hannebury received honorable mention after helping his squad secure a fourth-place finish in the ACAC North Regional tournament during the weekend at . ● The RDC Kings men’s volleyball team will take on the Kings Volleyball Alumni in an exhibition match tonight at 8 p.m. at the main gym.

On Friday, the hockey Kings will open their regular-season schedule against the Camrose Augustana Vikings at 7 p.m. at the Penhold Regional Multiplex.

On Saturday, RDC will host ACAC cross-country running Grand Prix #3, while the soccer Queens and Kings will host the SAIT Trojans at noon and 2 p.m., and on Sunday will entertain the Olds College teams at noon and 2 p.m.

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TUESDAY, SEPT. 23, 2014

Quick thinking not the key to success LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE SPEAKER SAYS HAVING TIME TO THINK HELPS SOLVE PROBLEMS IN THE WORKPLACE

BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR There’s something lacking in many fast-paced, pressure-filled workplaces today: time to think.

That’s the belief of Margaret Wheatley, a best-selling author and management consultant who specializes in organizational behavior. Speaking at the 2014 Leadership Conference in Red Deer on Monday, she described how organizations often rely on quick decision-making, which leads to unresolved problems that escalate and foster blame, resentment and denial.

“Big issues don’t usually start as big issues,” said Wheatley. “They become big issues by our unwillingness to tackle them in their early stages.”

A good way to pre-empt such problems is to schedule time to meet with others and analyze issues before they get out of hand.

This must be a regular and ongoing commitment, held in a relaxed environment without time constraints, and following an agenda that reflects the issues of the day.

The benefits, said Wheatley, can be dramatic. Participants gain the confidence to handle complex problems, their sense of camaraderie increases, their behavior improves, they become more willing to experiment when seek-

ing solutions, stress and anxiety drops, and ultimately, better decisions result.

“This is the single most powerful way to cure many of the issues that affect us, like morale, quality of decision-making, teamwork, trust,” she said. “There’s a sense of confidence that, ‘Yes, we can tackle all of this.’”

People may initially resist a push for organized time to think about issues, but that attitude changes after a few meetings.

“Once they experience them once or twice, they can’t wait to come back to them,” said Wheatley.

An organization’s leaders might also oppose such meetings, afraid that they’ll become a forum for “bitching and moaning.” But that’s rarely the result, she said, as members gain a positive way to channel their energy instead of voicing their anger or cynicism privately.

“You hear it in the bathrooms or the parking lot or via private email communication,” said Wheatley of unresolved discontentment.

She pointed out that most workplace disasters, including calamities that cause serious injury or loss of life, result from problems that staff were aware of.

But they felt powerless to effect change, or weren’t listened to.

“We are missing these experiences of feeling successful at solving a prob-

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Margaret Wheatley, a writer and management consultant who specializes in organizational behavior, speaks at the 2014 Leadership Conference in Red Deer on Monday. lem, and feeling successful at working well together,” said Wheatley of workplaces where thinking isn’t encouraged.

Loonie falls 0.70 of a cent BOC SAYS CANADA STILL NEEDS EXTRA STIMULUS TO HELP ECONOMY

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — The Canadian dollar headed lower Monday as a top Bank of Canada official said the country’s struggling economy still needs low interest rates to help with the recovery.

The loonie fell 0.70 of a cent to 90.65 cents US. Bank of Canada senior deputy governor Carolyn Wilkins said in a speech that “persistent headwinds” could mean that “some degree of stimulus” will be needed to keep inflation on target, even after the economy returns to full capacity.

Wilkins also said the neutral interest rate — the level at which the economy can be sustained at full capacity with stable inflation — has dropped to a range of three to four per cent, about 1.5 percentage points lower than before the economic downturn.

The lower estimate means interest

rates could be lower than they have been in the past when the economy is running at full steam.

Last week, Bank of Canada governor Stephen Poloz said the central bank will continue a hands-off approach regarding the loonie, saying that trying to interfere with the direction of the currency would hurt the bank’s ability to pursue independent monetary policy.

Economists have long suggested that Poloz’s dovish talk on interest rates has helped take some of the shine off the loonie in a deliberate move to bolster exports.

The Bank of Canada has kept its key interest rate at one per cent for four years.

Meanwhile, the U.S. Federal Reserve also said recently it was not considering raising short-term interest rates from near zero any time soon.

The reassurance from the Fed has helped lift the U.S. dollar in recent days.

“We’re seeing a bit of a shift, a slow migration of expectations of what Fed policy might look like in 2015, with the potential for a rate hike in mid-2015.

As a result, we’re seeing expectations for the U.S. dollar be adjusted as well,” said Craig Fehr, a Canadian market strategist at Edward Jones in St. Louis.

“The U.S. economy is really starting to stand out as a leader for growth.

There’s some momentum in that economy at the same time as Europe’s sputtering along and China’s slowing down.

I think that will only serve to strengthen the U.S. dollar as well.”

Commodities also weighed on the loonie as the November crude oil contract on the New York Mercantile Exchange lost 89 cents to US$91.52 a barrel.

December gold bullion added $1 to US$1,217.60 an ounce and December copper fell five cents to US$3.04 a pound.

Final arguments underway in class-action tobacco suit

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

QUEBEC

MONTREAL — Final legal arguHis son Martin and widow Lise atments began Monday in a landmark tended the proceedings Monday. and 16-year multibillion-dollar battle Lise Blais said her husband would pitting Quebec smokers against Big try to give up the habit but would inTobacco. variably be lured by the towering presThe plaintiffs — a group that in- ence of cigarettes on the shelves whencludes an estimated one million Que- ever he walked into a convenience becers — are suing three Canadian store. tobacco manufacturers for $17.8 bilWith what lion in what little energy has been de‘I’M SAD FOR MY FATHER, he had left in scribed as the his final days, HE WAS KILLED BY WHAT HE country’s bigean-Yves gest class-acLIKED THE MOST, WHICH WAS JBlais remained tion ever. passionate, SMOKING.’ They argue even cocky, the compa—MARTIN BLAIS about the case, nies are liable his son said. because they “I’m sad for knew they were putting out a harm- my father, he was killed by what he ful product and hid the health effects liked the most, which was smoking,” from the public. said Martin Blais.

The suit involves separate groups of “And it’s sad that he died doing Quebec plaintiffs — some who became something he liked.” seriously ill from smoking and others It took 14 years for the case to reach who said they couldn’t quit. trial, with proceedings repeatedly The defendants are Imperial To- slowed by motions and appeals by tobacco Canada Ltd.; Rothmans, Benson bacco industry lawyers. & Hedges; and JTI-Macdonald.

“It has been a very long road, but at They argue the dangerous health the same time, that’s the time it took effects of tobacco have been common to make the evidence in the trial and knowledge for decades and that there present all we had to say to the judge,” was no conspiracy to conceal anything. said Mario Bujold, executive-director Initially the lawsuit was valued at of the Quebec Council on Tobacco and $27 billion and included 1.8 million Health.

Quebecers, but a 2013 ruling changed “It was long, it was really long for the definition of who could qualify. the victims. Many of them died durThe trial stems from two actions ing the trial. I think that’s the saddest that were filed in 1998 and certified thing — justice takes time, but we’re and consolidated in 2005 by Quebec near the end, so we’re happy about Superior Court. that.”

For the family of the late Jean-Yves There have been 90 judgments renBlais, one of the lead plaintiffs 16 years dered in the case over the years, with ago, the possibility of an end to the le- 78 witnesses taking the stand in 234 gal saga is welcome news. days of testimony since 2012.

Blais died after having smoked Bujold said the evidence suggests since the 1950s and failing several to his group that the companies contimes to quit.

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spired to keep mum about the health effects of tobacco use for more than 40 years.

The closing arguments are expected to last several weeks and a decision from Quebec Superior Court Justice Brian Riordan isn’t expected for some time.

Conscious that more appeals are likely, Bujold said lawyers for the plaintiffs are asking for a judgment that could, in part, be applied immediately.

Some 27,000 documents were filed as exhibits, including many confidential company memos and studies that showed people didn’t know or understand the health risks relating to smoking.

But the industry has argued people knew about smoking-related risks smoking and that the products were sold legally and with federal government approval.

“People knew about the health risks associated with smoking for many decades and the federal government who licensed and enabled us to sell those products knew about those health risks for many decades,” said Eric Gagnon, spokesman for Imperial Tobacco Canada, when asked to sum up his firm’s arguments.

“So we don’t believe that the tobacco industry should be held responsible for personal choices that people made, knowing there were health risks associated with smoking.”

Those arguments didn’t hold water for Jean-Yves Blais, his son said.

“He wasn’t impressed by all the tobacco company (arguments), he wanted to win (the case),” Martin Blais said.

“Maybe he’ll win, but now he’s in heaven ... he knew that his health was declining because of his addiction.”

The case is distinct from civil suits launched by several provinces to recoup health-care costs from smokingrelated disease, but many of the arguments in those cases overlap.

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BlackBerry undercuts Apple, Samsung with new Passport model

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — BlackBerry is bringing its newest Passport smartphone to the market with a price that’s lower than Apple’s iPhone 6 and the latest incarnation of the Samsung Galaxy.

Units of the phone will sell for US$599 without a wireless carrier contract in the U.S., about $50 to $250 cheaper than various models of the iPhone 6 and Samsung’s Galaxy S5 currently on shelves.

The price is a strategic move that could give BlackBerry an advantage as it works to secure large orders of the device from corporate customers and plans to sell the phone at wireless stores.

Canadian prices for the BlackBerry Passport haven’t been officially released.

The Passport has a square screen that measures 4.5 inches and a keyboard that’s similar to the most popular BlackBerry models.

The wider screen fits 60 characters on each line, which is more than comparable devices and closer to reading a book.

Most details are being kept quiet until the official unveiling, which is expected to happen on Wednesday, during a multi-city media event in Toronto, Dubai and London.

The Passport marks the first entirely new BlackBerry device to hit shelves since chief executive John Chen joined the company nearly a year ago in an effort to turn around the struggling business.

Before he joined BlackBerry, Chen led a turnaround at software company Sybase.

That company faced its own identity crisis and financial problems before he helped make it a profitable operation focused on mobile business technology.

BlackBerry is scheduled to report its second-quarter financial results on Friday.

Meanwhile, sales of Apple’s iPhone 6 and 6 Plus models have been brisk over the three days since it went on sale.

Apple said it sold more than 10 million units of the new phone, which marks a record for the company.

Last year, it sold 9 million of iPhone 5C and 5S models after they had just been released.

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OF LOCAL INTEREST Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 101.85 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 45.07 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47.66 BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . 12.05 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.47 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 52.10 Cdn. National Railway . . 80.71 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 22.745 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 39.49 Capital Power Corp . . . . 26.97 Cervus Equipment Corp 19.33 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 52.86 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 55.61 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 31.85 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 34.31 General Motors Co. . . . . 33.44 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 21.45 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.27 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 51.99 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 70.74 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 39.08 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . 12.02 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 60.68 Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 114.78 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 16.49 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 14.41 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 57.80 MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto stock market suffered a tripledigit loss Monday as commodities prices mostly fell amid continuing worries over slowing growth in China.

The S&P/TSX composite index dropped 136.35 points to 15,129, after closing down 200 points on Friday. Base metals, gold and energy were among the heaviest weights on the Toronto exchange. The Canadian dollar lost 0.70 of a cent to 90.65 cents US against a strengthening U.S. dollar. U.S. markets were also in negative territory with the Dow Jones industrials down 107.06 points to 17,172.68. The Nasdaq fell 52.10 points to 4,527.69 and the S&P 500 index lost 16.11 points to 1,994.29.

Craig Fehr, a Canadian market strategist at Edward Jones, said it was time for investors to prepare for a return to volatility on markets. In economic news, fewer Americans bought homes in August as investors retreated from real estate and first-time buyers remained scarce.

The National Association of Realtors says sales of existing homes fell 1.8 per cent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.05 million last month.

That snaps a four-month streak of gains with August sales down from a July rate of 5.14 million.

The decline came from the exodus of investors who had been buying properties in the aftermath of the housing bust and recession. Overall, the pace of home sales has dropped 5.3 per cent year over year.

Commodities were mixed with December copper fading five cents to US$3.04 a pound and the November crude contract dipped 78 cents to US$90.87 a barrel. December gold bullion added $1.30 to US$1,217.90 an

Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 19.02 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 14.36 Tim Hortons . . . . . . . . . . 88.13 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76.31 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 31.90 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 17.00 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 20.58 First Quantum Minerals . 21.25 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 25.75 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 9.64 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 3.78 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . 24.39 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 38.46 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.31 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 21.71 Energy Arc Resources . . . . . . . . 29.70 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 26.45 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 66.15 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.74 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 57.74 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 43.56 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . 20.85 Canyon Services Group. 13.12 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 31.02 CWC Well Services . . . 0.8800 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 23.54 Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 2.50 ounce.

In corporate news, BlackBerry (TSX:BB) plans to sell its new Passport smartphone for US$599 without a wireless carrier contract in the U.S., about $50 to $250 cheaper than various models of the iPhone 6 and Samsung’s Galaxy S4 currently on shelves.

The price could give BlackBerry an advantage as it works to secure large orders of the device from corporate customers and plans to sell the phone at wireless stores. Canadian prices for the BlackBerry Passport haven’t been officially released.

Shares in BlackBerry gained 16 cents to $12.05 on the Toronto Stock Exchange.

Meanwhile, oil and gas company Veresen Inc. (TSX:VSN) says it’s spending more than US$1.4 billion to buy a stake in a U.S. pipeline, which it says will bolster plans to ship natural gas from a proposed terminal in Oregon. The Calgary-based company says it’ll be buying a 50 per cent stake in the Ruby pipeline system from Global Infrastructure Partners. The Ruby pipeline runs nearly 1,100 kilometres from Wyoming to Oregon and has the potential to ship up to two billion cubic feet per day of gas. Its shares lost 26 cents to close at $17.17.

MARKET HIGHLIGHTS Highlights at the close of Monday at world financial market trading.

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 15,129.00, down 136.35 points Dow — 17,172.68, down 107.06 points S&P 500 — 1,994.29, down 16.11 points Nasdaq — 4,527.69, down 52.10 points

Enbridge to transfer $1.76-billion in pipeline assets to affiliate CALGARY — Enbridge Inc. announced a deal Monday to transfer $1.76 billion in pipeline assets to one of its affiliates.

The deal with Enbridge Income Fund includes its 50 per cent interest in the U.S. segment of the Alliance pipeline, which carries gas from northeastern British Columbia and northwestern Alberta to the Chicago area, as well as the Southern Lights diluent pipeline, which transports the oilsands-thinning agent from the Chicago

Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 96.54 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 64.68 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.82 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 31.56 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 53.27 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 5.91 Penn West Energy . . . . . . 7.89 Pinecrest Energy Inc. . . . 0.070 Precision Drilling Corp . . 11.73 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 41.33 Talisman Energy . . . . . . . . 9.82 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 13.27 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 8.11 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 64.03 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 84.25 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 71.25 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105.75 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 39.83 Carfinco . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.28 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 32.74 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 51.00 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 72.20 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 21.94 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 52.62 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.00 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 81.62 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 41.86 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56.79 Currencies at close: Cdn — 90.65 cents US, down 0.70 of a cent Pound — C$1.8052, up 2.09 cents Euro — C$1.4175, up 1.22 cents Euro — US$1.2850, up 0.13 of a cent Oil futures: US$90.87 per barrel, down 78 cents (November contract) Gold futures: US$1,217.90 per oz., up $1.30 (December contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $20.344 oz., down 2.9 cents $654.06 kg., down 93 cents ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: Nov. ’14 $2.90 lower $394.60; Jan ’15 $3.20 lower $401.30; March ’15 $3.80 lower $407.90; May ’15 $4.20 lower $414.00; July ’15 $4.60 lower $419.10; Nov ’15 $3.70 lower $414.90; Jan. ’16 $3.70 lower $418.40; March ’16 $3.70 lower $422.20; May ’16 $3.70 lower $422.20; July ’16 $3.70 lower $422.20; Nov. ’16 $3.70 lower $422.20.

Barley (Western): Oct. ’14 unchanged 123.50; Dec. ’14 unchanged $125.50; March ’15 unchanged $126.50; May ’15 unchanged $126.50; July ’15 unchanged $126.50; Oct. ’15 unchanged $126.50; Dec. ’15 unchanged $126.50; March ’16 unchanged $126.50; May ’16 unchanged $126.50; July ’16 unchanged $126.50; Oct. ’16 unchanged $126.50.

Monday’s estimated volume of trade: 1,199,340 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 1,199,340.

area to Edmonton.

Enbridge chief financial officer Richard Bird said this latest “drop down” deal will provide a “significant source of low-cost funding for our record growth capital program.”

After the transfer, Enbridge’s overall economic interest in the income fund will be 66.4 per cent, through direct and indirect investments.

“We believe that the acquisition of the U.S. segment of the Alliance pipeline and the cash flows from the Southern Lights pipeline will be a great fit for the fund and is expected to deliver numerous benefits,” said fund president Perry Schuldhaus.

“The assets will substantially scale up and further diversify the fund’s sources of low risk cash flow.”

Canadians are in NYC seeking a cleaner world, and not just at the climate summit

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

3D PRINTING

NEW YORK — While hundreds of thousands of people marched against climate change in New York City, across town, two young Canadian entrepreneurs displayed an invention they hope might put a little dent in the global carbon footprint.

The business partners from Waterloo, Ont., took home a couple of the judges’ ribbons at a technology fair Sunday afternoon, as they showed off an adaptor that allows home-style 3D printers to work with additional materials.

Hooked up to one of these syringelike contraptions, they say, a home unit is no longer confined to just printing plastic. Suddenly, a high-tech do-ityourselfer’s repertoire might include ceramic, wood filler, clay, hydrogels — pretty much any viscous substance that can be squeezed through a little tube, at room temperature.

“Are you 3D printing Nutella?!” one woman burst out as she arrived at the display stand for Structur3D. Yes, in fact, they were.

Playing to the local crowd, they’d even set up a 3D printer to draw a chocolatey replica of a New York Yankees logo.

“We’re the first 3D company in the world to print using Nutella,” said Charles Mire, one of the two company co-founders who attended the Maker Faire event over the weekend.

On the table a few metres away was a syringe filled with wasabi sauce, as he and partner Andrew Finkle tried to create some Japanese culinary art from that sinus-scorching root paste.

About 85,000 people attended the weekend event in Queens, organizers said. Across the East River, a much bigger crowd was marching in Manhattan to put pressure on governments on the eve of a United Nations climate summit.

Mire made the point that his $379 gizmo also has serious applications, beyond Nutella spreads.

One of those happens to be environmental — a buy-local movement, if you will, narrowed down to your own house.

“It’s one less trip (people) have to make to the store. It’s one less thing they have to order off of the Internet,” Mire said.

“They can use locally sourced materials or make things in their own homes. In a way, it really could reduce carbon footprints on a cumulative lev-

el... So it’s just a small contribution, on a very large problem.”

The partners were already talking to other people at the fair about additional, serious applications.

Those people included volunteers at the E-nable project, which builds prosthetic limbs by crowdsourcing ideas and then printing them in 3D. They had a variety of models on display, to illustrate that the newest ones keep getting better.

The volunteers suggested a technology like the one from Ontario might improve things even more, in a couple of ways: first, by simplifying the printing of fingertips with a better grip, and also by improving compatibility with the wrist.

“A big issue prosthetic users have is the interface between actual skin and product,” said one volunteer, Mohit Chaudhary. “Soft materials, like silicone or anything else that might be extruded, is a viable option to make it more comfortable for the user.”

There are a few constraints to the printing technology — aside from the obvious requirement of owning a $500$1,000 home 3D machine.

They can’t print metal, or anything that might have to be melted to squeeze through a tube.

And they print slowly — which is fine for making the occasional widget, or a cake, or even a prototype for your business. Just don’t expect to transform your basement into some superproductive industrial assembly line.

When discussing his hopes for the technology, however, Mire raised another, quite ambitious idea: printing hydrogels to act as scaffolding for new cells, so that organs might be grown and harvested more easily and, perhaps, save somebody’s life.

The team came together after Mire moved to Waterloo with his Canadian wife.

He was born in Texas, and did a doctoral chemistry thesis in Australia that included building an extruder.

Finkle had studied nanotechnology engineering, and they spent a month working together on their new invention in Mire’s basement.

They founded their company last year, launched a Kickstarter campaign this June, and quickly sold 400 units of the Discov3ry Paste Extruder.

They believe they might have sold three more in Queens over the weekend.

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Career bank robber jailed WITH CONVICTIONS STRETCHING BACK TO 1979, MAN PLEADS GUILTY TO HOLDING UP TWO SERVUS BANKS IN RED DEER A career bank robber with convictions dating back to 1979, and most recently in May of this year, had five more years added to his prison sentence after pleading guilty to two robberies of Red Deer credit unions.

Philip Glen Noel, 53, pleaded guilty to two counts of robbery on Monday in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench before Justice John Little.

The charges were laid by police after an investigation into two robber-

ies of Servus Credit Union branches in Red Deer. The robberies occurred four months apart, on July 9, 2012, and Oct. 4, 2012. Noel was arrested on Oct. 5, 2012.

When Noel was arrested, police said they found two $10 bills they identified as property of the credit union.

In agreeing to plead guilty to two counts of robbery, other charges including possession of a weapon, disguise with intent to commit an offence,

possession of property obtained by crime and four breaches of a recognizance were dropped.

Little sentenced Noel to five years in custody, with three months credit for time served, and a lifetime weapons prohibition.

Noel is serving a 10-year sentence after pleading guilty to a bank robbery that took place in Edmonton on Sept.

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A portion of Ironside Street at Ireland Cres. is undergoing a reconstruction. Border Paving crews are working on the site rebuilding the roadway.

Charges follow tower climb A 26-year-old man is facing several Criminal Code charges after he allegedly cut through fencing and climbed the 91-metre Telus cellular tower in the Highland Green neighbourhood on Friday night.

As Red Deer RCMP, Emergency Services, EMS and Telus staff scrambled to initiate a rescue, all power to the tower was shut down as a safety precaution.

That meant other area cellphone towers had to deal with higher than

es of robbery, using an imitation weapon, unlawful confinement and being disguised.

Noel was also convicted of bank robbery in 1998 after pleading guilty to robbing six banks in downtown Edmonton. He was sentenced to 15 years in custody.

Noel was scheduled to go to trial on the Red Deer credit union robbery charges in March 2015, but instead chose to enter an early guilty plea.

normal usage, and Telus asked city cellphone users to limit usage for several hours.

At approximately 6:30 p.m., RCMP received a report of the man climbing the tower, located on Hermary Street.

The man — who police will not identify or release any further information on — managed to climb to the second highest platform on the tower.

The tower is surrounded by

a high fence with razor wire, and the investigation determined that a small section of fencing had been cut.

A lightning storm delayed rescue plans, but the man descended the tower of his own accord at approximately 8:30 p.m. and was taken into custody.

“It’s an extremely dangerous thing to do. There’s a lot of electricity going to the tower,” Telus spokesman Chris Gerritsen said.

A man who Innisfail RCMP allege was high on methamphetamine and trying to steal gas was apprehended by a citizen after he repeatedly smashed one person’s car and ran over another man.

Early Saturday morning, a homeowner of an isolated rural property southeast of Red Deer was awoken by a lone male attempting to steal gas.

The homeowner confronted the suspect, who was driving a white SUV. When the property owner attempted to apprehend the suspect, police said the suspect told the property owner he was high on meth and trying to take some gas.

When the suspect attempted to flee in his vehicle, the property owner grabbed onto the driver’s side window.

In attempting to stop the suspect, he was dragged a short distance before being run over by the truck.

Family members hearing what happened came to help and the son of the property owner followed the suspect in another vehicle.

The pursuit occurred on Hwy 42 heading towards Penhold. Police said the suspect vehicle rammed the son’s vehicle four times, causing considerable damage.

The son, undeterred by the ramming, continued to pursue the suspect into Penhold.

Once in the town, police said the suspect ran off the road and was blocked by the son. The suspect then attempted to flee on foot, but was apprehended and detained by the son who then called for police to attend.

Through police investigation, it as determined that the SUV the suspect was driving was stolen.

The property owner was transported to the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre by his wife and treated for severe road rash, including large scrapes to his chest, legs, shoulder and chin. There was also a laceration to his eye and he lost a fingernail on his right hand. He was also treated for a possible concussion and some memory loss.

The son was not injured in the incident.

Raven Joseph Beaverbones, 19, faces 13 charges, including assault with a weapon, dangerous driving, trespassing at night, theft, possession of stolen property and failing to remain at the scene of a collision.

He appeared in Red Deer provincial court on Monday before judge Jim Mitchell.

City pushes for foreign worker solution MARY-ANN BARR ADVOCATE STAFF Red Deer city council is pushing for a dialogue between the provincial and federal governments to address Alberta’s unique labour market needs as it pertains to the contentious federal Temporary Foreign Worker Program.

To that end, at a special meeting on Monday morning, council unanimously passed an extraordinary resolution on the issue.

It will be brought to the resolutions session during the Alberta Urban Municipalities Association annual convention this week in Edmonton.

Coun. Paul Harris introduced an amendment that the resolution not only address the business side of the issue but also the “humanity” aspect.

The amendment was also approved unanimously.

The resolution calls for the province to work with the federal ministers of Employment, and Citizenship and Immigration to develop short and longterm strategy in relation to the Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) that addresses Alberta’s unique labour market needs. The amendment asks that strategies “be included that will protect (temporary foreign) workers from abuse, exploitation and neglect.”

Harris said Red Deer often takes a leadership role in Canada and “this is just one more example of us paying attention to a national issue that needs to be addressed ... why not start in Red Deer and see where we can take it?”

Alberta really needs foreign workers but at what cost, asked Harris.

“You can’t just bring people over and not support them ... the program only works because Canada is a great place to live, raise a family, to have a better quality of life.”

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If temporary workers are good enough to work in our province and country, aren’t they good enough to stay if they so choose and apply for immigration and permanent residency?

— Red Deer city Coun. Diane Wyntjes After a number of reports that the TFWP was being abused and some Canadians were losing jobs to foreign workers, the federal government brought in changes in June to stem an uproar across the country.

The impact of those changes has made it tougher for abuses to occur but also created higher costs to employers. This has resulted in a dramatic decrease in applications. The latest statistics, released last week, show a 75 per-cent drop from the year previous.

Coun. Diane Wyntjes said she supports the changes made to the program but at the same time employers who are in compliance with the rules should not be punished with “one size fits all.”

“With all due respect to (Jason Kenney, Employment Minister), the changes to the Temporary Foreign Workers Program are not good for our city or our province’s economic growth, or ... for the temporary foreign workers impacted,” Wyntjes said.

She quoted statistics that 80 per cent of the jobs created in Canada last year were in Alberta and Alberta has the highest job vacancy rate of Canadian businesses. Small and large businesses are struggling to find enough workers.

The shortage of workers is not temporary, it’s a permanent problem, she said.

In a recent conversation she had with some foreign workers, they told to her that they want to make Alberta their home.

“If temporary workers are good enough to work in our province and country, aren’t they good enough to stay if they so choose and apply for immigration and permanent residency?” she said, criticizing the federal government for having no long-term strategy for foreign workers.

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ment, including at the municipal level, she said.

Red Deer and District Chamber of Commerce policy co-ordinator Reg Warkentin said he was really happy that city council is taking a position on the foreign worker program.

“We think having a unified voice is real important. I’m sure it will help to raise awareness of the unique needs in our region. Alberta is in a league of its own.”

Warkentin said he heard from a number of employers that they advertise for months at a time yet have only one or two people apply.

The TFWP application cost for employers has jumped to $1,000 for each position requested, from $275, he noted, but many businesses will be forced to pay it if they want to stay open, he said.

Warkentin argues that pay rates for people who work in places such as fast food outlets are competitive but he also said that a lot of businesses operate on slim margins and to pay $20 an hour, for example, could translate into a $4 or $5 cup of coffee. “I’m not sure that’s viable.”

There’s an opportunity for the federal government to “incentivize” Canadians to move here from areas of higher unemployment, such as with tax breaks, he said.

The human aspect regarding foreign workers is a “hugely important part of the equation ... I think that’s been left out of much of the dialogue ... a lot of them took a pretty huge risk taking the plunge and moving over here.

It’s not always worth it if they have to leave after one year. These are people are huge contributors to our city. They help make it the vibrant city that it is.

“I would really like to see the longterm permanent immigrant solution.” barr@reddeeradvocate.com

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BRIEFS Man dies in rollover east of Consort A pickup driver died after a single-vehicle rollover east of Consort on Hwy 12 early Friday morning.

Consort RCMP said the eastbound pickup entered the ditch and rolled several times. The driver and lone occupant died at the scene.

Police and the Consort Fire Department responded to the collision at about 4 a.m. on Friday.

Police have not identified the driver.

Suspect in custody after stabbing Red Deer RCMP have taken a man into custody following a stabbing incident early Monday morning.

At about 4:30 a.m., police were called to a residence on Hermary Street in the Highland Green neighbourhood after a person was cut on the arm and the forehead.

As well, a woman suffered a minor injury to her hand when she tried to intervene.

The suspect left the residence on foot and a short time later, a patrolling officer spotted him in Riverside Meadows, where he was arrested.

The victims were taken to hospital and treated for non-life-threatening injuries.

The suspect remains in custody and RCMP said they would issue further updates as the investigation progresses.

Collision Saturday slows Hwy 2 traffic

Fire in mobile home blamed on wiring An electrical problem caused a mobile home fire that left three people homeless last week.

Red Deer County District Fire Chief Tom Metzger said the 2 a.m. Thursday fire was traced to an olderstyle two-pronged razor plug outlet.

A mother and her teen daughter escaped the fire and were treated and released from hospital for minor smoke inhalation. Another person was not at home at the time of the fire.

Two dozen volunteer firefighters responded to the blaze destroyed the home in Melody Meadows mobile home park about five km west of the city, off Burnt Lake Trail.

The trailer had smoke alarms apparently, but they did not work.

“They’re really lucky they got out,” he said. The two were treated and released from hospital for minor smoke inhalation.

Metzger said the incident should serve as a reminder to all homeowners to check their alarms regularly to ensure they are functioning.

Sundre seniors centre work begins A ground-breaking ceremony for a new Sundre seniors care centre a long time in the making will take place next week.

Years of community effort paid off last October when a critical $3.8-million provincial grant was lined up for the 103-unit facility that will allow local seniors to remain in their hometown.

In July, Mountain View Seniors Housing unanimously approved the $26.6-million facility. It includes 85 supportive living units and 18 independent living life lease units.

Units are expected to be open by mid-2016.

The ground-breaking ceremony is set for Oct. 3 at 1 p.m. at the project site near 6th Street and 6th Avenue.

Seniors in Rimbey will also get new digs in the next three years.

Parkland Manor’s existing 63 units will be transformed into 37 larger units and 40 new units will be added.

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With the forecast calling for fine weather through most of the next week, people taking to the trails and into the country will have a great opportunity to get outdoors and enjoy the autumn colours. These trails at Heritage Ranch in Red Deer have been busy with walkers, joggers and people fishing.

In May, it was announced that Parkland Manor will get $11.2 million in joint provincial and federal funding ($7.7 million from the province and $5.6 million from the federal government), plus another $2.1 million from the province through the surplus earnings of the Alberta Social Housing Corp.

Construction will take about two years and be completed in the spring 2017.

Golf tournament raises funds A charity golf tournament has scored $21,000 to build a tub room in seniors housing that is slated to open in 2016 in Sundre.

The Mountain View Housing Foundation raised the money during its fourth annual tournament last week. All proceeds from the event will be used toward purchasing a tub room at the new Sundre Seniors Supportive Living Facility being constructed

by Mountain View Seniors’ Housing.

The foundation fundraising supports seniors programs at all Mountain View Seniors’ Housing lodges and seniors housing in Olds, Didsbury, Carstairs, Sundre and surrounding areas.

Teen TV dance drama stars here A popular teen television drama will bring its stage version to Red Deer in March as part of a 21-city Canadian tour.

Tickets are on sale now for The Next Step Dancers performance at the Red Deer Memorial Centre on March 7, 2015. The stage show brings eight cast members from The Next Step TV show, which airs Friday nights on the Family Channel.

The drama is about the lives of an elite group of dancers at The Next Step Dance Studio as they pursue their dreams to win the national dance title.

Promoters say the stage show will feature music from the series as well as high energy dancing with jumps, tricks and lifts. There will also be choreography and tutorials designed to celebrate dance and movement.

Tickets are $40 each or $140 for four (plus service charges). Tickets are available at Black Knight Inn (2929 50th Ave.) or charge by phone at 403-755-6626 or 1-800-661-8793.

The stage tour stars the following cast members: Victoria Baldesarra (Michelle); Brittany Raymond (Riley); Trevor Tordjman (James); Jordan Clark (Giselle); Lamar Johnson (West); Isaac Lupien (Eldon); Jennie Pappas (Chloe) and Taveeta Szymanowicz (Thalia).

Foodgrains harvest on Saturday Central Alberta Foodgrains Charity Harvest will hold a free barbecue near Lacombe on Saturday.

The event wraps up the annual harvest to raise money for the for the Canadian Foodgrains Bank, a Winnipeg-based interdenominational group. Now in its 31st year, the organization is dedicated to resolving hunger issues around the world.

If it rains the week prior or on the Sept. 27 harvest day, everything will be postponed until the following Saturday.

The Lacombe group, now in its 17th year, has planted its biggest crop ever on a 175-acre field about eight km southeast of the city.

Ponoka has been operating for most of its 19 years on the same field north of Morningside, along the east side of Hwy 2.

The barbecue is free but people are free to make donations to the cause. Bring a lawn chair and a friend.

To get to the site, go east on Hwy 12 to Range Road 26-2 and turn right (south). Proceed to Township Road 40-2 and turn left (east). It is the first farm on the north side of the road.

For information, call Doug at 403-782-1860.

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Witnesses say a small sedan lost control during a lane change, struck another vehicle and hit the cable barrier in the median shortly after 6 p.m. The barrier remained intact, preventing the vehicle from entering oncoming traffic.

EMS treated several occupants of the vehicles for minor injuries.

A 28-year-old Calgary woman has been charged under the Traffic Safety Act and issued a 30-day suspension for the presence of alcohol under Alberta Zero Alcohol Tolerance Program for novice drivers.

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Living a better life story “The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story and writes another.”

— James Matthew Barrie, Scottish dramatist and novelist

to change the stories we’re living in.

Whether we acknowledge it or not, our life is driven by our story. It precisely follows a script that we’ve written for ourselves or allowed someone else to write on our behalf.

Our “story” here is really nothing more than our belief system — the set of beliefs we have about ourselves and how we fit into the world around us: who we are, what our abilities are, what our goals should be.

We strengthen our beliefs — support our story — by subconsciously watching for circumstances that support those beliefs, and by creating experiences that are in harmony with them. This subconscious strategy can make it extremely difficult to recognize our beliefs at work — or allow us to recognize that we can change them.

Think about your life. If it were a story would it be a romance, an action/adventure or perhaps a drama?

Maybe it would be one of those heartbreaking stories with an ending that makes you want to toss the book across the room.

If so, ask yourself why you have written such a tragic ending.

People who write tragic stories for themselves, for example, tend to emphasize their tragedies.

“Look at me, Opi,” Alexis cried. “I’m Rapunzel.”

With that, my granddaughter twirled around in a circle — the long and colourful ribbons she had tied in her hair wrapping MURRAY around her body. She FUHRER stopped to study the situation.

“This is often an issue with long hair,” she said.

“That and washing it.”

As children we comfortably moved in and out of fantasy stories, adopting them in incredible detail before discarding them for the next. As is often the case, children can teach us an important lesson: sometimes we need to be just as willing as they are

EXTREME ESTEEM

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Bad guy admiration no cause for alarm Q: How should I respond to my child’s fascination with evil characters? He’s only 3 years old, but whenever he plays make-believe, he always takes on the role of the villain, and the only action figures he wants are those representing “bad guys.” Is this fascination unhealthy?

Jim: Our counselors suggest that there’s probably no reason to be overly concerned about your 3-yearJIM old’s interest in villains.

DALY Many young children are fascinated with “bad guys.” If your son is like most kids, it’s likely a phase that will eventually pass. You might also keep in mind that if you focus on the issue and try to force him to stop liking these characters, he may thrive on the negative attention.

Kids will do almost anything for attention, especially if they’re feeling neglected. For now, the best approach is to ignore this current preoccupation and simply concentrate on affirming his interests that are more positive.

That said, if your son is mimicking the behaviors of the evil characters and acting out in inappropriate ways, I’d encourage you to nip that in the bud.

Don’t allow him to become mean-spirited, aggressive or hurtful with you, his siblings or other children.

In the meantime, remember that you can use fictional children’s characters to teach your child about virtuous personality traits. It’s possible to do this by setting up a contrast between the “good guys” and the “bad guys.” For example, you can ask him, “Which character is more honest?” Then discuss the consequences of dishonesty. In the same way, you could ask, “Who is more helpful to other people?”

By doing so, you’ll be directing the conversation into channels that are affirming of positive virtues and actions.

Q: Do you have any advice for the parent of a preteen who’s trying to gear up for “the talk” about sexuality and “the facts of life”?

Dr. Greg Smalley, Vice President, Family Ministries: It’s good to hear you’ve been giving this some thought. Too often kids hear about sex from everyone but their parents, and a “pre-emptive strike” can give your child a healthy view of sexuality that will stand up to distorted perspectives coming from other sources.

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As Jamie and I stood in line at the community centre waiting to sign the babes up for their new after-school activity of gymnastics, I daydreamed of Lars becoming a world class Olympic gymnast.

This was our first experience with extracurricular programs and the possibilities seemed endless! It wasn’t until I did the math in my head and realized that we would be dishing out 400 bones for 10 measly classes that I began to wonder if a gymnast would be such a lucrative career anyways. …

But on second thought, at that rate, I’m sure it is!

However, because I’m a parent and this is what we do, I sucked it up, wrote a cheque and before I knew it the kids and I were walking into their very first class.

LINDSAY Sophie’s three-four-yearBROWN old sessions were first and ran for an hour. I figured ME PLUS THREE Lars and I could handle sitting through it so we decided to stay and watch. I figured wrong.

The poor kid was so bored he began talking in tongues to the other parents who sat around us.

There he was using a strange and perplexing dialect as he belted out the SpongeBob Squarepants theme song. There were some solemn looks of concern from the fellow moms who sat nearest us, to say the least.

I had come unprepared and as a newbie after-school program mom, this was my first lesson.

I managed to keep him quiet and calm for the last half an hour by telling him a story I was making up off the top of my head. The first time in — well, ever — that my wacky story telling abilities have come in handy. As I was spouting off gibberish about Pokémon and Sonic the Hedgehog, I mentally made note that I would have to take Sophie home for his hour and half class that was next. There is no way she would be able to hack this kind of boredom.

There was only one glitch in my otherwise perfect escape plan. As I nudged Lars to go up to the front of the gymnasium to meet his instructor, he looked at me with the same wary look I’ve seen every morning I’ve dropped him off at his kindergarten class. Nervousness.

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Everyone experiences tragedy, but someone with a tragic life story will immediately see each tragedy as further support for the truth of that story, and will even embrace circumstances likely to have tragic outcomes, because those outcomes are a comfortable fit with the larger life story.

Perhaps you feel out of control of the entire story, so also examine what role you are playing. Maybe you’re the faithful sidekick or perhaps an extra, a nondescript throwaway character lost in the crowd.

If you’re not the protagonist in your story, the main character around whom the plot revolves, then a serious rewrite is in order. You were meant to play the leading role in your life story, to be a responsible individual who takes ownership of his or her life.

But if you are the protagonist, then why would you write such an unhappy ending? Why would you write yourself as the victim, and not victor? This comes back to your subconscious belief system. Somehow you developed the belief that unhappiness is what’s coming to you.

Words are powerful and many of the words in our stories were provided to us while we were growing up. If you were told you were smart, capable and able to accomplish anything, you probably would have written a glorious story for yourself. More than likely you were told something far less empowering and, as a result, life became an unhappy struggle. If that’s the case, you need to throw out your working draft and write a new, empowering and inspiring story for yourself.

The amazing thing about the human spirit and mind is the ability we have to transcend our past and rewrite our story. A story where we — the protagonist — are able to conquer adversity in whatever form it might take: physical, emotional or psychological.

I know, you’ve expended a great deal of effort into writing your story but it’s unlikely to become a bestseller. Besides, the ending is no longer acceptable.

Put a fresh sheet of paper on the table or open a blank page on your computer and get started. This is a new day and it’s time for a new story — an amazing empowering adventure.

As you’re writing this new story, consider the obstacles your main character might encounter on the journey to a new you. It may be judgmental friends or family, financial woes, the fear of judgement or personal doubt. Write yourself as the victor in each of these situations.

Allow your new character the courage and humility to ask for help. It may surprise you, but most people are quite happy to help. Only fear of judgement and the ego can hold you back. A character possessed of both courage and unwavering faith in a successful outcome will always push forward shattering old barriers and accepting new challenges on the road to victory.

Ensure your new character has a strong support network of friends and associates — people who will build them up rather than tear them down. Create accountability and a solid support system for those times when life gets tough and old storylines begin to assert themselves.

Set a specific timeframe for the unfolding of your new story. Track your progress. Break this new story into chapters and celebrate each victory at every stage of the journey.

Finally, believe in your new story wholeheartedly.

Be willing to invest as much faith into your new story as you did into the old. Remember, you were unwavering in your belief the old story was true. You made it a powerful reality. This new story is worthy of your best effort.

“We are shaped by our thoughts,” declared the Buddha. “We become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.”

What must you do for this new story to become true?

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.

DALY: Having ‘the talk’ There’s no foolproof formula for carrying out this assignment, but I’d suggest keeping the following principles in mind: ● Giving your child facts about reproduction doesn’t rob him of innocence. A school-age child who understands the specifics of sex, while seeing it as something that, in the proper context, both expresses love and begins new life, retains his innocence. But a child who knows very little about sex can already have a corrupt mindset if he’s been exposed to it in a degrading context. ● Don’t try to tell your child everything during a single marathon session. Details should be shared gradually over a period of several years. ● If your child asks questions you can’t answer, don’t become flustered. Be honest, and then do some research. You’ll gain far more stature in your child’s eyes by showing candor than by bluffing. ● The theme of your discussions should be the importance of respect — respect for our bodies, the wonders of reproduction, privacy in sexual matters and for the well-being of others. Along with providing the correct names and places of body parts, the mechanics of intercourse and the process of fertilization, you’ll want to emphasize that sex between one man and one woman — maintained within a marriage relationship to which both are committed for life — is not only the right context for the expression of sex, but the safest and most pleasurable.

For more help and a free copy of The Talk: Changing the Conversation, visit us at focusonthefamily.com/ havingthetalk.

Jim Daly is a husband and father, an author, and president of Focus on the Family and host of the Focus on the Family radio program. Catch up with him at www.jimdalyblog.com or at www.facebook.com/DalyFocus.

BROWN: Avoid being mom-judged Tears began to well up in his eyes and his feet become amazingly cemented to the spot in which he stood. The crazy, outgoing and oh, so funny kid who I had just been dealing with moments ago vanished. In his stead there was a meek little boy who was clearly overwhelmed. In a wavering voice as he pushed back tears with the palms of his hands, he whispered, “Mama please don’t leave me. I want you to watch.”

Well I sure as hell don’t have a heart filled of stinky blue cheese so, “No” was not an option. And as those words ventured into my earlobe, I immediately knew the next hour and a half was going to be tricky.

What I had: a little girl who as soon as she leapt off the gym floor was asking to leave, saying she was starving to death and so bored.

What I did not have: snacks, toys, a purse with odds and ends in it. Anything, really.

I could see the expert after-school-program moms looking at me and shaking their head as Sophie screamed and flailed on the floor five minutes into

NEW YORK — Pizza Hut is testing out a lighter pizza in two U.S. markets as it seeks to freshen up its menu and regain its footing against competitors.

The tests of the “Skinny Slice” pies began this week at several dozen restaurants in Toledo, Ohio, and West Palm Beach, Florida. The pies simply use less of the same dough used for regular pies and are lighter on the toppings, said Doug Terfehr, a Pizza Hut spokesman.

Several fast-food and restaurant chains have turned to lighter offerings over the years as a way to update their images, with varying degrees of success.

Burger King, for instance, recently said the majority of its U.S. restaurants would stop offering lower-calorie french fries less than a year after the so-called “Satisfries” were introduced.

The test by Pizza Hut comes as the chain fights to win back market share. Last year, Pizza Hut sales fell 2 per cent at U.S. locations open at least a year.

Domino’s, by contrast, saw the figure rise 5.4 per cent while Papa John’s saw sales rise 4 per cent in North America.

Darren Tristano, a restaurant analyst with industry tracker Technomic, noted that Pizza Hut may be suffering in part because it’s the biggest player and has the most to lose at a time when the pizza business overall is seeing moderate growth of about 2 per cent to 3 per cent a year.

But he also noted that the chain has failed to “evolve its product,” while Papa John’s has played up its quality and Domino’s improved its pizza. Pizza Hut is owned by Yum Brands Inc., which also owns Taco Bell and KFC. Pizza Hut’s test varies in the two markets. In Toledo, customers can create their own Skinny Slice pies with up to five toppings, with each slice having 300 calories or less.

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I was ready to throw the towel in and ditch the kid for a cocktail when a woman approached me. She slyly gave me a few toys she had stashed in her purse and a sweet that looked as though it had been living there for quite some time. But it wasn’t my place to be picky — we all know the saying. At that point, I was begging for all that I could get.

I gave the goods to the girl and she immediately settled. I turned my glance towards the woman once more and it was as if she had an omnipotent glow about her. She was my saviour. My after-school-program saviour.

After introducing myself and thanking her a-probably-creepy amount of times, she told me her name was Caroline. It was about that time Sophie started acting up again and Caroline dug in her purse of goodies to pull out a sparkly pipe cleaner for my girl to play with. A damn pipe cleaner! This woman is amazing! It took everything in me not to start serenading my new friend with the lyrics to Sweet Caroline. Because at this point “good times never did seem so good.”

After class, I thanked Caroline again and assured her I would come more prepared next time. She just shrugged, humbly laughed and added, “It happens to all of us!”

I realized then that if more of us moms were willing to lend a helping hand like Caroline rather than judge and criticize, this parenting thing would be a whole lot easier and less stressful. I know that next time I see a fellow parent struggling I will be the first to offer assistance.

Lindsay Brown is a Sylvan Lake mother of two and freelance columnist.

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Tyson resonates with songs evoking a simpler time He walked slowly and stiffly across the stage, like the former rodeo cowboy he is.

Then he started playing guitar, and the legendary Ian Tyson appeared a foot taller and at least a decade younger.

For a guy who will be 81 years old on Thursday, Tyson still clearly LANA held the power to dazzle a fullMICHELIN house audience at the Memorial Centre on Sunday night.

About 700 fans held onto his every lyric at a concert presented by the Central Music Festival Society. They even sang along to some songs written up to half a century ago, when the Alberta foothills were scarred by fewer roads and pump jacks.

It’s that more pristine, windswept Alberta of yore that Tyson is known for pining for in songs like Land of Shining Mountains, which mentions the “big Alberta sky” and the oil rigs that brought change.

The same wistful theme of disappearing wild and lost love continued when he performed Love Without End, The Wolves No Longer Sing, M.C. Horses, Fiddler Must Be Paid and the western standard Leaving Cheyenne.

Tyson, who was ably accompanied on stage by fellow guitarists Gord Maxwell and Lee Warden, had his smoother voice back, following throat surgery a couple of years ago. (“When the Calgary surgeon told me, ‘I think I can fix you,’ ” the affable singer joked, “I wondered what he meant by that. ...”)

Remarkably, his new-old voice retains a higher register. If not quite a resonant as it once was, the crowd

didn’t seem bothered, giving Tyson resounding applause for favourites such as This is My Sky, about shrieking hawks and romantic disappointment.

The black cowboy-hatted singer heard angry hawks on his Longview ranch just two weeks ago when a freak snowfall brought down some poplar trees containing their nests. “They were pretty pissed — and I don’t blame them,” he said, to some chuckles from the crowd.

His storytelling resumed on ballads Charles Goodnight’s Grave, about a pioneer trail driver from the 1860s, Casey Tibbs about the world champion bronc rider, and The Gift, about cowboy artist Charles Russell.

Tyson revealed he’s a big devotee of the latter. When 17 of the 20 Russell cowboy paintings originally exhibited at the first Calgary Stampede in 1912 were displayed in the Glenbow Museum during the Stampede’s 100th anniversary, Tyson said, “Corb Lund and I went four times. ... When you see (Russell’s) paintings ... well, it kind of gives me religion.”

Many of Tyson’s New Mexico-flavoured tunes also went over big with the audience, including Navajo Rug, The Road to Las Cruces and Rio Colorado, which was inspired by a river-rafting trip he took through the Grand Canyon. “The whole history of the world is on those cliffs,” he recalled.

The concert wasn’t half over before some fans began shouting out requests for old favourites. While Tyson seemed mildly irked at first, he eventually obliged with Someday Soon, “a song that’s paid a lot of alimony and child support, and given me some nice horses, too.” He also performed Summer Wages as an encore.

And can there ever be a Tyson concert without Four Strong Winds? I seriously doubt the crowd would let him leave the theatre.

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Ian Tyson on stage at the Memorial Centre on Sunday evening: his performance earned several standing ovations. were wiping their eyes by the end.

Many of the audience members who gave him several standing ovations were as old as Tyson — plaid-shirted farmers and ranchers who came with their cowboy hats or baseball caps planted firmly on their heads.

But a few were much younger, sporting trendy clothes and even rasta braids.

One group of younger siblings revealed they came in memory of their father, who passed away recently but was a huge Tyson follower. “This is a tribute to our Dad,” said the daughter.

It must also be a special tribute to Tyson that his music lives on through new generations. These younger Canadians never experienced the mythical West that Tyson paints in his songs of longing and regret — but really, nei-

ther did their parents when you think about it.

We all just wish we had.

How amazing that Tyson — who once admitted he’s always found songwriting difficult — is continuing to do it into his eighth decade, with a new album expected out soon.

The concert was opened by Red Deer singer /songwriter Elvin Berthiaume, who deserves to be better known, judging by his lovely, heartfelt tunes. They got a surprising boost when guitarist Amos Garrett showed up out of the blue to accompany his fishing buddy on stage.

The two veteran performers should make a habit of playing together — Garrett and Berthiaume were a terrific duo. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

Division Bell. Gilmour says in the release that the band “added new parts, rerecorded others and generally harnessed studio technology to make a 21st-century Pink Floyd album.”

musician David Bowie opens Tuesday at Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art, the only U.S. stop on its schedule.

David Bowie is features more than 400 items including photography, album artwork, original fashions, set designs and rare performance material.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You’ll understand your true value on a deeper level today.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): There is an opportunity for you to tap into past lessons with regards to work and how you present yourself in the public, to help you formulate a better, more practical plan going forward. Use today for some down time to think everything through properly.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You are likely to see the future in more of a positive light today. Your aims and your direction forward will need some practical implementation on organization, but all in all a wonderful day. Encourage friends to share their lessons with you, it will help you today!

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Skunks are known for the offensive spray they can emit when threatened. But Sgt. Jon Varley says an animal control officer was able to free the skunk without getting sprayed.

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Larisa Maira Ozolins is an internationally syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate.

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Dear Annie: I am a widow in my mid-70s never would have dreamed that I would and am comfortably well off. A year after be subsidizing a cruise for a boyfriend. my husband’s death, I moved to an apart- Frankly, I wouldn’t have either, but that’s ment in a smaller city in order to be clos- the situation. I don’t want to alienate her. er to my daughter’s family. However, they What’s your advice? – Sugar Momma have their own lives and rarely include me Dear Momma: Your daughter needs rein anything except holiday dinners. None of assurance that Mom is not being taken adthe fun things I envisioned dovantage of, and that you aren’t ing with my grandchildren has spending all of your money on happened, and I don’t have any some guy. Please let her know old friends in the new city. that you love her and your new I did meet a widower, “Jim,” relationship won’t change that. at a church social. We share a If you have promised money to lot of common interests and enthe kids’ college funds, reassure joy going out to dinner and movher that you won’t use the monies together. The only downside ey to splurge on Jim. is that Jim lives entirely on his But also tell her that you are Social Security check, so I altoo young to sit at home. Surely ways pay my own way on our she wants you to be happy in “dates.” My daughter says Jim a way that doesn’t require her is after my money, which may to provide your entertainment. be true, but then sometimes I If she hasn’t met Jim, please MITCHELL think she is, too. She’s always introduce them so she can see & SUGAR asking how much money is in what a good companion he is for the grandchildren’s college you. We also recommend you funds and whether I am dipping try to meet some female friends, into it to pay my expenses. because your entire social life Jim and I are thinking of takshouldn’t be dependent on one ing a Mediterranean cruise in which we man. would share a cabin and I would pay for 75 Dear Annie: I am a 9-year-old boy who percent of the combined cost, based on the needs your help with my 14-year-old brothfact that my yearly income is three times er. He sometimes gets emotional and makes his. We have already taken some short fun of me and has mood swings. He is havweekend trips and got on very well. ing minor problems in school and says that My daughter is livid. I say it’s my money all the other students look up to him. I reand my business. She said that her father ally care about him.

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KOKARAM Randolph Claudius April 18, 1942 - Sept. 20, 2014 Randolph “Randy” Kokaram died peacefully at Red Deer Regional Hospital, surrounded by family. Randy was born and raised in Fyzabad, Trinidad and Tobago, born to Cecil Claude and Milcah Kokaram, brother to Sheila, Alex, Annie, Barbara, Isabella, Peter, Michael, Ezekiel and Ruth. He came to Canada on September 17, 1968, worked in the NWT, completed a B.Ed. (University of Alberta) and settled in Red Deer (1976) and taught for over 25 years at Lindsay Thurber Comprehensive High School. Randy was survived by his wife, Sherry Allison, son, Ryan, daughters, Racqel and Roxy, son-in-law, Andrew Kirk, grandchildren, Rylee, Caleb, Annaliese, Jaimeson and Christopher, as well as many nephews and nieces.

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PHILLIPS Laurie 1926 - 2014 Laurie Phillips of Red Deer, passed away peacefully at Bethany CollegeSide, Red Deer to be with his Lord and Saviour, on Saturday, September 20, 2014 at the age of 88 years. He was born in Allan, Saskatchewan on May 2, 1926. Starting at the age of 17, Laurie proudly served in the Royal Canadian Navy and continued after the war in different capacities for 3 years. Upon moving to Red Deer, he spent most of his working years at Northwestern Utilities until he retired in 1982, enjoying many years with his family and friends until his passing.

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CLASSIFICATIONS 5000-5240

PROVIDENCE Trucking Inc Req’s and experienced

Picker Operator

All candidates must be able to pass a pre-employment drug screen. We offer exceptional wages and benefits for exceptional people. Fax resume and abstract to 403-314-2340 or email to safety@ providencetrucking.ca

SERVICE RIG

Bearspaw Petroleum Ltd is seeking LEASEHAND & DRILLER Locally based, home every night! Qualified applicants

must have all necessary valid tickets for the position being applied for.

Bearspaw offers a very competitive salary and benefits package along with a steady work schedule.

Please submit resumes: Attn: Human Resources Email: payroll@bearspawpet.com Fax: (403) 252-9719 or Mail to: Suite 5309, 333-96 Ave. NE Calgary, AB T3K 0S3

SITE SAFETY SERVICES INC.

Currently accepting resumes for the following:

Growing oilfield company req’s F/T seasonal BOILER OPERATORS for projects in NE. BC, and Central AB. Fly in camp jobs as well as local. Exc. pay, safety bonuses and retention bonuses.

Candidates require H2S, standard first aid, PST & equivilant and current boiler tickets. Equipment exp. is also an asset. Work scheduled to start within the month. Please forward resumes to careers@gtchandler.com or fax 403-886-2223. Successful applicants will be contacted for interview.

EXP’D CLASS 1 DRIVER REQ’D.

Class 1 is a must and picker exp. would be an asset. Oilfield exp. preferred. Will require H2S and First Aid Certificate.

This position is F/T days only in the Stettler area.

Salary to commensurate with experience. Please send resumes to: lornemurfitt@telus.net.

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RECEPTIONIST POSITION

Description: Our Group operates several properties in Alberta in the Hotel & Entertainment Industry.

The Head Office in Red Deer is currently looking for a Receptionist who is also able to provide support to the CEO as well as being a resource to the administrative/accounting staff in the office.

Key Responsibilities: • Maintain Calendar & emails • Coordinate meetings • Coordinate travel arrangements • Prepare correspondence as required • Process & Sort Mail • Process Bank Deposits • Answer Phones • Manage Front End Duties • Manage Visa receipts • Data Entry as required This is a full time position with a competitive salary and benefits package. Hours will be MondayFriday from 8:00am to 5:00pm, with a 1 hour lunch.

Please email your resume and cover letter to mscott@willinns.com or Fax to 403-309-3505

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Now accepting applications for LOADER OPERATOR for fly in campwork in NE. BC. Duties include refueling light towers and generators. No removal. Working with pipe and other small tasks. Rig or completion exp. an asset. Exc. pay, safety bonuses and possibility for year round work. Please forward resumes to careers@gtchandler.com or fax 403-886-2223. Successful applicants will be contacted for interview.

NOW HIRING

Well Testing Personnel Experienced Supervisors & Operators Must have valid applicable tickets. Email: lstouffer@ testalta.com

Clerical

SENIOR H2S SAFETY SUPERVISORS: Minimum 3 year’s safety experience on Drilling and Service Rigs.

Send resume and certificates to sitesafe@telusplanet.net or fax to: 403-887-8864

SWAMPERS

for busy oilfield trucking company. Top wages Fax resume to: 403-346-6128, Attn: Pierre No phone calls please!

ZUBAR Production Services

is currently taking resumes for experienced Production Testing Personnel Email resume to: rdzubaroffice@telus.net or fax to (403)346-9420.

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ACCOUNTS PAYABLE/ DATA ENTRY CLERK Description: To process purchase orders and vendor invoices on a timely basis and in accordance with company policy and procedures. To enter data from various source documents into the computer system for storage, processing and data management purposesd.

Key Responsibilities Accounts Payable: • Match purchase orders confirming prices and quantity to vendors’ invoices; • Verify receipt of material or services/confirmation of receipt of material or services; • Check accuracy of employee reimbursement expenses before processing; • Enter invoices into accounting system for payment inquiries and discrepencies; • Respond to vendors inquiries in a timely and professional manner; • Process cheque runs accoring to company policy; Key Responsibilities Data Entry: • Prepare, compile and sort documents for data entry • Check source document for accuracy • Verify data and correct data where necessary • Obtain further information for incomplete documents • Check completed work for accuracy Experience withg Simply Accounting is an asset and the candidates should have prior accounts payable experience.

Personality should be friendly and outgoing, as well as have the ability to build relationships with the key employees and business contacts of the different properties we operate.

This is a full-time position with competitive salary and benefits package. Hours will be Monday-Friday from 8:00am to 5:00pm, with 1 hour lunch.

Please email your resume and cover letter to mscott@willinns.com or Fax to 403-309-3505

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STORESMART Self-Storage

is now hiring for the following position!

Assistant Manager (Full Time 40 hrs/week)

TANKMASTER RENTALS req’s Exp’d Class 1 Fluid Haulers for Central Alberta. Oilfield tickets req’d. Competitive salary and job bonuses. Resume to terry@tankmaster.ca or fax 403-340-8818

For job descriptions and how to apply, go to www.StoreSmart.ca/jobs.

No phone calls please.

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BIG HORN ELECTRIC and CONTROLS LTD.

TANKMASTER RENTALS req’s SHOP LABOURER for Central Alberta.

Oilfield related work, some long hours req’d. Oilfield tickets are an asset.

Competitive salary. Resume to terry@tankmaster.ca or fax 403-340-8818

Professionals

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IT NETWORK ADMINISTRATOR Full Time in Red Deer, min 5 year verifiable hands on experience. Criminal Security check and own reliable vehicle required.

Full comprehensive benefits and vehicle allowance provided.

Please reply by email to stevel@telus.net or by fax 403-309-3920

Restaurant/ Hotel

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Rattray Reclamation Ltd is currently seeking an experienced backhoe operator with a clean and valid class 1 license preferably 3 years experience to work in the Lacombe and surrounding areas. Duties will include lease construction, lease cleanups and reclamation.

Valid H2s, Ground Disturbance, and First aid tickets are a must.

Competitive wages and benefits available Please email resume to drattray@rattrayrec.com.

Or fax to (403)-934-5235 No phone calls please.

Service Plumbing & Heating is looking for experienced residential and commercial service technician with current Alberta gas/plumbing ticket. Benefit package after 3 months, wages based on experience.

Email: info@serviceplumbing.ca or fax to (403) 342-2025

Now Recruiting Electrical and Instrumentation Journeyman and Apprentices Req’d QUALIFICATIONS H2S Alive / First Aid CSTS or PST / Fall Protection Valid Driver’s Licence Oilfield Experience Will Require a Pre-Employment Drug & Alcohol Screening SEND RESUMES TO FAX: 403-638-3688 OR EMAIL: careers@ bighornelectric.com

IS NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR THE FOLOWING POSITIONS:

Equipment Operator/Truck Driver

Q Endorsement preferred.

Competitive Wages & Benefits.

Fax resumes & ref’s to: 403-343-1248 or email to: admin@shunda.ca TERROCO INDUSTRIES JOB OPPORTUNITY: Heavy duty mechanic/ apprentice. Red Deer.

Engine/truck and trailer experience necessary. hr@terroco.com Fax 403-346-9720

Truckers/ Drivers

TURNAROUND PLANNER /SCHEDULER

Applicants Qualifications should Include: JJAM Management (1987) -Knowledge of planning Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s systems Requires to work at these -Must have shut down/ Red Deer, AB locations: Turnaround experience 5111 22 St. -Journeyman trade 37444 HWY 2 S certification - preferably a 37543 HWY 2N boilermaker, pipefitter, or 700 3020 22 St. welder with extensive FOOD ATTENDANT experience an asset Req’d permanent shift weekend day and evening -MS programs experience -Exceptional organizational both full and part time.

16 Vacancies, $10.88/hr. + and problem solving skills with the ability to be benefits. Start ASAP. flexible in managing Job description priorities as they change www.timhortons.com Education and experience -Strong communication, interpersonal and not req’d. leadership skills Apply in person or fax resume to: 403-314-1303 -Self-starter who is able to produce quality work with JJAM Management (1987) minimal supervision and Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s guidance Requires to work at these -Detail oriented Red Deer, AB locations: 5111 22 St. SAFETY WATCH 37444 HWY 2 S -Clean class 5 drivers 37543 HWY 2N license 700 3020 22 St. -Good comprehension and Manager/Food Services communication skills Permanent P/T, F/T shift.

-Good reading and writing Wknd, day, night & eves. skills Start date ASAP. $18/hr. 40 - Good vision/hearing hrs/week, + benefits , - H2S Alive 1 Vacancy, 3-5 yrs. exp., - PST/CSTS criminal record check req’d. -Standard First Aid/CPR Req’d education some sec- -Confined space entry/ ondary. Apply in person or monitor fax resume to: -Fall protection 403-314-1303 For full job description visit www.

Email: resumes timhortons.com @newcartcontracting.com Fax: 1-403-729-2396 SERVER -CUSTOMER Email all COUNTER - F/T safety and trade tickets Duties: Take customer orders, portion raw food, NEEDED F/T Service Person package take-out orders, for after sales service and handle cleaning & store set up of manufactured cleaning products, stock and modular home. Must fridge, & collect money have exp. in roofing, siding, from costumer. $11.89/hr. flooring, drywall, paint etc., 5 days/wk. Must be avail.

Competitive wages and on weekends & holidays. health plan avail. Apply to Paula @ 403-347-8001 James at M & K Homes, 403-346-6116

THE OPEN RANGE SALOON in Sylvan Lake req’s Line Cooks. Full or Part time with Food Safety.

Please contact Nancy 403-887-3033 or 403-887-3465 Buying or Selling your home?

Check out Homes for Sale in Classifieds

Restaurant/ Hotel

NEEDED IMMED. FOR manufacturing company in Blackfalds JOURNEYMAN WELDERS Competitive wages and benefits package.

Email resume to: info@prolineinc.ca SHOP HELP AND/OR APPRENTICE MECHANIC REQ’D IMMED. Truck exp. preferred.

8:30-5. 15 mi. E. of Blackfalds. Fax: 403-784-2330 Phone: 403-784-3811

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2-GOOD OILFIELD SERVICES is currently seeking CLASS 1 TANK TRUCK & PRESSURE TRUCK OPERATORS. Base salary + bonuses.

Great benefits pkg after 3 mo.

Please fax resume & drivers abstract to: 403-346-3766

Owner Operators & Contract Drivers

in AB. Home the odd night.

Weekends off. Late model tractor pref. 403-586-4558 CLASS 1 DRIVER with super B and grain hauling experience for Central AB. Call Wayne 403-341-9113

APPLIANCE DELIVERY DRIVER Family owned and operated, Trail Appliances continues to grow and due to this, we are looking to expand our delivery department. We are currently looking for an experienced Delivery Driver to work out of our Red Deer Warehouse located at #6 4622 61 St., Riverside Industrial District

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is looking for CLASS 1 BOOM TRUCK PICKER OPERATORS, BED TRUCK DRIVERS & WINCH TRUCK DRIVERS to join our growing company.

Competitive wages and benefits. Must pass preemployment substance screening. Fax or email resumes, drivers abstract & safety tickets 403-346-8992 admin@garnetstrucking.com No phone calls.

NEED EXPERIENCED Class 1 drivers for short and long haul. Full Time.

Runs AB., SASK, Manitoba & BC. Please call PROMAX TRANSPORT at 227-2712 or fax resume w/abstract 403-227-2743

GASOLINE ALLEY LOCATION FULL TIME and PART TIME SHIFTS AVAILABLE

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• Very Competitive Wages • Advancement Opportunities With medical Benefits • Paid training • Paid Breaks

Busy road construction company looking for Labourers AND flag persons. Work is throughout Alberta. Must have a Class 5 license. Fax resume to 403-309-0489

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Class 3 Driver

We offer competitive wages based on oilfield experience, benefits after 3 months. You are required to pass the pre-employment substance screening.

Please email or fax your resume & safety tickets to: humanresources@ phoenixrentals.ca Fax: 403-346-4177

880 CEA AIR

(Custom Energized Air Ltd) a respected leader in the pneumatics industry is GROWING AGAIN and we are looking for:

Exp’d Industrial Inside Sales /Order Desk Personnel

DAIRY equipment supplier The Company provides a looking for a detail oriented comprehensive and SHIPPER/RECEIVER competitive benefit Clean Class 5 req. program including such Competitive wage and things as: benefits package. Email resume: lindsay@ • Medical & Dental prolineinc.ca benefit Program • Flex days DISPATCHER REQ’D. • Stat holidays off Knowledge of Red Deer • Paid vacation time off and area is essential.

• Employee & Family Verbal and written Assistance Program communication skills are • Referral Incentives req’d. Send resume by fax • Employee discounts to 403-346-0295 • Boot Allowance

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SHIPPING/RECEIVING MANAGER: Shipping/Receiving experience required.

Looking for self-motivated individual with reliable transportation. Duties include inventory and accurate order fulfillment, warehouse organization, Some lifting 40LBS. 12 volt wiring or automotive a/v knowledge a plus. Please email resume to: zdcdn@ zonedefensetruck.com or fax to: 403-340-0900

OCTOBER START!

SPA Technician needed for delivery and maintenance of hot tubs.

Fax resume to 403-309-5550 or email arcticspa@telus.net

wanted for busy dealership, possible chance for advancement into apprenticeship.

Must have drivers license.

Fax resume to 341-5066 Accepting registrations for

6 mo. Community Support Worker Program AND

GED Program

Funding may be available.

403-340-1930

TRACTION Heavy Duty Parts Red Deer is looking for Parts Counter Clerks with previous heavy vehicle experience to join our great team. We provide a very competitive wage plus bonus, benefits and pension. Those interested are encouraged to apply instore at 8045 Edgar Industrial Crescent or by email to jwatts@uapinc.com

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Employment Training

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OCTOBER START!

Accepting registrations for

6 mo. Community Support Worker Program AND

GED Program

Funding may be available.

403-340-1930

Academic Express

Adult Education & Training www.academicexpress.ca

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TRY Central Alberta LIFE SERVING CENTRAL ALBERTA RURAL REGION

CALL 309-3300

CARRIERS REQUIRED To deliver the CENTRAL AB LIFE 1 day a week in: Eckville Bowden Olds Sylvan Lake Please call Debbie for details 403-314-4307

Celebrate your life with a Classified ANNOUNCEMENT

INGLEWOOD & MORRISROE Adult Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the

WAREHOUSE

Seeking individual with inventory control, shipping, receiving, computer entry and forklift experience. Pleasant working environment with competitive wages and benefit program including RRSP plan, Health, Dental and Life Insurance.

Fax or email resume to:

Kemper Valve & Fittings Corp Fax: 847-487-9354 Email: HR@ kempervalve.com

RED DEER ADVOCATE 6 Days a week!

Delivery to be done on/or before 6:30 am For More Information, Please call Prodie Phone 403-314-4301 NEWSPAPER CARRIERS NEEDED For Afternoon Delivery Wednesday, Thursday & Friday

BOWER AREA

CELEBRATIONS HAPPEN EVERY DAY IN CLASSIFIEDS

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PARTS TECHNICIAN We are looking for WANTED. Trochu Motors LANDSCAPE LABOURERS to work on residential and is seeking a customer oriented and responsible commercial properties in individual to join our parts Red Deer and surrounding area. team. Prior experience in Main duties to include: the industry would be an - Laying sod, spreading top asset but not a must. soil, plant flowers, grass, Applicants must have trees and shrubs. organizational skills, basic - Cut grass, rake, fertilize, computer skills and the water, prune trees and shrubs. ability to multi-task in a -In snow season, we fast-paced environment. require snow removal.

We are looking forward to No formal education or add to our growing dealerexperience necessary. ship. Please Apply in Full time/Seasonal posiperson at 102 Eckenfelder tion. Weather dependant St. Trochu, Alberta. Fax Wage: $16.51 per hour/44 (403) 442-3829 or by email hours per week Email wmtn@inbox.com resume to: erika.skalozub @bg-rd.com Phone: 403-347-7211 RESIDENTIAL APT Fax: 403-342-7488 Att: Erika MANAGER 23 suite apt. complex.

Live-in role. Responsibilities incl. cleaning, maintenance, Advocate yard care, administration.

Opportunities Fax to 403-346-5786

TOO MUCH STUFF? Let Classifieds help you sell it.

WE are currently looking for experienced

Winch Truck Driver

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LUBE TECH

Adult Education & Training www.academicexpress.ca

ENROLL TODAY!

Bunn Cres.

Baile Close Boyce Street Byer Close Barrett Drive Bell Street Baker Ave. Broughton Cres.

Brookes Cres. Beatty Cres.

Classes Starting Soon!

For more information or to apply, please call Ashley at the Red Deer Advocate 403-314-4316

Medical Office Assistant / Unit Clerk

Adult Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the

On-site work experience Unit Clerk Specialty curriculum Under one-year full Diploma program Planning for a Successful Career Seminar Nationally recognized Medical Assisting First Aid / CPR Training Professional Certificate Hospital Scrubs included Train with Industry experts Perfect graduate job placement rate reported last year

RED DEER ADVOCATE Monday through Saturday.

Delivery to be done on/or before 6:30 am.

Reliable vehicle needed.

EASTVIEW AREA

$605/mo.

Call Today (403) 347-6676 2965 Bremner Avenue, Red Deer

www.academyoflearning.ab.ca

For More Information, please call For More informaiton, please call Jamie 403-314-4306 NEWSPAPER CARRIERS NEEDED For Afternoon Delivery 3 Days/Week (Wed., Thurs. & Fri.)

Advocate Opportunities

CARRIERS REQUIRED To deliver the

CENTRAL AB LIFE & LACOMBE EXPRESS GAETZ SOUTH

1 day a week in:

F/T P/T MEAT CUTTER. Apply within 5111 22nd St. Red Deer

LACOMBE BLACKFALDS Please call Rick for details 403-314-4303

KENTWOOD Kerr Close & Kingston Dr. also Kendrew Dr. NORMANDEAU Northey Ave, Nivens St. & Norwest Cl. For more information or to apply call Joanne at the Red Deer Advocate 403-314-4308

CARRIERS NEEDED GAETZ SOUTH FT/PT CASHIERS Apply within 5111 22nd St. Red Deer

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Classified Advertising Phone/Front Counter Sales Maternity Leave Position

Now Hiring

Labourers, Flag Persons & Operators

Academic Express

for our Red Deer Branch A mechanical aptitude and /or knowledge in pneumatics is an asset. Compensation is negotiable depending on experience, includes health plan.

The ideal candidate will: We look forward to hearing from you; please submit be able to maneuver resumes to: merchandise in excess del.trynchuk@cea-air.com of 100lbs possess exceptional DAIRY equipment supplier customer service skills looking for enjoy working within a GENERAL LABORERS diverse team For our parts & service dept. hold a valid driver’s Competitive wages and license and a clear benefits package. E-mail drivers abstract resume: info@prolineinc.ca

Trail is always looking for people who want opportunities to grow, take initiative and work well within a team environment.

Launch your career with a well-known and respected company. Become a part of the successful Trail team by submitting a resume to reddeerjobs@ trail-appliances.com or by fax to 403-347-3314.

A security check will be conducted on successful candidates. We thank all interested applicants, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

GREENHOUSE WORKER wanted at Meadowbrook Greenhouses, Penhold.

26 Full Time Seasonal Positions. No Exp, training provided. Starting Feb 2015. $10.20/hr, 44 hrs, 5 days per week, 3 month period. Fax resume to 403-886-2252.

CLASS 1 or 3 drivers req’d for moving equipment.

Resumes to be dropped off at Key Towing. 4083-78 St. Cres. Red Deer.

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Sales & Distributors

Apply in person or send resume to: Email:kfcjobsrd@yahoo.ca or Fax: (403) 341-3820

CENTRAL AB based trucking company requires

GARNET’S OILFIELD TRUCKING

Requires Full Time

F/T SATELLITE INSTALLERS - Good hours, home every night, $4000-$6000/mo.

Contractor must have truck or van. Tools, supplies & ladders required. Training provided, no experience needed. Apply to: satjobs@shaw.ca

P/T Bakery Evening Staff Apply within 5111 22nd St. Red Deer

Carpenters & Apprentices

SHUNDA CONSTRUCTION

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GAETZ SOUTH

Requires Full Time

Competitive Wages & Benefits.

Fax resumes & ref’s to: 403-343-1248 or email to: admin@shunda.ca

CRYSTAL GLASS needs EXP’ D GLASS INSTALLER. In house training provided. Benefits and company uniforms after 3 months. Drop off resume at: 4706-51 Avenue or fax 346-5390 or email: branch208@crystalglass.ca

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Truckers/ Drivers

F/T TRUCK drivers req’d.

Minimum Class 5 with air and clean abstract. Exp. preferred. In person to Key Towing 4083-78 St. Cres.

Red Deer.

SHUNDA CONSTRUCTION

INT. PAINTERS NEEDED Min. 3 yrs exp. $20-25/hr.

Call 403-342-1441

GLENN’S RESTAURANT NEEDS F/T EVENING EXPERIENCED COOKS Start at $18/hr with bonuses and tip-out benefits.

Apply in person or phone 403-346-5448 for appointment or email: glenrest@telus.net

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Oilfield

The Classified Department has a one year Maternity leave position available. This is a part time position averaging 3 days / 22.5 hours per week. Monday, Thursday & Friday 9 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. The person selected will also occasionally be required to work full time for staff holiday relief.

The successful candidate will be responsible for the sale of classified advertising in the Red Deer Advocate and associated community papers, both over the phone and at the front counter.

You will provide assistance to customers’ inquiries; as well as close of day balancing procedures, sale of newspapers and general customer service duties. This position requires computer skills, knowledge of Word and Excel programs and excellent command of the English language with above average spelling. The ability to multitask, work well on a team and be self-motivated is essential.

We are looking for someone to join our team in October 2014 for paid training with the maternity leave commencing early December (possibly earlier).

If you are interested, please send your resume

by October 1, 2014 to: prstamm@reddeeradvocate.com or drop off at the Front Counter of the Red Deer Advocate, 2950 Bremner Ave.

FOR FLYERS, FRIDAY FORWARD & EXPRESS

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Friday Forward ONLY 3 DAYS A WEEK in CLEARVIEW AREA Clearview Ridge Area $172/mo GRANDVIEW AREA

3 days per week, no weekends ROUTES IN:

ANDERS AREA Alexander Cres.

Addinel Close Allsop Close Anquetel/Atlee Close INGLEWOOD AREA Isherwood Close Illingworth Close

3900 to 4400 blocks of 40A Ave., 2 blocks of 41 Ave, and 1 block of 39, 46 & 47 St. $71/mo.

Issard Close MORRISROE AREA Metcalf Ave

ROSEDALE AREA

SUNNYBROOK AREA Stirling Close/Sherwod Cres.

West end of Robinson Cres., Ryan Cl., Rich Cl., & Rabbis St. $71.30/mo ALSO Roberts Cres. $53.64/mo

LANCASTER AREA Lancaster Drive Lamb Close VANIER AREA Vanier Drive

WOODLEA AREA

Vanson Close Viscount Drive

47A Ave, & part of 55, 56 & 57 St. $134./mo.

For More Information Call Jamie at the Red Deer Advocate 403-314-4306

Vold Close Call Prodie @ 403- 314-4301 for more info **********************

TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 403-314-4300

RED DEER ADVOCATE Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2014 D3

Mexico says power at 19 per cent in Los Cabos, as Hurricane Odile death toll rises to 5

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS CABOS, Mexico — Authorities in northwestern Mexico were struggling to get power back on in the resort zone of Los Cabos a week after Hurricane Odile barrelled through, saying Monday that electricity had been restored to 19 per cent of customers in the area.

The news was better from other communities along the Baja California Peninsula where Odile hit with less force: The lights were back on for 95 per cent in the northern part of Baja California Sur state, and 90 per cent in the state capital of La Paz, according to the Federal Commission of Electricity, or FCE. Meanwhile the Tourism Department said in a statement that nearly 27,000

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Auctions

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Garden Supplies

MASSIVE JOINT RESTAURANT EQUIPMENT AUCTION

Saturday, Sept. 27th @ 10am PDT 7305 Meadow Ave Burnaby, BC Selling New & Used Restaurant Equipment Including several Restaurant Closures On-Line bidding Bidspotter.com www.montgomeryauctions.com www.kwikauctions.com 1-800-371-6963

RIMBEY TREES Large variety of trees for sale.

Planting available.

Fall Specials!

Call Walter, 403-748-3611

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Household Appliances

people had been airlifted out on more than 200 special flights. It added that the heavily damaged Los Cabos International Airport was expected to resume normal operations starting Oct. 8.

Odile roared onshore in the southern tip of the peninsula late Sept. 14 as a Category 3 hurricane, devastating homes, stores and businesses.

Interior Secretary Miguel Angel Osorio Chong has said “practically not a single power pole” was left standing in Los Cabos, making re-establishing the electrical grid a daunting task.

The FCE said Monday that 3,900 employees were working in Baja California Sur to restore power, and 280 emergency generators were being used to provide the most essential services.

The previous day, authorities announced that the body of a drowned man had been found in a mangrove

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Cats

2 BALINESE KITTENS & 2 BERMAN KITTENS $50/ea. 403-887-3649

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Dogs

FRIDGE, Kenmore 21 cu ft. 8 yrs. old, black, $150 o.b.o. 403-343-2754 GE Washer & Dryer Super C. comm. quality $500. 358-1614

Household Furnishings

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MISSION OAK STYLE COUCH ~ Dark green upholstery. $100. 403-340-2452

WANTED

Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514

HIGH QUALITY LABRADOODLES and GOLDEN DOODLE pups Long time Breeder, text 306-521-1371 www.furtettishfarm.ca Looking for a new pet?

Check out Classifieds to find the purrfect pet.

Sporting Goods

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Houses/ Duplexes

LACOMBE 2 bdrm. 1 1/2 bath, $1295 immed. poss.

403-782-7156 357-7465

Condos/ Townhouses

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3 BDRM, 1.5 bath townhouse for over 40 yr old employed tenants. 6appls, private yard & parking, 1 small pet with additional Sec. Dep. of $500.

Quiet people, no drugs, no partiers, no police etc.

At #9, 15 Stanton Street, Sunnybrook. Rent & S.D. $1400/mo. 403-341-4627.

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

A man stands on top of a collapsed warehouse, looking for building material to salvage after Hurricane Odile destroyed his home in San Jose de los Cabos, Mexico, Sept. 18, 2014. thicket near La Paz, raising to five the number of deaths attributed to the storm. He was identified as a 45-yearold British tourist whose wife also died.

Police and military were patrolling

Suites

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SUNNYBROOK

2 bdrm. Water & heat incld, clean and quiet, great location, no pets.

403-346-6686

THE NORDIC

1 & 2 bdrm. adult building, N/S. No pets.

403-596-2444

Rooms For Rent

1580

M only. Call 403-396-2468

Offices

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2000 SQ.FT. OFFICE, 4836 51 Street. ~ Kitson Close Parking is avail. $1800/mo. ~ Kyte & Kelloway Cres.

403-343-9300 ~ Holmes St. S.D. $1000 Rent $1245 to $1445 Warehouse 3 bdrm. townhouses, 1.5 bath, 4 & 5 appls., blinds, Space lrg. balconies, no dogs.

SHOP/OFFICE, 1500 sq. ft.

N/S, no utils. incl. avail. $1000 Phil 403-350-0479 Sept. 15 & Oct. 1 References required.

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Lots For Sale

Attn: Builders

Blackfalds. Duplex lots avail. for Sept. 30. Info call 403-304-5555

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Cars

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2012 FORD Fusion SE 2003 F350 7.3L Diesel, 10,000 kms, $15,000 obo FX4 Lariat, 283,000 kms., must sell 403-340-0558 $14,000.obo 403-704-3714

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MORRISROE MANOR

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To Advertise Your Business or Service Here

Call Classifieds 403-309-3300 Accounting

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INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp. with oilÀeld service companies, other small businesses and individuals RW Smith, 346-9351

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Eavestroughing

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GUTTERS CLEANED & REPAIRED. 403-391-2169

FANTASY

VELOX EAVESTROUGH Cleaning & Repairs.

Reasonable rates. 340-9368

International ladies

WINDOW / EAVESTROUGH CLEANING. Free quotes, 403-506-4822

MASSAGE

Now Open

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Roofing

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HELPING HANDS

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2007 BOUNDER Class A. Lots of extras. Gas Ford Workhorse. New windshield & batteries. 64,800 km. $72,000. 403-391-1721

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If you have a claim against this estate, you must Àle your claim by October 23, 2014 with

TARA MALONEY

at 5700 Woodland Road Innisfail, AB T4G 1E3 and provide details of your claim.

If you do not Àle by the date above, the estate property can lawfully be distributed without regard to any claim you may have.

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Ernest Murray McEachern who died on June 2, 2014

If you have a claim against this estate, you must Àle your claim by

Oct. 30, 2014

and provide details of your claim with Patricia E.B. MacSween Barrister & Solicitor at 4824 51 Street, Red Deer AB T4N 2A5.

If you do not Àle by the date above, the estate property can lawfully be distributed without regard to any claim you may have.

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2007 HONDA Civic LX Coupe $8250. 403-304-4817 2011 HARLEY Sportster $10,000 403-598-4131

2006 VW Jetta TDI 137,000 kms, fully loaded,sunroof, diesel, auto, $10,000 403-346-1392 340-9068

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2010 DODGE RAM 3500, loaded SLT, white, 4x4, S/B, 60,600 kms., $3900.

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2007 SATURN AURA. Loaded, 1 owner, exc. cond.

86,000 km. Never winter driven $10,500. 403-391-3820

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TAKE NOTICE THAT: The Plaintiffs WANDA LEE HODGSON and HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN IN RIGHT OF ALBERTA issued a Statement of Claim numbered 1410-000209 in the Office of the Clerk of the Court of Queen’s Bench of Alberta, Red Deer, Alberta on February 14, 2014 against the Defendants ALBERT’S (RED DEER ) LTD., 819658 ALBERTA LTD., ALBERT’S RESTAURANTS LTD., MARLOWE-YEOMAN LIMITED, ABC CO. operating as ALBERT’S FAMILY RESTAURANT AND LOUNGE and XYZ CO. operating as MURPH’S PUB AND GRILL. The Plaintiffs allege, inter alia, that they have suffered injuries, losses and damages as a consequence of an assault that occurred on February 18, 2012.

You have been named as a Third Party to the Action by the Defendants Albert’s (Red Deer) Ltd. and Albert’s Restaurants Ltd. (collectively, “Albert’s”).

Albert’s alleges, inter alia, that if the assault occurred as alleged in the Plaintiffs’ Statement of Claim or otherwise, it occurred solely and entirely because of your intentional and unforeseeable act.

Albert’s seeks indemnity and/or contribution from you for any amounts that Albert’s is ultimately liable to pay to the Plaintiffs in this Action. Albert’s has obtained leave of the Court of Queen’s Bench of Alberta to substitutionally serve you with the Third Party Claim by way of this publication in the Red Deer Advocate. A copy of the Statement of Claim, Albert’s Statement of Defence and the Third Party Claim may be obtained from Albert’s solicitor, Jennifer Biernaskie of McLennan Ross LLP. If you intend to appear in the Action, you should immediately file, or instruct legal counsel to file, a Third Party Statement of Defence or Demand For Notice to the Third Party Claim in the Office of the Clerk of the Court of Queen’s Bench of Alberta, Red Deer, Alberta. This Demand for Notice or Third Party Statement of Defence should be filed within 30 days.

Dated 12 September, 2014 451009I25

CLERK OF THE COURT

D4 RED DEER ADVOCATE Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2014

Offensive poses problems for Turkey TENS OF THOUSANDS SYRIAN REFUGEES FLEE ISLAMIC STATE GROUP’S OFFENSIVE

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SURUC, Turkey — Fierce fighting Monday between the Islamic State militant group and Kurdish forces just over the border in Syria brought the battle closer to Turkey, triggering a surge of tens of thousands of refugees and raising pressure for the government to step up efforts to take on the Sunni extremists.

Turkey is resisting because it fears that arming Kurdish men to fight the group could complicate peace talks with Turkish insurgents within its own borders.

The Islamic State group’s offensive against the Syrian city of Kobani, a few miles from the border, has sent 130,000 refugees to seek safety in Turkey in the last few days. The conflict in Syria had already led to more than 1 million people flooding over the border in the past 3 ½ years.

But in addition to the refugee crisis, hundreds of Kurds in and around this city near the frontier have clashed with Turkish police, who fired tear gas and water cannons. The Kurds say Turkey is hampering their efforts to let them cross into Syria and help their brethren.

An 18-year-old Turkish citizen in Suruc said he wanted to join the Kurdish fighters in Syria. He identified himself only by his first name of Azam for fear of reprisal from authorities.

“The Islamic State is on the other side of the border and moving freely, slaughtering people, but they are just sitting and watching,” he said of the Turkish authorities.

“If I get a chance to get a weapon, I’ll go to help our brothers by end of the day,” he said. “Kobani is our land, too, and people there are our people.”

Syrian Kurdish fighters were crossing back and forth over the border, while other Syrian Kurds were seen selling livestock to raise money for weapons.

Not far away on the border, the black flag of the Islamic State could be seen flying in a captured Syrian village along with the smoke from mortar fire.

Spillover from the Syria poses a problem for Turkey. The only local fighters capable of resisting the Islamic State group are Syrian Kurds aligned with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, which has fought a three-decade insurgency in southeastern Turkey.

Turkish officials have said PKK militants from Turkey are streaming to Syria to join the fight. The conflict in Syria already is inflaming tensions with Turkish Kurds and could undermine peace talks with the PKK. Turkey’s ambivalence about the fight between Kurds and the Islamic State group, which could leave the PKK either drained or emboldened, could further complicate its participation in a U.S.led coalition against the Islamic State group.

While joining the coalition, Turkey had declined to take part in combat, citing the Turkish hostages held by the Islamic State group in Mosul, Iraq. But even after the 46 Turks and three Iraqis were freed, Turkey has not changed its stance.

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Children gather close to a barbed wire fence as several hundred Syrian refugees wait to cross into Turkey at the border in Suruc, Turkey, Sunday. Turkey opened its border Saturday to allow in up to 60,000 people who massed on the Turkey-Syria border, fleeing the Islamic militants’ advance on Kobani.

Turkish government officials have not revealed how they managed to secure the release of the captives. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan denied paying a ransom but has been vague on whether there was a prisoner swap.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Washington now expects Turkey to step up in the fight against the militants.

Erdogan has said that Turkey will discuss its participation in the coalition during this month’s U.N. General Assembly. The U.S. ally and member of the NATO military alliance has made commitments of only limited help in the fight against the Islamic State group, which has seized large parts of Syria and Iraq and rules by its harsh version of Islamic law.

The U.S. is looking for major participation from nations in the region in the campaign to destroy the Islamic State group. President Barack Obama has pledged that no American troops will be involved in combat missions against the group, and the U.S. ex-

pects nations in the region to provide those.

The Islamic State group released a new audio recording online late Sunday in which a spokesman urged Muslims worldwide to kill civilians of those nations that join the fight. A French citizen was kidnapped in Algeria by an al-Qaida splinter group that said it will kill him unless France ends its participation in airstrikes against the Islamic State group in Iraq, officials said.

Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Monday he remained hopeful that Turkey would participate in the coalition.

“We need Turkey, frankly,” he said during a visit to Croatia, because of its military capability, regional influence and political gravitas in the Muslim world.

But Turkey may also have questions for the U.S., if the support that Washington gives to Kurds in Iraq is extended to the Kurds fighting in Syria. Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga fighters are already starting to get training by Iraq’s Western allies in fighting the Islamic State group.

Yemeni Shiite rebels’ sweep Afghanistan’s president-elect into country’s capital KILLS 340, CHANGES POLITICAL LANDSCAPE

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SANAA, Yemen — In a stunning sweep of the Yemeni capital, the country’s Shiite rebels seized homes, offices and military bases of their Sunni foes on Monday, forcing many into hiding and triggering an exodus of civilians from the city after a week of fighting that left 340 people dead.

It was the latest development in the Hawthi blitz, which has plunged volatile Yemen into more turmoil, pitting the Shiite rebels against the Sunni-dominated military and their Islamist tribal allies.

The heavily armed Hawthi fighters on Monday seized tanks and armoured vehicles from military headquarters they had overrun, and raided the home of longtime archenemy Maj. Gen. Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar, the commander of the army’s elite 1st Armored Division and a veteran of a series of wars against the Shiite rebels, as well as residences of top Sunni Islamist militiamen or the fundamentalist Islah party.

Al-Ahmar himself fled and was forced into hiding, along with his followers, as the U.N. envoy to Yemen, Jamal Benomar, succeeded in mediating a deal on Sunday between the Shiite Hawthis and their rivals and the fighting died down. But the Hawthis made no concessions.

After flooding into Sanaa, the Hawthis also took strategic installations and key state buildings, though they claimed later to have handed them back to the army’s military police.

Thousands of Hawthi fighters — including many youths — were the only visible force Monday on the streets of the capital. They

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Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Hawthi Shiite rebels stand on a tank at the compound of the army’s First Armored Division, after taking it overt, in Sanaa, Yemen, Monday.

Heavily armed Yemeni Shiite militiamen took over the headquarters and house of a powerful army general allied to Sunni Islamists and set up checkpoints across the capital, Sanaa, after sweeping across the city as the general and his allies fled and went into hiding. drove army tanks and armoured vehicles they looted from al-Ahmar’s forces out of the city, heading north, likely to the Hawthis’ heartland in the city of Saada.

The group’s spokesman Mohammed Abdul-Salam said the rebels will hunt down those who committed violence against them, indicating the possibility of wider revenge attacks against opponents.

Observers say the Hawthis’ battlefield success reflects a major change in Yemen’s political landscape, with traditional sources of power — Sunni Islamists, allied

WALL STREET PROTEST

Activists stage sit-in to protest Wall Street’s role in climate crisis NEW YORK — A day after over 100,000 people marched to warn that climate change is destroying the Earth, more than 1,000 activists blocked parts of a major street in Manhattan’s financial district in a sit-in to protest what they see as corporate and economic institutions’ role in the climate crisis.

Monday’s demonstration was planned as a more confrontational sequel to Sunday’s march, with many participants Monday deliberately risking arrest by obstructing traffic in the heart of the nation’s financial capital. At least three people were arrested, and the protest took a tense turn as the demonstrators tried to push past police barricades at Wall Street,

army generals and tribal chiefs — losing their grip as the central government gave in to the Shiite rebels to avert a full-blown civil war.

Mansour Hayel, a Yemeni political analyst, compared the Hawthi sweep to the rampage in Iraq and Syria by Sunni militants from the Islamic State group.

“The situation is very disturbing,” Hayel said. “The state withdrew its control over institutions and the Hawthis and their affiliates replaced it. They are all over the city.”

sparking a brief clash with officers.

But by and large, police, office workers and tourists watched alike as the activists chanted such messages as “we can’t take this climate heat; we’ve got to shut down Wall Street” and bounced huge balloons meant to represent carbon dioxide bubbles.

“I wanted to come specifically to disrupt Wall Street because it’s Wall Street that’s fueling this,” the Ohio-based urban farmer and bread-maker Ben Shapiro said as he sat on Broadway by the famed bull statue. He had skipped Sunday’s march, focusing instead on the financial system that he feels enables environmental destruction for the sake of energy and other industries. “I’m going after the source of the problem.”

Organizers said the FloodWallStreet sit-in aimed to disrupt business in the financial district. Demonstrators didn’t obtain a permit for the rally, police said, and participants such as Jenna DeBoisblanc arrived anticipating arrests as a way to underscore their message.

KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghanistan’s new president-elect pledged in his victory speech on Monday to give women prominent roles in his government and told his nation that women are important to the country’s future.

The remarks by President-elect Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai came a day after the landmark power-sharing deal signed by Afghanistan’s two presidential candidates. The agreement resolved a drawn-out dispute that threatened to plunge Afghanistan into political turmoil while complicating the withdrawal of U.S. and foreign troops.

Ghani Ahmadzai also said his former opponent — Abdullah Abdullah, who will fill the newly created role of government chief executive — has turned from competitor to colleague and that the two are committed to improving Afghanistan.

The country’s election commission on Sunday announced Ghani Ahmadzai as the winner of a twoman runoff, ending an election process that began with a first round of voting in April. The announcement came only hours after Ghani Ahmadzai and Abdullah signed a political deal to form a national unity government.

The deal allowed the international community — including the U.S. and NATO — to breathe a sigh of relief, as the settlement greatly decreases the chances of ethnic vote violence.

Ghani Ahmadzai has also pledged to sign a security agreement that would allow about 10,000 U.S. military trainers and advisers to remain in the country next year after all U.S. and NATO combat troops withdraw.

The speech Monday took on the air of a campaign celebration, with a large crowd of supporters in attendance.

Ghani Ahmadzai clasped the hands of female supporters and he and others raised their hands over their heads, a notable moment in a country where women are often socially segregated.

The 65-year-old Ghani Ahmadzai said he wants Afghan women represented at the highest levels of government, including on the Supreme Court, where no female justices have ever served. He continued the theme during the nationally televised speech.

“In the face of these girls I can see future Afghan leaders,” he said as he told his “sisters” in attendance that they have equal rights in society and government.

Mary Akrami, the head of the Afghan Women’s Skills Development Centre, said she welcomed such sentiments but hoped they would be followed by action. She noted that Afghan women suffer heavily from family violence.

The incoming president is viewed as worldly and well-educated. A former finance minister, he has worked at the World Bank and earned a PhD from New York’s Colombia University.

Perhaps to increase his religious bona fides in a devoutly Muslim country, Ghani Ahmadzai peppered his speech with references to Islam and said God is first and Afghanistan second.

In a message that appeared to be aimed at power brokers outside of Kabul, Ghani Ahmadzai said the national unity government’s aim is to “end all parallel structures.” He also promised a public report card every six months on the implementation of the constitution.

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1912 — Quebec-born Mack Sennett releases his first Keystone Comedy movie, financed by two bookie friends. He is already a silent screen veteran, acting with fellow Canadians Marie Dressler and Mary Pickford. In 1914, he directed 35 comedies featuring his

new star Charles Chaplin. In 1935, after directing a Buster Keaton movie, he went bust and returned to Canada a pauper.

1908 — Forty-five students attend first classes of the University of Alberta, held on the top floor of an elementary school in Strathcona.

1787 — Guy Carleton, Lord Dorchester, purchases the site of Toronto from three Mississauga Indian chiefs in a meeting near the site of the old French Fort Rouillé. The Toronto Purchase costs the British Crown £1,700 in cash and trade goods.

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Bracing and preparing for new cases EBOLA

SIERRA LEONE AND LIBERIA HARDEST HIT AS THEY ARE TRYING TO OUTFLANK OUTBREAK

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FREETOWN, Sierra Leone — Two of the West African nations hardest hit by Ebola were bracing for new caseloads on Monday after trying to outflank the outbreak with a nationwide checkup and a large new clinic.

Sierra Leone was expected to announce a sharp increase in Ebola patients Tuesday following a nationwide effort to identify new cases, while Liberia opened its largest treatment centre yet.

Both countries have poor health systems, weakened by the loss to Ebola of many of doctors and nurses. The World Health Organization estimated last week that they have only about 20 per cent of the beds they need to treat Ebola patients.

Still, identifying the sick is fundamental to containing the disease, and Sierra Leone went to an extreme unseen since the plague ravaged Europe during the Middle Ages, ordering an entire nation’s people to remain at home while teams went door to door handing out soap and information.

More than 1 million households were checked for Ebola and told how to prevent its spread, authorities said.

Officials had previously predicted that they would find hundreds of new cases during the three-day shutdown, and government spokesman Abdulai Bayraytay said Sierra Leone was preparing tents for use as temporary treatment centres before announcing

their findings on Tuesday.

In Liberia, meanwhile, ambulances rushed to fill the nation’s largest new treatment centre, a 150-bed hospital on the outskirts of Monrovia that opened on Sunday, run by the Health Ministry, WHO and a team of Ugandan doctors.

By Monday, the new clinic had admitted 112 people, though only 46 of those have tested positive for Ebola, said Assistant Health Minister Tolbert Nyenswah. The rest were being held for observation and treated for other diseases, like malaria.

Ebola, transmitted through bodily fluids, is now blamed for the deaths of more than 2,800 people in West Africa, according to new figures released Monday by the WHO. More than 5,800 are believed to have been sickened. Most of the infections have been in Liberia, but the disease, which was first identified in Guinea, has also spread to Nigeria and Senegal.

At least 77 bodies were buried during Sierra Leone’s shutdown and half tested positive for Ebola, Bayraytay said.

Officials were waiting on laboratory tests for the other half.

The disease is thought to have killed more than 600 people in the nation of 6 million.

Lockdowns are hard to enforce, and being stuck at home for three days caused much frustration and some food shortages. By themselves, they aren’t likely to contain an outbreak. But they can certainly help send a public health message, said Joe Amon, director of health and human rights for Human Rights Watch.

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A health worker volunteer talks with a resident on how to prevent and identify the Ebola virus in others, and distributes bars of soap in Freetown, Sierra Leone, Saturday. Thousands of health workers began knocking on doors across Sierra Leone on Friday in search of hidden Ebola cases with the entire West African nation locked down in their homes for three days in an unprecedented effort to combat the deadly disease.

The teams reached about 75 per cent of the nation’s 1.5 million households, the Health Ministry said, carrying bars of soap and information about the disease.

Rumours that the soap had been poisoned served to show how important these education efforts are, authorities said.

Sierra Leone residents overwhelmingly complied by staying in their homes, but in one incident health workers trying to bury five bodies 20 kilometres (12 miles) east of Freetown were attacked on

Saturday. After police reinforcements arrived, the health workers completed the burial.

Nearly 350 health workers in West Africa have been infected, and more than half of those have died. A Spanish priest who became infected while serving as a medical director for a hospital in Sierra Leone was flown back to Spain on Monday.

There are no approved treatments or vaccines for Ebola, but drug makers are rushing to test experimental therapies. The small supply of one drug, ZMapp, was exhausted

after being used on a few patients.

On Monday, Tekmira Pharmaceuticals of Canada said its experimental Ebola treatment had been used on a number of patients, and that regulators in the U.S. and Canada had approved its use in more after results showed the drug had been well-tolerated.

Tekmira said there were limited supplies of its TKMEbola drug and because it has not been used in an actual study, the company acknowledged that it is impossible to tell if it had any effect.

Kyiv notes Bombings by Islamic State progress on group kill 40 Iraqi troops east Ukraine cease-fire

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SAYS REBELS WITHDRAWING SOME HEAVY ARTILLERY

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS KIEV, Ukraine — Both government troops and pro-Russian rebels began withdrawing heavy artillery in the east of the country, Ukrainian officials said Monday, a significant step toward implementing an effective cease-fire in the region.

Col. Andriy Lysenko, spokesman for Ukraine’s National Security and Defence Council, said Kyiv’s forces had started withdrawing from frontline positions. He said the rebels had also begun their withdrawal of heavy artillery, although it was “not as massive as we expected.”

“We are seeing a trend that (the rebels) are reducing their use of heavy armed weaponry,” Lysenko told journalists in Kyiv. He said neither Kyiv nor the rebels had completed their withdrawals, but said he hoped the rebels “will follow the example of the Ukrainian servicemen.”

A cease-fire imposed Sept.

5 has been riddled by violations from the start, adding civilian casualties to the estimated 3,000 people who have been killed since the conflict began in April.

On Monday, explosions were heard in the north of the rebel-held city of Donetsk, where fighting in recent weeks centred on a governmentheld airport has caught many residential areas in the crossfire. Later, smoke rose over a neighbourhood in that area and rebels blocked an Associated Press photographer from travelling there.

Lysenko said two Ukrainian servicemen had been killed in the past day.

Ukraine, Russia and the Moscow-backed rebels last week signed an agreement to further the peace process

by halting advances and pull back heavy artillery, creating a buffer zone between them.

The deal, supported by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, also specifically bans flights by combat aircraft over the area of conflict and setting up new minefields.

It could be a significant step forward in finally bringing an end to the simmering conflict, although negotiators have not yet addressed the future status of the rebel regions, the most politically controversial issue.

In an interview with Ukrainian news channels released late on Sunday, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko pleaded with the public to give the peace deal time to work.

“Solving the war in Luhansk and Donetsk with military alone is impossible,” he said.

“The more military groups we have there, the more the Russian army will send.”

Poroshenko said that 65 per cent of military equipment deployed by Kyiv in the east has been destroyed. During a trip to the United States last week, the Ukrainian president pleaded for lethal weapons for his country’s army. The U.S. gave Poroshenko $46 million in security aid, but excluded lethal weapons from the deal.

Poland’s Defence Minister Tomasz Siemoniak on Monday confirmed that Poland is ready to sell arms to Ukraine.

“Since July, there is no embargo on arms sale to Ukraine,” he said in an interview with the radio station Zet, adding that Poland and “many other countries” are prepared to offer their products.

Siemoniak said that Ukraine is now getting acquainted with the list of armaments made in Poland, but that the two countries have agreed not to discuss the details publicly.

BAGHDAD — Islamic State militants disguised in Iraqi army uniforms and driving stolen Humvees killed at least 40 Iraqi soldiers and captured 68 others in western Anbar province, breaking through a deteriorating Iraqi military offensive in an area where the United States recently broadened its airstrike campaign.

The wave of suicide bombings dealt a heavy blow to government efforts to rein in the militants, whose rampage has seized much of the country’s north and west — even as the U.S. and its allies began training Iraq’s Kurdish peshmerga fighters to bolster their ability to battle the Sunni extremists.

The attacks Sunday targeted troops stationed at Camp Saqlawiyah near the town of Sijir, 45 miles (70 kilometres) west of Baghdad. There has been no contact with the 68 captured Iraqi soldiers, who were believed to have been taken to the nearby city of Fallujah, an Islamic State stronghold, said Gen. Rasheed Fleih.

After the attacks, the Iraqi military withdrew 700 more troops stationed in the area, he said.

Following battlefield successes in both Iraq and neighbouring Syria, Islamic State fighters, among them many Iraqi nationals, have reentered Iraq through Anbar province, engaging in fierce battles with the Iraqi military.

In this Sunni-majority territory, the group has quickly capitalized on long-standing grievances against the Shiiteled government in Baghdad, earning support from local populations.

Iraq’s new Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said in a statement Monday that his government is committed to reinforcing military and police forces in Anbar and will increase airstrikes to target the pockets of militant fighters across the province.

Meanwhile, the U.S. military said Monday that airstrikes on Islamic State targets southwest of the oil-rich northern city of Kirkuk destroyed two military vehicles and a tank and damaged a Humvee, bringing the total U.S. strikes on the militants to 190 since the aerial campaign began on

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In this Sept. 1, 2014 photo, Shiite militiamen hold the flag of the Islamic State militant group they captured, during an operation outside Amirli, north of Baghdad, Iraq. Iran and the United States inability to work together complicates efforts to beat back the extremists that both see as a threat, and has left Iraq’s new government — which considers both countries allies — scratching its head as it tries to tackle the most serious threat to its stability since American troops left in 2011.

Aug. 8.

Backed by the U.S. airstrikes, Iraqi and Kurdish security forces have retaken the strategic Mosul Dam and several small towns.

However, serious challenges remain since many Islamic State fighters are operating from cities with large civilian populations, such as Fallujah and Mosul.

In northern Iraq, meanwhile, the U.S. and its allies began training Kurdish peshmerga forces to enhance their ability to fight the Sunni extremists.

Helgurd Hikmet, general director of the ministry overseeing the Kurdish forces, said that France, Italy and Germany were among countries providing training in the use of the new machine-guns, mortars, rockets and demining robots the Kurdish fighters have received.

The U.S. forces are part of the advise-and-assist teams that have been in Irbil, the provincial capital of the semi-

autonomous Iraqi Kurdish region, for several weeks.

Last week, the French joined in the aerial campaign, and a number of European countries have committed to arming the Kurds and providing humanitarian support for more than a million people displaced by the onslaught of the Islamic State group.

The Islamic State group’s spokesman, Abu Mohammed al-Adnani, said that the Islamic extremists were ready to battle a U.S.-led military coalition and called on Muslims worldwide to kill civilians of nations that join the campaign.

“If you can, kill a disbelieving American or European — especially the spiteful and filthy French — or an Australian, or a Canadian, or any other disbeliever from the disbelievers waging war, including the citizens of the countries that joined a coalition against the Islamic State,” al-Adnani said in an audio statement released Sunday.