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Guilbault’s fate up to panel

Crack lab busted TWO CHILDREN REMOVED FROM LANCASTER-AREA HOME

MAN FOUND NOT CRIMINALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR KILLING FATHER

BY BRENDA KOSSOWAN ADVOCATE STAFF A review panel must now decide the fate of a Red Deer man found not criminally responsible for killing his father.

Former Red Deer city councillor Timothy Bruce Guilbault, 58, died at a family cabin west of Bowden on Nov. 3, 2012 when his son, Aaron Timothy Guilbault, struck him in the back of the head with an aluminium baseball bat.

Aaron was arrested in Stettler two days later on a charge of second-degree murder.

Witnesses in Aaron Guilbault’s trial testified before Justice Monica Bast in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench that the young man had suffered escalating symptoms of schizophrenia, including delusions that he was the son of God and that his father was an evil being who stood between him and the women God had promised to him as soulmates.

In court on Thursday, Bast ruled that Aaron Guilbault, now 33, was suffering the symptoms of his disorder when he killed his father and that he was therefore unable to appreciate the nature of his act or that what he had done was morally wrong.

The fact that he made no effort to flee the scene or hide his crime and that he confessed to a friend later that day support defence counsel Patty MacNaughton’s theory that her client was suffering the effects of his disorder when he killed his father, said Bast.

She ordered that Guilbault be detained under a Criminal Code of Canada provision requiring that a panel be given 45 days to review the facts presented during the trial and then determine a treatment program for him.

The review board has the power to continue to detain and treat Guilbault for as long as deemed necessary, Crown prosecutor Maurice Collard said outside the courtroom.

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Mike Tucker, Alert Law Enforcement Response Teams spokesperson, shows some cash and drugs that were seized during a Nov.4 bust in Lancaster Green area.

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Police arrested two parents and took two children to safety after have shutting down a crack lab operating in a Lancaster Green area home earlier this month.

More than $60,000 worth of drugs including 415 grams of powder cocaine; 82 grams crack cocaine; 76 grams of methamphetamine and 72 grams of marijuana were recovered after a search warrant was executed.

The arrests happened Nov. 4, but the Alberta Law Enforcement Response Teams (ALERT) just released the information on Thursday.

Police say the home’s kitchen area was being used to convert cocaine into crack.

Mike Tucker, ALERT spokesperson said the drugs were being made in the kitchen with other food around. “Some cocaine was removed from a cereal box in the pantry,� said Tucker. “Obviously that is complete reckless disregard for children’s safety.�

To protect the children’s identities, the parents will not be named.

Tucker said that it is completely appalling that someone would put children in a position of harm.

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Fire stations, microbreweries on council’s agenda

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF Another Red Deer fire station may move location to accommodate growth in the city’s east end.

Red Deer Emergency Services Station 3 may soon know its new home as a report has narrowed down the choices to three.

This was necessitated by the decision to move Station 4, currently at 30 Davison Dr., to a new location in the Timberlands neighbourhood. Station 4 had to be moved to provide better coverage in north east Red Deer.

Currently housed at 4340 32nd Street, Station 3 houses firetrucks, ambulances and emergency services personnel as well as the emergency services headquarters and administration. However, to meet the High Intensity Residential Fire Requirements both fire halls will have to be moved to a new locations in south east and north east Red Deer respectively.

inquiries regarding microbreweries and has already processed a site exception for a similar use in the past year.

Currently, any microbrewery would require a site specific land use bylaw amendment.

The proposal council will debate would add micrbrobrewing as a discretionary use to the Riverlands and Railyards areas, proposed redevelopment projects west of Gaetz Avenue by the Red Deer River.

The proposal would allow for the small-scale production and packaging of alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages and would include distribution and either a beer tasting room, a drinking establishment or a restaurant. It also stipulates that the floor area devoted to the production and packaging of beer shall be no more than 70 per cent. â—? Council will consider the Red Deer Alcohol and Drug Strategy report. Originally presented at the Oct. 27 meeting, the strategy takes a made in Red Deer approach to addictions.

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Possible new locations for Station 3 include on 22nd Street in Aspen Ridge where land is set aside for a new firehall, at 40th Avenue and 32nd Street not far from its current location or at one of five potential sites neat the Collicutt Centre at the intersection of 32nd Street and 30th Avenue.

Council is being asked to give administration the approval to develop amendments to the Neighbourhood Area Structure Plan and the East Hill Major Area Structure Plan to begin the process of moving the fire halls into their new location while ensuring adequate fire protection. â—? It may become easier for Red Deer residents to get their own local wobbly-pop as council will consider adding microbreweries as a permitted use to some neighbourhoods.

City council will debate a motion to define and add microbreweries as a discretionary use to two areas of Red Deer at their meeting scheduled for Monday, which could pave the way for the pubs producing local beer to set up shop in town.

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Lois Simpson dabs her brush in her palette as she works on a small watercolour piece at the Golden Circle on Thursday. Every Thursday the Red Deer Art Club meets at the Golden Circle Seniors Centre in Red Deer to socialize and work on their painting and drawing projects. On the first Thursday of each month, the group does a critique where they examine the works of group members. The club is open to new members, and drop-in guests are also welcome each Thursday from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Nearly 400 municipal police, RCMP, and sheriffs work in ALERT. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

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BUST: Drugs, cash, rifle seized He added anyone who is manufacturing crack in a kitchen of a home with children present is reckless and is endangering children. He said it is fortunate that Alberta has legislation – Drug Endangered Children Act – that help protect children in these situations. Central Region Child and Family Services is assisting the teams in caring for the children.

Crack is made by dissolving cocaine powder and boiling it in a solution.

Once cooled into a solid substance, it forms into small pieces often referred to as “rocks” or “spit balls” that are sold on the street for $50 to $80 depending on the market.

Tucker said a crack lab is not a public safety issue compared to a meth lab which has the potential for an explosion.

“Where the concern is the connection of violence that this demonstrates,” said Tucker, pointing to a firearm seized as another potential risk.

Other drugs and paraphernalia were found including a Winchester rifle and $40,000 in American and Canadian cash.

A Toyota Tundra truck and Honda sedan, believed to be used in the crimes, were also seized.

Tucker said this investigation is not likely related to the Red Scorpions investigation in July. However he said any incidents where you have illegal drugs can be linked back to organized crime.

Two people are facing several drug related and firearms charges.

ALERT is funded by the Alberta Government and is a compilation of the province’s most sophisticated law enforcement resources committed to tackling serious and organized crime.

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The tragedy to the Guilbault family and to the greater community as well is underscored by the failure of society and the justice system to deal appropriately with mental illness before the threats become real, said Morris Flewwelling, a retired schoolteacher who has served as a Red Deer city councillor and mayor.

Bast noted in her decision that family members become worried after seeing signs of an evolving and escalating mental disorder in the two years before Aaron’s arrest, including a letter Tim wrote to a Red Deer psychiatrist just five days before his fatal meeting with his son.

She reiterated witness statements concerning Aaron’s failure to recognize his own illness and his refusal to take medications. He had been certified and admitted for treatment on two occasions in the year before killing his father, first to the psychiatric unit at the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre late in 2011 and later on to the Alberta Hospital Ponoka.

Unfortunately, there is no mechanism in Canada to deal with people who may become a menace to themselves or others until a criminal act is committed, said Flewwelling.

“It’s all too common, this business of people who have mental demons that are either left unmedicated or the person chooses not to take their medication or they go undiagnosed. We don’t have very effective support systems to see these people through.

“It really grieves me, as a former teacher and counsellor, I mean, we identify these kids in Grade 2, and the longer we leave it the harder it is to correct it in some cases,” said Flewwelling.

He pointed to a recent incident in Moncton, where

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COUNCIL: Strategy built on four pillars The strategy is built on four pillars: prevention, treatment, harm reduction and enforcement. It will capture a cross-section of the current addiction situation in Red Deer and use that information to better deliver services.

It also proposes a “drug court,” aimed at dealing with minor drug offences by means other than jail or drug and alcohol abstinence probation. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

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a father had expressed concerns about his son, but the law’s hands were tied with the result that five police officers were shot and three died of their wounds.

“It’s like the dog gets the first bite, and I’m not sure that serves us well,” said Flewwelling.

While he and Tim Guilbault did not serve together on council, Flewwelling said he did know him and remembers him as a hard working, driven and effective councillor who was still quite young when he started his first term.

Guilbault was first elected to council in 1986 and served three terms, resigning in 1995 to take a new job in Calgary.

“He was just one of the foot soldiers of the city and gave his time and would likely have continued and may have even been mayor, had he stayed in Red Deer,” said Flewwelling.

Members of the Guilbault family who attended court on Thursday declined to comment on the outcome of Aaron’s trial.

Aaron himself appeared unaffected as he listed to the decision from his seat behind the glass in the prisoner’s box.

He wore the same two-tone shirt, bushy beard and stoic expression that he had worn during the days of his trial. bkossowan@reddeeradvocate.com

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The Canadian Association of Oilwell Drilling Contractors is anticipating a 10 per cent drop in drilling activity next year — its pessimism fueled by the uncertainty surrounding market access and energy prices.

In its 2015 forecast, which was released on Thursday, CAODC projected that 10,354 wells would be completed in 2015 This would equate to 119,578 operating days for drilling contractors.

In contrast, 2014 is expected to end with 11,534 completed wells and approximately 133,000 operating days.

“There are basically three issues here at play,” said CAODC president Mark Scholz. “Market access uncertainty, B.C. LNG infrastructure uncertainty and commodity prices.”

In the case of market access, Scholz expressed frustration with the delays in getting projects like the Keystone XL pipeline approved and underway.

“We’ve got to get these pipelines built if the industry, particularly on the investment side, is going to see Canada as serious contender.”

It would be a mistake to assume that the world is dependent on Canadian oil, because there are alternatives, said Scholz. If we fail to develop international markets now, they may not be there in the future.

Similarly, he said, continued delays in getting natural gas pipelines and liquefied natural gas terminals built in British Columbia could have dire economic consequences — not just for Western Canada but for the country as a whole. If those projects began to move forward, the number of rigs working in B.C. could nearly triple from the current fleet of 45, said Scholz. And with each active rig generating 135 to 200 direct and indirect jobs, the economic spin-offs would be considerable.

CAODC is basing its forecast on an average price of US$85 per barrel for West Texas intermediate crude — about $10 more than oil is currently trading at.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — A bill to allow gay-straight alliances in schools, introduced Thursday in the Alberta legislature, will be the litmus test for Premier Jim Prentice’s Tories on tolerance, says Liberal Leader Raj Sherman.

“It will test their progressiveness and test to see if they will do the right thing,” Sherman told reporters.

“Stand up for teachers and stand up for our children, especially those children from the LGBTQ community.”

Liberal Laurie Blakeman introduced Bill 202, the Safe and Inclusive School Act, mandating schools to allow students, if they wish, to create gay-straight alliances to combat bullying.

Blakeman told the legislature the bill is about protecting students who feel bullied and, in extreme cases, try to take their own lives.

“As we well know, bullying can have terrible effects. And the proof is (that) the highest suicide rate is sexual minority youth,” said Blakeman.

Gay-straight alliances are student-led peer support networks in schools that make students of different sexual orientations feel welcome and give them support from being alienated and bullied.

“Gay-straight peer support groups have been proven to reduce suicide in our gay youth,” said Blakeman.

Blakeman’s bill is not sponsored by the government. It is a private member’s bill. Such bills traditionally do not pass.

However, Blakeman’s bill is expected to reopen a polarizing debate on how Alberta’s political parties view gay youth and, more broadly, homosexuality.

In the spring, Liberal Kent Hehr introduced a non-binding motion for schools to allow gay-straight alliances. It sparked heated debate that broke down along ideological lines. The centre-left Liberals and the NDP supported it.

Some members of the centre-right PCs and Wildrose said they feared the motion would infringe on the authority of schools, which already are mandated to provide safe, caring environments for students.

The motion failed when 22 PCs and nine Wildrosers joined to defeat it. Its demise re-raised questions on whether the Tories and Wildrose are socially progressive, socially conservative, or socially regressive.

Both parties have traditionally struggled with the perception of being anti-gay.

In 2010, the Tories amended section 11.1 of the Alberta Human Rights Act to allow parents to pull children out of class when religion, sexuality, or sexual orientation is taught. Critics say that provision unfairly limits teachers and stigmatizes sexual orientation.

Blakeman’s bill seeks to remove that section.

Wildrose Leader Danielle Smith was not in the house for the spring vote, but said at the time she shared concerns about how the alliances would infringe on school autonomy.

This week, Smith said that while she wants to study the bill further, she is leaning towards supporting it.

Smith said the personal stories she has since heard from schoolchildren had an affect.

“Puberty is an awful time for kids generally speaking. It’s an extra layer of complexity when a child is struggling with coming to terms with their sexual orientation,” said Smith.

“Some of the stats that I’ve seen are pretty clear

about attempted suicides, suicides, (and) homelessness as a result of kids being kicked out of their homes.

“These kids need a safe place.”

The Wildrose lost the election in 2012 in part over criticism after Smith refused to take action on a candidate who had once warned gays to repent or spend eternity in hell’s “lake of fire.”

This past weekend, the party voted not to adopt as policy a statement it had already passed spelling out that it believed in the equality of gays, among other groups. A Wildrose riding official subsequently quit, saying the party is controlled by a bigoted minority.

Premier Jim Prentice, during his summer leadership campaign, said he is not in favour of removing section 11.1, saying the government needs to respect the rights of parents.

Asked earlier Thursday if he still stands by that, Prentice would only say he wants to study the bill before commenting further.

He did reiterate that as a Conservative MP he voted for same-sex marriage in 2005.

“My credentials are pretty clear in terms of a Canadian who stood up for the rights of gay and lesbian people in this province going back to the gay marriage debate in 2005,” he said.

NDP Leader Rachel Notley, whose caucus also plans to support the bill, said it’s time for Prentice to put his resume away and step up.

“His vote was 10 years ago, and it was on a completely different issue,” she said.

“Gay-straight alliances are a critical tool in ensuring the safety of a particularly targeted group — sexual minorities.

“His failure to stand up for it is a failure in leadership.”

Oilsands firms not at fault for bird deaths CALGARY — The Alberta Energy Regulator says three oilsands corporations did nothing wrong when 196 birds died after landing in wastewater tailings ponds earlier this month.

The regulator says Canadian Natural Resources Limited (TSX:CNQ), Suncor Energy Inc. (TSX:SU) and Syncrude followed the rules that require them to use devices to scare waterfowl away from the ponds.

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DRILLING: Temporary cycle “We think that this is a temporary cycle and we’re going to get back, hopefully, to the $85 territory in the next quarter or so,” said Scholz. “But if we continue to see crude sitting at $75, $70 or lower, we will have to review and amend our forecast.”

CAODC anticipates brisk activity in the traditionally busy first quarter of the year, followed by a slow-

the birds still managed to land on the oily water on Nov. 4 due to bad weather in the area near Fort McMurray, including fog and heavy, wet snow.

The devices include noise makers and structures similar to scarecrows.

Syncrude, which operates one of the biggest oilsands sites, was fined $3 million for the deaths of more than 1,600 ducks when they landed on its tailings pond in 2008.

In October 2010, more than 550 birds had to be destroyed when an early winter storm forced the birds to land on the toxic waste ponds belonging to

Syncrude and Suncor.

“The Alberta Energy Regulator has reviewed the recent waterfowl impacts in the Athabasca oilsands area and has determined that the oilsands mining operations involved were in full compliance with waterfowl protection equipment requirements at the time,” Bartlett said Thursday.

“Unfortunately, the intense weather conditions on Nov. 4 forced the waterfowl to land on the ponds in spite of the deterrents.”

Bartlett said the investigation is closed.

The province says in a news release that it will work with housing management bodies to complete a full evaluation of seniors lodges to determine priority projects.

Premier Jim Prentice says ensuring that seniors can age with dignity in the communities they helped build is one of his government’s priorities.

He says increasing the number and quality of the spaces available in rural communities will “help keep seniors in their hometowns where they feel connected and secure.”

Candice Bergen, the federal minister of state for social development, says Ottawa’s partnership with Alberta on affordable housing should make it easier for rural seniors to have access to the services they need.

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CAODC represents the drilling and service rig industry across Canada. Its members include 46 drilling contractors, 83 service rig contractors and 217 associate members. hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

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Sometimes it’s better not to share There will always be plans and proposals that look better on paper than they turn out to be in reality. I would suggest that high schools sharing gym space is one example of that.

High schools sharing space for a career and technology lab that would include manufacturing, design, construction, trades and heavy-equipment programming sounds even more complex than coGREG ordinating gym NEIMAN time for schools in separate divisions with a combined population that could reach 3,000 students.

That kind of project looks more college-level than high school level to me.

If there is a difference of opinion between planners in Alberta Education and local school boards, it’s almost always better to side with the local school boards. But not in this case.

Red Deer Public had initially endorsed a high school development proposal for a large piece of property on the northeast corner of 67 Street and 30th Avenue. Three high schools are

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proposed for the site: public, Catholic and Francophone.

That’s a whole lot of people coming and going to one place, every day. But let’s assume that if Alberta Education can OK the land use designation, Alberta Transportation can also approve safe access and egress on what’s going to be a very busy corner in this town.

The public board’s understanding was that the whole project was to be built in phases (as provincial construction funding comes available, and who can predict that?). On paper, there were synergies that could be developed for some of the more high-ticket items that come on a list of things that a school needs.

One would be a gym. I don’t know how many other smaller gyms were planned to be part of the total package, but in all the time I’ve spent in the stands of a school gym, there’s no way I can see how one gym would serve three high schools — even if it was only to be a “game” gym, with teams doing their practices elsewhere.

Can you imagine how many teams and other groups needing gym time there would be at three high schools?

It would list into the high dozens. Even if some uses were scheduled for midnight, there aren’t enough hours in a week outside of school time to accommodate.

For each sport, game day or practice day is every day, before and after school hours. Each sport has junior

and senior teams, for girls and boys. In my days with kids at Lindsay Thurber, players who didn’t make the senior or junior squads got another chance to play in the league for smaller regional schools, adding yet another layer of need for gym time.

You don’t build a multi-million-dollar gym for a school with more than 1,000 students, and only 10 girls and 10 boys get to use it for league basketball, for instance.

That’s just for after-school activity.

Phys ed classes would be a whole other scheduling problem.

What would a gym for more than 3,000 students look like? I’ll suggest the main gym at Red Deer College would be too small (and about four or five gyms too few).

Whose logo would be painted on the wall? If you think that’s not important, you don’t know the value of team sports to the functioning of a school.

I know this from experience: the logo on the wall and the championship banners in front if it are a prime connector for a community of students with pride in what they do.

Bottom line: I can’t see how high schools can share a gym.

Unless it’s an entire sports and fitness complex, like the Collicutt Centre. Red Deer needs another, larger, one of those, and proximity to three high schools would definitely be useful. But a useful thing like that is not on the table here.

Nor, when you think about it, is a shared career and technology centre.

Our schools really are doing a good job these days in giving young people a wide range of options in the training they receive.

Even “academic” students can benefit from taking an option class in construction or some other trade. High school is too early to stream your education totally in or totally out of the academic or trades stream.

But the wonderful shared lab that was proposed on paper looks like something a college should be doing.

If I managed limited funding, that’s where I’d put the money.

So it was a good decision — on a variety of levels — that the Red Deer Public district board changed its mind and let the idea of shared facilities go.

Red Deer Catholic is now free to proceed quickly on their plans for St. Joseph’s High School. Red Deer Public will get funding for a high school at the site, whenever Alberta Education makes it a priority. Same for the Francophone high school.

Each will design a building to match its programming. The synergies will develop out of parents choosing which school’s programming best suits their own children’s desires for their future.

Less cost-efficient on paper, but most likely better for the students.

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Health-care spending in Canada declining

BY LIVIO DI MATTEO SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE In the wake of new health expenditure data from the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI), the evidence continues to mount that Canadian public health expenditure growth is moderating.

Moreover, adjusting for inflation and population growth, per capita provincial and territorial government health expenditures have actually declined since their peak in 2010.

From a high of $3,915 (2012 dollars), real provincial and territorial government health spending per capita has declined by 3.9 per cent to reach an estimated $3,762.

This decline, however, is not evenly distributed across health expenditure categories or jurisdictions. When health expenditure categories are examined, the largest drop in real per capita provincial/territorial government health spending is for capital spending, with a drop of 28 per cent since 2010. Capital spending represents an easy target for government restraint, given that postponing capital projects, such as new buildings or diagnostic equipment, often does not have an immediate impact on service

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Next largest is real per capita drug spending, dropping 11.3 per cent, which is remarkable given drug spending was once one of the fastest growing components of provincial government health spending. According to CIHI, drug expenditure has been affected by jurisdictions introducing generic pricing controls combined with patent expirations and fewer new drug introductions.

Smaller declines are in the areas of hospital and other institutional spending and administration. However, physicians, other professionals and public health appear to have escaped the decline.

Real per capita physician spending is up 3.0 per cent since 2010 while spending on other professionals is up 12.5 per cent and public health spending rose one third of one per cent.

Situations also vary across the provinces and territories when it comes to health spending change, reflecting the diversity of the federation. Eight out of 10 provinces and two of the three territories saw declines in real per capita government health spending.

The percentage change in real per capita government health spending since 2010 ranges from declines of nearly seven per cent each in Alberta

and Ontario and five per cent in New Brunswick, to increases of 0.5 in British Columbia, three in Nova Scotia and seven per cent in the Northwest Territories.

This diversity may be a function of differential rates of population aging and population growth as well as underlying economic performance and its effects on own source government revenues.

The health-care cost curve is being bent in a manner not seen since 1992 to 1996 when real per capita provincial and territorial government spending dropped nearly eight per cent. This decline followed a severe recession and fiscal restraint in the face of mounting deficits that was augmented by reductions in federal cash transfers for health with the introduction of the Canada Health and Social Transfer.

A key difference today is that federal health transfers continue to rise though their rate of growth will decline after 2017.

The key question is whether the current decline represents a permanent bending of the health-care cost curve or a temporary pause. In the wake of the spending decline from 1992 to 1996, real per capita government health spending grew as the economy recovered and federal transfers enriched

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RED DEER ADVOCATE Friday, Nov. 21, 2014 A5

Seventeen veterans honoured

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Second World War veteran Allan Bolduc, 91, wipes away a tear after receiving the French Legion of Honour medal at a ceremony at Ste. Anne’s Veterans Hospital on Thursday in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec. Seventeen veterans received the medal in recognition of their efforts in the liberation of France during the Second World War.

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Clement Gosselin, an infantry signalman in 1944, was wounded twice in combat: once suffering a fractured jaw and then having his collarbone broken by an exploding shell.

He joked about receiving the medal, saying it made him heavier, but added it was an honour even after 70 years.

Gosselin, 92, remembers the day he was first injured when British, American and Canadian troops encircled a group of Germans.

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Hermon recalled that his job was to drop bombs on the enemy and avoid getting killed.

“In the moment of battle, your mind is concentrated on doing a job, the same as it is in civilian life,” said Hermon, whose later accomplishments included running the Boston Marathon at the age of 78.

“There’s no free pass and there’s no turning back.”

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MONTREAL — The painful memories of the Second World War are hidden under the Royal Canadian Navy beret that Allan Bolduc proudly wore Thursday as he and 16 other veterans were awarded the French Legion of Honour.

At first, Bolduc jokes about wanting to join the French Foreign Legion at the age of 15 but his smile quickly disappears when he starts talking about enlisting and heading off to war.

“I tried to get into the army, but the army said ’you’re too young and to come back in a few years’,” he recalled in an interview at a ceremony attended

by France’s ambassador to Canada.

But Bolduc and a friend were determined to sign up and somehow he managed to join the navy before turning 18.

“We hitchhiked to Quebec City to get in right away . . . and we were shipped overseas very fast,” said Bolduc, who served as a minesweeper in the Normandy landing.

A single tear then rolls down his cheek and the 91-year-old veteran can no longer talk about his wartime memories because “there were so many of them.”

The oldest of the honorees to have the Legion medal pinned on their chest by Ambassador Philippe Zeller was 99-year-old John Stuart Hermon, who described the ceremony as very touching.

“It makes one think how precious families and relatives are,” the former captain in the 7th Field Regiment, Royal Canadian Artillery, said in an interview.

“We should all be very grateful for the efforts that have been made by all of the veterans who are not here and that their families will eventually appreciate just what sacrifices their relatives have made in the battle of

“We didn’t know which army injured us because it was all muddled up,” he recalled. “They call it friendly fire and I was subjected to that three times.”

The ambassador, who was accompanied by deputy veteran affairs minister Walt Natynczyk, described the award as an expression of France’s wish to honour men who helped liberate his country during the war.

“The whole of France is grateful toward these brave veterans who, 70 years ago, fought on the beaches of Normandy, Provence or in the skies of France,” Zeller said.

“These men are the last of the young heroes who put their lives on hold to fight a ruthless war against barbarism and Nazism.”

The 17 live at the Ste. Anne’s Hospital for veterans in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue on the western tip of the Island of Montreal. They are among some 600 Canadian veterans receiving the award this year.

Zeller said it was clearly an emotional experience for them.

“Some (veterans) were extremely moved when I gave them the medal of the Legion of Honour,” he said in an interview. “I noticed that with those who could not express themselves in words, it was simply by crying that their emotions reappeared.”

The ambassador recalled reliving the memories of the war through his own mother, who died just six weeks ago.

Zeller said she and other French families made sure generation after generation knew about their Canadian liberators.

“She was probably 16 or 17 when our village was really freed by some Canadian soldiers,” he said. “So, right until the end of her life she would get excited just explaining what happened to our children, to our grandchildren and to all the family.”

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Anger mounts over lapsed funds VETERANS GROUPS DEMAND ANSWERS FROM TORIES

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VETERANS AFFAIRS

OTTAWA — Veterans groups are responding angrily to news that the federal department responsible for their care and benefits was unable to spend upwards of $1.1 billion of its budget over seven years.

The figures are contained in answers to written questions posed in Parliament by the opposition and come as the Conservative government tries to figure out how to implement a series of changes recommended by the House of Commons veterans committee.

Like other departments unable to spend their appropriation within the budget year, Veterans Affairs was required to return its unspent funds to the treasury.

Conservative MP Parm Gill, parliamentary secretary to the veterans minister, stuck to the government’s position on Thursday, describing the lapsed funds as a “statutory” obligation and a “normal practice of all governments.”

He pointed out the department’s annual budget has seen an injection of an extra $5 billion since 2006, over and above what Paul Martin’s Liberals planned to spend.

Gill went on to list a series of enhanced benefits, including the myriad of stipends and allowances that have the potential to give the most seriously injured

as much as $8,000 a month in support.

But the explanations didn’t satisfy either veterans groups or opposition parties.

The Royal Canadian Legion wrote Veterans Affairs Minister Julian Fantino on Thursday, demanding a detailed accounting of which programs had lapsed funding and why.

“We want that information from government,” said Scott Ferris, the Legion’s marketing director.

“There has to be a complete and detailed explanation for this.”

The figures put before Parliament show the veterans department handed back a relatively small percentage of its budget in 2005-06, but shortly after the Conservatives were elected the figure spiked to 8.2 per cent of allocation.

The number began trending downwards until 2010-11 when lapsed funds accounted for only 1.16 per cent of the department’s budget, but after 2011, the pot of unspent cash began growing again.

Two significant events took place that year, which could have had an effect on the department’s ability — or willingness — to spend money. Significant changes to legislation governing veterans benefits was passed and the Harper government began ramping up its deficit-cutting drive.

Don Leonardo, of Veterans Canada, says he believes it was part of a deliberate strategy to balance the federal budget and points out that deputy ministers and others received bonuses for meeting fiscal targets.

He was excluded from a government-organized consultation meeting with Fantino this week in Quebec City. Although, he wasn’t told why, Leonardo says he suspects it’s because he has been increasingly critical of the department’s policy.

“It’s not about left and right in politics.” said Leonardo, who is an injured veteran. “It’s about what’s right and what’s wrong and the Conservatives on this file are absolutely wrong.”

The figures make a mockery of the government’s claim that further changes to benefits and services have to come slowly and as the federal treasury can afford them, he said.

Last June, the Commons veterans committee released a report with 14 recommendations to improve services, non-binding suggestions which the Conservatives have divided into measures that can be done without legislative change and those that require money.

It remains unclear how much of the second phase will make it into next spring’s federal budget, the last before a federal election scheduled for October 2015.

Canadian jets only hitting select targets in Iraq: DND the key oil refinery at Bayji, north of Baghdad.

The briefing, which the Harper government has conducted once a week since the combat mission began, also showcased construction at the Canadian camp in Kuwait where pilots and other military support staff are housed.

Forget noted that work to improve the facility, including fibre optic cables and a maintenance shed for the CF-18s, had progressed.

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The mission, at the moment, is authorized to only last six months.

Asked why the air force would be putting so much work into a centre for only a few months on the ground, Forget said there’s a minimum standard that has to be met.

Military commanders warned before the campaign even started that degrading and defeating ISIL could take up a year — or more.

OTTAWA — The Canadian military insisted Thursday that its bombing campaign in Iraq is being conducted according to international law, which means there are some targets that Canada’s aircraft will not hit.

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Rinelle Harper presents Sean Vincent with a gift during a news conference at a Winnipeg hotel, Thursday. The 16-year-old Manitoba teen who was viciously beaten, assaulted and left to die beside a river has met one of the men who rescued her and thanked him.

Beaten teen meets rescuer

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS WINNIPEG — A 16-year-old Manitoba teen who was viciously beaten, assaulted and left to die beside a river has met one of the men who rescued her and thanked him.

Rinelle Harper gave Sean Vincent a soapstone sculpture of a polar bear and a painting from her First Nation at a downtown Winnipeg hotel on Thursday. Rinelle, who didn’t speak at the meeting and appeared embarrassed at all the attention, looked down and fiddled with her hair.

She asked through her family that the numerous media cameras present not show her face, still swollen and bruised from the attack. As she tinkered with the tablecloth with a bandaged finger, her family hugged Vincent and thanked him for being there when Rinelle needed him most.

“The family want to express their appreciation and their thank you to Sean for giving support to Rinelle in her time of need,” said Fred Harper, Rinelle’s grandfather. “She was left for dead ... but

she was saved, so she’s here with us. Her fast recovery is a miracle from above.”

The girl’s meeting with Vincent was the first time she had ventured out of the hotel room where she’s been staying with her family since being discharged from hospital a week ago.

Vincent and another construction worker found a battered and bruised Rinelle under a downtown bridge near the Assiniboine River on the morning of Nov. 8. They covered her with their coats, called 911 and waited with her until paramedics arrived.

Vincent, who has two girls around Rinelle’s age, said he was excited to meet the teen. The last time he saw her, she was “fighting for air” under a downtown bridge.

“She shouldn’t have to live through that. No one should have to see that. It was a bad scene all around,” Vincent said. “At the end of the day, she’s the hero. We were just people going to work on a Saturday. We were at the right place at the right time.”

Police have said Rinelle was out with friends celebrating the completion of her midterms the night of Nov. 7. The teen from the northern reserve of Garden

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Hill was studying at a boarding school for aboriginal students in Winnipeg.

She got separated from her friends and struck up a conversation with two males. The three walked to the Assiniboine River where police say Rinelle was attacked and ended up in the frigid water. She managed to crawl out upstream, but was attacked again and “left for dead,” police said.

Police alleged the same pair beat and sexually assaulted another woman a short time later.

A 17-year-old, who cannot be named, and 20-yearold Justin James Hudson are facing numerous charges in the two assaults, including attempted murder and aggravated sexual assault. Both are to appear in court next week.

A passerby noticed Rinelle early the next morning and told Vincent and fellow construction worker Ed Mehanovic. When they first saw her, surrounded in blood and gravel, they didn’t know if the teen was alive or dead, Vincent said. She was taken to hospital in critical condition.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — Jurors at Luka Rocco Magnotta’s first-degree murder trial sought clarification on various issues Thursday as they asked questions of a witness for the first time in 33 days of testimony.

Justice Guy Cournoyer read out three questions to Dr. Joel Watts, a psychiatrist who assessed Magnotta for criminal responsibility on behalf of the defence.

In response to a query about what effect a combination of Temazepam, Benadryl and alcohol could have on a person suffering from paranoid psychosis, Watts replied it did not necessarily have a direct impact on psychotic symptoms or hallucinations.

The jury has previously heard that the sleep drug Temazepam and Benadryl, an over-the-counter allergy medication, were found in the body of Jun Lin, the man Magnotta killed and dismembered in May 2012.

Watts said Magnotta did not tell him he consumed any Benadryl on the night of the slaying, but that they drank and took Temazepam pills.

“Those two drugs and alcohol don’t have a direct effect of making psychosis necessarily worse or better, they don’t have direct impact on those symptoms,” said Watts, adding the medication could make people drowsy or lessen anxiety.

Jurors also wanted to know from Watts whether Magnotta’s 2011 hospitalization in Miami could have been caused by his no longer taking anti-psychotic medication.

“The fact that he had not been taking his anti-psychotic medication regularly definitely had an impact on the worsening of his symptoms, the worsening of his psychosis,” Watts said.

Finally, the jury wondered to what extent Magnotta’s answers to Watts in their meetings might have been shaped by what the accused’s lawyer, Luc Leclair, had already revealed to him about the case.

Supreme Court to hear landmark case involving Métis, non-status Indians

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Luka Rocco Magnotta is shown in an artist’s sketch in a Montreal court on March 13, 2013.

Watts previously told the trial Magnotta said he couldn’t always make the distinction between his own memories and what Leclair told him.

The forensic psychiatrist replied that while some of what Magnotta told him might have been influenced by what he heard from his lawyer, only the accused would have memories of psychotic elements.

“I don’t think what he was telling me about, in terms of his psychotic experiences, would per se be biased because those are not things that would have been presented to him by anybody else,” he said.

“Only he would have memories of those things, only he would be able to recollect those things.”

He repeated that he believes those symptoms were not fabricated.

OTTAWA — The question of whether the federal government has the same responsibility to the country’s Métis and non-status Indians as it does to status Indians and Inuit has fallen to the Supreme Court of Canada.

The eventual outcome of the case could vastly extend the federal government’s jurisdiction to hundreds of thousands of Aboriginal Peoples.

Or it could overturn a historic victory.

On Thursday, the Supreme Court agreed to hear appeals from both sides in a case started 15 years ago by Métis leader Harry Daniels. As usual, the court did not give reasons for its decision to hear the case.

The Congress of Aboriginal Peoples, along with several Métis and non-status Indians, took the federal government to court in 1999, alleging discrimination because they were not considered “Indians” under a section of the Constitution Act and thus have been denied certain rights.

Both the Métis and non-status Indians scored a major win last year when the Federal Court recognized them as “Indians” under a section of the Constitution. The federal government appealed that ruling.

Earlier this year, the Federal Court of Appeal upheld part of the decision. It ruled that while Métis should remain Indians under a section of the Constitution, extending that recognition to non-status Indians as a whole should be done on a case-by-case basis.

RCMP has dropped Internet-related probes following high court decision: memo OTTAWA — The RCMP has abandoned some investigations because of a key Supreme Court ruling that said police require a warrant or other legal tool to obtain basic Internet subscriber information, an internal government memo says.

The Mounties and Canada’s spy and border agencies are “very concerned” about increased paperwork and delays now involved in obtaining such information, the newly disclosed memo says.

In addition, the Justice Department is “examining the need for potential remedies” following the landmark June ruling.

The Public Safety Canada note is perhaps the first concrete indication from federal police and intelligence officials of how the Supreme Court decision is affecting their work. A copy of the memo was released under the Access to Information Act. Basic subscriber information includes a person’s name, phone number and Internet protocol (IP) address, but not the actual content of messages or their metadata, such as time stamps and routing codes.

Before the Supreme Court decision, law-enforcement agencies submitted hundreds of thousands of warrantless requests for such data annually to telecommunications companies, and they complied in about 95 per cent of cases.

At least two major telecommunication firms, Rogers and Telus, have since stopped routinely disclosing basic customer information without a warrant or production order.

The memo says telecom companies “have erred on the side of caution” by requiring warrants for all basic subscriber information requests except listed landlines and emergency demands.

The RCMP, Canada Border Services Agency and Canadian Security Intelligence Service “are very concerned about the potentially unsustainable resource and operational fallout” from the June ruling, the memo adds.

Before the court decision, the RCMP and border agency estimate, it took about five minutes to complete the less than one page of documentation needed to ask for subscriber information, and the company usually turned it over immediately or within one day.

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Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi said in an interview Thursday with French TV station FRANCE 24 that issuing a presidential pardon for the journalists “is currently under discussion.”

His comments come just a few days after el-Sissi issued a decree that gives the president the power to deport foreigners convicted or accused of crimes.

Fahmy was working for Al Jazeera English when he was arrested on Dec. 29 along with two colleagues — Australian correspondent Peter Greste and Baher Mohamed, an Egyptian producer.

The trio were accused of supporting the banned Islamist Muslim Brotherhood group of ousted Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi. They were also charged with fabricating footage to undermine Egypt’s national security.

The journalists denied all charges, saying they were just doing their jobs.

After a trial that drew heavy international criticism, all three were found guilty. Fahmy and Greste were sentenced to seven years in prison, while Mohamed was sentenced to 10 years.

Imprisoned Iranian-Canadian blogger pardoned by Iran’s top leader TEHRAN, Iran — An Iranian-Canadian blogger who was sentenced to 19 years in prison for his writings has been pardoned by Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

The news of the pardon of Hossein Derakhshan, who helped ignite blogging in Iran, was first reported by Iran’s semi-official ISNA news agency. It said authorities informed Derakhshan about his amnesty late Wednesday, when he returned to Tehran’s Evin prison from one of his occasional leaves.

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Students had to perform basic tasks such as copying or saving a document, creating and modifying information and using multiple applications at once.

They also had to answer a questionnaire, as did teachers, principals and technology co-ordinators.

“I was released after six years,” said a brief message posted on Derakhshan’s Google Plus web page.

“I thank God. Very grateful to the Ayatollah Khamenei.”

The posting also thanked his supporters and his family, including his parents, his brother and sister and his wife.

The ISNA report did not elaborate on the reason for Derakhshan’s pardon by Khamenei, who has final say on all state matters. However in the past, Derakhshan’s parents have reportedly sent letters to Khamenei seeking their son’s pardon.

Derakhshan moved to Canada in 2000 and studied sociology at the University of Toronto.

Derakhshan, the founder of one of the first Farsilanguage blogs, was first detained in 2008. In 2010, a court sentenced him to more than 19 ½ years in prison for his writings. The term was later dropped to 17 years.

Derakhshan, now 39, helped ignite blogging in Iran by posting online simple instructions on how to create sites in Farsi in 2001. The subsequent flourishing of blogs by Iranians at home and abroad gave the country’s reform movement a crucial online platform.

Plane with seven people on board makes forced landing on ice near Yellowknife YELLOWKNIFE — A small passenger plane with seven people on board made a forced landing in bad weather on the ice of Great Slave Lake on Thursday.

A military spokesman said the Air Tindi Cessna 208 Caravan declared an emergency when its engine quit after leaving Yellowknife.

“There is an Air Tindi aircraft out of Yellowknife that has declared a mayday because the engine quit and icing conditions, seven people on board,” said Capt. Jean Houde of the Royal Canadian Air Force.

“Right now we know that the aircraft managed to land on ice west of Yellowknife.”

Houde said a C-130 Hercules aircraft with searchand-rescue technicians on board was on its way to the area from Winnipeg.

Other aircraft, including a Twin Otter and a helicopter, were trying to take off from Yellowknife to join the search, but were being hampered by bad weather.

Houde said it wasn’t clear if the plane broke through the ice when it landed, about 40 kilometres west of the city on the north arm of the lake.

“We know that they landed on the ice successfully, but we don’t know what happened since,” he said.

The airline said it appears that the seven people are safe.

“Initial indications are that the pilot and all passengers have safely evacuated the aircraft,” Air Tindi said in a written statement. “A rescue of the pilot and six passengers is underway.”

The plane was flying to Fort Simpson, N.W.T., when it ran into trouble.

RCMP were trying to reach the site by snowmobile.

Yellowknife was reporting periods of snow, freezing drizzle and temperatures around -10 C.

Canadian students among most computer literate, test shows TORONTO — Students in two Canadian provinces proved more computer literate than the international average in a new test meant to help educators and policy-makers understand how integrating technology in schools affects children’s skills.

Ontario and Newfoundland and Labrador were the only two provinces to participate in the International Computer and Information Literacy Study, which was administered last year to some 60,000 Grade 8 students in 20 countries.

The study looks at students’ ability to collect, manage, produce and exchange information using a computer, as well as teachers’ and principals’ attitude and confidence regarding technology in the school setting.

It is believed to be the first international test of its kind.

Ontario students scored an average of 547 out of 600 in overall computer literacy, significantly above the international average of 500. The province is in a statistical tie for the top spot with Australia and the Czech Republic.

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A ‘commonsense’ plan OBAMA SPURNS REPUBLICANS WITH EXPANSIVE IMMIGRATION ORDERS

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is ordering far-reaching changes to the U.S. immigration system that will protect nearly 5 million people from deportation, testing the limits of his presidential powers and inviting a showdown with newly emboldened Republicans.

Obama sought to break a stalemate in America’s long-simmering debate over immigration by cutting out Congress, confronting Republicans who swept congressional elections earlier this month and all but ensuring that the contentious debate will carry on into the 2016 presidential campaign.

In a televised address Thursday night, Obama described the most sweeping changes to fractured immigration laws in nearly three decades, saying his executive actions were a “commonsense” plan consistent with what previous presidents of both parties had done. Immigrants living illegally in the United States would be saved from deportation by receiving work permits; millions more would remain in limbo.

Republicans, who take full control of Congress in January after capturing the Senate from Democrats, warned that Obama would face serious consequenc-

es for what they described as an unconstitutional power grab.

“To those members of Congress who question my authority to make our immigration system work better, or question the wisdom of me acting where Congress has failed, I have one answer: Pass a bill,” Obama said.

House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner, who has refused to have his Republican members vote on broad immigration legislation passed by the Senate last year, said Obama’s decision to go it alone “cemented his legacy of lawlessness and squandered what little credibility he had left.”

Republicans were united in opposing Obama’s move but divided on how to respond. Lawmakers have raised options including lawsuits, a government shutdown and even impeachment. Party leaders are seeking to avoid a government shutdown, say such moves could backfire and anger voters ahead of the next presidential election in two years.

Republicans are in a bind over immigration: the U.S. electorate is rapidly becoming more diverse, especially more Hispanic. Republican leaders have said the party risks its long-term future if it does not act to solve America’s immigration problems. But many in the party’s conservative base oppose any

reform that includes a path to citizenship for those who enter the country illegally.

The White House says the president is exercising his executive authority to tackle immigration reform unilaterally, as Republicans Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush did before him.

Obama, who had been weighing potential executive actions since early summer, planned to sign a pair of presidential memorandums Friday and travel to Las Vegas for an immigration rally as he appeals for support.

As Obama spoke from the White House, immigration supporters with American flags draped over their shoulders marched on the street outside carrying signs that read, “Gracias, Presidente Obama.”

While Obama’s measures are sweeping in scope, they still leave more than half of the 11 million people living in the U.S. illegally in limbo. The president announced new deportation priorities that would compel law enforcement to focus its efforts on tracking down serious criminals and people who have recently crossed the border, while specifically placing a low priority on those who have been in the U.S. for more than 10 years.

Obama, whose approval ratings have sagged, insisted that his actions did not amount to amnesty.

Epic snowfall total hits two metres

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BUFFALO, N.Y. — Roofs began to creak and collapse and homeowners struggled to clear waist-high drifts atop their houses Thursday as another storm brought the Buffalo area’s three-day snowfall total to an epic 7 feet or more.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo begged drivers “pretty, pretty please” to stay off slippery, car-clogged roads in western New York while crews tried to dig out. Some areas got close to a metre of new snow by Thursday afternoon.

Things could quickly get worse: Rain and temperatures as high as 16 C were forecast over the weekend, raising the spectre of flooding and an even heavier load on roofs, where the snow could absorb the downpours like a blanket.

More than 50 people were evacuated from several mobile home parks in suburban Cheektowaga and West Seneca because roofs were buckling. Bellevue Fire Department Lt. Timothy Roma said more than a dozen buildings and carports collapsed, as did a metal warehouse operated by a Christmas decorations company, where damage was estimated in the millions.

Local media reported that about 180 residents of a Cheektowaga assisted living facility were evacuated after staff members noticed the ceiling bulging under the weight of the snow.

Homeowners and store employees around the region climbed onto roofs to shovel off the snow and reduce the danger.

“It’s getting heavier,” said Cheektowaga resident Thomas Mudd Jr., who with his wife spent several hours shovelling up to 1.5 metres off his roof. “It’s supposed to warm up and we’re supposed to get rain on the weekend, which will make it even heavier. So I didn’t want my roof collapsing.”

The storms were blamed for at least 10 deaths in western New York, mostly from heart attacks and exposure.

With roads impassable, driving bans in effect and the Buffalo Bills’ stadium buried in snow, the NFL decided to move Sunday’s home game against the New York Jets to another location, still to be determined.

Earlier in the day, Cuomo said holding the game would jeopardize public safety.

National Guardsmen drove nurses to work their hospital shifts. State troopers helped elderly residents trapped in their homes. State officials assembled 463 plows, 129 loaders and 40 dump trucks from across the state.

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Karen McRae clears snow from her driveway on Thursday in West Seneca, N.Y. A new blast of lake-effect snow pounded Buffalo for a third day piling more misery on a city already buried by an epic, deadly snowfall that could leave some areas with nearly 2.4 metres of snow on the ground when it’s all done.

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“Mr. May had a written journal and videos where he expressed fears of being targeted and that he wanted to bring attention to this issue of targeting,” said Tallahassee Police Chief Michael DeLeo. “Mr. May was in a state of crisis.”

Police killed May, a 2005 graduate who later earned a law degree from Texas Tech University, early Thursday. Officers had responded to a 12:30 a.m. call about shots being fired at the library, where about 450 students were studying. When police arrived, May had wounded two students and an employee and reloaded a .380 semi-automatic pistol. He refused to put the gun down and they opened fire.

Police said May didn’t get past the lobby, but the sound of gunfire set off screams among students, who scrambled for cover among the bookshelves and barricaded themselves in rooms.

One person was in critical condition at a local hospital. Another, library staffer Nathan Scott, in good condition at Tallahassee Memorial Hospital. A third person was treated and released. Police have not yet uncovered a motive.

Senior Jason Derfuss, 21, of Orlando, told the Tallahassee Democrat he heard gunfire as he left the library and saw a man fire at another person. Derfuss ran to his car and called 911 to report what he’d seen. After he got home, Derfuss dumped the contents of his backpack on the floor. He noticed several books were damaged, and then his roommate found a slug in the bag: a bullet had gone through a book about 14th-century philosopher John Wyclif.

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Israeli mayor fuels tension BARS ARAB CONSTRUCTION WORKERS FROM JOBS

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS JERUSALEM — The mayor of a southern Israeli city sparked a national uproar Thursday by barring Israeli Arab construction workers from jobs in local preschools, citing security concerns after a rash of attacks by Palestinian assailants elsewhere in the country.

The proposal was condemned as racist by Israeli leaders, but it reflected the tense mood in the country and deepened longstanding divisions between the nation’s Jewish majority and Arab minority. An opinion poll showed solid public support for the measure.

Israel has been on edge following a wave of Palestinian attacks that has killed 11 people over the past month, including five this week in a bloody assault on a Jerusalem synagogue. Most of the attacks have occurred in Jerusalem — whose population is roughly

one-third Palestinian — with deadly stabbings in Tel Aviv and the West Bank as well.

Responding to the unrest, the mayor of Ashkelon, Itamar Shimoni, announced that Israeli Arab labourers renovating bomb shelters in local kindergartens would be barred from their jobs. He also ordered security stepped up at construction sites where Arab labourers are employed.

He said the order was a response to the synagogue attack Tuesday, in which Palestinian assailants killed four rabbis and a Druse Arab policeman with meat cleavers and gunfire.

“Anyone who thinks this is illegal can take me to court,” Shimoni said.

“At this time, I prefer to be taken to court and not, God forbid, to attend the funeral of one of the children from kindergartens.”

The workers in Ashkelon are Arab citizens of Israel, in contrast to the Palestinian attackers from the West Bank and east Jerusalem, and it appeared

unlikely the order would last for long.

Justice Minister Tzipi Livni called it illegal and ordered the attorney general to take action.

“We must not generalize about an entire public due to a small and violent minority,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. “The vast majority of Israel’s Arab citizens are law abiding and whoever breaks the law — we will take determined and vigorous action against him.”

Israeli leaders proudly boast the country is the only democracy in the Middle East, and say they place great importance on protecting the civil rights of the Arab minority, a diverse group that includes Muslims, Christians, Bedouins and Druse.

But the situation for Israel’s Arab citizens is complicated — particularly in the current atmosphere.

Arabs, who make up about 20 per cent of Israel’s population of 8 million, often complain of being treated as second-class citizens, and suffer from a

high poverty rate, job and housing discrimination and poor public services.

Many openly identify with the Palestinians, drawing accusations that they are disloyal.

In recent years, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has called on Israeli Arabs to take a loyalty oath and proposed redrawing Israel’s borders under any future peace deal to place large numbers of them on the Palestinian side.

Tziona Koenig-Yair, the equal employment commissioner in Israel’s Economy Ministry, said she has seen a jump in claims recently by Arab workers who say they have lost their jobs on racial grounds. She said she planned to fight the mayor of Ashkelon in court if his order is not reversed.

“We have to realize that citizens of this country who want to live here cannot be held accountable for things that are being done by extremists,” she said.

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DONETSK, Ukraine — As battle raged in rebellion-wracked eastern Ukraine, cargo trains piled high with coal thundered along rail tracks to keep heating and power going to households in rebel-held territory.

Coal is the lifeblood of this region dominated by pro-Russian separatists — and now the source of its first corruption scandal. The former energy minister of the self-styled Donetsk People’s Republic has accused a top rebel official of pocketing money from the sale of coal to power plants. Both men are now languishing in jail in connection with an investigation into abuse of authority.

The details are murky, but there is growing agreement that the opaque nature of the new order in separatistcontrolled areas has created fertile ground for the corruption that flourished under President Viktor Yanukovych, a native of the east who was overthrown in February. Yegor Korosov, an adviser to the rebel government, said opportunists have filled a power vacuum created by the chaos of war, calling them “parasites that have attached themselves to a fast-moving train.”

Corruption is now sapping enthusiasm for the separatist movement among those who might otherwise be its eager backers: “Corruption is all around, I bump into it everywhere,” said Nikolai Usov, a resident of the rebel-controlled Luhansk region.

“Anywhere you go, they want money from you.”

The coal intrigue is brewing against the backdrop of a devastating war that has officially claimed a little over 4,000 lives in six months, with the real death toll likely far greater. Supporters of Alexei Granovsky, fuel and energy minister until he levelled accusations against Industry Minister Alexander Kalyussky, contend he is paying the penalty for blowing the whistle on the alleged scam.

“There is some political aspect to this” said his wife, Natasha Granovskaya. “I just hope that the leadership of the republic is labouring under a misunderstanding.”

In a letter to rebel security services last month, Granovsky laid out a series of purported schemes he said were costing the separatist government millions of dollars. He detailed one arrangement whereby coal was sold by mines to electricity and heating plants through an intermediary company allegedly controlled by Kalyussky. By acting as middleman, Kalyussky was able to skim money off the top, Granovsky wrote.

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An Indian farmer walks with harvested paddy as his son walks with him at a rice field on the outskirts of Gauhati, India, Thursday. About 60 per cent of Indians work in the agriculture sector that contributes 16 to 20 per cent of the nation’s gross domestic product.

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Experts have a message for anyone with a webcam, baby monitor or home security camera: change your password now, because feeds from the cameras are being posted online by a Russian website.

The site takes advantage of the fact that camera users receive default passwords to get devices working — such as “1234.” Many manufacturers also put default passwords online, Britain’s Information Commissioner’s Office said Thursday.

“The ability to access footage remotely is both an internet camera’s biggest selling point and, if not set up correctly, potentially its biggest security weakness,” Simon Rice, the ICO group manager for technology, said in

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The ICO is joining with its counterparts in the United States, China, Australia and Canada in warning consumers about the Russian site, which offers live streams together with the co-ordinates of where the cameras are located. Officials declined to publicly identify the site for fear of driving traffic to it.

Iraq, Turkey pledge closer security co-operation BAGHDAD — Iraq’s prime minister said on Thursday that his country and neighbouring Turkey have agreed on

closer security and intelligence co-operation in the face of the threat posed by the Islamic State group.

“We have a key agreement to exchange information and have full security co-operation,” Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi told a news conference after talks with his visiting Turkish counterpart, Ahmet Davutoglu. “The Turkish prime minister also wants us to have military co-operation in the face of terrorism and Daesh and we welcome that,” said al-Abadi, using the Arabic acronym for the Islamic State group.

Davutoglu confirmed the two sides’ agreement on closer security co-operation.

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B1 Blackhawks soar past Flames

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

Blackhawks 4 Flames 3 CALGARY — After a slow start, Chicago right-winger Patrick Kane is heating up offensively, which is good news for the Blackhawks and not-sogood news for everyone else.

Kane made it goals in three straight games Thursday night, scoring the winner in the Chicago Blackhawks’ 4-3 victory over the Calgary Flames.

With the game tied 3-3, Kane’s unassisted goal at 9:12 of the third period came after Flames goaltender Jonas Hiller turned the puck over behind his net.

After straying out of his net to stop the puck, Hiller’s attempted backhand pass to Dennis Wideman took a sharp carom off the end boards allowing Kane to intercept it.

After he tucked the puck through the skates of Sven Baertschi, Kane slipped a quick shot through Hiller’s pads.

“Lucky scoring a goal like that. I’m sure Hiller probably didn’t expect me coming off the boards. I think a couple guys swiped at it and it bounced right to me,” said Kane.

It was the seventh goal of the season for Kane, who appears to be heating up for Chicago after scoring just four times in the club’s first 16 games.

“Sometimes you just have to get the puck and skate with it. I feel like I can make plays on the ice,” said Kane. “Obviously when you’re moving well and trying to make those plays, things are going to de-

velop. But I’m playing with two very skilled players right now with (Kris Versteeg) and (Brad Richards) and they’re finding me in good areas and good spots and it seems like we’ve had a couple good games in a row.”

Joel Quenneville likes what he is seeing from Kane.

“He was great tonight. A lot of puck possession, a lot of zone time, dangerous. Obviously a huge goal for us,” said the Blackhawks coach. “The last couple games, he’s been as good as he can be and that line, in back-to-back games, has been very good.”

Calgary had a chance to tie it when Johnny Gaudreau drew a penalty with 3:32 left in the game.

However, the Flames — having scored twice already on the NHL’s No. 1 ranked penalty killing team — could not score a third.

“Our PK has been very good all year long and it needed to be at the end because their power play was working tonight,” said Quenneville.

Curtis Glencross had two of Calgary’s most dangerous chances during that late man advantage.

“We had a couple of turnovers and a couple mental breakdowns, that’s how they got a couple goals, but, at the same time, we have to take a lot of positives out of that game, too,” said Glencross.

“They’re probably one of the best teams in the league and we had a game with them all night. The game could have gone either way.”

Adam Clendening, with his first NHL goal, Daniel Carcillo and Brent Seabrook

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Chicago Blackhawks’ Brandon Saad, right, tries for a rebound as Calgary Flames’ Sean Monahan looks on during first period NHL action in Calgary, Thursday. Flames lost the game 4-3. also scored for Chicago (11-71). With the circus having arrived at the United Center, the Blackhawks kicked off a sixgame road trip, which continues on Saturday night in Edmonton.

Paul Byron, Wideman and Sean Monahan scored for Calgary (12-7-2). The Flames had entered the night red hot, having won seven of their last nine.

“As much as we worked hard tonight, I felt that the

goals that they got, without taking anything away from the talent that they have on their team, we were not sharp,” said Flames coach Bob Hartley.

“On every goal, there’s a huge mistake. As we know, this is a game of mistakes and they have the talent to make you pay.”

Corey Crawford made 24 saves for the win, improving to 8-4-1.

Hiller had 18 saves. His record falls to 9-5-1.

In their first matchup earlier this season, Chicago — despite losing 2-1 — outshot the Flames 50-18 and it looked early on like this game would follow a similar script.

The Blackhawks opened the scoring four minutes into the game when Glendening, on his second NHL shift, scored on a power play. After getting a pass from Marian Hossa, his shot from the blue-line beat Hiller just inside the goal post.

Fleury highlights Raiders finally get into win column with upset over Chiefs road to recovery in new book

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BY JOSH ALDRICH ADVOCATE STAFF For the first time in his life, Theo Fleury is happy with who he is.

Considering where he was 10 years ago, to even be here now is nothing short of astonishing, let alone for him to be happy.

His story has been told and rehashed many times in the last decade.

He was the all-star NHL hockey player who’s life had been consumed by booze, drugs, guilt and shame due to the abuse and trauma he suffered growing up at the hands of coach Graham James.

His first book, Playing with Fire, Fleury detailed his life that had turned into hell.

His recently released second book, Conversations with a Rattlesnake written with therapist Kim Barthel, details his road to recovery.

“Ten years ago I had a fully loaded pistol in my mouth ready to pull the trigger,” said the now 46-year-old philanthropist. “The whole experience of writing the first book; take out all the NHL stuff and all the hockey stuff, I’m basically telling a lot of people’s stories, the dark side of life.

We all go through the same stuff, we all feel the same way, we all make the same choices, to deal with the after effects of trauma, emotional pain, emotional scars.

“In 2005, that’s where I was at, I hadn’t even peeled one layer of onion off yet, I was still in full survival mode ...

“The writing of Playing with Fire changed everything.”

Fleury was one of the most dynamic and surprising players to play in the NHL. He was five-foot-six and always deemed too small to play. If anything that judgment motivated him and he went on to score 1,088 points (455 goals, 633 assists) and 1,840 penalty minutes in 1,084 games over 16 seasons. He has a Stanley Cup, an Olympic gold medal a Canada Cup gold and a world junior gold.

But his demons eventually took over. He played his last NHL game in 2003 as a member of the Chicago Blackhawks but his addictions and unresolved issues continued to drag him down, following

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

Theo Fleury with his new book Conversations with a Rattlesnake. him to Horse Lake and his run with the club to the Allan Cup in 2005 and then finally to Belfast, Ireland, that fall.

On Sept. 18, 2005 he had his last drink.

He has been on the road to recovery since.

In 2009 he released Playing with Fire, and a whole new world opened up to him.

Instead of being a lightning rod for negative controversy as he had been in his playing career, he became an outlet for those who had also been abused and had gone through childhood trauma.

Shortly after the book came out, he was giving a presentation to a group of about 50 in Calgary. Afterwards he was approached by a 72-year-old who said he was abused for 705 straight days, but Fleury was the first person he ever told.

“Can you imagine what this guy has been carrying around for his whole entire life, and for him to feel safe enough to come up to me and tell me his story?” said Fleury.

“That’s what this is all about.”

Since the release of Playing with Fire he has had more than 500,000 people reveal their past abuse to him, many of whom had never talked about it before.

“The next question they always ask is where do I go from here?” he said.

In May 2012 Fleury was a keynote speaker at a conference on resiliency at the Aulneau Renewal Centre in Winnipeg, but it was another speaker’s presentation that changed his life.

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Raiders 24 Chiefs 17 OAKLAND, Calif. — After 368 days and 16 straight losses, the Oakland Raiders finally had something to celebrate.

Rookie Derek Carr threw a 9-yard touchdown pass to James Jones with 1:42 remaining, and the Raiders got one last defensive stop to snap a 16-game losing streak with a 24-20 victory over the Kansas City Chiefs on Thursday night.

“Hopefully there’s many more to come because I like this feeling better than the other one, that’s for sure,” Carr said.

Oakland’s Latavius Murray ran for two touchdowns and 112 yards on just four carries before leaving the game with a concussion. The Raiders (1-10) built a 14-point lead, but needed a 17-play, 80-yard drive led

by Carr to secure its first win since beating Houston on Nov. 17, 2013.

“We learned something today,” interim coach Tony Sparano said. “We learned something about ourselves.

We’ve been in this end of the pool a long time. I kept saying that eventually it’s going to happen. Today they just refused to give up.”

The Raiders became just the third team since the merger to beat a first-place team for their first win after losing at least 10 games to start the season. Indianapolis did it against Green Bay in 1997 and Buffalo did it to Dallas in 1984.

Alex Smith threw two TD passes for the Chiefs (7-4), who had won five in a row.

They fell a half-game behind Denver in the AFC West. The Chiefs will have a long time to stew over this loss before hosting Denver on Nov. 30.

“We knew we were going to be in a dogfight,” Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce said. “Primetime game and they’ve got the guys, played a lot of tough teams very well.”

It took that impressive drive by the rookie Carr to win it. He twice had to sneak for first downs. He also threw an 8-yard pass to Mychal Rivera on third-and-6 and capitalized on a pass interference penalty against Ron Parker on another third down before finding Jones for the go-ahead score.

“To go 17 plays on the winning drive, that’s impressive, man,” Raiders defensive end Justin Tuck said. “That lets you know a little bit of the moxie of No. 4 (Carr).”

The game wasn’t sealed un-

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

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Oakland Raiders quarterback Derek Carr passes against the Kansas City Chiefs during the second quarter of an NFL game in Oakland, Calif., Thursday. til Smith threw an incomplete pass on fourth-and-13 from his 48. Even that didn’t come without a tense moment. Khalil Mack and Sio Moore sacked Smith on third down and celebrated in the backfield while the Chiefs ran up to the line.

An angry Justin Tuck had to call timeout as he seethed at his younger teammates.

“I was so caught in the moment,” Moore said. “That was an error I have to make sure I clean up.”

The Chiefs battled back from a 17-3 deficit late in the third quarter to take the lead with three scores in less than 8 minutes, including a pair of touchdown passes from Smith.

The first came on a looping throw to Anthony Fasano for a 19-yard score with 1:52 remaining in the third quarter.

The Raiders managed to move the ball near midfield before stalling on their next drive, and the Chiefs answered with a four-play, 65-yard drive that was made even more difficult by a pair of holding penalties. Jamaal Charles then beat Charles Woodson out of the backfield to catch a short pass and weaved through Oakland’s defence for a 30-yard score that tied it at 17. It was Charles’ fifth touchdown catch in his past two games at the Oakland Coliseum.

Frankie Hammond’s 28-yard punt return set up Cairo Santos’ second field goal of the

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game, giving the Chiefs their first lead of the night.

The Raiders had started fast behind the little-used Murray, who had just 10 carries in the first 10 games. He spelled starter Darren McFadden on the second drive and provided an immediate spark for Oakland’s struggling offence before leaving the game with a concussion.

Murray carried twice on his first drive, sprinting 11 yards around the end for Oakland’s first rushing touchdown since Oct. 19 against Arizona. The Chiefs were looking to match the 2011 San Francisco 49ers by becoming the second team ever to allow no rushing touchdowns through 11 games.

“When you line up and it’s raining, the weather’s no good and they can’t throw the ball, you just line up and run the football,” Chiefs linebacker Tamba Hali said. “We weren’t playing our gaps and it’s like a high school football game.”

Murray did even better the next time he touched the ball, sprinting 90 yards past the Chiefs defence for the longest run by a Raiders running back since Bo Jackson had a 92-yarder against Cincinnati in 1989. Quarterback Terrelle Pryor had a 93-yard TD run last season against Pittsburgh.

Murray’s 112 yards rushing on four carries were the most by any player since at least 1960 with five or fewer carries.

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FRIDAY, NOV. 21, 2014

Cote making huge contributions

THE ICE KNOW YOUR REBEL

DEFENCEMAN HAS TURNED OUT TO BE A BARGAIN FOR REBELS AFTER TRADE FROM ROYALS

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR

Rylan Toth, 31, goaltender Favourite team growing up; Anaheim Ducks — When I was little there used to be a cartoon where there were ducks and they were superheroes and they played hockey and I just loved that show and they were my favourite team.

Favourite player; J.S. Giguére, because I’m a goalie and he was the Ducks’ goalie and he was unbelievable when he was younger. I remember in 2003 when he was lights out in the playoffs.

Pre-game meal; Chicken and spaghetti and meat sauce. My billet makes it every time, they’ve asked if I want something else but I like to keep it with the same thing.

Must have travel item; My iPad, it’s nice to have that for Netflix and to listen to music.

Biggest superstition; I always get dressed right skate, left skate; right pad, left pad, every time, it doesn’t change.

WHO’S HOT Regina Pats LW Morgan Klimchuk has picked up at least one point in each of his last eight games. The Calgary product and 28th overall pick in the 2013 NHL entry draft — by the Calgary Flames — has garnered 11 points (4g,11a) during that span and has 14 points (6-8) in 13 games this season.

HE SAID IT “We came out flat, I know that’ll be addressed and it’ll be a different team on Friday night. If you play for Brent Sutter there is nothing but a push, no matter what. You play to win, that’s how he coaches, that’s how we back this all up. You never quit here, that’s loud and clear here.” — Red Deer Rebels assistant coach Steve O’Rourke, to Sean Rooney of the Medicine Hat News, following a 4-2 loss to the host Tigers Tuesday night.

There’s a hockey rumour floating around suggesting that players who shoot on a more consistent basis enjoy more offensive success.

Brett Cote is fine example of why the rumour has some teeth. All joking aside, the Red Deer Rebels defenceman is on course for his best Western Hockey League offensive season because he’s putting more rubber to the net.

“I think I just shoot the puck more,” said the Red Deer Rebels overage defencemen, who was acquired from the Victoria Royals last May. “In Victoria, I didn’t really shoot that often and the coaches there did let me know about it.

“I have been shooting a lot more this season and I guess good things are happening when I put it on net and I have to keep trying to do that.”

Considering the Rebels surrendered a second-round bantam draft pick for his services, Cote, at first glance, looked like a costly pick-up. He’s since become a big-time bargain.

The product of Oakbank, Man., is tied with Wyatt Johnson for the Rebels’ scoring lead.

The six-foot, 207-pound defenceman has scored twice and added 19 assists for 21 points, and is a close second to Johnson in the plus-minus category at an impressive plus-14.

While he admitted he’s pleased with his personal contributions thus far, Cote would rather discuss the Rebels’ play in general.

“Points are nice, but winning, by far, beats personal accomplishments every time,” he said. “We got off to a bit of a rough start this season and started to come around after the P.A. weekend (road losses to the Prince Albert Raiders and Saskatoon Blades Oct. 1718). We really started to turns things around after that weekend, which is the most important thing.”

While Cote may have been

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Red Deer Rebels defenceman Brett Cote is on pace for his best offensive season in the WHL but has brought many different talents to the team since coming over in a trade with Victoria Royals last May. acquired partly due to his offensive potential — he had eight goals and 41 points with the Royals during the 2012-13 season‚ his second of three with the club — his experience and stay-calm demeanour were most attractive to the Rebels.

“He’s really been a calming effect on our back end,” said Rebels associate coach Jeff Truitt. “Especially with (defensive partner Austin) Strand . . . he’s done a real good job of helping him recognize plays.

“Brett makes good little puck plays in the defensive zone. He knows the situations ahead of him and makes a really quick, good play in our zone.”

As for Cote’s offensive contributions . . .

“He’s shooting the puck more. He’s getting shots through and he’s making good decisions,” said Truitt.

“He’s been everything you want in a defenceman. As I always say, there’s always more to give, but boy, he’s been good for us.”

Cote’s experience and poise has also resulted in him being handed — and accepting — a leadership role.

“We have some young defencemen. My roommate is (rookie) Austin Strand and we’re also defensive partners,” said Cote. “We’re pretty close and I’m just trying to help him out the best I can. I try and teach him some things that I’ve learned in the league to this point.”

“Right from the get go, in training camp and through the early part of the regular season, you could just see the calmness in him and his poise,” said Truitt. “That’s added a tremendous amount to our defensive corps.”

Being that this has been somewhat of a breakout season for Cote, the odds of him landing a pro contract following the season would appear to have increased.

“Playing pro is the first option . . . it would be so much fun and a great life,” he said. “But

not everybody gets to play pro, I know the chances aren’t great.

I’m just going to keep doing what I’m doing and hopefully it will work out.

“But the CIS full scholarships is not a terrible thing to fall back on.”

For now, Cote is focusing on this weekend and a schedule that includes three divisional games in three nights. The Rebels host the Medicine Hat Tigers tonight and the Calgary Hitmen Saturday, then visit the Hitmen Sunday afternoon.

“This is a very big weekend for us,” said the 20-year-old rearguard. “ We didn’t play the way we wanted to Tuesday in Medicine Hat (in a 4-2 loss) so it’s kind of nice that we have them back here on Friday.

“Then we have a doubleheader against Calgary. Three in three is going to be a tough weekend, but we just have to take it a game at a time.” gmeachem@reddeeradvocate. com

Hitmen bolster blueline in blockbuster with Royals Keegan Kanzig is the tower Canadian team for the upcomof power the Calgary Hitmen ing World Junior Championship desired for their blueline.

In Toronto and Montreal.

The Hitmen acquired the The Sherwood Park native six-foot-six, 242-pound defence- left the Hitmen two weeks ago man and a second-round ban- after being a healthy scratch tam draft pick from the Victo- for a game at Saskatoon due to ria Royals late Wednesday in what the club claimed was a return for forward Greg Chase lack of on-ice discipline. and fifth- and One sign that eighth-round selecWednesday’s blocktions. buster is a fair exWith the 19-yearchange would be the old Kanzig, the Hitcomments from both men add an intimiteams, although one dating and expewouldn’t expect anyrienced presence. thing else but posiHe’s also a Calgary tive remarks from the Flames prospect, clubs concerning the which makes him two players. Whatan even better fit ever, both teams are considering the convinced that they’ve NHL club owns the filled a need via the GREG Hitmen. exchange.

MEACHEM Chase, also 19, “Chase adds a comgives the Royals pletely new dimension scoring depth — he to our offence,” Roynotched 35 goals als GM Cam Hope told and racked up 85 Cleve Dheensaw of the points last season — and an ag- Victoria Times Colonist. “He is a gravating centre, as his 83 pen- dynamic forward and an elite alty minutes last season would player in this league.” suggest.

As for Kanzig and the HitHe’s also defensively respon- men . . . sible (plus-29 last winter), is “Keegan is a stay-at-home already in possession of a pro defenceman who will immedicontract despite being a late- ately make us a stronger team,” round pick by the Edmonton said Calgary GM Mike Moore Oilers in the 2013 NHL entry in a press release. “We have a draft, and is a candidate for the young blueline that will benefit

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from his experience, leadership and on-ice presence. We have had interest in acquiring him for some time and feel fortunate that he is now a Calgary Hitmen.”

While both teams appear to be over the moon with their new skaters, they also realize what they are giving up.

“Greg has been a very good hockey player for us,” Moore told the Calgary Herald. “He obviously had a great season for us last year with a lot of points. Sometimes things just don’t work out, and sometimes a change with both parties is necessary. It’s not the first time it’s happened in the game.”

The Royals will miss Kanzig’s qualities as not just a player, but a person.

“You can never replace what Keegan brought to the Royals,” said Hope.

“He has been a great citizen for us. But it’s a testament to the maturity and growth of our defensive corps that we can part with a guy who was a central piece of our team.” ● Five Rebels are on Central Scouting’s list of 59 WHL players ‘to watch’ for the 2015 NHL entry draft. Forward Adam Musil is ranked as a B prospect, which indicates a second- to third-round candidate, while goalie Taz Burman,

forward Grayson Pawlenchuk and defencemen Austin Strand and Mario Grman are listed as C prospects — fourth- to sixthround candidates. ● A trio of Thursday WHL transactions included former Rebels forward Cory Millette, 19, who was dealt to the Prince Albert Raiders from the Saskatoon Blades in return for a fifth-round bantam draft pick in 2016.

Meanwhile, the Kamloops Blazers sent forward Jesse Shynkaruk, 18, to the Moose Jaw Warriors for a conditional fifthround selection in 2015 or 2017, and the Vancouver Giants acquired rugged 18-year-old centre Dakota Odgers from the Swift Current Broncos, receiving a 2015 fifth-round pick in return. ● Defenceman Kirk Bear, an ex-Rebel, is back in the WHL after being signed by the Prince George Cougars Thursday. The six-foot-three, 197-pound Bear was playing with the Melville Millionaires of the SJHL when the Cougars came calling.

Bear, who was released by the Rebels in early September after one season with the team, will be in the Prince George lineup for tonight’s road game versus the Kamloops Blazers. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate. com

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Queens’ hard work pays off with win

BY JOSH ALDRICH ADVOCATE STAFF Queens 3 Ooks 2 (SO) The Red Deer College Queens finally were rewarded for out-playing their competition.

The theme all Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference women’s hockey season has been to dominate on the ice but come up short where it mattered most: On the scoreboard.

On Thursday night at the Red Deer Arena, the Queens once again appeared destined for a frustrating loss, but rallied from two goals down to beat the first place Ooks 3-2 in a shootout with captain Rachael Hoppins scoring the winner.

“In two years, that’s the hardest I’ve seen this team play consistently and never give up,” said Hoppins.

“We were down 2-0 when a lot of teams might fold, there wasn’t an ounce of doubt on that bench. We kept pushing through and we knew we could do it.”

Jessica Anderson and Ashley Graf scored for RDC (2-4-1) while Moriah Andrews made 16 saves through over time and stopped all three shots she faced in the shootout.

Breanna Frasca and Jordyn Tibbatts replied for NAIT (5-1-1) while veteran goalie Jill Diachuk stopped 28 shots in the loss.

For head coach Bob Rutz it was a validating win, after preaching the same thing all season despite falling to the bottom of the ACAC standings. But the Queens finally managed to get to the net and start shovelling rebounds home.

“They’ve been doing that consistently and getting bodies to the net consistently, but we just haven’t finished, and we did that tonight,” he said. “Sometimes when you struggle

you got to keep repeating the same message. But all of them have bought in from Day 1.”

The Ooks jumped out to a 2-0 lead at 17:06 of the first period, but the Queens did not shrink away.

Anderson got RDC on the scoreboard at 5:57 of the second period, pouncing on a rebound off of Casey Nicholson’s deflected point shot.

Graf tied it up at 10:44 of the third period on the power play as she buried another rebound, this time off a Megan Jones point shot.

Neither team managed to score in the five minute, four-on-four overtime, sending the game to a shootout for the second time in a week for the Queens.

Last week against the MacEwan University Griffins they were caught unaware regarding the implementation of the skills competition to decide games, but this week they were prepared.

RDC’s Rikki Leonard was stopped on the Queens’ first attempt but Hoppins scored on their next shot, getting Diachuk to go down with a fake and then roofing the puck with a back hand.

“That’s my go-to (move) and it paid off tonight,” said Hoppins.

“I watched Rikki and she had the right idea, she had her moving, but didn’t quite get it high enough. I thought I would try and get it to go a little higher.”

Andrews’ effort was key after a shaky first period, she was unbeatable the rest of the way and stopped all three NAIT shooters, including 201213 scoring champ Sheri Bowles, in the shootout.

“I know she struggled early on in the year and would like a lot of those goals back ... but we got down 2-0 and she just shut the door and made all of the saves she needed too and was outstanding in the shootout, she didn’t

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Red Deer College Queen Suze Vanderlinde and NAIt Ooks Lindsey Brouwer chase down a loose puck during first period action at the Arena in Red Deer on Thursday. give their shooters much room,” said Rutz.

The two teams have a rematch tonight in Edmonton at 7 p.m. It’s still early enough in the season where the Queens can make a run; the win ties them with the SAIT Trojans (2-3-1) for the third and final playoff spot with five points.

“Every game we’ve got to treat it

like a playoff game with lots of urgency” said Rutz. “They’re handling the pressure really well, they’re cutting down on the mistakes, we just got to keep going to the net and burying our chances. I believe in this team and I think in February we’ll be playing our best hockey and we’ll be tough to compete against.” jaldrich@reddeeradvocate.com

Eskimos defence keying in on Cornish for West final

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FLEURY: Discovery That’s when he first saw Barthel, a person he calls the “Wayne Gretzky of therapy.”

After her lecture, he introduced himself to her and invited her out to his Calgary home. After one 72-hour marathon session around his kitchen table, Fleury reached an epiphany.

“At the end of the conversation I realized there wasn’t one thing I could change about my life to make it any different, which took away all the shame, all the anger, all the guilt, all the stuff that I thought I had got rid of by writing Playing with Fire,” he said. “This is a life-long process of self discovery.”

Fleury describes their connection as a therapeutic friendship, both contributing to the relationship with their own expertise.

He compares the two books as one laying it all out there, and Conversation with a Rattlesnake as more of an instruction manual on how to deal with childhood trauma.

“We want people to self-reflect on their own lives and we teach people

Rebels vs. Medicine Hat Tigers Tonight, 7 p.m., Enmax Centrium Medicine Hat is coming off Wednesday’s 7-3 win over the host Kootenay Ice and a 4-2 defeat of the visiting Rebels a day earlier. The Tigers are 6-3-0-1 in their last 10 outings and are first in the Central Division and second in the Eastern Conference with a 16-4-1-1 slate . . . Tuesday’s win over Red Deer averted a three-game losing streak for the Tigers, who haven’t dropped three regular-season contests in succession since 2012-13 . . . RW Cole Sanford is The Hat’s top scorer with 33 points (15g,18a) and sits third overall in the league. C Trevor Cox is next in team scoring — and fifth overall — with 32 points, including 27 assists . . . Tommy Vannelli, with nine, leads all WHL defencemen in goals . . . Mark Langhamer is fourth among WHL netminders with a 2.30 goals-against average and seventh with a .915 save percentage.

Injuries: Medicine Hat — C Anthony Ast (upper body, week-to-week), RW Chad Butcher (upper body, week-

ple there.”

The Eskimos lost all three games to Calgary this season. In their back-toback Labour Day losses Edmonton was without quarterback Mike Reilly and, as of Thursday, Jones wasn’t prepared to declare him the starter.

Reilly missed the final regular-season game with a foot injury and came on in the second half of Edmonton’s 18-10 semifinal win over Saskatchewan last weekend.

Jones said he “looked awfully good today.”

Linebacker Dexter McCoil, the West’s outstanding rookie, missed Thursday’s practice to attend to a family matter but Jones said he was expected back in time for Friday’s practice.

While Cornish is a focus of the Edmonton defence, the Eskimos are con-

how to have these conversations in the book,” he said.

Beyond Rattlesnake, Fleury and Barthel have also started an internet radio show also called Conversation with a Rattlesnake and are creating the Breaking Free Foundation. He has also helped advocated for the Be Brave Ranch in Edmonton, a facility dedicated to helping children who are victims of abuse and trauma.

“I think there’s only six guys in Canada that speak about sexual abuse and their experiences, there’s lots of work that needs to happen,” he said.

Fleury rarely laces up the skates anymore.

In place of hockey, however, is music. He started an old school country band with some old friends called Theo Fleury and the Death Valley Rebels.

It started out with Fleury just wanting to scratch writing a song off his bucket list. He contacted family friend Phil Deschambault from the Winnipeg band Ash Koley to help him with the process.

Together they wrote and recorded the song As the Story Goes — available on iTunes and a video on Youtube.

It turned out far better than he thought, an instinct confirmed by Deschambault.

Together with a few more friends and would love to one day hear his they wrote 30 songs and put the 10 best name called, but does not get too hung on an album entitled I am who I am. up on.

Fleury describes the project as be“I can live with it either way, I’d ing really dark but with a lot of “cool rather be in the hall of fame of life lyrics, and cool lines” and thinks it will rather than the Hockey Hall of Fame,” shock people. he said. “Hockey no longer defines In the same way writing books has who I am as a person, it’s something been therapeutic, song writing is prov- that I used to do.” ing to be a new release. jaldrich@reddeeradvocate.com “Of all the things I do, it’s the thing I love to do the most,” he said. “I’ll have an idea and I’ll write a few lines in my notes on my iPhone ... I love the process of sitting down with an idea and going back and forth and coming up with a song.”

This week, the Hockey Hall of Fame inducted it’s most recent class with Rob Blake, Peter Forsberg, Dominik Hasek, Mike Modano, coach Pat Burns and referee Bill McCreary all going in. If Fleury had not melted down in his last November 22nd, 26th - 30th, 2014 few seasons in New York and Chicago, he’d likely already be enshrined.

He says it is something that he thinks about often, Through

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Scouting report to-week), C Markus Eisenschmid (lower body, week-to-week). Red Deer — C Brayden Burke (lower body, onethree weeks), D Nick Charif (lower body, six-eight weeks).

Special teams: Medicine Hat — Power play 19.3 per cent, ninth overall; penalty kill 88.3 per cent, second.

Red Deer — Power play 18.3 per cent, 14th overall; penalty kill 84.9 per cent, seventh.

JUNIOR B HOCKEY Kale Lapointe scored once and picked up two assists to help the Red Deer Vipers post a 5-3 win over the Mountainview Colts in Heritage Junior Hockey League play Wednesday at Didsbury.

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fident their running back, John White, will match Cornish on Sunday.

“Best running back in the league,” said Jefferson. “Quick feet, likes to be aggressive, when our offence is on the field all eyes are on him.”

White, who also played only nine games, finished third in rushing with 852 yards but was second to Cornish (7.8 yards) in yards per rush at 6.9. Edmonton finished second to Calgary in rushing yards per game (143.9 to 129.4) but ahead of them in total offence per game (382.6 yards to 378.9).

“He’s a tremendous blocker, both in the pocket and outside the pocket,” Jones said of White who ran for 134 yards against the Roughriders. “He’s very hard to tackle, he’s elusive, he breaks a lot of tackles and he’s a lot stronger than you think he is.”

Dustin Spearing and Justin Corbett also tallied for the Vipers, who were assessed four of 11 minor penalties.

The Colts also took a misconduct.

Rylan Bardick came up big in the Red Deer net with 43 saves. Jake Carlson made 24 saves for Mountainview.

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EDMONTON — Stop Jon Cornish.

That will be both a primary focus of the Edmonton Eskimos on Sunday and also their biggest challenge in their attempt to beat the Calgary Stampeders in the CFL West final and earn a berth in the Grey Cup. The Stampeders running back led the league in rushing with 1,082 yards while playing just nine games. Two of those games were against the Eskimos and he ran for 272 yards in back-toback Calgary victories in September.

“We want to stop him because their offence does evolve around him most of the time,” Edmonton’s six-foot-six, 234-pound defensive end Willie Jefferson said after the team’s closed prac-

tice Thursday.

“We have to slow him down, make them try to find another way to win the game without him.”

But, he admitted, a “lot of things are easier said than done” and the Eskimos defence has to do a better job of tackling Cornish then they did in the previous two games.

Edmonton head coach Chris Jones — a former Calgary assistant — said stopping Cornish begins with his players staying in their proper gaps and lending support.

“He gets his pads turned north and south and we have to make sure, once he gets turned north and south you have to get a hand on him and get some help,” Jones said. “He’s a big back; he’s going to break tackles so we have to do a great job of getting a lot of peo-

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SCOREBOARD Hockey

CENTRAL DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL 22 16 4 1 1 23 12 8 1 2 22 11 8 1 2 23 11 9 2 1 22 8 14 0 0 21 5 12 3 1

Pt 34 27 25 25 16 14

WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Kelowna 24 21 1 2 0 118 56 Victoria 25 12 11 2 0 80 88 Prince George 24 12 12 0 0 74 100 Kamloops 24 10 10 2 2 75 82 Vancouver 22 9 13 0 0 72 76

Pt 44 26 24 24 18

GP 20 23 19 22 24

U.S. DIVISION W L OTLSOL 14 3 2 1 14 9 0 0 9 7 3 0 9 10 2 1 9 12 0 3

GF 87 69 80 81 59 52

Pt 35 30 25 21 18 12

GA 52 57 64 78 96 87

Everett Tri-City Spokane Seattle Portland

GF 75 67 57 58 76

GA 53 60 59 62 93

Pt 31 28 21 21 21

Wednesday’s results Edmonton 3 Moose Jaw 2 (OT) Swift Current 5 Brandon 0 Medicine Hat 7 Kootenay 3 Kamloops 4 Portland 1 Prince George 6 Vancouver 1 Kelowna 5 Victoria 3

Anaheim 21 12 4 5 29 58 53 Nashville 19 12 5 2 26 54 40 Vancouver 20 13 6 1 27 61 60 St. Louis 19 12 6 1 25 50 39 Calgary 21 12 7 2 26 66 57 Chicago 19 11 7 1 23 55 39 Los Angeles 19 10 5 4 24 50 42 Winnipeg 21 10 8 3 23 43 47 Minnesota 18 11 7 0 22 53 41 San Jose 21 10 9 2 22 57 57 Arizona 20 8 10 2 18 49 62 Dallas 20 7 9 4 18 56 68 Colorado 20 6 9 5 17 49 64 Edmonton 19 6 11 2 14 48 65 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Wednesday’s Games N.Y. Rangers 2, Philadelphia 0 Vancouver 5, Edmonton 4 Thursday’s Games Anaheim 4, Vancouver 3, SO Minnesota 3, Philadelphia 2 Toronto 5, Tampa Bay 2 Montreal 4, St. Louis 1 Ottawa 3, Nashville 2 Detroit 4, Winnipeg 3 Dallas 3, Arizona 1 Washington 3, Colorado 2 Chicago 4, Calgary 3 Carolina at Los Angeles, late Florida at San Jose, late Friday’s Games N.Y. Rangers at Buffalo, ppd., snow N.Y. Islanders at Pittsburgh, 5 p.m.

Boston at Columbus, 5 p.m.

New Jersey at Edmonton, 7:30 p.m.

Thursday’s summaries Blackhawks 4, Flames 3 First Period 1. Chicago, Clendening 1 (Hossa, Versteeg) 4:00 (pp).

2. Chicago, Carcillo 2 (Kruger) 7:12.

3. Calgary, Byron 5 (Jooris, Giordano) 13:44 (pp).

4. Calgary, Wideman 8 (Gaudreau, Granlund) 14:38 (pp).

Penalties — Brodie Cgy (stick holding) 2:04, Kruger Chi (interference) 11:51, Hjalmarsson Chi (tripping) 13:44, Toews Chi (hooking) 19:34.

Second Period 5. Chicago, Seabrook 5 (Kane, Richards) 10:52.

6. Calgary, Monahan 8 (Glencross, Byron) 12:33.

Penalties — Rozsival Chi (slashing) 13:11, Oduya Chi (delay of game) 18:22, Hudler Cgy (tripping) 19:48.

Third Period 7. Chicago, Kane 7 (unassisted) 9:12.

Penalties — Hjalmarsson Chi (hooking) 16:28.

Shots on goal Chicago 12 6 4 — 22 Calgary 11 9 7 — 27 Goal — Chicago: Crawford (W, 8-4-1); Calgary: Hiller (L, 9-5-1).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Chicago: 1-2; Calgary: 2-6.

Friday’s games Swift Current at Prince Albert, 6 p.m.

Edmonton at Brandon, 6:30 p.m.

Moose Jaw at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Lethbridge at Kootenay, 7 p.m.

Medicine Hat at Red Deer, 7 p.m.

Prince George at Kamloops, 8 p.m.

Portland at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

Everett at Victoria, 8:05 p.m.

Regina at Vancouver, 8:30 p.m.

Spokane at Seattle, 8:35 p.m.

Saturday’s games Swift Current at Saskatoon, 6:05 p.m.

Edmonton at Brandon, 6:30 p.m.

Moose Jaw at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.

Calgary at Red Deer, 7 p.m.

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

Prince George at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

Regina at Victoria, 8:05 p.m.

Portland at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

Everett at Seattle, 8:05 p.m.

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

Sunday’s games Prince Albert at Lethbridge, 4 p.m.

Moose Jaw at Kootenay, 6 p.m.

Red Deer at Calgary, 6 p.m.

Kamloops at Spokane, 6:05 p.m.

National Hockey League EASTERN CONFERENCE GP W L OT Pts Montreal 21 15 5 1 31 Pittsburgh 17 13 3 1 27 Tampa Bay 21 13 6 2 28 N.Y. Islanders 18 12 6 0 24 Detroit 19 10 4 5 25 Washington 19 9 7 3 21 Boston 20 12 8 0 24 Ottawa 18 9 5 4 22 Toronto 20 10 8 2 22 N.Y. Rangers 19 8 7 4 20 New Jersey 19 8 9 2 18 Florida 16 6 5 5 17 Philadelphia 18 7 9 2 16 Carolina 18 6 9 3 15 Columbus 18 6 11 1 13 Buffalo 20 5 13 2 12

GF GA 59 52 64 35 75 59 59 52 54 45 55 52 53 49 50 47 63 62 52 58 47 56 35 42 53 58 43 55 44 64 34 69

WESTERN CONFERENCE GP W L OT Pts

GF GA

Canucks 3, Ducks 3 (SO) First Period 1. Anaheim, Cogliano 3 (Silfverberg, Thompson) :37.

2. Anaheim, Getzlaf 6 (Maroon, Perry) 13:10.

Penalties — Tanev Vcr (high-sticking) 8:05, Kesler Ana (cross-checking) 20:00.

Second Period 3. Vancouver, Horvat 1 (Dorsett, Kassian) 3:08.

4. Vancouver, Hansen 5 (Edler, Tanev) 11:18.

5. Vancouver, Vrbata 9 (D. Sedin, H. Sedin) 11:48.

Penalties — Kassian Vcr (holding) 14:03.

Third Period 6. Anaheim, Beleskey 9 (Getzlaf, Vatanen) 11:52.

Penalties — Bieksa Vcr (delay of game) 7:47.

Overtime No Scoring.

Penalties — None.

Shootout — Vancouver wins 0-2 Anaheim : Perry goal, Kesler miss, Silfverberg goal.

Vancouver : Bonino miss, Vrbata miss.

Shots on goal Anaheim 8 9 4 5 — 26 Vancouver 10 10 8 0 — 28 Power plays (goal-chances) — Anaheim: 0-3; Vancouver: 0-1.

Senators 3, Predators 2 First Period 1. Nashville, Weber 6 (Josi, Ribeiro) 3:17 (pp).

Penalties — Greening Ott (cross-checking) 1:49, Turris Ott (hooking) 12:23, MacArthur Ott (Embellishment) 19:31, Smith Nash (holding) 19:31.

Second Period 2. Ottawa, Ryan 5 (Karlsson, Zibanejad) 6:17 (pp).

3. Ottawa, Chiasson 5 (Ceci, MacArthur) 12:18.

4. Ottawa, Cowen 1 (Michalek) 14:24.

Penalties — Ekholm Nash (delay of game) 4:50, Gaustad Nash (unsportsmanlike conduct) 18:00.

Third Period 5. Nashville, Jokinen 1 (Roy) 1:16.

Penalties — Smith Nash (high-sticking) 15:53.

Shots on goal Nashville 9 10 16 — 35 Ottawa 4 12 3 — 19 Goal — Nashville: Hutton (L, 0-2-1); Ottawa: Lehner (W, 4-2-1).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Nashville: 1-2; Ottawa: 1-3.

Referees — Mike Leggo, Tim Peel.

Red Wings 4, Jets 3 First Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Byfuglien Wpg (interference) 5:23, Quincey Det (boarding) 7:20, Pardy Wpg (stick holding) 14:56, Det Bench (too many men) 17:14.

Second Period 1. Winnipeg, Byfuglien 3 (Kane, Perreault) 2:15.

2. Winnipeg, Lowry 2 (Scheifele, Frolik) 9:32.

3. Detroit, Tatar 7 (unassisted) 10:02.

4. Detroit, Franzen 6 (Jurco, DeKeyser) 12:52 (pp).

5. Winnipeg, Perreault 2 (Trouba) 16:12.

Penalties — Enstrom Wpg (tripping) 12:13, Jurco Det (tripping) 17:55.

Third Period 6. Detroit, Abdelkader 6 (Sheahan, Lashoff) 13:00.

7. Detroit, Tatar 8 (Abdelkader, Ericsson) 15:10.

Penalties — Wpg Bench (too many men) 2:34.

Shots on goal Detroit 7 6 14 — 27 Winnipeg 8 14 9 — 31 Goal — Detroit: Mrazek (W, 1-0-0); Winnipeg: Pavelec (L, 7-7-2).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Detroit: 1-4; Winnipeg: 0-3.

Maple Leafs 5, Lightning 2 First Period 1. Toronto, Clarkson 6 (Winnik, Polak) 1:29.

2. Tampa Bay, Killorn 5 (unassisted) 18:50 (sh).

Penalties — van Riemsdyk Tor (roughing) 13:15, Gudas TB (tripping) 16:32, Boyle TB (high-sticking) 17:41.

Second Period 3. Toronto, Panik 4 (unassisted) 2:45.

4. Toronto, van Riemsdyk 8 (Bozak, Franson) 12:31.

5. Toronto, van Riemsdyk 9 (Kessel, Phaneuf) 15:15 (pp).

Penalties — Morrow TB (holding) 14:02.

Third Period 6. Tampa Bay, Stamkos 13 (Kucherov) 15:47.

7. Toronto, Polak 3 (Bozak) 19:52 (en).

Penalties — Robidas Tor (elbowing) 5:21, Komarov Tor (tripping) 8:30.

Shots on goal Tampa Bay 8 13 7 — 28 Toronto 9 8 4 — 21 Goal — Tampa Bay: Bishop (L, 11-3-2); Toronto: Bernier (W, 6-5-2).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Tampa Bay: 0-3; Toronto: 1-3.

Canadiens 4, Blues 1 First Period 1. St. Louis, Tarasenko 11 (Lehtera, Schwartz) 7:45.

Penalties — None.

Second Period 2. Montreal, Weise 4 (unassisted) 4:50.

3. Montreal, Pacioretty 9 (Parenteau, Subban) 7:32.

Penalties — Paajarvi StL (interference) 7:45, Paajarvi StL (high-sticking) 15:34.

Third Period 4. Montreal, Pacioretty 10 (Desharnais, Weaver) 6:00.

5. Montreal, Eller 6 (Prust, Sekac) 12:03.

Penalties — None.

Shots on goal St. Louis 6 13 13 — 32 Montreal 8 11 11 — 30 Goal — St. Louis: Allen (L, 5-2-0); Montreal: Price (W, 12-4-1).

Power plays (goal-chances) — St. Louis: 0-0; Montreal: 0-2.

Football W 7 7 6 1

West L 3 4 4 10

T 0 0 0 0

Pct .700 .636 .600 .100

Semi-finals Sunday, Nov. 16 Montreal 50 B.C. 17 Edmonton 18 Saskatchewan 10

Denver Kansas City San Diego Oakland

Dvision Finals Sunday, Nov. 23 Montreal at Hamilton, 11 a.m.

Edmonton at Calgary, 2:30 p.m.

NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct Philadelphia 7 3 0 .700 Dallas 7 3 0 .700 N.Y. Giants 3 7 0 .300 Washington 3 7 0 .300 South W L T Pct Atlanta 4 6 0 .400 New Orleans 4 6 0 .400 Carolina 3 7 1 .318 Tampa Bay 2 8 0 .200 North W L T Pct Detroit 7 3 0 .700 Green Bay 7 3 0 .700 Chicago 4 6 0 .400 Minnesota 4 6 0 .400 West W L T Pct Arizona 9 1 0 .900 San Francisco 6 4 0 .600 Seattle 6 4 0 .600 St. Louis 4 6 0 .400

102nd Grey Cup Sunday, Nov. 30 At Vancouver Hamilton-Montreal winner vs. Calgary-Edmonton winner, 4 p.m.

National Football League AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct New England 8 2 0 .800 Miami 6 4 0 .600 Buffalo 5 5 0 .500 N.Y. Jets 2 8 0 .200 South W L T Pct Indianapolis 6 4 0 .600 Houston 5 5 0 .500 Tennessee 2 8 0 .200 Jacksonville 1 9 0 .100 North W L T Pct Cincinnati 6 3 1 .650 Pittsburgh 7 4 0 .636 Baltimore 6 4 0 .600 Cleveland 6 4 0 .600

PF 323 249 200 174

PA 218 180 204 265

PF 310 229 168 158

PA 253 204 250 282

PF 224 288 261 216

PA 221 263 181 195

PF 293 261 218 176

PA 224 195 192 285

PF 299 261 205 204

PA 251 212 263 256

PF 238 261 215 194

PA 255 252 300 279

PF 188 330 215 181

PA 156 225 290 220

PF 237 211 260 185

PA 176 212 215 258

Thursday, Nov. 20 Kansas City 20, Oakland 24 Sunday, Nov. 23 Green Bay at Minnesota, 11 a.m.

Cincinnati at Houston, 11 a.m.

Tampa Bay at Chicago, 11 a.m.

Cleveland at Atlanta, 11 a.m.

Tennessee at Philadelphia, 11 a.m.

Detroit at New England, 11 a.m.

Jacksonville at Indianapolis, 11 a.m.

N.Y. Jets at Buffalo, 11 a.m.

Arizona at Seattle, 2:05 p.m.

St. Louis at San Diego, 2:05 p.m.

Washington at San Francisco, 2:25 p.m.

Miami at Denver, 2:25 p.m.

Dallas at N.Y. Giants, 6:30 p.m.

Open: Carolina, Pittsburgh Monday, Nov. 24 Baltimore at New Orleans, 6:30 p.m.

NFL Odds (Odds provided by Western Canada Lottery; favourites in capital letters) Spread O/U Sunday Tampa Bay at CHICAGO 5.5 45.5 NY Jets at BUFFALO 4.5 39.5 Cincinnati at HOUSTON 2.5 43.5 Jacksonville at INDIANAPOLIS 14.5 50.5 GREEN BAY at Minnesota 9.5 48.5 Tennessee at PHILADELPHIA 10.5 48.5 Detroit at NEW ENGLAND 7.5 48.5 Cleveland at ATLANTA 3.5 47.5 Arizona at SEATTLE 6.5 41.5 St. Louis at SAN DIEGO 5.5 43.5 Washington at SAN FRANCISCO 8.5 44.5 Miami at DENVER 7.5 49.5 DALLAS at NY Giants 3.5 47.5 Monday Baltimore at NEW ORLEANS 3.5 49.5

Curling Curling National SAULT STE. MARIE, Ont. — Results and standings after the fifth draw for the National from Nov. 19-23, an event on the 2014-15 Grand Slam of Curling: Pool A W L Howard 3 0 Epping 2 0 Blandford 1 1 Casey 1 2 Jacobs 1 2 Kean 0 3 Pool B W 2 2 2 1 1 1

L 1 1 1 2 2 2

W 3 3 1 1 0

L 0 0 1 2 2

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Today

● Peewee AA hockey: Foothills at Olds, 6 p.m. ● College volleyball: Olds at RDC, women at 6 p.m., men to follow. ● WHL: Medicine Hat at Red Deer, 7 p.m., Centrium. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Strathmore at Stettler, 7:30 p.m. ● Minor midget AAA hockey: Lethbridge at Red Deer Aero Equipment, 8 p.m., Arena. ● Midget AA hockey: Airdrie at Red Deer Elks, 8:15 p.m., Collicutt Centre. ● Chinook senior hockey: Fort Saskatchewan at Bentley, 8:30 p.m.; Stony Plain at Innisfail, 8:30 p.m.

Saturday

● Bantam AA hockey: Foothills at Red Deer Steel Kings, 2:30 p.m., Kinex; Lethbridge at Olds, 3:30 p.m.; Red Deer Ramada at Sylvan Lake, 5:45 p.m. ● Major bantam girls hockey: Spruce Grove at Red Deer, 4:30 p.m., Kinsmen B. ● Midget AA hockey: Calgary Canucks at Red Deer Indy Graphics, 4:45 p.m., Arena; Taber at Sylvan Lake, 5:30 p.m., Eckville. ● College basketball: St. Mary’s at RDC, women at 6 p.m., men to follow.

● WHL: Calgary at Red Deer, 7 p.m., Centrium. ● College men’s hockey: Portage College at RDC, 7 p.m., Penhold Regional Multiplex. ● AJHL: Okotoks at Olds, 7 p.m. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Mountainview at Stettler, 7:30 p.m.; Blackfalds at Red Deer, 8 p.m., Arena.

Sunday

● Major bantam hockey: Calgary Flames at Red Deer Black, noon, Arena. ● Peewee AA hockey: Wheatland at Red Deer Parkland, 11:30 a.m., Kinsmen A; Bow Valley at Sylvan Lake, 3 p.m., Eckville. ● AJHL: Bonnyville at Olds, 2 p.m. ● Bantam AA hockey: Foothills at Red Deer Ramada, 2 p.m., Kinsmen A. ● Midget AA hockey: Bow Valley at Sylvan Lake, 2:30 p.m., Bentley; Taber at Red Deer Elks, 5:30 p.m. ● WHL: Red Deer at Calgary, 4 p.m., Saddledome (The Drive). ● Men’s basketball: Grandview vs.

Monstars, Wells Furniture vs. Henry’s Eavestroughing, Rusty Chuckers vs. Silver Spurs, 4:15 p.m.; Carstar vs. NWS, Alken Basin vs. All Sports Cresting Lacombe, Driven vs. Sheraton Red Deer, 5:30 p.m.; all games at Lindsay Thurber.

Basketball Central Alberta Senior Men’s Vikings 79 Silver Spurs 44 Vikings: Kris Antok 20 points, Kevin Kras 14; MVP: Kras. Silver Spurs — Adam Bullock 16; MVP: Bullock.

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Chicago Milwaukee Cleveland Indiana Detroit

Southeast Division W L Pct 7 3 .700 5 5 .500 6 6 .500 5 8 .385 4 8 .333

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Wednesday’s Games Boston 101, Philadelphia 90 Dallas 105, Washington 102 L.A. Clippers 114, Orlando 90 Indiana 88, Charlotte 86 San Antonio 92, Cleveland 90 Toronto 96, Memphis 92 Phoenix 88, Detroit 86 Milwaukee 122, Brooklyn 118,3OT Minnesota 115, New York 99 Denver 107, Oklahoma City 100 L.A. Lakers 98, Houston 92 Thursday’s Games L.A. Clippers 110, Miami 93 Chicago at Sacramento, late Friday’s Games Phoenix at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

Orlando at Charlotte, 5 p.m.

Detroit at Atlanta, 5:30 p.m.

Milwaukee at Toronto, 5:30 p.m.

Brooklyn at Oklahoma City, 6 p.m.

Boston at Memphis, 6 p.m.

San Antonio at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

Cleveland at Washington, 6 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at Dallas, 6:30 p.m.

New Orleans at Denver, 7 p.m.

Utah at Golden State, 8:30 p.m.

Chicago at Portland, 8:30 p.m.

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ROUND ROBIN Thursday’s results Second Draw John Epping 7 Matthew Blandford 5 (extra end) Heath McCormick 6 John Shuster 5 (extra end) Brendan Bottcher 7 Brad Gushue 4 Steve Laycock 7 John Morris 2 Reid Carruthers 6 Rob Rumfeldt 1 Third Draw John Shuster 8 Steve Laycock 7 Brendan Bottcher 6 Kevin Koe 4 Adam Casey 5 Brad Jacobs 4 (extra end) Reid Carruthers 9 Peter de Cruz 3 Glenn Howard 6 Mark Kean 5 Fourth Draw Brad Gushue 8 Rob Rumfeldt 3 Matthew Blandford 5 Mark Kean 4 Mike McEwen 7 Jeff Stoughton 5 (extra end) Heath McCormick 5 John Morris 4 John Epping 5 Adam Casey 4 (extra end) Fifth Draw Reid Carruthers 5 Kevin Koe 4 Glenn Howard 5 Brad Jacobs 4 Brendan Bottcher 7 Peter de Cruz 5 Jeff Stoughton 7 Steve Laycock 6 John Morris 7 Mike McEwen 3

Friday’s games Sixth Draw, 7 a.m.

Heath McCormick vs. John Shuster; Rob Rumfeldt vs. Brendan Bottcher; Matthew Blandford vs. Adam Casey; John Epping vs. Mark Kean; Brad Gushue vs. Reid Carruthers.

Seventh Draw, 10:30 a.m.

Steve Laycock vs. Heath McCormick; Brad Gushue vs. Peter de Cruz; John Epping vs. Glenn Howard; John Morris vs. John Shuster; Kevin Koe vs. Rob Rumfeldt.

Eighth Draw, 2 p.m.

Adam Casey vs. Mark Kean; Jeff Stoughton vs.

Heath McCormick; Reid Carruthers vs. Brendan Bottcher; Mike McEwen vs. Steve Laycock; Brad Jacobs vs. Matthew Blandford.

Ninth Draw, 5:30 p.m.

Glenn Howard vs. Matthew Blandford; Brad Jacobs vs. John Epping; Brad Gushue vs. Kevin Koe; Peter de Cruz vs. Rob Rumfeldt; John Morris vs. Jeff Stoughton.

End of round robin PLAYOFFS Saturday’s games Quarter-finals, 10 a.m.

Semifinals, 1:30 p.m.

Sunday’s game Final, 1:30 p.m.

Transactions Thursday’s Sports Transactions HOCKEY National Hockey League ANAHEIM DUCKS — Activated D Francois Beauchemin and F Devante Smith-Pelly from injured reserve. Placed C William Karlsson on injured reserve. Reassigned F Chris Wagner to Norfolk (AHL).

BUFFALO SABRES — Recalled F Justin Kea from Elmira (ECHL) to Rochester (AHL).

CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS — Recalled G Mac Carruth from Indy (ECHL) to Rockford (AHL).

DALLAS STARS — Reassigned F Ludwig Karlsson from Idaho (ECHL) to Texas (AHL).

DETROIT RED WINGS — Removed F Stephen Weiss from seven-day injured reserve and assigned him to Grand Rapids (AHL) for a conditioning assignment. Reassigned G Jared Coreau from Grand Rapids to Toledo (ECHL).

EDMONTON OILERS — Traded C Will Acton to Vancouver for C Kellan Lain.

MINNESOTA WILD — Assigned G John Curry from Iowa (AHL) to Quad City (ECHL).

MONTREAL CANADIENS — Traded F Rene Bourque to Anaheim for D Bryan Allen.

American Hockey League GRAND RAPIDS GRIFFINS — Recalled D Scott Czarnowczan from Toledo (ECHL). Signed G Jeff Lerg to a professional tryout agreement.

MANCHESTER MONARCHS — Assigned F

Vincent Arseneau to Ontario (ECHL).

NORFOLK ADMIRALS — Recalled G Etienne Marcoux from Utah (ECHL).

SPRINGFIELD FALCONS — Released D Steve McCarthy from his professional tryout agreement.

Returned D Mike Cornell to Florida (ECHL).

ECHL CINCINNATI CYCLONES — Released F Jon Puskar.

ELMIRA JACKALS — Added G Chris Bourgeois as emergency backup. Loaned G Sam Marotta to Rochester (AHL).

EVANSVILLE ICEMEN — Released F Ben Warda.

INDY FUEL — Released F Brett Perlini.

STOCKTON THUNDER — Traded F Prab Rai to Evansville for undisclosed terms.

TOLEDO WALLEYE — Signed G Neil Conway.

UTAH GRIZZLIES — Loaned F Alex Krushelnyski to Norfolk (AHL).

BASEBALL MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL — Announced commissioner-elect Rob Manfred will serve a fiveyear term, beginning Jan. 25.

American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Claimed OF Alex Hassan off waivers from Oakland. Selected the contracts of RHPs Tyler Wilson and Mike Wright from Norfolk (IL).

BOSTON RED SOX — Selected the contracts

of LHP Eduardo Rodriguez, INF Travis Shaw and C Blake Swihart from Pawtucket (IL) and INF Sean Coyle from Portland (EL).

CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Assigned OF Jared Mitchell outright to Charlotte (IL). Designated RHP Ronald Belisario for assignment. Selected the contracts of INF Tyler Saladino from Charlotte (IL) and RHP Frankie Montas, INF Rangel Ravelo and C Kevan Smith from Birmingham (SL). Claimed LHP Onelki Garcia off waivers from the L.A. Dodgers.

CLEVELAND INDIANS — Selected the contracts of RHP Shawn Armstrong and INF Giovanny Urshela from Columbus (IL), RHP Cody Anderson and C/INF Tony Wolters from Akron (EL) and LHP Ryan Merritt from Lynchburg (Carolina).

DETROIT TIGERS — Designated OF Ezequiel Carrera for assignment. Selected the contracts of SS Dixon Machado and RHP Angel Nesbitt from Erie (EL). Claimed RHP Josh Zeid off waivers from Houston.

HOUSTON ASTROS — Assigned RHP Anthony Bass outright to Fresno (PCL) Selected the contracts of INF Ronnie Torreyes from Oklahoma City (PCL) and RHP Vincent Velasquez from Lancaster (Cal).

KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Acquired OF Reymond Fuentes from San Diego for LHP Kyle Bartsch. Selected the contracts of OF Jorge Bonifacio from Omaha (PCL) and INF Orlando Calixte from Northwest Arkansas (Texas).

CME Group Tour Championship Thursday At Ritz-Carlton Golf Resort (Tiburon Course) Naples, Fla. Purse: $2 million Yardage: 6,540; Par: 72 (36-36) First Round Julieta Granada 34-32 — 66 Sandra Gal 35-33 — 68 Caroline Hedwall 35-34 — 69 Stacy Lewis 35-34 — 69 Belen Mozo 33-36 — 69 Marina Alex 33-37 — 70 Carlota Ciganda 34-36 — 70 Haeji Kang 34-36 — 70 Hee Young Park 35-35 — 70 So Yeon Ryu 34-36 — 70 Sarah Jane Smith 33-37 — 70 Angela Stanford 36-34 — 70 Chella Choi 36-35 — 71 Na Yeon Choi 36-35 — 71 Christina Kim 37-34 — 71 I.K. Kim 37-34 — 71 Lydia Ko 35-36 — 71 Ilhee Lee 36-35 — 71 Inbee Park 36-35 — 71 Suzann Pettersen 39-32 — 71 Lexi Thompson 36-35 — 71 Paula Creamer 34-38 — 72 Austin Ernst 37-35 — 72 Karine Icher 36-36 — 72 Brittany Lincicome 36-36 — 72 Morgan Pressel 38-34 — 72 Jenny Shin 36-36 — 72 Michelle Wie 35-37 — 72 Laura Diaz 38-35 — 73 Jennifer Johnson 36-37 — 73 Cristie Kerr 37-36 — 73 Meena Lee 36-37 — 73 Azahara Munoz 36-37 — 73 Yani Tseng 38-35 — 73 Mariajo Uribe 38-35 — 73 Jodi Ewart Shadoff 35-39 — 74 Shanshan Feng 36-38 — 74

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World Tour Championship DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Leading scores Thursday in the World Tour Championship, the European Tour finale at 7,675-yard (7,017-meter), par-72 Jumeirah Estates, Earth Course: First Round Shane Lowry, Ireland 33-33 — 66 Rory McIlroy, Northern Ireland 32-34 — 66 Thorbjorn Olesen, Denmark 31-36 — 67 Richie Ramsay, Scotland 33-34 — 67 Emiliano Grillo, Argentina 35-33 — 68 Henrik Stenson, Sweden 35-33 — 68 Ross Fisher, England 35-34 — 69 Tommy Fleetwood, England 35-34 — 69 Edoardo Molinari, Italy 35-34 — 69 Louis Oosthuizen, South Africa 36-33 — 69 Danny Willett, England 34-35 — 69 Jonas Blixt, Sweden 33-37 — 70 Kristoffer Broberg, Sweden 35-35 — 70 George Coetzee, South Africa 34-36 — 70 Tyrrell Hatton, England 35-35 — 70 Joost Luiten, Netherlands 36-34 — 70 Lee Westwood, England 35-35 — 70 Thomas Bjorn, Denmark 36-35 — 71 Victor Dubuisson, France 35-36 — 71 David Howell, England 35-36 — 71 Miguel Angel Jimenez, Spain 35-36 — 71 Robert Karlsson, Sweden 35-36 — 71

Soccer MLS Playoffs Knockout Round Wednesday, October 29 Dallas 2 Vancouver 1 Thursday, October 30 New York 2 Kansas City 1 Eastern Conference Semifinals Saturday, November 1 Columbus 2 New England 4 Sunday, November 2 New York 2 D.C. 0 Saturday, November 8 D.C. 2 New York 1 Sunday, November 9 New England 3 Columbus 1 Western Conference Semifinals Saturday, November 1 Salt Lake 0 Los Angeles 0 Sunday, November 2 Dallas 1 Seattle 1 Sunday, November 9 Los Angeles 5 Salt Lake 0 Monday, November 10 Seattle 0 Dallas 0 Eastern Conference Championship Sunday, November 23 New England at New York, 11:30 a.m.

Saturday, November 29 New York at New England, 1 p.m.

Western Conference Championship Sunday, November 23 Seattle at Los Angeles, 3 p.m.

Sunday, November 30 Los Angeles at Seattle, 7 p.m.

English Premier League GP W D L GF GA Pts Chelsea 11 9 2 0 28 11 29 Southampton 11 8 1 2 23 5 25 Manchester City 11 6 3 2 22 12 21 West Ham 11 5 3 3 19 14 18 Swansea 11 5 3 3 15 11 18 Arsenal 11 4 5 2 19 13 17 Man. United 11 4 4 3 17 14 16 Newcastle 11 4 4 3 13 15 16 Stoke 11 4 3 4 12 13 15 Everton 11 3 5 3 20 18 14 Liverpool 11 4 2 5 14 15 14 Tottenham 11 4 2 5 14 16 14 West Brom 11 3 4 4 13 15 13 Sunderland 11 2 6 3 12 19 12 Hull City 11 2 5 4 13 15 11 Aston Villa 11 3 2 6 5 16 11 Crystal Palace 11 2 3 6 14 20 9 Leicester City 11 2 3 6 11 18 9 QPR 11 2 2 7 11 22 8

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Saturday, Nov. 22 Chelsea vs. West Brom, 1500 GMT Everton vs. West Ham, 1500 GMT Leicester City vs. Sunderland, 1500 GMT Manchester City vs. Swansea, 1500 GMT Newcastle vs. Queens Park Rangers, 1500 GMT Stoke vs. Burnley, 1500 GMT Arsenal vs. Manchester United, 1730 GMT Sunday, Nov. 23 Crystal Palace vs. Liverpool, 1330 GMT Hull City vs. Tottenham, 1600 GMT Monday, Nov. 24 Aston Villa vs. Southampton, 2000 GMT England Championship GP W D L GF GA Pts 17 9 5 3 33 16 32 17 9 4 4 33 16 31 17 9 4 4 26 12 31 17 8 6 3 25 17 30 17 8 5 4 30 19 29 17 8 4 5 24 23 28 17 7 6 4 27 24 27 17 6 9 2 20 18 27 17 7 6 4 22 22 27 17 7 5 5 25 19 26 17 6 7 4 26 23 25 17 6 5 6 21 21 23 17 4 9 4 12 14 21 17 6 3 8 22 27 21 17 5 5 7 20 24 20 17 5 5 7 25 31 20 17 5 4 8 27 31 19 17 4 6 7 19 24 18 17 4 6 7 15 24 18 17 3 8 6 17 20 17 17 5 2 10 20 27 17 17 3 7 7 18 22 16 17 3 7 7 14 29 16 17 1 4 12 11 29 7

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Friday, Nov. 21 Brentford vs. Fulham, 1945 GMT Cardiff vs. Reading, 1945 GMT Saturday, Nov. 22 Huddersfield vs. Sheff. Wednesday, 1215 GMT Blackburn vs. Leeds, 1500 GMT Blackpool vs. Bolton, 1500 GMT Bournemouth vs. Ipswich, 1500 GMT Charlton Athletic vs. Millwall, 1500 GMT Norwich City vs. Brighton & Hove Albion, 1500 GMT Rotherham United vs. Birmingham, 1500 GMT Watford vs. Derby County, 1500 GMT Wigan Athletic vs. Middlesbrough, 1500 GMT Wolverhampton Wanderers vs. Nottingham Forest, 1500 GMT

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Lions fire head caoch Benevides CFL

SURREY, B.C. — An embarrassing playoff loss put all that ailed the B.C. Lions on full display.

Those flaws ultimately cost Mike Benevides his job.

The Lions fired their head coach on Thursday, four days after a 50-17 spanking at the hands of the Montreal Alouettes in the CFL’s East Division semifinal.

While the blowout defeat was disheartening, B.C. general manager and vice-president of football operations Wally Buono said undisciplined and inconsistent play throughout the entire 2014 campaign sealed Benevides’ fate.

“It was really a combination of what occurred this year and what we were hoping to see and wanting to see in Montreal,” Buono said at a news conference.

“The reoccurring of the same issues in the playoff game was such that we had to do something about it.

“The thing that was repetitive was the bad penalties, the bad judgement and not good enough football being played at this level.”

This year’s Grey Cup hosts, the Lions were full of optimism in training camp, but wobbled to a 9-9 record and had to settle for a crossover playoff berth in the East that ended in disaster.

“The things that had plagued us all year long, the things that we knew were a detriment during the regular season, they again (reared) their ugly head,” said Buono. “It’s a tight game, but yet we make critical penalties that kill us. It’s a tight game and we can’t convert on second down.

“That just brought back all the frustrations and

the disappointments of the regular season.”

Benevides had worked with Buono since their days with the Calgary Stampeders and was the handpicked successor to lead the Lions after Buono left coaching to focus on his front office duties following B.C.’s Grey Cup win in 2011.

“Any time you take a dream or take a livelihood away from an individual it’s extremely hard,” said Buono, the winningest coach in CFL history. “Mike and I have grown to be good friends because of our relationship, how it started, how he grew, how he was a big part of helping me win three championships.

“I know how much Mike cares. I know how much he sacrificed for the organization. When you relieve him of his responsibilities it’s not only tough on him, it’s tough on his family. That’s pain you’re bringing on not just an individual, but other people.”

While the Lions failed to meet expectations in 2014, they also experienced a number of challenges, especially on the injury front. Starting quarterback Travis Lulay missed all but one game because of a shoulder ailment, while star running back Andrew Harris and dependable slotback Courtney Taylor were lost for the season.

“I’ve never been big on excuses, but a year like this year — I’ve been involved (in the CFL) for 42 years — this was unique,” said Buono. “I’m not going to stand here and feel sorry for myself or feel sorry for this football team, but they went through a lot.

The players, the coaches, they went through a lot, and they had to endure a lot.”

The faltering offence was a focus, but a defence that had been the backbone of the team all year faltered down the stretch, giving up a combined 70 points and more than 1,000 yards in the final two games of the regular season before the debacle in Montreal.

“Is it always fair? No. Are other people responsible? We’re all responsible,” said Buono. “I’m responsible because my job is to make sure football is winning and football is successful. The coach’s job is to make sure the product on the field wins. The players have a responsibility to win.

“I would say from myself to the coaches to the players, we weren’t good enough.”

Benevides was 33-21 with the Lions, but 0-3 in the playoffs and trending downwards after going 13-5 in 2012 and 11-8 in 2013 before the .500 record of 2014.

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Woods and Carter both boldly predicted following Montreal’s 50-17 East semifinal win over B.C. on Sunday that the Alouettes would beat Hamilton in the conference final. The two teams square off again just two weeks after the Ticats clinched first in the division with a 29-15 home victory over the Als. “For me, it’s personal,” Carter said. “I want to beat them.

“I don’t like them. They’re stopping me from going where I need to go.”

Added Woods: “That’s regular season. They won that one. We’re going to win this one.”

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“Honestly, we just don’t need to talk,” Lawrence said following the Ticats’ practice. “I talk to a lot of players around the league . . . I know what people think about our defence, I know how people respond to our defence.

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Blue Jays introduce free-agent signing Martin TORONTO — Blue Jays general manager Alex Anthopoulos has traded franchise icons, pulled off blockbuster deals and signed players to lucrative extensions.

Landing a top-flight free agent by offering more term and dollars than other teams was new territory.

But Anthopoulos was determined to sign Canadian catcher Russell Martin, and this week he got it done.

“I think at one point I may have mentioned to the agent, I may have said, ’Hey, just so you know, I’m signing the player,”’ Anthopoulos said Thursday.

“Just because it kept going back and forth and obviously that wasn’t to be arrogant or cocky, I felt we wanted him more than anybody else.

“That’s not to take anything away, but we just put so much time into this. And like I said, he’s the key to our off-season and he’s someone that we really wanted to have.”

Other teams were also considering four-year packages for the 31-year-old backstop but the addition of a fifth year helped put the Blue Jays over the top.

The US$82-million deal is back-loaded to give the team financial flexibility in the short-term.

“Alex was pretty convinced that I was going to be a Blue Jay and he was convinced early on too,” Martin said.

“It’s always nice to know that somebody really wants you, it makes you feel rewarded for what you’ve done.”

Martin is a three-time all-star who’s entering his 10th big-league season. He has some pop at the plate and is a significant defensive upgrade from Dioner

Navarro, who will likely move to a designated hitter role if he isn’t traded.

Martin has an excellent arm to go with his soft hands and elite pitch framing ability. He also has Canadian roots — he was born in Toronto and grew up in Chelsea, Que. Both he and Anthopoulos took questions in French and English at a packed introductory news conference Thursday afternoon at Rogers Centre.

“Ultimately I don’t think there is a better place to win,” Martin said.

“My home turf, wearing a Blue Jays uniform. Obviously that’s the thing that any Canadian would say, but it’s the truth.”

Martin decided to test the free-agent market after declining Pittsburgh’s $15.3-million qualifying offer this month.

He had a strong defensive season with the Pirates and hit .290 with 11 homers and 67 RBIs. Martin also has plenty of post-season experience, having reached the playoffs in seven of the last nine years. The Blue Jays have not reached the postseason since winning a second straight World Series title in 1993.

“He’s just a complete player in so many ways,” said Anthopoulos. “He’s a winner as well. Everywhere he goes he seems to win ... he’s also a great player offensively and defensively. He’s a great athlete, great in the clubhouse, great off the field as well.

“As much money as we’ve spent and the commitment that we’ve made, you can’t feel better about where we’re putting our dollars and who we’re giving it to. He’s a total package as far as I’m concerned.

There are no holes in his game.”

Martin also has the experience to help groom upand-coming youngsters like Marcus Stroman, Drew Hutchison and possibly Aaron Sanchez in a starting rotation that’s anchored by R.A. Dickey and Mark Buehrle.

The contract is the biggest one handed out by Anthopoulos since taking over from J.P. Ricciardi in October 2009. It’s the second-biggest contract ever for the Blue Jays, trailing only the $126-million, sevenyear deal given to outfielder Vernon Wells following the 2006 season.

The Blue Jays had a strong first half last season but settled for a third-place finish in the American League East with an 83-79 record.

Anthopoulos still has plenty of work to do this offseason. It’s unclear if free agent Melky Cabrera will return, the second base and centre-field positions could use upgrades and the bullpen needs a boost.

Anthopoulos wouldn’t tip his hand on potential plans but did say his phone has been ringing a lot more as a result of his first big free-agent splash.

“Some agents and some players that are saying, ’You know what, we wouldn’t mind playing there now. We’d love to throw to a guy like (Martin),”’ he said.

“It’s been eye-opening a little bit and that wasn’t part of the plan. But again, we still have to be competitive with contracts and things like that.

“But it definitely seems like the interest level has picked up a little bit because he’s so well-respected in the community.”

Martin, a five-foot-10 205-pounder, has a career .259 average with 119 home runs and 540 RBIs in nine seasons with the Los Angeles Dodgers, New York Yankees and Pirates.

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS COLUMBUS, Ohio — Columbus Blue Jackets defenceman Jack Johnson has filed for bankruptcy while earning millions under a $30.5 million contract in his ninth NHL season.

In federal court records, the 27-year-old said his finances have fallen apart under his parents’ management. He said creditors and his financial advisers took advantage of him through fraudulent transactions and predatory lending, pledging his contract earnings as security for unconventional loans that he didn’t authorize and that had exorbitant interest rates.

Johnson filed for bankruptcy Oct. 7, two days before the team began the regular season. Those filings indicated he owed more than $12 million. For estimated assets, he checked the box indicating $1 million to $10 million.

Johnson, who was traded to the Blue Jackets by the Los Angeles Kings in 2012, told The Columbus Dispatch he was led astray by others.

“I’d say I picked the wrong people who led me down the wrong path. I’ve got people in place who are going to fix everything now. It’s something I should have done a long time ago,” said Johnson, who declined to comment further to the newspaper.

As a busy young athlete unexperienced in money management, the Indianapolis native wanted to make his earnings last beyond his professional career, and he entrusted his financial affairs to his parents, according to court documents.

The filings blamed his situation on unethical actions by financial advisers and creditors “in a systematic, deliberate and predatory lending and investment scheme whereby they lined their own pockets” at his expense. He said in court documents that problems began in early 2011, when he signed his first big deal — a $30.5 million, seven-year extension — just four years into his career with Los Angeles.

Left with significant debts and a number of lawsuits aimed at collecting on loans, he had to file bankruptcy to deal with the costs of litigation, garnishment orders and settlement agreements, the filing said.

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Casey, from Charlottetown, scored one in an extra ninth end to edge Jacobs 5-4 and even his record at 1-1.

Veteran skip Glenn Howard of Penetanguishene, Ont., who beat Casey 8-4 in the tournament’s opening draw Wednesday night, improved to 2-0 with a 6-5 win over Mark Kean.

Kean, from Stoney Creek, Ont., scored two in the sixth end to take a 5-2 lead. Howard came back with two in the seventh, then stole two in the eighth for the win.

In other Draw 3 scores, American John Shuster beat Saskatoon’s Steve Laycock 8-7, Edmonton’s Brendan Bottcher downed Calgary’s Kevin Koe 6-4 and Winnipeg’s Reid Carruthers scored five in the sixth end in a 9-3 rout of Switzerland’s Peter De Cruz.

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Snowed out Bills take Manfred to take over game with Jets to as MLB commissioner in January Detroit on Monday GIVEN A 5-YEAR TERM BUFFALO, N.Y. — Snowed out in Buffalo, the Bills are heading to Detroit to play their “home” game against the New York Jets on Monday night.

The NFL announced the location and date of the game on Thursday night after a severe lake-effect storm paralyzed much of the Buffalo region.

More than 5 feet of snow has fallen in the Buffalo area since Monday, and another 1 to 3 feet was projected to fall

by Friday.

The storm forced the Bills to cancel their past two days of practice because of impassable roads and driving bans in Orchard Park and many communities neighbouring Ralph Wilson Stadium. The team intends to travel to Detroit on Friday and practice at the Lions’ facility.

The Lions are at New England on Sunday.

“We greatly appreciate the hospitality of the Detroit Lions in hosting the Bills and this game,” NFL spokesman Michael Signora said.

This marks the second time the Bills will play at Ford Field this season following a 17-14 win over the Lions on Oct. 5. It also is the second time in four years the facility has hosted a neutral site game.

The last time an NFL game was moved to Ford Field unexpectedly, the fans who did show up witnessed a bit of history. Brett Favre’s streak of 297 regular-season starts came to an end that night — on Dec. 13, 2010 — when the Minnesota Vikings lost to the New York Giants 21-3. Favre was sidelined by shoulder and hand issues.

That game was moved to Detroit because the Metrodome roof collapsed.

“We are pleased to be hosting the Bills and Jets for their game Monday night,” Lions president Tom Lewand said.

“While our thoughts are with the people of the Buffalo area during this difficult time, our team at Ford Field will do everything we can to be good hosts to their team this weekend.”

The decision should help the Bills get back on track after their routine was disrupted by the storm. It also gives them an extra day to prepare, with the game pushed back from Sunday.

“A big part of preparation is practice and lifting and nutrition, and that’s been compromised,” Bills president Russ Brandon said before the location

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of the game was announced. “And it’s certainly something we’re looking into and trying to do the best as we try to prepare to play the Jets whenever that may be.”

Bills coach Doug Marrone and his staff have been living at the Bills headquarters since Tuesday. They’ve been going over the game plan and consulting with the team by phone and computer because a majority of the players have been snowed in. And those who can get out are unable to travel to the facility.

The next step is devising a way to get all the players and staff to the airport, which has remained open because it is north of where much of the storm hit.

The Bills (5-5) are already coming off an extended break. They had last weekend off following a 22-9 loss at Miami on Nov. 13. The Jets (2-8) are coming out of their bye week, and haven’t played since a 20-13 win against Pittsburgh on Nov. 9.

Jets coach Rex Ryan said his team wouldn’t be hampered by a change of venue.

“It wouldn’t affect us,” Ryan said.

“We’d just aim our plane in a different direction, I guess.”

Earlier on Thursday, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said it would be difficult for the game to be played in Buffalo because snow removal and emergency resources were already stretched thin.

“If you ask me today, right now, my sense is it’s impractical to do the game because it would jeopardize public safety,” Cuomo said. “Everybody would love to see a Bills game go forward, but I think even more, everybody wants to make sure public safety comes first.”

Given how much snow needs to be cleared, Brandon said there’s no telling if Ralph Wilson Stadium will be ready in time for the Bills’ next home game against the Cleveland Browns on Nov. 30.

Without providing any assurances, Brandon said it will take “an all hands on deck exercise” to have the stadium ready to host the Browns.

He added that the Bills are already contemplating the possibility of spending much of next week practicing out of town while the cleanup in Buffalo continues.

The Bills estimated on Wednesday that 220,000 tons of snow covered the team’s 200-acre grounds — enough to fill their practice fieldhouse eight times over.

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Praising the transition as quick and orderly, Bud Selig announced Thursday that baseball owners unanimously approved a five-year term for Rob Manfred, who will succeed the longtime commissioner early next year.

Selig spoke at the conclusion of two days of meetings in Kansas City, where owners discussed a variety of issues that included pace of play, instant replay and domestic violence initiatives.

Selig will chair his final owners’ meeting in January in Arizona.

“I’ve been so busy and every day is so frenetic that the last month or two, I’m sure I’ll spend a lot of time thinking about it,” Selig said, “but you know, we are where we want to be. We’re having a wonderful transition, orderly transition, good transition. That’s very important.”

Manfred, who has worked for MLB since 1998, was chosen to replace the 80-year-old Selig in August over Red Sox Chairman Tom Werner. He will assume office Jan. 25.

“It hits me every day when I go to work,” Manfred said. “I agree with Commissioner Selig, we’ve had a really productive and smooth transition.”

One of Manfred’s mandates will be to attract young fans back to baseball, and many believe that will involve speeding up the game. The average time of a nine-inning game increased from 2 hours, 33 minutes, in 1981 to a record 3:02 this year, with post-season games stretching nearly 4 hours.

Selig appointed a committee chaired by Braves President John Schuerholz to discuss ways to improve the pace of play. Among the ideas experimented during the Arizona Fall League were pitch clocks and requiring hitters to remain in the batter’s box between pitches.

MLB can’t alter the rules for 2015 without agreement from the players’ association, though it can implement changes unilaterally with one year advance notice. Selig said union head Tony Clark and other representatives from the players’ association provided their input.

“I want the committee to continue to do its work,” Selig said. “This was very productive in terms of ideas. The experience in the Arizona Fall League made quite an impact on a lot of people.”

When changes may be implemented at the major league level remains to be seen. Selig said he wants to “push them” and will have more to say on the subject in the next couple months.

Owners also spent time discussing the first season of expanded instant replay, largely considered a success after several calls were overturned during the post-season.

The system also slowed games. Given the opportunity to challenge everything from force and tag plays to fan interference and home runs, managers often stalled in the middle of the diamond while awaiting word from their dugout whether to contest a call.

“I think the core of replay will be similar,” Manfred said. “I think the changes we’re contemplating — without getting into them — are largely technology improvements. ... I think there are also some issues related to exactly how long it takes to get replay going.”

MLB Executive Vice-President Joe Torre said during a recent meeting of general managers in Phoenix that putting a stop to all the lingering would be a priority.

“That’s one area we’ll do something differently,” Torre said. “I’m not sure what that is, but certainly we will eliminate some of that standing around because 10 seconds is a long time.”

Selig also applauded the recordbreaking $325 million. 13-year deal reached by the Miami Marlins and Giancarlo Stanton, calling it the “objective of everything we did” in changes to the game’s economic model, which included revenue sharing and luxury taxes.

“What I like is individual franchises making decisions to make themselves better, Selig said. ”I’ve been reading all the clips, and I do think they’re happy in South Florida, and they should be. It’s a good sign, a very good sign for them, and that’s how you have to look at it.“ MLB Executive Vice-President Dan Halem provided owners with an update on a comprehensive domestic violence program that is being developed for players and non-players alike. Domestic violence has become an issue of increased importance across professional sports.

To underscore that point, Selig announced the Seattle Mariners had received the Commissioner’s Award for Philanthropic Excellence for their “Refuse to Abuse” program.

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OTTAWA — The Tim Hortons Brier will return to Ottawa for the first time in 15 years when TD Place hosts the annual men’s curling championship in 2016.

“Ottawa has a great tradition of hosting major championships, including three Briers, and the curling fans in this city are extremely enthusiastic and knowledgeable,” Canadian Curling Association CEO Greg Stremlaw said Thursday in a release.

“We know it will be a great event.”

Alberta’s Randy Ferbey won the 2001 Brier in the same building, then known as the Ottawa Civic Centre.

The 2016 event will be staged March 5-13 and feature 11 provincial/territorial champions along with the 2015 Brier winner.

TD Place seats approximately 10,000 fans and is home to the Ontario Hockey League’s Ottawa 67’s. The multi-sport facility is also home to the CFL’s Ottawa Redblacks.

Ottawa also staged the Brier in 1979 and 1993.

The 2015 Brier will be held Feb. 28-Mar. 8 at the Scotiabank Saddledome in Calgary.

The women’s national curling championship — the Scotties Tournament of Hearts — will be held Feb. 14-22 in Moose Jaw, Sask.

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NAPLES, Fla. — Stacy Lewis was three shots out of the lead Thursday and one step closer to the largest payoff in women’s golf at the CME Group Tour Championship.

Lewis overcame the kind of tension she typically feels on the weekend at majors. She held it together with her short game, made a 25-foot eagle putt late in her opening round and wound up with a 3-under 69 to trail Julieta Granada by three shots.

“It’s going to be a long week if we’re feeling that on Thursday,” Lewis said.

There are two tournaments in one at the Ritz-Carlton Golf Resort.

Granada played bogey-free in a tough wind on the Tiburon Course for a 66 that gave her a two-shot lead over Sandra Gal in the LPGA Tour’s final tournament.

The other event is the Race to CME Globe, which pays a $1 million bonus to the winner.

Only the top nine players in the standings can win it, and Granada isn’t one of them. She still hopes to close out the season with her first victory in eight

years.

The top three players — Lewis, Inbee Park and 17-year-old Lydia Ko — need only to win the tournament for the $1 million bonus. Lewis is atop the standings, so finishing ahead of the other two is a good spot to be. Park and Ko each shot 71.

“I think everybody is thinking about the $1 million,” Park said.

It certainly showed at the start, especially when Lewis sent her opening tee shot well to the right. She recovered well and nearly holed a bunker shot for birdie.

Conditions were tough enough that only five players broke 70, and 19 of the 69 in the field broke par.

Lewis surged ahead with a hybrid from 217 yards that finished pin-high at the back of the green on the par-5 17th, and she lightly pumped her fist when it fell for eagle.

All week long, the chatter has been about everything at stake at the Tour Championship. Along with the $1 million bonus, Lewis or Park could take home all the significant awards on the LPGA Tour — player of the year, Vare Trophy for lowest scoring average and the money title.

AUSTRALIAN MASTERS GOLF MELBOURNE, Australia — Defending champion Adam Scott struggled in the blustery conditions at Metropolitan Golf Club on Thursday for a 1-over 73, six strokes behind a group of four of his countrymen who led the Australian Masters by a stroke after the first round.

Scott, who won the Masters the past two years at other sand-belt courses — Royal Melbourne and Kingston Heath — began play on the back nine Thursday and shot 38, including a double-bogey on the 18th after his approach found a bunker.

But an eagle on the par-5 sixth

Anaheim Ducks trade defenceman Bryan Allen to Montreal for forward Rene Bourque ANAHEIM, Calif.

— The Anaheim Ducks have traded defenceman Bryan Allen to the Montreal Canadiens for forward Rene Bourque.

The clubs announced the deal Thursday.

Allen has one assist in six games during an injury-slowed season, his third with the Ducks. The stay-at-home defenceman will be an unrestricted free agent next summer.

Bourque has no goals in 13 games this season with the Canadiens, who put him on waivers and sent him to their AHL affiliate in Hamilton.

The 32-year-old scored eight goals in 17 playoff games last spring for Montreal.

Allen also has played for Carolina, Florida and Vancouver.

Bourque has suited up for Calgary and Chicago.

shape until a double bogey from a bunker on No. 16 and a bogey on the 17th, which felt like giving up two shots to the field.

She was at 72.

Lewis thought she easily could have been 3 over through three holes, so toiling for pars at least calmed her down for a challenging day.

“Those first three or four holes, my swing was fine. I just wasn’t trusting what I was doing,” Lewis said.

“You’re worried about making a mistake or a big number.

That was the hardest part. ... I don’t know if Lydia quite understands all that’s going on, but you could see it in Inbee and probably in me, too. We both played some tentative golf today, and hopefully, we can both free it up as we go throughout the week.”

Park made 15 pars in what she called a “boring round” with plenty of birdie chances and very few marked on her card.

Just like Lewis, though, the five-time major champion didn’t shoot herself out of the tournament.

“Just happy that I still have a chance to win everything,” Park said. “I’m going to play very hard the next three days.”

helped move him back up the leaderboard.

“A strong northerly (wind) from the get-go was always going to make it tough,” Scott said.

“I played pretty well but didn’t take any of my chances. I’m a little behind the eight-ball at the moment but it’s nothing a good round tomorrow won’t fix.”

Australians Michael Wright, Stephen Allan, Steven Bowditch

and amateur Todd Sinnott shot 67s to share the lead.

Bowditch, who won the Texas Open in March for his first U.S. PGA Tour win, had the outright lead until making bogey on his last hole. Geoff Ogilvy shot 69 and was in a group tied for seventh with American Kyle Stanley. Americans Zac Blair (70) and Boo Weekley (72) were just behind them.

Year End

Oilers send Will Acton to Canucks for Kellan Lain in swap of centres EDMONTON — The Edmonton Oilers have acquired centre Kellan Lain from the Vancouver Canucks in exchange for centre Will Acton.

Lain, 25, has appeared in 10 games for the American Hockey League’s Utica Comets this season, registering one assist and 20 penalty minutes.

In 86 career AHL games, the six-foot-six, 210-pound centre has accumulated 20 points (seven goals, 13 assists) and 155 penalty minutes.

The native of Oakville, Ont., played in nine games with the Canucks last season, posting one goal and 21 penalty minutes.

Acton, a 6-1, 199-pound native of Edina, Min., played in three games with the Oilers this season, registering five penalty minutes. He had a goal and an assist in six games with the AHL’s Oklahoma City Barons.

Acton had three goals and two assists in 30 games with the Oilers last season. He added 12 goals and 11 assists in 47 games with the Barons.

“It’s one good round,” Lewis said. “We’ve got a long, long way to go.”

Granada knows what it’s like to be an instant millionaire.

She was a 20-year-old rookie in 2006 when she captured the ADT Championship, which at the time was turned into a winner-take-all extravaganza. That remains her only LPGA victory.

Granada is No. 24 in the standings, though there is plenty on the line at a tournament that still pays $500,000.

“I think all the girls that have a chance, they know what they’re doing out there,” Granada said.

“They’re tough and they’re good players, so they will just keep playing their game. This course is a good finish, especially with 17 being a reachable par 5.”

Of the top nine in the standings who have a mathematical shot at the $1 million, only three failed to break par. Defending champion Shanshan Feng (No. 6) and Karrie Webb (No. 9) each had a 74, while Anna Nordqvist (No. 7) shot 77.

So Yeon Ryu (No. 5) had a 70.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Canada looks to bounce back from a disappointing performance against Samoa when it takes on Rugby World Cup Pool D rival Romania on Saturday in Bucharest.

Mistakes cost the 17th-ranked Canadian men in a 23-13 loss to No. 11 Samoa in Vannes, France, dropping Canada’s record on its November tour of Europe to 1-2-0.

“We had a very poor first 40 minutes,” Canadian coach Kieran Crowley said Thursday from Bucharest. “We had an outstanding 30-odd minutes in the second half and we had a couple of opportunities to win the game but in the end, just didn’t. Very disappointed in those areas.

“There were some positives around the way we played in that good patch and in a couple of other areas as well. But we need to eliminate those mistakes and we need to have a lot better start than what we had last week.”

Canada and No. 18 Romania will be joined in Pool D at the World Cup next year by No. 3 Ireland, No. 6 France and No. 14 Italy. The Canadians are scheduled to face Romania on Oct. 6 in Leicester, England.

Crowley has made three changes to his starting lineup, two of which are enforced.

Captain Tyler Ardron returns from an ankle injury to slot into No. 8 for his first appearance of the tour. Jebb Sinclair moves to blindside flanker from No. 8.

Ardron will only play 40 minutes, said Crowley.

Jon Phelan joins veteran Jamie Cudmore in the second row and Pat Parfrey comes off the bench to start at fly half. Phelan replaces Brett Buekeboom, who injured his groin against Samoa. Parfrey steps in for Connor Braid, who has returned to the Glasgow Warriors. Kyle Gilmour shifts to the bench with the return of Ardron.

Braid returning to Glasgow was one of several deals Crowley had made with clubs prior to assembling his tour squad.

Prop Hubert Buydens captained Canada in Ardron’s absence for the first three games of the tour.

Prior to the Samoa loss, the Canadians defeated No. 22 Namibia 17-13 and lost 28-23 to an all-star team from the second tier of English rugby.

Romania, meanwhile, is coming off losses of 27-17 to the No. 16 U.S. Eagles and 18-13 to No. 10 Japan.

Still Crowley calls the Romanians “a massive challenge,” particularly in the forward pack.

“They’ve good a good structure here now. They’ve got seven professional clubs within Romania and a lot of their players play (professionally) in France.”

The game at Stadionul National Arcul de Triumf

offers Canada a chance to avenge a 21-20 loss last year via a penalty kick at the final whistle.

Canada’s record is 1-5-0 this year after June losses to Japan, Scotland and the U.S. Canada Hubert Buydens, unattached, Saskatoon; Aaron Carpenter, Cornish Pirates RFC (England), Brantford, Ont.; Jason Marshall, Hawkes Bay Magpies New Zealand), Vancouver; Jamie Cudmore, ASM Clermont Auvergne (France), Squamish, B.C.; Jon Phelan, Doncaster Knights (England), Montreal: Jebb Sinclair, London Irish (England), Fredericton; Nanyak Dala, Castaway Wanderers, Regina; Tyler Ardron (capt.), Ospreys (Wales), Lakefield, Ont.; Gordon McRorie, Calgary Hornets, Calgary; Patrick Parfrey, Swilers RFC, St. Johns, N.L.; DTH van der Merwe, Glasgow Warriors (Scotland), Regina; Ciaran Hearn, Castaway Wanderers, Conception Bay South, N.L.; Conor Trainor, UBCOB Ravens, Vancouver; Jeff Hassler, Ospreys (Wales), Okotoks, Alta.; James Pritchard, Bedford Blues (England), Parkes, Australia.

Replacements Ray Barkwill, unattached, Niagara Falls, Ont.; Andrew Tiedemann, Plymouth Albion (England), St. Albert, Alta.; Doug Wooldridge, Lindsay RFC, Lindsay, Ont.; Kyle Gilmour, St. Albert RFC, St. Albert, Alta.; Richard Thorpe, London Welsh (England), Beckenham, England; Sean White, James Bay AA, Victoria; Jordan Wilson-Ross, James Bay AA, Alliston, Ont.; Nick Blevins, Calgary Hornets, Calgary.

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES — Kings defenceman Slava Voynov was charged with felony domestic violence on Thursday by the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office.

Voynov faces one felony count of corporal injury to a spouse with great bodily injury. In a statement providing the first public details of the incident, the district attorney’s office said Voynov “caused his wife to suffer injuries to her eyebrow, cheek and neck” during an argument at their home, several hours after the Kings won an afternoon game.

The 24-year-old Russian Olympian has been suspended since his arrest early Oct. 20 at a hospital in Torrance, California. He had taken his wife to the hospital for treatment of injuries from their home in nearby Redondo Beach.

Craig Renetzky, Voynov’s attorney, has repeatedly said his client didn’t hit his wife. Renetzky also said Voynov shouldn’t have been arrested, blaming a misunderstanding between police and Voynov’s wife, who speaks even less English than her husband.

“Mr. Voynov is extremely disappointed that the district attorney’s office elected to file charges,” Renetzky said in a statement.

“Mr. Voynov maintains his innocence and looks forward to clearing his name in court. We remain confident.”

Voynov was suspended indefinitely by the NHL before he even posted bail on the morning of his arrest. The Kings have wholeheartedly supported the league’s disciplinary actions, and they affirmed that position in a statement issued by the team after Voynov was charged.

“We are aware of the actions taken today in California, which we will review and evaluate before making any decisions,” NHL Deputy Commissioner

Bill Daly said. “Until further notice, the current terms of Mr. Voynov’s suspension remain in place.”

The NHL’s position means the Kings will not receive salary cap relief in the absence of Voynov, who is still being paid his $3 million salary during his suspension. With Voynov still counting against the cap, Los Angeles was forced to play with five defencemen earlier this month while unable to recall anyone from the minors to fill in for an injured player.

“As an organization we will continue to closely monitor the developments of the legal proceedings and work in partnership with the NHL to determine the proper course of action in the future,” the Kings said in their statement.

Voynov isn’t allowed to practice or play for the team, but he has been skating at the Kings’ training complex after their practices, sometimes under the supervision of an assistant coach.

Voynov will be arraigned Dec. 1 in Torrance. The charge carries a maximum penalty of nine years in prison, and Voynov also could face deportation.

Voynov is a two-time Stanley Cup champion who also played for Russia at the Sochi Olympics. He will miss his 14th straight game Thursday night when the Kings host Carolina.

Through her own attorney, Voynov’s wife previously said she didn’t want charges filed against the defenceman, but California authorities aren’t required to consider such wishes when deciding to file charges.

Voynov and his wife got married during the summer. They are still living together and raising her child from a prior relationship.

Voynov earned a spot in the Kings’ lineup as a rookie during their run to their first Stanley Cup title in 2011-12. He scored a career-best 34 points last season, and he has two assists in six games this year.

The Kings signed Voynov to a six-year, $25 million contract extension in June 2013.

Top-ranked McIlroy takes first round lead at World Tour Championship in Dubai

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Top-ranked Rory McIlroy returned from a six-week absence to shoot a 6-under 66 for a share of the lead on the first day of the season-ending DP World Tour Championship on Thursday.

McIlroy birdied four of his opening five holes and then two of the last four to join Irishman Shane Lowry at the top of the leaderboard at the Earth Course at Jumeriah Estates Resort.

“The way I played it should have been five birdies in the first five holes,” he said. “It was a great way to start. You never expect to start like that, but I’ve been hitting the ball well for the last couple of weeks that I’ve been practicing and it was just a matter of trying to take that good range play on to the course, and I was able to do that today, which I’m really happy about.”

McIlroy has been in Dubai for the better part of two weeks after electing not to contest any of the opening three events on the Tour’s Final Four Series.

He played in the Grand Slam of Golf in Bermuda but his Dubai round is a first competitive effort on tour since shooting a final round 68 for a share of second place last month in the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship.

“I played the two days at the PGA Grand Slam but I wouldn’t really call that competitive,” he said. “So the last shot that I hit was St. Andrews I guess, was my last competitive shot. So I was really looking forward to just getting out there and feeling what it was like again. Yeah, I was excited.”

Lowry arrived in Dubai fresh off the disappointment of finishing in 25th place in last week’s Turkish Airlines Open. Ranked No. 52, the Dubliner is hoping to finish inside the top 50 and with an exemption to enter all four majors in 2015.

“Last Sunday was a very difficult day for me as for the last 12 holes I couldn’t wait to get off the golf course and come here to Dubai,” he said. “Once I got

Rory McIlroy plays a shot during the first day of the DP World Tour Championship at the Jumeirah Golf Estates in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Thursday Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

here on Monday, I was fine as I had put myself into contention which is a positive I can look at from last week.”

Scotland’s Richie Ramsay and Denmark’s Thorbjorn Olesen share third place after rounds of 67.

NASCAR format SAYS NEWMAN TITLE WOULD HAVE BEEN ‘TOUGH TO SWALLOW’

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Jimmie Johnson believes NASCAR’s new championship format produced the correct champion and a Ryan Newman victory would have been “tough to swallow for the sport.”

Johnson began the season as the six-time and defending champion, but he was eliminated from title contention in the revamped Chase for the Sprint Cup format. A 16-driver field was whittled down to four for Sunday’s finale, where Kevin Harvick beat Newman, Denny Hamlin and Joey Logano to claim his first title.

“I feel like Kevin winning was the right thing when you look at the winners and the dominant cars throughout the year,” Johnson said Thursday.

Harvick had to win the race to wrap up the title, and found himself in a late shootout with Newman for the victory. Newman, in his first season for Richard Childress Racing, advanced to the finale through consistency after a winless season.

The Chase format this year was touted by NASCAR chairman Brian France as one that would put an emphasis on winning, and Harvick won three Chase races, including the final two. But, he nearly lost the title to Newman, who finished second in the finale. The highest-finishing driver Sunday at Homestead-Miami Speedway was guaranteed the title.

“Ryan had every right in the world to be the champion, the rules were laid out that way,” said Johnson, who was eliminated after the second round, or the sixth of 10 races. “But if (Newman) wins the championship, I think that would have been tough to swallow for the sport. It’s not taking anything away from Childress or Ryan, they had an awesome year and collected a ton of points. There’s some danger for the sport with this format.”

Johnson said he discussed the new format with France at the start of the season. He believed, based on performance during the regular season, the finale should have been between Harvick, Team Penske drivers Logano and Brad Keselowski, and Jeff Gordon, his Hendrick Motorsports teammate. Those four drivers combined for 12 wins in the first 26 races, and eight wins in the 10 Chase races.

But Gordon and Keselowski were both eliminated after the third round, and Gordon last week called on NASCAR to set a separate points system for the Chase drivers. Gordon felt it was unfair for the Chase drivers to be scored against the entire 43-car field, and they should only be scored against the Chase drivers.

Still, drivers have praised the new elimination system, with Newman saying “the intensity of the sport has gone through the roof,” because of the Chase. The high stakes produced drama on and off the track, including a pair of brawls in in the final seven races.

“The system is fine. It’s exciting. Every race is exciting,” Hamlin said. “There’s not been one boring race. This is the best thing that’s happened to this sport in a really long time.”

But Johnson said attendance and television ratings are the true measure. Although attendance was improved at many tracks this season, TV ratings were flat. The 10-race Chase drew an average of 4.41 million viewers for ESPN/ABC, and a 2.7 rating. Last season drew an average of 4.5 million viewers and a 2.8 rating.

“We need to do something to drive the viewership up,” said Johnson, who supports heat races capped by a final A main-style race slotted into a television window.

“Maybe we qualify on Saturday and that’s televised, and then run some heat races and a feature on Sunday, in a four-hour time window,” he said. “It sticks to our roots, sticks with what we’ve always had and done, gives some natural pauses for the show for the social element at the track. I think that would be a pretty entertaining format.”

Four-time F1 champion SebastianVettel to replace Fernando Alonso at Ferrari

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — In a widely expected shake-up, four-time Formula One champion Sebastian Vettel will replace two-time champion Fernando Alonso at Ferrari next season.

The 27-year-old German will be leaving Red Bull for the Italian team on a three-year deal, Ferrari said Thursday.

“The dream of a lifetime has come true. When I was a kid, Michael Schumacher in the red car was my greatest idol and now it’s an incredible honour to finally get the chance to drive a Ferrari,” Vettel said. “I am extremely motivated to help the team get back to the top.”

Alonso, a 33-year-old Spaniard who won his two titles with Renault in 2006 and ’06, had said earlier this season that his future was elsewhere. His des-

tination remains unclear, but he is expected to join McLaren. With Alonso sitting beside him Thursday, Vettel heaped praise on his new team.

“I think it will be a special journey, not even the first race but even winter testing,” Vettel said. “To step into the car, I think it will remain with you for the rest of your life.”

Alonso expressed his frustration with Ferarri last year after the Hungarian Grand Prix. That earned him a public rebuke from the team and led to rumours that he was on his way out. In five seasons with Ferrari, Alonso finished runner-up to Vettel three times, including in 2012 and 2013. He pushed Vettel two years ago — finishing three points behind — but in last year’s championship Vettel beat him by 155 points. Even the prospect of a new deal at Ferrari couldn’t change Alonso’s mind.

“I felt it was the time to find new projects and motivation. I was in talks even last year to be honest,”

Alonso said. “This year I felt around summertime, September, that it was time to move.”

Alonso, who won 11 races for Ferrari and secured 44 podium places, thanked the team for not standing in his way.

“They could say, ’No,’ but this is a true sign of love and respect from this team,” Alonso said. “From Monday (onward) I will be a true Ferrari supporter.”

His final race will be on Sunday at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. He is fifth in the overall standings and has managed only two podium places this season.

His last win was at the Spanish GP last May. “We offer him our heartfelt thanks for what has been an extraordinary adventure with the Scuderia,” Ferrari team principal Marco Mattiacci said.

Alonso entered the final race in Abu Dhabi four years ago with an eight-point lead. But Vettel won the first of his four straight titles with Red Bull that year.

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Webb telescope promises new adventures

BY ERIC NIILER SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE Inside a very big and very clean room at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., nearly 30 workers dressed in white protective suits, goggles and blue booties cluster around the parts of a time machine.

These parts — gold-covered mirrors, tennis-court-size sun shields, delicate infrared cameras — are slowly being put together to become the James Webb Space Telescope.

Astronomers are hoping that the Webb will be able to collect light that is very far away from us and is moving still farther away. The universe has been expanding ever since the big bang got it started, but scientists reckon that if the telescope is powerful enough, they just might be able to see the birth of the first galaxies, some 13.5 billion years ago.

“This is similar to archaeology,” says Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb, who helped plan Webb’s science mission. “We are digging deep into the universe. But as the sources of light become fainter and farther away, you need a big telescope like the James Webb.”

Named for a former NASA director, the 21-foot-diameter Webb telescope will be 100 times as powerful as the Hubble Space Telescope, which was launched in 1990. Although Hubble wasn’t the first space telescope, its images of far-off objects have dazzled the public and led to breakthroughs in astrophysics, such as determining how fast the universe is expanding.

The Webb will be both bigger and located in a darker part of space than Hubble, enabling it to capture images from the faintest galaxies. Four infrared cameras will capture light that is moving away from us very quickly and that has shifted from the visible to the infrared spectrum, described as redshifted.

The advantage of using infrared light is that it is not blocked by clouds of gas and dust that may lie between the telescope and the light. Webb’s mirrors are covered in a thin layer of gold that absorbs blue light but reflects yellow and red visible light, and its cameras will detect infrared light and a small part of the visible spectrum. As objects move away from us, the wavelength of their light shifts from visible light to infrared light.

That’s why the Webb’s infrared cameras will be able to see things that are both far away and moving away from us.

The cameras will also probe the atmospheres of planets that revolve around nearby stars, known as exoplanets, for the chemical signatures of life: water, oxygen and maybe even pollution from alien civilizations.

But before any of that dazzling science happens, there’s a lot of testing to

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Engineers at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center work on the telescope section housing four infrared cameras; during tests, the instruments were exposed to temperatures of minus-440 degrees Fahrenheit do at Goddard, in the clean room and a nearby “cryo-chamber.”

Various tests will squeeze, shake, freeze and twist thousands of individual parts in an effort to make sure the spacecraft will survive blastoff from a spaceport in French Guyana and the cold environment of its orbiting position almost a million miles from Earth.

By comparison, Hubble circles just 375 miles above our planet, depending on its orbit.

The project, which began in 2004, peaks in October 2018 when the telescope is launched on an Ariane 5 rocket from the European Space Agency.

From now on, NASA engineers will find the pace picking up and deadlines getting even tighter.

As a young engineer in the early 1990s, Paul Geithner helped fix tiny bumps on Hubble’s glass mirror, a flaw discovered after the telescope was in space. Today, at 52, Geithner is making sure everything stays on track on the Webb assembly line at Goddard. He says testing of individual parts, including each of the 18 hexagonal mirrors, the backplane (which NASA describes as the spine holding the mirrors) and all the scientific instruments will be done by the end of this year. Beginning in early 2015, portions of the telescope and its spacecraft will be joined together with special glue and bolts.

“It’s not feasible to test it as a com-

plete system,” said Geithner, NASA’s deputy project manager for technical issues. “So what that means is we have to test different pieces of it and convince ourselves through testing and analysis that when it’s put together, it will work.”

Back in the 1990s, NASA sent shuttle astronauts to repair Hubble’s mirror during a dangerous operation that required five days of spacewalks.

But that’s not an option for the Webb: It will be parked too far away.

Geithner said everybody learned lessons from the Hubble mistake, which NASA blamed on a contractor.

Now, the need for independent testing of the optical surfaces is clear.

“You don’t use the same tools that you use to make the optics to tell you it is okay,” he said.

This year concluded several “cryotests” (testing reactions at extremely low temperatures), in which the boxlike structure containing the infrared cameras — called the Integrated Science Instrument Module, or ISIM — was lowered into a 60-foot-tall vacuum chamber at Goddard.

The air was pumped out to simulate conditions in space, liquid nitrogen flooded an inner chamber and super-cooled helium was pumped into a smaller interior chamber. The fourcamera package faced temperatures of 11 degrees Kelvin, which is minus-440

degrees Fahrenheit.

“The biggest stress is not the shaking from the [spacecraft] launch,” Geithner explained. “But the whole thing shrinks when it cools down, so there’s a lot of stress on the joints and it tries to tear itself apart.”

ISIM survived the cryo-test in July, was warmed up to room temperature and then removed from the cryo-chamber in October. It needs to be pulled apart, then put back together for final tests next year.

Measuring everything twice means the Webb telescope will function as it is supposed to, according to Geithner.

But the extra testing is expensive.

Cost overruns and early delays nearly killed the project in 2011. Webb’s price tag soared from initial estimates of $1 billion in the late 1990s to the current figure of $8.8 billion. But Congress gave NASA a second chance, and the agency revised its construction budget to keep it within limits. Still, the Webb is NASA’s most expensive science mission. Some critics say it has sucked money away from other worthy projects, such as other missions around the solar system or monitoring environmental changes on Earth.

NASA chief Charles Bolden told Goddard workers in February that the project is on budget and on schedule, as long as Congress keeps the money flowing.

Mysterious object could be return of the ‘satellite killer’ WASHINGTON — There was a time, not too long ago, when some of the world’s brilliant rocket scientists didn’t think of space as something to conquer, nor monetize, nor explore — but as a means to make war.

During the Cold War in the 1960s, they eyed outer space as a potential theater of conflict, where human-piloted space vessels would engage in gravity-free dogfights and fire missiles.

The ambitions were unrealistic. But they did nonetheless give birth to a Soviet anti-satellite weaponry program simply called “Istrebitel Sputnikov” — the “satellite killer.”

It was thought the killer was retired.

It was thought the Soviet empire’s collapse had grounded it.

But now, as the Financial Times first reported, there are whispers of its return out there in the blackness of space.

As news of the Virgin Galactic crash, Antares explosion and Rosetta exploration filled science pages, another space drama has quietly unfurled. In May, Russia launched a rocket to add several satellites to its existing constellation.

In the process, it deployed what was first believed to be a piece of space debris but has now become a matter of great speculation.

“I have no idea what it is!” space security expert Patricia Lewis of the think-tank Chatham House told The Washington Post in a phone interview.

Few do. Russia did not declare its orbit, and now the U.S. military, space experts and amateur sleuths have been closely tracking its movements, each of which has been deliberate and precise.

The unidentified satellite — called Object 2014-28E — recently navigated toward other Russian space objects, its voyage culminating in its recent hookup with the remains of the rocket stage that originally launched it.

The satellite could be nothing. It could be space junk.

It could be a search-and-rescue mission or some innocuous method to clear space debris — the bane of satellite navigation. Or it could be something more. The Russian Ministry of Defense didn’t immediately respond to The Washington Post’s request for comment.

“There’s always confusion with

these sort of things, because no one knows exactly what these satellites are up to,” space expert Robert Christy, once a member of the famed Kettering Group of astronomers, told The Post.

Despite that confusion, every expert interviewed agreed that such satellites, which the Chinese use as well, may be the latest chapter in the militarization of space — first conceived as something akin to science fiction that has now evolved into subtler cyberwarfare, hinging on debilitating vital satellite systems.

Virtually every modern technology — cellphones, map services, television shows and any number of communication services — hinges on satellites.

Targeting them could cripple a nation’s abilities to conduct its military or shut down crucial global communication services.

“Imagine if you were having a Katrina episode and all of your satellites suddenly got jammed,” Lewis said.

“Just imagine that.”

Lewis said there are several explanations for the mysterious Russian satellite. Some benign.

Some not. Each possible use would be experimental. One of them, she said, involves the clearance of debris — almost like a space vacuum. Many space-bound nations “are looking at how to do this,” Lewis said. Or the mission could have something to do with search and rescue.

Other possibilities are substantially more bellicose. “ This satellite could be used as some sort of anti-satellite weapon.

Or it could be that you use this to cyber-jam the satellites to grill them and take control of them, and that way you just leave the satellite dead,” Lewis said.

But both options make little sense, she continued.

After all, you don’t need to shoot a satellite into space to “cyber-jam” other satellites. Just look at the Chinese.

They just hacked U.S. weather systems without launching their own satellites — and did so right here from the ground. And destroying a satellite would create so much debris that “it would affect your own satellites’ surveillance and achieve a null goal.”

So what gives?

The answer may be an amalgam of all possibilities. If the satellite has the capacity to clear debris or perform some search missions, it can also be used for other purposes, Christy said.

“This technology could be used in one way, which is really benign or peaceful, but it can have many other uses,” said Christy, who has been monitoring the satellite since the beginning. “If it can get up close to someone else’s satellite or orbit alongside, it can go and bang and destroy the thing. If you can go and do clandestine things, imagine if it was packed with explosives and shrapnel — you could destroy the satellite.”

It’s an idea that has been around for awhile.

In 1960, the Soviet Union destroyed an American U-2 spy plane, sparking an international scandal that ultimately gave life to ambitions to do the same to spy satellites. Several years later, on Nov. 1, 1963, the Soviets sent into space their first killer satellite to see if it could move with agility and even approach and destroy an enemy satellite.

The mission was “in response to the militarization of space by the USA,” one official Russian source said at the time, according to Russian Space Web. The militarization of space hasn’t ceased in the intervening decades, though it has morphed. “The USSR was [once] developing inspection and strike spacecraft,” Oleg Ostapenko, Russia’s commander of space forces, said in 2010, according to Popular Mechanics.

He explained that Russia would be ready for space war.

“There should be no war in space, but we are military people and should be ready. . . . Trust me, we would be able to respond quickly and adequately.”

And the satellite that Russians now control has shown that it can move both quickly and more than adequately.

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Ebola survivors’ blood to be studied WEST AFRICA

A coalition of companies and aid groups announced plans Tuesday to test experimental drugs and collect blood plasma from Ebola survivors to treat new victims of the disease in West Africa.

Plasma from survivors contains antibodies, substances the immune system makes to fight the virus.

Several Ebola patients have received survivor plasma and recovered, but doctors say there is no way to know whether it really helps without a study like the one they are about to start within a month.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is giving $5.7 million to scale up production of the treatments for the project in Guinea and other Ebolaaffected countries in Africa.

More than a dozen companies, universities and others are contributing supplies, staff and cash, and are working with the countries and the World Health Organization on specific procedures and locations.

Besides helping Ebola patients now, plasma “could be a tool for a future epidemic as well” from different viruses, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said in an interview with The Associated Press.

“You might not have drugs and vaccines for some new thing” and it would be good to have capabilities in place to

collect and give plasma to fill the gap until those other tools can be developed, he said.

There are no drugs or vaccines approved now for Ebola, which has killed about 5,000 people this year in West Africa, most of them in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.

Doctors Without Borders last week also said it would host studies of experimental treatments and plasma at three of its West Africa treatment centres.

The drugs to be tested by both groups include brincidofovir, an antiviral medicine that has been tried in a few Ebola cases so far. Its maker, North Carolina-based Chimerix Inc., developed it to treat other types of viruses and lab tests suggest it might fight Ebola.

“We said to them, ’well, if money was no constraint, how much could you make?’ and they gave us a number,” Gates said.

“So we said, ’OK, we’ll take the risk that maybe nobody will ever buy this from you. So we’ll help you scale up the manufacturing.”’

Making plasma available is a complex task. Plasma is the clear part of blood, and the part that contains antibodies.

In Africa, donors’ blood will be fil-

tered through a machine to remove small amounts of plasma and return the rest of the blood to the donor — a process that allows someone to donate as often as every two weeks.

One of the first patients successfully treated for Ebola in the U.S. — aid worker Dr. Kent Brantly — received plasma from a 14-year-old boy he treated in Africa, where he was infected.

Brantly has donated plasma several times to Ebola patients in the U.S. A plasma recipient must have a compatible blood type as the donor.

Survivors who give plasma also must be tested to make sure they are cured of Ebola and don’t have other diseases such as hepatitis, syphilis or HIV. The Africa study will take an added step — use of an experimental system by Cerus Corp. for inactivating viruses in blood.

Dr. Ada Igonoh, a doctor in Nigeria who got Ebola from a patient and recovered, expects to donate plasma and recruit others for the study.

“Survivors will be willing if they understand the goal,” she said.

She and Brantly met with Gates to discuss the project earlier this month at an American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene conference in

Heart infections rise after use of preventive dental antibiotics falls UNIVERSITY OF SURREY/OXFORD UNIVERSITY STUDY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CHICAGO — Curbing the routine use of preventive antibiotics before dental work may have contributed to a rise in heart valve infections in England, a new study suggests.

In the U.S., the highest risk patients still get these drugs and no similar trend has been seen.

Mouths are full of bacteria, and certain dental procedures can let them enter the bloodstream, travel to the heart and cause a serious infection called endocarditis, which proves fatal up to 10 to 20 per cent of the time.

People with artificial heart valves and other implants are at high risk for this, and people with leaky natural heart valves face a moderate risk.

It used to be routine to give those people antibiotics — usually a single penicillin pill — just before dental work. But there was little evidence the preventive treatment lowered infection rates and the drugs sometimes cause serious allergic reactions.

Overuse of antibiotics also promotes drug-resistant germs — a public health concern.

So in 2007, the American Heart Association and others said the drugs should only be used for the highest risk patients; a year later, regulators in England recommended stopping them for all patients.

Researchers from the University of Surrey and Oxford University did a study to see what happened after that in England.

They found that prescriptions for preventive antibiotics fell from

an average of 10,900 per month in the four years before the policy change to 2,236 per month in the five years after it.

Starting in March 2008, heart valve infections started to rise above usual levels, according to hospital records.

Five years later, “there were approximately 35 extra endocarditis cases per month than would have been expected” if trends before the antibiotic prescribing change had continued, said one study leader, Dr. Martin Thornhill of the Sheffield School of Clinical Dentistry in England.

The work doesn’t prove fewer antibiotics caused the surge, he and others stressed.

Heart infections have been rising everywhere because other procedures that make them more likely, such as implanted medical devices and kidney dialysis, have become more common.

There also was never much proof that the preventive antibiotics lowered endocarditis risk.

One study even found that brushing teeth twice a day was five times more likely to push bacteria into the bloodstream than having a tooth removed, said Dr. Dhruv Kazi of San Francisco General Hospital, an expert with no role in the study.

“These should not prompt changes in prescription practices,” he said of the new results.

Dr. Ann Bolger, a cardiologist at the University of California, San Francisco, who worked on the Heart Association policy, agreed.

“We don’t want people to be alarmed. In the U.S., people who are most at risk are still getting them,” she said of the drugs.

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It wouldn’t be wise “to give up on the policy too soon and return to a treatment with no benefit and known risks.”

The study was discussed Tuesday at a Heart Association conference in Chicago and published by the British journal Lancet.

The work was sponsored by the U.S. National Institutes of Health, the British charity group Heart Research UK, and Simplyhealth, a British insurer.

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Dr. Luciana Borio, who is leading the Food and Drug Administration’s Ebola response, spoke at the conference about plasma.

Even though it seemed to help in some cases, “The bottom line is that we don’t really know if it helps and to what degree it might help,” she said.

“We would love to not be in the same situation in the future,” and a study is the only way to know for sure, she said.

Clinical Research Management Inc., a Northeast Ohio company that contracts with sponsors to run clinical trials, will lead the plasma study in Africa.

Plasma will be collected through three bloodmobiles donated by another Microsoft co-founder, Paul G. Allen, and the Greenbaum Foundation. The bloodmobiles have been flown to Africa.

The U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) will provide Ebola testing for the study. Several universities will help, as will the Blood Centers of America and the Safe Blood for Africa Foundation.

About a dozen companies donated equipment and supplies.

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Events to bring economic benefits CITY MANAGER SAYS SPORTING EVENTS GOING TO BRING OVER $100 MILLION TO CITY

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF Two major sporting events could bring between $100 to $150 million economic benefit to Red Deer, says the city manager.

Craig Curtis said the upcoming 2016 Memorial Cup and the 2019 Canada Winter Games could have a major economic impact. He was speaking to the Red Deer and District Chamber Luncheon Thursday afternoon.

Curtis framed the discussion by bringing up the Enmax Centrium at Westerner Park,

which was built as an agritrade centre and home to the Red Deer Rebels for Red Deer in 1991. It went on to host major sporting events such as the 1995 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, the 1994 Brier and the 2004 Scotties Tournament of Hearts and major concerts featuring musical acts such as Rush, the Tragically Hip and Elton John.

“There are a lot of opportunities now and I think some of those are crystallized in the success in the bids for the Memorial Cup and the Canada Winter Games,” said Curtis.

“Those are going to bring huge economic boosts to this region.

“These are huge opportunities and we need to take advantage of them and really showcase our city.”

In 2013, an expansion was completed for the Centrium to increase the number of seats in preparation for a Memorial Cup bid.

This then led to the city’s successful bids and the capital projects needed to host the Winter Games. Some of the capital projects for the bid are the Red Deer College multiplex, cross-country skiing and biathlon facilities at River Bend, a long track speed skating facility and improving the facilities at Canyon Ski Resort.

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As well as a proposed plaza for medal presentations that has yet to find a home.

As a result of winning the bids, Curtis said the city can now count on financial support from both the federal and provincial government.

“We’re obviously looking for sponsorship on some of the projects,” said Curtis. “And we will need sponsorship for the games themselves. We’re optimistic we’re going to reach our targets.”

Curtis also discussed other important elements of the city’s strategic direction including dialogue with residents and its financial leader-

Central Alberta Flu cases expected to climb

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF

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Red Deer Mayor Tara Veer and Major Larry Bridger pose for the cameras as Veer makes the first donation of the year for the annual 2014 Christmas Kettle Campaign at Bower Place on Thursday. Organizers hope to raise $200,000 this holiday season.

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He said the city’s debt as of Sept. 15 was $210 million, about 40 per cent of the provincial debt limit. However, about three-quarters of that debt relates to water and wastewater infrastructure.

“We’ve had to borrow for these major planned expansions, but the way I look at it is these are a real investment in the future and an investment in growth,” said Curtis. “Without those expansions we could not accommodate the kind of growth the city will have over the next 18 years.” mcrawford@reddeeradvocate. com

The flu has arrived in Alberta and is creeping into Central Alberta.

As of Nov. 15, the number of lab-confirmed influenza cases this season had reached 219 in Alberta with four cases in Central Alberta.

The worst hit so far is the Edmonton area with 132 cases.

Dr. Digby Horne, medical officer of health with Alberta Health Services Central Zone, said cases in Central Alberta are bound to climb soon.

“With the travel of people back and forth between zones, I think it’s probably reasonable to say our cases will increase fairly soon,” Horne said on Thursday.

So far the flu has sent two people in Central Alberta to hospital, with no deaths.

Across Alberta, there’s been 69 people hospitalized.

“We’ve had seven deaths provincially so it’s not innocuous, but nothing to indicate it’s a worse season than normal.”

He said the flu season is estimated to peak around Dec. 23.

“The predicted peak from various data sources suggests it might be before Christmas which would be a little bit unusual.”

He said it’s all the more reason for people to get immunized to avoid illness over Christmas.

“It’s not too late to get immunized.”

Flu vaccine is available free to all Albertans six months of age and older at public immunization clinics, from family physicians and at pharmacies.

As of Nov. 15, a total of 926,527 doses of vaccine have been administered in Alberta at public clinics, doctors offices and pharmacies, including 89,150 doses in Central Alberta.

There’s been three outbreaks of the flu so far at facilities across Alberta.

“We haven’t had any outbreaks (in Central Zone) yet confirmed due to influenza but it can change any day,” Horne said.

For information dates and times of local immunization clinics visit www.albertahealthservices.ca/influenza. szielinski@reddeeradvocate. com

Women’s shelter Lots of new fun in store for all hopes ankle monitoring program ages at Festival Lights the Night goes beyond pilot stage

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF Fingers are crossed that Red Deer’s program to monitor domestic violence offenders with GPS ankle bracelets will move beyond pilot status.

Funding for the threeyear-pilot project, that officially ended in March 2013, has been extended twice.

“The current status of the program is that we’re funded and running until the end of December, perhaps longer than that. I’m sure that we’ll be hearing from the (Minister of Justice’s) office late November, early December,” said Ian Wheeliker, executive director of Central Alberta Women’s Emergency Shelter, on Thursday.

Ankle monitors, equipped with a built-in cellphone and radio frequency, are tracked constantly.

They alert police if offenders go near or into an area they are not allowed, like a victim’s house or workplace, disobey courtordered curfews, and if monitors are damaged in an effort to take them off.

Currently seven offenders are being tracked in Red Deer.

Wheeliker said the bracelets may not guarantee women’s safety 100 per cent, but they now have peace in areas offenders are not allowed.

It’s consistently put

a stop to intimidating and frightening actions like driving up and down the street past women’s homes, or parking across the street, he said.

“We haven’t seen any serious assaults or seriously dangerous incidents during the whole life of the program.”

Calgary and Edmonton, who have about five bracelets each, have also been part of the pilot program funded by provincial government’s Safe Communities Innovation Fund. Red Deer initially received $450,000.

Wheeliker said agencies in charge of the program in the three cities have met to compare results.

Red Deer has found that while the bracelets are not a great tool to deter offenders with significant mental health issues, they are very useful for those with a long history of domestic violence and breaching conditions.

The agencies are strong advocates for the program and see the benefits of future application, he said.

“I think the reliability, we’ve established. The next step is really around finding the cost efficiency point — how many units make it cost efficient to run a program?”

With such a small pilot, cost efficiencies have not been realized but are definitely possible, he said. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

Festival Lights the Night in downtown Red Deer on Saturday has plenty of new fun in store for both young and old.

The event at City Hall Park runs from 4 to 6:30 p.m. as the official launch for the Festival of Trees.

New this year are children’s activities in the Red Deer Public Library, the addition of several gigantic poinsettia light sculptures sponsored by Stantec, and the Stantec Firework Show which will be the grand finale from the top of Stantec Executive Place northwest of City Hall Park.

Festival Market will debut on Ross Street from 4 to 5:30 p.m., with community groups showcasing holiday traditions from around the world.

Alaine Martin, project officer with Red Deer Regional Health Foundation, said organizers have been looking to diversify Festival Lights the Night and add to the

event now that the parade has been eliminated due to weather and road condition uncertainties. There will be hot chocolate, popcorn, fire pits, children’s activities and entertainment.

There will be roving entertainment by the Wildrose Harmonizers and the Red Deer Royals band will perform.

And of course jolly, old St. Nick will make an appearance.

Admission is free.

Bilton Welding & Manufacturing Ltd. of Innisfail is the event’s sponsor for the 12th straight year.

The switch will be flipped to light up the trees in City Hall Park at 5:15 p.m. and the biggest Christmas tree will shine in front of the Old Court House at 6 p.m., along with the Holiday Light Show set to music.

Also new is the Human Christmas Tree Decorating Challenge featuring local media contestants.

Parking is free on the street or Sorensen Station parkade during the event.

The Christmas magic will continue in the downtown with the musical Holiday Light Show at the Old Court House running nightly 6 to 8 p.m., from Nov. 23 to the first week of January.

The 21st annual Festival of Trees at Westerner Park runs Nov. 26 to 30. Public hours start Nov. 27 at 6 p.m. for the Taste of Red Deer and continue Nov. 28 and 29 from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., and Nov. 30 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Festival of Trees is still in need of more than 200 volunteers. Anyone interested in volunteering, especially in Candy Cane Lane on Nov. 28, can call 403-348-9905.

Money raised by the festival will go towards equipment for two new surgical theatres to be constructed adjacent to the Obstetrics Unit at Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre.

New aboriginal youth leadership program running at Red Deer Native Friendship Centre CREATES OPPORTUNITY FOR BLENDED LEARNING ADVOCATE STAFF A new youth leadership development and support program is officially up and running in Red Deer.

Five students have enrolled in the Red Deer Aboriginal Youth Centre for Success run through the Red Deer Native Friendship Centre.

The new program was made possible with the grant money from the recent United Way of Central Alberta campaign.

The centre is geared for Aboriginal youth between 13 and 29.

Students will be able to earn their high-school diploma with a web-based program delivered in real time with the help of an onsite mentor. The centre has partnered with Sccyber, an Alberta Education accredited private school for Canadian Aboriginal students.

The classes are run on a regular semester system. Tanya Schur, the centre’s executive director, said this will allow students to access their school work at their own pace. It also creates an opportunity for blended learning.

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reach school and do some of their schooling over here and some of their courses over there,” said Schur.

Among the other offerings are Cree for credit, leadership and personal development programs, cultural activities, and employment preparation.

An open house is slated for Nov. 26 from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Friendship Centre (4808 51st Street).

Light refreshments will be offered. Opening remarks are at 3:30 p.m.

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BRIEFS Local Artists to gather at Pioneer Lodge art show and sale Local artists will gather again at Red Deer’s Pioneer Lodge for their annual art show and sale in late November.

The seventh annual art show and sale features raku-fired ceramics, functional pottery, water colour and oil paintings, pastels, hand-painted silk scarves, jewelry, hand-blown glass work, sculpture and art cards.

The show and sale will be Nov. 29 at the Pioneer Lodge, 4324 46A Ave., from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

For more information call 403-391-2574.

Stolen Allan Cup ring and rifle recovered by RCMP An Allan Cup Championship ring and a rifle reported stolen earlier this week was recovered by Blackfalds RCMP. Police found the items and other stolen property in a stolen vehicle they located in Blackfalds. The owner of the property has been notified.

The items were reported stolen after a Nov. 14 break-in at a rural residence between Red Deer and Sylvan Lake and taken the items.

Anyone with information about this incident is asked to contact Blackfalds RCMP at 403-885-3300 or Crimestoppers at 1-800-222-8477.

Accused in drug and weapons offences seeking plea deal A plea negotiation is underway for a Red Deer man charged with numerous drug trafficking and weapons offences.

Brian Buxton, 33, is facing a variety of charges dating back as far as the fall of 2012, when he and another suspect were arrested in a traffic stop after a period of surveillance by Red Deer City RCMP and the SCAN (Safer Communities and Neighbourhoods).

Police alleged at the time that they seized a variety of drugs from the vehicle as well as bearspray and a baseball bat.

Granted bail on the original charges, Buxton was taken back into custody later on further charges, including impaired driving, further drug charges and breaching release conditions. Crown prosecutor Dave Inglis said in Red Deer provincial court on Thursday that he is in negotiations with defence counsel Hersh Wolch of Calgary. They are scheduled to appear on Dec. 3 to present their proposal.

Public invited to take part in Swedish celebration of light Santa Lucia

Passport fee hike made millions the country, it’s duplicitous of the government to hike fees when they cover far more than the cost of the document itself, said the NDP’s foreign affairs critic Paul Dewar.

“It’s a way in which the Conservatives can grab money and pretend that’s not anything other than a tax on people travelling and doing business abroad,” he said.

The government is required to disclose each year how much they collect in user fees versus how much the service costs.

The figures from 2013-2014 show that while taxpayers pay more than it costs to receive passports, those immigrating to Canada actually pay far less for their documents, despite a slew of recent fee increases.

For example, it cost the government $393 million to process permanent residency applications in 201314, but it only received $137 million in return from applicants.

Those seeking special permission to enter Canada due to prior criminal convictions or other inadmissibility reasons cost the government $6.5 million, but paid only $1.7 million in fees.

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OTTAWA — A hike in passport fees has turned out to be a cash cow for the federal government, but Canadians won’t be getting any cash back as a result.

Recently released figures show Canadians paid $462.5 million in passport fees last year, but it cost the government only $256.5 million to produce the necessary documents.

The way Passport Canada’s funds are managed allows it to simply bank the rest, Citizenship and Immigration spokesperson Nancy Caron said in an email.

“We are not forecasting any change to passport fees to cover revolving fund requirements at this time,” Caron said.

The cost for a five-year passport increased to $120 from $87 last year, while a new 10-year passport was introduced at a cost of $160.

Approximately 4.9 million passports were issued in 2013-2014, which government records suggest is down slightly from the year before.

In 2012-2013, passport fees on 5.1 million passports brought in $312.5 million at a cost of $333.5 million to the government.

When the fee increases were introduced, Passport Canada said they were essential.

“At a time when Canadians are increasingly concerned about idenare holding their tity fraud, Passport Canada is quickly reaching a point where not only will new advancements be impossible, but the organization’s ability to maintain current operations will be jeopardized,” the agency said when it outlined the new fee structure. at The agency said the new fees allow it to be self-sustaining for the next 10 years, given that Everyone is welcome. the 10-year passport If you would like to light a candle in memory of your loved one, means fewer yearly replease call the MADD office at 403-347-9922. newals and in turn fewer Email: maddrd@telusplanet.net fee payments.

For every $160 spent on a 10-year passport, about $94 covers the cost of the passport itself, according to a breakdown provided by the Citizenship and Immigration Department, which manages the program.

The rest goes to the department.

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The Red Deer Vasa Lodge #733, a Swedish fraternal, cultural and educational organization, is inviting people to a traditional celebration of light known as Santa Lucia On Dec. 7 at 2:30 p.m., people are invited to The Chalet at Westerner Park, 4847A 19th St., for a candlelight procession and a short program as part of this traditional Swedish mid-winter celebration.

After the program there will be coffee and special Swedish treats available. There is a silver collection at the door. For more information call 403-347-5303 or 403-347-1517.

Win prizes for wearing your jersey to the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame Wear any sports jersey to the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame and Museum from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 29, and you get into the museum for free.

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Lacombe city council approved first reading of a rezoning bylaw for a large parcel south of Hwy 12 east of Hwy 2A. It will be rezoned to shopping centre district and public and institutional district, which will be used for a proposed police station.

Mayor Steve Christie said grading work has already begun on the site and servicing for the first phase of the development has been completed. Road paving is expected to begin in the spring.

“It’s moving along,” said Christie, who said the city has heard Canadian Tire has been looking at the community.

The developers have not made any official announcement of which businesses are expected to set up shop in the area yet.

That a rezoning application has been made is a positive sign, he said. It will go to a public hearing on Dec. 8 before second and third reading is considered.

Edmonton developer Richview Developments Inc. announced in 2011 that it planned to develop 156 acres in southeast Lacombe as Wolf Creek Crossing.

Its proposal included 50 acres of residential property, 40 to 50 acres of commercial development and a 20- to 25-acre industrial area.

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Christie said the company has been sticking to its schedule. “(I’m) still cautiously optimistic, of course. But they are doing what they said they would be doing and when they said they would be doing it. So it’s definitely a positive.”

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Northwestern Air Lease to add flights to Grande Prairie

BY ADVOCATE STAFF Northwestern Air Lease is introducing scheduled passenger service from the Red Deer Airport to Grande Prairie, beginning Dec. 1.

The Fort Smith, N.W.T. company, which currently flies between Red Deer and Fort McMurrary four days a week, and between Red Deer and Kelowna five days a week, plans to provide non-stop service to Grande Prairie and back on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays.

“Adding another link within the province is great business news for both the Grande Prairie and Red Deer regions,” said RJ Steenstra, CEO of the Red Deer Airport Authority. “With the strong business connections that exist, this is an important route expansion for our region and it gives Central Albertans

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a more convenient travel option.”

Northwestern Air’s new flights to Grande Prairie will leave the Red Deer Airport at 7:30 a.m. and arrive in Grande Prairie at 8:45 a.m. The return trip will depart from Grande Prairie 9:30 a.m. and land back at Red Deer at 10:45 a.m.

The introductory price for the service, which will be in effect until Dec. 31, is $195 one way, plus taxes and fees.

Northwestern Air offered scheduled passenger air service at the Red Deer Airport from December 2006 until July 2010. It resumed scheduled service in April 2012.

“We have a long and very successful partnership with the Red Deer Airport Authority and the surrounding communities and we are excited to see our offering from the airport continue to grow” said Ty Roberts, Northwestern Air’s general manager.

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Work on the new Trail Appliance store has begun. The new store will be located on the west side of Gasoline Alley at 557 Lantern St., northwest of Cam Clark Ford. At 43,000 square feet, the building will feature a 20,000-square-foot showroom and more warehouse space. Trail Appliances currently operates at 2823 Bremner Ave., with the Red Deer store one of 15 in Alberta, British Columbia and Saskatchewan.

Loonie up amid strong whole sales data

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — The Canadian dollar closed higher Thursday amid data showing a solid advance in wholesale sales in September.

The loonie rose 0.35 of a cent to 88.45 cents US as Statistics Canada reported that wholesale sales rose 1.8 per cent from August to $54 billion and considerably more than the 0.8 per cent gain analysts expected.

Other data out Thursday showed business activity declining in China and Europe while another report indicated the U.S. continues to be the major global economic prop.

Worries about Europe grew after financial information company Markit said its purchasing managers’ index for the eurozone, a broad gauge of business activity, fell to a 16-month low of 51.4 points in November from 52.1 in October. Though anything above 50 indicates expansion, the survey suggests a recession isn’t far away.

Manufacturing activity in China fell to a six-month low in November, reflecting sluggishness in the world’s No. 2 economy and weakness abroad, according to a survey of factory conditions released Thursday.

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BRIEFS Home construction boosts lumber industry A surge in home construction is helping to keep Alberta’s lumber mills buzzing.

The Alberta Forest Products Association reported on Thursday that its members generated $727.9 million in sales during the second quarter. That was a 10 per cent jump over the $661 million in revenues for the same three-month period in 2013, and a slight improvement on the $718 million recorded in the first quarter of this fiscal year.

“We’re continuing to see positive, sustainable growth in Alberta’s forest industry,” said AFPA president and CEO Paul Whittaker.

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Meanwhile, the Philadelphia Fed index, a snapshot of manufacturing activity in the U.S. Northeast, jumped to 40.8 in November — far higher than the 18.5 reading that had been expected — from 20.7 in October.

This is the highest reading of activity since December 1993. Both new orders and shipments rose sharply in November. Labor market indicators also improved.

Traders also looked ahead to the release of the latest reading on inflation.

Statistics Canada is expected to report Friday that its October Consumer Price Index declined by 0.2 per cent in October following a slight 0.1 per cent rise in September.

In the U.S. on Thursday, data showed that inflation in October was flat against the 0.1 per cent drop that economists had been expecting.

On the commodities front, the December crude contract in New York was $1 higher at US$75.58 a barrel.

December copper fell three cents to US$3.02 a pound and December gold faded $3 to US$1,190.90 an ounce.

With housing starts in Alberta growing at the fastest rate in Canada, many of the forestry products being sold are construction-related.

“Wood is the largest component of new homes and we expect builders will use even more forest products when Alberta joins B.C. and Ontario in allowing construction of six-storey wood-frame multi-family buildings,” said Jim Rivait, CEO of the Canadian Home Builders’ Association — Alberta.

Whittaker pointed to increased mill efficiency and diversification of markets as other factors behind his industry’s recent gains.

On a product-by-product basis, lumber accounted for $318.2 million of AFPA members’ second-quarter sales, with pulp and paper adding $318.6 million and panelboard $91.2 million. For the same three months in 2013, lumber revenues totalled $290.1 million, pulp and paper $277.5 million, and panelboard $93.4 million.

The Alberta Forest Products Association represents lumber, panelboard, pulp and paper, and secondary manufacturing wood products companies operating in Alberta.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS BURNABY, B.C. — Scuffles broke out as dozens of RCMP officers, shoulder to shoulder, formed a line to push protesters away from an area near Vancouver that a B.C. Supreme Court has ordered cleared.

An officer using a loudspeaker repeatedly ordered protesters to move about 100 metres up the road in a conservation area of Burnaby Mountain away from where Kinder Morgan survey crews would be working.

One middle-aged female who was in front of the moving line of officers was tossed to the ground behind police and was quickly arrested.

“Hey, that’s violence,” a protester yelled at police as the woman slammed on to the road. Other protesters yelled obscenities at officers.

What had been a peaceful protest, and a series of uneventful arrests early Thursday, became aggressive as officers ordered the crowd of over 100 chanting demonstrators to move back.

RCMP moved into the anti-pipeline encampment earlier in the day, arresting at least 14 people for violating the injunction ordering protesters to clear out so crews can do their work for the expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline.

Police said many of those arrested were released on the condition that they no longer interfere, obstruct or impede survey crews.

RCMP Staff Sgt. Maj. John Buis said the remaining protesters were being processed at the scene and would also be released if they agreed to abide by the court order.

Police said they would leave the dismantling of the protesters camp to Kinder Morgan crews. Personal belongings will be catalogued and stored inside a security container and access to those items will be determined later, Buis said.

Activists started camping out on Burnaby Mountain in September after the company said it needed to do survey work related to the project, which has not yet received federal approval.

An injunction granted by a B.C. Supreme Court judge took effect Monday afternoon, but police had not made any move to enforce the order before Thursday’s arrests.

One of the protesters, Maryam Adrangi, said about a dozen people had been arrested at the main encampment. She wasn’t sure whether anyone had been arrested at a second encampment located farther into the woods.

A crew with Kinder Morgan arrived several hours after the first arrests. Some of the workers had small video camera strapped to their bodies. They took measurements as protesters shouted at them to stop.

A ceremonial First Nations fire, remained burning at midday. A section of road was cordoned off by police tape and the area was surrounded by dozens of protesters, reporters and RCMP officers.

Two women, including, Squamish First Nation member Clarissa Antone, were still permitted to enter and leave the camp.

Antone said she had been assured by the RCMP that she would not be removed for the time being, adding she was prepared to be arrested.

Several other aboriginal women arrived later and also entered the tent encampment. Police officers joined them, sitting around the fire to talk, although it wasn’t clear what they said or whether they came to any agreement.

“We are in discussions with First Nations on how to respectfully remove a sacred fire and totem pole that remain inside the zone in contravention of the order,” Buis told reporters at the scene.

Burnaby Mountain has emerged as a battleground as Kinder Morgan’s preferred route for the expanded pipeline, which would triple capacity to transport Alberta crude to a terminal in Burnaby through a tunnel in the mountain.

The company says it needs to drill two bore holes on the mountain, which is home to a conservation area and Simon Fraser University, as it prepares for the federal approval process. The City of Burnaby has also filed a lawsuit to prevent Kinder Morgan from cutting down trees and damaging parkland.

Adrangi said that whatever happens with the injunction, the pipeline’s opponents won’t be stopped.

“People have been organizing around this (pipeline) for even longer than this camp has been here, so to say that it’s just going to end in one day, I don’t believe it.”

Near-record quarter for ATB Financial Increased loan and deposit activity helped carry ATB Financial to a near-record quarter in the three months ended Sept. 30.

The provincial financial institution reported net income of $81.7 million for its second quarter.

That was up 9.5 per cent over the same period in 2013, and second only to the $83.9 million earned in the three months ended June 30, 2014, when it comes to record profits.

A release issued by ATB Financial said loans topped $35 billion in the most recent quarter, a more than 10 per cent improvement over the $31.8 million loan portfolio a year earlier.

Meanwhile, deposits hit $29.8 billion, which marked a 19.5 per cent increase over the $28.6 billion in accounts in the second quarter of 2013.

“We’ve welcomed more than 20,000 new customers through our front doors so far this fiscal year,” said Dave Mowat, ATB Financial’s president and CEO.

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Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 126.58 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . 15.856 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 15.49 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 60.60 MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — Resource stocks powered the Toronto stock market to a solid advance Thursday amid data showing business activity declining in China and Europe and another report indicating the U.S. continues to be the major prop for the global economy.

The S&P/TSX composite index closed up 95.03 points at 15,075.18 as data suggested Europe faces the possibility of sliding back into recession while Chinese manufacturing activity fell to a six-month low in November. The Canadian dollar was up 0.35 of a cent at 88.45 cents US. The loonie found lift from a report showing wholesale sales increased to $54 billion in September, up 1.8 per cent from August and more than double the 0.8 per cent gain economists forecast.

U.S. indexes were positive as the Philadelphia Fed index, a snapshot of manufacturing activity in the U.S. Northeast, jumped to 40.8 in November from 20.7 in October and far higher than the 18.5 reading that had been expected. It was also the highest reading of activity since December 1993 as both new orders and shipments rose sharply in November, while labour market indicators also improved.

The Dow Jones industrials was ahead 33.27 points to 17,719, the Nasdaq gained 26.16 points to 4,701.87 and the S&P 500 index was up 4.03 points at 2,052.75.

Worries about Europe grew after financial information company Markit said its purchasing managers’ index for the eurozone, a broad gauge of business activity, fell to a 16-month low of 51.4 points in November from 52.1 in October. Though any-

Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 19.05 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 14.28 Tim Hortons . . . . . . . . . . 93.41 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84.58 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 30.81 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 14.53 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 22.23 First Quantum Minerals . 17.84 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 23.34 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 9.02 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 3.22 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . 17.95 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 41.22 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.68 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 18.22 Energy Arc Resources . . . . . . . . 29.25 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 32.96 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 64.41 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.91 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 48.81 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 42.15 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . 17.47 Canyon Services Group. 11.14 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 28.10 CWC Well Services . . . 0.7500 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 20.59 Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 2.00 thing above 50 indicates expansion, the survey suggested a recession could be on its way.

And HSBC’s preliminary purchasing managers’ index for China fell to 50 this month from 50.4 in October, reflecting sluggishness in the world’s secondbiggest economy and weakness abroad. It’s the latest sign that China’s economy continues to struggle after growth in the third quarter slowed to a five-year low of 7.3 per cent. Most strength on the TSX came from a 2.75 per cent bounce in the energy sector as December crude edged up $1 to US$75.58 a barrel.

The gold sector ran ahead about 2.8 per cent even as December bullion faded $3 to US$1,190.90 an ounce.

Both sectors have registered steep declines this fall amid falling prices for bullion and crude.

Data out Thursday showed that U.S. stockpiles of natural gas declined by a more than expected 17 billion cubic feet last week. The December contract was up 12 cents to $4.49 per MMbtu. While there is little optimism that gold prices will head higher any time soon, many observers believe economic fundamentals dictate that oil prices should rise.

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

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 15,075.18, up 95.03 points Dow — 17,719.00, up 33.27 points S&P 500 — 2,052.75, up 4.03 points Nasdaq — 4,701.87, up 26.16 points Currencies:

Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 95.82 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 49.21 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.22 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 27.11 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 54.88 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 4.37 Penn West Energy . . . . . . 5.00 Pinecrest Energy Inc. . . 0.0.35 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 8.85 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 39.69 Talisman Energy . . . . . . . . 6.80 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.64 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 6.56 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 60.60 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 82.81 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 69.92 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104.83 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 37.94 Carfinco . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.17 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 32.99 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 47.87 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 80.70 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 22.07 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 53.84 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.98 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 83.04 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 41.62 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57.16 Cdn — 88.45 cents US, up 0.35 of a cent Pound — C$1.7746, down 0.48 of a cent Euro — C$1.4182, down 0.56 of a cent Euro — US$1.2544, up 0.01 of a cent Oil futures: US$75.58 per barrel, up $1.00 (December contract) Gold futures: US$1,190.90 per oz., down $3.00 (December contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $19.02 oz., up 13.4 cents $611.49 kg., up $4.31 ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: Jan ’15 $2.40 higher $430.30; March ’15 $1.60 higher $433.00; May ’15 $1.50 higher $434.20; July ’15 $1.40 higher $435.10; Nov ’15 $1.00 higher $431.10; Jan. ’16 $1.20 higher $436.10; March ’16 $1.20 higher $440.60; May ’16 $1.20 higher $440.60; July ’16 $1.20 higher $440.60; Nov. ’16 $1.20 higher $440.60.

Barley (Western): Dec. ’14 unchanged $160.00; March ’15 unchanged $163.00; May ’15 unchanged $163.00; July ’15 unchanged $163.00; Oct. ’15 unchanged $163.00; Dec. ’15 unchanged $163.00; March ’16 unchanged $163.00; May ’16 unchanged $163.00; July ’16 unchanged $163.00; Oct. ’16 unchanged $163.00; Dec. ’16 unchanged $163.00.

Thursday’s estimated volume of trade: 332,040 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 332,040.

WASHINGTON — Package labels on fresh cuts of meat that identify where animals were born, raised and slaughtered face an uncertain future after successful trade challenges from Canada and Mexico.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack says the U.S. is running out of options for the meat labels, which are required under a 2008 law. A label might say, for example, that the animal was “born in Canada, raised and slaughtered in the United States” or “born, raised and slaughtered in the United States.”

The World Trade Organization has agreed more than once with Canada and Mexico that the labels on steaks, ribs and other cuts of fresh meat give the U.S. livestock industry an unfair advantage.

In its most recent ruling Oct. 20, the WTO said the labeling requirement forced meatpackers to segregate and keep detailed records on imported livestock, giving them an incentive to favour U.S. livestock.

The trade organization ruled in 2011 and upheld in 2012 that an earlier version of the labels was discriminatory.

A spokesman for U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman said the United States has not decided whether it will appeal the latest WTO decision.

If the October ruling stands, Canada and Mexico could retaliate against the United States with other trade sanc-

Quebec environmentalists happy with conditions for TransCanada

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

ENERGY EAST

MONTREAL — Quebec environmentalists are hailing a report the provincial government has imposed various conditions on TransCanada for the Energy East pipeline to be accepted.

Radio-Canada says it has obtained the list of conditions in a letter from Envrironment Minister David Heurtel to the Calgary-based pipeline company.

The government reportedly wants TransCanada Corp. (TSX:TRP) to ensure the project is socially acceptable, conduct an environmental assessment and provide a plan that would guarantee emergency measures of a high standard.

It also wants the company to assume full economic and environmental responsibility in the case of any leak.

According to the CBC’s French-language network, the letter stipulates the project must generate economic benefits for Quebec as a whole as well as respecting agreements with First Nations.

The proposed Energy East pipeline

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would carry oilsands crude to refineries on the east coast for export overseas and require construction of two marine facilities — one on the Gulf of St. Lawrence near Quebec City and one Saint John, N.B. The company says the project would help support thousands of jobs across the country and generate billions of dollars in government tax revenues.

It also states it will provide the safest and most efficient access to markets for Canada’s growing crude oil production.

Concern about the pipeline has been growing, however, particularly in Quebec. Earlier this fall, Quebec Superior Court slapped an injunction on TransCanada to halt exploratory drilling at its planned oil export facility at Cacouna on the St. Lawrence River.

The injunction had been sought by Quebec-based environmental groups concerned about the impact of the drilling on a beluga whale calving ground around Cacouna.

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tions if the labels aren’t changed or scrapped.

Vilsack said he believes Congress either needs to change the law or Mexico and Canada need to negotiate a settlement with the United States.

“There is no apparent regulatory solution available that could make this rule compliant with the WTO’s recent decision and also uphold the law Congress passed,” Vilsack said in a statement.

Canada and Mexico need to tell the U.S. “more clearly and more specifically, what, if any, variation of this will work for them,” the agriculture secretary said last week at an event in Kansas City, Missouri.

The embattled labeling rules have support from consumer groups and some farm groups. U.S. ranchers who raise cattle near the northern border and compete with Canadian ranchers have pushed hardest for the labeling law, which Congress originally wrote in 2002 and revised in 2008 after years of haggling with the meat industry.

Ranchers and meatpackers in the Southwest who do a lot of business with Mexico have traditionally opposed it.

It’s unclear what lawmakers will do. But the new Republican Congress is expected to be friendly to the meat industry, which has called for repeal of the country-of-origin labeling law, saying it is burdensome.

Meatpackers have sued the government to block it, so far unsuccessfully.

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Condos made up more than a third of housing starts last year

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Condominiums accounted for more than one-third of all Canadian housing starts last year, and more than half of the total in several of the countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s biggest cities, the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. says.

The federal agency says condominium apartment starts represented less than one in five Canadian housing starts in the early 1990s, but that proportion had grown to more than one in three in 2013.

Vancouver, the countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most expensive real estate market, saw condos make up 62.6 per cent of its housing starts last year. In Montreal, condos accounted for 56.3 per cent of the starts and in Toronto they accounted for 53.9 per cent of new housing construction, CMHC said in an annual market review released Thursday. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This long-term trend toward a higher share of condominium starts, especially in higher-priced urban centres, is likely due to the relatively lower price of condominium apartment units compared to freehold single-detached dwellings,â&#x20AC;? CMHC said in the 2014 Canadian Housing Observer. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In addition, in most large urban centres, the secondary rental condominium market has become an increasingly important complement to

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CMHC said the share of purposebuilt rental starts was about 20 per cent of total starts in the early 1990s, but fell to 14 per cent in 2013.

Vancouver saw rental starts make up 16.8 per cent of total, while 15 per cent of the starts in Montreal last year were purpose-built rental properties.

However in Toronto, just 2.1 per cent of the housing starts were purposebuilt rental starts.

The report also noted that after taking into account differences due to exchange rates, inflation and other factors that affect the purchasing power of home buyers, Canadian home prices remain higher than those in the United States â&#x20AC;&#x153;This Canadian â&#x20AC;&#x2122;premiumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; could be a cause for concern, because it may indicate that house prices in Canada are overvalued,â&#x20AC;? the report said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;CMHC is analyzing these differences, in order to understand the reasons for the price differential, be they structural, temporary or reflective of relative overvaluation in Canada.â&#x20AC;?

The strength of the Canadian housing market and concerns about a possible housing crash have garnered much attention. Last month, the Bank of Canada raised concerns about the â&#x20AC;&#x153;renewed vigourâ&#x20AC;? it detected in the housing market and consumer spending since the summer.

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Wholesale sales up 1.8 per cent in September

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Wholesale sales in Canada grew to $54 billion in September, up 1.8 per cent from August and easily topping the expectations of economists.

Statistics Canada said Thursday that the better than expected performance was led by the building material and supplies subsector.

Economists had expected an overall gain of 0.8 per cent, according to Thomson Reuters.

CIBC chief economist Avery Shenfeld suggested the increase could be enough to push September to a 0.5 per cent gain in gross domestic product for the month, adding that the retail sales results are yet to come. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If that holds, quarterly GDP would be roughly two per cent, still a bit shy of the Bank of Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s projection, but leaving solid momentum for the fourth quarter,â&#x20AC;? Shenfeld wrote in a note to clients.

Retail sales results for September are expected Tuesday.

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Statistics Canada said Thursday that six of the seven wholesale subsectors were higher, accounting for 83 per cent of the total. Excluding the auto sector, wholesale sales were up 2.4 per cent from August.

The building material and supplies subsector led the way as it rose 5.5 per cent for the month, while sales of machinery, equipment and supplies rose 2.2 per cent.

The personal and household goods sector and the miscellaneous group were both up 1.8 per cent.

The food, beverage and tobacco subsector added 1.1 per cent, while the motor vehicle and parts subsector lost 1.1 per cent.

In volume terms, wholesale sales edged up 1.8 per cent.

Sales rose in eight provinces in September, led by Ontario and Quebec.

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Road Closure Announcement Festival Lights the Night Saturday November 22, 2013 The following road will be closed this Saturday to accommodate the staging of the Festival Lights the Night.

Ross Street from 48 & 49 Avenue Road closures will be in effect on Saturday November 22nd from approximately 11:45am-9:00pm. Please watch for signage stating â&#x20AC;&#x153;No Parkingâ&#x20AC;? on Saturday afternoon as there will be parking bans that will remain in effect until after the event.

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Development Officer Approvals On November 18, 2014, the Development Officer issued approval for the following applications: Permitted Use Deer Park 1. Beta Surveys Ltd. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a 0.18 metre relaxation to the minimum front yard setback and a 1.09 metre relaxation to the minimum side yard to an existing deck and a 1.85 metre relaxation to the distance from the doors to the lane to an existing detached garage, located at 55 Dubois Crescent.

Timber Ridge Neighbourhood Area Structure Plan Amendment 3357/R-2014 An Amendment for the Additional Potential Two Storey Walkout Development City Council is considering amending the Timber Ridge Neighbourhood Area Structure Plan to include the identification of additional, potential two storey, walkout basement developments. The majority of proposed walkout locations are in non-developed green field areas. The difference in lot height/grade is deemed minimal and acceptable based on comparable development housing style height difference.

Inglewood 2. Paul Davis Systems â&#x20AC;&#x201C; area redevelopment for a single family dwelling, with a 0.04 metre relaxation to the minimum side yard, to be located at 127 Inglewood Drive.

Parkvale 3. D. Campbell â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a 0.51 metre relaxation to the minimum side yard to the roof structure on an existing semi-detached dwelling, located at 4601-44 Street.

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The proposed bylaw may be inspected at Legislative Services, 2nd Floor City Hall during regular office hours or for more details, contact City of Red Deer Planning Services at 403-406-8700.

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City Council will hear from any person claiming to be affected by the proposed bylaw at the Public Hearing on Monday, December 8, 2014 at 6:00 p.m. in Council Chambers, 2nd Floor of City Hall. If you want your letter included in the Council agenda you must submit it to the Manager, Legislative Services

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Giving an old fairy tale a new twist WHILE BEAUTY SLEPT While Beauty Slept

By Elizabeth Blackwell Much like Lois Leveen (Juliet’s Nurse), Elizabeth Blackwell takes on the difficult task of giving an old fairytale a new twist.

And just like Leveen, Blackwell has produced an exceptional retake on the tale of Sleeping Beauty, told through the character Elise.

After the pox took her KIRSTEN mother and three of her half LOWE brothers, Elise leaves the ragged country life and sets off on her journey to the town of St. Elsip’s. She seeks to fulfil both her and her mother’s wishes: to seek employment at the castle (her mother was a seamstress employed there before Elise was born).

She’d rather take the risk of travel and being rejected than stay at the farm with her ignorant stepfather.

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Upon her arrival, Elise meets Mrs. Tewkes, the woman in charge of the castle staff. She was once good friends with Elise’s mother, Maryen, which is one of the main reasons why Elise is hired as a chambermaid.

In this new life at court, Elise meets all sorts of people: her best friend Petra, Marcus (a shoemaker apprentice), Dorian the knight and ladies man, and the king’s brother Prince Bowen.

But the people who intrigue her the most are the royal family — the proud King Ranolf, his quiet and tender wife, Queen Lenore, and the king’s two aunts.

There is Flora, who stays hidden in her gardens tending to her herbs that she makes medicines and tonics from.

Then there is Millicent, who is the complete opposite of Flora. She is an assertive woman who always pushes her opinion and dominance onto the staff and the royal couple themselves. Unlike Flora, who practices the power of healing, Millicent practices more of the sinister arts, making her respected only out of pure fear from the court.

By the time Queen Lenore is pregnant, Elise has moved up in the ranks and is the Queen’s personal attendant, which means she was there when Princess Rose was born, her name chosen because her lips are as red as a rose.

Announcing Rose as the future heir to the throne,

celebrations take place all over St. Elsip’s.

However, on the day of Rose’s christening, Aunt Millicent has a special gift for the baby — one that is driven by deceit and evil.

Days before Rose’s christening, the king and his aunt quarreled and Millicent was banished from the kingdom.

She tells the king that one day he will lose his wife, his daughter and the kingdom — not today, not tomorrow but one day, after he has watched Rose grown up.

Millicent warns that Ranolf and Lenore will live in fear for the final blow that will destroy their family and St. Elsip’s.

As the years pass, while watching Rose blossom into a beautiful young woman, Elise discovers certain truths about her life, experiences love and marriage, and she becomes one of Queen Lenore’s ladies in waiting. When Rose reaches the age of 16, the city descends into war and Millicent returns for her revenge.

There are no dragons, witch’s spells or fantasy in this novel, thus making it realistic to adult readers.

Blackwell has done a great job turning this children’s fairytale into one where adults can also enjoy from a different point of view.

Kirsten Lowe is a local freelance writer and Red Deer College student.

A ghost story full of atmosphere and character and at least 12 chimneys.

When this story opens, Trevor, the great-greatgrandson of Elijah Riddle, is visiting the now crumbling estate with his father, Jones Riddle, for A Sudden Light the first time. He is 14-years-old.

By Garth Stein Jones Riddle has not been “home” for $32.50 Simon and Schuster Publishing many years, and his only reason for coming now is to take control of the estate, raze the house and sell its surrounding acres off to One of my favourite books of 2013 developers. was a story by this author entitled The The fortune that was built up by Elijah is Art Of Racing In the Rain. It’s a wondergone, although the house is full of priceless ful story of love and frailties, narrated articles and leather-bound first editions. by a wise and philosophical, but aging, Serena Riddle, a sister to Jones, lives at dog. the house and cares for the old man Samuel, This story, Sudden Light, couldn’t be Elijah’s grandson. further away in subject matter, but it Before the estate can be broken up, Samuis an unusual thing: a compelling ghost el must sign over power of attorney to Serena story. and Jones. Samuel suffers from Alzheimer’s The setting is a huge decaying house PEGGY and believes his wife Isobel (deceased) still in Seattle overlooking Puget Sound.

FREEMAN lives in the house.

The Riddle House, as it is known, is He won’t sign. part of “The North Estate,” built in the As in all these generational stories, there 1800s by Elijah Riddle, an immensely are many family secrets and scandals. Elijah, wealthy lumberman.

The house was made with massive logs and bricks in order to build this empire, had been ruthless and and stone. There were three floors, over 100 windows mean. He cleared huge tracts of land in the north-

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west and ruined many lives.

His son Benjamin believed that his own generation should take responsibility to restore the loss.

But that didn’t happen.

Trevor is young and bright, with time on his hands and an insatiable curiosity about the old house, so he begins exploring.

He finds journals and notes, and as he reads he discovers promises made but not kept. He meets people who have been gone for many years. Spirits (if you like) who need to right old wrongs.

Trevor’s father has one ambition: get the paper signed, sell the estate and settle his debts.

But the old house begins to remind him of past hurts and complications.

Serena has great power over old Samuel but Trevor gets to know Samuel and thinks he may not be as debilitated as Serena has led them to believe.

Trevor has been raised in rural Connecticut, and he brings a fresh mind and heart to this old family ghost story.

If you are prepared to take a chance on a very different story full of atmosphere and character and beautiful locale, this is your book. If you think ghosts are piffle, this isn’t for you.

Peggy Freeman is a local freelance books reviewer.

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Volunteering can help battle loneliness Dear Annie: Two years ago, at the age of 62, I was forced to take early retirement from my teaching job.

My pension is miniscule, and despite trying to find full-time work, I have only been able to string together part-time jobs.

I have been diMITCHELL vorced for 20 & SUGAR years, so there is no one else in my life to depend on financially.

My days are consumed with trying to make ends meet, and as a result, I have no time or money for a personal life.

I can’t afford to travel, my grown children are busy with their own lives, and my friends have spouses or grandchildren who keep them occupied. I can’t even attend church, because I need to

work on Sundays.

I spend evenings, weekends and sometimes holidays alone, so I turn on the TV or radio to simulate human voices. I’m fit, intelligent and in good health. I want to know what I’m supposed to do with the rest of my life, because it appears I am going to spend it alone. How can I get out of this rut?

— Indy Dear Indy: Take some of that time spent in front of the TV and do something that doesn’t require money. Volunteer at your local hospital, library or veterans association. The Salvation Army welcomes volunteers on holidays. You might make some friends in the process, but regardless, instead of feeling lonely, you will be out helping others, and that will take your mind off of your problems and lift your spirits.

Dear Annie: My sister has a friend whose son is getting married. The woman is also an acquaintance of mine, but I never hear from her, and I’ve not seen her son in three years.

My mother received an invitation to the bridal shower, and my name was also listed on the envelope. My

mother is on a fixed income, and we could not afford a gift, so we didn’t attend the shower. A couple of weeks later, a wedding invitation arrived with my mother’s and sister’s names on it.

When I didn’t receive an invitation of my own, I assumed I was not invited. I didn’t give it another thought.

Well, the friend called my mom, and I picked up the phone. She asked whether I was coming to the wedding, and I stammered and handed the phone to my mother, who said she was sorry but neither of us could make it.

The friend then told my sister she was very hurt that I hadn’t responded. She said the reason I didn’t get an invitation was because she didn’t have my address, which is a load of baloney.

She sent the shower invitation to me at my mother’s.

Should I feel bad about not responding to a wedding I wasn’t invited to?

I’ve thought about sending her a note of apology, but I don’t think I’ve done anything wrong. — Tired of the Drama Dear Tired: It sounds like this friend invited your mother, and when you picked up the phone, she felt obligated

to say she intended to invite you as well. But you are right that she easily could have obtained your address from your sister or mother. No, you do not have to RSVP for a wedding you were not invited to. But it might help smooth over the hard feelings if you send a card to the bride and groom with your very best wishes.

Dear Annie: As a recently retired physician, may I add to your advice to “Slowly Falling Out of Love”?

A patient once came to me with severe fatigue and lassitude, saying, “I can barely put one foot in front of the other.” He turned out to be profoundly hypothyroid, and treatment with gradually increasing doses of thyroid medication gave him his life back.

“Slowly’s” husband needs a complete medical evaluation by a thinking physician. — Patricia 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.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): There will be a lot of activity going on today. You will be kept busy and out of trouble with work and by your clients. You are more able to focus on Friday, Nov. 21 the task at hand and make an CELEBRITIES BORN ON impact on the world. You feel THIS DATE: Goldie Hawn, 69; more empowered today, by acCarly Rae Jepsen, 29; Michael tively doing and seeing concrete Strahan, 43 results.

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Today will be extremely busy.

Others in your life are more logiYou’ll be running around trying cal and rational today. So do listo get every loose end tied up ten to their advice, but other than before the new moon tomorrow. that, it will be a highly busy day There will be a bit of shadow atfor you. Perhaps you are travmosphere as we approach the elling or maybe you are learndark side of the new moon toing more. This is creating the day. It should not be a problem. change of pace and adjusting You will be able to logically think LARISA MAIRA your perspective. yourself out of any dark mood OZOLINS GEMINI (May 21-June 20): you might be in, just don’t reflect A lot of solid steps and concrete too much now. results will be implemented and HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today achieved today. You will be of is your birthday, this year will prove to be logical and practical, especially clear mind as you approach all projects and when dealing with work, health, and daily joint ventures today. You will most likely keep matters. You will be more inclined to under- a positive frame of mind, but just watch out stand and find a creative way to express for some fears that might pop up now.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): There will be yourself that will pull you out of any darker periods that might be presented to you this a lot of activity to be taken today with others, year. You will be filled with new inspiration especially those significant individuals in your life. Try to see life from a new perspective, a this year, Enjoy!

more positive one, as today’s energy could leave you feeling slightly intense and inadequate at work or with your health.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Tomorrow you will not feel as fear driven. There is a sense that you will have to let go of some aspect of your daily life, some insecurity, to accept more romance into your life. Well, the positive is that you don’t, but the negative is that you must resolve the issues that have come up.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Today is going to be a very busy day for you indeed. Lots of celebrations are in store for you now with family. You will be more able to actively produce the results you want and this will highlight greater possibilities starting tomorrow.

Write your plan and work it!

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): There will be lots of interactions with those from afar, and you will be quite busy today. The good news is you will have the energy to boot, so get out there and enjoy yourself now. You will be thinking logically about your finances and this will allow you to enjoy yourself more.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You will be more than able to accomplish a lot today. Try to see life through a new lens, a very optimistic and positive one. Allow for all new opportunities to be relished and accepted now. It will pay off for you tremendously in the long run —Enjoy the busy day!

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You are keenly focused on getting your money sorted out. There is a sense that you will be more willing to put in long hours to get the job done today. Think rationally about any dreams you might have, waking or sleeping.

All will work out as planned, don’t worry.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You are very open and sincere with others today, especially within your group environments.

Try to see life through a new perspective, one that involves you resting a bit more. Rome was not built in a day. Write your plan of action and aim towards your dreams.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You most likely feel extremely clear headed now. So, use that energy to your advantage. You will be more able to understand the steps needed in order to achieve your dream position. If ever you start feeling low, others will be there with a smile to help you out if needed.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Watch out for darker thoughts to emerge today. This could happen on a public level through world news, or simply your perspective might not be the most positive today. Allow for greater awareness of life’s trials and apply your wisdom today.

Larisa Maira Ozolins is an internationally syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate.

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JENNIFER LAWRENCE IS THE ONLY THING THAT MAKES THE LATEST DREARY, DERIVATIVE, DYSTOPIAN INSTALLMENT OF THE ‘HUNGER GAMES’ FRANCHISE WORTH WATCHING The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 1 Two-and-a-half stars (out of four) Rated: PG-13

BY ANN HORNADAY ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES

By definition, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 1 is only half a movie.

As the first part of the last installment of the juggernaut adaptation of the wildly popular young-adult novel, this dutiful, glumly atmospheric placeholder feels like a long, extended inhale: a collective “Here we go” before the last triumphant hurrah.

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Jennifer Lawrence stars as Katniss Everdeen in ‘The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 1.’

Teenage Kicks bares heart and soul on new album

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF Jeff van Helvoort of Teenage Kicks considers being in a rock band a selfish endeavour.

“Sometimes I think I could be doing something to help or better the world,” said the 26-year-old bassist, who performs with Teenage Kicks in a long lineup of bands Friday, Nov. 28, at The Vat in Red Deer.

For one thing, the environmentally conscious van Helvoort questions driving 10 hours between cities to sometimes play for as few as 15 people.

He also questions why he and his bandmate brother Peter van Helvoort, 29, didn’t just give up on music after an American producer they hired last year made their group a technically substandard album that later had to be rerecorded.

It was crushing experience that ultimately led half the band — the drummer and lead guitarist — to quit in frustration and disappointment.

But it also eventually led to the release last spring of Teenage Kicks’ first full-length album, The Spoils of Youth on Rezolute Music, a small label that also represents Adam Cohen and Wake Owl. And the new album of songs about hope and desperation helped van Helvoort and his guitarist/vocalist brother rediscover the reason they do what they do: they love creating music that originates from a true place.

Jeff van Helvoort said he and Peter aim to make something real. “It’s our heart and soul that’s on that record. And it’s music that doesn’t exist a lot out there.”

The Spoils of Youth is made up of mostly melodic rock tunes instead of riff-based ones, and van Helvoort believes this separates Teenage Kicks from most of today’s rock bands. “It’s a kind of style that doesn’t really exist right now — and that’s made it difficult for us” to get radio play, he said.

It might also have something to do with the swear words on the most catchy, melodic song on the album, S--t Eater.

Van Helvoort laughingly admits Peter, the group’s main songwriter, didn’t think of the tune’s radio potential when he wrote it. “It’s a song about a bad experience and certain people in the music industry,” he said, referring to the technically lacking American producer who took their money and left them with a less than professional record.

“It’s about our frustration. We never thought of it as a single. ... The song is what it is. Peter’s not changing the lyrics. We’re not that kind of band.”

Teenage Kicks only appears briefly in an on-TV cameo spot in the video for S--t Eater, which focuses

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Jeff and Peter van Helvoort of Teenage Kicks perform in a long lineup of bands Friday, Nov. 28, at The Vat in Red Deer. on nihilistic adolescents hanging out, lighting firecrackers, and generally doing the dumb things certain teenagers do.

It’s not autobiographical, said van Helvoort, who noted “we leave (the song’s) interpretation up to the people who make the videos.”

The Toronto-based van Helvoort brothers grew up with a dad who sang in cover bands. He introduced them to the music of the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, the Who and the Band. They later melded these older rock styles with their own appreciation of Nirvana, Oasis and Pearl Jam. The resulting Spoils of Youth album represents “songs of hope, desire, love, and hate” that are infused with a certain desperate edginess. Van Helvoort said the goal was to capture the spark of a live performance while staying true to the feelings behind the songs.

The band, named for a Jack Kerouac reference

and a hit song by The Overtones, started in 2010. Following the departure of two band members last year, it’s now reduced to just the two brothers and hired musicians that will round out this tour of western North America.

Van Helvoort hopes to come across the right mix of talents and personalities to bring new band members onboard soon. In the meantime, there’s more driving to do and cities to conquer before and after the group reaches Red Deer.

“We’ll be playing in Detroit, Chicago, St. Louis, Milwaukee, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle ... I’ve always wanted to do a U.S. road trip, and I guess that’s what this is.”

The concert at The Vat also features The Ataris, Hot Panda, the local band The Deer Kills and others. It starts at 8 p.m. Tickets are $15 from 53rd Street Music, The Soundhouse or the venue. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

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she meets at a bar. “What’s wrong with that?”

“There’s a lot wrong with that,” the female therapist replies. “And it makes me worry about you.”

Charlie cuts the session short (with a flippant remark about orgasms) because there are more pressing concerns: each morning she blows into Langley at 2 a.m. to orchestrate her team of whip-smart intelligence briefers. Together, in a flurry of Aaron Sorkin-style repartee that turns out to be one of the episode’s highlights, Charlie’s team prepares the morning intelligence report that she — after changing into even higher heels — delivers in person each morning to President Constance Payton (Alfre Woodard).

There’s quite a bit of recent his-

tory to be told in flashback here, as a prime-time viewer these days must surely expect: a year earlier, Charlie accompanied then-Congresswoman Payton on a delegation trip to Kabul, where their motorcade was ambushed.

In a confusing hail of bullets, both women managed to escape, but Payton’s son, who also happened to be Charlie’s fiance, was killed. Payton (a war veteran; a detail that is much more intriguing than the fact she is a black female president) went on to win the election, relying on Charlie to bring her no-nonsense, unfiltered information from the CIA.

press kit for a movie like Mockingjay — by visiting a field hospital, receiving a welcome one might expect for Eleanor Roosevelt or Joan of Arc. As a charismatic figure, Katniss is a singularly reticent and unsmiling one: She’s uncertain whether the allies she made during the Hunger Games have all died, and she’s in particular mourning for Peeta (Josh Hutcherson), from whom she became separated during the last chapter. Even her best friend, Gale (Liam Hemsworth), can’t seem to shake her out of her lugubrious mood.

One of the only seemingly spontaneous moments in Mockingjay occurs when Katniss travels to her ravaged home in District 12 to retrieve her beloved sister’s pet cat.

“You’re breakin’ my heart,” she mutters when she stuffs the squalling creature into her bag. It’s just the kind of irreverent line that one would expect from Lawrence, the bold, often recklessly unpredictable young actress who has become fused with the literary heroine of a generation. As ever, Lawrence is not only the best thing about Mockingjay, but also probably the one thing that makes an otherwise dreary, derivatively dystopian franchise worth watching. Even trudging through the post-industrial carnage

and underground bunkers of the film’s blighted universe, she radiates remarkable humanity and light.

That’s all the more remarkable considering how much time she’s forced to spend crying, scowling and looking steely eyed into cameras — which, as in Lawrence’s real life, are omnipresent. Like the actress herself, Katniss isn’t one for cutesy, canned promo shots. But she knows the value of projecting the right persona. Even though her stylist, Cinna (Lenny Kravitz), is no more, Effie Trinket (Elizabeth Banks) is on hand, a bit more drab for the wear but armed with cool designs for Katniss’s next incarnation as the messianic icon of a new world order. “We will make you the best dressed rebel in history,” Effie coos. “Everyone’s going to want to kiss you, kill you or be you.”

Such is the stuff that all girls’ dreams are made of.

Perhaps the cleverest feat of the Hunger Games epic has been to marry so seamlessly the shallow values of our own image-driven culture, the virtues

of fashion at its most self-expressive, classic anti-authoritarian political ideals and the irresistible, ungovernable force that is female adolescence.

Lawrence’s Katniss is the perfect foil for all four, her raw-boned beauty, strength and steady focus just as compelling, at their most unadorned, as when they’re tricked out for maximum stage presence.

Directed by Francis Lawrence from a script by Peter Craig and Danny Strong, Mockingjay gains steam as it goes. Its retro-futuristic aesthetic lacks the flamboyance of past installments, but possesses its own grim integrity, and even contains one authentically shocking reversal that bears more than a whiff of a Manchurian Candidate-like menace.

It’s a joyless, surpassingly dour enterprise, but one that fulfills its mission with Katniss’s own eagle-eyed efficiency and unsentimental somberness. Mockingjay sets up the end Game with a grim sense of purpose.

As the movie opens, the series’ heroine, Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence), is being held at a rebel outpost in District 13, where precinct President Alma Coin — played by Julianne Moore with silver-haired seriousness — is seeking to galvanize the remaining districts to overtake the capital city and rid the nation, Panem, of its fascistic leader, President Snow (Donald Sutherland).

Katniss, having just destroyed the sadistic Hunger Games by way of her steady aim with a bow and arrow, is the obvious choice to rally the rebels. As Plutarch Heavensbee (Philip Seymour Hoffman) keeps insisting to Coin, Katniss has just the “anger-driven defiance” to be the perfect face of the burgeoning revolution.

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“Do you consider yourself sexually irresponsible?” asks Charlie’s therapist in a scene at the beginning of the first episode — a scene that is no doubt meant to convey to the viewer TV’s refrain that a successful Washington woman nearly always has a dark or troubled side. (She comes with or acquires a slew of personal problems, or has a history of mental illness, or, as with ABC’s Scandal lately, must endure the daddy of all daddy issues.)

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It wants the frantic-manic adrenaline rush of Homeland mixed with just a hint of the wink-wink confidence that comes with Scandal. This new show is a deadly serious enterprise that believes it’s about national security but is, in fact, about a broadcast network wanting to do everything the premium cable channels get to do, minus the nudity.

Barring that, State of Affairs seems happy to lift only what it needs from the steamy Book of Shonda (Rhimes, that is), and for the most part, the result is not entirely objectionable, unless you are among those objecting to shows that stereotype Islam or hint at taboo sex acts between strangers in prime time.

In any event, State of Affairs is a welcome upgrade for NBC, which has put forth fairly good action dramas (The Blacklist, Hannibal) but, as recently as last spring, was trying to sell viewers a dumb show (Crisis) about the terrorist kidnapping of a busload of very important Washington teenagers. With State of Affairs, we’re in noticeably improved territory, thanks mainly to an all-in performance from Heigl, a Grey’s Anatomy alum making her return to television after some ups and downs both on the movie screen and in celebrityville.

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found lacking in Ronald Reagan’s 1980s America.

Similarly, Nichols’ 2001 TV adaptation of the play Wit packed biting levity within the stark story of a college professor dying of ovarian cancer.

Nichols, who won directing Emmys for both Angels in America and Wit, said he liked stories about the real lives of real people and that humour inevitably pervades even the bleakest of such tales.

“I have never understood people dividing things into dramas and comedies,” Nichols said in a 2004 interview with The Associated Press. “There are more laughs in Hamlet than many Broadway comedies.”

He was a wealthy, educated man who often mocked those just like him, never more memorably than in The Graduate, which shot Dustin Hoffman to

fame in the 1967 story of an earnest young man rebelling against his elders’ expectations. Nichols himself would say that he identified with Hoffman’s awkward, perpetually flustered Benjamin Braddock.

Mixing farce and Oedipal drama, Nichols managed to capture a generation’s discontent without ever mentioning Vietnam, civil rights or any other issues of the time. But young people laughed hard when a family friend advised Benjamin that the road to success was paved with “plastics” or at Benjamin’s lament that he felt like life was “some kind of game, but the rules don’t make any sense to me. They’re being made up by all the wrong people. I mean no one makes them up. They seem to make themselves up.”

“I am going to end every single one of their lives,” Charlie replies.

“That’s my girl,” the president says.

Ridiculous dialogue, yes, but squarely within the realm of the present sisterhood. In addition to Olivia and Carrie and Charlie (if State of Affairs lasts in the ratings), there is the blackhearted Claire Underwood and the uncomfortably ambitious (and not-so-dearly departed) investigative reporter Zoe Barnes of Netflix’s morosely corrupt House of Cards.

Lately they’ve all been testing our boundaries (and inspiring extensive commentary) when it comes to “good” and “bad” behavior as it is perceived through our personal filters of modern womanhood and feminism. Did Homeland’s Carrie essentially abandon her baby for her career obsessions? Did she really just seduce Hassani’s naive young nephew to turn him into a CIA operative? Why do these actions upset us if a woman character does them as opposed to when a man does them?

“There are only wrong choices, and it’s like I’m finally seeing them now for the first time,” Carrie said on Sunday night’s episode of Homeland, once she had recovered from a psychotic episode brought on by the tampering of her medications and returned to the more manageable anxiety of the situation room, with its drone cams and trigger fingers and barked obscenities. “Nothing good can happen in this f------up world we’ve made for ourselves.”

There’s something gratifying about seeing Carrie excel at her job even when it seems she has no business being in the thick of it. She challenges our notions of capability and performance.

Elizabeth McCord, the highly capable secretary of state played by Tea Leoni on CBS’s interesting

but uneven Sunday-night drama Madam Secretary, stands somewhat apart from the other Washington women holding our attention.

Acting almost as a kindred spirit of C.J. Cregg, the beloved White House press secretary and chief of staff played by Allison Janney on The West Wing (a type of tough and reliable Washington woman fans still long for), McCord seems to have what could be viewed as a relatively sane experience of motherhood and marriage, as far as one-hour dramas go.

Normality could in fact be Madam Secretary’s undoing in the ratings game. Her situation room and diplomatic emergencies are just as frantic as those of her make-believe peers, but her personal life simply isn’t bonkers enough to lure more viewers.

It’s difficult to compare and contrast this particular group of characters without sounding like a student grasping at a cheap thesis statement the night before the term paper is due. Often, the best response to these shows, other than to celebrate the increase in shows about women, is to revel in their collective ability — freedom? permission? — to be every bit as flawed as the male characters so often associated with Washington’s spies, spooks, dirty players and other anti-heroic rogues.

In State of Affairs, Heigl’s Charlie offers a facsimile of the Carrie Mathison-style problem employee who is nevertheless the smartest person in the situation room — which invites the predictable scorn of a colleague who fears her and loathes her: “You must be one of the most obnoxious creatures, male or female, currently roaming the planet,” he tells Charlie.

“I might be less so,” she replies, “if I didn’t have to do everyone’s job for them, Steve.”

And that is why Charlie goes to therapy: her doctor is trying to help her sort through the grief and possible post-traumatic stress, while also possibly coaxing Charlie to recover some of the details she has repressed about the attack.

Both Charlie and the president are fixated on finding and killing terrorist leader Omar Abdul Fatah, whom they believe was behind the attack.

You’ve met Fatah before, in many other showbiz guises of the post-9/11-era villain; Hollywood will never stop putting forth this particular specter of the most-wanted Islamic extremist, nor does it have any motivation to stop, so long as actual headlines deliver on the promise. Only recently have shows like State of Affairs and Homeland made timely reference to the Islamic State and other threats that come in the form of movements, rather than lean on the trope of an Osama bin Laden-style mastermind, but it’s a hard habit to break. Carrie and her colleagues on Showtime’s Homeland are also in pursuit of yet another such figure — Haissam Haqqani, the terrorist leader holding Saul Berenson prisoner somewhere near the Pakistan/Afghanistan border, but let’s be GALAXY CINEMAS RED DEER honest: Haqqani’s no Abu 357-37400 HWY 2, RED DEER COUNTY 403-348-2357 Nazir, and these characters rarely rise above a SHOWTIMES FOR FRIDAY NOVEMBER 21, 2014 TO cliche.

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Mike Nichols, the director of matchless versatility who brought fierce wit, caustic social commentary and wicked absurdity to such films, TV and stage hits as The Graduate, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Angels in America and Monty Python’s Spamalot, has died. He was 83.

The death was confirmed by ABC News President James Goldston on Thursday. Nichols died Wednesday evening.

The family will hold a private service this week; a memorial will be held at a later date, Goldston said.

During a career spanning more than 50 years, Nichols, who was married to ABC’s Diane Sawyer, managed to be both an insider and outsider, an occasional White House guest and friend to countless celebrities who was as likely to satirize the elite as he was to mingle with them. A former stand-up performer who began his career in a groundbreaking comedy duo with Elaine May and whose work brought him an Academy Award, a Grammy and multiple Tony and Emmy honours, Nichols had a remarkable gift for mixing edgy humour and dusky drama.

“No one was more passionate than Mike,” Goldston wrote in an email announcing Nichols’ death.

Meryl Streep, whose films for Nichols included Silkwood and Heartburn, said he was “an inspiration and joy to know, a director who cried when he laughed ... an indelible, irreplaceable man.”

Director Steven Spielberg called Nichols “a friend, a muse, a mentor, one of America’s all-time greatest film and stage directors.”

And Tom Hanks, who starred in Nichols’ Charlie Wilson’s War, quoted him as saying, “Forward! We must always move forward. Otherwise, what will become of us?”

His 1966 film directing debut Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? unforgettably captured the vicious yet sparkling and sly dialogue of Edward Albee’s play, as a couple (Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor) torment each other over deep-seated guilt and resentment.

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GREENWOOD Donald “Gordon” Greenwood was born Sept. 27, 1944 in Trochu, AB to William “Bill” and Rhona Greenwood. He unexpectedly passed away, amidst a brief battle with cancer, in Edmonton, AB on Nov. 15, 2014 at 70 years of age. Gordon will be lovingly remembered and dearly missed by his wife of almost 33 years, Susan; son, Al (Joanne) and their children, Charlee, Casey and Luke; daughter, Karin (Paul) Nicholson and their children, Kade and Hannah; brothers, Hugh (Marilyn), Wally and Dale; mother-in-law, Pauline Dykstra; brother-in-law, Ken (Connie) Dykstra; numerous nieces, nephews, neighbors and friends. Gordon was predeceased by his daughter, Monique Greenwood (1990); parents, William & Rhona; and father-in-law, Arnold Dykstra. A funeral service will be held Monday, Nov. 24, 2014, 2:00 p.m. at Provost Recreation & Cultural Center, 5113-43 St., Provost, AB. For more information or to leave a condolence, please visit, www.gregorysfuneralhomes.com

MAURIER Leon Joseph 1944 - 2014 I said “God please take him and wrap him in your arms” and he did. On Sunday, November 16th, 2014 Leon passed away with his family at his side holding his hands and holding the space of love and comfort. Leon grew up in Castor AB, and in 1969 he married his sweet heart Donna. They were blessed with two beautiful children Nolin and Nicole, and were later gifted with two loving grandchildren Abigail and Sage. Leon was a dedicated Realtor in Red Deer for 17 years, and passed the real estate torch to both of his kids. Leon was loved by many and his kind heart and friendly ways made it really easy to be his friend. His greatest treasure in life was his family and he showed his dedication by attending all of their events, watching soccer games, and enjoying every holiday throughout the years.

He was a kind gentle soul, and was always willing to share a story, or his funny humor, or his signature crooked smile. Leon was one of a kind and he will be greatly missed by his family and friends. Leon’s Celebration of Life will be held on Sunday, November 23, 2014 at the Black Knight Inn, 2929-50 Avenue, Red Deer, Alberta at 1:00 pm. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made directly to the Pulmonary Hypertension Association of Canada, Suite 208, 1311 - Howe Street, Vancouver BC V6Z 2P3. (phcanada.ca).

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PATON Gordon 1936 - 2014 Mr. Gordon ‘Gord’ Paton of Red Deer, Alberta passed away at the Red Deer Hospice on Tuesday, November 18, 2014 at the age of 78 years.

Gord was born in Fernie, British Columbia on April 30, 1936 and was raised in Delburne, Alberta. He lived in Red Deer since he was a teenager.

Poor vision restricted his career choices, but Gord was able to follow his dreams and become a chef in Red Deer and up north in various camps.

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For the past twenty-five years, Gord has been a practicing Massage Therapist until retiring in November 2013. Gord always maintained that he had done everything in life that he wanted. He loved his family and he loved everyone he came in contact with. Gordon will be lovingly remembered by his wife, Audrey Paton; son, Shane Cordell; daughter, Tanya Cordell (Peter Llewellyn); grandchildren, Rhea, Chelsey, Shelby, Rebecca, Ryley, Kaitlin and Tristan; and great grandchild, Xander. He will also be sadly missed by his brother, Bert (Ruth) Paton; sister, Sandy Green (Lyle McKenna); as well as numerous nieces, nephews and good friends. Gordon was predeceased by his parents, George and Mary Paton, and a brother, Chris Paton. A Celebration of Gord’s Life will be held at the iHotel, 6500 - 67 Street, Red Deer, Alberta on Saturday, November 22, 2014 at 11:00 a.m. If desired, in place of flowers, Memorial Donations in Gord’s honor may be made directly to the Red Deer Hospice Society at www.reddeerhospice.com; to the Canadian Cancer Society at www.cancer.ca or to the Red Deer & District S.P.C.A. at www.reddeerspca.com.

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RAYCRAFT Robert Born in Monkton, Ontario June 11, 1937 - Nov.17, 2014 Bob passed away at Southwood Hospice in Calgary, with his family at his side, after a courageous fight against cancer at the age of 77 years. Bob spent most of his life in Alberta. However, he frequently travelled to Ontario to visit his brothers and sisters (he was from a family of 16!). The last few years he enjoyed spending winters at Big Bend Resort, California and meeting many new friends. Bob will be missed by his daughters Debbie (Randy) Rehn and Kathy (Kevin) Hildebrand. Son Rob Raycraft (Tammy) Tyler, Sarah, Evan. Grandchildren Kurt and Karys Hildebrand.

Please join us to Celebrate dads life will on Sunday, December 21, 2014 at East 40 (3811-40th Ave, Red Deer) from 12:00 to 3:00 p.m. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to Southwood Hospice Calgary, 211 Heritage Dr. Calgary, AB T2H 1M9. Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.edenbrookcemetery.ca.

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STEELE Dustin Joshua Aug. 28, 1991 - Nov. 1, 2014 It is with great sadness that we share the loss of our beloved Dustin who was taken tragically in Northern B.C. on Saturday, November 1, 2014. Dustin will forever be missed by his father Dwaune (Cathy), mother Gail (Dean Johnston); sisters Breann (Doug), Rayona; brothers, Joshua, Jordan and Austin; nieces, Janessa and Malia; beloved girlfriend Stephanie Mulhall and her son Mannix and a special little one Dakota Nova. Also mourning Dustin’s loss are his grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins and friends.

Dustin’s Celebration of Life will be held Friday, November 28, 2014 at 2 pm in Festival Hall, Red Deer. A short program followed by a social time of celebratory stories and memories.

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WALIN Sheila Marie 1933 - 2014 It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our mom and grandma Sheila Marie Walin (Lee) on November 17, 2014 of Red Deer at the Red Deer Hospice. Sheila was born in Lacombe to John and Mabel Lee and was one of eight children. She was predeceased by her Father, Mother, and her siblings June, Art, Ida, Ken and Ernie and the love of her life Walter Walin. She is lovingly survived by her son John, daughters JoAnne (Chris), Vicki (Len), Elaine (Randy). She also is survived by her grandchildren Erik, Tara, Niki and, Ashton.

Great-grandchildren Ranell, Katie, Kendra, Degan, two sisters Audrey and Ruth and numerous nieces and nephews. Sheila married Walter Walin in 1952 and farmed in the Clive area until they retired. They were both avid bikers and on their 50th wedding anniversary Walt and Sheila travelled on a brand new Honda Goldwing 1800 trike, with trailer, from Alberta to Newfoundland and back taking in bike rallies and camping out along the way.

Their trip lasted two and a half months and Sheila loved every minute of it. Sheila was an active member in the Christian Motorcycle Association where she met a great many good friends. She loved them dearly. Other passions included her artistry, flowers, collecting rocks and most of all her Christianity. Strong and devoted she never gave up hope about the good in people and good things that people can do. A memorial service will be held at the Deer Park Alliance Church, 2960 - 39th St. Red Deer at 2:00 pm on November 27, 2014. In lieu of flowers the Walin family asks that you please help support the Red Deer Hospice Society to provide for the care and needs of the terminally ill and their families. Red Deer Hospice Society, 99 Arnot Ave., Red Deer, T4R 3S6 www.reddeerhospice.com RED DEER FUNERAL HOME & CREMATORIUM in charge of arrangements.

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Farm Work

755

FARM/FEEDLOT LOOKING FOR FULL TIME/ YEAR ROUND EMPLOYEE. 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.†

Oilfield

800

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

RED DEER ADVOCATE Friday, Nov. 21, 2014 D5

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.

Associated industry experience eg. instrumentation or facilities construction experience would be an asset but is not necessarily required.

This position offers a diverse and challenging work environment with competitive pay, attractive benefits and the ability to grow within the organization. Applicants must live 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 Mail: Suite 5309, 333 96th Ave NE Calgary, Alberta T3R 1H1

Oilfield

800

Oilfield

800

NOW ACCEPTING RESUMES FOR

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 .

TANKMASTER RENTALS req’s Exp’d Class 1 Fluid Haulers for Central Alberta. Oilfield tickets req’d. Competitive salary and job bonuses. Resume to terry@tankmaster.ca or fax 403-340-8818

Professionals

810

For Red Deer area.

Currently looking for qualified individuals to fill the following career opportunities:

NOW HIRING

Well Testing Personnel Experienced Supervisors & Operators Must have valid applicable tickets. Email: lstouffer@ testalta.com

Resource Development Associate Resource Development Assistant Regional Development Officer

PRODUCTION TESTING EXPERIENCED SUPERVISORS and TESTERS Day & Night Must have tickets.

Top paid wages.

Based out of Devon, AB. Email resume to: kathy@dragonsbreathpt.ca

Professionals

810

Nonprofit requires coordinator with excellent organizational and networking skills to develop and manage the local chapter of the Tetra Society. Responsibilities include community outreach, volunteer management, implementing assistive device projects for people with physical disabilities.

Flexible, part-time hours, honorarium. Please reply with cover letter/resume to: info@tetrasociety.org

Restaurant/ Hotel

820

F/T front desk agent req’d.

Must be avail. to work weekends. Please apply in person at Super 8 City Centre, 4217 50 Ave. R.D.

Fax resume & abstract to 403-885-0473 email: info@trysonenergy.com No phone calls please.

Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds

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

Oilfield

For more information, please visit caunitedway.ca/ about-united-way/ career-opportunities

Restaurant/ Hotel

JJAM Management (1987) Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s Requires to work at these Red Deer, AB locations: 5111 22 St. 37444 HWY 2 S 37543 HWY 2N 700 3020 22 St. FOOD ATTENDANT Req’d permanent shift weekend day and evening both full and part time.

16 Vacancies, $10.20/hr. + benefits. Start ASAP. Job description www.timhortons.com Education and experience not req’d.

Apply in person or fax resume to: 403-314-1303

820

800

Now Hiring VALVE TECHNICIAN/SHOP ASSISTANTS

GASOLINE ALLEY LOCATION

Isolation Equipment Services Inc. an expanding Oil Service Company is willing to train the right candidates as valve technicians and/or shop assistants in its fast and mechanical environment.

FULL TIME and PART TIME SHIFTS AVAILABLE

Fax: (403) 347-3406 Email: l.enzie@isolationequipment.com or drop by #239 Clearview Drive Clearview Industrial Park Red Deer County

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Benefits: • Excellent hourly wage • Lucrative Safety Bonus and Christmas bonus • Excellent benefit plan • Retirement plan Fax or email your resume and driver’s abstract to:

820

850

Machinists.

• 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

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

800

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

860

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.

Misc.

Help

880

Truckers/ Drivers

860

HALLCON is seeking qualified drivers to transport rail crews throughout Red Deer area.

Drivers are ideally based out of RED DEER. No overnight stays required.

This position is an on call position. Employees are responsible for taking trips during the period they have designated themselves available to do so. Transportation is done in Hallcon company vehicles. Vehicles are extensively & consistently maintained ensuring optimal safety for drivers and clients. Drivers must possess valid Class 1, 2, or 4 license, with clean driver abstract. Assisted licensing upgrade to achieve a class 4 is available. Pay is based at a rate of $16.00. Earning potential is based on your availability, as our operation runs on a 24/7 on call basis. Both full time and part time employees are welcome. Semiretired, retired, full time, part time employees are welcome. Forward resumes & current driver abstract: Shane Flack asmabnorth@gmail.com.

Business Opportunities

870

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

Misc.

Help

880

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

DO YOU: - Want extra income - Know the city well - Possess a clean, valid drivers license - Have a friendly attitude - Enjoy customer service - Want part-time work (12 to 22 hrs/week) 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.

Please apply with resume to: qmacaulay@reddeeradvocate.com or call 403-314-4302 and speak with Grant.

We thank all applicants for their interest; however only selected candidates will be contacted.

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EXPERIENCED MOTOR COACH DRIVERS

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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.

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FRACTURING, CEMENTING & COILED TUBING SERVICES

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Sanjel has growth opportunities available for outstanding individuals. Bring your expertise, commitment to safety and passion for excellence to work as part of our team.

We reward our employees’ contributions with competitive salaries and benefits, leading edge training and development, and opportunities for career advancement.

Speak to a Sanjel Recruiter at 1.800.9SANJEL, go to sanjel.com/careers to apply online, or drop off your resume and driver’s abstract at: CEMENTING & COILED TUBING: 8051 Edgar Industrial Drive, Red Deer, AB T4P-3R2 FRACTURING: 4100 - 77th Street, Red Deer, AB T4P-3P7

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• • • •

860

FULL TIME - Permanent BUSY Central Alberta Brewer needed for Grain Trucking Company Drummond Brewing looking for Class 1 Drivers Company Ltd located in and/or Lease Operators.

8 6610 71 Street, We offer lots of home time, Red Deer, AB T4P 3Y7. benefits and a bonus TAP HOUSE Start Date: ASAP program. Grain and super NORTH Main Duties include: B exp. an asset but not (formerly Sam’s Cafe) is Operate machinery to necessary. If you have a now taking applications for clean commercial drivers Full Time/Part time COOK, process and bottle, can or otherwise package beer, abstract and would like to Bring resume to Observe gauges, computer start making good money.

7101 Gaetz Ave. Red Deer printouts and video fax or email resume and between 2-4 pm. monitors to verify specified comm.abstract to 403-337-3758 or dtl@telus.net processing conditions, THE RUSTY PELICAN Maintain shift log of is now accepting resumes CLASS 1 DRIVER production and other for experienced with super B and grain data, Set up and adjust F/T SERVERS hauling experience for Must have Ref’s & Pro-Serve. processing and packaging Central AB. Call Wayne machines, Check products Apply within: 2079-50 403-341-9113 for defects and to ensure Ave. 2-4 pm. Mon.-Fri. conformance to company Celebrate your life Fax 403-347-1161 Phone standards, Perform calls WILL NOT be accepted. with a Classified Corrective Machine ANNOUNCEMENT adjustments, clean tanks and immediate work areas, CLASS 1 or 3 drivers req’d Brewing beer, transferring for moving equipment. beer, filtering.

Resumes to be dropped off Education: Completion of at Key Towing. 4083-78 St. high school - Experience: Cres. Red Deer.

Minimum 6 months of THE RUSTY PELICAN experience as a machine GARNET’S is now accepting resumes operator or labourer in for an EXPERIENCED OILFIELD TRUCKING beverage or associated BARTENDER. MUST is looking for products are required, on HAVE REFERENCES. CLASS 1 PICKER Able to work evening shift. the job training in brewery OPERATORS, will be provided. Specific Apply within: 2079-50 BED TRUCK DRIVERS & experience as a brewer Ave. 2-4 pm. Mon.-Fri. WINCH TRUCK DRIVERS is a definitive asset but Fax 403-347-1161 Phone to join our growing company. not required. calls WILL NOT be accepted.

Competitive wages and Salary: $18.45 to $23.00 benefits. Must pass prefor 42.00 Hours per week. employment substance We provide disability screening. Fax or email benefits, uniforms, meals Trades resumes, drivers abstract and transportation & safety tickets Apply by e-mail to: 403-346-8992 ADVANTAGE VALVE cody@ admin@garnetstrucking.com MAINTENANCE & RENTALS drummondbeer.com, mail No phone calls.

LTD. IS HIRING (address above) Valve Technicians Buying or Selling knowledgeable in API, ANSI your home? and Actuated Valves Check out Homes for Sale with the ability to deal with in Classifieds customers in service.

NEWCART Entry Level positions NEED EXPERIENCED is looking for a full time are also available Oilfield Class 1 drivers for short Landscape Labourer, and long haul. Full Time. experience would as soon as possible. be a great asset. We offer Runs AB., SASK, Manitoba Duties will include: cutting competitive wages and a & BC. Please call grass, raking, litter removal, full benefit package with PROMAX TRANSPORT 100% prescription coverage. fertilizing, watering, snow at 227-2712 or fax resume clearing, operating light Please forward a resume w/abstract 403-227-2743 and heavy duty machinery, to Advantage Valve Looking for a place maintaining property either via e-mail at: to live? maintenance equipment, sbowman Take a tour through the general yard maintenance @advantagevalve.com CLASSIFIEDS etc. This position will cliff@advantagevalve.com require some evenings, or fax resume to our RECYLCLE SORTERS weekends, early mornings.

Sylvan Lake branch.

F/T, required Immed. in 2 years experience 1 Charles Industrial Way Red Deer. Email resume minimum required.

Sylvan Lake, Alberta Hourly wage is $23-$25.00 with a min. of 2 references.

Tel: 403-887-1462 to: canpak@xplornet.ca depending on experience.

Fax: 403-887-1463 Benefits available after 3 www.advantagevalve.com Classifieds month probation period.

Only qualified applicants Your place to SELL will be notified.

Your place to BUY Please submit resumes to: resumes EVRAZ @newcartcontracting.com Misc.

Red Deer Works or fax to 403-729-2396. is now accepting Help NO phone calls please. applications for You can sell your guitar Journeyman for a song...

Millwrights, or put it in CLASSIFIEDS Electricians, and and we’ll sell it for you!

T EXTRA MILE THE IS WHERE WE BEGIN

Wise Intervention Services Inc. is now hiring for the following positions:

Truckers/ Drivers

P/T COOK WANTED ~ Weekends. Phone Donnetta @ Red Deer Bingo Centre 403-347-4504

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

Oilfield

850

Trades

880

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Duties include but not limited to the following: • Assembling and repairing control valves/frac heads • Calibration, testing and troubleshooting of valves as well as measurement and valve related instruments • Disassembly, cleanup and evaluation of parts • Signing and documenting date compliance sheets • Pressure testing processes with experience, will train • Forklift experience/loader experience, will train • Must be 18 years of age or older to apply • Must supply driver’s abstract

Restaurant/ Hotel

437627L20

800

Do you have what it takes to be a WISE Guy?

HEAVY DUTY MECHANIC REQUIRED

Will consider either full or part time. Previous motor coach repair experience preferred.

MOTOR COACH CLEANER

467068K18

Oilfield

Part time position. Shop is located 6 miles from Red Deer. Applicants must have own transportation and be able to work flexible schedule.

email or fax resume to: frontbus@platinum.ca 403-347-4999

www.frontierbuslines.com

Trades

850

STUDON Electric & Controls Inc. is one of Canada’s Best Managed Companies. We are an industry leading Electrical & Instrumentation Contractor that prides itself in having committed and dedicated employees.

We are currently hiring for the position of:

JOURNEYMAN INSTRUMENTATION TECHNICIAN (Full-Time; Red Deer Area)

The ideal candidate will have the following: • Journeyman Instrumentation • Fall Protection, CSTS (Version 0.9) • Strong written and verbal communication skills • Committed dedication to safety; reflected in practice and experience • Strong focus on customer satisfaction • A team player with strong people skills

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.

40 Hour Week / Monday – Thursday

21 and 14 or 15 and 6 day rotations are offered. Wise will also provide any oilfield tickets needed.

For more information see:

STUDON offers a competitive salary, and an opportunity to apply your skills in a challenging and rewarding environment.

Please forward your resume to the address below. We thank all applicants for their interest; however only those candidates interviewed will be contacted.

Please note: This job posting closes on November 7th, 2014

Starting Rate: $43.06/hour

STUDON Electric & Controls Inc. ATTN: Andrea Mercer Fax # 403-342-6505 Email hr@studon.com

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Please Forward All Resumes to jobs@wiseisi.com or by fax to 403-340-1046

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$$$ EARN $$$ $$ EXTRA MONEY $$

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ACADEMIC Express ADULT EDUCATION AND TRAINING

WINTER START GED Preparation Would you like to take the GED in your community?

Red Deer Rocky Mtn. House Rimbey Caroline Castor Sylvan Lake Innisfail Stettler Ponoka Lacombe Gov’t of Alberta Funding may be available.

403-340-1930 www.academicexpress.ca 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. 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 SHRUMS MEATS HIRING EXP’D. BUTCHER, $20-$30/hr.

Phone 1-403-742-1427 or fax 403-742-1429

880

FUNERAL ASSISTANT

LEVEL 1 ENFORM CHAINSAW BASICS. 403-505-7297

Eventide Funeral Chapel is currently recruiting a part-time Funeral Assistant.

We offer a positive working environment and are devoted to providing quality service to our customers.

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Firewood

1660

AFFORDABLE Spruce & Pine -Split. Firepits avail. 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472

LOGS

DINING set, pine wood, 4 chairs, 38”x72” with 18” leaf, good cond. $200.

403-346-0124

1580

1630

1700

1710

1660

Employment Training

900

SAFETY

Advocate Opportunities

MORRISROE AREA:

“Low Cost” Quality Training

Adult Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the RED DEER ADVOCATE

24 Hours Toll Free 1.888.533.4544

With only 64 papers, approximately: $350.00/mo.

TRAINING CENTRE OILFIELD TICKETS

Industries #1 Choice!

403.341.4544

R H2S Alive (ENFORM) R First Aid/CPR R Confined Space R WHMIS & TDG R Ground Disturbance R (ENFORM) D&C B.O.P. R D&C (LEL) #204, 7819 - 50 Ave. (across from Totem) (across from Rona North)

For More Information, Please call Prodie 403-314-4301

CARRIERS REQUIRED To deliver the

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Classes Starting Soon!

Please call Rick for details 403-314-4303

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www.academyoflearning.ab.ca

RED DEER ADVOCATE 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

SEALY Queen size mattress, boxspring, headboard, & frame. $100.

ALSO HAVE: 4 drawer dresser for $30 & a pair of lamps for $20.

Delivery Avail.

403-346-0674 or cell 403-392-5657

WANTED

Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514

1760

Misc. for Sale

CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS Large Box Full. Some new in boxes. $25. 403-314-9603

WESTPARK 41 & 42 St. ALSO 55 & 56 Ave. For more information or to apply call Joanne at the Red Deer Advocate 403-314-4308

SAMSONITE SUIT BAG green in colour, good cond. $10. 403-314-9603

1810

Pets & Supplies

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

1830

Cats

2 BALINESE KITTENS 1 SNOWSHOE SIAMESE 3 BURMAN $25/ea. 403-887-3649 BEAUTIFUL kittens, (3) desperately needs loving homes.

403-782-3130

1840

Dogs

REG’D BOXER PUPPIES, from Champion health tested parents, 403-340-3506 after 6 p.m.

CARRIERS NEEDED FOR FLYERS, FRIDAY FORWARD & EXPRESS

3 days per week, no weekends

Abbot Close/Allan St. Addinell Close/Allan St. Adamson Ave/Arthur Close Alwright Close Anderson Close Anquetel Close

3020

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 SYLVAN LAKE: fully furnished, inclds dishes, bedding, utils. Avail. Now! $1200. 403-880-0210.

Condos/ Townhouses

3030

INGLEWOOD POINT 2 bdrm, 2 bath condo. Heated parking & all utils. incl. $1450.

403-350-3722/780-479-1522

NEWLY RENOVATED 1 & 2 bedroom suites available in central location. Heat & water included. Cat friendly.

86 Bell Street, Red Deer leasing@rentmidwest.com 1(888) 679-8031 PENHOLD 1 bdrm., incl. heat/water, 4 appls. $760 avail. Dec., 403-348-6594

THE NORDIC

1 bdrm. adult building, N/S. No pets.

403-596-2444

Roommates Wanted

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Realtors & Services

4010

3080

QUITE home for working M/F, utils. wifi incl. N/S, $500/mo. 403-506-1907

3090

Rooms For Rent

ROOM TO RENT very large $450. 403-350-4712

HERE TO HELP & HERE TO SERVE Call GORD ING at RE/MAX real estate central alberta 403-341-9995 gord.ing@remax.net

SEIBEL PROPERTY

4020

4 Plexes/ 6 Plexes

3050

ATTN INVESTORS

Duplex for sale in Charlottetown, PEI. Exc. rev. prop. 1100 sqft per side 3&2 bdrm; potential for 1 bsmt suite, 1/2 acre propand great location; $245,000. Ph: 403-318-5575 / rodmcdon@hotmail.com

NORMANDEAU 2 Bdrm. 4-plex. 1.5 bath, 4 appls. $1100. No pets, N/S Quiet adults. 403-350-1717

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2014.Dennis 250 863-7979 www.homesreddeer.com $40. for all 3; David Winter N/S, no utils. incl. avail.

Collector’s houses in Dec. 1 original boxes, $25/ea; References required.

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RHINSTONE necklace and www.greatapartments.ca earrings to match from the 1950’s, A1 cond. $75; large stainless steel pot $8; approx.

40 peacock feathers $1/ea.; Manufactured large multi colored flower Homes vase $18, large fruit bowl grape design $10. Magic COUNTRY Mobile Home, Moments - the very pest of near Bentley. $900/mo. + Perry Comeaux, 3 CD’s in d.d., Call 403-748-2678.

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403-346-2231

SEWING machine (Kenmore), computerized; & Husqvarna Serger w/4 spools. Exc. cond. c/w extras (threads, etc.) $500/ea. 403-505-3356

ORIOLE PARK Oliver St. & Odell Gr. ADULT Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the

NIGHT Tables, (2) Red Oak, 1 drawer & 2 doors with glass top to protect from scratches. $75. ea.

403-352-8811

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The following property is offered for sale by tender subject to restrictions in the existing Certificates of Title.

FIRST MERIDIAN 4 RANGE 19 TOWNSHIP 30 SECTION 19 QUARTER NORTH EAST AS SHOWN ON A PLAN OF SURVEY OF THE SAID TOWNSHIP DATED 18 AUGUST 1908 CONTAINING 64.3 HECTARES (159 ACRES) MORE OR LESS EXCEPTING THEREOUT: PLAN NO. (ACRES) MORE OR LESS ROAD WIDENING 1446GW 0.99 EXCEPTING THEREOUT ALL MINES AND MINERALS SECOND MERIDIAN 4 RANGE 19 TOWNSHIP30 SECTION 30 QUARTER SOUTH EAST AS SHOWN ON A PLAN OF SURVEY OF THE SAID TOWNSHIP DATED THE 18TH DAY OF AUGUST 1908 CONTAINING 64.3 HECTARES (159 ACRES) MORE OR LESS EXCEPTING THEREOUT: PLAN NO. ACRES MORE OR LESS ROAD WIDENING 1446GW 0.99 EXCEPTING THEREOUT ALL MINES AND MINERALS THIRD ALL OF SECTION 20 TOWNSHIP 30 RANGE 19 WEST OF THE FOURTH EXCEPTING THEREOUT ALL MINES AND MINERALS ADDITIONAL INFORMATION All the land is located within Starland County. The lands consist of a total 922.66 acres more or less of which 702 acres more or less are cultivated.

The NE ¼ of 20-30-19 W4 has Surface Lease revenue.

The NW ¼ of 20-30-19 W4 contains a 1,446 square foot modular bungalow constructed in 1996 with a cement basement, connected to utilities. Repairs or renovations are required. Contains an existing water well that has not been used for at least 5 years.

CONDITIONS OF SALE Tenders are to be by way of sealed envelope including a letter indicating the following: i). G.S.T. number of the Purchaser. If the Purchaser is registered with G.S.T. then the dollar amount of the G.S.T. does not have to be included in the Tender, however, if the Tenderer is not a G.S.T. registrant then the successful Tenderer must pay the dollar amount of G.S.T. on the purchase price. ii) A certified cheque or money order for 10% of the total tender, as a deposit including G.S.T. if not registered. Cheques are to be made out to Herman, Kloot & Company and dated no later than December 5, 2014. iii) Only the successful Tenderer’s cheque will be negotiated. All other Tenderers’ cheques will be returned. iv) The letter must be an original and contain the signature of the Purchaser. If a corporation is the Tenderer, the legal authority must sign and seal the letter.

Sealed tenders are to be received by no later than 12:00 o’clock noon on December 5, 2014 at the following address: HERMAN, KLOOT & COMPANY Barristers and Solicitors 98 – 3rd Avenue West PO Box 970 Drumheller, Alberta T0J 0Y0 And marked: S & S TENDER Any tender submitted is to be made unconditionally by Tenderer.

Should the successful Tenderer not be able to close the purchase on the possession date, then the 10% deposit is non-refundable and the proceeds will be forfeited to the owners.

The successful Tenderer is to pay the balance of the funds to the seller’s lawyer’s office by close of business on December 20, 2014.

Possession date is January 1, 2015.

The 2014 property taxes will paid by the Owner. The Purchaser shall be responsible for all property taxes commencing 2015.

The Owners will be entitled to the surface lease rental received prior to December 31, 2014. There will be no adjustment for same. Any surface lease payment issued after January 1, 2015 shall be the sole property of the Purchaser.

Each party is responsible for their own legal fees.

Preference will be given to Tenderer who submits a Tender on all parcels. Tenders on individual parcels will be considered. The highest or any Tender may not necessarily be accepted. The Owners reserve the right to reject any and all Tenders or to accept any Tender considered by the Owners to be in the Owners best interest.

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WASHINGTON — Despite a bitter U.S. cold snap, the globe is rushing hell-bent toward its warmest year on record with last month setting the fifth monthly heat record of the year.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Thursday that last month was the hottest October on record worldwide. The 58.43 degrees Fahrenheit (14.74 Celsius) beat out October 2003.

“It is becoming pretty clear that 2014 will end up as the warmest year on record,” said Deke Arndt, climate monitoring chief for NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, North Carolina. “The remaining question is: How much?”

With only two months left in the year, 2014 has now surged ahead as the globe’s warmest year so far, beating 2010 and 1998. So far this year, the world is averaging 58.62 degrees

(14.78 degrees Celsius). If the last two months of the year are only average for the 21st century, it will still be the warmest year ever, Arndt said.

He said this year’s heat is what scientists expect from man-made global warming. Scientists say the burning of coal, oil and gas traps heats, changing the climate. This heat is being driven by incredible warmth in the world’s oceans, Arndt said. The six warmest months on record for the world ocean temperatures have been the last six months. Because oceans are big and slow to change that makes it more likely the world will set a yearly temperature record, he said.

Pennsylvania State University climate scientist Michael Mann said in an email he hopes the new data will put to rest “the silly ongoing claims that global warming has ’stopped’ or that there is a ’hiatus’ in global warming.”

The world is approaching the warmest year “in spite of the U.S. be-

ing pretty cold,” Arndt said. That’s because the United States is only 2 per cent of the world’s area and the part that’s unusually cold is about 1.5 per cent of the entire globe, he said.

It has been so hot in California that there is no way the year will end up not breaking the record for heat in the state, said NOAA climate scientist Jake Crouch.

This year October, September, August, June and May — five of the last six months — set global monthly heat records. April 2014 was the second hottest on record. January, March and July were fourth. February was the 21st warmest.

NASA, Japan’s weather agency and the University of Alabama Huntsville satellite measuring system — which climate skeptics usually use — also called it the hottest October on record.

The globe has broken 37 monthly high temperature records since January 1997, including five this year, according to NOAA.

Protestors, police clash before demonstrations over missing students MEXICO

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Protesters marched in the capital Thursday to demand authorities find 43 missing college students, seeking to pressure the government on a day traditionally reserved for the celebration of Mexico’s 1910-17 Revolution.

Authorities cancelled the traditional Nov. 20 Revolution Day parade, but did not give a reason.

About 200 youthful protesters, some with their faces covered in masks or bandannas, scuffled with police as they tried to block a main expressway to the international airport. Protesters hurled rocks, fireworks and gasoline bombs at the police, at least one of whom was hit by the projectiles.

Some passengers had to walk to the terminal, but flights were not interrupted and expressways were reopened.

Many average people, outraged by the disappearances of the students after a clash with police in the southern city of Iguala, took part in more peaceful marches despite cold weather and a persistent drizzle.

“The entire country is outraged,” said housewife Nora Jaime. “It is not just them,” she added, referring to the 43 missing young men. “There are thousands of disappeared, thousands of clandestine graves, thousands of mothers who don’t know where their children are.”

Jaime clutched a Mexican flag on which the green and red stripes had been dyed black “as a sign of mourning.” She said she joined Thursday’s march because she fears her teenage son could share the same fate. “I am terrified to live in a country like this. I am terrified for my son.”

Maria Teresa Perez attended the march holding aloft a poster with a picture of her son, Jesus Horta Perez, 45, who was kidnapped by armed men from a storefront in a Mexico City suburb in 2009 and has never been heard from again.

“They are shouting about 43, but they should be counting in the thousands, because apart from these 43, there are 33,000 disappeared,” Perez said.

Parents like her have been forced by police inaction to investigate their children’s fate themselves. “All the trails they have come from us, they don’t do anything,” Perez said of the police.

Mexico officially lists 22,322 people as having gone missing since the start of the country’s drug war in 2006. And

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

A demonstrator holds a sign that reads Spanish “Pena Out,” referring to Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto, during a protest for the disappearance of 43 students from the state of Guerrero, in Mexico City, Thursday. the search for the missing students has turned up other, unrelated mass graves Bus caravans carrying the relatives and family members of the 43 missing students converged on the capital after several days crisscrossing the country. The caravans were expected to head three march routes converging on Mexico City’s main square.

The 43 students, who attended a radical rural teachers college, disappeared on Sept. 26, when they went to Iguala in Guerrero state to hijack buses.

Iguala police intercepted them on

the mayor’s orders and turned them over to the criminal group Guerreros Unidos, a gang with ties to the mayor, prosecutors say.

Prosecutors say there is evidence the gang members killed the students and incinerated their remains, but the families have rejected that account and the marches were intended to keep pressure on the government to find them. Prosecutors have sent badly burned bit of bone and teeth found at a garbage dump in Guerrero to a laboratory in Austria to see if any DNA samples can be recovered to help identify the remains.

Kerry arrives in Vienna to join Iran nuclear talks

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS VIENNA, Austria — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry held out hope of a last-minute nuclear deal with Iran Thursday, as he added his diplomatic muscle to talks aimed at overcoming deep differences with Tehran over the size and scope of its future atomic activities.

After landing in Vienna, Kerry met with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Zarif and former EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton on the sidelines of the talks that face a Monday deadline. U.S. officials said he would assess the situation and then decide on additional meetings and whether to stay in Vienna through the weekend. French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius planned to join the talks on Friday along with British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond.

Senior negotiators are working on an agreement to reduce the potency of Iran’s nuclear program and slow its technical ability to produce atomic weapons.

Iran insists it has no interest in making such arms but is negotiating because it wants an end to international sanctions meant to force an end to programs that could be used for such a purpose.

Before arrival, Kerry expressed hope that a deal could be forged by the Monday target date and said negotiators “are not talking about an extension” with Iran despite expectations that differences are too great to be bridged in the next four days.

However, he acknowledged that some elements of an agreement might

not be completed by the deadline.

“We do want to get an agreement, but not just any agreement,” Kerry said after meeting in Paris with the Saudi and French foreign ministers.

“We hope that the gaps that exist — and they do exist — can be closed. We hope we can define the finish line.”

Kerry had been expected to join the Vienna negotiations, but the timing of his arrival at the talks had been uncertain until shortly after he arrived in Paris after two days of similar meetings in London with his British and Omani counterparts.

Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov, who leads the Russian delegation at the talks, also said that none of the negotiating parties were discussing an extension. Other countries negotiating with Iran are China, Britain, France and Germany.

At the same time he told the ITARTass news agency that “the talks are ... in (an) extremely tense situation.”

While chances of reaching a deal seem difficult, “we shouldn’t miss a chance,” he added.

Hammond, in a tweet confirming his attendance, spoke of “substantial gaps,” and added, “Greater flexibility needed if we are to succeed.”

But even with the presence of Kerry and his counterparts, signs increasingly pointed to the Nov. 24 deadline passing without a full deal and the negotiations being extended a second time.

In London on Tuesday and Wednesday, Kerry met with Foreign Minister Yusuf bin Alawi of Oman, a key bridge between Washington and Tehran, a senior U.S. official said.

Kerry’s meetings with Fabius and Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Fais-

al are considered critical because French objections last year delayed the adoption of an interim agreement by several weeks, and Saudi Arabia remains deeply concerned about the potential for its archrival Iran to win concessions from the West.

Like Saudi Arabia, Israel has deep concerns about Iran and expressed hope Thursday that the talks would fail to reach an agreement, giving more time for a deal that would cut into Iran’s uranium enrichment and other projects that could be used to make nuclear weapons.

“We believe that no deal might pave the way — might very likely pave the way — for a better deal in the future if the pressure on Iran is preserved or increased because the Iranians badly need it,” said Yuval Steinitz, Israeli minister for intelligence and strategic affairs.

“It’s very, very likely that after a few months or after a year the Iranians will come back to the world and say, ’OK, let’s give it another try. We are ready to make significant concessions this time.”’

The Obama administration also is trying to satisfy the concerns of lawmakers, Republican and Democratic, at home.

Republican senators sent a letter to the White House on Wednesday urging the administration against trying to circumvent Congress in any deal with Iran.

“Unless the White House genuinely engages with Congress, we see no way that any agreement consisting of your administration’s current proposals to Iran will endure,” said the letter, which was signed by all 45 Senate Republicans.

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Man admits running $20M Ponzi scheme TRENTON, N.J. — A central New Jersey man has admitted running a $20 million Ponzi scheme.

Louis Spina faces up to 20 years in prison for wire fraud when he’s sentenced in February.

Spina pleaded guilty in federal court in Trenton on Thursday.

The U.S. attorney’s office says the 57-year-old Colts Neck resident persuaded 36 investors to invest $20 million based on promises they would earn 9 per cent to 14 per cent monthly. Spina was accused of putting only $9.5 million into a trading account and using the remaining $10.5 million to make interest payments to investors, return some portions of their principals and pay for his personal expenses. He also was accused of making a $400,000 donation to a university.

Investors lost about $12.7 million.

Romanian official is detained on suspicion of abusing position BUCHAREST, Romania — A top Romanian prosecutor has been detained for questioning about a payment that the government made to compensate a citizen whose property had been seized by the nation’s ruling communists in the 1940s.

The prosecutor, Alina Bica, was a member of a Justice Ministry committee that allegedly overvalued the price of the real estate and paid too much compensation to the former owner in 2011.

Bica was detained on Thursday night for 24 hours on suspicion of abusing her government position at that time.

Bica no longer works on that Justice Ministry committee, and she currently is the chief prosecutor of a government department investigating organized crime and terrorism.

Pope’s sex abuse czar tempers remarks on bishop accountability VATICAN CITY — The head of Pope Francis’ commission to fight clerical sex abuse is tempering his remarks about accountability for bishops accused of covering up for abusive priests, saying they deserve a fair hearing, too.

Cardinal Sean O’Malley, archbishop of Boston, told “60 Minutes” news program last week that the Vatican must “urgently” address the situation of Kansas City Bishop Robert Finn, the highest-ranking church official in the U.S. to be convicted of failing to take action in response to abuse allegations.

In a comment posted Wednesday on thebostonpilot.com, the website of the archdiocesan newspaper of Boston, O’Malley said that while bishops must be held accountable, they must be spared “crowd-based condemnations.”

“We need clear protocols that will replace the improvisation and inertia that has often been the response in these matters,” he wrote.

“Bishops also deserve due process that allows them to have an opportunity for a fair hearing.”

His remarks reflected some concerns expressed by clerics that the Vatican in recent years has gone too far in ousting accused pedophile priests, and may go down the same path as it turns its attention to holding their bishops and superiors accountable. For example, there have been private grumblings about new Vatican regulations on how bishops can resign — or be encouraged to resign — because of scandal.

said.

Jess Hurd, a 41-year-old freelance photographer and Parkinson’s partner, said she was worried that the intelligence logs day.

Parkinson, three photographers, an in- were being shared internationally.

“I go to a lot of countries on assignment,” vestigative journalist and a newspaper reporter are filing the lawsuit after obtaining she said. “Where are these database logs their surveillance records. Parkinson, a being shared? Who with, for what pur44-year-old freelancer who has covered pose?”

The revelations add to a drip-drip of hundreds of protests — some of them for public disclosures about British police The Associated Press — said he and his colleagues long suspected that the police were secretly seizing journalists’ telephone records in leak investigations. Several senior monitoring them.

“Police officers we’d never even met officers have recently acknowledged using anti-terrorb e f o r e ism powers knew our ‘THIS IS ANOTHER EXTREMELY WORRYING to uncover names and journalists’ EXAMPLE OF THE POLICE MONITORING seemed sources by to know a JOURNALISTS WHO ARE UNDERTAKING combing hell of a lot through the THEIR PROPER DUTIES’ about us,” records. he said.

Some po—PAUL LASHMAR Several HEAD OF JOURNALISM DEPARTMENT AT BRUNEL UNIVERSITY lice argue journalists that they’re told AP the hunting for records police kept on them were sometimes startling, corrupt officers, a particularly salient issue in the wake of Britain’s phone hacking sometimes funny and occasionally wrong.

One intelligence report showed that scandal, which exposed how British tabloid police spotted Parkinson cycling near his journalists routinely paid officers in exthen-home in northwest London and car- change for scoops.

It isn’t yet clear how often the practice ried detailed information about him and takes place, but the admission drew conhis then-partner.

Jules Mattsson, a 21-year-old journal- cern in Parliament and outrage from media ist with the Times of London, says another groups. Lashmar, who is a member of the record carried a mention of a family mem- National Union of Journalists but isn’t inber’s medical history, something he says volved in the lawsuit, said the spectre of made him so upset he called the police to terrorism was pushing police to be bolder and bolder about how closely they they demand an explanation.

“No one could possibly defend this,” he watch the nation’s press.

NATIONAL UNION OF JOURNALISTS LAWSUIT

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON — In January, freelance video journalist Jason Parkinson returned home from vacation to find a brown paper envelope in his mailbox.

He opened it to find nine years of his life laid out in shocking detail.

Twelve pages of police intelligence logs noted which protests he covered, who he spoke to and what he wore — all the way down to the colour of his boots. It was, he said, proof of something he’d long suspected: The police were watching him.

“Finally,” he thought as he leafed through documents over a strong black coffee, “we’ve got them.”

Parkinson’s documents, obtained through a public records request, are the basis of a lawsuit being filed by the National Union of Journalists against London’s Metropolitan Police and Britain’s Home Office.

The lawsuit, announced late Thursday, along with a recent series of revelations about the seizure of reporters’ phone records, is pulling back the curtain on how British police have spent years tracking the movements of the country’s news media.

“This is another extremely worrying example of the police monitoring journalists who are undertaking their proper duties,” said Paul Lashmar, who heads the journalism department at Britain’s Brunel University.

The Metropolitan Police and the Home Office both declined comment late Thurs-

Nobel laureate says UN review to be done from afar

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

PEACEKEEPING

The Nobel Peace Prize winner who will lead the first major review of United Nations peacekeeping operations in 15 years said Thursday his panel likely will do it from afar.

In a closed-door meeting of the Security Council, apparently inadvertently broadcast on the U.N.’s internal television system, Jose Ramos-Horta said members of his independent panel have been in the field before and don’t need to go. He said he would be reluctant to impose on busy force commanders and would opt to speak via videoconference instead.

“It’s not like an eye-opener for anyone to go to the field,” Ramos-Horta said. About half of the panel’s members have served with peacekeeping missions in the past.

In an email Thursday, he said his panel “certainly” would visit peacekeeping operations but only if invited by field commanders.

The sweeping U.N. review comes as the world body faces its most challenging climate ever for peacekeeping, with a record 130,000 people deployed around the world. The threat of terrorist violence is increasing, and 113 peacekeepers had died from attacks or other causes this year through the end of October. At the same time, resources for the 16 missions are overstretched, and it can take months to send peacekeepers to respond to deadly crises.

Even the Security Council has no clear view of peacekeeping operations.

“It’s very hard to know what’s actually going on within the missions,” U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power said.

“We don’t have a great way of providing a culture of accountability.”

The meeting offered a rare view of a less scripted Security Council, the U.N.’s most powerful body. There was no immediate comment Thursday evening from the spokesman’s office for

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

A rift among council members was clear over the protection of civilians, which has become a widespread mandate and a peacekeeping challenge.

In May, the U.N.’s internal watchdog said peacekeeping forces responded immediately to only a minority of attacks on civilians between 2010 and 2013 and almost never used force to protect them when they did respond. It studied eight missions whose mandate included that responsibility.

Russia’s deputy ambassador, Petr Iliichev, described protecting civilians as a “more glamorous” role for peacekeepers and said the review should focus on more traditional goals like separating warring parties.

Argentina, which currently has 840 troops on U.N peacekeeping missions, pointedly noted that the countries who don’t contribute troops — usually more developed countries — have the least concern about putting peacekeepers in danger by sending them out to protect civilians. The U.N. doesn’t have a standing army and relies on contributions from its 193 member states.

But France and other countries, at times invoking the lessons of the genocide in Rwanda two decades ago, made it clear that protecting civilians is crucial. “It’s no longer acceptable for populations to just be massacred,” French Ambassador Francois Delattre said.

By now, 98 per cent of U.N. peacekeeping troops are in missions with mandates to protect civilians, Power said, adding that there are “a lot of inflated expectations.”

The review panel has less than a year to make its recommendations for an overhaul. “Either the international community is willing to pay” to improve the system, Ramos-Horta told council members, “or our study will be an academic study, useless.”

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