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Towle crosses floor Innisfail-Sylvan Lake MLA ‘terribly gutted’ by decision to join PC Party By MARY-ANN BARR Advocate staff

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Innisfail-Sylvan Lake MLA Kerry Towle said she heard loud and clear when she door-knocked during recent byelections that it was time to give new Tory Premier Jim Prentice a chance. The respected and outspoken Wildrose MLA surprised many people, but not everyone, on Monday when she crossed the floor to join the governing Progressive Conservatives. Another Wildrose MLA, Ian Donovan, who represents Little Bow, also joined the Tories on Monday. But Towle said neither of them knew what the

other was planning. Towle said she made the decision on Sunday. More and more constituents were telling her that maybe it was time for the two parties to come together, she said. Towle said that since Prentice became premier, there was a growing sense that a door was opening. As well, she said that some of the directions that came out of the Wildrose party’s recent annual general meeting in Red Deer “were creating personal and integrity difficulty for me.”

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“The idea that membership decides how I vote, that I don’t actually represent my constituents ... it’s not what I signed up for. “More importantly, it’s mostly the idea that if my constituents could be open-minded about how we worked with the (Prentice) government, then I needed to think about that as well. “It was not easy decision. I’m terribly gutted. I was a strong supporter of the Wildrose and I certainly consider Danielle Smith to be a friend and this is a very difficult day for me,” an exhausted-sounding Towle said.

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City council mulls bylaw change BY MURRAY CRAWFORD Advocate staff

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Safe Harbour Society employee Jill Lanz gets some help on a puzzle from Black Panther at the Central Alberta Adventist Community Services Centre in Red Deer. Located at 5014 - 49 Street, the centre will be one of two cold weather warming centres in the city that opened this week to give the homeless of Red Deer a place to keep warm during the day through the winter months. The Safe Harbour Society will also stay open through the day to accommodate people who are homeless. The two temporary sites will help fill the service gap that was left when Berachah Place was forced to close its doors last month.

It may be a while before the kegs are tapped, but the City of Red Deer approved a step towards making it easier to develop microbreweries. Microbreweries are not defined under the city’s land use bylaw. A site specific bylaw is required for any such development. The Drummond Brewery Company in Edgar Industrial Park had to do just that. Recent inquiries into developing microbreweries led city administration to recommend adding them as a use in two areas under redevelopment: Rail Yards and Riverlands. Though council approved gave first reading to the amendment Monday, with only Tanya Handley voting against the amendment, there was considerable concern about only approving the use in two areas in the city. Councillors Ken Johnston, Lawrence Lee, Frank Wong and Handley all wondered aloud whether it was appropriate to isolate microbreweries to two areas the city is redeveloping.

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New arena one of the big ticket items in $173M capital budget BY CRYSTAL RHYNO Advocate staff City of Red Deer administration proposes a $173-million capital budget that features new facilities and upgrades for the 2019 Canada Winter Games, increased spending on roads and basic infrastructure. In what is expected to be an all-day affair today, council will consider some 105 projects. Some can be dismissed and others deferred others to the 10-year plan during the annual capital budget deliberations. And for the first time, council will consider the projects alongside the recently completed Community

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another 10 to 15 years. Building new would increase the life of the arena significantly. The multi-year project will also include resurfacing the parking lot. In order to build the area in time for the games, planning would start in 2015 and construction would be completed in 2018. Council approved $26 million in June for the upcoming games and most of the major projects — upgrades to Canyon Ski Hill, enhancing River Bend and building a long-track speed skating track and turf at Great Chief Park — will get underway next year. The provincial and federal governments are expected to kick in $3 million each in grants.

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Amenities Consultation document. Over a period of months, residents were asked to tell the city what amenities they would like to see in future Red Deer. One of the big ticket items on the table this year is the replacement of the Red Deer Arena ($21.5 million). It was built in 1952 and upgraded in 1978 and 1995. The arena is one of the key facilities slated for the 2019 winter games. City manager Craig Curtis told media on Monday that it makes better financial sense to replace the arena than to repair the facility. The entire building has about three to five years left while the roof has one to three years in its lifespan. Curtis said it would take about $8 million to renovate the arena and would only extend the facility for

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Hayley Biederbeck of Lomsnes Veterinarian Hospital in Red Deer decorates an animal tree at Westerner Park on Monday. The Stockmans, Prairie and Parkland pavilions at the Westerner are a beehive of activity this week as volunteers turn the spaces into a Christmas wonderland in preparation for the Festival of Trees. Now In its 21st year, the Festival of Trees is in support of the Red Deer Hospital Foundation. Events begin Wednesday, Nov. 26, with the preview dinner and continue through the weekend. The Festival of Trees will be open to the public on Friday and Saturday, Nov. 28-29, from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., and Sunday, Nov. 30, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. For a full listing of events go to www.reddeerfestivaloftrees.ca.

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Budget: Major projects account for $72.7 million During the capital budget talks, council will be asked to approve the borrowing bylaw for $20 million, the amount not covered by grants. Administration is recommending allocating $8.2 million to crown paving in 2015, compared to the $7.9 million in 2014. The road budget is proposed at a $15.2 million, including preventive maintenance and $6.5 million for construction. Curtis said the city surveys clearly indicate that residents are not as happy with road maintenance compared to other service areas. Two of the city’s five fire stations may be relocated in 2015 in order to meet safety standards. A site in the southeast will become the new Fire Station 3 ($7.9 million) and Fire Station 4 will close in Deer Park and a new location will reopen in the northeast. ($7 million). A sixth station is on the books for a 2025 build. Administration is recommending allocating $8.8 million this year for the North Red Deer Regional Community Centre at the corner of 77th Street and Taylor Drive, at the Glendale School site. Council previously spent $334,000 on the project. A detailed design, traffic impact assessment and business plan, including a detailed operational model, will be developed in 2015. Mayor Tara Veer expects council to have vigorous debate around the capital budget and the 10-year plan. She expects the most consensus on core infrastructure and maintenance. “But council will have key decisions around the future growth directions around the community, but also around amenities,” said Veer. “We are hearing a lot of feedback from the community on a lot of fronts.” The major projects account for $72.7 million out of the $173-million proposed budget. The projects will be funded out of debt, grants, reserves and operating budget transfer. Other budget highlights: l Timberlands (residential development services) — $12 million in 2015. l Red Deer Riverbank Slope stabilization in Riverview — $6.4 million. The project was moved ahead

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in July by council after a report recommended stabilization to stop the regression. l Street light conversion to LED — $4.9 million. l Natural gas fueling station — $3.7 million. The city expects to receive some funding through the provincial GreenTrip program. l 30th Avenue/ 67th Street roundabout — $3.12 million. l 30th Avenue arterial roadway — $1.82 million. l Red Deer Regional Airport Runway expansion — $1.75 million. This is subject to matched funding from Red Deer County of Red Deer, and both the provincial and federal governments. l RCMP downtown detachment second floor development — $1.08 million l Alto Reste Cemetery Development and Expansion — $641,000. Administration is recommending buying the land for expansion, which was approved in the master plan. l Inglewood Branch Library/Community Facility — $600,000. Administration is recommending building a community library in the new public school planned for the community, similar to the one at École Barrie Wilson. The funding would allow the school library space to expand by 200 square metres. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

Council: Discussed fire protection levels Wong suggested adding it as a use in commercial zones and not just in these two areas. The proposed amendment would add them as direct control, still requiring approval for development. The bylaw was designed to ensure different uses on site including either a tasting room or restaurant with the manufacturing side of the microbrewery taking up, at most, 70 per cent of floor space. Notice of public hearing will be given to local land owners and, in the event of a development application there would also be a public notice. Christi Fidek, City of Red Deer planner, said the site specific bylaw process takes about four to six months, while adding it as a discretionary use expedites the development process. With first reading given, the matter will return to council at a future date for a public hearing before being voted on again. In other Council news: l Council directed city administration to develop

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Please see amenities on Page A3 major area structure plan and neighbourhood area structure plan amendments to ensure fire protection levels remain constant during the construction of new fire halls. There are five fire halls in the city; however, city expansion has necessitated the relocation of Stations 3 and 4 to provide adequate fire protection to the city’s east end. Station 4, located in Deer Park, will be moved to Timberlands, and Station 3, located at 32nd Street near 40th Avenue, will be moved to 30th Avenue and Lee Street near the Collicutt Centre. The city will retain Station 3, which houses Red Deer Emergency Services administration and fire prevention services, and will add the city’s relocated 911 emergency communications centre. l Lyn Radford, Red Deer Games Foundation director, outlined the next steps in the city’s preparation for the 2019 Canada Winter Games. She said they are in the very early stages of planning it and the Canada Winter Games Council is focused on the upcoming winter games in Prince George. By February, Radford believes they will need 20 volunteers to start the process of readying for the games. A transition team will need to be assembled consisting of a chair, four members and liaisons from each of the City of Red Deer administration and the Canada Games Council. There will also need to be a host society formed, who will develop a business plan for the games. The host society board of directors will comprise 15 members with one each from business, legal and financial backgrounds. These organizations will lay the groundwork for the readying the city for the games, said Radford. l Council tabled an alcohol and drug strategy report, with the hope to get a better discussion on the city’s role in relation to the strategy. Councillor Paul Harris moved, and only Ken Johnston and Dianne Wyntjes opposed, the report to be tabled, saying he wanted a discussion to better define the city’s role. In the meantime the organization that developed the report, the Central Alberta Addictions Consortium, was encouraged by the city to continue delivering front-line services. Administration had recommended referring the report to the city’s newly developed community safety ad-hoc committee, who would then identify the appropriate city role and strategy within the community plan, after consultation with the community, and bring recommendations to council. Council chose to bring the strategy back for the discussion within the next three months. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

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More trails. A 50-metre pool. A concert hall. City Hall administration revealed the community’s amenity wish list following months of public consultation on Monday. Residents told the city they wanted more places and spaces for recreation and culture in Red Deer. Some of the 148 projects are already included in the city’s 10-year capital plan and others may make the cut down the road. The list will help guide council during the 2015 capital budget debilitations today. At a media briefing on Monday, city manager Craig Curtis explained the new 10-year capital plan does not include everything on the community wishlist because of the financial implications on the city debt and tax rates. A number of projects were pushed beyond the 10-year plan, including a multi-use aquatic centre. That ranked second for citizens consulted, after adding more trails to the system. However, council will consider funding a study that would determine the feasibility and projected costs to improving the aquatics at the Michener Centre and including a 50-metre pool there. The $156,000 study will look at operating the building independent from the rest of the Michener Centre. The city would work with the province on the study. A new performing arts centre/concert hall ranked No. 4 on the list of citizen-supported projects, but did not make the cut of items being considered by administration or council now.

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Red Deer RCMP searching for man who attempted to lure child into his truck Red Deer RCMP are searching for an older Caucasian male who attempted to lure an eight-year-old girl into his truck on Monday morning. The incident occurred at about 8:45 a.m. as the girl was walking to Mattie McCullough Elementary School in Lancaster neighbourhood. The man called the girl to his truck. When she ran away, he followed her a short distance in his truck. The girl ran to the safety of her school and was not harmed. The suspect is described as middle-aged or older

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amenities: Full list available online soon Outside the media briefing, Coun. Paul Harris said he expects that there will be some criticism from the community because the high-ranked item was left out of planning for at least another 10 years. A second ice surface at the G.H. Dawe Community Centre, also on the list, will not be debated any time soon. The project ranked No. 25 on the list. It has been

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Towle: ‘I stand on my integrity and my word’ Her crossing the floor was actually only figurative on Monday because it takes a day for the seats to be moved over. She spent the day in the legislature with Donovan. “I think there are a lot of us who are really concerned about our riding and concerned about our constituents and the vision for Alberta. But I would never want to put anyone in the difficulty I’m facing today. ... They need to be able to look themselves in the mirror.” Towle said that while she respects the opinion that MLAs should not cross over to another party because they were elected under a certain platform, “I respect that opinion but I can tell you ... as someone who has made the decision and gone through it, this is not an easy decision. It doesn’t come lightly. It does come with consultation.” She said she was not promised anything when she spoke with Prentice on Sunday. “I asked for nothing. I got nothing. I stand on my integrity and my word. “I don’t think there’s anyone out there who doesn’t know that I admire and respect Danielle Smith and I continue to do so. ... This is not an issue about her personally. This is an issue about where our party is going and what’s best for my constituents and for Albertans, and in time, once emotions die down, I hope that she’s able to see that I think we can work better together than we can apart.” Towle’s decision is being supported by her constituency association president. Reached at his home on Monday minutes after he had learned Towle was going to cross the floor, constituency president Wayne Parcels said he was “surprised, but not.” “I’m supportive of Kerry no matter what she does. I think it was coming and we kind of knew it was.

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RED DEER ADVOCATE Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2014 A3 progress report Monday into the Mount Polley tailings pond breach, identifying a number of pressing actions that are required to restore the water and land. Returning the outdoor surroundings to their original state will take years, not months, said Environment Minister Mary Polak as she laid out the longterm goal the government has set for Imperial Metals Corp. (TSX:III). “This is the very, very beginning. And it’s not to downplay the efforts that have been made by Mount Polley,” Polak said in a conference call with reporters. “But the scale of the initial disaster is tremendous. We are at the very beginnings of this. It is going to take a long time.” The now-closed gold and copper mine is located about 600 kilometres northeast of Vancouver. Polak said she has recently toured the area, and already observed big efforts involving the installation of a stone dyke and “shear amount of earth” that has been moved to address the breach along Hazeltine Creek.

postponed due to the proposed construction of the Red Deer Arena and the two arenas at Red Deer College. A full list will be available in the coming days at www.reddeer.ca. Here are the top 10 items identified by citizens who were surveyed, and their standing in the longterm plan: 1. More trails — River Bend Escarpment Trail slated for 2021 ($2 million). 2. Multi-use aquatic centre — slated for 2020 ($103 million). 3. Bower Ponds facility expansion — a two-year project slated to start in 2016 ($1.2 million). 4. Performing arts centre/concert hall — slated for construction in 2025 or later with an assessment, business case and concept design on the books for

2023 ($296,000). 5. Roland Michener Recreation Centre renovation/services — $7.1 million in 2018 and $29.7 million in 2025 or later 6. Another facility like Collicutt Centre — North Red Deer community centre — $1 million in 2015; $3.2 million in 2016 and $4.5 million in 2017 7. River Bend: Discovery Canyon upgrade — River Bend enhancements in ($272,000) and Discovery Canyon ($3.2 million) in 2016. 8. Riverlands development river walk (Phase 1) — $1.78 million in 2015. 9. Riverlands year round market — request for proposals ($42,000). 10. Memorial Centre upgrades — $1 million in 2016 and $1.1 in 2017. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

“I think that Kerry would get in regardless whether she’s Wildrose or not because she’s shown what she can do and what she has done. “And I think it’s best for us really, that she can do more there than she can as an Opposition,” Parcels said. Asked what he thought other constituency association members’ reaction might be, Parcels said he believed it would be similar to his. “I think they’ll be backing Kerry ... we see her as the person we want there, regardless of what side of the fence you are on.” Parcels said he was a longtime Conservative supporter but “when the Tories started doing what they did under (former premier Alison) Redford, that just wasn’t right.” The departures leaves Wildrose with 14 seats, down from 17 as recently as early November. Joe Anglin, MLA for Rimbey-Rocky Mountain HouseSundre, quit caucus and has been sitting as an independent since Nov. 2. Anglin, who was in the legislature on Monday, said when he resigned from the party he had hoped that it would “have helped the party face up to reality and correct some problems. Clearly they are not and they are losing MLAs as a result. “The individuals will make their decisions on the facts that hopefully best serve their constituents. “This is an issue of leadership right across the board. I know everyone will be looking at Danielle Smith. I still respect Danielle Smith as a person but the Friends. Family. Home. party leadership is out of control in my view. In the end she bears the responsibility, being the leader of the party.” Anglin is still angry about the considerable unrest within the Rimbey-Rocky Mountain House-Sundre Wildrose 6 Daykin Street, Red Deer constituency association,

and ultimately losing the riding’s Wildrose nomination for the next election to Jason Nixon, blaming in part “”top down authoritarian dictatorship.” He said that he knew of five Wildrose MLAs who were thinking of leaving the party, and only one of them who left on Monday was on that list. “I don’t feel comfortable crossing the floor to another party. I prefer to sit as an independent and let the voters make that decision in the next election.” barr@reddeeradvocate.com

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A real-time movie plot IN THE CASE OF ONE OTTAWA TEEN, CONSPIRACY THEORIES MAY BE TRUE Here’s the bare bones of a movie plot I’ve dreamed up. OK, I didn’t dream it up — as you can see from the headlines, this is actually happening. Over a period of months, someone had been calling the 911 services of cities around North America with false emergency calls and bomb threats. There were at least 30 such calls. One high school in CalGREG gary was shut NEIMAN down by such a prank, called “swatting” because the local police force needs to call out its special weapons group. Eventually, police in Ottawa tracked down a 16-year-old kid who was foolish enough to brag about his exploits, and who even invited suggestions online for his next pranks. He even posted a photo of a Bitcoin account, suggesting he could be paid to do this. Guess what happens next? Last May, the kid is walking home with his parents and a bunch of plainclothes Ottawa police have him slammed to the ground. They also have a warrant to search

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the house and what do they find? High tech stuff and firearms. The kid is facing a long list of charges. His dad protests the boy’s innocence. He claims the authorities won’t listen to them or look further for the real culprit(s). Then things get interesting. The online activist group Anonymous gets involved. They support the kid. They send the dad a trove of electronic information that he says exonerates his son. Here’s how he described it to a reporter at the Ottawa Citizen: “Think of it this way: There’s a 1,000-piece jigsaw puzzle that has been thrown on a table. You have no idea of what the jigsaw will ultimately look like, but you have this little piece with an alias, and this piece with a website and this piece with a domain registration.” This little piece is where the techie details leave me behind, and I’m forced to believe what I see, because I don’t have the tools to disbelieve it. But the dad, who works privately as a web designer himself, seems to understand. Good enough, I’m not falling asleep at the movie just yet. Then the Citizen reporter gets a tweet during an interview: “I hear you’re talking with the youth’s father right now.” Later, during a phone conversation with the father: “Just got word that the youth might be speaking to media in the coming days.”

This was over the last weekend. After the websites of the Ottawa Police, the City of Ottawa, the Supreme Court of Canada, the Parliament of Canada and the federal Conservative Party were all serially shut down by denial of service attacks. I had to look this up: denial of service attacks are not hacking. No data is stolen in such attacks; robot computers are simply instructed to request certain web pages so fast and so frequently that their servers get shut down. But other reports suggest data would be stolen. “We’re going to completely rape those sites,” said a message reported in the Ottawa Sun. That I would take seriously. Anonymous has a reputation. Just ask the Church of Scientology. Or the credit card companies who refused to transact donations to the defence funds of WikiLeaks whistle-blowers. One Ottawa detective and the Ottawa police chief’s private phone numbers and email addresses were published. This weekend, the dad and his lawyer, Joshua Clark, showed reporters light bulbs that had been altered to become listening devices. I wouldn’t recognize a listening device rigged into in a compact fluorescent light bulb if someone shoved it in my ear and turned it on. More, I wouldn’t know how some teenager’s dad could successfully fake doing that, to falsely discredit a police

investigation. So I tend to believe what I see. We are told the dad was coached to look for them and find them in his home, by Anonymous. So here we are in the movie: some dumbass is faking 911 calls, which is an incredibly stupid thing to do. Someone saw fit to put listening devices in somebody’s home. A kid gets arrested. A global self-appointed watchdog with a strong reputation for online mischief and random acts of activism decides to work on the kid’s behalf. In an environment where corporations and governments seem able to spy on us at will, who do you believe? The police or the people in the Guy Fawkes masks? And if they are spying on us, wouldn’t it be nice if they could guarantee their information was correct? Either the kid is a little pisser who deserves everything that’s coming to him or the police are blinded by tunnel vision, or society needs a geek squad to protect us from the people we pay a whole lot of money to protect us. This is a movie we can watch unfold in real time. I just hope nobody gets hurt in the real world. And that, in the end, we still have a shred of privacy and the right of free speech to preserve. Greg Neiman is a retired Advocate editor. Follow his blog at readersadvocate. blogspot.ca or email greg.neiman.blog@ gmail.com.

been an outspoken critic of aboriginal policy and former ministers in the Brian Mulroney government emerged to condemn the watering down of environmental regulations. Lewis told the Symons Lecture on the future of confederation: Canada’s world standing is in free fall. The Harper government’s contempt for Parliament and its traditions has degraded political life and fostered voter cynicism. Its attitude to aboriginals is not paternalistic, it is racist. Harper’s refusal to join the rest of the world and move toward renewable energy sources is endangering future generations and contributing to a looming planetary meltdown. Civil society and the ideas it fosters have been slapped down and censored, subverting democratic norms. “There is a radical ideological agenda gripping this country,” Lewis said, “but it’s not the environmentalists or the other targeted groups committed to the quest for social justice; it’s the political leadership.” We are channelling the years of Richard Nixon’s enemies list, Lewis says, adding the former U.S. president

was driven by paranoia, Harper is driven by malevolence. Lewis compared the atmosphere in Ottawa to that of the Ontario legislature where he served for 15 years, the William Davis years. There was a respect in that chamber, he said, and that was respect was fostered by the premier. “Vitriolic nastiness in debate does not breed respect,” he said, “nor does adolescent partisanship, nor do pieces of legislation of encyclopedic length that hide contentious issues, nor does the sudden emergence of frenzied TV attack ads, nor does the spectre of a Prime Minister’s Office exercising authoritarian control.” The government’s refusal to hold an inquiry on missing and murdered aboriginal women, its refusal to compromise with aboriginal leadership on the funding gap on First Nations education and its environmental standing that has sunk so low that we are seen as an impediment to a climate change accord in Paris next year, are all being watched around the world, said Lewis. “It is as though Canada had decided, like some mindless national curmudgeon, to be a permanent outlier on issues of minority rights and women’s

rights,” Lewis said. “It does us damage. It does us shame.” Of the “redundant” oilsands, Lewis says he is “hyperventilating for the day when some Canadian politician has the courage to say: Leave it in the ground.” Is this merely an overheated attack on a government that shares none of Lewis’s principles? An angry journey into nostalgia? “Somewhere in my soul,” Lewis says, “I cherish the possibility of a return to a vibrant democracy, where equality is the watchword, where people of different ideological conviction have respect for each other, where policy is debated rather than demeaned, where the great issues of the day are given thoughtful consideration, where Canada’s place on the world stage is seen as principled and laudatory, where human rights for all is the emblem of a decent civilized society.” He will be ignored by those in office. But his words should be studied by any who seek to govern going forward. Tim Harper is a syndicated Toronto Star national affairs writer. He can be reached at tharper@thestar.ca.

Stephen Lewis joins the chorus criticizing Harper At the age of 77, Stephen Lewis describes himself as being “happily in his dotage,” a man free to bare his soul and dispense with diplomatic niceties. He did just that in Charlottetown on Friday. The onetime lion of the left unleashed a withering roar over eight years of Stephen Harper government that deserves to be moved from the relatively tiny confines of the Confederation Centre of the TIM Arts and into a HARPER larger forum. Lewis focused on five fronts of perhaps irreversible decline in this country; five only, because time did not allow him to get into all the factors that “scar my soul.” The former Ontario NDP leader, United Nations ambassador and lifelong human rights advocate took aim at the “pre-paleolithic Neanderthals” in office and their role in the decline of Parliament, the suppression of dissent, the plight of First Nations, their blinkered climate-change policy and our plummeting world status. There is no secret of the left-wing perspective from which Lewis comes. He borrowed the title of his speech, A Socialist Takes Stock, from his father David, who delivered a similar cri de coeur some 60 years ago. When he surveys the political scene today, he says he runs the emotional gamut from “rage to rage.” But he is not alone. He joins a line of political elders who are taking increasingly harsh stock of this government’s performance. Former Progressive Conservative prime minister Joe Clark has spoken out about foreign policy, former Liberal prime minister Paul Martin has

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COLD LAKE — Muslims in Cold Lake have held a special prayer service to offer thanks for the community’s support after their mosque was vandalized. The service was held Sunday- about a month after the words “Go home” were spray-painted across the entrance to the building and a brick was thrown through a window. When word of the vandalism got out, local residents began work within hours to repair the damage. Riaz Ingar, a mosque member who spoke at the service, says the community’s response was gratifying. The mosque also held a question-and-answer session to explain to non-Muslims what Islam is all about. The RCMP is still investigating evidence, but no arrests have been made. Ingar says by cleaning up the mosque, non-Muslim neighbours and friends of the Islamic community made it clear that the message of hate was not one they share. “So whatever happened was an isolated incident. I believe (non-Muslims) were offended by it.” Jennifer Dusyk-Johnson, a high school teacher who was also at the service, says the vandalism was unfortunate. “I think our community did really come together and say ‘this isn’t really what we’re about.”’ Cold Lake is home to a large military base where six Canadian CF-18 fighter jets departed days before the vandalism to join the international mission combating Islamic extremists in Iraq. Mahmoud Elkabri, a mosque board member, has said he believes the vandals could be from outside the community and doesn’t think the act is connected to any anti-Muslim sentiment following last month’s attacks on soldiers in Ottawa and Quebec. Elkabri also said the mosque has been open for four years at its current location and has been targeted before, but that was part of vandalism done to several businesses in the area.

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Stampeders look for redemption one win away from putting 2013 failure behind them for good by THE CANADIAN PRESS

CALGARY - The Calgary Stampeders have had one goal in mind since losing at home to the Saskatchewan Roughriders in the 2013 West Division final. From the outset of training camp, the Stamps set their sights on winning the Grey Cup. They’ll now get that chance when they take on the Hamilton Tiger-Cats in the CFL title game Sunday at B.C. Place in Vancouver. “When that game ended, it was a very serious mindset with our guys,” said Calgary quarterback Bo Levi Mitchell in regards to the 35-13 loss to the Riders on Nov. 17, 2013. “It’s tough when you know you have the talent, you know you have the best team in the league and you don’t finish it.” Following that disappointing setback, the Stamps vowed to do everything they could to put themselves in a position to win their seventh CFL title and first since 2008. “Honestly, we’ve had the recipe,”

said linebacker Keon Raymond. “It’s just mixing the ingredients together to be able to get us to the point to where we want to be right now. Our goal from Day 1 in training camp was to make sure that we bring the Cup back to Calgary.” The Stamps are now just one win away from accomplishing their mission thanks to a 43-18 win over the Edmonton Eskimos at McMahon Stadium on Sunday in the West Division final. “Obviously we want to be happy about it, but it’s hard to be that happy when you know you’ve got a lot of work ahead of you to win the big one,” said Mitchell, who threw four touchdown passes and scored on a two-yard plunge across the goal-line in his firstever playoff start against the Eskimos. Veteran Calgary linebacker Juwan Simpson said the Stampeders are focused on finishing the job that they started. “We just cleared another hurdle that we wanted to clear,” Simpson said. “Ultimately all of this means nothing if we don’t win the Cup.”

The Stamps finished the season with a league-best 15-3 record and earned a bye straight to the West final, while the Ticats finished atop the East Division with a 9-9 record before downing the Montreal Alouettes 40-24 at home on Sunday to earn a berth in their second straight Grey Cup game. “We’re playing a very good tough, football team,” Mitchell said. “We’ve got to buy into it, man. This is all we have. For the next seven days, I’m going to live, breathe, eat, sleep Hamilton … make sure I know every single thing about them.” Despite playing in only half of Calgary’s regular-season games, Jon Cornish ran for 1,082 yards to win his third straight rushing title. While the Eskimos held him to 54 yards rushing on 14 carries, Cornish had 120 receiving yards on four catches including a highlight-reel play where he caught a shovel pass from Mitchell and ran the rest of the way for a 78-yard score. “Absolutely, if we lose this Grey Cup, that wouldn’t be very fun,” said Cornish, who didn’t play in either of

Calgary’s two wins against Hamilton in the regular season. “I don’t think that anybody has that ambition. Everybody that’s going to be on this plane (on Tuesday) is going to be going there for one reason.” Raymond, Mitchell and Cornish are among a group of several Stampeders who remember the sting of losing 35-22 to the Toronto Argonauts in the 2012 CFL championship game at Rogers Centre. “I think I was so overwhelmed by the 100th Grey Cup,” admitted Raymond, while adding that he’s humbled to get the opportunity to play in his second title game in three years. “I remember that feeling, leaving that hotel room in 2012, and that’s not a feeling I want to feel again just like that feeling last year in the West final. “We want to make sure we finish and do the little things we can preparation-wise. Honestly, I think the mindset of this team is different. I think guys understand what’s at stake.”

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Hockey world mourns passing of Pat Quinn by THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER - Trailing the Winnipeg Jets after a lacklustre 40 minutes, Pat Quinn wanted a better third period from his Vancouver Canucks. And he knew just how to get it. “(Quinn) always started off very softspoken and then the blood started to boil,” recalled former Canucks goalie Kirk McLean. “At the old Winnipeg Arena they used to put the Gatorade containers in the middle of the room and he gave one a forearm shiver and it went right across the table with ice flying everywhere. “Everybody just kind of stared at him and he walked out the door. Needless to say we go out and win the hockey game.” A former NHL player, coach and executive, Quinn died on Sunday night at the age of 71 after a lengthy illness. The hockey world took time on Monday to remember one of its biggest personalities and reflect on the impression he left on the game. “He just had such a presence and he was an intimidating person. When he walked into the room everything stopped,” said Trevor Linden, who was captain of the Canucks under Quinn and is now the club’s president of hockey operations. “Guys were taping their sticks or tying their skates or talking - everything stopped. He could deliver a message like none other and his presence in the locker-room was incredible. “He respected his players, but in turn the players had a tremendous amount of respect for him and admired him, but definitely there was a little bit of fear.” Linden added that while Quinn could be blunt, he was always fair. “He was a great man because he cared and he loved his players,” said Linden. “The outer exterior (was) gruff and tough, but he loved his players and I think people saw that.” While Quinn coached five teams in his 20-year coaching career, he was best remembered in Vancouver for leading the Canucks to within a game

of the 1994 Stanley Cup, a magical run that remains the franchise’s highlight. “(Quinn) was the type of guy that had a presence,” said McLean. “He was obviously a huge part of our success in 1994. To have him on that bench and leading the way was very special. “Me personally, I wouldn’t be in this situation if it wasn’t for Pat.” Linden and McLean both knew that Quinn - who served as president, general manager and head coach during his time with the Canucks - wasn’t doing well the last few months and visited him at a Vancouver hospital on Friday. “Given Pat and how proud he was, he didn’t want anyone to see him in the condition he was in,” said Linden. “It was a real great visit. He didn’t look well, but he still had that stubborn Irishness about him. “He still had that Pat Quinn ire. We had a nice visit and I was really thankful to have that opportunity.” Added McLean: “He wasn’t the man that we knew, but he still had that fire in his eyes. He still had that charisma and intimidating stare. That was just him - his way of getting it through to you.” Former Canucks captain Stan Smyl, who played for Quinn and also served as his assistant coach, said he put Vancouver on the NHL map. “He got the best out of all his players no matter what they brought,” said Smyl. “I was here in the 1980s playing and Pat Quinn is the gentleman that changed this organization around. We never got the respect from back east we should have until Pat came in.” Quinn, who was fired by the Canucks in 1997 and went on to be both coach and general manager of the Toronto Maple Leafs, was added to the Ring of Honour at Rogers Arena last season, a fitting tribute to a man that helped shape the franchise. “When Pat left Vancouver it was under difficult circumstances and that generally happens,” said Linden. “It was hard for him to leave so I think it was a real coming home for him. I know how special that night was for him.

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Team Canada coach Pat Quinn hugs goaltender Martin Brodeur after beating Finland in the World Cup of Hockey final Sept. 14, 2004 in Toronto. Legendary hockey coach Quinn has died at the age of 71. “I know how hard it was for him to get himself prepared for that because he wasn’t well. It was just so fitting that he was honoured that way. It meant a lot to him and his family. It was the right thing to do.” While Quinn was perhaps best remembered for his time with Vancouver and Toronto, he also led the Philadelphia Flyers to the Stanley Cup final as a coach in 1980 and was a hard-nosed defenceman during his playing days. “Pat Quinn was thoughtful, passionate and committed to success,” NHL commissioner Gary Bettman said in a statement. “Pat’s contributions to hockey, at every level, reflected the

skills he possessed and the great respect with which he treated the sport.” For all the success Quinn had in professional hockey, his crowning achievement arguably came at the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics when he led Canada to its first gold medal in 50 years. While in Salt Lake City, Quinn was also a staunch supporter of the country’s women’s team. Hayley Wickenheiser said she remembers Quinn’s reaction on the bench when Canadian women won gold.

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Valanciunas pushes Raptors to victory over Suns by THE CANADIAN PRESS Raptors 104 Suns 100 TORONTO - The final nail-biting minute of the Toronto Raptors’ win over the Phoenix Suns on Monday saw a couple of huge offensive rebounds and a Kyle Lowry steal that saw the point guard go sprawling to floor like a football player for the umpteenth time of the night. It wasn’t pretty, but it did the job. And it vaulted the Raptors into a tie with the Memphis Grizzlies for the best record in the NBA - 12-2. “Again, we found a way,” said Raptors coach Dwane Casey. “One night it’s free throws, one night it’s jump balls, one night it’s steals, one night it’s rebounds. . . or one night it’s going to be rebounds,” Casey added, to laughter from the media (Toronto was outrebounded 42-37). “It’s a growth that we’re having, is finding ways to win.” On this night it was Jonas Valanciunas, who scored a career-high 27 points and hauled down 11 rebounds in the Raptors’ 104-100 victory over Suns. DeMar DeRozan added 23 points for the Eastern Conference-leading Raptors, who stretched their winning streak to five games. Lou Williams, named the Eastern Conference player of the week earlier in the day, added 17, and Lowry - who was at his scrappy best, prompting chants of “M-V-P!” from the Air Canada Centre crowd - finished with 14 points, eight assists, and seven re-

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Toronto Raptors’ Terrence Ross, right, leaps to save the ball from going out of bounds in front of Phoenix Suns’ P.J. Tucker during the second half of NBA action in Toronto on Monday. bounds. “Each night it’s going to be a different story, and each night there is going to be a different star of the story, and tonight it was JV,” Casey said of Valanciunas. The Raptors led for much of the night against a Suns team that had won four straight, and took an 81-66 advantage into the fourth quarter, quickly

stretching it to 17. But the Suns, who were looking to end their six-game road trip on a winning note, fought back and three consecutive three-pointers from Isaiah Thomas capped a 14-0 run that pulled Phoenix to within three points. Thomas’s fourth shot from behind the arc put the Suns within a point with 3:35 to play, then Bledsoe con-

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verted a three-point play with just under two minutes to play to tie the game 98-98. Patrick Patterson and DeRozan each got their hands on key offensive rebounds, then Patterson drained two free throws to put Toronto up by two with 35 seconds left. With the capacity Air Canada Centre crowd of 19,800 - including Canadian tennis star Milos Raonic and Bruce Heyman, the U.S. Ambassador to Canada - on its feet, Lowry grabbed a loose ball that ended up in a dog pile at centre court. He won the ensuing jump ball against Thomas, sealing Toronto’s victory, and sending happy fans home to the tune of Black Eyed Peas “Gotta Feeling.” “It was huge,” Casey said of Lowry’s hustle play. “That last play when he dove on the ball and just poked it away, and caught them sleeping was huge in that situation. He just found a way to get it. . . Kyle always kind of finds a way to find those big plays down the stretch. It is just his nature, he is just a pit bull.” Eric Bledsoe had 25 points for the Suns, who were playing the finale of their six-game road trip. The Raptors were coming off a 11093 win over Cleveland on Saturday that saw them rebound from being 18 points down. Casey cautioned, once again, about getting too excited over the team’s franchise-best start, saying his team has plenty of room for improvement. Once again, he needn’t have worried.

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l AJHL: Calgary Canucks at Olds, 7 p.m. l Men’s basketball: Vikings vs. Triple A Batteries, Kingsmen vs. Johns Manville, 7:15 and 8:30 p.m., Lindsay Thurber. l Heritage junior B hockey: Stettler at Blackfalds, 7:30 p.m.

Thursday

l College women’s hockey: SAIT at RDC, 7 p.m., Arena. l Midget AA hockey: Olds at Lacombe, 7:15 p.m. l Men’s basketball: Orangemen vs. Wells Furniture, Bulldog Scrap Metal vs. Grandview, 7:15 and 8:30 p.m., Lindsay Thurber.

Friday

l College volleyball: SAIT at RDC, women at 6 p.m., men to follow. l College curling: ACAC Fall Regional at Pidherney Centre. l WHL: Red Deer at Medicine Hat, 7:30 p.m. (The Drive). l Midget AAA hockey: St. Albert at Red Deer, 8 p.m., Arena. l Chinook senior hockey: Fort Saskatchewan at Innisfail, 8:30 p.m. l Bantam AA hockey: Taber at Lacombe, 8:30 p.m.

Saturday

l College curling: ACAC Fall Regional at Pidherney Centre. l Minor midget AAA hockey: Calgary Gold at Red Deer Northstar, 11:30 a.m., Arena. l Bantam AA hockey: Badlands at Red Deer Steel Kings, 12:30 p.m., Kinsmen A; Taber at Red Deer Ramada, 3 p.m., Kinsmen A; Sylvan Lake at Olds, 4:45 p.m. l Peewee AA hockey: Bow Valley at Red Deer Parkland, 12:30 p.m., Collicutt Centre; Wheatland at Sylvan Lake, 2:15 p.m., Caroline; Lacombe at Olds, 2:15 p.m. l Major bantam hockey: Lethbridge at Red Deer White, 2 p.m., Arena. l Junior women’s hockey: Sherwood Park at Central Alberta, 3:45 p.m., Penhold Regional Multiplex. l Major bantam girls hockey: Lloydminster at Red Deer, 4:30 p.m., Kinsmen B. l Midget AAA hockey: Lloydminster at Red Deer, 4:45 p.m., Arena. l WHL: Swift Current at Red Deer, 7 p.m., Centrium. l College men’s hockey: Camrose Augustana at RDC, 7 p.m., Penhold Regional Multiplex. l Midget AA hockey: Sylvan Lake at Red Deer Elks, 7:15 p.m., Collicutt Centre; Wheatland at Olds, 7:30 p.m. l Heritage junior B hockey: Three Hills at Red Deer, 8 p.m., Arena.

Sunday

l College curling: ACAC Fall Regional at Pidherney Centre. l Peewee AA hockey: Okotoks at Red Deer Parkland, 11:30 a.m., Kinsmen A; Sylvan Lake at Olds, 12:15 p.m.; Airdrie at Lacombe, 2 p.m. l Major bantam hockey: Southeast at Red Deer Black, noon, Arena. l Bantam AA hockey: Badlands at Sylvan Lake, 1:30 p.m., Caroline; Taber at Red Deer Steel Kings, 2 p.m., Kinsmen A; Medicine Hat at Olds, 2:45 p.m. l Major bantam girls hockey: Lloydminster at Red Deer, 12:45 p.m., Kinsmen B. l Heritage junior B hockey: Cochrane at Ponoka, 2:30 p.m.

Luke Brisbane and Miranda Dawe were tabbed as Boston Pizza RDC Athletes of the Week on Monday. Freshman setter Brisbane combined for 62 assists, three kills, seven digs, five blocks and an ace as the Kings beat the Olds College Broncos 3-0 on both Friday and Saturday in Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference men’s volleyball action. Second year outside hitter Dawe lead the Queens finished the weekend with 31 kills, 23 digs and six stuff blocks as the Queens beat the Broncos 3-2 on Friday and 3-0 on Saturday in ACAC women’s volleyball action.

Red Deer Fencing Club members captured eight epee medals, including two gold, in the Jujjie Luan Open at Edmonton during the weekend. Leading the way were head coach Petar Toshkov and Shawn Rowland, who struck gold in the open men’s and U15 men’s events, respectively. Winning bronze were Nathaniel Jonson (open men’s), Karren Lyver (women’s), Greer McIvor (U20 women’s), Megan Ostrikoff (U17 women’s), Sean Seitz (U20 men’s) and Mazen Black (U17 men’s).

GA 81 78 68 87 82 110

Pt 39 32 27 23 22 13

CENTRAL DIVISION GP W L OTL SOL Medicine Hat 24 16 6 1 1 Calgary 25 13 9 1 2 Red Deer 26 13 10 2 1 Edmonton 25 12 9 2 2 Kootenay 25 11 14 0 0 Lethbridge 24 5 15 3 1

GF 89 91 91 77 74 57

GA 59 72 86 69 100 102

Pt 34 29 29 28 22 14

WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION GP W L OTL SOL GF Kelowna 26 21 2 3 0 124 Victoria 27 14 11 2 0 88 Kamloops 26 11 10 3 2 81 Prince George 26 13 13 0 0 80 Vancouver 24 9 15 0 0 77

GA 64 89 86 108 86

Pt 45 30 27 26 18

GA 58 62 62 99 67

Pt 33 28 27 25 22

U.S. DIVISION GP W L OTL SOL 22 15 4 2 1 24 14 10 0 0 22 12 7 3 0 26 11 12 0 3 24 9 11 2 2

GF 79 68 63 84 61

Sunday’s results Prince Albert 5 Lethbridge 3 Kootenay 7 Moose Jaw 3 Calgary 6 Red Deer 2 Spokane 2 Kamloops 1 (OT) Tuesday’s games Saskatoon at Brandon, 6 p.m. Vancouver at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m. Prince Albert at Edmonton, 7 p.m. Victoria at Portland, 8 p.m. Wednesday’s games Moose Jaw at Saskatoon, 6:05 p.m. Vancouver at Lethbridge, 7 p.m. Prince Albert at Calgary, 7 p.m. Swift Current at Edmonton, 7 p.m. Regina at Prince George, 8 p.m. Kamloops at Everett, 8:05 p.m. Victoria at Spokane, 8:05 p.m. Kelowna at Tri-City, 8:05 p.m. Red Deer Rebels Scoring GP G A Pts Johnson 26 12 12 24 Feser 26 8 15 23 Cote 26 3 20 23 Musil 26 8 14 22 Bleackley 24 7 13 20 Kopeck 26 7 10 17 Pawlenchuk 26 7 9 16 Polei 26 11 4 15 Maxwell 26 6 8 14 Sandhu 24 8 4 12 Strand 24 3 7 10 Fleury 22 1 8 9 Nell 26 6 2 8 Charif 11 1 7 8 Doetzel 26 0 8 8 de Wit 24 1 5 6 Fafard 26 2 2 4 Dixon 22 1 1 2 McCarthy 6 0 1 1 Mahura 16 0 1 1 Toth 23 0 1 1 Burke 1 0 0 0 Burman 7 0 0 0 Grman 11 0 0 0 Goaltending MP GA SO GAA Toth 1323 67 1 3.04 Burman 241 15 0 3.74 WHL Scoring Leaders Rourke Chartier, Kel

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PIM +/22 17 27 -1 14 13 26 1 35 0 10 5 7 4 33 -4 16 -2 8 1 19 2 32 -6 16 -10 2 -4 22 4 6 0 38 2 23 - 1 2 -3 8 -6 2 — 0 0 0 — 12 -4 Svs Sv% 596 .899 86 .851 A 19

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Nick Merkley, Kel Cole Sanford, MH Brayden Point, MJ Cole Ully, Kam Joe Hicketts, Vic Trevor Cox, MH Tyson Baillie, Kel Austin Carroll, Vic Jack Rodewald, MJ Coda Gordon, SC Jayce Hawryluk, Bra Madison Bowey, Kel Chase De Leo, Por Rihards Bukarts, Bra Jansen Harkins, PG Oliver Bjorkstrand, Por Adam Helewka, Spo Nikita Scherbak, Eve Matt Needham, Kam Ivan Provorov, Bra Tim McGauley, Bra Adam Tambellini, CAL Jaedon Descheneau, Koo Colby Cave, SC Jari Erricson, PG Chase Witala, PG

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37 18 20 21 26 28 14 15 20 18 17 22 14 18 22 15 16 17 20 20 16 12 12 16 12 12

45 34 33 33 33 33 32 32 32 31 30 30 29 29 29 28 28 28 28 28 27 26 26 26 25 25

National Hockey League EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts Montreal 23 16 6 1 33 Tampa Bay 22 14 6 2 30 Detroit 21 11 5 5 27 Boston 23 13 9 1 27 Toronto 21 11 8 2 24 Ottawa 20 9 7 4 22 Florida 19 7 6 6 20 Buffalo 21 6 13 2 14

GF 61 77 59 59 67 55 41 36

GA 57 60 52 57 63 54 51 70

Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts Pittsburgh 20 14 4 2 30 N.Y. Islanders 21 15 6 0 30 N.Y. Rangers 20 9 7 4 22 Washington 20 9 8 3 21 New Jersey 21 9 9 3 21 Philadelphia 20 8 9 3 19 Carolina 20 6 11 3 15 Columbus 20 6 12 2 14

GF 72 69 57 56 53 57 48 49

GA 46 57 58 54 61 61 62 72

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts 21 14 6 1 29 20 13 5 2 28 21 12 8 1 25 20 12 8 0 24 22 10 9 3 23 21 8 9 4 20 21 7 9 5 19

GF 57 57 63 58 45 61 53

GA 43 42 44 44 51 72 67

St. Louis Nashville Chicago Minnesota Winnipeg Dallas Colorado

Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Anaheim 22 13 4 5 31 60 54 Vancouver 21 14 6 1 29 65 61 Calgary 22 13 7 2 28 71 61 Los Angeles 21 11 6 4 26 57 49 San Jose 23 10 9 4 24 62 64 Arizona 22 9 11 2 20 54 67 Edmonton 21 6 13 2 14 49 74 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. Sunday’s Games St. Louis 4, Winnipeg 2 N.Y. Rangers 5, Montreal 0 Anaheim 2, Arizona 1 Vancouver 4, Chicago 1 Monday’s Games N.Y. Islanders 1, Philadelphia 0, SO Pittsburgh 3, Boston 2, OT Detroit 4, Ottawa 3 Minnesota 4, Florida 1

Bowling Heritage Lanes High scores Nov. 17-23 Monday 55+: Albert Bachor 267 high single; Bill Dunlop 715 high triple. Monday mixed: Mickey Penhale 278; Rob Foster 661. Tuesday mixed: Andre Grenier 308; Harvey Von Hollen 733. Wednesday 55+: Dunlop 291; Curtiss Lund 702. Thursday morning ladies: Glenda Regnier 217; Regnier 604. Thursday Special Olympics mixed: Franklin Mclellan 235; Chris Maloney 403. Thursday mixed: Gage Bedford 316; Evan Hessler 746.

Monday scratch: Peter Rabena 292; Rabena 756. Youth Bowling of Canada Bumpers: Caiden Hort 65. Bowlasaurus: Jennika Wudkewich 92. Peewees: Sylis Gray 133; Gray 226, two games. Bantams: Hailey Pickard 176; Keaton Chrest 473. Juniors: Blake Hopkins 274; Brady Kopec 631. Seniors: Jessica Achtemichuk 326; Achtemichuk 734.

Kyra McMurray led Catalina swimmers efforts at the University of Calgary Distance/IM Challenge on Friday, earning a gold medal in the 11/12 girls 800-metre freestyle, while River Roos made his debut in the U10-boys 800-metre freestyle and earned silver. The club sent 11 swimmers to the meet with most recording best times in the process, including Destiny Otteson, Kalen Sabasch, Jayden Vale, Nathan Delver and Daniel Morrison who also raced in their first 800-metre freestyle. Also, Hidde Geurts recently returned from the 7th Down Syndrome World Swimming Championships in Morlia, Mexico, where he raced in eight events and won gold in the 200-metre freestyle and 100-metre backstroke and added five silver medals (100-metre backstroke, 50-metre breast stroke, 100-metre freestyle, 200-metre individual medley and the 50-metre freestyle. Next up for Geurts is the Can-Am Championships in Edmonton from Dec. 5-7.

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Denver 8 3 0 .727 Kansas City 7 4 0 .636 San Diego 7 4 0 .636 Oakland 1 10 0 .091 NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct Philadelphia 8 3 0 .727 Dallas 8 3 0 .727 N.Y. Giants 3 8 0 .273 Washington 3 8 0 .273 South W L T Pct Atlanta 4 7 0 .364 New Orleans 4 7 0 .364 Carolina 3 7 1 .318 Tampa Bay 2 9 0 .182 North W L T Pct Green Bay 8 3 0 .727 Detroit 7 4 0 .636 Chicago 5 6 0 .455 Minnesota 4 7 0 .364 West W L T Pct Arizona 9 2 0 .818 Seattle 7 4 0 .636 San Francisco 7 4 0 .636 St. Louis 4 7 0 .364

Semi-finals Sunday, Nov. 16 Montreal 50 B.C. 17 Edmonton 18 Saskatchewan 10 Finals Sunday, Nov. 23 Hamilton 40 Montreal 24 Calgary 43 Edmonton 18 Grey Cup Sunday, Nov. 30 Hamilton at Calgary, 4 p.m. National Football League AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF New England 9 2 0 .818 357 Miami 6 5 0 .545 285 Buffalo 6 5 0 .545 238 N.Y. Jets 2 9 0 .182 177 South W L T Pct PF Indianapolis 7 4 0 .636 333 Houston 5 6 0 .455 242 Tennessee 2 9 0 .182 192 Jacksonville 1 10 0 .091 161 North W L T Pct PF Cincinnati 7 3 1 .682 246 Baltimore 7 4 0 .636 295 Pittsburgh 7 4 0 .636 288 Cleveland 7 4 0 .636 242 West W L T Pct PF

PA 227 219 207 303 PA 256 226 293 305

332 261 245 176

260 195 216 285

PF 342 292 233 217

PA 275 240 294 273

PF 262 288 215 207

PA 281 286 300 300

PF 354 197 236 202

PA 246 190 303 244

PF 240 279 228 209

PA 195 218 225 285

Monday’s Games Buffalo 38, N.Y. Jets 3 Baltimore 34, New Orleans 27

PA 234 208 263 219

Thursday, Nov. 27 Chicago at Detroit, 10:30 a.m. Philadelphia at Dallas, 2:30 p.m. Seattle at San Francisco, 6:30 p.m.

Basketball National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB Toronto 12 2 .857 Brooklyn 5 8 .385 6 1/2 Boston 4 8 .333 7 New York 4 11 .267 8 1/2 Philadelphia 0 14 .000 12 Southeast Division W L Pct GB Washington 9 3 .750 Miami 8 6 .571 2 Atlanta 6 5 .545 2 1/2 Orlando 6 10 .375 5 Charlotte 4 11 .267 6 1/2 Central Division W L Pct GB Chicago 9 5 .643 Milwaukee 7 7 .500 2 Cleveland 6 7 .462 2 1/2 Indiana 6 8 .429 3 Detroit 3 10 .231 5 1/2 WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct GB Memphis 12 2 .857 Houston 11 3 .786 1 San Antonio 9 4 .692 2 1/2 Dallas 10 5 .667 2 1/2 New Orleans 7 5 .583 4

Northwest Division W L Pct 11 3 .786 6 7 .462 5 10 .333 3 9 .250 3 12 .200 Pacific Division W L Pct Golden State 10 2 .833 Sacramento 8 5 .615 L.A. Clippers 8 5 .615 Phoenix 9 6 .600 L.A. Lakers 3 11 .214 Portland Denver Utah Minnesota Oklahoma City

GB 4 1/2 6 1/2 7 8 1/2 GB 2 1/2 2 1/2 2 1/2 8

Monday’s Games Portland 114, Philadelphia 104 L.A. Clippers 113, Charlotte 92 Cleveland 106, Orlando 74 Toronto 104, Phoenix 100 Houston 91, New York 86 Indiana 111, Dallas 100 Chicago 97, Utah 95 Tuesday’s Games Atlanta at Washington, 5 p.m. Golden State at Miami, 5:30 p.m. Sacramento at New Orleans, 6 p.m. Detroit at Milwaukee, 6 p.m. Chicago at Denver, 7 p.m.

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Tuesday’s Games Winnipeg at Columbus, 5 p.m. Ottawa at St. Louis, 6 p.m. Los Angeles at Nashville, 6 p.m. Edmonton at Dallas, 6:30 p.m. Colorado at Arizona, 7 p.m. New Jersey at Vancouver, 8 p.m. Calgry at Anaheim, 8 p.m.

Lloyd Strickland drained 37 points to lead Carstar to a 107-85 Central Alberta Senior Men’s Basketball Association win over the Axemen Sunday. Murray Cunningham added 19 points for the winners. In other games: l Matt Thomson netted 20 points and Jeff Diep contributed 13 as Sheraton Red Deer dumped Driven 81-51. Akeem Ambrose scored 13 points and Axl Bendzsel dropped in 11 for the losers. l Wells Furniture, with Eddie Ellis scoring 18 points and Dave Mccomish chipping in with 17, defeated Henry’s Evestroughing 75-61. Darren Andrews had 14 points in a losing cause. l All Sports Cresting Lacombe got 31 points from Bryce Kraushar and 16 from Jeremy Purviance in a 96-49 thumping of the Alken Basin Drillers.

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Eskimos confident better days are ahead EDMONTON - As the Edmonton Eskimos cleaned out their lockers and said their goodbyes Monday, they felt confident that their turnaround in 2014 is just the beginning of something special. Sure, their loss to the Calgary Stampeders in Sunday’s CFL West final was extremely disappointing. But after advancing to the division final one year after missing the playoffs altogether, the Eskimos believe they have created the solid foundation that will lead to even more success in the future. “I feel we’ve built a great foundation for what we want to come back in Edmonton,” said Adarius Bowman, who emerged as the CFL’s leading receiver. “We’re very disappointed how things ended because our expectations were very high.” He said the team made huge strides, especially considering they went into the season with an entirely new coaching staff and a bunch of new players who had to learn their roles and the systems.

Rookie head coach Chris Jones, the architect of the turnaround from a four-win season in 2013 to 12-6 and second place this year, said he and his staff know they left some work undone. “We have to look inward at ourselves and the mistakes we made to find out how we can get better,” he said of the staff that he expects to return next year. “I look at myself first of all, to make sure I teach it so we don’t make the mistakes we made (Sunday).” While Jones anticipates his coaching staff to remain intact, the player roster will not. One of those probably not returning is slotback Fred Stamps, the league’s leading receiver in 2013 who was relegated to a part-time role this year. The 32-year-old Stamps, who has played his entire eight-year CFL career in Edmonton, said it was an extremely difficult season for him. “I don’t know any other CFL team but if I’m not here next year hopefully I’ll be where I can contribute and win a championship,” Stamps said. “But hopefully things work out where I’m here and I can retire here but it’s not my decision. All I want to do it win,

Trio of Central Alberta teams finish 2-3 at Edmonton ringette tournament Each of the three Central Alberta Sting ringette teams posted a 2-3 record in the Edmonton AA Wood tournament during the weekend. The U16AA Sting opened with an 11-1 loss to the Winnipeg Angels, their lone goal coming from Kailyn Smalley, then fell 13-1 to the Calgary Pursuit with McKenna Causey scoring in a losing cause. The U16 squad followed with a 9-7 loss to the St. Albert Mission — their goals coming off the sticks of Smalley, Causey, Reese Pollitt, Megan Conrad, Sydney Cherniak, Madison Caine and Brianna Abell — and a 6-4 victory over Lower Mainland B.C., in which Abell tallied twice and Cherniak, Pollitt, Smalley and Emily LeMasurier also scored. In the U16 eighth-place game, Cherniak scored twice and Abell, Causey, Smalley, Pollitt and MaKenna Tonery also tallied in the Sting’s 7-1 win over Lower Mainland. l The U19AA Sting placed eighth in their division with a 3-1 win over Zone 5. Brenna Parent, Gillian Dreger and Emily Renneberg pulled the trigger for the winners. Earlier, the U19 team lost 6-1 and 11-4 to Lower Mainland and St. Albert,

and 5-4 to the Edmonton Elite, before downing the Regina Bandits 7-1. Shae-Lyn Baxter scored against Lower Mainland; Baxter, Kristin Demale, Melissa Misutka and Bryn Lunn tallied against St. Albert; Dreger fired three goals and Baxter had a single versus Edmonton; and Dreger recorded a hat trick and Baxter, Demale, Renneberg and MacKenzie Lindholm had singles in the win over Regina. l The U14AA Sting opened with 4-3, 9-7 and 3-2 losses to St. Albert, Calgary and the Manitoba Wild, before rallying to post 3-2 and 4-2 wins over the Manitoba Magic and Zone 5, the second victory earning the Sting ninth place. Carley Cherniak had two goals and Hannah Morrison one against St. Albert; Cherniak and Kianna Doyle each tallied twice and Morrison, Saxon Anderson and Hanna Gill each connected once versus Calgary; Morrison and Colby Wagar scored against the Wild; Megan Grubb tallied twice and Cherniak once versus the Magic; and Gill, Anderson, Jukie Wagner and Jamie Lalor each had a goal against Zone 5. Central Alberta will be hosting a AA ringette tournament in Lacombe Dec. 12-14.

put my name on a Grey Cup trophy and walk away with a ring. That way I can walk away from the CFL feeling I accomplished something. “I’m going to get ready for 2015 because it’s going to be a big year for me. I promise it will be a totally different season.” Jones said there were a lot of guys “who had to play roles they never played before, back-up type roles, splitting time and that’s a tough pill to swallow from some players. “We had guys who did it and put the team first,” he added. “That’s the biggest thing I’m most proud of, other than we had a good record, the fact everyone in the lock room put the team before themselves.” Quarterback Mike Reilly, who started Sunday’s game but left early in the third quarter, confirmed he had a broken bone in his foot. That led to atrophy in his calf and hamstring that created more issues for him. “And then we had some pretty severe bruising in the ankle, which ended up being one of the biggest issues. With the bone it healed pretty quickly and we could numb it but the bruise

there was not really anything we could do for it. There’s no way to get rid of the pain.” He said he felt fine at the start of Sunday’s game but as it went on, “every hit, every play, things just kind of deteriorated a little bit. It got to a point where I just couldn’t walk on it.” General manager Ed Hervey said the franchise now has positives to build on, knows the areas that need improvement and he remains committed to his game plan. He said the coaching staff this year re-established a culture where competition is important and where players are accountable and can depend on one another. “We’re united,” he said. “We’re not a clown show. The organization is on solid ground. We’re criticized for different things we do and the way we do it but we know it’s right.” He said he will meet with soon with Stamps to discuss his future. While he wouldn’t say how many free agents he has to deal with, Hervey said he has met with every one. Some have committed to return while others want to wait.

Oilers fire goaltending coach, hire former Rebel EDMONTON - The Edmonton Oilers have fired goaltending coach Frederic Chabot. The Oilers have struggled to keep the puck out of the net this season. Their 74 goals against are the most in the NHL. Starting goaltender Ben Scrivens has struggled this year with a record of 4-9-1, a 3.35 goals-against average and .887 save percentage. Backup Viktor Fasth has similar numbers with a 2-4-1 record, a 3.37

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quinn: Giant of a man “Pat Quinn was a giant of a man in every way. A true leader and a wonderful person,” Wickenheiser posted on Twitter. “One of my fav. Pat Quinn moments was him in tears on our bench after winning gold in Salt Lake 02. He said women inspired the men.” NHL legend Wayne Gretzky was the executive director of the men’s team at the Games and said in an interview with TSN on Monday that he was confident in Quinn’s ability to bring together a coaching staff and team from around the NHL at a short tournament. “Pat Quinn was a guy who could make the cocoaches feel comfortable, and he could bring together 23 players to say ‘OK, we’re going to check our egos at the door just like our head coach did and we’re going to become one, and we’re going to build towards winning the gold medal,”’ said Gretzky. Canadian Olympic Committee president Marcel Aubut said Quinn made a lasting impression with Canada’s Olympic program. “He was a larger than life coaching giant in hockey and an outstanding leader in Canada’s Olympic movement,” said Aubut. “His contributions as a player, coach and builder will never be forgotten and through his work he leaves behind a legacy that has inspired future generations of hockey players.” Quinn’s longest stint as an NHL coach was in Toronto, where he led the team to six straight playoff appearances from 1998-99 to 2003-04. “This is a tremendous loss for the hockey community,” Maple Leafs president Brendan Shanahan said in a statement. “Pat will be revered not only for his great accomplishments in sport but also for his courage and strength in face of his illness, and his dedication to family.”

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Although the Stamps are favoured by more than a touchdown to beat the Ticats, Calgary coach and general manager John Hufnagel cautioned that his players will have to remain focused on the task at hand amid all the hype surrounding the Grey Cup festivities. “I know we had a good attitude the last two weeks preparing for the Western final and I think our play showed that,” Hufnagel said. “We didn’t play a perfect game, but we played a good solid game and we came out with a big win. We need to keep the same focus in a difficult week because the Grey Cup is different.” When asked to describe the performance of Hamilton kick-returner Brandon Banks, who ran back a pair of punts for TDs against Montreal, Hufnagel answered with one word. “Wow,” responded Hufnagel. “He had an excellent game, but special teams coverage has been a strength of our football team. We just need to be strong on Sunday.” Calgary’s defence will get its first look at Hamilton quarterback Zach Collaros, who missed both losses to the Stamps in the regular season while recovering from concussion-like symptoms. “Offensively they’ve been sparked since Zach came back,” Mitchell said. “He’s a very good quarterback and he plays the game with his heart on his sleeve. He’s fun to watch, so it’s going to be a tough game.”

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VICTORIA - First Nations on Vancouver Island have added their voices to the clamour of protests over the Trans Mountain pipeline, telling the National Energy Board that the proposed expansion project threatens their fishing, hunting and cultural sites. Tsartlip First Nation elder Simon Smith told an NEB hearing in Victoria that the risk of a spill from tankers loaded with pipeline oil is too great for his people to accept. He said increased oil tanker traffic along Vancouver Island’s coast will produce increased waves that will quickly erode cultural sites, especially ancient First Nations burial grounds. Smith made the comments as more protesters were arrested on Burnaby Mountain in Metro Vancouver for defying a court injunction that prohibits demonstrators from interfering with Kinder Morgan crews doing survey work in advance of a NEB decision on the expansion project. At least 78 protesters have been arrested since last Thursday, including a 74-year-old woman who was briefly taken into custody on Monday and re-

leased, RCMP said. Smith, 75, who previously served as a chief and councillor for his First Nation, said he’s opposed to more tanker traffic because of the likelihood that more ships will wash their sacred midden sites and burial grounds “down to the salt chuck.” “Some people don’t care, but we do. We have a feeling for our ancestors,” he told the hearing. The NEB is in Victoria until Friday gathering oral statements from aboriginals as it considers whether to recommend approving the pipeline project. Kinder Morgan is proposing an expansion of its current 1,150-kilometre Trans Mountain pipeline between Alberta and the B.C. coast. If approved, the expanded pipeline’s capacity would increase from 300,000 barrels to 890,000 barrels of crude per day. Smith, in further comments following his evidence before the NEB, said he and the Tsartlip, who live on the Saanich Peninsula just south of Victoria, are behind the hundreds of people who are protesting at

the survey site. “We support them,” said Smith. “We’re not there to support them physically, but we support them just like they support us. We just tell them we’re behind you. Whatever happens, we’re behind you.” The pipeline will not be located on Vancouver Island, but tanker traffic near First Nations territories and traditional hunting, fishing and cultural sites will increase. Smith suggested Island First Nations are prepared to mount similar protests on Vancouver Island if the project is approved. “If it comes down to it, we’re ready to do it,” said Smith. “We’re ready to show we mean what we say.” He said Kinder Morgan officials approached the Tsartlip at least a year ago about the proposed pipeline, but band leadership told them they were not interested in any negotiations. Smith said he was compelled to provide evidence to the NEB to protect future generations. “My time is just about over,” said Smith, who has 16 great grandchildren and 32 great-great grandchildren. “What I’m doing is looking after future generations.”

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BRIEF WestJet flight attendants vote to reject tentative agreement with airline CALGARY - WestJet Airlines Ltd. said Monday that its 2,600 flight attendants have voted to reject a tentative agreement reached last month. Ninety per cent of eligible flight attendants voted on the agreement, with 57 per cent of those voting casting ballots against the proposed five-year deal, the airline said. The tentative agreement was reached between the airline and the WestJet Flight Attendant Association Board. WestJet’s flight attendants are not unionized, but represented by an employee association. The airline says it will meet in the coming weeks with the association board and focus on understanding specific concerns, following the steps outlined in a dispute resolution process. The Flight Attendant Association Board is part of the ProActive Communication Team employee association which represents some 9,500 non-management employees at the airline. Anthony Pascale, chairman of the Flight Attendant Association Board, said he was disappointed by the vote. “We will survey our members in the coming weeks and re-engage them in the new year,” Pascale said.

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Elaine Windo of Rimbey holds her Delaware Rooster one of the birds she has entered in the American Poultry Association Canadian National Championships this past weekend. 800 poultry birds and 600 pigeons were entered in the championships this weekend in the Agricentre at Westerner Park. The show was held in conjunction with the Urban Farm Show.

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Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall said Monday Watson said reviews must be conducted in a timehe believes the premiers of Ontario and Quebec are ly manner but he won’t hesitate to extend the legcreating unnecessary barriers to the Energy East islated 15-month time limit if more information is Pipeline by setting conditions for their support of needed or more stakeholders need an opportunity to the project. be heard. Wall said he is concerned by the position taken by Wynne also wants assurances there will be consulPremiers Kathleen Wynne and Philippe Couillard, tations with First Nations and other communities in who said last week the path of the pipethat greenhouse gas line, an emergency emissions among ‘THIS IS A STRAIGHT-FORWARD PIPELINE response plan, and other issues must be guarantees that OnPROJECT. THERE SHOULD BE A RIGOROUS... considered in the tario’s current supNATIONAL ENERGY BOARD PROCESS pipeline’s developply of natural gas is ment. secure. TO MAKE SURE IT PASSES ALL THE “I am surprised,” “We’ve never ENVIRONMENTAL MUSTER, ALL THE SAFETY Wall said in Regina. moved away from the “This is a MUSTER, BUT THAT SHOULD BE THE ONLY position that we unstraight-forward derstand that this is PROCESS INVOLVED.’ pipeline project. in the best interests There should be a of country, that we — BRAD WALL, PREMIER OF SASKATCHEWAN rigorous ... National do it in the right way, Energy Board proand that’s what the cess to make sure it passes all the environmental conversation with Premier Couillard was about, and muster, all the safety muster, but that should be the that’s what my conversation with Premier Gallant only process involved.” has been about,” Wynne said Monday after meeting The $12-billion project would ship more than with New Brunswick Premier Brian Gallant. one million barrels of western crude daily from Al“We understand that we are connected and that berta and Saskatchewan to oil refineries in Eastern Alberta needs to move its resource and Ontario and Canada. Quebec and New Brunswick are part of that endea“I am concerned about barriers for the pipeline,” vour, but there are some principles that we need to Wall said. adhere to.” “I am also very concerned with an additional item Gallant said the Ontario and Quebec position they have added to their list of seven whatever they doesn’t damage the project’s prospects. are —conditions or demands— that Ontario and Que“I think these principles are very reasonable and bec are making includes a (greenhouse gas) measure very achievable,” Gallant said during a conference of the pipeline.” call from Toronto. TransCanada Corp. (TSX:TRP) has filed an apDespite the list of conditions, Gallant said he’s plication with the National Energy Board to use a optimistic Ontario will support the project because repurposed natural gas pipeline to carry crude two- Wynne sees the pipeline as important and benefithirds of the way across the country and building cial. a new pipeline extension that would lead to Saint “But I will add that this is a reminder that we John, N.B. should not sit on our hands and think that this projPeter Watson, chairman of the National Energy ect is a done deal,” he said. Board, has said climate change policy is not within “There is a process that is started and I think we its purview and it doesn’t intend for its hearings to as a province have to continuously show our support become hampered by that debate. in why we think this is a good project.”

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TORONTO - The Canadian dollar closed lower Monday ahead of the latest economic growth figures coming out later in the week. The loonie was down 0.4 of a cent to 88.58 cents US following a strong run last week that saw the currency run up almost a third of a cent. Recent performance was helped, in part, by a strong wholesale trade report and higher than expected inflation date for October, which raised speculation about when the Bank of Canada might hike interest rates. Next up, Statistics Canada releases its reading on September gross domestic product and the third quarter on Friday. Economists expect that the agency will report that GDP rose by 0.4 per cent after dipping 0.1 per cent in August, adding up to an annualized pace of 2.1 per cent. Investors will also get information this week on how the U.S. economy is performing. The American GDP data comes out Tuesday. It is the second revision to third-quarter GDP and it is generally expected that it will show growth softened a bit to an annual pace of 3.3 per cent compared with an earlier reading of 3.5 per cent, reflecting weakness in the Chinese economy and a deteriorating European economy that is struggling to stay out of recession. Meanwhile, a survey released Monday showed German business confidence rose in November after six consecutive months of declines. The Ifo institute said that its confidence index rose to 104.7 points in November from 103.2 points in October. Business leaders’ assessments of their current situation and their expectations for the next six months both rose.

Modest amount of overvaluation in Canadian housing markets: CMHC OTTAWA - The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. says there is a modest amount of overvaluation in the country’s housing markets, however other risk factors such was overheating, price acceleration, and overbuilding are not present. In its house price analysis and assessment, CMHC says, overall, housing markets in Canada are broadly consistent with underlying demographic and economic factors such as employment and interest rates. CMHC chief economist Bob Dugan says the risk of overvaluation is most evident in Montreal and Quebec, but added that the trend is improving. He said a modest risk of overvaluation is also present in Toronto, Calgary and Halifax. “There is however a cautionary note with respect to overbuilding in Toronto and Montreal,” Dugan said in a statement. “The number of units under construction is elevated in these centres. This could develop into overbuilding if these units are completed but not sold. To mitigate this risk, builders will need to hit the appropriate balance in channelling new demand between units that are currently under construction but not sold and units that are in the planning stage.” However, CMHC did not point to Vancouver, one of the country’s hottest real estate markets as being at a risk of overvaluation.

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Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . 112.42 Atco Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 47.84 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 52.93 BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . 11.76 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . 4.26 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 55.76 Cdn. National Railway . . 81.99 Cdn. Pacific Railway . . 234.47 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . 39.86 Capital Power Corp . . . . 27.78 Cervus Equipment Corp 20.40 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 52.26 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 52.45 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 27.85 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 38.69 General Motors Co. . . . . 32.19 Parkland Fuel Corp . . . . 22.01 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.10 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 44.24 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 34.00 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . 42.57 Transalta Corp. . . . . . . . 11.40 Transcanada . . . . . . . . . 55.92

Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 18.64 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 13.90 Tim Hortons . . . . . . . . . . 94.84 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . 85.40 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 30.75

Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . 95.72 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 49.88 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.24 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . 26.76 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . 55.09 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 4.42 Penn West Energy . . . . . . 5.12 Pinecrest Energy Inc. . . 0.040 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 8.98 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 40.32 Talisman Energy . . . . . . . 6.76 Trican Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.52 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 6.51 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 60.02

Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . 126.42 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . 15.45 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 16.05 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . 60.30

Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 14.22 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 21.47 First Quantum Minerals . 19.06 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 23.03 Hudbay Minerals . . . . . . . 9.47 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . 3.15 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . 18.49 Potash Corp. . . . . . . . . . 38.85 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . 2.84 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 19.04 Energy Arc Resources . . . . . . . . 28.19 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 32.13 Baker Hughes . . . . . . . . 64.72 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.70 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . 47.74 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 42.03 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . 17.10 Canyon Services Group. 11.27 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 28.07 CWC Well Services . . . 0.6800 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 20.63 Essential Energy . . . . . . . 1.95

Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 83.20 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . 70.19 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104.29 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 37.48 Carfinco . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.19 Great West Life . . . . . . . 33.18 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . 48.14 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 79.00 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 22.16 National Bank . . . . . . . . 53.33 Rifco Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.00 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . 82.47 Sun Life Fin. Inc. . . . . . . 41.56 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56.77

MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO - The Toronto stock market snapped a six-session run of gains Monday, with energy stocks a major weight ahead of a key meeting of the OPEC oil cartel later this week. The S&P/TSX composite index fell 95.72 points to 15,015.41. The Canadian dollar lost 0.4 of a cent to 88.58 cents US.

New York’s Dow industrials gained 7.84 points to 17,817.9, the Nasdaq rose 41.92 points to 4,754.89 and the S&P advanced 5.91 points to 2,069.41. The TSX energy sector fell two per cent as the January crude contract in New York dropped 73 cents to US$75.78 a barrel ahead of Thursday’s meeting of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries.

The major question on markets is whether OPEC will respond to sharply lower prices by cutting production. “In the Canadian market, it’s such a large element, it’s such a large weighting (and) it’s going to significantly influence our market here,” said Ian Nakamoto, director of research at 3MACS, adding that current prices around $75 seem at the low end.

Ontario regulates e-cigarettes, bans flavoured tobacco products THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO - Ontario moved Monday to regulate the sale of electronic cigarettes, ban all flavoured tobacco products, including menthol cigarettes, and mandate calorie counts on restaurant menus with its Making Healthier Choices Act. The omnibus bill would treat e-cigarettes just like tobacco cigarettes, with a total ban on sales to youth and on using them in restaurants and public buildings. “Until we have the evidence as to how bad or what the evidence is on electronic cigarettes, all we’re saying is let’s not get our kids started on this,” said Associate Health Minister Dipika Damerla. “The evidence shows if young kids see people smoking or vaping, they are likely to take up smoking or vaping.” Even though e-cigarettes do not produce second-hand smoke, they still send the wrong message to teens, added Damerla. “We’re not banning it,” she said. “All we’re saying is we want to regulate it and there’s absolutely nothing in this legislation that would stop an adult from using it.” The New Democrats said the Liberals should have taken action sooner. “Every month that goes by, more and more youth pick up smoking by experimenting with e-cigarettes and then making the switch,” said NDP health critic France Gelinas. Damerla said the restaurant and motel industries asked for regulations on e-cigarettes so they don’t have to argue with customers who aren’t clear on the rules, and noted about 43 American

states and the province of Nova Scotia have already regulated e-cigarettes in some way. The Ontario bill, which brings together three previous pieces of legislation, would also ban all flavoured tobacco products, many of which are designed and packaged to appeal to teens, and will expand the previously planned prohibition to include menthol cigarettes. “We know that flavoured (tobacco) and menthol cigarettes are aimed squarely at children and are meant to addict children and teenagers,” said Dr. Scott Wooder of Stoney Creek, a former president of the Ontario Medical Association. “It’s easier for them to get started on menthol cigarettes,” added Wooder. “It soothes the bitter burned tobacco taste of cigarettes.” The Canadian Cancer Society called the ban on flavoured tobacco “a giant step forward in protecting the health of Ontario youth and preventing cancer,” and applauded the “bold decision” to include menthol cigarettes in the ban. The industry will have up to two years to phase out menthol cigarettes, but most other provisions of the bill will kick in by Jan. 1, 2016, said Damerla. The National Coalition Against Contraband Tobacco and the Ontario Korean Businessmen’s Association, which says it represents the majority of independent convenience store retailers, said banning menthol will only drive more smokers to cheap, illegal cigarettes. “The ban of yet another long-standing legal product will only lead to increased profits for illegal traffickers, and harder times for law abiding family businesses,” said Don Cha of the Korean Businessmen’s Association.

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“I find it hard to believe we’re going to settle in at $60 for example. I would say $75 to $85 to me is comfortable for the economy.” Oil prices have tumbled about 30 per cent from mid-summer amid rising supplies, lower demand and a strengthening U.S. dollar that has pressured all commodities priced in that currency. Aside from energy and mining stocks, the mood was fairly positive thanks in part to a surprise interest rate cut by China’s central bank on Friday, its first such move in more than two years. It was seen as a sign of increasing official concern after economic growth tumbled to a five-year low of 7.3 per cent in the latest quarter. Confidence about Europe also improved Monday after a survey showed German business confidence rose in November after six consecutive months of declines. The Ifo institute said that its confidence index rose to 104.7 points in November from 103.2 points in October. Elsewhere on the TSX, the base metals sector shed 1.7 per cent while the December copper contract was three cents lower at US$3 a pound. The gold sector fell one per cent as the December bullion contract lost $2 to US$1,195.70 an ounce. Advancers were led by a 0.66 per cent rise in industrial stocks and a 0.5 per cent pop in the consumer discretionary sector. On the corporate front, Toronto-based private equity firm

Onex Corp. (TSX:OCX) is buying Swiss food packaging company SIG Combibloc Group AG for as much as $4.66 billion. Onex will pay $4.44 billion at the close of the transaction for SIG and up to an additional $217 million if the company meets financial targets in 2015 and 2016. Onex shares gained 94 cents to $65.10. Shares in Hudson’s Bay Company (TSX:HBC) ran ahead $1.62 or eight per cent to $21.82 after it announced it was taking out a US$1.25 billion, 20-year mortgage for the ground floor of its Saks Fifth Avenue store in New York. FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS Highlights at the close of Friday at world financial market trading. Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index 15,015.41, down 95.72 points Dow - 17,817.90, up 7.84 points S&P 500 - 2,069.41, up 5.91 points Nasdaq - 4,754.89, up 41.92 points Currencies: Cdn - 88.58 cents US, down 0.40 of a cent Pound - C$1.7729, up 1.27 cents Euro - C$1.4045, up 1.17 cents Euro - US$1.2441, up 0.48 of a cent Oil futures: US$75.78 per barrel, down

Just Energy subsidiary faces $7M fine OTTAWA - The federal Competition Bureau says a subsidiary of Just Energy Group Inc. (TSX:JE) has agreed to pay $7 million in penalties, restitution and other costs related to complaints over its door-to-door water heater marketing practices in Ontario and Quebec. The settlement with National Energy Corp, which operates as National Home Services and Services aux foyers, follows a finding by the bureau that sales staff

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73 cents (January contract) Gold futures: US$1,195.70 per oz., down $2.00 (December contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $19.167 oz., up 14.7 cents $616.22 kg., up $4.73 ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG - ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: Jan ‘15 $1.60 higher $432.60; March ‘15 $0.70 higher $434.20; May ‘15 $0.90 higher $435.50; July ‘15 $1.20 higher $436.00; Nov ‘15 $1.00 higher $431.50; Jan. ‘16 $1.00 higher $436.50; March ‘16 $1.00 higher $441.00; May ‘16 $1.00 higher $441.00; July ‘16 $1.00 higher $441.00; Nov. ‘16 $1.00 higher $441.00. Barley (Western): Dec. ‘14 $1.00 higher 164.00; March ‘15 unchanged $166.00; May ‘15 unchanged $166.00; July ‘15 unchanged $166.00; Oct. ‘15 unchanged $166.00; Dec. ‘15 unchanged $166.00; March ‘16 unchanged $166.00; May ‘16 unchanged $166.00; July ‘16 unchanged $166.00; Oct. ‘16 unchanged $166.00; Dec. ‘16 unchanged $166.00. Monday’s estimated volume of trade: 328,340 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 328,340.

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Nur guilty of two charges JUDGE ALLOWS MOST EVIDENCE AFTER VOIR DIRES; RULING ON THIRD CHARGE RELATED TO DRUG TRAFFICKING TO FOLLOW IN NEW YEAR BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF A former Red Deer man was convicted of two drug trafficking charges on Monday. Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Charlene Anderson will rule early next year on whether Ahmed Nur, 32, is guilty of a third charge of possession of the proceeds of crime worth over $5,000. The two convictions came after Anderson ruled on four voir dires that had been raised during Nur’s trial earlier in the fall. Defence lawyer Paul Moreau, of Ed-

monton, had argued that Nur’s rights under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms had been violated under two sections of the charter. It was alleged that the RCMP’s Information to Obtain, a document used to get a search warrant, was deficient. The defence also argued that a 10-hour delay from when Nur was arrested to when he was allowed to phone a lawyer also violated his Charter rights. Two other voir dires raised the admissibility of Canada Revenue Agency evidence and evidence presented by a police officer on the habits of drug traffickers. Anderson ruled the police officer’s

expert testimony was not admissible but allowed all other evidence. After the judges rulings, Moreau said he would call no evidence and left it to the judge to find Nur guilty on the trafficking and possession charges. The third charge remains “debatable” he said. After hearing arguments from the Crown and defence, Anderson, who is based in Calgary, said she would rule on that charge at the same time as sentencing. A date has not yet been chosen, but it will not happen until early 2015. Crown prosecutor Patricia Giroux said she will be seeking a significant prison sentence, noting that the pen-

alty for possession for the purpose of trafficking typically starts at four and a half years. Nur, who now lives in Edmonton, and another man, Raed Abdulla, 32, of Red Deer, were arrested on July 12, 2011, after RCMP raids on two Red Deer homes and an Edmonton storage business. About $65,000 in cash was seized, along with cocaine and other drugs, and eight firearms. The Crown stayed against Abdulla at the beginning of his trial in Red Deer in September. Nur was remanded into custody until his next court date. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

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Matt Bruns helps out as the Red Deer City Soccer Association installs netting over their new soccer turf at Westerner Park. The new playing surface, which is 32 metres by 60 metres, has been installed in the Agricentre and will be in place until Feb. 21. Several sports organizations will be using the turf, including the Red Deer City Soccer Association. Titans Rugby and Red Deer Lacrosse. Another field will also be installed at Westerner Park this winter, first in the Stockmans Pavillion before it is moved to the Agricentre. The Red Deer Central Lions Club helped to make the purchase of the new synthetic grass fields possible. The cost of the project is about $200,000, said Red Deer City Soccer Association business operations manager Brian Desjardins.

BRIEF Lacombe check stop fails to find any drunks Not one impaired driver was found when Lacombe Police Service stopped 850 vehicles on Friday. However, the 10-hour period of check stops at various locations in Lacombe did see a number of other charges laid. Two drivers were issued 24-hour driving suspensions, one driver was found to be suspended, and there were two offences under the Graduated Driver and Licensing program for new drivers. As well, there were six other offences under the Gaming and Liquor Act, and one vehicle was seized. There were another 17 violation tickets or written warnings issued to drivers. Sgt. Rick Kohut of Lacombe Police Service said many drivers were cooperative and pleased to see the police presence on roads. The operation was part of the Enhanced Alberta Check Stop Program. Mothers Against Drunk Driving members were also present, helping to bring awareness to impaired driving, and handed out information packages on impaired driving.

Man faces charges after gun threat A 21-year-old man has been charged with numerous offences after he barricaded himself in a house near Lousana and threatened to harm himself with a firearm on Sunday. Three Hills RCMP, Calgary and Red Deer Emergency Response Teams responded to the incident. The man was taken into custody and is awaiting his first court appearance. The man, who is of no fixed address, was wanted on outstanding warrants. He faces numerous charges from Drayton Valley, Red Deer, Blackfalds and Stettler. The charges he faces include identity fraud, resisting arrest, obstructing justice, theft, possession of stolen property, personation and failing to attend court.

Lacombe sex offender must wait for sentence Sentencing has been delayed for a Lacombe man convicted of sex with an under-aged girl. Kyle James Bracken, 22, pled guilty in Red Deer provincial court last month to one count of sexual interference with a minor during his trial. Sentencing was set for Monday, but court heard that Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Monica Bast was not available. Another sentencing date

will be set on Dec. 1. In an agreed statement of facts read at Bracken’s trial, the court heard he had sex on one occasion with his 14-year-old victim. The accused and victim had met through Lacombe’s drug scene.

Penhold Christmas market, cookie walk on Saturday Penhold and District Museum Society is hosting a fundraising Christmas market and cookie walk on Saturday. More than 40 vendors from Central Alberta will sell items including Christmas ornaments, cookies, handmade soaps, clothing, accessories and children’s toys. Those with a sweet tooth can by a $5 box or a $10 box to fill with cookies of their choosing. The market and cookie walk will be from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Penhold Multiplex, which is located at No. 1 Waskasoo Ave. (Range Road 280) in Penhold.

Red Deer museum open house on Dec. 7 Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery is hosting a Christmas open house Sunday, Dec. 7, from 2 to 4 p.m. Everyone is welcome to enjoy warm cider and other goodies. Songs of the season will be performed by CJ and Kim Berubé. Join a guided tour of three exhibits and

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hear stories of service, sacrifice and success. The exhibits are Remarkable Red Deer, Let’s Go Boys and Missing Lives. Admission to the museum on Sundays is free. The museum is located at 4525 47A Ave. For more information, call 403-3098405.

Artist to speak tonight about weird, wacky work An artist who specializes in the weird and the wacky will give a free lecture in downtown Red Deer tonight. Jill Stanton will speak at 7 p.m. at the Welikoklad Event Centre Gallery at 4922 49th St. Stanton is an illustrator, muralist and comic maker from Edmonton. She is working on the next issue of a serial comic book based on dream imagery and hallucinations titled Headspaces. She has had her work displayed in Applied Arts Magazine and has an exhibit of her work at the Art Gallery of Alberta until Dec. 31. For details visit http://jstanton.ca. Stanton has a bachelor of fine art degree in printmaking and drawing from the University of Alberta. She works with the Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts in Edmonton as print shop co-ordinator. Stanton is speaking as part of Red Deer College’s visiting artist lecture series in its School of Creative Arts.

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Tories try to make nice with veterans GOVERNMENT BRACES FOR AUDITOR GENERAL REPORT ON VETERANS CARE

BRIEF Tories caught in trap set for Liberals OTTAWA — The latest Conservative sting operation aimed at discrediting a prominent Liberal candidate has instead wound up embarrassing several Tory MPs, including senior cabinet minister Jason Kenney. The operation involved a young Conservative operative who secretly recorded a conversation with Marlo Raynolds, the Liberal candidate in Banff-Airdrie, and two other men at a public meeting in Canmore, Alta., last week. The recording purported to reveal Raynolds criticizing the Tories’ recent family tax cut plan, saying it amounts to giving money to people for “arguably nothing,” only to see them spend it on TVs, cars and other things that don’t benefit the economy. The recording was given to Sun News Network personality Brian Lilley, who denounced Raynolds’ comments — and, by extension, the Liberal party — on his TV show and in a newspaper column. Blake Richards, the Tory MP for Banff-Airdrie, and two other Alberta MPs — Chris Warkentin and Kenney, the employment minister — pounced on Lilley’s work to denounce Raynolds and the Liberals in the House of Commons. Only problem? The words attributed to Raynolds were actually spoken by another individual who has publicly stepped forward to correct the record.

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was “an attempt to solve a problem that doesn’t exist.” But Pierre Poilievre, the minister for democratic reform, defended the split by saying the investigation of elections offences should be completely independent of the watchdog that administers the Canada Elections Act. As Poilievre put it last February, “the referee should not be wearing a team jersey.” In an email Monday evening, Poilievre noted the costs cited are estimates that will be updated later in the public accounts. “We are very proud of the decision to create an independent investigator,” the minister said in the email. “Removing the commissioner from Elections Canada will separate the administration of election law and the investigation of potential offences.”

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Jury in Magnotta trial sent home until Tuesday MONTREAL — Jurors at Luka Rocco Magnotta’s first-degree murder trial were sent home on Monday morning and told to return Tuesday. The defence case was to have ended Monday but Justice Guy Cournoyer told the 14-member jury that lawyers were not in a position to continue. Magnotta is charged with firstdegree murder and four other charges in the slaying and dismemberment of Chinese engineering student Jun Lin. Magnotta admits to the physical acts surrounding Lin’s death but has said he was suffering from a mental disorder at the time of the slaying in May 2012. Two psychiatrists have testified that Magnotta was in a psychotic state and was incapable of telling right from wrong. The Crown is arguing the crimes were planned and deliberate. Magnotta is also charged with criminally harassing Prime Minister Stephen Harper and other members of Parliament; mailing obscene and indecent material; committing an indignity to a body; and publishing obscene materials.

OTTAWA — A Conservative government decision to move the office that investigates election fraud out from under the roof of Elections Canada is costing almost $3 million in up-front costs. An order paper response to Liberal MP Scott Simms details $2,939.557.90 budgeted to move the office of elections commissioner Yves Cote, including $122,000 for a consultant and A place $265,000 in management to Gather, fees for the relocation. The government split Learn, Create, the commissioner of Winter Share! elections from its home Hours Start within Elections Canada November earlier this year as part of a hotly contested bill Fri-Sat 10-5 dubbed the Fair Elections Act. Yves Cote, the current Follow us on Facebook commissioner, testified and see all our news at the time that the move

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS PORT HAWKESBURY, N.S. — A crew member aboard a fishing boat told a murder trial in Cape Breton on Monday that Phillip Boudreau was shot at and hooked with a fishing gaff after the captain suspected him of “playing” with their lobster traps. Craig Landry testified at the murder trial of Joseph James Landry, who has pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder in Boudreau’s death. The captain of the Twin Maggies suspected Boudreau had been tampering with their lobster traps before they steamed towards his boat at full speed on June 1, 2013, Craig Landry told the jury trial in the Nova Scotia Supreme Court in Port Hawkesbury. Craig Landry said after spotting Boudreau on the water, Dwayne Matthew Samson said in French: “It must be Phillip. Keep an eye on him. ... He must be playing with the traps again.” Craig Landry testified that Samson then said, “He’s going to get a scare this time,” before asking Joseph James Landry to shoot at Boudreau. “James knelt down on one knee

in advance each year how much their programs and services will cost. “What governments typically do what we always do, what preceding governments have done - is you tend to over-estimate the amount to make sure you don’t fall short during the year,” Harper said in London, Ont. “And that is a process we will continue.” Critics, including opposition parties and some veterans groups, say the under-spending is a politically driven government effort to balance the budget - a notion Veterans Affairs Minister Julian Fantino characterized Sunday as “totally false.” There are a variety of ways departments can under-spend their allocations. Veterans Affairs has yet to provide a full, clear accounting of where its lapsed funding originated.

against the (wheel)house and pulled the trigger,” said Craig Landry, who earlier said that he and Joseph James Landry are third cousins and that he has known him for his whole life. Craig Landry said Boudreau pleaded for Joseph James Landry to stop firing at him, yelling, “Stop, James. Stop.” “Phillip said he wasn’t doing anything, he wasn’t cutting any traps,” said Craig Landry. “He said, ‘Stop James. You broke my leg.”’ Craig Landry said Boudreau’s boat was then rammed several times in Cape Breton’s Petit de Grat harbour by the Twin Maggies before Joseph James Landry hooked Boudreau with a fishing gaff and dragged him out to sea. Craig Landry told the jury the gaff slipped several times. He said at one point, Joseph James Landry lifted up the gaff to find Boudreau’s sweater. Craig Landry said Joseph James Landry hooked Boudreau again. Prosecutor Steve Drake said in his opening statement earlier this month that the three-man crew aboard the Twin Maggies later tied an anchor to Boudreau’s neck and upper arms after his body turned face down in the water.

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OTTAWA — The Harper government’s frenzy of funding to support veterans continued to rain down Monday, just ahead of what’s expected to be a politically toxic report by the auditor general on mental health services for ex-soldiers. In the 48 hours leading up to Michael Ferguson’s fall report, the Conservatives — who have long prided themselves on supporting the troops have promised hundreds of millions of additional dollars, a suite of improved programs and research. But the question on the minds of many, in light of the recent controversy over $1.13 billion in so-called lapsed funding at Veterans Affairs, is this: How much of the newly earmarked

cash will actually be spent? Health Minister Rona Ambrose added to the funding windfall Monday with $5 million in new money for the Canadian Institute for Military and Veteran Health Research. The cash will be matched dollarfor-dollar by the private charity, True Patriot Love Foundation, and follows a $200-million, six-year commitment made Sunday in Halifax by no fewer than three federal ministers. Veterans Affairs Minister Julian Fantino, Defence Minister Rob Nicholson and Justice Minister Peter MacKay announced an additional operational stress injury clinic for Halifax, along with several satellite offices elsewhere in the country. They promised more money for peer support staff, greater access to clinics for former military members and their families and important research into

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Blue Cross reaffirms decision not to cover couple with million dollar baby HUMBOLDT, Sask.â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Saskatchewan Blue Cross says it wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t reverse its decision denying the claim of a family facing more than $900,000 in medical bills for an unexpected birth in Hawaii. Instead, the insurance company said in a statement Monday that Jennifer Huculak should seek help from the national independent insurance ombudsman. Huculak said she was six months pregnant when she left for a vacation in Hawaii with the blessing of her doctor and health insurance from Blue Cross. Soon after arriving, her water broke and her premature baby required a two-month stay in an American neonatal intensive care unit. Blue Cross denied her claim, saying a bladder infection that caused some hemorrhaging at four months constituted a pre-existing condition. Saskatchewan Blue Cross president Arnie Arnott said Huculak was given â&#x20AC;&#x153;nine specific eventsâ&#x20AC;? that prevented her claim from being paid and referred the media back to Huculak for further explanation. He said the challenges facing Huculakâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s family are â&#x20AC;&#x153;extraordinary and difficult,â&#x20AC;? and the Ombudservice for Life and Health Insurance would provide a third-party review of the Blue Cross decision. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A review by OLHI is free of charge and Saskatchewan Blue Cross will cover any costs incurred by Ms. Huculak preparing her claim for review by the ombudsman,â&#x20AC;? Arnott said in the statement. Blue Cross aims to â&#x20AC;&#x153;help families avoid situations like this one,â&#x20AC;? he

RED DEER ADVOCATE Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2014 C3 not there to see this happen. Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not his trial after firing his lawyer three there to see people held accountable days in to the court proceedings. for what they did to her.â&#x20AC;? His sentence included a provision Crown lawyer Alex Smith read an that he couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t apply for parole until agreed statement outlining the facts he served 18 Â˝ years in prison. of the high-profile case that garnered national attention following the girlâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s death last year.

Panel approves settlement to end long-running Second young man accused Manitoba naked judge case in prominent child porn case in Halifax pleads guilty WINNIPEG â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A Manitoba judge

whose nude photos were posted online by her husband will voluntarily retire from the bench rather than undergo another hearing into whether she should be removed from her position. A three-person panel investigating Associate Chief Justice Lori Douglas approved a settlement between the judge and the Canadian Judicial Council Monday. Under the agreement, Douglas will retire in May and hearings into her conduct will be dropped. The judicial council said pursuing the matter after Douglas retires would not be in the public interest. A hearing into the case was to start Monday, but lawyer Sheila Block told the panel her client reached an agreement with the judicial council. Four years of having her personal life scrutinized has taken its toll on Douglas, Block said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Even though she loved being a judge, considered it an honour and privilege to serve, she is at the point where this is the best choice for her, for her son and elderly father, for her late husbandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s children and the rest of her family,â&#x20AC;? Block said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;To withstand more weeks of hearing into entirely private matters and risk the viewing of her intimate images by colleagues and others, is more than she can bear.â&#x20AC;? Douglas has also asked that the intimate photos of her taken by her husband be returned to her so they can be destroyed.

HALIFAX â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A second young man accused in a prominent child pornography case pleaded guilty in youth court Monday to distributing a sexually graphic image of a 15-year-old girl who later died following a suicide attempt. The 19-year-old man, who cannot be identified because he was a minor at the time of the offence in the fall of 2011, was expected to start a scheduled four-day trial but entered a guilty plea to one count of distributing child pornography. He will be sentenced on Jan. 15. The girlâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s parents said they werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t surprised by the plea but wished it had come earlier, adding that it didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make it any easier to listen to the difficult facts of the case as the accused sat nearby on the prisonerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bench. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We felt the evidence was already pretty strong ... but this should have happened in the first place,â&#x20AC;? her father said outside Halifax youth court. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s difficult to be in the courtroom because youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re angry. ... Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

Killer denies sex with budâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mom led to stabbing before mall shooting TORONTO â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A man accused of a revenge shooting in a crowded downtown food court testified Monday he had earlier been the victim of a terrifying attack that almost killed him. Speaking in his own defence, Christopher Husbands said he didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t believe his assailants had attacked him for having had sex with the mother of one of them. Husbands, 25, of Toronto, has admitted to opening fire at the landmark Eaton Centre in June 2012, killing two people, injuring five others, and sparking panicked chaos. However, he denies going to the mall intending to kill anyone, and has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder. The prosecution contends the shooting was deliberate payback for an incident months earlier in which several men stabbed and robbed Husbands at an east-end home.

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A letter to a daughter on her fourth birthday Dear Sophie, I write this note to you on your 4th birthday as a letter for the future. I remember the car ride to the hospital as though it was yesterday. I was scared and excited and eager but most of all I was nervous. I was nervous because I didn’t know about girls. I didn’t know how to raise a girl. For weeks prior I had obsessed over the tiny dresses I would put you in. Washing, hand drying and hanging them on the girly pink closet hooks I had bought for that exact purpose. And with each one of those dresses I imagined a memory of you in them that I would one day have. In truth I daydream endlessly of you Sophie. Even before I knew you I would think about our life together. I would wonder what kind of person you would be, what kind of soul you would have. I worried about the bad people in this world and I hoped you would be the kind of individual strong enough to overcome them. Furthermore I prayed I would be a strong enough woman to teach you how to do this. As I struggled with my own self-esteem issues I doubted how I could ever be a positive role model for you. Before I had ever laid eyes on you dear daughter I contemplated obsessively over how I would ever give you the self-reliance to walk your own path. To be your own woman. These things still concern me, but not nearly as much as they once did- because now I know you. You came to greet us on a cold and crisp November morning. You were perfect in every sense of the word. You immediately stole your father’s ability to think logically and continue to to this day- and I would put money on the fact that this is unlikely to change. Please don’t take too much advantage of that in your teenage years. I look at you today- the smart, funny and wonderful little girl you’ve grown into and I marvel in your independence. As I have watched you develop over the years I see this person emerging from within. This person is strong-willed and courageous. She is feisty, never willing to back down from something she believes in. This seemingly tiny persona of yours is not tiny at all. Sophie you are the type of person that will draw notice to yourself wherever you go. Your sheer confidence already illuminates you. This is a quality you should never be ashamed of. It is the essence of you and deserves to be savored. In your life people may try to whitewash these talents, just know it is out of jealousy and fear they

do this. Feel pity rather than anger to such individuals and be strong in the resolve that your uniqueness is something that can never be subdued. Do not bend your morals and ideals to please the egos of others. Sometimes it may be difficult not to, sometimes all you will want is to fit in with the crowd. But as you get older and wiser you will appreciate the fact you have stayed true to yourself. BeLINDSAY friend those without ulterior BROWN motives, the ones who only ME PLUS THREE want to rejoice in the splendid rareness that is you. Those friendships will be the lasting ones. I promise. And just as you will go on learning life’s lessons, so have I. It is now 4 years, a lot of arguments, some tears and a whole bunch of laughs later that I realize how unimportant those little dresses actually were. They were overpriced pieces of frilled fabric, worn once and never to be remembered or thought of again. It makes me wonder why I had worried so endlessly about their creases and stains in the first place. I spent so much time assuring they were in lovely order for you to wear. It all seems so silly now looking back on it. These last four years have gone by so fast it makes me realize that it will not be long until you can read this letter yourself and take in its meaning for what you will. And when that time comes I would like to give you a few pieces of motherly advice; Confidence, contentment and kindness are infinitely more important than material clutter. Style is not measured by the outfit you wear, but how you wear it. Travel lightly and smile frequently- both will have outstanding influence on your psyche. Understand that it is acceptable to say no to anyone at all. Know that karma is real and tangible and constantly in motion. Be generous. Ignore the cynics. Believe in humanity. But most importantly live liberally, live freely, live your own way- because that is what you have always been meant to do. Lindsay Brown is a Sylvan Lake mother of two and freelance columnist.

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Sophie Brown, pictured above, recently celebrated her fourth birthday.

Life’s difficulties can upset family time Question: Thanksgiving is this week, and I’m having a hard time getting up for it. I’m usually a positive person, but all of life’s difficulties decided to visit me this year. And the mess the world is in only adds to my feelings of despair. How can I get past this? Jim: I think a lot of folks are where you’re at right now. These aren’t easy times. It’s been said that “gratitude is the mother of all virtues.” But our feelings of gratitude run only as deep as the thing they’re rooted in. Ultimately, our expressions of thanksgiving are a reflection of and stem from where we’ve placed our hope. Because while it’s good to give thanks for life’s blessings, life’s circumstances will always be shaky and uncertain. Perhaps no one knew this more than Martin Rinkart. Rinkart was a Lutheran minister who served the German town of Eilenburg during the Thirty Years’ War. This long and destructive conflict remains one of the most devastating in all of European history. Wars, plagues, pestilence and famine reduced the German population by 40 percent, and as a strategic city, Eilenburg experienced the brunt of it. Though destitute himself, Rinkart provided refuge for victims in his home. In 1637, as the city’s only surviving pastor, Rinkart performed over 4,000 funerals – as many as 50 funerals a day – including that of his wife. Yet in the midst of this unimaginable pain and suffering, Rinkart wrote what many consider to

be our finest Thanksgiving hymn, “Now Thank We All Our God.” A study of its words reveals the source of Rinkart’s unshakeable gratitude -- and I’d encourage you to read them. I’d also encourage you to call our Focus counselors. They’re here to listen and help in times like these. Question: My father-inlaw insists on carving our Thanksgiving turkey. He conJIM siders it a position of honor. DALY The problem is that he does a terrible job! My beautifully cooked turkey gets absolutely mauled! I don’t want to insult him by giving the job to someone else – it means so much to him. How can I fix this in a loving way? Dr. Greg Smalley, Vice President, Family Ministries: Planning and preparing the Thanksgiving meal represents an incredible gift. It always seems a shame that so much time and effort goes into this labor of love, only to have everything devoured and done in a matter of moments. Perhaps this is a part of your own frustration. Regardless, I commend your wanting to provide a special Thanksgiving experi-

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ence for everyone, while also protecting the feelings of and guarding your relationship with your fatherin-law. It’s important that you resist the temptation to dismiss your feelings. Resentment will only build, and growth and resolution won’t be realized unless you’re able to identify why this is an issue for you. After you’ve explored your feelings and arrived at the heart of the matter, you may decide to stay with the status quo. But that doesn’t mean you can’t use the opportunity to create a “win” for everybody. You could, for instance, start a new tradition of taking a family picture with your beautiful bird before it goes under the knife. You might also further honor your father-in-law by publically expressing how much you’ve appreciated his carving leadership, and how you’d like to preserve the tradition by having him someday confer that responsibility to your husband when he’s ready. In the end, you may find that this sacrificial act is merely an extension and enhancement of everything you’re trying to accomplish – serving friends and family and providing an atmosphere where a spirit of love and thanksgiving is felt and expressed. Jim Daly is a husband and father, an author, and president of Focus on the Family and host of the Focus on the Family radio program. Catch up with him at www.jimdalyblog.com or at www.facebook.com/DalyFocus.

The eulogy exercise: how do you want to be remembered “The passing of the years awakens in our hearts the cry for permanence.” — Frederick Brotherton Meyer, Baptist pastor, author and evangelist in England It was an odd dream. I had arrived at the funeral service late and the pews were filled. I had to sit in one of the chairs hastily lined up for overflow. I was so far back that I couldn’t see the family. Though I could only see the backs of people’s heads I thought I recognized some of the attendees. The music ended and the minister began talking about good works and salvation. I hoped this wasn’t going to be a long and drawn-out affair like some I had attended. “Quite the crowd,” I said to the woman sitting next to me. “Pardon me,” she replied, seemingly puzzled by my comment. “Quite a few people,” I said. “I mean, a big crowd for a funeral.” “He was well-respected,” she answered. “He helped a lot of people.” “Of course – of course,” I responded. “Helping people is a good thing.” Someone shushed me so I leaned back in my chair and crossed my arms. The minister welcomed the deceased’s best friend to the stage to deliver the eulogy. It was my best friend. That’s when I realized that I was the deceased. The funeral was mine and I sat bolt upright in my bed. Have you ever stopped to think about your death? Ever pondered what people might say at your funeral? What would you like them to say? How would you like to be remembered? Some people consider contemplating one’s own death a spiritual practice. A Buddhist monk would suggest we examine it with each and every breath. A Cree healer of my acquaintance recommends pondering our death twice a day – upon awakening and before falling asleep. Now before you question my sanity for choosing what some might consider an uncomfortable topic for a self-esteem column, allow me to explain. I believe that all things can bring us awareness, and that includes openly and honestly contemplating the end of our existence.

When we can acknowledge – without fear or trepidation – that our time here is limited, we can choose to live each day to the fullest. We can stop procrastinating and rationalizing and get down to business. We can own our life and begin making the changes we know intuitively need to happen and that includes becoming awake and aware – components of healthy selfesteem. MURRAY The goal is to become FUHRER aware of how we’re spending our time, with whom we spend our time and how we can best work toward becoming authentic, focused individuals. We can willingly ask the hard questions like whether the way we’re living is contributing to our happiness, helping us to learn grow and evolve, or if it is keeping us stuck in a destructive, victim-focused mentality. By contemplating our death, we learn to identify beliefs, values and perceptions that no longer serve our greater good and detract from our life’s purpose. Contemplating death gives us permission to live our lives more authentically – in the now – with passion, compassion and purpose. When we finally acknowledge that death can come at any time, we can see that life is infinitely precious. This can provide us with a feeling of freedom and personal responsibility that can lead to a life filled with beauty, connection, purpose, joy and gratitude. I’m going to share with you an exercise that I recently discovered and one that I found to be lifechanging. Yes, I’m going to ask you to write your own eulogy. Here’s how it works. Unlike my dream, I’d like you to consciously imagine that you’re at your funeral. You look around and see that all your friends, family and colleagues gath-

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ered for the occasion. It’s the part of the ceremony when loved ones speak a few words about you – when they share stories, observations and insights. One by one, they stand behind the podium and share with the attendees what they most admired about you. They talk about your personality traits, the funny and amazing things you did and the ways you made the world a better place. What exceptional personality traits you embodied through your life. People nod. People laugh. People cry. It’s powerful. It’s moving. Now, come back to the now and think about what you really want people to be saying when your time comes. How do you want to be remembered? What do you want to be known for? What do you want people to say and think about you as they attend your funeral service? Here’s the challenge and here’s where the shift can occur for you as it did for me. Ask yourself, “Am I living my purpose? Am I following my dreams? Am I living a life that is rich, vibrant and joyful, or am I simply drifting along – living on autopilot – deluding myself each day?” As an example, I’m going to share with you what I wrote down. When I die, I want people to say, “Murray was a man who followed his dreams. He faced his fears, stood up for himself and worked hard to be a positive influence in the world. He consciously tried to help others and, in doing so, made the world a little better place for having been here. He was a great role model. He lived with enthusiasm, passion and integrity. He had a kind word and smile for everyone. He loved his friends and family and told them so often.” “For all sad words of tongue and pen,” wrote influential American Quaker poet, John Greenleaf Whittier on the topic of human potential. “The saddest are these: it might have been.” Be who you’d like to be. Start today. Don’t leave your greatest achievements as a “might have been” – a great yet squandered possibility. Live a life that is worthy of an inspiring eulogy. Murray Fuhrer is a self-esteem expert and facilitator. His new book is entitled Extreme Esteem: The Four Factors. For more information on self-esteem, check the Extreme Esteem website at www.extremeesteem.ca

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Cenac takes Brooklyn on the road BY CHRISTOPHER KOMPANEK ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES

BRIEF Writers’ Trust holds gala to celebrate Margaret Atwood’s 75th birthday TORONTO — The Writers’ Trust of Canada is holding a party to celebrate Margaret Atwood’s 75th birthday. Tuesday’s black-tie event — officially the 29th annual Writers’ Trust Gala — will feature a literary treasure hunt and signed Atwood memorabilia. It’s set to be hosted by comedian Colin Mochrie and author guests are expected to include David Bezmozgis, Emma Donoghue, Vincent Lam and Ann-Marie MacDonald. The Writers’ Trust Gala generates funds for literary awards, grants and writing retreats. Atwood — whose long list of books include The Handmaid’s Tale and The Robber Bride — turned 75 last week.

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Wyatt Cenac’s new comedy special, ‘Brooklyn,’ made its debut last month on Netflix. murder when he was young shaped his life and the silver linings he’s found in it — a love for Batman is one. It’s startlingly honest and very funny. “I grew up with that phrase ‘laugh to keep from crying.’ It was something I was always aware of, so for me, comedy doesn’t exist without a sense of seriousness, sadness, anger or something that underpins it. I need that, and I think I wind up seeing it.” He uses Jerry Seinfeld as an example. “He’s such a genial person that for him to talk about losing socks in a dryer, he takes it to a whimsical place: that the socks are having a party when you’re not around. But it’s borne out of this frustration that you paid money for this thing. The least I can expect is to put 10 socks in and get 10 socks out.” I suggest that it’s existential loss and Cenac agrees as we watch a squirrel race over the side of a fence in our direction. “No, Cadmus! Don’t do it. You’re in a different zone,” he exclaims playfully. “That’s all I know about Hunger Games is that there are walls for the people. . . and the squirrels.” “I was interested in comedy just watching Bugs Bunny and Tom and Jerry,” Cenac recalls. “I think what I liked about cartoons was that you had two elements: comedy and animation.” His

special includes puppet segments to illustrate key bits like the competitive relationship he had with his doorman, which evolved out of a discomfort with class divides. His grandmother, who lived in Crown Heights during the peak of the neighborhood’s racial tensions, is featured prominently as well. “My grandmother enjoyed watching I Love Lucy and The Cosby Show. I would watch those either with her or because of her. The jokes were the things that always stood out to me, and that idea of trying to make people laugh was appealing. I’d consume as much of it as I could.” He would stay up late as an adolescent to watch Saturday Night Live, followed by Showtime at the Apollo, and then The Uptown Comedy Club, where Jim Breuer and Tracy Morgan got their start. “Up until college, it was my little secret that I like the idea of trying to be funny, and I’d like to figure out how to do it.” The first step came when he took the stage at an open mike night at a club called Charley Goodnight’s in Raleigh, N.C.

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she show them what she’s worth? Will she let her colours burst? NFL announced late Sunday — after rumours swirled for weeks — that the pop star will headline the Pepsi Super Bowl halftime show on Feb. 1 at the University of Phoenix Stadium in Arizona. It will air on NBC. Perry, 30, has dominated the Billboard charts since releasing her debut in 2008, including nine No. 1 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Her sophomore effort, 2010’s multiplatinum Teenage Dream, matched the record Michael Jackson set with Bad for most songs from a single album to hit No. 1 with five.

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NEW YORK — “I don’t know if I would have been able to pitch it to someone as-is and be able to do it,” Wyatt Cenac confesses about his new comedy special, Brooklyn, which debuted last month on Netflix. “If I had gone a traditional route, I probably would have been influenced to do it in a big theater.” After a request to his agent to film an upcoming show at the intimate Union Hall fell on deaf ears, he decided to pay out of pocket for an audio recording of the show to be pressed on vinyl and released for Record Store Day in April. As the show approached last January, he received an offer to film it from Justin Barber, a producer of a 2008 indie film (Medicine for Melancholy) that Cenac starred in. Another unconventional move: he has written a new hour of material for his tour, Wyatt Cenac Live in Brooklyn in (Insert City Name Here), which concludes Sunday in Washington. “It’s an idiot’s move.” But, he says, it really speaks to all the ideas that have been shuffling around in his brain. Since leaving The Daily Show in 2012, the 38-year-old comedian and writer has sold shows to Comedy Central, IFC and BBC America, but they haven’t gone anywhere. “It’s discouraging because the amount of creative energy and time you put into this thing, you have an investment in it. You just want to put it out in the world. That’s the beauty of stand-up. I have this idea, I go onstage and share it. If it works, I just found out.” For his Netflix special, Cenac spent months amassing material, building his set in 15-minute increments that he then tested in clubs across the country. “If I can make it work in a club, I feel that’s a pretty good sign. Those aren’t people that are necessarily there for you, so you have to be as funny or funnier than the whole night and keep up with the tempo that’s already been established,” he explains while sitting on a bench in Fort Greene Park, the namesake grassy enclave of Cenac’s diverse but gentrifying Brooklyn neighborhood. He muses in the special how Lululemon has taken the place of police stations as a marker of safety in the area. He also reflects on how his father’s

“I was 19 and I had a bunch of Weekend Update jokes,” he said, recalling one in particular: “West Virginia had just passed a law letting you keep your roadkill. It was something stupid like ‘I guess Food Lion’s biggest competitor is now Dodge.’ I was so nervous that I burned through three minutes in a minute and didn’t realize until I got off stage that I dropped my entire middle section.” He received encouragement from a comedian at the show and shortly after moved to L.A., which he calls “grad school for comedy.” “I loved stand-up but couldn’t get over that initial fear, so I wound up focusing on sketch and improv stuff. The safety of the group.” He took classes and did shows at the Improv Olympic, and met Matt Besser and a pre-SNL Amy Poehler. It proved good prep for the ensemble nature of The Daily Show, and he looks back fondly on his four years there. “I wrote my name somewhere. I feel it’s like a college dorm. Even though you’ve left the place, you still hope that you’ve left a mark there. And if you didn’t, that’s why they make Sharpies.” In the two years since he left, people have come up to him to say how much they miss him on the show, and he appreciates it. It happens a couple times as we sit in the park, and he’s gracious, always asking their names and thanking them. “I think the misconception that people have is that it’s a job. It wasn’t a career. I enjoyed my time there, and I probably could have done it longer, but it became very clear that this is a job at the end of the day. It’s not going to be the thing that puts your kids through college. Not my kids, your kids. I like to put other kids through college. Make your own kids work for something.” He riffs on this idea for a bit. “I wonder if it would be a more polite society if the person who lived next door to you had to put you through school and you had to put the next person’s children through school? Now you’re invested in those kids but still have to take care of your own.” Almost instantly he adds, “It would be a very convoluted system.”

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TUESDAY, NOV. 25, 2014 do. I would say, it has more to do with what you are seen doing. Is there a service that you provide others without recognition? If so, then today it will be highlighted and you will be grateful for the awareness. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): There will be a serious look at your financial situation today. Issues that you thought would hold you back, or that might have been to your detriment, will be discussed. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be better able to sort through all and understand a logical approach going forward. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): This is not the day to take yourself too seriously. You will be more aware of what is going with those significant others in your life, along with friends now. Try to express the lighter aspects of your feelings. Do realize that something unexpected will throw you off a bit. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You have spent a long time understanding who your enemies are, what you do that trips you up, and truly uncovering what makes you tick. Today will provide a finale. You will finally be able to step forward with your head held high

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WELL established land surveying firm has an employment opportunity WHAT’S HAPPENING for a full-time RECEPTIONIST/ CLASSIFICATIONS SECRETARY. 50-70 Successful candidate will have strong organizational and communications skills, Coming and enjoy working with Events clients in a fast paced environment. Preference will be given to those with FREE FLU SHOTS post-secondary education. Highland Green Value We offer a competitive Drug Mart 6315 Horn St. wage and benefits package and positive work PIONEER LODGE environment. Please ART MARKET submit resume in SAT. NOV. 29, 10-4:30 pm confidence to: 4324 46 A Ave. Red Deer Snell & Oslund Surveys 403-391-2574 (1979) Ltd. 1, 5128 - 52 Street Red Deer, AB T4N 6Y4 Fax: 403-343-7025 Found Email: info@ snellandoslund.com FOUND ladies ring found Thank you in advance for in Gasoline Alley your interest, however, 403-784-3800 only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted.

MOODY Nancy Mavis July 19, 1936 - Nov. 20, 2014 Nancy was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba and raised on the family farm alongside the Red River at Morris, Manitoba. She graduated from Winnipeg General Hospital School of Nursing (now known as the Health Science Centre) in 1959 and worked on medical wards for the following nine years. Nancy travelled a bit and then received a diploma in Public Health Nursing from the University of Manitoba in 1970. In 1974, she began work with the Red Deer Health Unit and was employed there until retirement in 1995. Nancy continues on her Journey as of November 20, 2014 at the age of 78. She is survived by any life form she has touched here, either positively or negatively and is predeceased by others. As per Nancy’s wishes no funeral service will be held. Condolences may be forwarded to family and friends at www.reddeerfuneralhome.com Arrangements entrusted to RED DEER FUNERAL HOME 6150 - 67 Street, Red Deer. Phone (403) 347-3319

VALENTINE Martin Wesley 1928 - 2014 It is with great sadness the family announces the passing of Mr. Martin Valentine of Red Deer, Alberta at The Centennial Centre, Ponoka, Alberta on Thursday, November 20, 2014 at the age of 86 years. Martin Valentine, the youngest of nine children, was born on May 7, 1928 at Elk Point, Alberta into a loving farm family. He attended Richland Rural School until grade nine. In 1943, Martin enrolled at Camrose Lutheran College (now Augustana College) and graduated in 1946. At College, he made lifelong friends; was a member of the Student Council and played on the Baseball team. After moving to Edmonton in 1947, he played professional baseball on an Edmonton team. Martin apprenticed for pharmacy at Liggett’s Pharmacy in Edmonton. He then attended the University of Alberta, graduating in 1953 with a BSc. in Pharmacy. He held memberships in both the Alberta Pharmaceutical Association and the Pharmacy Examining Board of Canada for forty years. After graduating, Martin married Stella, his loving wife of sixty-two years and began the responsibility of a career, a family and owning his own pharmacy. Over the years, Martin owned “Valentine Central Drugs” stores in Taber, Hanna, Calgary and in 1965 bought a pharmacy in Red Deer where he practiced until he retired in 1993. Upon his retirement, Stella and Martin established “Valentine Wine & Beer Making”, a home brewing store in Red Deer. Martin worked in the store but preferred to be on his farm at Lousana, Alberta. He exemplified the Good Samaritan in his life and business - never turning anyone away who was ill. Martin lived a long useful life and was blessed with four children. During the past five years, Martin struggled to overcome the slow advance of dementia but by 2014 he was admitted to nursing care. Martin will be lovingly remembered by his beloved wife, Stella M. Valentine; one daughter, Cheryl Valentine; son, John (Laurie) Valentine, all of Red Deer, son Robert (Lorna) Valentine of Camrose, Alberta and son, David (Evelyn) Valentine of Lousana, Alberta; seven grandchildren and two great grandchildren. Martin was predeceased by his parents, his four brothers and his four sisters. Many thanks to Dr. Janicki, MaryAnn Robertson, Nicole and staff at The Centennial Centre, Horizon Unit of Ponoka. Their loving care and assistance during Martin’s illness was so appreciated by his family. A Celebration of Martin’s Life will be held for immediate family at a later date. If desired, Memorial Donations in Martin’s honor may be made directly to The Centennial Centre, Attention: Horizon Unit, Box 1000, Ponoka, Alberta, T4J 1R8; the Alzheimer Society of Alberta at www.alzheimers.ca or to a charity of choice. Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com. Arrangements in care of Rhian Solecki, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer. 403.340.4040.

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.

DESCHNER Frank Xavier 1924 - 2014 Frank Xavier Deschner passed away quietly early in the morning at the Bethany CollegeSide Long Term Care Facility on Thursday, November 20, 2014 at the age of 90 years. Frank was born in Primate, SK, and went on to become a carpenter. He became a superintendent on large commercial building projects all over Alberta. He is survived by his loving wife, Ruth, daughter, Donna (Gary) Hawkins, step-daughters; Millie (Al) Watson, Wanda (Murray) Mehling, Linda (Kerry) Hebert, their children and grandchildren. He will also be sadly missed by David and Linda Deschner and all his other nieces, nephews and friends. Frank was predeceased by his first wife, Jean (nee Campbell) and their son, Tom. A remembrance tea for Frank will be held at a later date. In Lieu of flowers, please consider a donation to the Alzheimer’s Society, 105, 4419-50 Avenue, Red Deer, AB, T4N 3Z5. The family wishes to thank the staff from Bethany for Frank’s excellent care. Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com. Arrangements entrusted to EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL 4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer. Phone (403) 347-2222

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VALVE TECHNICIAN/SHOP ASSISTANTS 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. 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 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: 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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NICHOLSON Delores July 11, 1947 to Nov. 19, 2014 It is with loving memories but sad hearts the family of Del Nicholson announces her passing on November 19, 2014 at the young age of 67 years. Del cherished her family and friends with her entire heart. Her strong Carlyle, Saskatchewan roots inspired her love of gardening, cooking and of course the Saskatchewan Roughriders. Del is survived by her husband Jim, daughter Desrae (Trevor), son Derek (Nadine) and grandson Keane. She was a caring and hard-working woman who did everything on her own terms, right up to her last breath. Her spirit will stay alive forever. A Celebration of Life will be held in Del’s honor at the Alliance Community Church, Sylvan Lake, Alberta on Friday, November 28, 2014 at 2:00 PM. Cremation entrusted to the Rocky Mountain Crematorium, Rocky Mountain House. As an expression of sympathy, memorial donations in memory of Delores may be made to the Alberta Kids Cancer Care Society or the SPCA. Condolences may be forwarded to: www.sylvanlakefuneral home.ca SYLVAN LAKE AND ROCKY FUNERAL HOMES AND CREMATORIUM, your Golden Rule Funeral Homes, entrusted with the arrangements. 403-887-2151.

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Looking for a part-time cleaner 6 evenings per week approximately 2 hours each night in Sylvan Lake. Must be able to work well on their own. Please reply to melleibel@shaw.ca or call 403-358-8295 for an interview. SHRUMS MEATS HIRING EXP’D. BUTCHER, $20-$30/hr. Phone 1-403-742-1427 or fax 403-742-1429

We thank all applicants for their interest; however only selected candidates will be contacted.

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ENROLL TODAY!

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.

Classes Starting Soon!

For More information, please call Jamie 403-314-4306

Medical Office Assistant / Unit Clerk

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Friday Forward ONLY 3 DAYS A WEEK in

On-site work experience Unit Clerk Specialty curriculum Under one-year full Diploma program Planning for a Successful Career Seminar Nationally recognized Medical Assisting First Aid / CPR Training Professional Certificate Hospital Scrubs included Train with Industry experts Perfect graduate job placement rate reported last year

DEER PARK AREA Dixon Cres. $100.20/mo. Dunning Cres, Cl., and Depalme St. plus 3 blocks of Douglas Ave. $136.24/mo.

Call Today (403) 347-6676 2965 Bremner Avenue, Red Deer

WESTPARK 41 & 42 St. ALSO 55 & 56 Ave.

ADULT Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the

Please apply with resume to: qmacaulay@reddeeradvocate.com or call 403-314-4302 and speak with Grant.

www.academyoflearning.ab.ca

RIVERSIDE MEADOWS 57 & 58 Ave., 59 & 60 St. ALSO 51, 52 & 43 Ave. & Apt. Bldg. on 60 St.

For more information or to apply call Joanne at the Red Deer Advocate 403-314-4308

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.

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GRANDVIEW AREA 3900 & 4200 Blocks of 40A Ave. and 4000 Block of 39 St. (North side only). $55.68/mo.

WOODLEA AREA

“because we care”

EXPERIENCED MOTOR COACH DRIVERS

47A Ave, & part of 55, 56 & 57 St. $134./mo.

HEAVY DUTY MECHANIC REQUIRED

For More Information Call Jamie at the Red Deer Advocate 403-314-4306

MOTOR COACH CLEANER

FOR FLYERS, FRIDAY FORWARD & EXPRESS

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. Will consider either full or part time. Previous motor coach repair experience preferred.

CARRIERS NEEDED

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

NOW HIRING • • • •

Looking for a place to live? Take a tour through the CLASSIFIEDS

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Gov’t of Alberta Funding may be available.

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Wise Intervention Services Inc. is now hiring for the following positions:

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 Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much!

Employment Training

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS NEEDED For Afternoon Delivery 3 Days/Week (Wed., Thurs. & Fri.)

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)

Employment Training

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Misc. Help

Advocate Opportunities

FRONTIER

• 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

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.

Misc. Help

TRAVEL WITH

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ZUBAR Production Services

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Landscape Labourer,

GARNET’S OILFIELD TRUCKING 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

Truckers/ Drivers

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BEARSPAW is a moderately sized oil and gas company operating primarily in the Stettler and Drumheller areas. We are currently accepting applications for a

Restaurant/ Hotel

467068K18

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Do you have what it takes to be a WISE Guy?

3 days per week, no weekends ROUTES IN:

ANDERS AREA Abbot Close/Allan St. Addinell Close/Allan St. Adamson Ave/Arthur Close Alwright Close Anderson Close Anquetel Close BOWER AREA Brown Close/Barrett Drive Baile Close INGLEWOOD AREA Illingworth Close Ingram Close Iverson Close Isbister Close MORRISROE AREA Vista Village

Coil Tubing Spread Managers Coil Tubing Spread Supervisors Coil Tubing Operators Boom Truck Operators

SUNNYBROOK AREA Savoy Cres./Sydney Close Stirling Close Sherwood Cres LANCASTER AREA Lampard Cres Lancaster Drive Long Close Lougheed Close Lyons Close

Competitive Wages and Immediate Benefits. Priority given to applicants with relevant experience, and a Class 1 Drivers License. 21 and 14 or 15 and 6 day rotations are offered. Wise will also provide any oilfield tickets needed. For more information see:

VANIER AREA Vickers Close Vincent Close Viscount Drive

wiseisi.com Please Forward All Resumes to jobs@wiseisi.com or by fax to 403-340-1046

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Oilfield

Call Prodie @ 403- 314-4301 for more info **********************

TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 403-314-4300

RED DEER ADVOCATE Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2014 D3

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stuff

AFFORDABLE

Homestead Firewood

CLASSIFICATIONS 1500-1990

1580

Children's Items

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Firewood

Spruce & Pine -Split. Firepits avail. 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472

LOGS Semi loads of pine, spruce, tamarack, poplar. Price depends on location. Lil Mule Logging 403-318-4346

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Household Appliances

JENN AIR STOVE - older model, still works, Electronic fan, convection oven, indoor grill attachment. $40. 403-782-7439

Household Furnishings

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2 END TABLES Solid wood, opening doors in front. $20 each or 2 for $35. 403-782-7439 CHINA CABINET, dark ORIGINAL FISHER PRICE maple, corner model, great TOYS, 2 different houses, Health & for storage, extra dishes, 2 schools, 1 school bus, 1 Beauty $100. 403-347-3849 garage, 1 stove top, 1 DELUXE sofabed, beige three bears house pull toy NEW LIZ AREN NY, 1 red free to give away All for $90. 403-343-1503 croc. make-up bag. c/w 403-346-0573 12 eyeshadows, 2 blush, DINING ROOM SET with 4 1 nail polish, 1 lip gloss. Equipmentchairs & leaf, good shape. $195 value, asking $75. $175 obo. Nice top with Heavy Would make a great light wood around side, Christmas gift. brass legs on chairs. TRAILERS for sale or rent 403-227-2976 403-346-4155 Job site, office, well site or Something for Everyone storage. Skidded or DINING set, pine wood, Everyday in Classifieds wheeled. Call 347-7721. 4 chairs, 38”x72” with 18” leaf, good cond. $200. 403-346-0124 Household Firewood LOVESEAT, like new, Appliances olive green, lovely fabric of FIREWOOD, birch, spruce AMANA washer, white, 16 polyester, cotton & rayon. Asking $200. & pine. North of Costco mo. old, exc. cond, 403-347-2046 403-346-7178, 392-7754 $350 403-347-1090 NIGHT Tables, (2) Red Oak, 1 drawer & 2 doors Advocate with glass top to protect Opportunities from scratches. $75. ea. 403-352-8811 SEALY Queen size MORRISROE AREA: mattress, boxspring, Adult Newspaper Carriers Needed headboard, & frame. $100. For Early Morning Delivery of the ALSO HAVE: 4 drawer RED DEER ADVOCATE dresser for $30 & a pair of lamps for $20. Delivery Avail. With only 64 papers, approximately: 403-346-0674 or cell $350.00/mo. 403-392-5657 SET: COFFEE TABLE For More Information, & 2 END TABLES. $150. Please call Prodie Lighter wood with glass tops. 403-346-4155 403-314-4301 CHILDS ED HARDY HOODIE, Now Offering Hotter, Cleaner BC Birch. All Types. P.U. / Size Medium. Like New. Delivery. Lyle 403-783-2275 $15. 403-314-9603

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Misc. for Sale

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HEADBOARD, for queen bed, 60” wide, $40; 3 Clean wool accent matching 3x5 oval carpets, $40. for all 3; David Winter Collector’s houses in original boxes, $25/ea; Ammo magazine clip for British Lee Enfield 303, $35; Upright Hoover Dirt Finder Vacuum Cleaner, self propelled, allergen filtration, $50. 403-352-8811

WANTED

Stereos TV's, VCRs

CARRIERS REQUIRED To deliver the CENTRAL AB LIFE 1 day a week in:

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3 DISC. CD stereo w/ 6 speakers. $140. 403-782-3847 PS1 w/6 games, $50.; 403-782-3847 X BOX w/5 games $40. 403-782-3847

Eckville Bowden Olds Sylvan Lake

Misc. for Sale

Please call Debbie for details 403-314-4307

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CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS Large Box Full. Some new in boxes. $25. 403-314-9603 CHRISTMAS Tree, Blue Spruce, 4’. LIVE in ground. Not yet cut, Perfect tree for small space. $60. 403-227-2976 CLEARING: 6 NATIVE SHIELDS. 403-347-7405 please call to get address to view. COTTON knit dishcloths, $1.25/ea, handtowels $3.50/ea, 2003 Collectible Corgi truck $15 403-342-1980 SAMSONITE SUIT BAG green in colour, good cond. $10. 403-314-9603

CARRIERS REQUIRED To deliver the

CENTRAL AB LIFE & LACOMBE EXPRESS 1 day a week in: LACOMBE BLACKFALDS Please call Rick for details 403-314-4303

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TRAVEL ALBERTA Alberta offers SOMETHING for everyone. Make your travel plans now.

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rentals CLASSIFICATIONS

RHINSTONE necklace and FOR RENT • 3000-3200 earrings to match from the WANTED • 3250-3390 1950’s, A1 cond. $75; large stainless steel pot $8; approx. 40 peacock feathers $1/ea.; large multi colored flower Houses/ Duplexes vase $18, large fruit bowl grape design $10. Magic Moments - the very pest of 2 BDRM. main floor house, Perry Comeaux, 3 CD’s in $1150. + DD. incld’s utils. 1 package, new, $15. quiet adults, n/s, no pets, 403-346-2231 no drugs. Ref’s required. 342-1207

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3 BDRM. duplex near Dawe, newly reno’d, avail. now N/S, pets negotiable 403-347-6330

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Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514

Travel Packages

SEWING machine (Kenmore), computerized; & Husqvarna Serger w/4 spools. Exc. cond. c/w extras (threads, etc.) $500/ea. 403-505-3356 SHOWER doors, decorated frosted glass, new cond, c/w all railings/hardware $75; collectible Avon bottles/containers from 60’s, in original boxes $5/ea. 403-346-1934

Pets & Supplies

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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

Cats

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2 BALINESE KITTENS 1 SNOWSHOE SIAMESE 3 BURMAN $25/ea. 403-887-3649 Tired of Standing? Find something to sit on in Classifieds

BEAUTIFUL kittens, (3) desperately needs loving homes. 403-782-3130

Dogs

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REG’D BOXER PUPPIES, from Champion health tested parents, 403-340-3506 after 6 p.m.

Sporting Goods

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SYLVAN LAKE: fully furnished, inclds dishes, bedding, utils. Avail. Now! $1200. 403-880-0210.

Condos/ Townhouses

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2 BDRM. 1 1/2 bath condo townhouse unit in Sylvan, avail. now 403-341-9974

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Suites

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

THE NORDIC

1 bdrm. adult building, N/S. No pets. 403-596-2444 UNIQUE 1 bdrm. + small room for den, downtown, $825/mo., d.d. $825, no pets, n/s, 403-346-0824

Industrial

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Main Floor 600 SQ Commercial space for lease at 5004 Broadway Ave Blackfalds. Avail Jan 1, 2014.Dennis 250 863-7979

CLASSIFICATIONS 4000-4190

Realtors & Services

4010

~ Kitson Close ~ Kyte & Kelloway Cres. ~ Holmes St. S.D. $1000 Rent $1245 to $1445 3 bdrm. townhouses, 1.5 bath, 4 & 5 appls., blinds, lrg. balconies, no dogs. N/S, no utils. incl. avail. Dec. 1 References required. SOUTHWOOD PARK 3110-47TH Avenue, 2 & 3 bdrm. townhouses, generously sized, 1 1/2 baths, fenced yards, full bsmts. 403-347-7473, Sorry no pets. www.greatapartments.ca

4 Plexes/ 6 Plexes

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NORMANDEAU 2 Bdrm. 4-plex. 1.5 bath, 4 appls. $1100. No pets, N/S Quiet adults. 403-350-1717

Suites

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GLENDALE reno’d 2 bdrm. apartments, avail. immed, rent $875 403-596-6000

FISHING HUT and manual ice auger. $60. 403-347-0347

INNISFAIL deluxe 2 bdrm., incl. water, $860 avail. Jan. 1 403-348-6594

CELEBRATIONS HAPPEN EVERY DAY IN CLASSIFIEDS

LARGE, 1 & 2 BDRM. SUITES. 25+, adults only n/s, no pets 403-346-7111

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2005 SUNFIRE GT black 150,000 kms, great little NEW HOMES car, $2200 obo 340-9785 Mason Martin Homes Senior New Home Planner Kyle, 403-588-2550 FREE Weekly list of properties for sale w/details, prices, address, owner’s phone #, etc. 342-7355 Help-U-Sell of Red Deer www.homesreddeer.com

MUST SELL New Home. 1325 sq.ft. bi-level, 24x23 att. garage. 403-588-2550

Condos/ Townhouses

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NEW CONDO 1000 sq.ft. 2 bdrm., 2 bath. $194,900. 403-588-2550

Investment Opportunities

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ATTN INVESTORS Duplex for sale in Charlottetown, PEI. You’ll love it. Exc. rev. prop. 1100 sqft per side 3&2 bdrm; potential for one bsmt suite, 1/2 acre propand great location; near downtown.† $245,000. Ph: Rod (403)318-5575 or: rodmcdon@hotmail.com Celebrate your life with a Classified ANNOUNCEMENT

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HERE TO HELP & HERE TO SERVE Call GORD ING at RE/MAX real estate central alberta 403-341-9995 gord.ing@remax.net

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Cars

CUSTOM BUILT

homes

SEIBEL PROPERTY

~ Westpark

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INGLEWOOD POINT 2 bdrm, 2 bath condo. Heated parking & all utils. incl. $1450. 403-350-3722/780-479-1522 www.seibelprperty.com Ph: 403-304-7576 or 403-347-7545 6 locations in Red Deer ~ Halman Heights ~ Riverfront Estates

Houses For Sale

wheels CLASSIFICATIONS 5000-5300

Trucks

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2008 GMC Sierra 1500 4x4. Excellent condition inside/out. 183,000 km. Black w/chrome. Touch screen Pioneer deck, bose sound system. Tonneau cover. $16,500.00 obo. (403) 505-1902, 342-4894 1995 MAZDA B3000 Truck. 174,000 km. New battery, winter tires. Call 403-343-2043

Auto Wreckers

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RED’S AUTO. Free Scrap Vehicle & Metal Removal. AMVIC APPROVED. We travel. May pay cash for vehicle. 403-396-7519

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Welcome Home! Celebrating the birth of your child? Share your happy news with family & friends with a special announcement in the Red Deer Advocate Classifieds “Announcement” section.

CLASSIFICATIONS 1000-1430

To Advertise Your Business or Service Here

Call Classiﬁeds 403-309-3300 classiﬁeds@reddeeradvocate.com

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INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp. with oilfield service companies, other small businesses and individuals RW Smith, 346-9351

Contractors

1100

Escorts

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KAYLA 392-0891 *BUSTY* INDEPENDENT w/own car

Handyman Services

1200

ATT’N: Are you looking for help on small jobs around the house or renovate your bathroom, painting or flooring, or cutting small trees? Call James 403-341-0617

BRIDGER CONST. LTD. We do it all! 403-302-8550 DALE’S Home Reno’s Free estimates for all your Massage reno needs. 403-506-4301 Therapy DOORS, windows, siding, soffit, fascia and custom CHINESE massage theracladding. Call Dean @ py. Direct bill. Gift card. 403-302-9210. 403-986-1691 4606-48 Ave RMD RENOVATIONS MASSAGE ABOVE ALL Bsmt’s, flooring, decks, etc. WALK-INS WELCOME Call Roger 403-348-1060 4709 Gaetz Ave. 346-1161

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Massage Therapy

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FANTASY MASSAGE

International ladies

Now Open

Specials. 11 a.m.-3 a.m. Private back entry. 403-341-4445 STRESSBUSTERS 403-923-0682

Misc. Services

1290

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5* JUNK REMOVAL

HELPING HANDS

Property clean up 340-8666

Home Supports for Seniors. Est 1999. Cooking, cleaning, companionship. At home or facility. Call 403-346-7777 for information.

GARAGE DOOR SERVICE. Save 50%. All yard & bobcat services, junk/tree/snow removal. 403-358-1614 SNOW shoveling/dump runs /odd jobs 403-885-5333

Painters/ Decorators

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VII MASSAGE #7,7464 Gaetz Ave. JG PAINTING, 25 yrs. exp. Free Est. 403-872-8888 Pampering at its BEST! 403-986-6686 Roofing 2nd. location in Calgary coming PRECISE ROOFING LTD. Dec. 1. 15 Yrs. Exp., Ref’s Avail. www.viimassage.com 403-896-4869

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Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY

Yard Care

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309-3300 CLASSIFIEDS

FALL clean-up, Yard care, Junk/tree/snow removal, comm/res. 403-358-1614 Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much! TOO MUCH STUFF? Let Classifieds help you sell it.

Do you have a Christmas story or Christmas memory...

Suitable entries will be published in our CHRISTMAS ACTIVITY GUIDE which will be distributed in the Friday Forward, December 19.*

“Send it in to us!” The Advocate will be featuring many of these stories from Central Albertans in our special Season’s Greetings edition on Wednesday, December 17. Included this year will be stories from Central Alberta “Celebrities.” Please keep your stories 500 words or less. Please send/drop off your story to:

Attention: Special Section Email: specialsections@reddeeradvocate.com 2950 Bremner Avenue Red Deer, AB T4N 5G3

My Favourite Christmas Story

Attention: Special Section Email: specialsections@reddeeradvocate.com 2950 Bremner Avenue Red Deer, AB T4N 5G3

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Deadline for submission is Monday, December 8, 2014.

*Not all submissions will be guaranteed publication

Seniors’ Services

Deadline for submission is Friday, December 5, 2014. 51229L3

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FOOD

TUESDAY, NOV. 25, 2014

From zero to hero PREPARING A DELICIOUS MEAL FROM SCRATCH CAN TAKE AS LITTLE AS 10 MINUTES

BY MADHU BADONI SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE

Photo by ATUL BADONI/Freelance

ABOVE: Bob Blumer holding his “Santa’s little helper” cocktail. The self-taught celebrity chef from Food Network Canada was presented at Fairmont Jasper Park Lodge in their 26th year of Christmas in November event, demonstrating that anyone can become “zero to hero” in 10 minutes with his quick recipes. RIGHT: Using no candy thermometer and morning leftover bacon, he was true to his word of under-10-minutes recipes as he transformed white sugar into bacon brittle.

RECIPES Here are Blumer’s “zero to hero” recipes!

Santa’s Little Helper 4 servings of your favourite Caesar recipe honey Freshly grated horseradish 4 fresh oysters Dip glass in honey and then horseradish. Pour Caesar, garnish with oyster and serve.

Bob Blumer’s Pig Candy 6 strips smoky bacon 2 cups (500 ml) granulated sugar 2 tablespoons (30 ml) butter (plus extra for greasing the pan) 1 teaspoon (5 ml) baking soda ¼ teaspoon (1 ml) ground dried chipotle or a pinch of cayenne pepper Set out a cookie sheet and grease it with butter. Reserve. Cook bacon, any way you want, until it is super- crispy. Pat dry with a paper towel. Let cool, then chop as finely as possible (think: dust). Reserve. In a saucepan over mediumhigh heat, add sugar. Stir constantly for approximately four minutes, or until sugar melts into a light golden liquid. (If lumps develop, remove from heat temporarily and keep stirring. They will melt away.) Keep stirring for approximately two more minutes, or until liquid turns the colour of butterscotch. Remove from heat and immediately stir in butter. Then add baking soda and mix thoroughly. Stir in bacon and chipotle. Pour onto cookie sheet and let cool until hard (approximately 15 minutes).

Blue Cheese Bruschetta 4 slices of rustic country style sourdough bread, slicked thick, toasted 2 cloves of garlic 4-6 tablespoons best available olive oil 6 oz of blue cheese ¼ cup honey fresh ground pepper Immediately after toasting bread, rub a garlic

ABOVE: Sticking to his quick and multi-layers-of-flavour recipes, Bob Blumer prepared a simple yet elegant blue cheese bruschetta for an appetizer; he toasted sourdough bread until crispy in a toaster oven or a panni press, rubbed it with fresh garlic, drizzled with olive oil, covered with crumbled stilton cheese (or any other blue) and generously topped it with honey. BELOW: Evergreen pistashio pesto pasta.

clove over the entire surface of one side. Each slice should use up about ¼ to 1/3 of clove. Generously drizzle olive oil over top each slice. Smear bread with blue cheese, drizzle honey overtop and finish with black pepper.

Evergreen Pistachio Pesto Pasta 1 cup cherry tomatoes 1/3 cup plus 1 tablespoon olive oil 1 cup shelled pistachios 3 lightly-pressed cups arugula ½ cup grated parmigiano reggiano plus extra for finishing 4 cloves garlic, minced 4 servings fresh angel hair pasta Salt and pepper Bring a large pot of water to a boil and add 1 tablespoon salt. Add pasta and cook according to

directions. Over mediumhigh heat in a sauté pan, add 1 tablespoon olive oil and tomatoes. Toss occasionally. In a food processor, add pistachios, arugula, parmigiano, garlic, remaining 1/3 cup olive oil, and a pinch of salt and pepper. Puree. Add ½ cup of the starchy pasta water and puree for another 10 seconds. Drain pasta and immediately add to pan with tomatoes. Add pesto and toss thoroughly. Serve in individual pasta bowls and finish with a sprinkle of parmigiano.

My husband and I are still buzzing from our weekend trip to Fairmont Jasper Park Lodge, where we attended their 26th annual Christmas in November Gala. If you are longtime follower of my column, then you know we like to take this yearly pilgrimage, which is an all-inclusive interactive weekend packed with holiday entertaining tips and tricks, hosted by décor stylists and culinary chefs from all over Canada. This year, the lineup of chefs who presented included celebrity chefs from Food Network Canada like Anna Olsen, Bob Blumer, Lynn Crawford and Corbin Tomaszeski, as well as local top Alberta chefs like Julie Van Rosendaal (CBC Radio One), Connie DeSousa (Charcut Roasthouse in Calgary) and “Cocoanista” Jacquelin Jacek (JACEK Chocolates in Edmonton). When looking through all the pictures that were taken on my camera during the weekend, it was difficult trying to decide who to write about first. But since the approaching holidays are all about candy, cocktails, appetizers, potlucks and quick meals, looking back it definitely was Blumer (he appears on Food Network’s The Surreal Gourmet, Glutton for Punishment and World’s Weirdest Restaurants) who had all these areas covered. A self-taught chef who didn’t attend culinary school, Blumer describes himself as a lazy cook, so his style of cooking is zero to hero in 10 minutes. “All my recipes take virtually no prep time but by the time 10 minutes have elapsed, you are transformed into a hero,” explains Blumer. Quick did not mean compromising flavour or using hard-to-find ingredients. “I like using basic ingredients in my recipes that can easily be found to create bold flavours and I like to create dishes with multi layers of flavours,” explains Blumer. To demonstrate, for a Christmas cocktail he prepared his “Santa’s Little Helper,” which started off as an ordinary bloody Caesar but finished with a festive holiday twist. Blumer first dipped the rim of glass in honey and then in freshly-grated horseradish. “I chose the honey,” he explains “because horseradish is heavy so it needs something sticky to hold it in place and also because it cushions the bite of the horseradish.” Looking like Santa’s beard, the glass was then filled with Caesar cocktail and instead of the traditional celery garnish, Blumer slips a raw oyster into the drink. “After all,” says Blumer, “the holidays are a time for indulgence.” “No matter how elaborate the meals you serve, guests still have an expectation of an appetizer,” says Blumer. Sticking to his quick

and multi-layers-of-flavour style, Blumer prepared a simple yet elegant blue cheese bruschetta for an appetizer. He toasted sourdough bread until crispy in a toaster oven or a panni press, rubbed it with fresh garlic, drizzled with olive oil, covered with crumbled stilton cheese (or any other blue) and generously topped it with honey. I was a little skeptical of his under-10-minute-recipe rule when he announced he was going to make “pig candy” or bacon brittle. But using no candy thermometer and morning leftover bacon, he was true to his word as he transformed white sugar into hard brittle candy. “If you pack the candy in a mason jar, wrap the lid with Christmas ribbons, it makes a perfect seasonal hostess gift,” he says. Potlucks are popular during holiday entertaining because they bring different flavours to the table and they are economical. But they are also competitive sport. “Everyone wants that dish that everyone raves about,” explains Blumer. So if you are asked to bring boring mashed potatoes, how can you possibly make them the talk of the party? Prepare your favourite mash potatoes; with two different sizes of ice cream scoops, shape two balls of potatoes into snowman and create the eyes with two cloves, pink peppercorns for mouth, the nose with a piece of carrot and rosemary as arms. Take some lemon peel rind to create a scarf. Realizing that this would be hard to make just before a party, Blumer suggested they could be prepared in advance and then heated up before serving. “Just try heating one or two before doing them all,” Blumer cautions. If doing this, add the rosemary arms after the mashed potatoes are heated through. With Christmas parties and concerts to attend, time crunch may tempt us to quickly open a can of prepared pasta for supper. Through a friendly competition with a guest, Blumer demonstrated that preparing a meal from scratch takes the same time as opening and heating a can of Spaghettios. On one side, a guest opened and heated up a can of pasta while Blumer started preparing a pistachio pesto pasta meal from scratch! Bummer throws pistachios, arugula, garlic and fresh parmesan cheese into a food processor while dropping some angel hair pasta into boiling water and halving cherry tomatoes. While he lost the competition by mere seconds, he did serve up a festive evergreen pistachio pesto pasta that was prepared and served in less than three minutes! Madhu Badoni is a Red Deer-based freelance food writer. She can be reached at madhubadoni@gmail.com or on Twitter @madhubadoni. Watch for Madhu’s MasalaMix blog on www.reddeeradvocate.com.

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a concert at the Winterland Ballroom; backing guests Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, Muddy Waters and others. 1943 — Canadian Eighth Army smashes across Sangro River. 1885 — Canadian government establishes Rocky Mountains Park at “Siding 29” on the CPR, 3 km from present-day Banff, which was relocated 3 years later to be near the local hot springs. Now the main town in Banff National Park, it was named by financier Donald A. Smith, later Lord Strathcona, for his home county in Scotland.

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Hagel steps down as Pentagon chief WASHINGTON — U.S. Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel announced Monday he is stepping down, leaving under pressure following a rocky tenure in which he has struggled to break through the White House’s insular team of national security advisers. During a White House ceremony, Obama said he and Hagel had determined it was an “appropriate time for him to complete his service.” Hagel is the first senior Obama adviser to leave the administration following the sweeping losses for the president’s party in the Nov. 4 elections. It also comes as the president’s national security team has been battered by crises including the rise of Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria and Russia’s provocations in Ukraine. The president praised Hagel, a Republican who grew close to Obama while they both served in the Senate, as an “exemplary defence secretary” who forged a strong bond with troops stationed around the world. Hagel,

BRIEF Reputed lieutenant of Mexican drug lord ‘El Chapo’ Guzman jailed 22 years CHICAGO — A U.S. judge sentenced a reputed lieutenant of captured Mexican drug lord Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman to 22 years in prison on Monday for his role in a $1 billion conspiracy to traffic narcotics to Chicago and other cities. In sentencing Alfredo Vasquez-Hernandez, Chief U.S. District Judge in Chicago Ruben Castillo said he wanted to send a stern message to Hernandez

who served in the Vietnam War, is the first enlisted combat veteran to serve as defence secretary. “Chuck Hagel has devoted himself to our national security and our men and women in uniform across six decades,” Obama said. Among the leading contenders to replace Hagel is Michele Flournoy, who served as the Pentagon’s policy chief for the first three years of Obama’s presidency. Flournoy, who would be the first woman to head the Pentagon, is now chief executive officer of the Center for a New American Security, a think-tank that she co-founded. Others mentioned as possible replacements include Ash Carter, the former deputy defence secretary, and Robert Work, who currently holds that post. While Obama has sought to consolidate foreign policy decision-making within the White House, advisers have privately worried about Hagel’s ability to communicate the administration’s positions. There have also been concerns that Hagel wasn’t proactive or engaged in Cabinet meetings and other national security discussions. and other Mexican traffickers. Hernandez, 58, is one of 11 alleged traffickers indicted in Chicago, including Guzman himself. Hernandez was the first to be sentenced. “I tell you on behalf of all citizens of Chicago ... we are tired of this drug trafficking,” Castillo told Hernandez, who minutes earlier apologized to the court and U.S. government and asked Castillo to take pity on him. The case is regarded as one of the U.S. government’s most important against Mexican cartels. Guzman remains jailed in Mexico and Mexican authorities haven’t said if they might extradite him to Chicago. The spotlight during and in the leadup to Hernandez’s sentencing was on the credibility of two Sinaloa cartel associates-turned-government witnesses, Pedro and Margarito Flores.

In what appeared to be an effort to refute that criticism, Obama said Monday that Hagel had always “given it to me straight” during their private conversations in the Oval Office. Hagel has had his own frustrations with the White House. In recent weeks, he sent a letter to national security adviser Susan Rice in which he said Obama needed to articulate a clearer view of the administration’s approach to dealing with Syrian President Bashar Assad. The letter is said to have angered White House officials. Sen. John McCain, the Republican who is poised to become chairman of Armed Services Committee, said Hagel has been “frustrated with aspects of the administration’s national security policy and decision-making process.” “His predecessors have spoken about the excessive micromanagement they faced from the White House and how that made it more difficult to do their jobs successfully,” said McCain, referring to public criticism from Rob-

ert Gates and Leon Panetta. “Chuck’s situation was no different.” Hagel submitted his resignation letter to Obama on Monday morning. The 68-year-old said he had agreed to remain in office until a successor is confirmed by the Senate. Hagel’s aides assert that he is leaving at an appropriate juncture, after having brought to fruition this year several major initiatives on nuclear weapons management and as well as reforms to the military justice system and to the military health system. But his departure also coincides with a period of great uncertainty over the course of the administration’s campaign to defeat the Islamic State group, as well as worry over Russia’s actions in Ukraine. The timing of Hagel’s departure sets up a potential confirmation fight in the Senate. Republicans, who will take control of the body next month, have been deeply critical of the president’s foreign policy.

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