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THE CITY OF RED DEER LANDFILLED AN AVERAGE OF 300 TONNES OF WASTE DAILY IN 2013. IN THE FIRST PART OF A SERIES ON RED DEER’S ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAMS AND INITIATIVES, ADVOCATE REPORTER CRYSTAL RHYNO EXAMINES HOW THE CITY’S WASTE REDUCTION STRATEGY IS MAKING AN IMPACT. SEE RELATED STORY ON PAGE A2 WEATHER Clearing. High -7. Low -10.
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Waste reduction makes headway This is the first in a series of stories on the City of Red Deer’s environmental programs and its initiatives for the future. BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF
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ABOVE: Janet Whitesell, waste management superintendent, stands at the city’s regional landfill. BELOW: A graph illustrates the amount of waste sent to Red’s landfill over the past seven years.
tion and maintenance at the site. Fees were lowered at the landfill gate this year to encourage residents to bring in unwanted recyclable items. Next spring, the city will roll out a new residential organics collections pilot. An estimated that 40 per cent of the garbage thrown out at home is organic waste. While details are still being fine-tuned, Whitesell said some 2,000 residents will take part in the pilot. The pilot program will likely accept food scraps, coffee grinds, Kleen-
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Day after day, trucks loaded with everything from newspapers, plastic bags, cardboard boxes to clothing make one last stop at Red Deer’s regional landfill. The sheer volume of waste and the amount that could be recycled is enough to stop you in your tracks. Last year, on average the city landfilled 300 tonnes of waste per day. A whopping 91,313 tonnes of waste of all kinds went into the landfill in 2013, compared to 90,266 in 2012 and 86,277 in 2011. About 87 per cent of the landfill waste comes from Red Deer residents and businesses. The rest comes from the towns within Red Deer County (including Sylvan Lake, Penhold and Bowden, for which there are formal agreements), and Blackfalds. Waste is also accepted from Innisfail, Delburne and Elnora. In Red Deer alone, nearly 75,000 tonnes of trash was thrown out. That translates to roughly 812 kg per capita. In 2011, the Alberta average was 1,122 kg per capita and the national average was 777 kg of waste per capita. (These numbers reflect combined business and residential waste, divided by the number of residents in the city.) The city wants to reduce the per capita amount to 500 kg by 2023. A year after adopting a master plan to tackle garbage, Janet Whitesell, the city’s Waste Management Department superintendent, said the city and its residents are making headway with waste reduction. The largest generator of waste is the commercial sector, which contributes 63 per cent of all items dumped at the landfill. Thirty per cent of waste comes from single-family residential and seven per cent from multi-family residential. The city is laying the groundwork for a plan to divert and reduce business sector waste. Whitesell said many municipalities focus on residential waste because that’s where they have the most control. She anticipates this will change because more people and businesses are becoming interested in sustainability. The total weight of solid waste from single family homes decreased slightly to 180 kg per capita in 2013 from 183 kg in 2012. The city’s goal is to get the number down to 164.7 kg per capita by 2015. Red Deer’s current landfill began accepting waste in 2001. It will run out of space in 35 to 40 years under the current trends. Whitesell said no one wants to get to that point and that’s why the city’s diversion and recycling programs are crucial. The facility has a large diversion area. Residents can drop off items to be recycled such as refrigerators, yard waste, gypsum drywall, scrap metal, household hazardous waste, electronics, tires and blue box items. Yard waste and pallets are composted on site. Whitesell said they are starting to see more growth in these diversion areas. Most of the items are shipped off as part of provincial programs or to recycling facilities. Some items, like asphalt shingles, get recycled into asphalt pavement near Calgary. Most toilets collected through the city’s toilet rebate program will be ground down for use in road construc-
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Wildrose at a ‘crossroads’: Smith BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF Wildrose Party Leader Danielle Smith offered up her political head if the party fails to win government in the next election. “My time as leader of the Official Opposition is coming to an end, one way or the other, in about 500 days,” Smith told about 500 party faithful gathered at the Red Deer Sheraton Hotel on Friday night. “If we don’t win the election in 2016 it will be up to you as Wildrose members to choose a new leader. “Either way, we are in for a big change in 500 days.” Smith told the crowd at the party’s annual general meeting that Wildrose is at a “crossroads.” While recent disappointing byelection losses in Calgary have been by some as a crisis, Smith prefers to look at it as an opportunity. In those byelections, voters were not given enough reasons to cast a ballot for Wildrose, In the 2012 provincial election, the party gave voters too many reasons to vote against them, she said. Since then, much has been done to broaden the party’s appeal. New policies have been adopted, unpopular positions dumped and stronger candidates recruited. Smith then rhymed off a dozen points that make her party a significant departure from the ruling Tories, hitting many touchstone issues such as balanced budgets, property rights, low taxes, regionalized health care, better municipal relations and free votes in the Legislature. “Our program for change could not be more different than what we’re seeing in the current governing party,” she said. However, the challenge is to get the party’s message out to Albertans, who don’t want junk mail, spam emails, robocalls and don’t come out to town hall meetings or follow the party on Facebook. The mainstream media cannot be counted on to deliver the party’s message, she said.
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Smith rolled out a five-point plan, starting with a call to make “politics fun once again,” even suggesting each constituency association could appoint a board members as the local “fun police.” The party needs to make it enjoyable for people to come out to Wildrose meetings. “I am giving you permission to fire obnoxious board members,” she said, adding that rudeness and disrespectful behaviour should not be tolerated anywhere in the party. While no examples were given, it was an interesting comment in light of the recent controversy in the RimbeyRocky Mountain House-Sundre riding, that saw a recent annual general meeting collapse amid internal rivalries. The controversy led to the resignation of the riding’s MLA, Joe Anglin, ahead of a move to drop him from the party. Edwin Erickson, who was voted constituency president in an election since nullified by the party, said on Friday the Wildrose executive is breaking its own rules. Smith called on 1,000 ambassadors to step forward to deliver the party’s message to 1,000 people over the next 500 days. Another 100 “voices” were called on to write letters to the editor, phone in to radio talk shows and start up blogs to push the Wildrose advantage. “One thousand Wildrose ambassadors and 100 Wildrose voices will do far more to get our ideas to Alberta voters than any press conference or advertising campaign.” There are other ways the party can make its mark at the local level, she continued. “In the spirit of fun and service, we need to create a Wildrose service corps.” The party could make its local mark organizing food and toy drives, snow clearing crews for seniors, or delivering “baskets of hope” for women’s shelters. Once in power, the party will ask for 100 changes it can make in its first 100 days. The annual general meeting continues today. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com
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children’s services minister. She launched Alberta’s Amber Alert program and steered through legislation to protect drug-endangered children, two programs she cited Friday as career highlights. “I’ve been very fortunate to be able to help people and very fortunate to bring forward ground breaking legislation in this country,” she said. In January 2010, she and fellow Tory Rob Anderson crossed the floor to join the fledgling Wildrose. At the time, Forsyth had been critical of then-premier Ed Stelmach’s leadership. Stelmach dumped her from cabinet after the 2008 election. Forsyth said Friday that going to the opposition meant learning to research and speak on the fly on a variety of issues compared with focusing on one area as a cabinet minister. She remembers once having to speak to a bill on a moment’s notice with no chance to prepare. “As a member of the opposition, you
have to literally learn every bill that’s coming forward in the legislature,” she said. She said it’s been a wild ride, going from government backbencher to cabinet minister and finally to opposition critic. “The biggest thing is I’ve been blessed with going full circle,” she said. “How many MLAs in this country can truly say they’ve had that?” Forsyth is only one of two Wildrose MLAs in Calgary. The other is Jeff Wilson in Calgary-Shaw. Her resignation will put in play a key riding Forsyth narrowly won in the 2012 campaign. She defeated Tory Wendelin Fraser by just 38 votes. An early departure could trigger a byelection at a time her party is still rebounding from four byelection losses to the Tories on Oct. 27. Forsyth said she is aware of that, but said it remains “a family decision. I have to make that based on what’s right, so that’s what I’m going to do.”
overnight shelters were closed. “This solution is temporary, yet works to demonstrate the city’s flexibility and commitment to Red Deer’s most vulnerable,” said Mayor Tara Veer in a press release. “We’re going to continue the conversation with our partners about providing a safe and appropriate place for homeless people to get out of the elements beyond a temporary facility in a manner that is sustainable.” On Thursday, social service agencies that work with the homeless met with city officials to discuss the closure of Berachah Place and the impact. The city will announce when a location for the centre has been confirmed and when it will open. It will only be open for the cold winter months, and will strictly be a place to warm up. No food or amenities will be available there.
EDMONTON — Figures from Alberta Health Services show a 46 per cent jump since last week in the number of people across the province who have received a flu shot. The department, which is promoting a theme this year of “get protected, not infected,” says the current total stands at 848,771 vaccinations. There have been 148 confirmed cases of both influenza A and B in Alberta in recent weeks, with A being the most prevalent strain.
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Second psychiatrist tells murder trial Magnotta was in psychotic state MONTREAL — A second forensic psychiatrist who assessed Luka Rocco Magnotta’s criminal responsibility said Friday he concluded the accused was suffering a schizophrenia-linked psychotic episode when he killed and dismembered Jun Lin. Defence witness Joel Watts testified that an exhaustive look at the evidence and Magnotta’s medical history led him to believe that while the accused was aware of his actions, he could not differentiate right from wrong. Magnotta has admitted to killing Lin in May 2012, but has pleaded not guilty by way of mental disorder. The Crown contends the slaying was planned and deliberate. Watts’ assessment is similar to that of another psychiatrist hired by the defence. Marie-Frederique Allard testified previously that Magnotta’s schizophrenia was out of control in May 2012. Watts met with Magnotta face-toface over 38 hours between September 2012 and September 2013. He spoke to relatives and one friend and also saw Magnotta for a few hours last month. “My opinion regarding Mr. Magnotta’s mental state at the time ... is that he was suffering from an acute episode of psychosis,” Watts said. “He suffers from schizophrenia and on those days (in May 2012), he was suffering from an acute psychotic break of that schizophrenia.”
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What’s a book launch without books? So I’m having this little book party “Muppet.” I kind of like both descriptomorrow — Sunday, Nov. 16 — and tions. you are all invited! But as someone once said: “Some This is something I’d normally be people never grow up; they just learn quite pumped about, as they used to how to act in public.” But I digress. say, or psyched, as they used So anyway, the summer to say, or stoked as … well, launch target of completyou get the point. ing and printing the book Thing is, this little book by June came and went as party, which is at Fratters fast as you can say “What Speakeasy downtown and — you mean it isn’t 1979 is at 6 p.m., might not be so anymore?” much of a “book” party as, After proof reading evsay, an IOU party. ery … single … one … of You see, as of this writing the many words in the book (Thursday) my book order approximately 200 times to is, shall we say, not quite as check for errant commas, complete as I’d like it to be. weird spelling and whethIn other words, there is aber some of the sentences solutely no sign of any boxes actually make sense or not, HARLEY of books, mine or otherwise I finally email the whole HAY anywhere near where I am. kit and caboodle to someIn fact, I just found out one I’ll call Iryna (because that they haven’t technically that’s her name) in Victobeen successfully printed ria, B.C., who designs, foryet. Which is a bit of a problem. … mats, paginates and performs voodoo Let me back up a smidgen. I’ve been on your cyber-digital book for printing working on assembling my third book on actual pages. of Red Deer Advocate columns since It’s already September. Deadline is early last spring. Choosing the so- looming, and so is that migraine. called “best” (yeah, right) of the SatIryna sends back a zillion book files urday Hay’s Daze columns that have for approval. Lots of changes of course appeared in the Advocate since the — mostly mistakes I had made and other two collections of columns were hadn’t noticed during my previous 200 published (Hay’s Daze 2010 and Hay’s proof readings. So I proof read the new Daze Too 2012). files another 100 or so more times and This means slogging through really send back the book through the intera lot of words, a whole bunch of sen- web ether. Fingers crossed. tences and many paragraphs that I had Ooops, I haven’t added the cover filed away during the years 2011-2013. design file thingy yet. Or the carThis is a lot of slogging, I can assure toon sketches yet. And at this point, I you, especially when the writer you haven’t found my brain either. are dealing with is such a meathead There’s a little framed picture on and his articles are often fairly dumb. my office wall. It has a symbol of a But I managed to cleverly circum- person and it says underneath: “I can’t navigate that particular problem by brain today. I have the dumb.” This is enlisting a talented young artist from very fitting and very typical for Yours Edmonton, whom I shall call Malorie Truly. But I digress. (because that’s her name) to not onSeptember somehow comes and ly once again design the cover of this goes, and with the book party launch book like she did for my Christmas thingy is mid-November, it is with book last year, but to also contribute trembling hands and a mild case of a bunch of cartoon sketches for each dysrhythmia that I finally receive one of the chapter headings. This certainly “proof” copy of I Seem To Have Misserves to elevate the artistic net worth placed My Marbles in the mail. This is of the book significantly. truly an exciting moment that I have I should tell you that the new book been lucky enough to experience five is called I Seem To Have Misplaced My times. This time, however, it is all short Marbles, which is not only a true state- lived on account of it’s now well into ment (in more ways than one) but is October and there are some glaring also one of the columns included in problems with the proof copy. the book. Murphy, the guy who made up MurSo Malorie, being a highly educated, phy’s Law — if anything can go wrong experienced and surprisingly versatile at the worst possible time, it certainly artist, checked out some old photo- will — must have been thinking of the graphs of what Yours Truly looked like book business. back in the skinny hippie days and usAgain, time passes quickly as it is ing the “marble” theme, made me look wont to do and suddenly in the midst of appropriately ridiculous in cartoon several other busy projects, last weekform. Which is basically how I live my end arrived and I suddenly smacked life. my own forehead with the palm of my In fact, my Rotten Kid, the son one, own hand (no wonder I always have is always saying that his old man’s life a headache) and said right out loud: is “one big cartoon.” Or he calls me a “OMG, the book launch thingy is next
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Drawings by Malorie Shmyr
Above and below: A couple of drawings found in Harley Hay’s new book I Seem To Have Misplaced My Marbles.
weekend already!” It was then that I realized that I hadn’t seen hide nor hair of my new books. So, many phone calls, emails, texts, letters, Twitters, telegrams, Instagrams and angiograms later, it’s already the end of the week and yes there has been a mix-up in the printing but very very sorry Harley but I’m pretty sure if you pay to fly your books special delivery by extremely expensive airplane overnight delivery, there’s a “really good chance” you’ll have your new books by the time the book party starts. …
So if you happen to drop by tomorrow and happen to want a fresh copy of I Seem To Have Misplaced My Marbles, which would make a great Christmas present for someone you don’t particularly like, I may have to sign an IOU instead. If I can get some printed in time. Harley Hay is a local freelance writer, award-winning author, filmmaker and musician. His column appears on Saturdays in the Advocate. His books can be found at Chapters, Coles and Sunworks in Red Deer.
Mayors can’t really save the world RATHER THAN THROWING OUR LOT IN WITH THE THIRD-TIER POLITICIANS WHO RUN OUR CITIES, WE’D TO DO WELL TO FOCUS ON FINDING MORE CREATIVE SOLUTIONS Sometimes an idea looks pretty good that jurisdictions created several cenon paper but you just know it would be turies ago are not designed to address. a disaster in real life. Global cities are a relatively new Such is the notion of U.S. creative phenomenon, says Barber. One hunthinker Benjamin Barber, dred years ago, 20 per cent a senior research scholar of the world’s population at the Graduate Center of lived in cities; today it’s the City University of New more than half, and it is York. He has written a proforecast to reach 70 per cent vocative, challenging and by 2050. entertaining book entitled Barber presented his If Mayor’s Ruled the World: ideas in Calgary recently Dysfunctional Nations, Risto an enthusiastic crowd, ing Cities. He argues with including the city’s mayor passion and logic that the (and national media daremerging city-states of the ling) Naheed Nenshi, who world would be a far more would like nothing more effective way to deal with than to see his city achieve DOUG 21st century challenges than charter city status. (In fact, FIRBY the failed national governhe and Edmonton Mayor ments with their last-centuDon Iveson pitched the conry notions of borders. cept of charter city status to “The nation-state is failthe provincial government ing us on a global scale,” Barber writes recently.) in his book. “It was the perfect politiBarber is even more charismatic cal recipe for the liberty and indepen- and convincing in person. He speaks dence of autonomous people and na- with authority and passion on the tions. It is utterly unsuited to interde- subject of cities as a superior form of pendence.” government. It’s quite possible to get As he writes, globalization has cre- caught up in the moment — until you ated a level of interdependence that stop to think it through. just didn’t exist in the past. In fact, he Because, as exciting as the concept contends, there are a host of issues of a new, localized form of government
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may seem, it’s also fundamentally flawed. Barber’s critique of national governments has considerable merit. It is true that our countries are stymied by such challenges as immigration in a globalized environment. For evidence, you need look no further than our federal government’s clumsy dithering over temporary foreign workers. Where he gets shaky is when he argues that city governments are better suited to deal with such issues because they are much more in touch with the “grassroots.” For every shred of evidence he calls to mind, there is an equally compelling counterpoint. Consider, for example, the chaos in Toronto city council this year, as its substance-abusing mayor went rogue and for a time appeared unstoppable. Corruption seems to flourish at the civic level, too. Has Barber never heard of Chicago’s Richard Daley or Detroit’s Kwame Kilpatrick? Consider, too, how party politics is beginning to creep into councils in other major cities, such as Vancouver. With such organization, comes a new doctrinaire — the very “discipline” that undermines that grassroots quality Barber so admires. Look at voter turnout, as well. If
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city governments have so much merit, why do municipal elections draw even fewer (at times, less than 20 per cent) voters than either provincial or federal elections? Councillors often get to keep their jobs because voters are so disengaged they don’t even get to know the candidates’ names. Barber’s notion that there must be a better form of government is appealing, but I don’t buy the belief that cities can save the world. I find myself wondering whether he feels that way because he’s from New York, one of the most powerful and influential cities in the world. Or maybe I dismiss his thesis because I grew up outside of a city, and am constantly reminded how farmers, naturalists and others who value alternatives to an urban environment consistently get short shrift. He’s identified the problem well. It is true than many of our institutions, including governments, are ill-suited to the modern world. But rather than throwing our lot in with the cabal of third-tier politicians who run our cities, we’d to do well to focus on finding more creative solutions. Doug Firby is editor-in-chief of Troy Media and national affairs columnist (www.troymedia.com).
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Time to act on climate change Shortly after his inauguration, U.S. President Barack Obama flew to Ottawa to show he wanted to be a friend of Canada. This was in February 2009. Prime Minister Stephen Harper exulted, proclaiming this was a chance for the two countries to deal with climate change. Later that year, countries from around the world were to meet in CoDAVID penhagen to CRANE cement a new climate change agreement. Canada, Harper told CNN, had been blocked from its desire for an integrated North American climate strategy because the U.S. — read U.S. president George W. Bush — “has not been willing to do so.” But Obama, he suggested, would be different. “I think, quite frankly, the fact that we have a president and an administration that wants to see some kind of regulation on this is an encouragement.” Flash forward to today, and the Harper government is quietly celebrating the emergence of an anti-Obama Republican majority in the U.S. Senate in the hope that this will garner the votes to approve the planned Keystone XL Pipeline to move oilsands oil to Texas oil refineries. Not much talk of climate change now, though just over a year from now nations will be meeting in Paris in an urgent bid to reach a deal to avert catastrophic climate change, making up for what they failed to do in Copenhagen in 2009. But the climate prospects have just turned worse with Republican control of the U.S. Senate. The expected chair of the all-important Environment and Public Works Committee is one James Inhofe, perhaps the most strident climate change denier in the Senate. His goal will be to block any significant U.S. action on climate change. In Canada, the Harper government has never been a strong advocate of dealing with climate change and over time its limited efforts have weakened while its interest in promoting rapid development of the oilsands, Canada’s fastest-growing source of greenhouse gas emissions, has intensified. After winning the 2006 federal election, the Conservatives promised to
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force all major emitting industries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In 2007, then environment minister John Baird introduced his Turning the Corner plan that would set tough targets for emission reductions, including a form of carbon tax that would allow companies to meet their targets by continuing to a fund for new technologies. In the 2008 election campaign, the Conservatives promised to introduce policies so that Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions would be 20 per cent lower in 2020 than they were in 2005. They promised a cap-and-trade emissions trading system, provided the U.S. did so as well. Canadian climate change policy would follow the U.S. By December 2009 and the Copenhagen climate conference, Canada had cut back its emissions reduction target to 17 per cent below the 2005 level by 2020 and dropped its support for a capand-trade system.
But as Environment Canada showed in its recent report on Canada’s emission trends, the commitment will not be met. Moreover, the reductions in emissions achieved to date have been the result of provincial actions, including Ontario’s elimination of coal burning power plants and B.C.’s carbon tax. Tellingly, despite repeated promises over the past five years, the government has never come up with emission reduction targets for the oil and gas industry, and now appears to have abandoned the effort altogether. Yet we have to act on climate change. The most recent report of the International Panel on Climate Change warns that “in recent decades, changes in climate have caused impacts on natural and human systems on all continents and across the oceans.” Without much stronger action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, this will only get worse.
We need a climate action plan for 2020 and beyond. It would help a lot if the U.S. and Canada were aligned on climate actions. But Republican control of the U.S. Congress makes meaningful joint action unlikely, so Canada will have to act on its own. It’s hard to be hopeful it will. As French President Francois Hollande, who will host the 2015 climate summit in Paris, told our own Parliament in a recent address, “inaction will lead to a catastrophic scenario which would be unacceptable. Our generation might be able to survive, but it would be unlivable for our children and grandchildren.” If a key role of government is to represent the future to the present, then surely climate change should be at the top of the political agenda. Economist David Crane is a syndicated Toronto Star columnist. He can be reached at crane@interlog.com.
Indifference allows violence Somewhere in this country we have allowed to oppose the deviant sexual dropped the ball; furthermore, we preferences that some individuals dehave placed cushions all over, so the clare publicly and usually practise in ball won’t make a noise or a harmful private. impact. Are we really that brain Confused? Well so am I! dead? Have we learned abI am still trying to wrap solutely nothing from hismy head around what I see tory? and hear in the media and Every day at the soup the seemingly losing battle kitchen, I see young women I see society struggling to who choose to align themcope with. selves with violent males. I On the one hand, I see don’t know if they are into a country spending countviolent sex, but they are less dollars and an infinite definitely into violent domiamount of energy battling nance. The whipped puppy violence against women, look on these young females while on the other, we listen tells a story that is painful CHRIS to a public figure declare to watch. SALOMONS that he is into violent sex, The young men usually which involves beating, come across as subservistriking and otherwise deent to other males, but the meaning women by indulgbruises and other marks on ing in his sexual fantasies. the girls indicate their temWhat is worse is that we as a com- per and violent attitude, which lies munity of living, breathing and hope- just barely below the surface. fully caring people sit back to observe As much as possible when we see a this drama unfolding before our eyes, situation like this, we do our best to get and declare that we have no right to the girls away from these guys, but that denounce what goes on behind closed is much harder done than said. doors. We feel that we are not by law It often involves a young girl who
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has been so brutalized by a parent or family member that they have absolutely no self-worth left. That brutalization could have come from physical, sexual, or mental abuse, but it was violent enough to strip these girls of all normalcy. A few nice words by well-meaning folks is not enough to reinstate the trust and well-being that these girls should have grown up with. Instead, it will take years of patient counselling by loving people to rebuild that balance. We have offered the choice to some of these girls, including opening up our own homes as a safe place for them to be, but fear drives them to refuse the help extended; they are just plain scared. It’s almost like an electric fence or barrier has been put up to keep them out. Even though they can see the greener grass on the other side of the fence, livestock will not cross over that fence. They do not realize that a small push will break that fence, instead they stay on the outside looking in and longing for that greener grass. People are no different; even though we can see the benefit of crossing over, fear
becomes that fence. When we know all this, and we have full knowledge of the detrimental effects of brutal practices as in the case of that public figure; how can we in all good and fair conscience permit these people to speak out as if their lifestyle is totally normal? And why is this being tried like a court on TV? I could spend my words condemning this man, but I feel that he obviously went through some kind of trauma himself to take on this kind of aberrant behaviour. Having said that, what I think is the real problem is society’s attitude of indifference to the whole affair of violent sex or just plain violence. The constant barrage of gratuitous violence on TV and in theatres has taught us well; despite the fact, so we are told, that they have no influence on us. I was going to say we have to wake up, but we already are awake, and watching a corporation try the case on air to justify their own actions and philosophies. Chris Salomons is kitchen co-ordinator for Potter’s Hands ministry in Red Deer.
We can’t hide from pandemics BY LAWRENCE SUMMERS SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE Epidemics and pandemics are like earthquakes. Tragic, inevitable and unpredictable. It starts as a random event. A virus jumps species from a bird, bat or other animal to “patient zero” — who passes it on to other human beings. More likely than not, over the course of this century we will face an influenza pandemic similar to the one in 1918 that killed an estimated 50 million people. Crises are opportunities to learn. They point to measures that will prevent the collapse of institutions when they are under extreme pressure. While the focus now is understandably on responding to Ebola, it is equally important that the crisis serve as a wake-up call with respect to inadequacies that threaten not just tragedy on an unprecedented scale but the basic security of wealthy nations. As with climate change, no part of the world can insulate itself from the consequences of epidemic and pandemic. The Global Health 2035 report by the Commission on Investing in Health, which I co-chaired, points up three crucial lessons. First, collective action must be taken to build strong health systems in every corner of the globe. In West Africa, Ebola was a “stress test”
on national health systems, and in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea the systems could not cope. There were too few trained health professionals, too little equipment and supplies, and too little capacity for public health surveillance and control. Nigeria’s success in containing the virus after the first case was diagnosed there in July is instructive. Its success, hailed by the World Health Organization as a piece of “world-class epidemiological detective work,” is explained by its aggressive, co-ordinated surveillance and control response. It already had a polio surveillance system, with skilled outbreak specialists who could be quickly put to work tackling Ebola. While much of Nigeria’s health system, such as primary care services, remains very weak, on Ebola the surveillance and control system worked. Every country needs this kind of system. Prevention is cheaper than cure, and leads to better outcomes. Building these systems takes time and money. Our research, conducted with an international team of economists and health experts and published last year in the medical journal the Lancet, suggests that the price of this “systems strengthening” would be about $30 billion a year for the next two decades. The good news is that we have the funds to pay for this through a combination of aid and domestic spending. The cost is well under one percent of the additional gross domes-
tic product that will be available to low- and lower-middle-income countries due to increased GDP growth over the next 20 years. The second lesson is that the lack of investment in public health is a global emergency. The WHO’s slow response to Ebola was not surprising, given its recent staff cuts. For that, we all share the blame. Since 1994, the WHO’s regular budget has declined steadily in real terms. Even before the Ebola crisis, it struggled to fund basic functions. Its entire budget for influenza was just $7.7 million in 2013 — less than a third of what New York City alone devotes to preparing for public health emergencies. It takes just one infected airline passenger to introduce an infection into a country. We need the WHO more than ever. It alone has the mandate and legitimacy to serve as a health protection agency for all countries, rich and poor. Starving it of funds is reckless. The third lesson concerns scientific innovation. When it comes to discovering and developing medicines, vaccines and diagnostic tests, we have largely ignored the infectious diseases that disproportionately kill the world’s poor. Consequently, we still have no medicines or vaccine for Ebola. All we can do is provide basic life support, such as fluids and blood pressure treatment. For prevention, we have to rely on old-fashioned measures such
as quarantine. Margaret Chan, the WHO’s director-general, has explained the reason for this neglect. Doctors were “emptyhanded,” she said, because “a profit-driven industry does not invest in products for markets that cannot pay.” Ebola affects poor African nations, so drug companies see no profit in working on it. Nor is there an adequate incentive to invest in prevention. No society will allow companies to reap huge profits when disease is spreading rapidly. Rich governments and donors need to step up. Investing several billion dollars a year, less than 0.01 percent of global GDP, could be decisive in preventing tragedy on the scale of world war. Some issues are even more important than recessions and elections. Ebola is a tragedy. Let us hope that it will also be a spur to taking the necessary steps to prevent the far greater one that is nearly inevitable on the current policy trajectory. The next Ebola is just around the corner. The writer is a professor at and past president of Harvard University. He was treasury secretary from 1999 to 2001 and economic adviser to U.S. President Barack Obama from 2009 through 2010. Gavin Yamey, head of the Evidence-toPolicy Initiative at the University of California at San Francisco, and a member of the Global Health 2035 commission, contributed to this column.
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GET A REAL TASTE OF MEXICAN CULTURE BY EATING WHERE LOCALS DO ON A FOOD TOUR OF PUERTO VALLARTA It is 11 a.m. on a weekday and I am watching a woman in a bright red T-shirt cut cilantro at a small table just off the curb in Old Town Puerto Vallarta. Beside her, a group of locals are gathered around a taco stand ordering birria as quickly as the two people working inside the stand can make it. Birria is a spicy stew made from goat, beef or chicken and served with corn tortillas, onion and lime as a breakfast dish and hangover remedy. It is such an important cultural dish in Mexico’s Jalisco state that there are annual competitions held in the capital city of Guadalajara to determine who makes the best DEBBIE birria in the state. The Robles family OLSEN who have operated this particular birria stand in Puerto Vallarta for more than 45 years have won the competition four times. It has been said that “food is culture” and there is no doubt that experiencing local food is an important way to discover the culture of a place, but in many Mexican destinations it can be a little worrisome to sample food from the street vendors who cook for most of the local populace. Proper sanitation is challenging without running water and you have to be careful to stick to taco stands that are reputable. That said, you get a real taste of local culture by eating where locals do rather than frequenting high-priced restaurants that cater to tourists. “A local food tour is a really nice way to showcase Mexican culture,” our guide Alex from Vallarta Food Tours had said at the start of our tour. “We’ll explore Old Town and Zona Romantica on foot, taking you to 10 local food stops that really highlight local Mexican food and drink. We’ll also supply a list of restaurants we recommend, so you can explore more on your own.” Each person in our little tour group received a plate covered with a fresh plastic bag and a fresh birria from the Tacos Robles stand to try. A single birria costs 1.5 Mexican pesos or about $1.25 Canadian. We stood near the stand tentatively tasting the first few bites, but it wasn’t long before we were hooked. The birria was quite honestly the best I had ever tasted and I was certain that I would be back for breakfast another day. “The best taco stands aren’t typically in the tourist sites,” advised Alex as we walked to our next stop. “You’ll find them where the local people are.” Even though taco stands are regulated by the government, he said you should always look carefully before you buy. Make sure that the person who handles the money and the dirty dishes is not also handling the food. Taco stands should use disposable plates or reusable plates covered in clean plastic bags. The number of customers is also a sign of the food quality. Locals know where the best taco stands are and food never sits around at a busy taco stand. Our next stop was Tacos El Cunado, the most traditional taco stand in Puerto Vallarta, according to Alex.
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LEFT: Tacos Robles has been in business for 45 years as a family business. The taco chef here is the grandson of the original taco stand owner. RIGHT: It was nice to have some advice on the salsas. I decided to avoid the one Alex described as “a bomb in your mouth.”
ABOVE LEFT: Mr. Concepcion sells his tuba drink in the main square of Puerto Vallarta. Since our guide assured us that tuba salesmen are tightly regulated and always make their drinks with purified water, I tried some. Mr. Concepcion wears the classic garb of most tuba salesmen. ABOVE RIGHT: One of the reasons the ceviche and other seafood is so good is that it is made from fresh fish caught daily off the shores of Puerto Vallarta. Purto Vallarta originated as a fishing village and the fishing is still good. A fisherman poses with the mahi-mahi (also known as dorado) he caught.
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TACO: ‘The real magic starts with the salsa’ Located near the Old Town pier, the proprietor of this busy taco stand has been in business for 40 years and prepares tacos made with kidney beans, beef steak and onions, and quickly assembles them to meet the demands of the crowd surrounding the stand. “The real magic starts with the salsas,” explained Alex. “Salsa gives the taco flavour and there are many different kinds. The one that I am holding is like a bomb in your mouth. It is made with pineapple, red onions and habanero peppers and it is worth trying — if you can handle the heat.” Tour participants each enjoyed a taco from Tacos El Cunado and discovered that you can get an amazing taste treat for only 12 pesos or about C$1. I steered clear of the “bomb in your mouth” salsa and enjoyed another one Alex had recommended. A highlight of the tour was a visit to Cevicheria El Guero, another family-
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If you go The Zona Romantica/Centro Food Tasting and Cultural Walking Tour is offered daily at 11 a.m. by Vallarta Food Tours (www.vallartafoodtours. com) and costs US$49 per adult and US$35 per child. The tour takes three hours and includes all the food from 10 tasting stops. The company offers several tours using local guides with an extensive knowledge of food and culture. Debbie Olsen is a Lacombe-based freelance writer. If you have a travel story you would like to share or know someone with an interesting travel story that we might interview, please email: DOGO@ telusplanet.net or write to: Debbie Olsen, c/o Red Deer Advocate, 2950 Bremner Ave., Red Deer, Alta., T4R 1M9.
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Sandhu pots pair in win BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR Rebels 4 Hurricanes 1 The Red Deer Rebels have been playing a desperate game as of late and their determination paid off with a Western Hockey League victory Friday night at the Enmax Centrium. The Rebels were the superior team through the better part of a scoreless two periods and watched the ‘Canes strike first early in the third period. But they didn’t abandon their game plan and did all their damage over the final 16 minutes in a 4-1 win over the Lethbridge Hurricanes in front of 5,194 fans. “It was one of those games where you just had to stay with it. It was a tight-checking type of game,” said Red Deer GM/head coach Brent Sutter. “I thought we had some quality scoring chances in the second period, we just didn’t bury our opportunities and their goalie made a couple of big saves. For the most part we were really good five-on-five. They got some chances off their power play, but we didn’t give up a whole lot even strength.” The Rebels held a 22-13 advantage in shots through 40 minutes without being rewarded. And when ‘Canes overage forward Zane Jones buried a rebound at 3:07 of the final frame — just a split second after Red Deer netminder Rylan Toth made a sizzling pad save on Riley Sheen — the visitors could smell an upset. But Tyler Sandhu scored his first of two goals on the evening just 69 seconds later, burying a rebound of a shot by linemate Grayson Pawlenchuk, and the Rebels were off and running. “We stayed with it. Even after they got that first goal we never got fazed, we just stayed with our game,” said Sutter. “That was a big goal by Sandhu, it allowed us to get our momentum back right away.” Sandhu then notched the eventual winner at 9:24, capping a nifty three-way passing play that involved Pawlenchuk and Conner Bleackley. “They did all the work on that one,” said Sandhu, saluting his linemates. “I just had to tap it in. “Big thanks to Bleacks and Pawly, they made some nice plays. That was a good shot by Pawly on my first goal. The puck came right onto my stick, if I would have missed that I probably would have been a little mad. They created a couple of great plays and I
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Rebels forward Tyler Sandhu lets loose with a one-timer that resulted in his first of two goals on the night. was just lucky to get those bounces.” Brooks Maxwell, while parked just outside of the crease, tipped Haydn Fleury’s point shot past Hurricanes netminder Zac Robidoux at 14:40, and Scott Feser added an empty-net goal three minutes later when Tyler Johnson passed up the shot and instead fed his teammate. Robidoux was sharp through two periods and finished with 31 saves. Toth, meanwhile, stopped 19 shots for his ninth win of the season and was calm and composed through the entire game.
“He’s certainly a goalie we’ve been leaning on and rightly so, he’s earned it,” said Sutter. “Any team that wants to have success needs goaltending and Tother has certainly given us that. “Burms (Taz Burman) has also been really good at times. We just have to stay with these young kids and develop them.” The victory was the Rebels’ seventh over a 10-game stretch. The team has lost just once in regulation time during that span. “We just tried to go out there and work hard,” said Sandhu. “We just
came off a good road trip that took us through the U.S. and we wanted to keep it up at home. We kept pucks in their end tonight and overall I thought we did a good job.” The Rebels, who are tied with the Calgary Hitmen for third place in the Central Division, one point behind the Edmonton Oil Kings and six back of the front-running Medicine Hat Tigers, host the Saskatoon Blades tonight. ● Referee Tyler Adair, working alone, called just two penalties Friday — both to the Rebels. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com
Former Peterman rink well represented at Classic BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR United for five successful years, the members of Jocelyn Peterman’s Red Deer junior women’s curling team have gone their separate ways. Three players from the 2012 Canadian championship squad are currently competing in the $39,000 Red Deer Curling Classic at the Pidherney Centre. Peterman is tossing second stones for Heather Nedohin’s Edmonton squad, Brittany Tran is playing lead for Casey Scheidegger of Lethbridge and Rebecca Konschuh holds down the lead position with Crystal Webster out of Calgary. The fourth player with the heralded junior foursome, Kristine Anderson, has temporarily stepped away from the game to focus on her work career. “The three of us got some good opportunities with some pretty elite women’s teams, so we figured it would be a good learning experience for us to play with these great women’s curlers,” Tran said Friday, explaining the break-up after a 5-4 loss to Tanilla Doyle of Calgary in opening-draw action. Tran, 21, hooked up with Scheidegger’s team, which also consists of third Cary-Anne McTaggart and second Jessie Scheidegger, during the off season. “I played against Casey and Jessie in juniors a few times and I saw Jessie quite a bit,” said the Red Deer native.
“They heard I was looking for a team and called me up. I thought it was a great opportunity because they’re a good team.” A third-year environmental science student at the University of Calgary, Tran was Peterman’s third during the glory years but has easily adjusted to her new position. “I played mainly third for 10 years, but in fun ‘spiels we’d switch it up sometimes,” she said. “I enjoy playing lead, it’s kind of nice to play a different position and get a different feel for the game.” The Peterman foursome fell just short in their quest for a second trip to the Canadian junior championship over the two years following their 2012 provincial and national conquests and ensuing appearance in the worlds. The Red Deer quartet posted a 6-3 round-robin record and then fell 1110 to Russian in a tie-breaker in the global event in Sweden. Still, one Canadian championship is one more than 99.9 per cent of junior teams will experience. Therefore, Tran has no regrets. “It would have been nice to get back (to the Canadian/world finals), but it was a great journey,” she said. “I love the girls and we’re still all friends. We had some amazing experiences, not just at worlds but other international and national events, including the Canada Winter Games. “I don’t regret any of that.”
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Throwing lead rocks for Team Scheidegger, Brittany Tran makes a shot at during the opening draw of the Red Deer Curling Classic on Friday morning. Action continues through the weekend with the finals going on Monday.
Lightning, Cougars claim high school zone titles BY JOSH ALDRICH ADVOCATE STAFF
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Two programs ended long droughts on Friday to claim Central Alberta high school volleyball zone titles. The Hunting Hills Lightning needed all five sets to beat the Lindsay Thurber Raiders 3-2 (25-17, 21-25, 25-21, 20-25, 15-13) and sweep the senior girls’ bestof-three zone final. The Notre Dame Cougars, meanwhile, did not drop a set to the Raiders to win both matches of the senior boys’ final, including 3-0 (2521, 25-19, 25-20) to clinch it. The Lightning made their final as
exciting as possible, in front of a raucous and mostly full Hunting Hills gym. “It feels so good, especially beating them two games in a row,” said Hunting Hills captain and setter Emma Delemont. “It just feels awesome to have that win over our rival school.” The match was a game of momentum with both schools taking turns with the throttle. The Raiders appeared to be on the verge of forcing a third and final match this morning, after winning the fourth set and taking a 7-4 lead in
the fifth. But Hunting Hills came roaring back to take an 8-7 lead as they switched sides and led by as many as 14-11. Thurber won the next two points and held service as they tried to tie the match. But the Lightning returned the serve and then Bailey Beingessne stuff blocked a Raiders attack on clinch the victory. “I was just hoping they weren’t going to dig it up (on match point) because they dig up so many of our hits, I was just hopping they weren’t going to dig it up again,” said Lightning head coach Blake MacKay. The Raiders got a huge game out
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of both Beingessne and power Jaedyn Paanup, both coming up with big points and blocks at key times throughout the evening. “They’ve both been with me for three years and they just keep on working,” said MacKay. “They’re not afraid to hit, no matter what happened on the previous play, they’re not afraid to keep hitting.” Meanwhile, libero Morgan Whitbread had a big final defensively and passing the ball out of the back court for Hunting Hills, setting up their offence.
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Kings tame Kodiaks, Queens get mauled Kings 72 Kodiaks 60 The RDC Kings have enough offence to play with anyone in the Alberta Colleges Men’s Basketball League. What they’ve shown during their championship years is outstanding defence. That defence was on display during the second half of their ACAC meeting with the Lethbridge Kodiaks at RDC Friday. The Kings held the Kodiaks, who came in ranked No. 2 in Canada, to 23 second-half points in recording a 72-60 victory. “Our defence was great the second half, that made all the difference,” said Kings head coach Clayton Pottinger. “Plus we fixed a few things we were doing in the first half that just wasn’t our style of basketball. Then all of a sudden, for whatever reason — possibly it was my excellent halftime speech — they decided they would play.” The Kings trailed 37-29 at the half and were behind by as much as nine in the third quarter before slowly taking control. They took the lead at 45-44 and never looked back. The Kings, despite giving up some height, also started to control the
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VOLLEYBALL: ASAA Championship The Lightning started off the season with a win over the Raiders at the Red Deer College tournament, but failed to beat them again until Game 1 of the final on Thursday. They have managed to come a long way in a few short months. While their work ethic has always been strong, it’s been the mental game which has come the furthest for them. “Their attitude is better where if they get down a few points they fight back, where as before if they got down a few points, they got down on each other and down on themselves, now they’re a much better team that way,” said MacKay. Up next is the Alberta Schools Athletic Association championships in Lloydminster, hosted by Lloydminster Comprehensive High School, next weekend. Delemont’s goal after eliminating the Notre Dame Cougars in the semifinal was just to extend their season, now they are hoping to shock the province with their first title in more than 10 years. “If we play like we did tonight and last night I’m expecting us to do decent, but the right team has to show up,” said MacKay. The Cougars boys locked horns with the Raiders all year, splitting the season series. However, Notre Dame held the advantage in tournament play and it showed in their final series to win the zone title and punch their own
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boards, especially Benny Bankazo and Tyler Wise. “Benny grabbed a couple key offensive boards in there and Tyler cleaned up the defensive boards,” said Pottinger. Bankazo finished with 13 rebounds and Wise 12. Overall, the Kings had 57 rebounds, including 23 on the offensive end, while Lethbridge finished with 30. The Kings also got an outstanding effort from JP Leblanc, who took over at point guard in the second half with starter Matt Johnson nursing an injury. Leblanc led the Kings with 19 points while grabbing six rebounds before he injured his ankle with five minutes remaining. When Leblanc went down Pottinger was forced to bring Johnson back in and he came in cold to hit two free throws and finished the game with 11 points. The Kings are playing short-handed as it is and as a result dressed Joel Carroll for the first time this season. “We’re a bit banged up, which makes it even more impressive when you’re going that deep on the bench and getting contributions from guys willing to play,” said Pottinger, who was pleased to see the team win the first of the two-game weekend series. The teams meet again today, following the women’s contest, which tips off at 1 p.m.
“Every weekend we lost the first game, similar to our first half today and then battled to come back,” said Pottinger. “We as coaches, and players, need to address that. We have to throw the first punch and dominate the game from beginning to end rather than playing catch up.” Wise was the RDC player of the game, adding 17 points and two assists to his rebounds while Bankazo also had 11 points. Will Hickey led the Kodiaks with 16 points while Dalton Spencer added 12.
ticket to the Border City “We had some guys who had played a lot of volleyball and a lot of highquality volleyball through club and school seasons, and I think that maturity really made the difference in the final,” said Notre Dame head coach AJ Mahoney. Still, despite not dropping a set to the reigning provincial champion Raiders, Mahoney says the final was close, particularly Friday’s Game 3. “Like always when we play them, it was very back-and-forth,” said Mahoney. “It was a battle until the very end, we managed to pull away when it mattered but they fought the entire time.” The Cougars were led by a trio of Grade 12 players setter Nick Schumacher, outside hitter Jordy Quinn and libero Kane Leblanc. They were part of last year’s squad that went to provincials as a wild card. This time they earned their way their and Mahoney said he could sense them grab the moment. “After last year, a bunch of these guys had to sit and watch ... and so I think they were here to play and ready to take their opportunity and make the most of their time on the floor,” he said. “They didn’t want it to be their last game so we really wanted to push for next week.” The Cougars have not won a zone title in the last half decade and are going into provincials under the radar. They have played some of the teams that will be there and have held their own and are hoping to sneak their way onto the podium. “We’re going in with high expectations with having a good shot of placing well,” said Mahoney. jaldrich@reddeeradvocate.com
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The junior squad was successful because they never took the game too seriously, Tran suggested. “All of us had so much fun together, we were best friends on and off the ice. I think that helped a lot — that we just had fun when we were playing,” she said. Those days are over and Tran is now focusing on helping her new teammates climb the ladder of success. The foursome is competing in its fifth World Curling Tour event this weekend in Red Deer and has earned $7,125 to date — including $4,500 for taking top honours in the Medicine Hat Charity Classic. “I definitely feel this team has a lot of potential,” said Tran. “We’re playing against a lot of the top Alberta teams here and I think we have a very good shot this weekend.” Rinks skipped by Webster, Trish Paulsen, Hannah Fleming, Leslie Rogers, Nadine Chyz and Michelle Englot each won twice Friday. Former Canadian champion Rachel Homan of Ottawa earned a first-round bye and was 1-0, as were Jill Thurston and Alina Paetz of Switzerland. ● Dustin Eckstrand’s Red Deer foursome posted a 2-0 record on opening day of the men’s division, joining Wade White, Josh Heidt, Brendan Bottcher, Brady Clark, Grant Dezura, Sean O’Connor and Mick Lizmore with the same mark. Lowell Peterman and Harvey Kelts, also of Red Deer, were 1-1 Friday.
Scores Friday Women 9:30 a.m. (A event) — Trish Paulsen 7 Shannon Kleibrink 6; Kelly Scott 7 Jodi Marthaller 2; Diane Gushaluk 6 Kristie Moore 2; Chelsey Carey 7 Norma Brown 2; Tanilla Doyle 5 Casey Scheidegger; Hannah Fleming 6 Tiffany Game 2. 1 p.m. (A event) — Michelle Englet 8 Brenda Doroshuk 2; Leslie Rogers 6 Mari Motohashi 4; Nadine Chyz 6 Brett Barber 5; Dailene Silvertson 8 Delia DeJong 7; Crystal Webster 7 Teryn Hamilton 4; Suji Kim 7 Susan O’Connor 5. 4:30 p.m. (A event) — Fleming 10 Carey 2; Rachel Homan 5 Doyle 3; Paulsen 5 Kelly Scott 3; Jill Thurston 6 Gushulak 4. 4:30 p.m. (B event) — Brown 8 Game 1; Kleibrink 6 Marthaller 1. 8 p.m. (A event) — Paetz 8 Rogers 2; Webster 6 Nedohin 5; Englot 7 Sivertson 4; Chyz 6 Kim 5 8 p.m. (B event) — O’Connor 9 Barber 4; DeJong 6 Doroshuk 0. Men 9:30 a.m. (A event) — Warren Cross 6 Sean Geall 5; Kevin Marsh 5 Matt Willerton 4; Wade White 5 Jason Ackerman 3; Josh Heidt 7 Chris Baier 2; Aaron Sluchinksi 9 Bill Merklinger 4; Brock Virtue 6 Alexey Tselouson 3; Dustin Eckstrand 5 Mark Johnson 4; Brendan Bottcher 5 Harvey Kelts 3. 1 p.m. (A event) — Sean O’Connor 9 John Stroh 0; Grant Dezura 10 Dave Manser 3; Brady Clark 6 Lowell Peterman 4; Marc Pfister 11 Rob Johnson 3; Jaime King 7 Thomas Usselman 6; Scott Manners 11 Rob Schlender 7; Mick Lizmore 7 Seung Min Kim 6; Drew Heidt 5 Mario Freiberger 4. 4:30 p.m. (A event) — Bottcher 5 Marsh 2; Eckstrand 5 Sluchinski 4; White 6 Cross 4; J. Heidt 7 Virtue 6. 4:30 p.m. (B event) — M. Johnson 6 Merklinger 3; Kelts 5 Willerton 4; Geall 6 Ackerman 5; Tselouson 11 Baier 4. 8 p.m. (A event) — Lizmore 8 D. Heidt 3; Clark 6 King 3; O’Connor 6 Pfister 1; Dezura 5 Manners 2. 8 p.m. (B event) — Schlender 5 Manser 2; Kim 8 Freiberger 5; Stroh 6 R. Johnson 5; Peterman 7 Usselman 4. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com
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Kodiaks 92 Queens 22 The Kodiaks came in with experience, a deep bench, height and ranked No. 3 in Canada. The Queens have two returnees and four players with college experience. The difference, especially in the first half when the Kodiaks used their full court press, was more than evident as they rolled to a 92-22 victory. “We worked all week on the press, but we just made fundamental mistakes that we can’t make,” said Queens head coach Ken King. The Queens’ lack of experience showed, especially in the turnover department as they coughed up the ball 43 times, including 29 in the first half. Lethbridge had 14 turnovers. “We need someone who wants the
ball, to be strong with the ball, and do it on a consistent basis,” said King. “We’ve seen players do great things this season and then the next week are not the same. “As well, a large part of today was coming in and believing we can win,” King added. “The coaches believe and some of the girls believe but we have to get every player to believe. If we have that we’ll be more competitive early. But that’s definitely an experience thing.” The Queens trailed 22-0 before getting on the board and were down 29-6 after 10 minutes. They failed to score in the second quarter and were behind 56-6 at the half. To the Kodiaks credit they took the press off late in the second quarter and for the entire second half. Ann Stewart was named the Queens player of the game; although she had only two points she worked hard inside and had seven boards. Morgan Dool had seven points and five rebounds. Fifth-year guard Ali Cameron had 27 points and four assists for the Kodiaks while Jordyn Kirk added 17 points and Emma Lowry 15. Danny Rode is a retired Advocate reporter and can be reached at drode@reddeeradvocate.com. His work can also be seen at www.rdc.ab.ca/athleticsblog
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Hasek, Forsberg excelled at Canada’s expense BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Corey Hirsch and the rest of his 1994 Canadian Olympic teammates were so focused on Swedish stars Mats Naslund and Hakan Loob that they didn’t pay much attention to 20-year-old Peter Forsberg. “He just kind of hid in the shadows of those guys,” Hirsch said. “As far as us, Canadians, we didn’t know much about him.” By the time Forsberg scored in the shootout to give Sweden the gold medal, he had put his stamp on hockey very early in a career that has led him to the Hockey Hall of Fame. Two years later Mike Modano helped the United States win the World Cup of Hockey, and then in 1998 Dominik Hasek willed the Czech Republic to gold at the Nagano Olympics. On Monday night those three Canada killers go into the Hall of Fame together, along with the late Pat Burns, longtime Canadian defenceman Rob Blake and referee Bill McCreary. To Hirsch, it’s no shock that this class excelled internationally at Canada’s expense. “That’s why they’re Hall of Famers because they’ve done everything and they’ve been able to succeed in high-pressure situations,” Hirsch said by phone Friday. “That’s what great players do. They do amazing things at opportune times.” Hasek’s domination in Nagano was the most amazing. He shut out Finland earlier in the tournament and then blanked Russia for gold, but before that he took his place in Canadian hockey history. After receiving his Hall of Fame ring Friday, Hasek said he and his teammates started to believe this was a special run after beating the U.S. in the quarters. Then Hasek shined as the Czechs pushed Canada to a shootout. “I remember knowing that you had Dominik Hasek in the other net,” said Blake, who was named the top defenceman in those Olympics. “There’s no gimmes, we knew that going into the game, and then finally when you come down to kind of a one-on-one
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From left, Hockey Hall of Fame 2014 inductees Mike Modano, Bill McCreary, Dominik Hasek, Peter Forsberg, the wife of the late Pat Burns Lynn Burns, and Rob Blake pose for a photograph at The Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto on Friday, November 14, 2014. showdown and you got one of the greatest goalies to play at the other end, it makes it tough.” Before the shootout Hasek left his crease to ask McCreary if Wayne Gretzky was shooting. “Once I told him I didn’t know who was shooting, he went back into his net and as he always did, he stopped everybody,” McCreary said. As everyone knows now, Gretzky didn’t shoot. Hasek stopped Theo Fleury, Ray Bourque, Joe Nieuwendyk, Eric Lindros and Brendan Shanahan. “I probably saw him play the best that he could,” Blake said. Hasek said winning gold in Nagano was the top accomplishment of his career, slightly ahead of winning the Stanley Cup with the Detroit Red Wings. “We won the gold medal, we flew with a charter our president sent for
us and we came back to Prague and we spend one night in Prague and this night I will never, ever forget,” Hasek said. Hasek at that time was in the midst of arguably the best stretch of any goaltender in NHL history. Eleven years earlier at the 1987 Canada Cup, he showed the potential to grow into that. “You realized how good he was then,” said Canada’s starter in that tournament, Grant Fuhr. “It’s just he’d never had a chance to show it because the Czechs weren’t going to beat the Russians and they couldn’t beat us because both our teams just happened to be better teams overall.” Like Hasek in 1998, Forsberg helped Sweden dispel that at the 1994 Games in Lillehammer, Norway. With the gold medal on the line, Hirsch did what he thought was his best to stop him in the shootout.
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Grizzlys double up Canucks OLDS — The Olds Grizzlys (11-10-3) bounced back after a rough night against the Brooks Bandits earlier this week to crush the Calgary Canucks 6-3 on Friday at the Olds Sportsplex in Alberta Junior Hockey League action. Alex Brewer, Christopher Gerrie, Sean Richards, BJ Duffin, Jack Goranson and Cale Brown all scored for Red Deer while Jesse Gordichuk made 25 saves for his first win since being traded to the Grizzlys from the Fort McMurray Oil Barons one week ago. Trent Geiger, Brendon Benson and Nolan Carothers responded with goals for the Canucks while Bolton Pouliot stopped 41 of 46 shots. The Canucks (8-13-4) were 3-for-7 on the power play while the Grizzlys were 3-for-8 with the man advantage and added a short-handed marker. The Grizzlys are in Camrose to play the Kodiaks (18-3-2) tonight at 7 p.m.
Red Deer soccer looking for a better challenge In an effort to improve their play in the summer, the Red Deer City Soccer Association announced on Friday that they will be play in Calgary’s men’s and women’s major leagues. The RDCSA will be represented by the Red Deer Renegades in the Calgary Women’s Soccer Association and the Red Deer Rovers in the Calgary United Soccer Association. The leagues are made up of the top southern Alberta Major Soccer League teams — Canada’s highest level of amateur soccer. “It is the first time that both men’s and women’s from Red Deer are playing indoor soccer in the Calgary major leagues. The hope is that with our teams competing in these leagues, Red Deer will gain experience and advance their level of play and be better prepared for the outdoor season,” said Renegades coach and manager Paul Morigeau in a press release. This year in the Alberta Major Soccer League the women finished in last place at 2-10-2, citing an in ability to play year round like most of the other teams as a reason for their struggles. This is a big step forward in remedying that situation. This will be the men’s second season in the CUSA and are hoping to regain a foothold in the AMSL men’s division. “We will continue to build on our success from last year and look forward to competing among the best,” says Rovers Manager Kurt Jensen.
CALGARY — The Red Deer College Kings were pushed to the limit by the Ambrose University College Lions, eking out a 3-2 (29-27, 20-25, 25-27, 25-21, 15-12) win in Alberta Colleges Athletic College men’s volleyball action in Calgary on Friday. The Kings hobbled by injuries to several of their top players went with mostly young, unproven players for most of the game, and it showed. Luke Brisbane was the Kings player of the game with 54 assists and two blocks while Kashtin De Souza and Tanner Rehn had 17 kills each. The RDC Queens, meanwhile, swept the Lions 3-0 (25-23, 25-20, 25-15) in the women’s game. Alex Donaghy led the Queens with 10 kills, two
“As he took me to his left — my right — I really took everything away from him,” Hirsch said. “I had him. I had him in the sense that he had nothing. The only thing he could do was what he did, and at that point in time was something that nobody had ever really seen before.” Forsberg went the other way with a move so memorable its image made it onto a stamp in Sweden. “It was kind of a lucky shot, he was so close to saving it,” Forsberg said. “I was fortunate to be on the better part of that shootout. Fantastic moment. First time Sweden ever won the Olympic gold. It was a great kick-start for me to come over to the NHL right after. For me it was a fantastic moment.” Patric Hornqvist of the Pittsburgh Penguins was 7 at the time but recognized the historical importance of Forsberg’s goal.
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MONTREAL — The wild ride that Jonathan Crompton has been on this season will now take him to his first Canadian Football League playoff game. The 27-year-old who was cut from his job as a backup quarterback by the Edmonton Eskimos in July put up an unlikely 8-2 record since taking over as the Montreal Alouettes’ starter in August. His numbers were so-so and he was hardly dazzling behind centre, but the Asheville, N.C. native earned enough wins for the Alouettes to turn a 1-7 record into a 9-9 mark and claim second place in the East Division. He will get his first playoff start Sunday when the Alouettes play host to the crossover B.C. Lions in the East Division semifinal at Percival Molson Stadium. “I don’t think I’m trying to prove anything to myself,” Crompton said Friday. “We’re out here as a team, trying to make sure we execute our game plan.” Crompton is not at the point where he says a lot to the media. But neither did Anthony Calvillo when he first became the Montreal starter in 2000, before he went on to win three Grey Cups and set the league’s all-time passing record before he retired after the 2013 season. Finding a replacement for Calvillo was a nightmare early in the campaign, as his designated successor Troy Smith struggled to find receivers, then got injured and then was let go. The experienced Alex Brink didn’t do much better, and Tanner Marsh didn’t get much action other than running the ball on short yardage plays. Then along came Crompton, who looked good in his first appearance in relief of Brink in a loss at Winnipeg on Aug. 22. He took over as the starter the next week against Ottawa and the team went on a roll. It helped that the Alouettes had made an in-season coaching change that brought in former CFL and NFL star Jeff Garcia to handle the quarterbacks. Thanks mostly to remarkable play by the defence, the Alouettes won games even though Crompton did not have a single game with 300 yards passing. The Alouettes had won six in a row before a regular season-ending loss in bad weather in Hamilton last week in which he passed for a season high 284
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Montreal Alouettes quarterback Jonathan Crompton fires a pass during a practice Friday in Montreal. The Alouettes will face the B.C. Lions in the CFL Eastern semifinal Sunday. yards. Now, Crompton gets his first test in a win-or-gohome game. “I expect him to handle it like he’s handled most of the games he’s started, which has been pretty good,” said general manager Jim Popp. “He’s that type of guy. “He’ll go with the flow. Hopefully we can just manage the game, take care of the ball and give us a chance.” He has done that. Crompton threw 11 touchdown passes while being picked off only eight times. After the team’s early season quarterback woes, all-star tackle Josh Bourke is glad to have a pivot that gets the job done. “I think he’d admit he’s still a work in progress, along with our whole offence,” said Bourke. “He has a calm demeanour. He’s very confident and he commands the huddle well. “The good thing is we don’t need him to throw for 500 yards. He doesn’t have to be A.C. because of how good the defence is.”
When heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez was forced out of his latest title defence with an injury, the UFC’s debut in Mexico lost much of its lustre. Fabricio Werdum and Mark Hunt will try to restore that appeal when they fight for the interim belt at UFC 180 in Mexico City on Saturday night. This event was supposed to be a showcase for Velasquez, the Mexican-American champion who has a strong following in Mexico. Instead, the oft-injured Velasquez hurt his right knee and dropped out of his bout against Werdum (18-5-1) last month, sending the UFC scrambling for something to show the 21,000 fans who sold out the Arena Cuidad de Mexico in eight hours. The promotion came up with a matchup between Werdum, the 37-year-old Brazilian veteran on a fourfight winning streak, and Hunt (10-8-1), the 40-yearold Australian brawler with a history of thrilling fights. Yet even the fighters in the main event can’t pretend their showcase is an ideal situation, knowing they’re fighting for a belt with an asterisk. “It’s not for the championship,” Hunt said. “Cain is the champion. It’s a shot to fight the champion. It’s bad news for Fabricio, but it’s great for me. I’ve already won just by being here. Six years ago, people were laughing at me. Now I’m here and I’m winning.” While Hunt is seizing his unlikely opportunity, Werdum realizes he has little to gain and plenty to lose when he steps in with Hunt, one of the UFC’s most powerful punchers. Werdum, who famously beat Fedor Emelianenko in a 2010 Strikeforce bout, patiently worked his way up the ranks after rejoining the UFC three years ago, only to watch his long-awaited title shot turn into an interim fight when Velasquez couldn’t stay healthy. At least he’s probably the new crowd favourite: Werdum, who speaks fluent Spanish, plans to walk to the cage to the strains of “Cielito Lindo,” the classic Mexican song.
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SATURDAY, NOV. 15, 2014
Hockey
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● Soccer: Red Deer City Soccer Association Hampton Inn & Suites at the Collicutt Centre. ● World Curling Tour: Red Deer Curling Classic, draws at 9:30 a.m., 1, 4:30 and 8 p.m., Pidherney Centre and Michener Hill Curling Club. ● Senior high volleyball: Game 3 of best-of-three zone girls and boys finals, if necessary; Girls — Hunting Hills at Lindsay Thurber, 11 a.m.; Boys — Lindsay Thurber at Notre Dame, 11 a.m. or 1 p.m. ● Peewee AA hockey: Airdrie at Red Deer TBS, 12:30 p.m., Collicutt Centre. ● College basketball: Lethbridge at RDC, women at 1 p.m., men to follow. ● Midget AA hockey: Calgary Blue at Red Deer Elks, 2 p.m., Arena; Lethbridge at Red Deer Indy Graphics, 4:45 p.m., Arena. ● Junior women’s hockey: Calgary Warriors at Central Alberta, 3:45 p.m., Penhold Regional Multiplex. ● Major midget girls hockey: Rocky Mountain at Red Deer, 5 p.m., Collicutt Centre. ● Bantam AA hockey: Red Deer Ramada at Sylvan Lake, 5:15 p.m., Caroline. ● College volleyball: Ambrose at RDC, women at 6 p.m., men to follow. ● WHL: Saskatoon at Red Deer, 7 p.m., Centrium. ● College men’s hockey: Grant MacEwan at RDC, 7 p.m., Penhold Regional Multiplex. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Airdrie at Ponoka, 8 p.m.; Mountainview at Three Hills, 8 p.m., Trochu.
WHL EASTERN CONFERENCE EAST DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF Brandon 21 16 4 1 0 104 Swift Current 22 11 8 0 3 62 Regina 20 10 9 1 0 70 Moose Jaw 21 9 10 1 1 60 Prince Albert 21 8 13 0 0 61 Saskatoon 20 6 14 0 0 51
GA 66 61 56 71 75 93
Pt 33 25 21 20 16 12
CENTRAL DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL Medicine Hat 19 14 4 1 0 Edmonton 21 11 8 0 2 Red Deer 21 10 8 2 1 Calgary 21 10 8 1 2 Kootenay 20 7 13 0 0 Lethbridge 20 5 11 3 1
GF 74 62 74 76 52 50
GA 44 50 72 63 87 83
Pt 29 24 23 23 14 14
WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF Kelowna 20 18 1 1 0 98 Prince George 20 11 9 0 0 59 Victoria 21 10 9 2 0 65 Kamloops 21 9 9 2 1 67 Vancouver 19 8 11 0 0 60
GA 44 81 71 74 59
Pt 37 22 22 21 16
SOL columns Friday’s results Regina 6 Medicine Hat 2 Moose Jaw 5 Prince Albert 3 Seattle 6 Brandon 4 Edmonton 7 Saskatoon 1 Kootenay 7 Calgary 6 (OT) Red Deer 4 Lethbridge 1 Spokane at Kamloops, 8 p.m. Kelowna at Prince George, 8 p.m. Victoria at Tri-City, 8:05 p.m. Portland at Everett, 8:35 p.m. Today’s games Seattle at Regina, 6 p.m. Prince Albert at Swift Current, 6 p.m. Medicine Hat at Brandon, 6:30 p.m. Saskatoon at Red Deer, 7 p.m. Kootenay at Lethbridge, 7 p.m. Kelowna at Prince George, 8 p.m. Victoria at Vancouver, 8 p.m. Kamloops at Everett, 8:05 p.m. Tri-City at Spokane, 8:05 p.m.
1. Calgary, Virtanen 3 (unassisted) 10:31. 2. Calgary, Sanheim 2 (Morrison, Twarynski) 18:31. 3. Kootenay, Philp 7 (Reinhart, Bozon) 19:44. Second Period 4. Kootenay, Descheneau 9 (Philp, Vetterl) 3:54. 5. Kootenay, Loschiavo 3 (Murray, Chynoweth) 12:16. 6. Calgary, Lang 9 (Peterson) 14:18 (short-handedSH). 7. Kootenay, King 1 (Zborosky) 16:46. 8. Calgary, Tambellini 12 (unassisted) 18:57. Third Period 9. Calgary, Fazleev 9 (Thomas, Sanheim) 5:02. 10. Kootenay, Zborosky 5 (Reinhart, King) 8:10. 11. Calgary, Sanheim 3 (Twarynski, Draude) 12:04. 12. Kootenay, Bozon 3 (Reinhart, Philp) 18:52 (short-handed-SH). Overtime 13. Kootenay, Philp 8 (Reinhart, Valiev) 4:45. Shots on goal by Calgary 12 11 11 4 — 38 Kootenay 10 12 12 3 — 37 Goal — Calgary: Johnson (LS, 3-2-0); Kootenay: Hoflin (W, 6-10-0).
FRIDAY’S SUMMARIES Rebels 4, Hurricanes 1 First Period No Scoring. Second Period No Scoring.
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U.S. DIVISION W L OTLSOL 12 2 2 1 12 9 0 0 9 8 2 1 8 6 3 0 8 11 0 2
GF 67 58 56 50 65
GA 41 56 58 52 84
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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
Third Period 1. Lethbridge, Jones 10 (Sheen) 3:07. 2. Red Deer, Sandhu 6 (Pawlenchuk, Cote) 4:16. 3. Red Deer, Sandhu 7 (Bleackley, Pawlenchuk) 9:24. 4. Red Deer, Maxwell 5 (Fleury, Johnson) 14:40. 5. Red Deer, Feser 6 (Johnson, Musil) 17:46 (-EN). Shots on goal by Lethbridge 5 8 7 — 20 Red Deer 8 14 13 — 35 Goal — Lethbridge: Robidoux (L, 1-6-3); Red Deer: Toth (W, 9-5-2). Ice 7, Hitmen 6 (OT) First Period
NHL EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF Montreal 17 12 4 1 25 45 Tampa Bay 17 11 4 2 24 61 Detroit 16 8 3 5 21 44 Ottawa 16 8 4 4 20 45 Toronto 17 9 6 2 20 54 Boston 18 10 8 0 20 49 Florida 14 5 4 5 15 27 Buffalo 18 3 13 2 8 24 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts GF Pittsburgh 15 11 3 1 23 57 N.Y. Islanders 16 11 5 0 22 52 New Jersey 17 8 7 2 18 44 Washington 16 7 6 3 17 49 N.Y. Rangers 16 7 6 3 17 47
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Philadelphia 15 7 6 2 16 48 47 Carolina 15 5 7 3 13 36 47 Columbus 16 5 10 1 11 42 58 WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA St. Louis 16 11 4 1 23 45 32 Nashville 16 10 4 2 22 41 34 Winnipeg 17 9 6 2 20 33 36 Chicago 17 9 7 1 19 45 34 Minnesota 15 8 7 0 16 44 35 Dallas 16 6 6 4 16 46 53 Colorado 18 5 8 5 15 44 59 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Anaheim 17 11 3 3 25 47 37 Vancouver 17 12 5 0 24 53 47 Calgary 18 10 6 2 22 55 48 Los Angeles 17 8 5 4 20 42 38 San Jose 18 9 7 2 20 53 51 Edmonton 17 6 9 2 14 43 58 Arizona 16 6 9 1 13 40 56 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. Friday’s Games N.Y. Islanders 4, Florida 3, SO Columbus 4, Philadelphia 3 New Jersey 1, Washington 0 Pittsburgh 2, Toronto 1 Detroit 4, Chicago 1 Arizona at Vancouver, late Saturday’s Games Carolina at Boston, 11 a.m. Minnesota at Dallas, 12 p.m. Anaheim at Los Angeles, 2 p.m. Toronto at Buffalo, 5 p.m. Philadelphia at Montreal, 5 p.m. N.Y. Islanders at Tampa Bay, 5 p.m. Colorado at New Jersey, 5 p.m. N.Y. Rangers at Pittsburgh, 5 p.m. San Jose at Columbus, 5 p.m. Winnipeg at Nashville, 5 p.m. Washington at St. Louis, 6 p.m. Ottawa at Calgary, 8 p.m.
Football rett, Montreal Alouettes Most Outstanding Special Teams Player — Swayze Waters, K/P, Toronto Argonauts Most Outstanding Rookie — Tristan Okpalaugo, DL, Toronto Argonauts WEST DIVISION Most Outstanding Player — Solomon Elimimian, LB, B.C. Lions Most Outstanding Defensive Player — Solomon Elimimian, LB, B.C. Lions Most Outstanding Canadian — Jon Cornish, RB, Calgary Stampeders Most Outstanding Offensive Lineman — Brett Jones, Calgary Stampeders Most Outstanding Special Teams Player — Lirim Hajrullahu, K/P, Winnipeg Blue Bombers Most Outstanding Rookie — Dexter McCoil, LB, Edmonton Eskimos
CFL Playoffs Sunday, Nov. 16 Division Semifinals East Bye: Hamilton B.C. at Montreal, 11 a.m. West Bye: Calgary Saskatchewan at Edmonton, 2:30 p.m.
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● Soccer: Red Deer City Soccer Association Hampton Inn & Suites at the Collicutt Centre. ● World Curling Tour: Red Deer Curling Classic, draws at 9 a.m., 12:15, 3:30 and 7 p.m., Pidherney Centre and Michener Hill Curling Club. ● Peewee AA hockey: Red Deer TBS at Red Deer Parkland, 11:30 a.m., Collicutt Centre. ● Midget AA hockey: Okotoks at Red Deer Indy Graphics, noon, Arena. ● Major midget girls hockey: Calgary at Red Deer, 12:30 p.m., Collicutt Centre. ● Chinook senior hockey: Okotoks at Bentley, 2 p.m. ● Bantam AA hockey: Medicine Hat at Red Deer Ramada, 2 p.m., Kinsmen A. ● Midget AAA hockey: Edmonton Canadians at Red Deer, 3 p.m., Arena. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Medicine Hat at Blackfalds, 3:30 p.m.
Sunday, Nov. 23 Division Finals East Montreal-B.C. winner at Hamilton, 11 a.m. West Edmonton-Saskatchewan winner at Calgary, 2:30 p.m. 102nd Grey Cup Sunday, Nov. 30 At Vancouver East Champion vs. West Champion, 4 p.m. 2014 Canadian Football League Award Nominees List TORONTO — East and West Division nominees announced Thursday for the 2014 Canadian Football League end-of-year awards (to be selected Nov. 27 in Vancouver): EAST DIVISION Most Outstanding Player — Ricky Ray, QB, Toronto Argonauts Most Outstanding Defensive Player — Bear Woods, LB, Montreal Alouettes Most Outstanding Canadian — Ted Laurent, DT, Hamilton Tiger-Cats Most Outstanding Offensive Lineman — Jeff Per-
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PA 198 212 247 229
PF 251 198 219 167
PA 225 281 238 272
PF 182 277 168 194
PA 142 205 199 277
PF 223 240 195 163
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NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct Philadelphia 7 2 0 .778 Dallas 7 3 0 .700 N.Y. Giants 3 6 0 .333 Washington 3 6 0 .333 South W L T Pct New Orleans 4 5 0 .444 Carolina 3 6 1 .350 Atlanta 3 6 0 .333 Tampa Bay 1 8 0 .111 North W L T Pct Detroit 7 2 0 .778 Green Bay 6 3 0 .667 Minnesota 4 5 0 .444 Chicago 3 6 0 .333 West W L T Pct Arizona 8 1 0 .889 Seattle 6 3 0 .667 San Francisco 5 4 0 .556 St. Louis 3 6 0 .333
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PA 198 180 204 265
PF 290 206 144 158
PA 211 197 223 282
PF 209 197 261
PA 172 211 239
Thursday’s Game Miami 22, Buffalo 9
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Minnesota at Chicago, 11 a.m. Seattle at Kansas City, 11 a.m. Cincinnati at New Orleans, 11 a.m. Denver at St. Louis, 11 a.m. Houston at Cleveland, 11 a.m. Atlanta at Carolina, 11 a.m. Tampa Bay at Washington, 11 a.m. San Francisco at N.Y. Giants, 11 a.m. Oakland at San Diego, 2:05 p.m. Detroit at Arizona, 2:25 p.m. Philadelphia at Green Bay, 2:25 p.m. New England at Indianapolis, 6:30 p.m. Open: Baltimore, Dallas, Jacksonville, N.Y. Jets Monday’s Game Pittsburgh at Tennessee, 6:30 p.m. NFL Odds (Odds provided by Western Canada Lottery; favourites in capital letters) Spread O/U Thursday Buffalo at MIAMI 5.5 42.5 Sunday Minnesota at CHICAGO 3.5 46.5 SAN FRANCISCO at NY Giants 4.5 43.5 DENVER at St. Louis 9.5 51.5 Tampa Bay at WASHINGTON 7.5 45.5 Cincinnati at NEW ORLEANS 7.5 50.5 Atlanta at CAROLINA 1.5 46.5 Seattle at KANSAS CITY 1.5 42.5 Houston at CLEVELAND 3.5 42.5 Oakland at SAN DIEGO 10.5 44.5 Philadelphia at GREEN BAY 5.5 56.5 Detroit at ARIZONA 1.5 41.5 New England at INDIANAPOLIS 2.5 57.5 Monday PITTSBURGH at Tennessee 5.5 46.5
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Saturday, Nov. 15, 2014
Soroptimist International of Central Alberta
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great time was had by all at the Soroptimist International of Central Alberta Pyjamas and Pearls fundraiser, which was held at the Holiday Inn and Suites South on Nov. 1. Meg and Vinnie from Cruz 100.7FM were entertaining emcees. We laughed over dinner to Cam Cook and were regaled by the delightful music of Randi Boulton! Before the event even started, Debbie Wilmer won the early bird draw, which was a one-night stay donated by the Holiday Inn and Suites South. While some women vied for
the amazing silent auction items — including tickets and back-seat passes to April Wine and Trooper, donated by Cruz, an autographed guitar donated by Gord Bamford, a condo stay in Palm Springs donated by Warren Sinclair LLP and Earl’s Restaurant, a Coach bag and accessories, donated by Jennifer Neil with Avenue Financial Calgary and a child’s battery operated motorcycle — other women of all ages danced the night away or visited with friends. Winners of the raffle prizes: a Saskatchewan Roughriders deck cooler filled with goodies donated by Candy Bags Sweet
Stop (Robert Clark); a Traeger smoker and meat package donated by Jet Uniform (Dave Feaver); and pearl jewelry donated by People’s Jewellers in Bower Mall (Megan Chernoff) were ecstatic and picked them up at the close of the evening! “It’s so much more fun to party in pyjamas,” “best PJs ever” and “loved everything” were quotes made by some of the ladies attending the annual fundraiser to secure funds for the club’s programs for women and girls in Central Alberta and internationally. Scholarships for head-of-the-house women returning to school, a mother-daughter conference and human trafficking initiatives are among supported causes. Although final figures have not been tallied, well over $10,000 was raised, it was a successful event and our community will be better for the efforts of Soroptimist International of Central Alberta!
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Court losing patience with suspect JESSICA MASYK HAS TWO MORE WEEKS TO ENTER A PLEA BY BRENDA KOSSOWAN ADVOCATE STAFF A Penhold woman implicated in the death of a longboarder late in May has been given two more weeks to make some decisions on a growing list of criminal charges. Jessica Masyk, 25, has been in custody since Aug. 18 when she and another suspect were arrested in Red Deer by police investigating a violent incident in the Highland Green residential subdivision. Red Deer City RCMP reported at the time that suspects attempting to escape in a stolen pickup truck had smashed into a number of other vehicles, including two police cars. Masyk was charged with assaulting a police officer with a weapon, flight from police and possession of stolen property. At the time of her arrest, Masyk had been granted
bail and was awaiting court proceedings on charges laid earlier in connection with the death of Trystan Sorensen, 18. Sorensen was struck down on May 20 while longboarding along Hwy 592, west of Penhold. Masyk has yet to enter pleas on charges, including leaving the scene of an injury or fatal collision, public mischief and driving while disqualified. Further investigations since she was returned to custody resulted in new charges being laid by Sylvan Lake RCMP, alleging that she was a party to the theft of a pickup truck in Eckville on Aug. 6 and was found in Sylvan Lake in possession of a stolen pickup truck, other stolen property and a variety of illegal drugs. Masyk was also charged with harbouring suspect Steve Lagace, who was unlawfully at large at the time. Lagace is now serving a 26-month sentence after pleading guilty in Red Deer provincial court on Oct. 14 to arson in connection with the SUV alleged to
have killed Sorensen. Masyk had originally reported the vehicle stolen. Its burned-out remains were later found abandoned in a field east of Innisfail. Lagace admitted during court proceedings to taking the vehicle and setting it on fire. A second man arrested in connection with the arson is to stand trial in Red Deer provincial court on Dec. 11. In Red Deer provincial court on Friday, Judge David Plosz warned Masyk and her counsel, through a law student acting as her agent, that they will have no more opportunities to adjourn the proceedings against her. Masyk was told that she and defence counsel Kaitlyn Perrin of Calgary must come to court prepared to enter her elections and pleas or she will be presumed to have pleaded not guilty and hearings will be scheduled for her. bkossowan@reddeeradvocate.com
MUSTACHE DAY
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Sporting a fine mustache Callie Hokins, right, joined with her classmates including Brooklyn Harvey, left, in Kent Rathgeber’s Grade 2 class at Annie L. Gaetz Elementary School Friday. All students and staff were encouraged to grow a little instant mustache to celebrate their November theme spirit day. The tradition is only two years old and began to support male staff members who are participating in Movember at the school. Mustache Day has become one of the favorite spirit days of the year, says principal Clint Saunders.
Lawyer files complaint against RCMP constable ADVOCATE STAFF A Red Deer RCMP constable who was caught on video beating a man arrested for impaired driving two years ago could be investigated. Cory Nielsen was acquitted of impaired driving and resisting a peace officer after his convictions were overturned on appeal on Oct. 24. The judge at his original trial had ruled that the police officer did not use excessive force. Now Nielsen’s Edmonton-based lawyer, Deborah Hatch, has filed a complaint with the RCMP public
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BRIEFS Primary Care Network hosting health cafe The upcoming health cafe focuses on how to create holidays with more comfort and joy. Organized by the Primary Care Network, the health cafe invites people to come and experience some new positive psychology inspired ways to reconnect with the deeper meanings and traditions of the holiday season. As well, people can learn some practical ways to create some new traditions that are likely to create more meaning, comfort and joy. The event will be presented by Rene Joslin, a registered psychologist and Dr. Morne Odendaal. It takes place on Nov. 19 from 11:45 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Pidherney Curling Club, 4725 43rd St. There is a $5 fee at the door. To reserve a space call 403-343-9100 or email events@rdpcn.com.
Ladies of Sunnybrook Farm Museum holding pie sale The Ladies of Sunnybrook Farm Museum are putting on a pie sale, just in time for Christmas. On Nov. 25 from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Nov. 26 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the farm museum, 4701 30th St., the ready-to-bake pies will be available. Apple, peach, blueberry, cherry, raisin, mincement, rhubarb and raspberry and strawberry rhubarb will be available for $12. Mincemeat and butter tarts will also be available for $6 a box. For more information call 403-340-3511.
complaints commission seeking an investigation into the conduct of Const. Eric Pomerleau, the officer allegedly involved in the incident. Security video footage from the Red Deer RCMP detachment shows Nielsen standing by the RCMP security desk, where he was expected to sign release forms. He pulls out a cellphone, there is some mild armgesturing and Nielsen is seen backing away. A police officer twists his arm behind his back, pulls him to the ground, and then with help from another officer, attempts to restrain him. Numerous blows are delivered to Nielsen’s face and body. Hatch said when you see that kind of gratuitous
force being applied by a police officer, it’s very concerning for everybody. “I think we know that police beatings go on in places like Afghanistan,” she said. “I don’t think anyone expects these sorts of things to happen in Canada. We expect courts to dispense justice and decide what should happen in the case. “We don’t allow our police officers to dispense the kind of justice that they see fit. In Canada we have the presumption of innocence and it’s not for a police officer to decide what’s to happen to somebody.” Nielsen had been arrested on Dec. 20, 2012, for running a red light and suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol.
Fourth annual Grad Preview Night
after a toxic spill wiped out the entire fish population of Byrnes Creek. The talk will focus on the local watershed and fish population and will be followed by participants painting a wooden fish, which will be installed as part of a colourful fence mural. The breakfast is scheduled for Nov. 21 from 7:30 to 8:45 a.m. at the Quality Inn, North Hill, 7150 50th Ave. It costs $15 per person. To reserve a place email info@rdrwa.ca or call Kelly at 403-340-7379 by 12 p.m. on Nov. 19.
Even though Graduation is a long way off, students are invited to get ready for the culmination of their hard work in style at the fourth annual Grad Preview Night. Put on by Bridal Couture Dezigns, the preview is a free event for upcoming local grads. The night includes a New York inspired fashion show and previews the latest 2015 styles on the red carpet. There will even be a draw to win a grad dress, as well as other prizes. The preview night is on Nov. 22 at the Gary Moe Mazda Showroom, 81 Gasoline Alley East. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and the fashion show starts at 7 p.m.
Lacombe seeks feedback on dog park Lacombe is hoping for some feedback from residents and dog owners about a proposed off-leash dog park. The proposal would put a permanent off-leash dog park in the second phase of the Len Thompson Industrial Park, off of Wolf Creek Drive and accessible form Len Thompson Drive. Now that the project has a home, they are hoping for residents to contribute their thoughts to the discussion. To provide feedback, and read more details about the project, visit www.lacombe.ca/living/amenities/parks/off-leash-dog-park.
Red Deer River Watershed Alliance ambassador breakfast A watershed awareness program highlights the monthly Red Deer River Watershed Alliance ambassador breakfast this month. Karen Tewnion and Val Schumacher with Stream of Dreams Calgary will talk about the watershed awareness program that started in Burnaby, B.C.
Noodlebox raises $3,600 for shelter Partnering with the Central Alberta Women’s Emergency Shelter, Noodlebox raised more than $3,600 for the shelter in seven hours. Staff donated volunteered their time, the supplier donated the food and the grand opening of the third Noodlebox location was deemed a success by the company. Located at the Village Mall Shopping Centre, 6320 50th Ave., Noodlebox used its grand opening to give back to a local social support organization.
Apple Talks in Stettler later this month Apple Talks, a discussion about how different parenting styles contribute to a health, nurturing upbringing, will be in Stettler later this month for an evening presentation. Run through Alberta Health Services, the Apple Talks invite moms and dads to learn about how they approach language and communication, problemsolving and play differently. And how both parents can provide safe, nurturing care and learn how their different styles are good for their children. The discussion will be held on Nov. 20 from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at the Evergreen Parent Link Centre, 5104 50th Ave. Free child care will be provided. Space is limited, so people are asked to register in advance by emailing stettlerplc@mcman.ca.
Carolyn Martindale, City Editor, 403-314-4326 Fax 403-341-6560 E-mail editorial@reddeeradvocate.com
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Why Christianity and the middle class are both in decline AS THE MIDDLE CLASS GOES, SO GOES THE CHURCH DAVE ALBERTSON SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE The church is a bourgeois institution. And not just in our times — it’s always been this way. From the very beginning, Christian communities were composed of urban dwellers of the middle class. Saint Paul’s travels were focused on cities that had established synagogues and vibrant marketplaces. He engaged the intellectual establishment, praised those who patronized the early movement, and described his work in Rome as a fundraising trip for the poor church in Jerusalem (Romans 15:22-29). Later, as Peter Brown has shown, Constantine established the clergy in the middle class and gave them the benefits of the elite. Most of the Church Fathers threw in their support. Saint Augustine urged that managing wealth and using it to build and maintain the church was of more spiritual value than vows of poverty. And while the Protestant Reformation was a critique of ecclesiastical fundraising, it was not a working class movement. Luther’s view of the two kingdoms — church and state being God’s left and right hands — is thoroughly bourgeois. Luther and the peasants had a pretty awful relationship, which ended in a bloody uprising, the vic-
tory of the ruling class, and Luther siding firmly with the establishment. In America, church has always been a free market commodity primarily oriented toward the middle class. In class conflicts, the church has generally sided with management. Church congregants have not been working poor, but rather business owners and managers. Even the noble response of the initial social justice movement of a century ago was bourgeois. Its purpose was not to find solidarity with the poor, but to lend a hand to the poor to hoist them into the middle class. Today, church planters target bourgeois zip codes and church stewardship and fundraising professionals utilize planned giving and endowments. Modern church facilities mirror other middle class establishments: coffee shops, restaurants, theaters, and college campuses. My favorite example of this is a video called What if Starbucks Marketed like the Church? It’s chief complaint is that the church is dated and not bourgeois enough to attract intelligent consumers. The church is, and always has been, a bourgeois institution. It is no surprise, then, that the long decay of the church over the past generation coincides perfectly with the long decay of the middle class. The correlation is unmistakable. Reading Thomas Piketty’s much-discussed Capital in the Twenty-First Century is like read-
ing a history of the incredible rise and decay of the institutional church. Piketty never mentions the church as he describes the bubble of egalitarian economics from 1930-1980. But chapter after chapter and chart after chart tell the same story that denominational leaders and sociologists of religion have been describing for decades: a steep incline in the 30’s and 40’s, a plateau through the mid-70’s, and a steady decline ever since. Even more haunting is Charles Murray’s Coming Apart. Murray explains that for the past several decades, church participation within the middle class has hardly changed, but it has disappeared almost entirely within the working class. His observation is easily confirmed by attending worship services. The working class is poorly represented in our congregations; people in lower classes have little means to support a congregation with time, talent, or treasure, and they perceive little value in the institution. Christians around the country are wondering why churches are in decline. The reason is not Darwin or Marx, science or atheism, culture wars, or competition. It’s economics. As goes the middle class, so goes the church. Dave Albertson is the pastor of Living Grace Lutheran Church outside Frederick, Maryland.
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Balmoral Bible Chapel
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Sunday, November 16
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ST. LEONARD’S ON THE HILL
Joffre Road (East of 30 Ave. on 55 St.)
10:30 am Worship Service Speaker: Fred Thomson “True Greatness” Mark 9: 30-37 Sunday School Ages 2 1/2-Grade 5 www.balmoralchapel.ca
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Officiant: Rev. Gary Sinclair 8:00 a.m. Holy Communion 9:00 a.m. Celebration Service 10:30 a.m. Holy Eucharist with Sunday School/Nursery 2:00 p.m. Communion at St. Paul’s, Hillsdown 7:00 p.m.“The Gathering” Prayer and Praise
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Helping people encounter the goodness of God Corner of 55th St & 46th Ave 10:30 am Contemporary Worship
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West Park Presbyterian 3628-57 Ave.
UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA
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GAETZ MEMORIAL
10:30 a.m. Children’s Programs Weekly
SUNDAY WORSHIP 11:00 am
4758 Ross Street, Red Deer, AB T4N 1X2 403-347-2244 “Sharing Faith, Serving Community”
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Sunnybrook United Church Caring - Dynamic - Proactive - Inclusive 12 Stanton Street 403-347-6073
10:30 a.m. Worship Service “Do What You Do www.sunnybrookunited.org Do Well!” Babyfold, Toddler Room, Sunday Club Babyfold, Toddler Room Sunday Club www.sunnybrookunited.org
Pastor Don Hennig | Pastor Peter Van Katwyk SUNDAY 10:00 a.m. DIVINE SERVICE 10:15 a.m. SUNDAY SCHOOL 7:00 p.m. DIVINE SERVICE Kings Kids Playschool www.mclcrd.org
Growing in Faith Through Word and Sacrament
Living Faith Lutheran Church
10:00 a.m. Pastor Glen Carlson
26016-HWY 595 (Delburne Road)
Sunday 10:00 a.m. Speaker Rev. Reg Graves Everyone Welcome
403-340-1022 Rev. Dr. Marc Jerry Sunday 9:30 a.m. Sunday School Youth & Adult Forum 10:30 a.m. Worship
Rev. Valentine Owen
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Bethany Collegeside 99 College Circle RDC Everyone Welcome Rooted in the word of God. Growing in the likeness of Christ, Reaching out by the power of the Holy Spirit.
Sunday Services Services Sunday 9:00 a.m., 11:00 a.m. 9:00a.m. & 11:00a.m. 6:00 p.m.
Wednesday Ministries 7:00p.m.
Passion for God, Compassion for People. 2020 40th Ave, Red Deer www.livingstones.ab.ca 403.347.7311
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Sundays at 9:30 am and 11:15 am
SUNDAY SCHOOL & SERVICE — 11:00 A.M. 2nd Wed. each month - Testimonial Meetings noon Christian Science Reading Room: Wed., 10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.; Thurs., 12 Noon-3:00 p.m. 4907 GAETZ AVE. 403-346-0811 For more information on Christian Science visit christianscience.com
COMING EVENTS
Today Mount Calvary Church Cookie Walk, Craft, Bake, and Quilting Sale will be held on Nov. 15, 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Cookie boxes cost $7. Phone 403-347-1044. Sunnybrook United Church Bazaar and Coffee Party goes Nov. 15, 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Highlights include crafts, bake table, and white elephant sale. Contact Linda at 4023-347-6073.
Nov 21 Visions Country Gospel Christmas Concert will be held at Blackfalds United Church on Nov. 21 at 7 p.m. Tickets are $15 for adults, and under 16 years are free. There will also be a silent auction and snacks provided. See blackfaldsunitedchurch.com, or phone 403-885-4857, or 403885-4780.
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Lights rediscovers her creativity
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Electro-pop singer Lights plays the Memorial Centre in Red Deer on Saturday, Nov. 22. BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF To go forward, you sometimes need to go back. It seems like something the Red Queen would say to Alice in the book Through the Looking Glass, but Canadian electro-pop singer Lights came to this realization while trying to write new songs for her latest release Little Machines. Having set expectations high with her previous two albums, the singer who performs on Saturday, Nov. 22, at Red Deer’s Memorial Centre, became weighed down by the idea of being artistically experimental on her third CD. When new tunes wouldn’t come, she began thinking it might be over for her music career. “I spent so many nights just bawling,” Lights revealed on her website, “What am I gonna do? I don’t have it anymore. I’ve just lost it . . . ” Judging by her latest hit from the Little Machines album, Up We Go, Lights didn’t lose her knack for writing a catchy tune. But she did have to look deep inside herself to find her way back to a positive mindset as a songwriter.
First Lights began thinking of what inspired her to write music when she was a teenager, such as the songs of Patti Smith, Cyndi Lauper, Kate Bush and Joni Mitchell. Then she decided she had to simplify life for a while by living “off the grid” in New Mexico while songwriting. And suddenly the tunes started to flow. Unlike her forward-thinking last album Siberia, the new release reflects the singer’s past in songs such as Running With the Boys. There’s a sense of nostalgia and longing for a less complicated time, admitted Lights. “I was sort of rediscovering my creativity and sense of imagination. You can get crippled by too much logic. Things like numbers and money are what crush creativity. They are the nemesis of creativity.” The 27-year-old singer was born in Timmins, Ont, and named Valerie Anne Poxleitner before she officially changed her moniker to her nickname, Lights. She grew up in the Philippines, Jamaica and Ontario, (her parents did a stint as missionaries), and actually did run with the boys in those places — but never thought of herself as a tomboy. “I just thought I was doing the
things I liked, like picking up snakes and skateboarding . . . I just thought this was fun.” Since TV and video games were offlimits to her and her home-schooled siblings when they were children, they would instead create art and poetry and use their imaginations to invent imaginary worlds. “We made this little town called Scrawny Town” in a grove of trees that now looks so small, recalled Lights. She also became inspired by the Christian-themed storytelling of C.S. Lewis in his Narnia books. “They were imagination at its finest,” said the singer, who consider herself spiritual rather than religious, as reflected in the lyrics of her new song Portal. She received music lessons from her father, an architect who according to Lights, “should have been a rock star.” Since he didn’t know any theory, she learned to play piano and guitar by ear. But her gift shone through at an early age, and her parents supported her goal of a music career. Lights, who signed her first recording contract at age 15, remembers they would pay to fly her to Toronto and Los Angeles to meet with industry officials. “They were so proud and excited.”
After being discovered in 2007 by Jian Ghomeshi, Lights won a 2009 Juno Award for best new artist and had the hits Drive My Soul, Ice, Second Go, and Toes. The singer recently fired Ghomeshi as her manager after allegations of his abuse surfaced from nine women. (The former CBC radio star has denied this, saying that any violence or rough sexual play he engaged in were consensual). “I hope everyone can heal from this,” Lights stated. She had no further comment on the subject when interviewed, but said she’s thrilled to be coming to perform in Red Deer for the first time. She’ll be bringing her baby daughter Rocket Wild and her musician husband, Beau Bokan. Although he fronts the L.A. metal band blessthefall, Bokan is hitting the road with his wife for this tour, and “it’s nice. It’s really nice,” said Lights. Having her family around distracts her from obsessing over small problems and helps her focus on what really matters, she said. “It’s de-stressing.” Tickets to the 8 p.m. show with Toronto rockers Wildlife are $38.50 from the Black Knight Ticket Centre. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com
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Dumb and Dumber To 2.5 stars (out of four) PG
For lo, these 20 years, fans of Dumb and Dumber have pondered the fate of Lloyd Christmas and Harry Dunne, the two lovable lunkheads played by Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels. Did they ever open their worm shop, I’ve Got Worms? Did another PETER busload of bikiHOWELL ni babes invite them to frolic? Did they ever grow another brain cell? The long-awaited sequel Dumb and Dumber To indirectly answers the first two questions, but it resoundingly belches out the third response. Not only did these two maroons not get any smarter, it’s entirely possible that their room-temperature IQs dropped a few digits in the past two decades. Stooge-browed Lloyd and wildhaired Harry are still making colossally dumb moves, such as confusing embalming fluid for Kool-Aid, assuming that a blind bird fancier would make a great cat-sitter and playing a car game called “He Who Smelt It” (three guesses what that is, the first two don’t count). There are new locales and characters, including a not-so-swift gal played by Rachel Melvin who amusingly makes the case for idiocy running in the family. But there’s still a riotous road trip in the Mutt Cutts van involving the pursuit of a woman who doesn’t want to be
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pursued, and still a pile of money at stake that bad people want to get their hands on. Rehashing plot points of the original is perfectly OK, as it turns out. I laughed a lot at this movie, possibly even more than I did at the original film, which I enjoyed quite a bit. Dumb and Dumber To is that rare long-delayed sequel that hasn’t suffered from a weight of unrealized expectations, probably because the bar is always low on comedies like this. Torontonians might be momentarily confused by the “To” in the title, which is a deliberate misspelling of “2” and not a shout-out to Hogtown. But the Farrellys and their co-writers do enjoying messing with us, because one of the nerds at the brainiacs convention in Texas where Lloyd and Harry end up sports a Toronto Maple Leafs jersey. There are a couple of other nyuks at the expense of Canucks. That convention in El Paso, by the way, is where the humour starts to get a little thin as the plot gets more serious yet even more stupid. Overall, it’s just a pleasure to see Carrey and Daniels being dumb together again, both looking a little older but none the worse for wear. Especially Carrey, who really seems to enjoy playing the kind of insane role that made him famous. Just watching him eat a hotdog made me laugh. Daniels makes a most excellent comic foil, even if he never gets a mo-
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This image released by Universal Pictures shows Jim Carrey, left, and Jeff Daniels in a scene from Dumb and Dumber To. ment to rival the infamous toilet scene from the first movie. Dumb and Dumber To also doesn’t have Lauren Holly from the original hit, but it does have a very game Kathleen Turner, who sets in motion a quest for Lloyd and Harry to find the child whom Harry sired, but never knew. The film is directed, as was the original, by Bobby and Peter Farrelly, who
have made the humour even grosser than the first time, which marked their debut as feature directors. They’re keeping up with more explicit times and also their own canyou-top-this sibling sensibilities. Which just goes to show you: Even if you can’t teach old dogs new tricks, you can certainly teach them ruder ones. Peter Howell is a syndicated Toronto Star movie critic.
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AC/DC members not in touch with Phil Rudd since charges; says drummer was behaving oddly
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Chelsea Peretti has a new stand-up special, ‘Chelsea Peretti: One of the Greats‚‘ premiering Friday on Netflix.
How Brooklyn Nine-Nine star Chelsea Peretti became ‘One of the Greats’ Sarah Silverman Program. When she first started doing stand-up, she found she was always the “female comedian” on the lineup. Shows with multiple women taking the stage become “female shows,” whereas all-male rosters are never considered “male shows,” she said. “The reason that I believe that my stand-up is good is that I talk about themes that human beings can relate to. Hopefully someday you can just be called a comedian and it won’t even be a ’female comedian,”’ she said. She said she’s hopeful that things are changing. She mused that a joke she has about male confidence — “My fantasy of what it’s like to be a guy is you just wake up in the morning and your eyes open, and you’re like ’I’m awesome! People probably want to hear what I have to say!”’ — will become obsolete in a few years. “Pretty much almost once a year... there’s this whole slew of articles that come out asking if women can be funny. I find it almost bizarre that society even tolerates the question, which to me seems hugely insulting. That’s like asking if someone can be intelligent,” she said. “I think that people are getting increasingly intolerant of those kinds of questions. There’s been a long line of women that have certainly proven that we are a voice and we have a comedic sensibility because we’re human beings.” But Peretti stressed that she didn’t want to dwell too much on her gender. She hopes her stand-up tackles topics that hit home for men and women. “I hope it’s not all about being a woman,” she said. “The themes that I wanted to talk about in my stand-up are social media, being reclusive and having a fear of peeing and eating around people and a fear of sweating.”
TORONTO — Chelsea Peretti’s ultra-confident onstage persona started as an act. But the comedian and Brooklyn Nine-Nine star says that faking selfassurance actually helped make it real. “It’s funny because I think I started being interested in that kind of persona and then it wound up being kind of self-actualizing,” she said in a telephone interview. “When you’re young, you think you can do anything. Then when you’re spit out into the world and you have to get a job... you start going, ’Maybe I’m not this child genius that I thought I was.’ Hopefully now I have a more balanced view of things.” In her new Netflix special premiering Friday, Chelsea Peretti: One of the Greats, she said she tried to shed her “tough” persona and embrace the silliness that is also a part of her personality. The special opens with Peretti riding a motorcycle, reflecting on her “countless one-hour specials where she looked like a damn fool,” with clips of her adopting different ridiculous comedic styles. Filmed live at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco, the special also plays with the genre’s convention of “reaction shots.” Dogs, clowns and a moustachioed man salting a boiled egg are among the unusual guests in Peretti’s audience. “I really wanted to innovate and I wanted to show what it feels like to do stand-up for me. I wanted to be vulnerable, and show the things that you might see that are distracting,” she said. “There are some very bizarre things you’ll see from being on stage. People don’t think you’re seeing them, but you really are seeing people unless you have the lights in the house completely out.” Peretti, 36, hails from California and has been a familiar face on the stand-up circuit for years. Before starring alongside Andy Samberg and Terry Crews in Fox’s Brooklyn Nine-Nine, she was known for guest GALAXY CINEMAS RED DEER roles on Louie and The 357-37400 HWY 2, RED DEER COUNTY 403-348-2357
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Roots musician to take the stage at Leah’s Bar and Grill
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NEW YORK — Angus Young of AC/DC says his band mates have not been in touch with Phil Rudd since he was charged with threatening to kill and possessing methamphetamine and marijuana last week. Young, 59, said in an interview Thursday that Rudd’s behaviour was somewhat erratic while recording the band’s new album, Rock or Bust, which is due to be released on Dec. 2. “Well, we had a few problems. The situation he’s in — that took everyone by surprise. We had a few issues before with him, even when we were recording it was hard even to get to him to do the recording,” Young said, sitting in a room with bassist Cliff Williams. “And then he was supposed to show up to do promos with us, to do video shoots and a few shoots and a few other things, and he never showed up for that either. So, at this stage, it’s a pretty tough call for us.” Rudd, who has been with the band on and off for nearly four decades, was released last week. He is expected to appear in court in New Zealand on Nov. 27. “We haven’t had contact,” Young said in New York City. “But he has his people that represent him. He’s got himself in a pickle.” Police had initially accused Rudd of trying to arrange for a hit man to carry out two killings. Police had charged him with attempting to procure murder, which comes with a maximum 10-year sentence; the charge was dropped after a day. Rudd, 60, could face a maximum prison term of seven years for the charge of threatening to kill. Young says AC/DC will continue to promote the album and perform without Rudd, if need be. The band will launch a tour next year. “We were resolved for us to go forward and I think Phil’s got — it’s something he’s got to do himself. He’s got to sort himself out I think,” Young said. “But we were resolved to go forward. So at this point it’s kind of a question mark. But if we’re touring, there will be a drummer in place, put it that way.” The Australian band also faced a shake-up in its lineup when 61-year-old guitarist Malcolm Young, who has dementia, announced in September he was leaving the group because of his health. Stevie Young, nephew of founding members Malco
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Anderson on her ‘compelling’ role in the The Fall BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Gillian Anderson says she had never seen a character like Stella Gibson before she read the script for The Fall. Gibson is a driven, talented detective who travels from London to oversee an investigation into a series of murders in Belfast. She has a strong understanding of the killer, even painting her nails red — as he does to his victims — to catch his attention during her televised press conferences. “I think she’s very good at her job and she places herself in the mindset of the killer in a sense,� Anderson said in a telephone interview from the U.K. “I also think she’s acutely aware of and intrigued by what is the same amongst human beings, the aspects that we all share with people that are not that far removed except for that one thing. That is intriguing for audience... and it’s also intriguing for the detective.� The Fall returns for a second season Friday on Bravo. The series has a unique structure for a detective drama: from the very first episode, the audience knows the killer’s identity — Paul Spector (Jamie Dornan) — and he is as much a lead character as Gibson. While Gibson doggedly pursues clues to track the killer down, the viewer also sees Spector lead a relatively ordinary life with his wife and children while sneaking away to stalk and kill young, professional women. “I think at first there was a question of whether it would be as interesting and as tense when you knew who the killer was all along. But that’s also part of the appeal of it,� said Anderson.
“The tension is in the hunt and not knowing obviously what he’s going to do next, because he has such a normal and therefore disturbing life outside of his stalking and kills. It compels the audience in a very provocative and compelling way.� Gibson is a deeply private, independent woman, who early in the first season has a one-night stand with a male detective and then chides him for seeking emotional attachment. Asked whether she thought this depiction of female sexuality — so rarely shown on screen — marked a step forward, Anderson said not exactly. “I wouldn’t necessarily say that it was a step forward as much as an accurate portrayal of the complexity of female desire, which is not as categorical as it is often portrayed. And that there are many different versions of how sexuality plays itself out in the world,� she said. “I’m often shocked at how shocked people are by this one thing that she does in what was 2013 that is honestly no different than what men commonly do in life all the time. It was just astounding to me that it continued to be a through line in questions and remarks about the show — that it was the thing that stood out.� Anderson has portrayed her fair share of powerful women, beginning with her iconic role as Agent Dana Scully in The X-Files. Currently, she also plays Hannibal Lecter’s therapist Dr. Bedelia Du Maurier in NBC’s Hannibal, set to return for a third season next year. But she said she doesn’t see Du Maurier as a “strong� female character. “She is a very complicated char-
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Gillian Anderson stars as Det.-Supt. Stella Gibson in ‘The Fall,’ returning for a second season Friday on Bravo. acter that we are still learning about what her modus operandi is and where she stands in all of it, but I wouldn’t necessarily use her as an example (of a strong female character),� she said with a laugh. The 46-year-old actress speaks with a hint of an English accent, as she spent part of her childhood in the U.K. and returned after The X-Files wrapped in 2002. She praised her co-star in The Fall, Dornan, an Irish actor who will star as titular character Christian Grey in the hotly anticipated Fifty Shades of Grey next year. “Jamie’s a great guy, really grounded and funny and personable and
lovely to everybody and works very hard,� said Anderson. “He gets an opportunity in the second season to show how good an actor he is. I think that was an effort on (writer-director Allan Cubitt’s) part to create some meatier stuff.� Gibson and Spector’s twin narratives came to a dramatic crescendo at the end of the first season. The second season will be more “thrilling and disturbing in psychological ways,� promised Anderson. “I think it’s fantastic. I think what Allan has created, and he directed this, which is no small feat, to write, produce and direct something. I think he’s done an extraordinary job.�
Sam Smith has breakthrough with honest album BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — If you go to a Sam Smith concert, you’ll probably hear his stories of unrequited love and how he’s never been in a relationship. But he says that void has been slowly filled — partly thanks to meeting men and going on dates — but mainly because of his devoted fans who have helped him top the charts with his album, push millions of singles and sell out stadiums like Madison Square Garden. “I’m going on dates, here and there, meeting people,� Smith said in a recent interview. “I’m not lonely anymore because of that, but obviously I would like someone next to me while I sleep.� He added with a laugh: “But I’m working on that.� Smith has become the year’s breakthrough act thanks to his booming,
soulful voice, playful demeanour and deep, honest lyrics that help break up the monotonous, dance heavy sound on pop radio. In the Lonely Hour, his debut album released in June, has sold more than 772,969 units. His single Stay With Me peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and sold over 3 million tracks; and other songs have built on his buzz, from another Top 10 hit and multi-platinum success, Latch with Disclosure, to the upbeat La La La with Naughty Boy to Smith’s newest single, I’m Not the Only One, which jumped to No. 11 this week. The 22-year-old has number of big-name fans — from Beyonce to Mary J. Blige, with whom he’s recorded. And he’s been getting calls to collaborate with others. “I remember being ecstatic for having 200 Facebook likes. ...Now I take that completely for granted now that I have like a million. But I’m now think-
ing, ’I really would like two million,�’ he said. In the Lonely Hour features pop grooves and ballads about love lapses and loneliness. The lyrics are brave and straightforward — Smith tells one man to leave his lover for him on one song, and one another he’s open about being in love with someone who doesn’t feel the same. And “Stay With
Me� opens with the line: “Guess it’s true, I’m not good at a one-night stand.� When I’m speaking about my insecurities ... that’s when my music is the best. And that doesn’t happen every day, so this writing process was quite dramatic and because I was trying to get these songs that were honest and brutal and real,� said Smith, who co-wrote each of the songs.
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TORONTO — Ubisoft hopes to take gamers from Paris, on the eve of the French Revolution, to the modern-day fictional Himalayan region of Kyrat this holiday season. With the release of Assassin’s Creed Unity on Nov. 11 and Far Cry 4 on Nov. 18, two of Ubisoft’s showcase made-in-Canada video game franchises will be front and centre in stores. They are journeys that look to entertain while swelling the Ubisoft bottom line. Ubisoft Montreal was the lead on both titles, with help from sister studios in Toronto and Quebec City as well as others around the world. It’s a time to savour for Yannis Mallat, CEO of Ubisoft Montreal and Toronto. “There’s always pride when you release a game. But I have to say that this year we’re pretty proud because I can’t think of any other studio that is releasing two big triple-A next-gen games seven days apart,” Mallat said in a recent interview. “And if you think about a 12-month span, you have (Assassin’s Creed) Black Flag, Watch Dogs, Far Cry 4, Chlld of Light, and Shape Up. That’s six games (with Assassin’s Creed: Unity) coming from our Canadian studios in a year, four of them big next-gen triple-A games. So yes, it feels great.” The Assassin’s Creed franchise has already sold 78 million copies, with Far Cry at 20 million. Watch Dogs, a new franchise, has sold nine million already. Mallat, 40, takes pride in the immersive world of his studios’ games, with Paris in the late 18th century the star of the new Assassin’s Creed game. “When you spend half an hour in Notre-Dame (Cathedral), with all the astonishing details, it is indeed a blast,” Mallat said. “The level of reality is absolutely insane,” he added. A native of Nantes, France, Mallat spent three years as a teenager in the Ivory Coast, where his diplomat mother was stationed. He returned to Paris to study agronomy (the science of soil management and crop production) before travelling to the Ivory Coast and then Burkina Faso to do humanitarian work. He moved to Quebec City in 1997, to work at the University of Laval on development projects. Combining his desire to change careers and his passion for video games, he went back to school to earn an MBA at HEC Montreal that ultimately opened the door to Ubisoft in 1999. He started as a third-party producer, taking over as CEO of Ubisoft Montreal in 2006 at the age of 32. In 2009, Mallat added a new Toronto studio under his umbrella. Ubisoft opened its Montreal studio in 1997 with 50 employees. There were 400 employees when Mallat first came on board and 1,400 when he took over as CEO. Today that number has swelled to 2,700, with plans to reach 3,000 next year. Mallat speaks of his flagship studio with great pride. “When you give a talented team time, means, insane objectives and trust, usually they come back with greatness,” he said. The Toronto studio (340 employees) is slated to reach 800 in 2020 while there are another 500 at Ubisoft Quebec. They may just be games but there is much at stake. Ubisoft reported worldwide sales of 484.2 million euros (C$684 million) for the six months ending Sept. 30, up from 293.3 euros (C$414 million) over the same period a year before. And Ubisoft expects sales to reach 730 million euros (C$1.03 billion) in the lucrative current holiday quarter, up 40 per cent from last year. Hit titles, digital downloadable content and a flourishing back catalogue have helped drive revenue. Amidst all the numbers, Mallat looks for more human values. He understands that gamers give up time as well as money in playing Ubisoft titles and that it is not worth abusing that trust with add-on content that doesn’t make sense. And with time tight, Mallat says gamers want an accessible and entertaining experience. “We want to be the king of the living room and we will,” he said. There is no shortage of feedback. “Gamers are very vocal, very vocal,” he said. “Unfortunately the most vocal people are the most angry ones. But it’s a gift for us because when those gamers react to the game that we just released, it gives us a clear list of what to do with the next opus.” With 29 studios in 19 countries, Ubisoft games are a collaboration between the lead studio and others
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around the globe. Trust and communication have proved to be key in making the partnerships work. Mallat remembers Assassin’s Creed 2, when the Montreal studio was working with a new outfit in Singapore. There were no real ties between the two at the time and confidence in the new studio was lacking. Then one of the Montreal team members moved to Singapore. “Having that guy there suddenly erased the confidence issue,” recalled Mallat, snapping his fingers.
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Genetic test could predict prostate cancer recurrence: researchers BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Canadian researchers have developed a genetic test to identify which men are at highest risk for recurrence of prostate cancer following localized treatment with surgery or radiation therapy. The genetic test provides a quick and highly accurate tool to determine which men with prostate cancer would do well with only surgery or radiation, and those who would need additional treatment — chemotherapy and hormone therapy, say the researchers, whose findings are described in Wednesday’s online edition of the journal Lancet Oncology. “Our findings set the stage to tackle the ongoing clinical problem of undertreating men with aggressive disease that will recur in 30 per cent to 50 per cent of patients due to hidden, microscopic disease that is already outside the prostate gland during initial treatment,” said Dr. Robert Bristow, a clinician-scientist at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre in Toronto. “This genetic test could increase cure rates in intermediate- to high-risk men by preventing progression to this metastatic spread of prostate cancer,” said Bristow, who co-led the study with Dr. Paul Boutros, a scientist at the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research. The predictive test analyzes biopsy tissue taken before treatment even starts to identify abnormal genetic characteristics in the tumour and its oxygen content. Low oxygen, known as hypoxia, makes prostate cancer cells “leaner and meaner,” giving them the ability to invade blood vessels and spread throughout the body. Together, this information can predict with almost 80 per cent accuracy which men with prostate cancer are at greatest risk of their disease returning in the form of secondary tumours outside the prostate, the study shows. “The clinical potential is enormous for thousands of patients,” said Bristow. “This is personalized cancer medicine to the hilt — the ability to provide more targeted treatment to patients based on their unique cancer genetic fingerprint plus what’s going on in the cancer cell’s surrounding environment. We hope to improve cure rates by reducing the chances of the cancer recurring and prevent the cells from spreading.” An estimated 23,600 Canadian men will be diagnosed this year with prostate cancer, the most common cancer diagnosed in men and the third leading cause of death from cancer. About 4,000 Canadians will die from the disease this year, according to Canadian Cancer Society statistics. The researchers developed the genetic test with two groups of patients. In the first group, they analyzed DNA in biopsied cancer cells from 126 men who were treated with image-guided radiotherapy, monitoring them for an average of eight years. The test was
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Use of electronic cigarettes by high school students tripled over three years, according to a new government report released Thursday. In a large national survey last year, 4.5 per cent of high school students said they had used e-cigarettes in the previous month. That’s up from 1.5 per cent in 2011 and 2.8 per cent in 2012. It’s not known, though, how many were repeatedly using e-cigarettes and how many only tried it once during that month and didn’t do it again. E-cigarettes began to appear in the United States in late 2006, but marketing has exploded in recent years. The devices heat liquid nicotine into a vapour. They are often described as a less dangerous alternative to regular cigarettes, but experts say nicotine — including the nicotine in e-cigarettes — is especially harmful to children. Dozens of states outlaw the sale of e-cigarettes to minors, and federal officials have proposed a nationwide ban on such sales.
also used in a second group of 150 men whose tumours were removed surgically. The study showed that the men with the best outcomes — those who had a less than seven per cent recurrence of prostate cancer at five years — had low levels of genetic changes and little hypoxia. For men with high levels of genetic changes and high hypoxia, outcomes were worse — more than half had their cancer come back. “Within this search, we found a distinct pattern of chromosome and gene changes that predicted early recurrence of prostate cancer, for example, within two years following local treatment,” Bristow said in an email interview. “The patients with this unique genetic signature had a 50 per cent chance of failing local treatment. These patients therefore need new intensified and personalized treatments to cure them. Once we validate our test, we will offer these patients novel treatments in future clinical trials.” Men who did not have the genetic signature did well with surgery or radiotherapy, so treatment would not change, he said. The next step involves testing the genetic signatures of prostate tumours in hundreds of patients around the world over the next three years in order to validate the test as a predictive tool that could be used in the clinic. Currently, the test is in “research mode” only and not ready for use by doctors, Bristow said. The research team hopes to have the test validated, approved by Health Canada and ready for use in five years, he said. “We need to know who is at risk of having higher recurrence so we can personalize and change their treatment to improve the chance of cure. Without doing this, the likelihood of cure is only 50 per cent. But the test tells us who these patients are and therefore who needs intensified treatment. In the future, we’d love to move that cure rate from 50 per cent to 80 per cent or more with personalized treatment.”
BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Comprehensive screening programs that detect lung cancer early and improve patients’ chances of survival are lacking across the country, says a report by Lung Cancer Canada, an advocacy and research fundraising organization. The report, entitled “The Faces of Lung Cancer: Fighting Disease, Fighting Disparity,” says lung cancer is the Canada’s No. 1 cancer killer for both men and women, yet unlike breast and colon cancer, there are no provincial or national screening programs for early detection of the disease. Almost half of lung cancer diagnoses are made when the malignancy is at its most advanced stage, dramatically reducing the chance of survival. With screening, “we predict 1,200 Canadian lives can be saved every year,” said Dr. Natasha Leighl, president of Lung Cancer Canada. “We think it’s so important that provinces really move to implement lung cancer screening as quickly as possible,” she said Thursday in an interview. “We really believe there is a tremendous ability here to save lives and really change the face of lung cancer and the impact that lung cancer has on Canadians every single day.” Leighl, a medical oncologist at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre in Toronto, said the U.S. Medicare program recently agreed to cover the cost of low-dose CT scans to screen for lung cancer, and private health insurers are also required to cover the test. “Here, we’ve really lagged behind,” she said, noting that the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer has been trying to organize a framework to help provinces set up screening programs, “but nobody has yet bitten.” The report also notes there are provincial differences in access to diagnosis, treatment and survival outcomes. One-year survival rates vary across the country, and some of these differences may be related to medical resources. P.E.I., for instance, has a severe shortage of specialists in the area, and Alberta has among the longest wait times for tumour-removing thoracic surgery in the country. “Every Canadian should have access to the same level of care, no mat-
ter where you live,” said oncologist Dr. Paul Wheatley-Price, chairman of the group’s medical advisory committee. “This means the same access to gold-standard therapies, including lifesaving drugs or modern surgical and radiotherapy technologies,” he said in a statement. “The reality that there are such stark differences across different provinces should be alarming to Canadians. This is simply unacceptable and something we need to change.” Despite being Canada’s deadliest cancer, there is often stigma attached to having the disease. Findings from a Lung Cancer Canada survey suggest that more than one in five Canadians feels less sympathy for people with lung cancer than those with other cancers because of its link to smoking. And when it comes to fundraising to support research, dollars earmarked for lung cancer represent less than one per cent of all private cancer donations, and the disease accounts for just seven per cent of government funding for cancer-specific research. Yet more than 15 per cent of people who get the disease never smoked and more than 35 per cent are ex-smokers, who in many cases quit years before their diagnosis. “I still find that I have to justify my husband’s disease to others,” said Natalie Deschamp of Ottawa, whose spouse has lung cancer, although he never smoked and was healthy and athletic. “He was still running regularly when he went to the doctor for a spot at the back of his eye,” she said. “It turned out to be a secondary tumour from his lung cancer. That was three years ago. He was 40 and our girls were five and seven.” By the end of 2014, an estimated 26,100 Canadians will be diagnosed with lung cancer — 13,400 men and 12,700 women. Overall, about 20,500 will die from the disease, according to the Canadian Cancer Society. Among those who succumb to the disease will be about 9,700 women; their number will exceed the roughly 8,000 women who will die from all the other female cancers combined — breast, ovarian, uterine and cervical. While lung cancer incidence rates in men have been declining since the mid-1980s, the annual rate of new cases among women was continuing to rise until 2006.
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Taking aim at regulations BUSINESS OWNERS OFFER UP RED TAPE REDUCING ADVICE
BY ADVOCATE STAFF An invitation by Canada Revenue Agency for suggestions on how the federal department can reduce red tape received an enthusiastic reply in Red Deer this week. More than 25 people braved the cold and crowded into the Red Deer and District Chamber of Commerce office on Wednesday to discuss how the CRA can lighten the load for small and medium-sized businesses. One of about 20 such meetings being held across Canada, the Red Deer gathering was the largest to date, said local MP Earl Dreeshen. “They were quite happy with that,” he said, list-
ing the CRA’s assistant commissioner, its director for Southern Alberta and its senior manager in Red Deer as among the officials on hand. They exchanged suggestions and tips with business owners, accountants and others, he said, adding that the feedback received by the CRA should help it streamline its systems. “The online services work very well, but those that are using it all the time say there are some parts to it that are confusing.” Dreeshen thought Red Deer was a good place for the CRA to seek input, since the city represents a diverse range of industries and businesses. He expects the consultation process to wrap up by
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House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio strides from the House floor on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, after the Republican-controlled House passed legislation approving the Keystone XL oil pipeline. The bill’s passage now sets the stage for a showdown in the Senate.
Obama critical of pipeline as Congress approves it
Christmas. “Then they’re going to be compiling a public report to develop an action plan to further reduce the burden of red tape.” The CRA undertook a similar exercise two years ago, with a number of procedural changes resulting. Dreeshen said this work is important because it allows businesses to spend more time doing what they do best. “That’s been our initiative, as far as our red tape reduction commission is concerned, to help people navigate the system and kind of get out of their way and let them do what they need to do to be successful.”
Rise in cost of home inspections could discourage the practice BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR
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WASHINGTON — The biggest development in the Keystone XL saga Friday wasn’t witnessed in the U.S. Congress. It was witnessed, however, by Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi. That’s because it happened in Myanmar. That’s where U.S. President Barack Obama made his most critical comments ever about the pipeline, which has stagnated for six years amid legal and political disputes. A bill to approve the project made it one-third of the way to reality Friday. It easily passed the U.S. House of Representatives, the ninth time the Republican-dominated chamber adopted such a measure. It faces a tougher test next week in the Senate, which is still controlled by Democrats until a new session begins next year. But the final hurdle is the White House. No matter what happens, the pipeline needs the presidential seal of approval. To cross the CanadaU.S. border and get connected to its already-built southern leg, the project needs Obama’s endorsement. If lawmakers try forcing a bill on the issue, as they are now, it needs Obama’s signature to pass. And on Friday, the U.S. president sounded like a man making the case against the project. In an ironic twist, he happened to shrug off that Canadian oil project while standing beside an honourary Canadian citizen. Obama was asked about political developments back home during a joint news conference with Suu Kyi, the long-persecuted democracy activist. With his fellow Nobel Peace Prize winner by his side, Obama went to war against the logic used by pipeline proponents. He heaped scorn on the idea that the project will do much for Americans. He suggested that because
it doesn’t mean much to Americans on economic grounds, he’ll judge the plan on its environmental merits. “I have to constantly push back against this idea that, somehow, the Keystone pipeline is either this massive jobs bill for the United States or is somehow lowering gas prices,” Obama said during the news conference. “Understand what this project is: It is providing the ability of Canada to pump their oil, send it through our land down to the Gulf, where it will be sold everywhere else. It doesn’t have an impact on U.S. gas prices.” He emphasized the words “Canada” and “their.” Some Canadians weighed in with their side of the story: —The pipeline company trying to finish the project pushed back. TransCanada Corp. issued a statement noting that it would create tens of thousands of U.S. construction jobs, pick up some oil from the Midwestern U.S., and carry its cargo through the already-completed southern portion of the pipeline to U.S. refineries in Texas. —The federal government also challenged Obama’s facts. In a carefully worded statement, it pointed to findings from the Obama administration’s own review of the project — findings that contradicted him. It cited the State Department’s conclusion that the pipeline was unlikely to be used for exports. As for the environment, that same review also found that pipeline shipments would mean lower greenhousegas emissions than rail. In the long run, this week’s developments might not mean much.
Home inspectors in Alberta are warning that the cost of their services could triple if proposed new standards are adopted. Approximately 100 professional home inspectors met in Red Deer two weeks ago to discuss a draft standard of practice prepared by the Canadian Standards Association (CSA). Doug MacDonald, pastpresident of the Alberta branch of the Canadian Association of Home & Property Inspectors (CAHPI) and owner of the Pillar To Post franchise in Red Deer, said he and many of his counterparts are worried about the impact the new standards could have on their industry — and customers. “It’ll impact the general public immensely.” CAHPI’s current set of standards consist of about eight pages, said MacDonald, who has worked in the industry for nearly 20 years. Those proposed by the CSA are eight times that length, and would take much more work and time to satisfy, and mean higher bills for clients. CAHPI predicts that the cost of a home inspection could jump from the current range of about $400 to $600, to between $1,200 and $1,800 — or more. It thinks that would prompt many homebuyers to forego an inspection, to their potential detriment. “There’s going to be a certain amount that can afford to pay for that, and those people probably aren’t as at-risk as the ones that can’t afford it,” said MacDonald. Prospective clients might also balk at the longer time period required to complete an inspection, he added. Among the things home inspectors would be required to do under the proposed new standards would be to measure the posts under a deck, said MacDonald. “Most of the general public don’t care how big the posts are underneath their deck,” he said. “They just want to know, ‘Will the deck stand?’” Another requirement under the CSA standards would be the completion of a report on noxious weeds on the property being inspected, said MacDonald. And precise measurements of every wall would be necessary, he added. “If this proposed standard is accepted, it could effectively cripple the industry as we know it,” said CAHPI in a release.
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Getting into saving instead of spending habits Dear Working Wise: My son is working part time while he completes Grade 12, but he’s not saving any money for college. We’ve saved some money for his education, but not enough for four years. How can we encourage him to start saving — Anxious Dad Dear Anxious: Higher education is not getting any cheaper — that’s why it’s important for your son to start thinking about how he’s going to pay for his education. Fortunately, there are a number of different ways he can help pay for his education, including savings from part-time work. First, in addition to registered education savings plans and gifts from parents, scholarships and bursaries are a great source of educational funding. Many scholarships are awarded on academic achievement while others are awarded for athletic involvement, leadership, community service, area of interest and the school you are attending. Bursaries are awards based primarily on financial need, but may also require additional criteria, such as community involvement or proven leadership skills. There are a vast number of different awards. For more information on scholarships and bursaries, including a searchable list of awards, visit http://alis. alberta.ca/hs/fo/pay/scholarships. Second, students can apply for government stu-
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dent loans through Student Aid Alberta which can help cover basic costs of learning and living. The goals of the program are to reduce financial barriers and enable access to post-secondary education. Students can apply online at www.studentaid. alberta.ca. Third, students can work while they are in post-secondary. Research shows that most students can work 10 CHARLES to 15 hours per week withSTRACHEY out any noticeable impacts to their studies. WORKING Working a few hours a week helps post-secondary WISE students learn time management and employability skills. It can also save years of repaying loans for not only tuition and books, but pocket money used to buy movie tickets and pizza. Fourth, your son might want to consider an education that allows him to earn while he learns. Ap-
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prenticeships and co-op education programs allow students to earn an income for part of the year while they learn on the job. For more information on Alberta’s 50 registered trades, visit http://tradesecrets. alberta.ca. Finally, working part time while in high school is a fantastic way for students to help pay for their postsecondary education. But it’s the kind of good idea that’s hard to sell until frosh week begins. Discussing with your son what his education is going to cost, showing him what you can contribute and what he will need to pay through scholarships, loans, working and saving might help him understand why it’s important to start saving now. Setting goals and coming up with a plan might also make university seem a little more real and get him excited about saving for post-secondary. The Alberta Learning Information Service (ALIS) website has a whole section devoted to advising high school students on post-secondary costs, ways to pay, and how to manage their money at http://alis.alberta. ca. Working Wise is compiled by Charles Strachey, a manager with Alberta Human Services, for general information. He can be contacted at charles.strachey@gov. ab.ca.
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Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 113.19 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 46.20 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52.87 BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . 12.64 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.06 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 55.98 Cdn. National Railway . . 80.46 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 230.89 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 38.98 Capital Power Corp . . . . 26.58 Cervus Equipment Corp 18.20 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 51.37 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 51.21 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 27.83 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 37.83 General Motors Co. . . . . 31.79 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 21.60 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.35 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 43.40 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 69.44 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 42.75 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . 11.18 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 55.80 Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 125.62 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 16.15 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 14.77 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 60.99 MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto stock market closed higher Friday as energy stocks advanced and oil prices clawed back some of Thursday’s big loss. The S&P/TSX composite index gained 64.33 points to 14,843.1 amid a strong collection of economic data from Canada and the United States. The Canadian dollar was ahead 0.78 of a cent at 88.68 cents US amid better than expected readings on Canadian manufacturing and U.S. retail sales. Statistics Canada says manufacturing sales rose 2.1 per cent to $53 billion in September following a sharp 3.5 per cent drop the previous month. U.S. markets were uneven as retail sales rose 0.3 per cent last month after falling by the same amount in September. Also, the University of Michigan’s consumer sentiment index rose 2.5 points to a reading of 89, the strongest reading since 2007. The reaction was muted, however, with the Dow industrials and S&P 500 near or at record high levels following a short, shallow retracement last month. Analysts are looking for a catalyst to boost indexes further. “I think it comes down to the same thing,” said Bob Gorman, chief portfolio strategist at TD Waterhouse. “Growth is below average but accelerating and, as long as that continues to play out as a long recovery, then earnings will continue to advance. At the end of the day, stocks are a reflection of earnings. That’s what you’re buying and as long as the earnings as going up, we’re all right.” The Dow Jones industrials gave back 18.05 points to 17,634.74, while the Nasdaq rose 8.4 points to 4,688.54 and the S&P 500 index edged 0.49 of a point higher to 2039.82. The TSX energy sector was ahead 1.15 per cent as the December crude oil contract on the New York Mercantile Exchange rose $1.61 to US$75.66 a barrel. The group tumbled three per cent and oil dropped $3 Thursday to its first close below $75 in
Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 19.35 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 14.39 Tim Hortons . . . . . . . . . . 92.32 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82.96 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 30.88 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 13.83 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 21.33 First Quantum Minerals . 17.46 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 23.04 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 8.70 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 3.08 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . 19.47 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 37.99 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.75 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 18.10 Energy Arc Resources . . . . . . . . 27.98 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 31.12 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 59.89 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.83 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 48.77 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 40.65 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . 17.34 Canyon Services Group. 11.25 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 28.07 CWC Well Services . . . 0.7200 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 20.21 Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 2.03
Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 95.09 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 55.08 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.01 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 26.95 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 54.25 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 4.27 Penn West Energy . . . . . . 4.75 Pinecrest Energy Inc. . . . 0.045 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 8.90 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 39.57 Talisman Energy . . . . . . . . 6.41 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.60 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 6.28 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 61.59 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 82.19 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 68.66 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104.45 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 37.09 Carfinco . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.19 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 33.10 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 47.80 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 80.01 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 21.74 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 54.61 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.30 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 82.21 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 41.16 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57.06
four years after data showed that U.S. crude supplies decreased 1.7 million barrels last week, much more than the 500,000 barrel drop that analysts had expected. However, gasoline inventories rose by 1.8 million barrels against an expected 280,000 decrease. An imbalance between supply and demand has helped drive crude prices down by about 30 per cent from the highs of the summer when Iraqi oil supplies were threatened by Islamic State insurgents. Many analysts think the dive to the mid-70s won’t last and point to economic fundamentals suggesting oil should be trading around the $90 level. The gold sector led advancers, up about 5.6 per cent as the December bullion contract gained $24.10 to US$1,185.60 an ounce. That TSX gold sector has plunged 14 per cent in the past month while bullion prices have headed steadily downward, pressured in part by a U.S. dollar that strengthened as the Federal Reserve removed its last quantitative easing stimulus at the end of October. The December copper contract was ahead five cents at US$3.04 a pound and the base metals sector climbed 2.25 per cent. Meanwhile, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to approve TransCanada’s (TSX:TRP) Keystone XL oil pipeline Friday afternoon. A separate Senate vote is expected early next week. But the big question is whether a positive vote for the pipeline will be vetoed by President Barrack Obama. TransCanada shares were down 65 cents at $55.80. The TSX ended the week up 152 points or one per cent, leaving the Toronto market up nine per cent for the year so far. The Dow inched up 61 points or 0.35 per cent. FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS Highlights at the close of Friday at world financial market trading. Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 14,843.10, up 64.33 points
Social-irresponsibility can lead to punishment OTTAWA — The federal government is planning to punish bad behaviour by Canadian resource firms operating abroad if they break Ottawa’s new rules on corporate social responsibility. International Trade Minister Ed
Dow — 17,634.74, down 18.05 points S&P 500 — 2,039.82, up 0.49 of a point Nasdaq — 4,688.54, up 8.40 points Currencies: Cdn — 88.68 cents US, up 0.78 of a cent Pound — C$1.7673, down 1.99 cents Euro — C$1.4127, down 0.69 of a cent Euro — US$1.2527, up 0.48 of a cent Oil futures: US$75.82 per barrel, up $1.61 (December contract) Gold futures: US$1,185.60 per oz., up $24.10 (December contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $18.774 oz., up 27.1 cents $603.58 kg., up $8.71 ICE FUTURES WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: Nov. ’14 $2.70 higher $442.70; Jan ’15 $3.20 higher $427.80; March ’15 $2.50 higher $431.30; May ’15 $2.00 higher $433.20; July ’15 $0.90 higher $435.40; Nov ’15 $0.30 lower $431.70; Jan. ’16 $0.30 lower $438.20; March ’16 $0.30 lower $442.80; May ’16 $0.30 lower $442.80; July ’16 $0.30 lower $442.80; Nov. ’16 $0.30 lower $442.80. Barley (Western): Dec. ’14 $2.00 higher $160.00; March ’15 $3.00 higher $163.00; May ’15 $3.00 higher $163.00; July ’15 $3.00 higher $163.00; Oct. ’15 $3.00 higher $163.00; Dec. ’15 $3.00 higher $163.00; March ’16 $3.00 higher $163.00; May ’16 $3.00 higher $163.00; July ’16 $3.00 higher $163.00; Oct. ’16 $3.00 higher $163.00; Dec. ’16 $3.00 higher $163.00. Friday’s estimated volume of trade: 599,440 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 599,440.
Fast announced Friday that Ottawa will withdraw government support from Canadian mining and energy companies that refuse to help resolve disputes with local communities. Fast said companies that do not co-operate will lose the support of Ottawa’s economic diplomacy and trade services, according to the prepared text of a speech he delivered in New Westminster, B.C.
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INSPECTIONS: Potential to hurt real estate “It has the potential to negatively impact the real estate industry as a whole.” Allison Hawkins, the CSA’s manager of corporate affairs, downplayed the potential impact of her organization’s draft standards. “All of our standards are voluntary,” she pointed out. “So anything that we publish, we have no mandate to require anyone to follow our standards.” MacDonald fears the Alberta government will adopt the CSA standards and make them mandatory for home inspectors. Hawkins said CSA standards are developed by a committee of industry experts, and usually represent the best practices for the industry. She added that proposed standards are subject to a minimum 60-day public review, the feedback from which is reviewed by the committee that developed the standards. CAHPI is urging its members, and others in the home inspection industry, to express their concerns to the CSA and the province, said MacDonald. Hawkins said the creation of CSA standards is usually triggered by a request from within an industry or a belief by the CSA that formal standards would be beneficial.
Cenovus gets OK from regulators for oilsands project CALGARY — Cenovus Energy Inc. (TSX:CVE) says it has received approval from Alberta regulators to proceed with its 100 per cent owned Telephone Lake thermal oilsands project northeast of Fort McMurray. Initial production capacity at the steam-assisted gravity drainage project is for 90,000 barrels per day to be developed in two, 45,000 barrel per day phases.
“My understanding is that there’s no one particular standard for home inspectors,” she said. MacDonald said the existing standards used by CAHPI and the International Association of Certified Home Inspectors are similar. “They’re still in the ballpark, where this one (by the CSA) is deviating right into the parking lot of the ballpark.” The CSA standards are well-intentioned, but go too far, he said. “You’ve got to make it affordable for the public, yet give them some help in choosing a house so that they don’t end up with a white elephant.” hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com
KEYSTONE: Push unexpected The fact that the issue popped up on the first day of congressional work after the U.S. midterms caught people off-guard. All signs had pointed to the issue resurfacing in the new year. Two unrelated but major developments have yet to occur: the completion of the State Department-led review, and the swearing-in of a new Republican-dominated Congress. At that point, Obama would either have to approve the pipeline on his own, or face consistent pressure to do so by a Republican party that has made it a top priority. The main actor in pushing Keystone this week is Mary Landrieu, a Democratic senator who is expected to lose her seat in Louisiana. Telephone Lake is expected to eventually have total production capacity in excess of 300,000 barrels per day, with a project life of more than 40 years. “We’re pleased to have received regulatory approval for Telephone Lake as it has the potential to be another cornerstone asset within our portfolio,” president and CEO Brian Ferguson said in a release issued after markets closed on Friday. “We’re excited about the opportunity that this high quality asset provides for us to create future value.” The company said it expects to make a decision on timing of development sometime next year.
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After gutting down the cluttered mess, Colin and Justin were able to create a simple clean and organized space with painted cupboards, and storage space for everything the client needs. The room before is below. Welcome to Canada’s messiest garage. Quite the shocker, huh? Imagine our horror as we rolled the door to reveal a scene of benign, chaotic neglect. But of course no job is too big, no task to massive and no disaster unfixable for the reparative wands of these intrepid Scots. And so it came to pass that our gargantuan gutdown began. A gut-down so ambitious, in fact, we needed two large dumpsters to contain, variously, three dilapidated prams, a collection of broken bicycles and numerous derelict lawn chairs. Oh, and not forgetting kitchen cabinetry from the year dot, a mountain of wonky shelving and enough wooden offcuts to build a small fortress. Anything salvageable was arranged into a separate pile and the next day our client held a yard sale and raised four hundred bucks. Thrilled to have collected (what he thought would be) useful cash to bolster his vacation fund, we intervened: “Sorry, we need those dollars in our pot to help with the project.” Rolling of eyes ensued but we’re stubborn: after heated COLIN & debate, Mexico went on a JUSTIN back burner and our budgetary woes were (marginally) allayed. Discussions with Kevin, the master of this garage catastrophe, revealed he likes to putter, tackle odd jobs and fix things around the house. With this much clutter, however, we wondered how he ever found space to tinker: he’d have been hard pressed to pass a screwdriver through the junk, let alone wield it, in reparative fashion, over needy household fix-ups. But to which kind of ‘look’ did our chap aspire? In a nutshell, Kevin hoped for a clean space to park the family car (and room sufficient to work on its maintenance) sheltered from the vagaries of the Canadian climate. Simple.
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Two dumpsters, a hoard of hefty dudes and a whole load of heave ho. Tea break. Job done. Moving on.
Painted wood Pitched garages, with their butterfly beams and overhead timbers, benefit from a paint job to visually disentangle the mess of supports and strapping. We opted for crisp white eggshell to minimize fuss, and inhibit the reappearance of stains. When painting wood, we always recommend using undercoat: come on: don’t be a klutz — take your time. Prep is everything.
Lighting Just because a pendant is designed to hang over a table — or centre stage in your lounge — it doesn’t mean it can’t be used elsewhere. We found these spun metal Ikea storm lamps perfect for garage illumination and, when arranged in a neat triptych, they proffered an industrial yet
Flooring Our first plan, to grind and polish the original concrete, proved expensive and our second plan was abandoned when we realized that the poured rubber compound we planned using would take days to dry. Our solution? Big box store rubber look product — try G Floor from Home Depot. At less than two bucks per square foot, it’s a great problem solver. When installing this type of product, it’s essential surfaces are smooth and grit free: detritus below, when driven on from above, may create holes in the surface. So sand and sweep before rolling out your rubber.
Open storage Open and closed storage: factors to consider in any garage overhaul. There’ll be items, certainly, that you’ll want to hand but there’ll be things (chemicals and oils, etc.) that are best stashed under lock and key. We’ll come to closed storage in a moment, but for the moment let’s talk shelving. Structures like these bracketed wire racks allow items to be seen for easy access, while hooks and batons allow garden tools to be wall mounted, avoiding trip hazards into the bargain.
Cabinetry A cross between kitchen units and sports lockers, these red-painted cupboards are a godsend. We employed a specialist supplier and fitter, but Canadian Tire’s Mastercraft DIY range (shelves, closets, racks and rails) is a perfect mix of form and function. Our client now lives by the maxim: “A place for everything and everything in its place.”
Windows The existing windows were sound and needed little more than a fine quality paint brush and some white eggshell to bring them to life. Enhanced with metal Venetians, the resultant aesthetic is smart and business-like. It might seem strange to lavish workshop windows in such a way, but we reckon a ‘guyrage’ deserves the same level of attention as anywhere else. All things considered, Kevin now has an utterly tailored man zone, the reversion of which was an absolute pleasure: we hope the radical transformation inspires! Colin and Justin are regular home and design experts in print and on TV. Find their international product range in stores like HomeSense, Winners and Marshalls. facebook.com/ColinJustin, twitter.com/colinjustin, colinandjustin.tv.
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Are your windows getting wet from condensation again? Now’s the time to do something about it. Every year at this time, outdoor temperatures begin their slow decline into winter, and every year windows across Canada start to get wet from condensation on interior surfaces. The degree of wetness ranges from insignificant to downright debilitating, and understanding how to keep windows dry is a must-have skill for every Canadian homeowner. Windows ‘sweat’ during winter as indoor air cools against cold window glass and loses its ability to hold moisture. This excess water’s got to come out somewhere, and glass and window frames are excellent places for droplets STEVE of condensation to form. MAXWELL Besides being a powerful trigger of mould growth, window condensation is also a signal that your home is suffering from inadequate ventilation. If enough excess moisture is being held inside your home to cause running window condensation, then it’s almost certain that your household air has more contaminants than it should, too. That’s why many Canadians need to consider intentionally ventilating their homes in some way when window condensation begins to appear. There are two ways to do it. Drafty homes that naturally leak lots of cold air never need intentional ventilation because enough fresh air comes inside on its own. That’s why you’ll never see window condensation in an old, cold farmhouse. But a leaky home is an expensive home to heat, and that’s why we’ve been building houses tighter and tighter for more than 40 years. The easiest way to boost indoor air quality and reduce window condensation in a tight home is by opening windows a little and running exhaust fans more often in the bathroom and kitchen. For every cubic foot of stale air pushed outside by fans, another cubic foot of fresh air is drawn in through windows opened a little here and there. Do this enough to reduce window condensation and you’ll be healthier for it. Healthier, but poorer, since you’ll also be losing quite a bit of heat in your quest to breathe easier. Adding fresh air into your home from outside while also retaining most of the heat invested in the stale air before it gets sent outside is what a heat recovery ventilator (HRV) is for. I write about these things every year because poor indoor air quality and window condensation is the most common home situation people ask for help about during winter. HRV technology was invented in Canada more than 30 years ago, but many Canadians still don’t know how it works or the difference HRVs make. You can learn more with my indoor air quality video tutorial at www.stevemaxwell.ca/hrv-lesson. If you’ve had excess window condensation in past winters, chances are good that you’ve got at least a little mold around window edges right now. Maybe a lot. Killing this mould is a good way to start the heating season because dormant mold can start growing again at lower moisture levels than would normally be required to trigger mold growth from a fresh start. Just don’t use bleach solutions for the job. Bleach is the traditional way to kill mould, but according to the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) in the U.S., “the use of a biocide, such as chlorine bleach, is not recommended as a routine practice during mould remediation.” Besides being toxic to people, bleach can’t properly kill mould roots on porous surfaces like drywall and wood. There are better options. Got mould to kill? Enter my free kill mold giveaway contest to win one of three non-toxic mould control packages. Steve Maxwell has been helping people make the most of their homes since 1988. Talk to Steve directly at www. stevemaxwell.ca.
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In this photo provided by Restoration Hardware, lighting is used to create atmosphere of warmth and charm so evocative of the holiday season. LED light technology has expanded the design possibilities across the home decor spectrum, and holiday decor is no exception.
New lighting tech can jazz up your holiday display BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Clark Griswold would be proud. Thanks to advances in lighting technology, suburban dads (and moms) across the country have a lot to choose from when it comes to creative ways to deck their halls for the holidays this year. Forget about white incandescent lights and animatronic reindeer. Think lasers. Think smartphones. And hundreds, if not millions, of colour choices.
RGB LIGHTS Single light bulbs that hold three LEDs — red, green and blue — are the secret behind a new category of holiday lights that offer up to 16 million colour combinations. Known as RGB lights, they can be dialed up or down in a variety of ways via a smartphone app. And because their colour range is so varied, they can be kept up year-round and used for any number of holidays — Halloween, the Fourth of July, Easter, you name it. Lumenplay offers the most colours by far at more than 16 million. The exotic lighting system doesn’t come cheap ($79.99 for a starter pack) and is only available in 10-foot strands. But you can string as many as 500 lights together on one controller, which comes with the starter pack. GE also offers RGB lighting technology with its new iTwinkle light sets and pre-lit Christmas trees, while Texasbased decorating firm Christmas Decor is offering the lights as an option for holiday customers this year.
’SMART’ LIGHTS All the talk of RGB technology leads right into the next holiday lighting trend this year — “smart” lights or lighting systems controlled by your smartphone. Both the Lumenplay and iTwinkle systems are operated via apps available for Apple and Android phones. With just a swipe of your screen, you can dim or brighten outdoor lights, set them to music, or choose new colours and patterns. With iTwinkle, you can even record a greeting to play, like “Happy Holidays” or “Merry Christmas,” spokeswoman Amanda Hayes says. Most of these apps have a range of up to 150 feet, meaning you can control the action from across the yard or while plopped on your couch watching “It’s A Wonderful Life” (or the Gris-
wolds in “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation”) for the 10th time. “No longer do you have to venture outside to plug in your lights,” says Dave Geraci with Ohio-based Technical Consumer Products. TCP recently unveiled a smart home lighting system known as Connected by TCP, which links to a home’s Wi-Fi or mobile network and is controlled via smartphone, computer or a special remote.
PROJECTED LASER LIGHTS Using small spotlights, this technology projects thousands of tiny pinpoints of red, green or red AND green lights onto your home or any other hard surface. California-based BlissLights offers them for $179 or $199 each, depending on whether the lights are in motion. To a passerby, “at first glance, they look like traditional holiday rope lights, but actually they float freely across the house’s exterior, plants and more to create a display that neighbours will think took hours to design and hang,” BlissLights spokeswoman Natalia Barclay says. There are no cords or wires involved with the laser lights, says Nick Burks of Atlanta-based Pinnacle Lighting Group. “For people who live in the northern part of the country, it’s extremely helpful when you have to take them down and it’s zero degrees outside,” he says. “Instead of taking a string of lights down in January, just unplug the fixture and put it in a box and you’re done.”
Dear Debbie: I am setting up a home office in a corner of our living room. (We don’t use this room much except when we have friends over for dinner.) I work mainly from my laptop and spend many hours doing research and keyboarding. Have you any tips on how to make it practical and stylish? — Sandra Dear Sandra: Your first priority is to create a work space that is comfortable, and allows you to work on your laptop without causing fatigue and injury. We have all jumped on the computer bandwagon, spending hours bent over either working or playing, checking Facebook and Twitter. Keeping connected with business associates and then family and friends has become a real addiction. The challenge is to DEBBIE maintain the TRAVIS necessary ties without suffering from the effects of sitting too long in a position that compromises our posture. Back aches, headaches and repetitive stress syndrome are all too common, and in severe cases cause prolonged time off work and suffering. So, begin by setting yourself up with the right desk, chair and light. As a researcher, you will quickly find plenty of information on the Internet pertaining to products that are specifically designed to set you up in the best position. Working on your lap is not good. I discovered a new company called Uncaged Ergonomics. www.uncagedergonomics.com. They produce laptop stands that sit on your desk and can be raised and tilted to your specifications, and desk risers, stands that extend high enough for you to work standing up. (This is a good thing.)
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There are foot rests, monitor risers and keyboard trays. The most innovative solution is their Wobble Stool. These stools were designed for the sit-to-stand world and were created to keep you moving during your work day. You can adjust the height to suit your favourite work position. The rocking (wobbling) motion allows you to move from task to task by calling your muscles into play. The stools are very portable and can also be used as bar stools, around the kitchen for prepping food and eating, anywhere you need good support. As far as style goes, you’ll find that your friends will want to check out your new work station. If you would like to block off your work space, make or buy a room screen that can be decorated on one side to complement your living room décor, and painted on the work side in a colour that energizes you. Dear Debbie: Why do they make hall cupboards so small? Have you any solutions for where to put the coats and other outerwear that anyone living in a four-seasons climate needs? I have two kids and the hall is always a mess, especially in the winter. — Rebecca Dear Rebecca: This is such a common problem, I agree it doesn’t make sense. A friend of mine recently moved and came up with a solution that’s brilliant. There was a large closet in the living room, so that’s where the coats go. She then turned the narrow hall closet into a linen cupboard. She removed the hanging bar, added four shelves and now has a place for towels, sheets, and tablecloths. The top shelf is perfect for sleeping bags, and under the bottom shelf there is room for milk crates to hold bike helmets, and other sports gear and boots. Now the trick is to get the kids to walk that extra few yards to hang up their coats. Debbie Travis’s House to Home column is produced by Debbie Travis and Barbara Dingle. Please email your questions to house2home@debbietravis.com. You can follow Debbie on Twitter at www.twitter. com/debbie_travis, and visit Debbie’s new website, www.debbietravis.com.
BATTERY-POWERED LIGHTS This technology has been around a while but was mostly limited to smaller, incandescent light strands that you’d put in a window box or small porch display. Now they come in LED strands up to 30 feet long with batteries that are much more powerful and longer-lasting. Many feature auto-timers and buttons that control blinking and other patterns. At online retailer Lights.com, you can connect up to six strands of battery-powered lights for a total of 600 LED lights on one battery pack, spokeswoman Aimee Majoros says. You know what that means? 180 feet of energy-saving holiday sparkle.
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PARDUE 1936 - 2014 It is with much sadness that the family of Margaret “Marge” Elaine Pardue, would like to announce that their dear mother passed away at Extendicare Michener Hill in Red Deer on Tuesday, November 11, 2014 at the age of 78 years. Marge is survived by son Brian Pardue; daughters Kathy (Ralph) Card, Susan (Reid) Bergman; her precious grandchildren Levi Pardue, Joel Pardue, Royden (Christina) Card, Jenny Card, Leah Bergman and Kristin Bergman. Marge was predeceased by her husband Rae on March 17, 2014. Also to cherish Marge’s memory are two brothers, a sister, brother-in-laws, sisterin-laws, nieces, nephews, family members and friends. God saw you getting tired and a cure was not to be so he put his arms around you and whispered, “Come to Me” With tearful eyes we watched you and saw you pass away and although we love you dearly we could not make you stay. A Golden heart stopped beating hard working hands at rest. God broke our hearts to prove us he only takes the best. A Memorial Service to celebrate Marge’s life will be held at the Balmoral Bible Chapel, located at the intersection of Highway 11 (55 Street) and Rutherford Drive, Red Deer, Alberta on Tuesday, November 18, 2014 at 1:00 p.m.. Memorial donations may be made directly to the Alzheimer Society of Alberta, 10531 Kingsway Ave., Edmonton AB T5H 4K1 or to the Heart & Stroke Foundation of Alberta, 202, 5913 - 50 Ave, Red Deer AB T4N 4C4. Condolences to Marge’s family may be emailed to meaningfulmemorials@yahoo.ca MEANINGFUL MEMORIALS Funeral Service Red Deer 587-876-4944
WELLING Sharmaine 1949 - 2014 Sharmaine Ray Welling of Red Deer, Alberta, passed away at Extendicare Michener Hill, Red Deer on Wednesday, November 12, 2014 at the age of 65 years. Sharmaine was born on September 13, 1949 in Medicine Hat, Alberta. She was raised and grew up on a ranch in the Eagle Butte Area of Southern Alberta. Sharmaine attended the Hillcrest Christian College for her Grade 10. Then she went on to attend Secretarial School and eventually moved to Red Deer. Sharmaine will be deeply missed but forever cherished in the hearts of her family and dear friends. Sharmaine will be lovingly remembered by her spouse, David Vincent, son, Kurtis (Susanne) Welling of Spruce Grove, Alberta, daughter, Sheiligh Welling of Red Deer, three grandsons and brother, Raymond (Rose) Garlough of Calgary. She was predeceased by her mother, Lily Clara Garlough (nee Tinis) in 1989 at the age of 64 years and her father, Wesley Garlough in 1992 at the age of 79 years. A Celebration of Sharmaine’s Life will be held at Parkland Funeral Home, 6287 - 67A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer, Alberta on Tuesday, November 18, 2014 at 11:00 a.m. with Pastor Ross Helgeton officiating. If desired, Memorial Donations in Sharmaine’s honor may be made directly to the Canadian Cancer Society at www.cancer.ca. Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com Arrangements in care of Maryann Hansen, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer. 403.340.4040.
WYSHYNSKI Muriel July 9, 1929 - Nov. 11, 2014. It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Muriel Rae Wyshynski at the age of 85, peacefully in her sleep. Born July 9, 1929, in Oxbow, SK she is predeceased by her husband Nap, her parents Jim and Edna Workman and her brothers, John, Bill, Ray and Ken, also by several brothers and sisters-in-law. She is survived by her daughters Rae Wyshynski and Debbie Hope (Jim), her grandson Andrew Hope, many nieces and nephews and a group of close friends. A memorial service will be held Tuesday, November 18, 2014 at 11:00 a.m. at Sunnybrook United Church, 12 Stanton Street, Red Deer, Alberta. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Canadian Diabetes Association, 6-5015 4856, Red Deer, Alberta, T4N 1S9 or to a charity of your choice. Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com. Arrangements entrusted to EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL 4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer. Phone (403) 347-2222
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MAINS Steven Michael July 2, 1968 - Nov. 11, 2014 It is with great sadness that we share the loss of our beloved Steven who was taken tragically in a motor vehicle accident on Tuesday, November 11. Steve was the third child born to Marg and Bob Mains in Edmonton, Alberta. The family moved to Red Deer in 1971 and Steve completed all of his public schooling here at Mountview School, Eastview Junior High School and Lindsay Thurber Comprehensive High School. He was a skilled hockey player who nurtured his talents with the Red Deer Optimist Midget Chiefs and enjoyed a long career in the AJHL with the Red Deer Rustlers and the Hobbema Hawks. Following his hockey days, he followed in his father’s footsteps and pursued his passion for aviation and all things airplanes working for Chemonics Industries in the summer and proudly earning his private pilot license when he was back home. In 1994, while working in Fort McMurray, he met and married the love of his life, Agatha Marshall. Steve and Agatha moved to Red Deer in the fall when Steve found work with Schlumberger. They finally settled in Sylvan Lake and enjoyed travelling to sunny destinations with family, friends and their beloved puppies. He will be lovingly remembered as a kind and gentle soul who had a magical way with animals and all the patience in the world with small children. When Steve hugged you, he pulled you into his heart. We will all miss his sweet face and the beautiful twinkle of his loving eyes. He leaves behind his wife, Agatha, his mother, Margaret, brother, Randy (Dawn, Kyle, Haylee), sister, Sandra (Shawn), numerous aunts, uncles, and cousins. Also mourning this loss is his sister in law, Rhona (Ken), brother in laws, Ed (Alane), Maurice, mother in law, Ann, and six nieces and nephews, Cody, Jamie, Dylan, Billy, Jake and Kennedy. He was predeceased by his father, Bob Mains and a sister, Suzanne. A Funeral will be held Our Lady of the Assumption Church, Sylvan Lake on Monday, November 17, 2014 at 11:00 A.M. As an expression of sympathy memorial donations may be made in Steve’s honor to the Central Animal Services (CARES). SYLVAN LAKE AND ROCKY FUNERAL HOMES AND CREMATORIUM, your Golden Rule Funeral Homes, entrusted with the arrangements. 403-887-2151.
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24th Annual Red Deer Christmas ANTIQUE Show & Sale Nov. 15 & 16 Sat. 10-5:30, Sun. 10-4:30 Westerner Park Over 350 Tables Carswell’s 343-1614 ANNUAL COOKIE WALK CRAFT, BAKE AND QUILT SALE Sat. Nov. 15th 9 am - 12:30 pm Mount Calvary Lutheran Church, 18 Selkirk Blvd. Red Deer (Across from 32nd Street Fire Hall) Cookie boxes - $7/ea Everyone welcome!
CASE IH EQUIPMENT DEALER in Red Deer is hiring a F/T
SERVICE WRITER.
We are looking for a motivated candidate with computer + organization skills. The successful applicant will be customer oriented + show strong inter-personal skills, Service-writing experience is an asset. Forward your resume to: Future Ag Inc. Attn. Human Resources Box 489 Red Deer, AB T4N 5G1 Fax to (403) 342-0396 Email: hr@futureag.ca
RECEPTIONIST
POSITION AVAILABLE. Looking for highly motivated professional individual looking to enter the investment property industry. Successful Applicant will have good computer, phone and people skills. Sense of humor is a must. Willing to train the right person. Please email applications to: info@hpman.ca Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.
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COMPUSOFT CHRISTMAS CRAFT AND BAKE SALE, Golden Circle Senior Resource Centre, Sat. Nov. 15 , 9 a.m.-3 p.m., 4620 47A Ave. Handiwork, knitting and much more. Nearly new boutique will also be open.
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FREE FLU SHOTS
Highland Green Value Drug Mart 6315 Horn St.
Experienced Computer Sales Person Salary Position w/Benefits Please submit resume IN PERSON CompuSoft Ltd. 2067A 50 Ave. Red Deer
No phone calls please Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY
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Farm Work The Farm Studio 12th Annual FARM/FEEDLOT CHRISTMAS LOOKING FOR FULL TIME/ ART SHOW & SALE YEAR ROUND EMPLOYEE.
Celebrations 90th Birthday Celebration!
Saturday / Sunday Nov. 15 & 16 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Raku Ceramics, Watercolours, other gift ideas. 1 Mile West, 1 Mile North from Aspelund Road & Highway 20 Intersection (approx. 8 kms. north of Sylvan Lake traffic circle) Watch for Signs. Call 403-748-2557 For more information.
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LOST in Eastview, Nov. 6. Orange medium hair tabby adult cat, was wearing a collar at the time with the name Petra. Call 403-896-8522 if found. RED HAND BAG Lost Nov. 11th behind Old Court House Professional Centre. Please call 403-347-6567
In Memoriam
Employment includes Animal Health, Farming and Equipment Operation, and Feeding Equipment Operation.† Must be physically fit.† Having a Class 3 an asset. Email: dthengs@hotmail.com Fax 403-638-3908, or Call 403-638-4165.†
BEARSPAW is a moderately sized oil and gas company operating primarily in the Stettler and Drumheller areas. We are currently accepting applications for a
JUNIOR OIL AND GAS OPERATOR
in our Stettler Field. Applicants need to be mechanically inclined, motivated to work hard and learn quickly. Found Associated industry experience eg. instrumentation or facilities GOLD and diamond ladies construction experience bracelet found in Bower Mall on Nov. 12. Call to would be an asset but is not necessarily required. identify 403-343-3502 This position offers a diverse and challenging work environment with Personals competitive pay, attractive benefits and the ability to grow within the organizaCOCAINE ANONYMOUS tion. Applicants must live 403-396-8298 or be willing to relocate to within a 20 minute commute of the work place location (Stettler). Please Submit Resume’s Attention Human Resources Email: payroll@ bearspawpet.com Fax: (403) 258-3197 CLASSIFICATIONS Mail: Suite 5309, 333 96th 700-920 Ave NE Calgary, Alberta T3R 1H1
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Celebrations POWELL, Allen June 4, 1944 - Nov. 16, 2009 5 years have passed since you left us, gone but not forgotten. Memories we still have, and we think of you often. Love your family
HAPPY 8TH BIRTHDAY To Our Beautiful Twins, Miss you like crazy! Love Mommy Lisa, Papa Tim, Grandma Annette, Sister Emma and Uncle Todd Love you forever!
Ruth Moore Come and go tea, 1-4 p.m. on Sunday, November 16th at Sierra Grande, 4805 45 Street. No cards or gifts please.
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Live in Nanny needed for 7 and 1 1/2 year old must be able to commute from sylvan lake to Red deer 403-505-9935 P/T F. caregiver wanted for F quad. Must be reliable and have own vehicle. 403-505-7846
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DEX Production Testing req’s exp. day night supervisors, assistants, and boiler hands. Must have boilers ticket. Competitive wage & benefit pkg. Email resume to: office@ dexproduction.com or fax 403-864-8284
requires RECEPTIONIST Must have computer experience and be available from Tuesday to Saturday from 10 am to 7 pm Apply in person with resume to: 4924 59 St. Red Deer, AB. No Phone Calls Please
JOIN us at Aveda Transportation and Energy Services as a
Class 1 Bed/Texas Bed Truck Driver
We are a young, energetic company that provides specialized transportation and rental equipment to the oil and gas industry. Please email resumes to careers@ avedaenergy.com
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LANGAN SITE SERVICES LTD.
in Ponoka county, supplies oilfield septic containment & disposal throughout AB. We require Driver Operators for small vac trucks. Oilfield exp. is an asset. Must have H2S, First Aid, TDG, clean driver’s abstract & Class 5 license, drug testing. $20/ hr. to start, home every night, benefits. Fax resume to Chris 403-704-1127 or email: chris@ langansiteservices.com LOCAL SERVICE CO. in Red Deer REQ’S EXP. VACUUM TRUCK OPERATOR Must have Class 3 licence w/air & all oilfield tickets. Fax resume w/drivers abstract to 403-886-4475 Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds
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ZUBAR Production Services
NOW ACCEPTING RESUMES FOR
NOW HIRING
Experienced Swampers/Exp’d. pilot car drivers
with tickets AND rig move and winch experience.
DISPATCHER
Knowledge of Red Deer and area is essential. Good verbal and written communication skills are req’d. Must have service, rig move and permit knowledge. Busy fast paced environment .
For Red Deer area.
Fax resume & abstract to 403-885-0473 email: info@trysonenergy.com No phone calls please.
Well Testing Personnel Experienced Supervisors & Operators Must have valid applicable tickets. Email: lstouffer@ testalta.com
RCM TRANSPORT seeks experienced
in Red Deer for service work in Central Alberta. Top wages, bonuses and benefits. Excellent equipment and awesome team. Experience is a MUST. Call 1-855-501-5100 or email info@rcmtransport.ca
Industrial & Oilfield Waste Management
OPERATOR – STETTLER, AB We are currently looking to fill a full-time Operator position at the Stettler Service Centre. The ideal candidate will have oilfield operations experience or related experience in oilfield activities. A valid Class 5 licence is required, and a valid 5th Class Power Engineering certificate or valid Steam Ticket is considered an asset. Successful applicants will be mechanically inclined and can troubleshoot their way through a problem. Candidates must have at least two years’ relevant work experience, and be willing to work 10-hour shifts rotating between days and nights. Additionally, they must value the importance of safety in the workplace, be hard working, and be able to work with minimal supervision. Strong communications and customer service skills are a must.
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Newalta has much to offer including competitive salaries, great benefits and room for you to grow with the company. Please apply online at www.newalta.com/careers. We thank all applicants for their interest; however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.
is currently taking resumes for experienced Production Testing Personnel Email resume to: rdzubaroffice@telus.net or fax to (403)346-9420. Buying or Selling your home? Check out Homes for Sale in Classifieds
Restaurant/ Hotel
CLASS 1 FLUID DRIVERS
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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
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THE RUSTY PELICAN is EAST 40TH PUB REQ’S P/T / F/T COOK now accepting resumes for F/T Exp’d Apply in person with resume 3811 40th Ave.
LINE COOKS at all stations. MUST HAVE: JJAM Management (1987) • 2-3 yrs. post secondary Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s education. Requires to work at these • 2-3 yrs. on-the-job exp. Red Deer, AB locations: • Provide references 5111 22 St. The hourly rate will be 37444 HWY 2 S $13.25 - $15. per hour 37543 HWY 2N dependant on experience. 700 3020 22 St. Mail to: 2079 50 AVE. FOOD ATTENDANT Red Deer, AB T4R 1Z4 Req’d permanent shift or Call 403-347-1414 weekend day and evening or Fax to: 403-347-1161 both full and part time. 16 Vacancies, $10.20/hr. + THE RUSTY PELICAN benefits. Start ASAP. is now accepting resumes Job description for experienced www.timhortons.com F/T SERVERS Education and experience Must have Ref’s & Pro-Serve. not req’d. Apply within: 2079-50 Apply in person or fax Ave. 2-4 pm. Mon.-Fri. resume to: 403-314-1303 Fax 403-347-1161 Phone calls WILL NOT be accepted. QUEENS Diner in Burnt Lake Industrial Park is looking for a full-time prep/ line cook. Great hours! Closed by 4pm every day and closed on Sunday’s. Please email THE RUSTY PELICAN scottnshaw@telus.net with is now accepting resumes resume if interested or for an EXPERIENCED drop off at Diner BARTENDER. MUST (403-340-3302) HAVE REFERENCES. Able to work evening shift. TAP HOUSE Apply within: 2079-50 NORTH Ave. 2-4 pm. Mon.-Fri. (formerly Sam’s Cafe) is Fax 403-347-1161 Phone now taking applications for calls WILL NOT be accepted. Full Time/Part time COOK, Bring resume to 7101 Gaetz Ave. Red Deer Trades between 2-4 pm.
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EVRAZ Red Deer Works is now accepting applications for
HEAVEY DUTY JOURNEYMEN/ APPRENTICE SERVICE TECHNICIANS
Based in central Alberta, we help youth, adults, and families by providing counselling, transitional housing for youth, life skills training, and in-house treatment for mental illness. We are seeking qualified, motivated individuals to fill the following positions.
Peterbilt Red Deer is currently seeking Technicians for our North and South locations.
- TEAM LEADER (Full Time) - THERAPIST (Full Time) - FUNDS DEVELOPMENT OFFICER (Part Time) - YOUTH & FAMILY COUNSELLORS (Full Time) - YOUTH COUNSELLOR – Outreach Worker (Full Time) - YOUTH COUNSELLOR – Residential (Fri/Sat Overnights) - YOUTH COUNSELLORS – Residential (Relief)
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Please visit our website www.vantagecommunityservices.ca for more information. Applicants are sincerely thanked in advance for their interest. Only those selected for an interview will be contacted. Competition closes when positions are filled. Resumes can be emailed to hr@vantagecommunityservices.ca , faxed to (403) 346-3225, or forwarded to: Human Resources Vantage Community Services 4920 54 Street, Red Deer, AB T4N 2G8
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Special Day
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Restaurant/ Hotel
GOODMEN ROOFING LTD. Requires
SLOPED ROOFERS LABOURERS & FLAT ROOFERS Valid Driver’s Licence preferred. Fax or email info@goodmenroofing.ca or (403)341-6722 NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE!
NEWCART is looking for a full time
Landscape Labourer, as soon as possible. Duties will include: cutting grass, raking, litter removal, fertilizing, watering, snow clearing, operating light and heavy duty machinery, maintaining property maintenance equipment, general yard maintenance etc. This position will require some evenings, weekends, early mornings. 2 years experience minimum required. Hourly wage is $23-$25.00 depending on experience. Benefits available after 3 month probation period. Please submit resumes to: resumes @newcartcontracting.com or fax to 403-729-2396. NO phone calls please.
PAINTER F/T
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Join our highly qualified painting team. Serving Central AB. Vehicle req’d. Contact Drew at CCL 403-596-1829
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NOW HIRING Wise Intervention Services Inc. is now hiring for the following positions:
Do you have what it takes to be a WISE Guy?
Coil Tubing Spread Managers Coil Tubing Spread Supervisors Coil Tubing Operators Boom Truck Operators
Competitive Wages and Immediate Benefits. Priority given to applicants with relevant experience, and a Class 1 Drivers License. 21 and 14 or 15 and 6 day rotations are offered. Wise will also provide any oilfield tickets needed. For more information see:
Please Forward All Resumes to jobs@wiseisi.com or by fax to 403-340-1046
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If this sounds like an opportunity that interests you please e-mail your resume to: jgrove@ peterbiltreddeer.com LOSS PREVENTION INSPECTOR Wynward Insurance Group has an opening for a Loss Prevention Inspector for the territory of Central and Southern Alberta to inspect and evaluate physical conditions and safety and risk management practices on risks we insure. This is a full time home based position with a company vehicle provided. We offer a competitive salary and benefits package. A full description of the position and our company can be found on our website, www. wynward.com. Please apply by email to careers@wynward.com.
SIDING INSTALLER with or without trailer & tools. F.T. year round work, must have truck and 2 yrs. exp. $1 -$1.10 per sq.ft. 403-358-8580
Truckers/ Drivers
Now Hiring GASOLINE ALLEY LOCATION FULL TIME and PART TIME SHIFTS AVAILABLE • Very Competitive Wages • Advancement Opportunities With medical Benefits • Paid training • Paid Breaks
Apply in person or send resume to: Email:kfcjobsrd@yahoo.ca or Fax: (403) 341-3820 Professionals
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Individuals must be safety conscious, physically fit, able to work overtime and shift work. Wages start at $40.00 per hour and offer an excellent benefit and pension package. Please send resume to reddeerhr@evrazna.com or deliver in person to 27251 391 Township Road 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
Competitive Wages Benefit and RRSP packages In-house and out of house training opportunities Large new clean shop with excellent work environment CAT/Cumming’s Engine experience required Electronic engine troubleshooting Long weekend every second week CVIP Inspection Station
Looking for a place to live? Take a tour through the CLASSIFIEDS
Journeyman Millwrights, Electricians, and Machinists.
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BUSY Central Alberta Grain Trucking Company looking for Class 1 Drivers and/or Lease Operators. We offer lots of home time, benefits and a bonus program. Grain and super B exp. an asset but not necessary. If you have a clean commercial drivers abstract and would like to start making good money. fax or email resume and comm.abstract to 403-337-3758 or dtl@telus.net CLASS 1 or 3 drivers req’d for moving equipment. Resumes to be dropped off at Key Towing. 4083-78 St. Cres. Red Deer. Start your career! See Help Wanted 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. 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
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Westmoreland Coal Company – Canada
HUMAN RESOURCES COORDINATOR Westmoreland Coal Company, Canada has a position available for a permanent, full-time Human Resources Coordinator based out of Paintearth Mine, located south of Forestburg, Alberta. Position Profile: Reporting to the Manager, Human Resources & Safety, this position is responsible for a wide range of Human Resources & Safety activities at both Sheerness and Paintearth Mine sites. Responsibilities include, but not limited to: • Payroll processing for hourly operations; • Assisting in administering the recruitment process; • Interpreting & complying with the current Collective Bargaining Agreement; • Administering employee benefits & pension; • Administering employee Safety Training System; • Assisting with various office administration functions. Qualifications: • The ideal candidate will possess a degree, diploma or certificate in Human Resources or Business Administration with at least 3-5 years experience. Working towards a CHRP designation would be considered an asset. • Demonstrate excellent interpersonal, communication, leadership and organizational skills. • Previous experience working in Human Resources in a unionized environment; • Be able to work with minimal supervision and be self motivated; • Have the ability to learn quickly, multitask and prioritize in a fast paced environment; • Candidates must be proficient in the use of Microsoft Excel, Word and PowerPoint. Westmoreland Coal Company - Canada offers a competitive compensation and benefits package and provides the opportunity for personal growth and development. Closing date: November 23, 2014 Please e-mail or fax your resume and cover letter to Human Resources: E-mail: jklesse@westmoreland.com Fax: 403.884.3001
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We thank all candidates for their applications, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted. We would kindly appreciate no phone calls.
D6 RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, Nov. 15, 2014
FULL TIME SALES POSITION
The Red Deer Advocate Classified is the community’s number-one information centre and marketplace. It serves as the best single source for selling items, seeking jobs, finding housing, meeting new people and more.
309-3300
Trades
is looking for CLASS 1 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. You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!
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START YOUR OWN COMMERCIAL CLEANING BUSINESS Revenue between $24,000 - $120,000 Initial cash required as low as $6,000 In Business for over 20 years *Guaranteed Cleaning Contracts Incl. *Training Incl. *Ongoing Office Support
Ph: 780-468-3232 or 403-290-0866
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An opportunity exists at the Sheerness Mine, located south of Hanna, Alberta for a Journeyman HD Mechanic / Millwright. Position Profile: The position reports directly to the Maintenance Foreman. Responsibilities include performing preventative maintenance and repair of draglines, off road mobile equipment and other site services. Qualifications: The ideal candidate will possess an Interprovincial Trade Certificate and have mining equipment experience. Previous experience on Caterpillar equipment and draglines are considered an asset. Troubleshooting experience with a willingness to be responsible for results is necessary. Westmoreland Coal Company - Sheerness Mine offers a competitive compensation and benefits package and provides the opportunity for personal growth and development. Closing date: November 24, 2014 Please e-mail or fax your resume and cover letter to Human Resources: E-mail: careers.PEMSHM@westmoreland.com Fax: 403.854.5204 We thank all candidates for their applications, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted. We would kindly appreciate no phone calls.
Westmoreland Coal Company – Paintearth Mine
JOURNEYMAN ELECTRICIAN
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An opportunity exists at the Paintearth Mine, located between Halkirk & Forestburg, Alberta for a Journeyman Electrician. Position Profile: This position reports directly to the Maintenance Foreman. Responsibilities include industrial electrical maintenance, including PLC programming and modern drives. There will be an opportunity to work with high voltage, high power equipment. Qualifications: The ideal candidate will posses a Interprovincial Journeyman Electrician Certificate and have industrial experience with tech cable, cable tray and PLC terminations. Experience with draglines and DC powered equipment is an asset. Troubleshooting experience with a willingness to be responsible for results is necessary. Westmoreland Coal Company - Paintearth Mine offers a competitive compensation and benefits package and provides the opportunity for personal growth and development.
We thank all candidates for their applications, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted. We would kindly appreciate no phone calls.
MEN’S WINTER JACKETS 1- Marv Holland Safety Wear, XL. $40. 1 -Storm Master XL, $40. 403-342-5609
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TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, office, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721. Central Alberta’s Largest Car Lot in Classifieds
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Full time and part time positions available. Must be willing to work evenings and weekends, and must have previous experience driving either motor coach or semi. Clean Class 1 or Class 2 with air.
DISPATCHER REQ’D. Knowledge of Red Deer and area is essential. Verbal and written communication skills are req’d. Send resume by fax to 403-346-0295
Will consider either full or part time. Previous motor coach repair experience preferred.
SHRUMS MEATS HIRING EXP’D. BUTCHER, $20-$30/hr. Phone 1-403-742-1427 or fax 403-742-1429 SOURCE ADULT VIDEO requires mature P/T help Sat. & Sun. 7 a.m. - 3 p.m. Fax resume to: 403-346-9099 or drop off to: 3301-Gaetz Avenue
Employment Training
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SAFETY
FIREWOOD, birch, spruce & pine. North of Costco 403-346-7178, 392-7754
HEAVY DUTY MECHANIC REQUIRED MOTOR COACH CLEANER
Part time position. Shop is located 6 miles from Red Deer. Applicants must have own transportation and be able to work flexible schedule.
Household Appliances
Truckers/ Drivers
Household Furnishings
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STOVE, AMANA self clean, white, $100. 403-309-4518 lve. msg.
email or fax resume to: frontbus@platinum.ca 403-347-4999
www.frontierbuslines.com
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NEW LIZ AREN NY, 1 red croc. make-up bag. c/w 12 eyeshadows, 2 blush, 1 nail polish, 1 lip gloss. $195 value, asking $75. Would make a great Christmas gift. 403-227-2976
403-340-1930 www.academicexpress.ca
Resumes can be emailed to hr@vantagecommunity services.ca faxed to (403) 346-3225, or forwarded to: Human Resources Vantage Community Services 4920 54 Street Red Deer, AB T4N 2G8
Spruce & Pine -Split. Firepits avail. 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472
Health & Beauty
EXPERIENCED MOTOR COACH DRIVERS
currently requires someone for ongoing maintenance in multiple locations. A general understanding of building maintenance with an aptitude for light repairs including wall repair, light electrical, plumbing and moderate carpentry skills, or ability to assess the necessity for professional contractors. Hours of work will be approx. 25-30 hrs. per month or as job necessitates at a rate of $24/hr. The position is perfect for a retired or semi-retired person.
AFFORDABLE
Homestead Firewood
Now Offering Hotter, Cleaner BC Birch. All Types. P.U. / Delivery. Lyle 403-783-2275
“because we care”
Dog Central is currently looking for an experienced full time groomer. If you would like to make more money doing a job you love this is the place for you. We are a table rental salon so you can much more money than if you are on commission. Please email resumes to nicolek @telus.net or apply in person.
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Semi loads of pine, spruce, tamarack, poplar. Price depends on location. Lil Mule Logging 403-318-4346
FRONTIER
Gov’t of Alberta Funding may be available.
Firewood
LOGS
Misc. Help
TRAVEL WITH
Maintenance Position Vantage Community Services
JOURNEYMAN HD MECHANIC / MILLWRIGHT
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Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much!
GED Preparation Would you like to take the GED in your community?
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DINING set, pine wood, 4 chairs, 38”x72” with 18” leaf, good cond. $300. 403-346-0124 NIGHT Tables, (2) Red Oak, 1 drawer & 2 doors with glass top to protect from scratches. $75. ea. 403-352-8811
Hiring for busy season. Holiday-break work sched. available for students. Flexible PT and FT sched. with $17.25 guaranteed base pay, cust. sales/service, no experience necessary, we will train, conditions apply. Visit www.work4students.ca/rda or call 403-755-6711 to secure a position. Start dates for Nov/Dec.
Tired of Standing? Find something to sit on in Classifieds
Closing date: November 24, 2014 Please e-mail or fax your resume and cover letter to Human Resources: E-mail: careers.PEMSHM@westmoreland.com Fax: 403.884.3001
AND TRAINING
Clothing
WANTED
Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514
WE’RE DRIVEN TO SUCCEED
Stereos TV's, VCRs
HP Computer Monitor, $35. 403-782-3847
Owner-Operators/Lease Operators - All Locations Dalmac Oilfield Services has been servicing the oil and gas industry for over 57 years. With locations in Warburg, Edson and Fox Creek, Alberta, we have the best clients in the business and a well-run safety program. If you are an enterprising individual with a clean Class 1, valid oilfield tickets and WCB clearance, and a well-maintained tri or tandem tractor, please inquire via this ad and we will provide you with further details. Dalmac offers generous revenue potential, a contractor benefits package, flexible rotations and pricing assistance with maintenance, and overhead costs. Please visit www.dalmacenergy.com or inquire via tsturko@dalmac.ca for further information. Misc. Help
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HOUSE STEREO, $140. 403-782-3847
PSII w/10 games, $70. DS Lite w/5 games. Red. $80. 403-782-3847
Misc. for Sale
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1 CREE INDIAN SHIELD With long human hair. $80. 403-347-7405 6 1/2’ SLIM pine Christmas tree, hinged, c/w all red ornaments, clear mini lights, rotating stand $100; corner tv stand, holds up to 42” tv, $60, 2 brass lamps, white with green trim shades $25, men’s Windriver heated winter boots, size 9, exc. shape $125, 403-886-2542 COMPACTOR, Kitchenaid, $20.; Shaw Satellite dish, & 2 receivers with remotes, $150. 403-728-3485 MUST SEE: XL Blackfoot Shirld Masterpiece. Reg. $400. A must sell @ $200. 403-347-7405 SNOWBLOWER Craftsman. Excellent shape. Call for details. Asking $675 obo. 403-309-3475
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One of Alberta’s premium used vehicle operations is looking for a full-time sales consultant. Sales Experience is a requirement. Here’s what we offer: • Large Inventory – 2 locations to sell from • Flexible Hours • Excellent Reputation • Excellent Pay Structure • Excellent Benefit Plan
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Target is Hiring Seasonal Merchandise Flow and Sales Floor Team Members at our Red Deer location.
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Pets & Supplies
EXTENDED custom towing mirrors for p/u truck $60; quad cargo bag (never used) $25; custom made moose leather jacket size 12 $25; 4 drawer chest (hi-boy), bevelled mirror 8 brass drawer pulls frame scallop sea shell, metal and wood castors $35 403-342-7460
2 AQUARIUMS/CRITTER CAGE - NO LEAKS. 20 gallon Hartz in box c/w hood light. $50. 5 Gallon, $20. Or get both for $60. AQUARIUM GRAVEL - 10 lbs (new), white, $15 403-227-2976 37 TABLETS (For Dogs) 225 mg with Milk Thistle. Expires 05/15. For Liver Function. Vet cost was $106, asking $50. 403-227-2976
HEADBOARD, for queen bed, 60” wide, $40; 3 Clean wool accent matching 3x5 oval carpets, $40. for all 3; David Winter Collector’s houses in original boxes, $25/ea; Ammo magazine clip for British Lee Enfield 303, $35; Upright Hoover Dirt Finder Vacuum Cleaner, self propelled, allergen filtration, $50. 403-352-8811
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2 BALINESE KITTENS 1 SNOWSHOE SIAMESE 3 BURMAN $25/ea. 403-887-3649 2 KITTENS black/white to give away, Squeaky and Tippy, very tame 403-782-3031
SNOWBLOWER, Poulan 30”, 291cc, electric start, used about 8 hrs. Asking $900. 403-347-1637 Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds
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STONEY INDIAN MEDICINE MAN SHIELD $75. 403-347-7405
HIGH QUALITY LABRADOODLES and GOLDEN DOODLE pups Long time Breeder, text 306-521-1371 www.furtettishfarm.ca
WHITE aluminum railing (like new), new cost $1050, will take $375 Gary 403-350-9543
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2 BDRM Duplex overlooking Kin Canyon, 5 appls. 1.5 bath, partially dev. bsmt. NO PETS. Avail. Dec. 1. $1200 incl. water, garbage & sewer, d.d. $1000. 403-346-3179 MOUNTVIEW, across from school, 4 bdrm. dbl. garage, + RV park, lrg. lot backs onto park, fully dev. 2 full baths, new reno’s, 4 appls., $1650 + utils. Jan.1. Call Alex 403-519-2944 ON FARM between Rocky and Red Deer on Wall St. 3 bdrm. mobile, utils. incld, $1100/mo.; older 2 bdrm. house, tenants responsible for own gas $920/mo., avail. immed. Text Brad 587-377-7000
Condos/ Townhouses
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INGLEWOOD POINT 2 bdrm, 2 bath condo. Heated parking & all utils. incl. $1450. 403-350-3722/780-479-1522 www.seibelprperty.com Ph: 403-304-7576 or 403-347-7545 6 locations in Red Deer ~ Halman Heights ~ Riverfront Estates
~ Westpark
Please apply with resume to: qmacaulay@reddeeradvocate.com or call 403-314-4302 and speak with Grant.
SOUTHWOOD PARK 3110-47TH Avenue, 2 & 3 bdrm. townhouses, generously sized, 1 1/2 baths, fenced yards, full bsmts. 403-347-7473, Sorry no pets. www.greatapartments.ca
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BDRM. for rent in Vanier Woods,. $500 + dd, 403-588-6268 after 6 pm. SHARED Main floor in Grandview, all utils. incl. $695. 403-318-5416
Offices
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Main floor 1570 sq ft large commercial space for lease at corner of 48 Ave and 49 St. Office or retail. One of the highest traffic counts in downtown,great visibility just south of courthouse. Available Dec 2014. To view call Darryl Sim 403-358-9003 or email darryl@simproperties.ca
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PADS $450/mo. Brand new park in Lacombe. Spec Mobiles. 3 Bdrm., 2 bath. As Low as $75,000. Down payment $4000. Call at anytime. 403-588-8820
Supply
Required for Ponoka Oilfield Supply Store
Duties to include: Deliveries Heavy Lifting involved Clerical Duties
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Fax: (403) 843 - 3775
In Person: 5618 – 44th St, Rimbey
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Please Send Resume to: Email: rick.davies@meridianvalve.ca
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Warehouse Person/Shipper-Receiver Shipping & Receiving Inventory Control Assisting Inside Sales Operating Forklift
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Realtors & Services
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Bulk & Natural Foods
We are expanding our product line and we need more in store help. We have openings for the following “team members.”
HERE TO HELP & HERE TO SERVE
Fresh Department Manager
Call GORD ING at RE/MAX real estate central alberta 403-341-9995 gord.ing@remax.net
This position will require a person with previous fresh department experience, handling and displaying of all fresh department products such as produce, dairy, bread etc.
Part Time Cashiers and Clerks If excellent customer service is a priority with you, we may have just the right opportunity. Please apply with resume to:
Houses For Sale
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NEW HOMES Mason Martin Homes Senior New Home Planner Kyle, 403-588-2550
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Call Classifieds 403-309-3300 classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com
Accounting
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Contractors
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INSTALL your operators & INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS doors. Repairs. 391-4144 Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp. with oilfield service companies, other small businesses and individuals Escorts RW Smith, 346-9351 KAYLA 392-0891 *BUSTY* INDEPENDENT w/own car
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Carpentry
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FINISH CARPENTER Great Christmas Rates Book now! Ref’s avail. Free Estimates. Call Ron 587-877-3744
Contractors
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BRIDGER CONST. LTD. We do it all! 403-302-8550 DALE’S Home Reno’s Free estimates for all your reno needs. 403-506-4301 DOORS, windows, siding, soffit, fascia and custom cladding. Call Dean @ 403-302-9210.
Handyman Services
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ATT’N: Are you looking for help on small jobs around the house or renovate your bathroom, painting or flooring, or cutting small trees? Call James 403-341-0617
Massage Therapy
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FANTASY MASSAGE International ladies
Now Open
Specials. 11 a.m.-3 a.m. Private back entry. 403-341-4445
Massage Therapy
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STRESSBUSTERS 403-923-0682
Painters/ Decorators
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LAUREL TRUDGEON Residential Painting and Colour Consultations. 403-342-7801.
VII MASSAGE #7,7464 Gaetz Ave. Pampering at its Roofing BEST! 403-986-6686 PRECISE ROOFING LTD. 2nd. location in 15 Yrs. Exp., Ref’s Avail. Calgary coming 403-896-4869 Dec. 1. www.viimassage.com Seniors’
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5* JUNK REMOVAL
Property clean up 340-8666 GARAGE DOOR SERVICE. Save 50%. All yard & bobcat services, junk/tree/snow removal. 403-358-1614 SNOW shoveling/dump runs /odd jobs 403-885-5333
Painters/ Decorators
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MASSAGE ABOVE ALL JG PAINTING, 25 yrs. exp. WALK-INS WELCOME 4709 Gaetz Ave. 346-1161 Free Est. 403-872-8888
Services
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HELPING HANDS
Home Supports for Seniors. Est 1999. Cooking, cleaning, companionship. At home or facility. Call 403-346-7777 for information.
Snow Removal
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SNOWPLOWING Comm/Res. Contracts welcome. 403-358-1614
Yard Care
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FALL clean-up, Yard care, Junk/tree/snow removal, comm/res. 403-358-1614
Advocate Opportunities
Condos/ Townhouses
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2006 SILVERADO Z71 special edition, e/c, 4X4. New windshield, remote start, 160,000 km, 5.3, 1 owner, very clean. $12,500 no GST 403-505-5795
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Vans Buses
2007 HONDA Odyssey EX accident free, 1 owner, n/s, clean, weather tech mats, 1 set of snow tires. $15,500. 403-864-7781
Tires, Parts Acces.
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4 CHROME fender 1” trim $35, front winter floormats $10; chrome grill winter fronts $25; headlights, signal lights and taillights $65, fits 1999-2006 Chev Silverado. 403-346-2859
Auto Wreckers
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RED’S AUTO. Free Scrap Vehicle & Metal Removal. AMVIC APPROVED. We travel. May pay cash for vehicle. 403-396-7519
Farms/ Land
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80 ACRE APPROVED SUBDIVISION For sale or possible trade. Close to Tobin Lake, SK. www.simplesite.com/ migrationridgezoneresort Asking $225,000. Phone 403-742-8574
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To deliver the CENTRAL AB LIFE 1 day a week in:
Please call Debbie for details 403-314-4307
CARRIERS REQUIRED To deliver the
CENTRAL AB LIFE & LACOMBE EXPRESS 1 day a week in: LACOMBE BLACKFALDS Please call Rick for details 403-314-4303
ANDERS & MORRISROE Adult Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the
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NEW CONDO
1000 sq.ft. 2 bdrm., 2 bath. $194,900. 403-588-2550
CARRIERS REQUIRED
Eckville Bowden Olds Sylvan Lake
6 Days a week! Delivery to be done on/or before 6:30 am For More Information, Please call Prodie Phone 403-314-4301
ADULT Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the
RED DEER ADVOCATE CENTRAL ALBERTA’S DAILY NEWSPAPER
Advocate Opportunities
NEWSPAPER CARRIERS NEEDED For Afternoon Delivery 3 Days/Week (Wed., Thurs. & Fri.)
WASKASOO 43 & 44 Ave. KENTWOOD Kentwood Dr & Kirton Cl. ORIOLE PARK Oliver St. & Odell Gr. PINES Pearson Cres. ALSO Payne & Parsons Close ALSO Piper Dr. & Pallo Cl. RIVERSIDE MEADOWS 57 & 58 Ave., 59 & 60 St. ALSO 51, 52 & 43 Ave. & Apt. Bldg. on 60 St. For more information or to apply call Joanne at the Red Deer Advocate 403-314-4308
Nutter’s Bulk and Natural Foods in Red Deer is moving to a new and larger location, right across the street from our current location.
Don Chartrand, Marketing Manager Nutter’s Bulk and Natural Foods. dchartrand@nutters.com
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BUNGALOW - Elizabeth Park Lacombe, smoke/pet free, very clean,, fully landscaped & fenced w/ deck & shed, 5 bdrms,, 3 baths, fireplace, att. garage, 2007, open house every Sun. 12-6 pm. 16 Emily Cres. or Call Marlene 403-782-7287 $414,900. Suites BY OWNER. Sunnybrook, A/C & RV Parking. Dbl. 2 BDRM. lrg. suite adult det. garage. Lots of extras. bldg, free laundry, very 403-347-6754 or 347-6509 clean, quiet, Avai. Dec. 1 . FREE Weekly list of $975/mo., S.D. $650. properties for sale w/details, 403-304-5337 prices, address, owner’s GLENDALE reno’d 2 bdrm. phone #, etc. 342-7355 apartments, avail. immed, Help-U-Sell of Red Deer rent $875 403-596-6000 www.homesreddeer.com LARGE, 1 & 2 BDRM. MUST SELL SUITES. 25+, adults only New Home. 1325 sq.ft. n/s, no pets 403-346-7111 bi-level, 24x23 att. garage. 403-588-2550 NEWLY RENOVATED 1 & 2 bedroom suites available REDUCED in central location. Heat & Total 2682 sq. ft. bungalow water included. Cat friendly. 7 appls., + pool table, 86 Bell Street, Red Deer 403-347-6754, 347-6509 leasing@rentmidwest.com 1(888) 679-8031 RISER HOMES STARTER HOME PENHOLD 1 bdrm., incl. 2 bdrm., 2 bath. heat/water, 4 appls. $760 Many upgraded features, avail. Dec., 403-348-6594 Don’t Miss out on this 1170 sq.ft. 134 Morris Court Cottage/ Blackfalds. To view call Lloyd Fiddler 403-391-9294 Seasonal Total sale price $329,900. Prices includes legal fees, PARK Model for rent for GST, appliances, full season or for sale at sod & tree. Sun Vista RV Resort, Arizona. 403-346-7178 or 392-7754
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SUV's
2011Chev Equinox 1LT AWD, 2.4L, 6 spd. auto. trans.71,000 kms. Asking 18,000, 403-704-4660
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WANTED: Responsible working M/F. N/S, utils. wifi incl. $500. 403-506-1907
~ Kitson Close ~ Kyte & Kelloway Cres. ~ Holmes St. S.D. $1000 Rent $1245 to $1445 3 bdrm. townhouses, 1.5 bath, 4 & 5 appls., blinds, lrg. balconies, no dogs. N/S, no utils. incl. avail. Dec. 1 References required.
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2 BDRMS., no pets. Avail. Jan. 1. $900./mo. 403-343-6609 NORMANDEAU 2 Bdrm. 4-plex. 1.5 bath, 4 appls. $1100. No pets, N/S Quiet adults. 403-350-1717
SEIBEL PROPERTY Wanted
As part of our service team, you will be dispatched in response to service concerns to deliver newspapers and flyers to customers or carriers. A delivery vehicle provided by company! Work 3 to 4 shifts a week. Hours of shifts are morning shifts of Monday through Friday 5:00 AM to 9:00 AM. Saturday starting at 7 AM. Wednesday to Friday Shifts starting at 1 PM. *All Shifts based on 4 hours and likely to run longer.
We thank all applicants for their interest; however only selected candidates will be contacted.
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COUNTRY Mobile Home, near Bentley. $900/mo. + d.d., Call 403-748-2678.
rentals
Houses/ Duplexes
Manufactured Homes
CARRIERS NEEDED FOR FLYERS, FRIDAY FORWARD & EXPRESS
3 days per week, no weekends ROUTES IN:
ANDERS AREA Abbot Close/Allan St. Alexander Cres. Atlee Close/Ansett Cres Anquetel St./Ainge Close Andrews Close Alhstrom Close Anders St./Armstrong Close Asheley Ave/Ashley Close Archibald Cres. BOWER AREA Bunn Cres. Boyce Street Barrett Drive Baker Ave. Brookes Cres. Baile Close Byer Close Bell Street Broughton Cres. Beatty Cres.
Monday through Saturday. Delivery to be done before 6:30 am. Reliable vehicle needed. DEERPARK AREA Dixon Cres, Donnelly Cres, Duston St. area $482.00/mo. Deschner Close, Dubois Cres., Doherty Close, Duston St. and area. $327.00/mo. Dempsey St., Dodge Ave, Donlevy Ave area $327.00/mo. Dowler St., Daniel Cres. Dawe Cl., Dunham Close and area $412.00/mo. ROSEDALE AREA Ramage Cres, Close Root Close, Ralston Cres. $327.00/mo. For More information, please call Jamie 403-314-4306
ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Friday Forward ONLY 3 DAYS A WEEK in DEER PARK AREA Dixon Cres. $100.20/mo. Dunning Cres, Cl., and Depalme St. plus 3 blocks of Douglas Ave. $136.24/mo.
GRANDVIEW AREA 3900 & 4200 Blocks of 40A Ave. and 4000 Block of 39 St. (North side only). $55.68/mo. WOODLEA AREA 47A Ave, & part of 55, 56 & 57 St. $134./mo. For More Information Call Jamie at the Red Deer Advocate 403-314-4306
INGLEWOOD AREA Isherwood Close Inglewood Drive Isbister Close MORRISROE AREA Manning St./Maxwell Ave. McKinnon Cres/Munro Cres. McCullough Cres. McDougall Cres. SUNNYBROOK AREA Savoy Cres./Sydney Close Sunnyside Cres./Sutton Close LANCASTER AREA Long Close VANIER AREA Vanier Drive Vanson Close Viscount Drive Vold Close Call Prodie @ 403- 314-4301 for more info **********************
TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 403-314-4300
BUSINESS IS BUILT ON INFORMATION Everything you need to know to keep your business humming . . . every day in the Business Section of the Red Deer Advocate.
Call For Home Delivery
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Russian troops hold drills in Serbia KREMLIN SEEKS MORE INFLUENCE IN BALKANS BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
U.S. President Barack Obama, left, embraces and kisses Myanmar’s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi during a news conference at her home in Yangon, Myanmar, Friday.
Obama oozes support for Myanmar democracy icon BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS YANGON, Myanmar — President Barack Obama mounted a warm show of support Friday for Myanmar’s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, voicing opposition to a constitutional rule that’s preventing the pro-democracy icon from seeking the presidency next year. While crediting Myanmar for progress in its transition to democracy, he offered a blunt assessment of the distressing shortcomings that have called that transition into question. In his joint appearance with Suu Kyi, on the back porch of her lakeside home, Obama stopped short of an explicit endorsement for her potential campaign for president. But his affection and deep admiration for Suu Kyi was clear, from his praise for her efforts to liberalize the government to the ease with which he whispered in her ear as they walked arm in arm into the home where she was once confined as a political prisoner. Although Obama was quick to caution he didn’t want to dictate how Myanmar should pick its next president, he said told President Thein Sein the night before that he saw little wisdom in a rule barring the 69-year-old Suu Kyi from running next year because her children hold British citizenship. “I don’t understand a provision that would bar somebody from running for president because of who their children are,” Obama said. “That doesn’t make much sense to me.” Suu Kyi, a member of Parliament demure in her support for changing that provision, said it was flattering to have a constitution written with her in mind. But she said that wasn’t how it should be done in a democracy, urging supporters not to get too caught up in whether she wins next year’s pivotal elections. “Of course any party wants to win the elections — I’m sure the president will tell you that,” she said with a grin. What’s more important, she said, is how you win. “ I’d rather lose than win in the wrong way.” Obama and Suu Kyi took questions from reporters on the final day of Obama’s visit to Myanmar, an impoverished country struggling to reinvent itself.
Obama is heavily invested in Myanmar’s progress, having made a historic trip here two years ago to signal a strong U.S. commitment to democratization in the country and the broader region. On this visit, prompted by economic summits in the capital city of Naypyitaw, Obama faced profound concerns by Myanmar’s citizens that its transition to democracy is backsliding. At a town hall meeting Friday with young Southeast Asians — itself a rarity in a country ruled by its military for half a century — Obama told an ebullient crowd their generation has more potential than any before to shape Myanmar’s society. “The future of this region — your region — is not going to be dictated by dictator or by armies,” Obama said. “It’s going to be determined by entrepreneurs and inventors and dreamers.” Left unaddressed by Obama during his two days in Myanmar was growing skepticism about whether Suu Kyi, his fellow Nobel Peace Prize laureate, is willing to fight as vigorously for human rights and tolerance as she is for democratic reforms. The U.S. has deep concerns about the abuse of Rohingya Muslims, a minority group deeply disdained by most in the majority-Buddhist country, but Suu Kyi has resisted calls to speak out on their behalf. Asked by an American journalist about the plight of the Rohingya, Suu Kyi wouldn’t even say their name. That’s a position shared by Myanmar’s government, which deems the roughly 1.3 million Rohingya to be illegal migrants from Bangladesh and says the Rohingya ethnicity does not exist. “If you ask how do we propose to resolve all these problems of violence between communities, between ethnic groups, we’ve got to start with rule of law,” Suu Kyi said, speaking in general terms. “People who feel threatened are not going to sit down and sort out their problems.” Obama, for his part, did use the term “Rohingya” and said discrimination against them wasn’t consistent with the kind of country Myanmar wants to become. “Ultimately that is destabilizing to a democracy,” he said. Notably, Obama chose to hold his news conference in Myanmar with Suu Kyi instead of with Thein Sein, the face of Myanmar’s mixed evolution away from autocratic rule.
NIKINCI, Serbia — Camouflage-clad Russian soldiers parachute from the sky, armoured vehicles fire live rounds on an open field after being dropped from military transport jets and helicopters fire missiles against enemy positions. Although the flat terrain resembles the Ukrainian war zones, this is not an armed Russian intervention against its neighbour. It’s the first-ever joint Serb-Russian military exercise in Serbia, the Balkan country that has been performing a delicate balancing act in between its Slavic ally Russia and Western Europe, with which Belgrade wants to integrate. The “anti-terrorist’ drill on Friday — the first such by the Russians outside the former Soviet Union — of elite Russian troops in northern Serbia, not far from NATO-member Croatia, has stirred controversy both here and abroad. “Serbia’s government wants to try and keep everyone happy,” said prominent Balkan political analyst Tim Judah. “So, the U.S. helps finance and modernize Serbia’s army while now Serbian soldiers train with Russians. In normal times there would be little to say about this, but post-Crimea, these are not normal times anymore.” Although Serbian officials say they respect Ukraine’s territorial integrity and do not support Russia’s annexation of Crimea, they have refused to impose sanctions against Russia like the EU and the U.S. have. Russia and Serbia have traditionally close historic and cultural ties, and Moscow has backed Belgrade’s bid to maintain its claim over Kosovo — a former Serbian province that declared independence in 2008 with the support of Washington and its allies. The show of Russian military might in a country seeking to join the European Union comes as Russia, blamed by the West for fomenting the Ukraine crisis, tries to increase the Kremlin’s presence in the Balkans. “During our short stay in Serbia, we established the basis for expanding of our military relations,” said Russian Gen. Vladimir Shamatov. Russian President Vladimir Putin was in Belgrade last month where he received a hero’s welcome that included a Soviet-style military parade. The head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, arrived in Belgrade on Friday. “Serbia says it supports the territorial integrity of Ukraine, yet it welcomes Putin with a military parade and its soldiers are training with the army that annexed Crimea and is fighting in Ukraine,” Judah said. “As the (Ukrainian) war goes on this is an increasingly untenable position and Serbia’s government will just annoy both Russia and its Western friends rather than being on good terms with all.” Serbian Defence Minister Bratislav Gasic said he believes Serbian “neutrality” is tenable and defended holding the drill with the Russians. “There are no secrets about this exercise,” he said after the drills that included a mock live-ammunition attack against a terrorist base with armoured vehicles and about 200 troops, some deployed by Ilyushin IL-76 transport aircraft. “We are militarily neutral and we would like to maintain good relations with everyone, including Russia, the European Union, the United States and China,” Gasic said, adding that Serbia — which has never been part of any Russian or Western military alliance — will also hold military drills with the Americans next month in Serbia. In Washington, State Department Spokeswoman Jen Psaki called the military exercise regrettable.
Iraqi forces score major victory DRIVE MILITANTS OUT OF KEY OIL REFINERY TOWN BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BAGHDAD — Iraqi forces drove Islamic State militants out of a strategic oil refinery town north of Baghdad on Friday, scoring their biggest battlefield victory since they melted away in the face of the terror group’s stunning summer offensive that captured much of northern and western Iraq. The recapture of Beiji is the latest in a series of setbacks for the jihadi group, which has lost hundreds of fighters to airstrikes by a U.S.-led coalition in a stalled advance on the Syrian town of Kobani. On Friday, activists there reported significant progress by Kurdish fighters defending the town. Iraqi security officials said government forces backed by allied militiamen took control of Beiji and also lifted a monthslong Islamic State siege on its refinery — Iraq’s largest. However, two military officials reached by telephone in Beiji late Friday said there was still some fighting going on at the refinery, but reinforcements had been sent in and Iraqi forces were poised to retake it. The security officials said the army used loudspeakers to warn the small number of residents still holed up inside the town to stay indoors while bomb squads cleared booby-trapped houses and detonated roadside bombs. Also Friday, a suicide bomber tried to drive an explosive-laden bulldozer into a Beiji college used by government forces, the military officials said. The bomber was shot dead as he approached the gate, but still managed to detonate his explosives, killing three soldiers and wounding seven, they said. All officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media. Beiji will now likely be a base for staging a push to take back Saddam Hussein’s hometown of Tikrit to the
south, after government forces tried to retake it earlier this year. That campaign stalled and the city remains in Islamic State hands. In Syria, meanwhile, activists reported advances by Kurdish fighters against Islamic State militants in the strategic town of Kobani. Reached by telephone, activist Barzan Isso said the situation has improved for the town’s defenders following the recent airdrop of weapons by the United States and the arrival of heavily armed Kurdish fighters from Iraq to join the town’s defence. “The YPG made major progress in the Mashta Nour hill that overlooks parts of the city and they were also able to cut the main road leading to Aleppo,” he told The Associated Press, using an acronym for a main Kurdish militia, the People’s Protection Units. The fighting, he said, was now inside Kobani’s so-called “security quarter,” an area that houses the town’s main police station and other local government offices. The area was captured last month by the Islamic State but the Kurds have recently retaken parts of it. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said most of the fighting was focused on the southern and southeastern fronts, where Islamic State fighters were trying to seize back a road the Kurds recently captured, severing one of the militant group’s main supply lines. As it struggles to maintain momentum on the battlefield, the militant group has redoubled efforts to present itself as a new Islamic caliphate, with plans to launch its own currency in the vast swaths of Syria and Iraq that are still under its control. A website affiliated with the group said its leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, has ordered the minting of gold, silver and copper coins for a new currency. The authenticity of the posting could not be independently verified but the
Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
In this file photo taken Thursday, June 19, 2014, al-Qaeda-inspired militants stand with captured Iraqi army Humvee at a checkpoint outside an oil refinery in Beiji, some 250 kilometers north of Baghdad, Iraq. The government forces on Friday drove Islamic State militants out from their remaining strongholds inside the oil refinery town of Beiji, two security official said, in a key victory over the terror group that has captured much of northern and western Iraq in a stunning summer offensive. website has been used in the past for Islamic State postings. In Geneva, meanwhile, a U.N. panel investigating war crimes by the Islamic State group said Syrians and Iraqis are subjected to a “rule of terror,” with the calculated use of public brutality and indoctrination to ensure the submission of communities under its control. It said the extremists have denied food and medicine to hundreds of thousands of people and hidden fighters among civilians since the start of the U.S.-led air campaign. The conclusions from the Independent International Commission of In-
quiry on Syria, a four-member panel of independent experts, are based on more than 300 interviews with people who fled or are living in Islamic Statecontrolled areas and on video and photographic evidence. “Those that fled consistently described being subjected to acts that terrorize and aim to silence the population,” said Brazilian diplomat Paulo Sergio Pinheiro, who chairs the panel. He said whatever “services” the group provides to civilians are “always in the framework of this rule of terror,” similar to criminal organizations that use such means to control populations.
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1960 — Ontario panel of experts finds that D.H. Lawrence’s novel Lady Chatterley’s Lover is not obscene according to the Criminal Code. 1948 — Louis Stephen St. Laurent succeeds William Lyon Mackenzie King as Canada’s 12th Prime Minister. 1920 — The League of Nations meets for the first time in Geneva, Switzerland. 1849 — Nova Scotia Government Telegraph carries first European cable despatches to and from the US and Newfoundland, as the Pony Express era comes to an end.
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Oldest sister frustrated from lack of help caring for parents Dear Annie: I am 41 years old, the youngest of a full-time job. But that means no one will care for three daughters. I am also the only caretaker for our Mom and Dad. How can I make them see I am doing parents and am growing increasingly frustrated by all I can, but they need to do their share? — Taking the lack of assistance from my sisters. I cook, clean, Care of Everything in Iowa do repairs, handle bills and cover all the transportaDear Iowa: Your sisters sound oblivious to the tion. amount of care your parents require and I am underemployed, unmarried and unwilling to step up. Nonetheless, it helps uninvolved in any activity beyond the no one for you to put your life on hold as care of my 80-year-old parents. I contriba caregiver when all of you are drowning ute 100 percent of my income to keep us in debt. Call the Eldercare Locator (elderafloat, but we are having a hard time. care.gov) at 1-800-677-1116 to find out what I have no retirement and no savings. A resources are available in your area. And recent illness put me out of work for sevfrankly, as your parents require more care, eral months, and my mother had to beg they should look into selling their home for a loan of $500 from each sister. I am and moving into an assisted living resistill paying these loans back. dence. My sisters are married and financially Meanwhile, ask your siblings whether well off. One lives three hours away, and they would hire a full-time caregiver if you the other six. Neither makes an effort to agreed to find a full-time job. MITCHELL keep updated on my parents, and they Dear Annie: After reading another com& SUGAR never visit unless I put out a big spread plaint about thank-you notes, I’m wonderof food. They know my parents have a ing whether you should do a poll to find out lot of debt, but their solutions are for how the majority of people feel. me to find some magical government asI give gifts because it gives me pleasure. sistance program. Unfortunately, they are above the I don’t expect a handwritten thank-you note. A quick income levels for that kind of help. “thank you” in person, a text, an email or even a FaMy sisters say if they help our parents, they will cebook message works just fine. be supporting me, as well, and they tell me to get I always acknowledge and show my appreciation
for the gifts I receive, but I never write thank-you notes. If anyone is upset because they don’t get one, I prefer they stop giving me gifts. — S. Dear S.: But, honey, you ARE writing thank-you notes. You simply aren’t doing them in the traditional way. The point of a thank-you note is to (a) acknowledge that a gift was received, and (b) thank the giver. While some people are adamant about handwritten notes, most folks would be happy to receive a text, email or Facebook message. Those who refuse to let someone know their gift was received and appreciated — in any format — are simply inconsiderate. Dear Annie: This is about “Free but Confused,” whose father has disowned him now that he’s come out. When my son was 35, he revealed to us that he is gay. I became upset and depressed. I went to counseling and read books, but couldn’t understand why I felt so miserable. I never had any prejudice toward gay people. Finally, one friend said, “You thought you knew him.” That was it. And that knowledge is what helped me. — A Mother Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@ comcast.net, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.
properly sort out some feelings. This will leave you, well, pausing and in reflection mode. Trust what you are feeling, your instincts are very much on cue today. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Today will leave you feeling Saturday, Nov. 15 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Chad Kroeger, 40; a little spooked out. Your friends might say one thing, but you can sense they mean another. It could be that what is being Beverly D’Angelo, 63; Kevin Eubanks, 57 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Today will welcome in an shared hits a little too close for comfort. Trust your instincts almost eerie feeling, Neptune will be stationing to go direct today and allow for creative breakthroughs to happen as well! SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): After a long period today. Others could be in a strange mood, perhaps because they are jealous of you moving towards your goals. You will of time with you not seeing family or dealing with confusion sense that what people are saying to you is not exactly what amongst them, that energy will shift for the better. Breakthroughs will likely happen and more understanding will be they are thinking. This will create some conshared generally. Trust your instincts implicitly today. fusion for you. Trust your own instincts! CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Your underHAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today is your birthstanding of your natural gut instincts will have you day, this year will promise to be a year when surprised today. You can only learn through experiyou can and will heavily rely on your gut ence, so now is the best time to trust them. Also, instincts. There will be a lot of advancement knowledge that you learn will open up your future in made for you on a professional level. This ways that you didn’t know possible! will contribute to your change in appearance AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The thing that or simply how you come across to others. you value the most is something we all search for Not only that, there will be breakthroughs with in another being. You will now have that knowledge creative projects and children this year! reflected back to you, as you find the ideal individual ARIES (March 21-April 19): Clarity will to reflect this harmony with. Healing of past wounds soon be yours, but first you will have to conwill begin soon. tend with the confusion of the transition of PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): With Neptune staLARISA MAIRA Neptune. It is true that your intuition has been tioning to go direct in your own sign today, you will OZOLINS spot on for most of this summer, as you learnt be more able to let go of things that no longer serve how and what that actually meant to you. At you. You will also come across in a clearer and last, full inspiration is returning! direct manner. Do start to have more faith; your perTAURUS (April 20-May 20): For some sonal dreams are in the process of manifesting now! time, you have been looking for friends, wanting to be part of a group, or searching for humanitarian causes Sunday, Nov. 16 to support. Today, that energy starts to switch. You might be CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Maggie Gyllenlooked at funny, but you are taking action to improve your haal, 37; Diana Krall, 50; Dean Mcdermott, 48 future. THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Today will welcome in a sense GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Today is the day to mark down in your calendar. This is the start day when your career, mari- of mystery. You will finally understand the truth about the tal status, and public life just became clearer. It is the start changes that have been asked of you. You’ll be excellent at of breakthroughs! You are feeling pumped to organize, be of organizing your day. There will be a lot of social interactions that will need to be incorporated into your daily plans. Stand service, and get everything properly allocated today. CANCER (June 21-July 22): You will be more able to your ground if needed, and don’t let others deter you from discern what is true and what is false today. This might raise your goals now. HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today is your birthday, this year some eyebrows amongst romantic interests, or simply those you are sharing the information with. They might understand will prove to be one where you will be able to make advancethat you are correct, but will not know how you know the infor- ments in your career. Your health and vitality will definitely be something that is on your mind. Much action can be taken, if mation. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You will start to have clear vision you take every opportunity to learn more about those areas about your savings or those close individuals in your life, ei- of life. The more balanced and organized you are, the better ther business or your spouse. There is a sense that you will able you will be to succeed with all your dreams! ARIES (March 21-April 19): The more organized you are understand the truth of their true nature, this can be either today, the better able you are to see those changes within good or bad. More self-realization will come up too. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): After a long period of time your professional life now. Yes, there might be some fears when others in your life were either missing in action or simply popping up — let them go, focus on what you want to see had something pull them away from you, they will now come happen for you. It will work out fine and create solid advanceback in your life. You will start to see them for who they are, ments. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You will find it deeply rewardbut that can simply mean that you are seeing them more. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): It will almost feel like your daily ing to focus on organizing your steps forward today. There will life will take on a standstill pause today. You will be able to be an opportunity to advance through learning more. Take
every opportunity to delve a bit deeper into all subject matters. Others in your life will help you out today! GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Those at work will truly help you out in a very profound way today. Allow for them to help, take that opportunity as soon as it is suggested. You will be able to clear your desk more quickly and they will help you sort out the details that have been plaguing you for some time. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Others in your life will stand their ground today. You will have to be more organized and help them out a little more. Do not be so focused on your own spotlight now. Share the workload and it will create closer bonds with you and them today. Take every opportunity to help out. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Today, you will solve some riddle that has been on your mind for some time. There is a sense that those you interact with daily will share some news that will help you re-discover yourself and your personal needs once again. Stand in your truth today! VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Today you will be a beacon of light for many. Allow for fun interactions to occur with others today. Through these social and enjoyable times, much will be revealed and understood. You will see that you are speaking the truth and more wisdom will come to light. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): There is a great opportunity for you to feel closer with others, and share time with those you strongly feel infinity to. Take the time to properly sort out your finances and all good things will come to you. Soon you will be rewarded for you efforts, so keep going! SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): There is such a great opportunity provided to you today to improve on your health and to bring about change within your community. There is a sense that you will teeter with grabbing that opportunity. Don’t take that chance to share your truth with all now! SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You are feeling empowered and positive internal dialogue will get your even further. Try a mantra today, directed towards increasing your confidence with positive intentions. You can go anywhere now. Take the opportunity and time to focus on yourself and heal. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The best way to accomplishing the goals you have set out for yourself today is to get properly organized. Friends or co-workers will offer you an opportunity that might seem like hard work. Say “yes” — it will be just what you need to help you along! AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Today will be a pivotal day for you to clearly understand exactly what you want your next step to be. A deeper understanding of your mother will also emerge. This will help you stand your ground, as you accept the challenges of life with a new found strength. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Friends will offer you the ability to stand up for yourself and your beliefs now. It seems that they will back you. You will be more able to share your wisdom and knowledge with groups and with the public. Use your wisdom — clarity and truth are pouring out of every facet! Larisa Maira Ozolins is an internationally syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate.
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