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Alberta still in the black PROVINCE ROLLS BACK OIL FORECASTS, EXPECTS PRICE TO REMAIN MIRED IN TROUGH

BY DEAN BENNETT THE CANADIAN PRESS

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EDMONTON — Alberta is slashing its oil forecasts for this budget year as the world price remains mired in a trough around $75 a barrel, Finance Minister Robin Campbell announced Wednesday.

Campbell said while the operating budget for the current fiscal year remains in the black, he and Premier Jim Prentice are promising “tough decisions” so that Alberta is no longer captive to the whims of the international marketplace.

“We have to get to a position where we’re not listening to OPEC to decide on how many schools we’re

going to build,” Campbell told reporters as he delivered the second-quarter budget update.

“If oil stays at $75 (a barrel) next year, we’re going make some tough decisions.

“One of the things the premier has tasked me with is that we have to get off the oil (price) train.”

Campbell said he has not looked into changing taxes right now but is focused on balancing the budget for this year.

In the March budget, the province forecast West Texas Intermediate oil to average around US$92 a

barrel.

For the first six months of the year, it was higher than that, around $100 a barrel.

But higher production in the U.S., coupled with instability in other oil producing regions, has sent the price plunging to $75 with no end in sight.

Campbell said the province will now assume that price won’t rise for the rest of the fiscal year, bringing the revised forecast average to almost US$89.

The budget forecast an overall budget surplus of $1.1 billion this year. That is now down to $933 million, said Campbell.

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City to spend $800K on library fixes

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF The Red Deer Public Library is getting some upgrades.

Thanks to $750,000 from the city, the downtown library is getting a new roof, up-to-date security cameras, an air conditioning unit, and new lighting and ceiling on the second level.

As well, city council set aside $600,000 for MICHENER FEASIBILITY a community library for STUDY, RIVER BEND the planned Ironside Elementary School in Ingle- FUNDED C1 wood as part of the 2015 capital budget approved on Tuesday.

The library board has not approved the Inglewood project and is in talks with the city and the Red Deer Public School District about the feasibility of the library.

Library CEO Christina Wilson said she was thrilled with the city’s continued support and the recognition of the importance of the building.

Wilson said the library has been simply maintaining the roof on the downtown branch for several years. A recent engineering study commissioned by the city recommended a total roof replacement ($510,000) for the entire downtown library.

The security cameras and telephone system require updating because it is old technology that is failing in some cases. The cameras will cost about $8,000 while the telephone system rings in at about $62,000.

Wilson said the cameras are in place to protect the collection from theft and to allow people to feel they are in a safe and welcoming environment.

She said the cameras are a back-up for the security guards.

“We do from time to time get incidents from all manners of people,” said Wilson.

Neither the Timberlands Library nor the G.H. Dawe branch have security cameras and there are no plans to install them at those sites.

Wilson explained that those two libraries are a different situation because they have only one floor level and there are better sight lines compared to the downtown branch.

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Carol Ann Menezes, left, and Penny Hodgson look over some of many brightly lit Christmas trees at the Festival of Trees before the opening event on Wednesday evening. Public hours for 21st annual Festival of Trees are Friday and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., and Sunday ,10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

For a listing of other Festival of Trees special events, visit www.reddeerfestivaloftrees.ca.

Woman used as bait in escort scam pleads guilty to robbery charge

BY BRENDA KOSSOWAN ADVOCATE STAFF A Red Deer woman offered as the lure in an escort scheme will be sentenced in March after pleading guilty to a single count of robbery.

Lindsey Rae Mazzei, 32, and two male suspects were arrested in B.C. on June 13, 2013, as the result of an investigation of complaints in Red Deer that men attempting to hire escort services were beaten and robbed instead.

Mazzei was set for trial on eight charges by

judge alone in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench on Wednesday, represented by defence counsel Patty MacNaughton.

However, a charge of armed robbery was reduced to robbery and other charges, including extortion, kidnapping and identity theft, were withdrawn as a result of her last-minute guilty plea.

Reciting an agreed statement of facts, Crown prosecutor Carolyn Ayre told Justice Kirk Sisson that a visiting businessman was looking for escort services while staying at a Red Deer hotel on June 12, 2013.

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Smith, Towle no longer BFFs after defection Alberta Wildrose Leader Danielle Smith says she is confident the caucus hemorrhaging has stopped.

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Lacombe residents facing 5.3% tax hike

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BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF Lacombe residents may face a 5.3 municipal tax rate increase for 2015.

City council reviewed its proposed $30.5 million operating and $20.9 million capital budgets on Monday and made a few minor tweaks. The budgets will come back for further debate and a final vote on Dec. 8.

Mayor Steve Christie said the proposed tax rate increase is necessary to keep pace with inflation and community growth and he doesn’t expect to see significant tax rate cuts before final budget approval.

“That’s kind of where we’re at now. There’s not a lot of fat to trim there,” he said on Wednesday.

For at least the last four years, tax increases have been in the three-per-cent range and the city has been dipping into reserves to hold down increases.

“It’s kind of caught up to us,” Christie said. “The slack’s come out of the rope, I guess you could say.”

The mayor said other mid-sized communities have had to boost their increases in similar fashion in recent years.

“We’ve seen fives (per cent increases) in other mid-sized cities in past years, so they have chosen to correct earlier than we did.”

But with costs rising across the board, the city would have had to consider service cuts without the proposed increase. Public input gathered before the budget made it clear residents didn’t want to see that, he said.

“That’s not the message we got from citizens. We didn’t hear that they wanted to decrease the level of snow removal or reduce the level of services that we provide.

“All those services will be maintained and this is just where we came out at.”

The city took a new budget approach this year.

In a first-time initiative, council put out a call to residents to propose projects for possible inclusion in the budget. Nineteen submissions came in by the August deadline, and those were whittled down to seven budget prospects.

Sidewalks, water slides and canoe launches were among the ideas that came back.

If any make the final cut will be decided next council meeting.

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BUDGET: Oil prices wreaking havoc The province says it’s also on track to bring its debt total for infrastructure to $11.2 billion. Opposition critics have said when you take that debt into account, the budget is not balanced, but deeply in the red.

Alberta has chronically struggled with oil prices wreaking havoc on its budgets, delivering billiondollar windfalls and shortfalls on short notice.

Speculation has been growing in recent weeks that Prentice is planning to hike income and corporate taxes or reform Alberta’s 10 per cent flat tax to reduce that dependence.

Prentice has declined to offer specifics except to say there will be no sales tax and that overall taxes will remain low.

While Prentice has warned that $75 oil “does not mean business as usual,” NDP finance critic Brian Mason said Wednesday that is exactly what it means.

He warned that workaday and disadvantaged Albertans will pay for the Tories’ budgeting follies.

“In Alberta when the price of oil goes down and they start cutting health care and education, that is pretty much business as usual,” said Mason.

Mason said the Tories need to toss out the 10 per cent flat tax, which he says places an unfair burden on middle and lower-income earners, and reinstitute recent cuts to corporate taxes.

Wildrose finance critic Rob Anderson said hiking taxes is not the answer.

He said the Tories have been running deficits even with oil at record prices and needs to trim the fat in the civil service and elsewhere before asking

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Colin Davenport proudly models his duct tape hat as Curtis Marshall peels a strip of tape off a roll at the downtown branch of the Red Deer Public Library on Wednesday during a Duct-A-Gami craft session. Next Tuesday the teen program at the library will be building gingerbread houses from 3:45 to 5 p.m.

Victim of fatal collision identified One of two people killed in a collision on Friday near Eckville has been identified.

Chloe Kaniusis, 30, of Condor, was the driver of an SUV that was struck head on when a pickup truck on Hwy 766 crossed the centre line.

Kaniusis is survived by her husband Larry Kaniusis and two sons, Jaxon and Kessler.

The incident occurred at about 5:25 p.m. on the Medicine River bridge deck near Township Road 392, about two km south of Eckville. Both Kaniusis and the pickup truck driver died at the scene.

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“It’s a revenue problem because of the spending problems of the last, frankly, decade,” said Anderson.

“Our entire budget is out of whack. It needs to be recalibrated to $80 a barrel oil.”

Liberal finance critic Kent Hehr agreed that the problem is not the mercurial price of oil, but how the Tories have failed year after year to adapt to it.

“This crisis hasn’t just come about as a result of $80 or $75 oil. This crisis was here at $100 oil,” said Hehr.

He noted that even when oil prices were high in recent years, the Tories failed to build the promised schools for children and long-term care spaces for seniors.

In the second-quarter update, Campbell said the total revenue forecast is now $45 billion, $637 million more than estimated at budget.

Total expenses are now pegged at $44.1 billion, up $791 million from budget due to increases in infrastructure spending and disaster aid.

LIBRARY: Open to all kinds of people “Our doors are open to all kinds of people, including people without homes,” said Wilson. “We are a refuge for them. That’s a good thing.”

The lighting and ceiling on the second level of the downtown branch will be replaced for $110,000 and the air conditioning will be replaced for $60,000.

The new Timberlands library will also get an air conditioning unit ($50,000). The library is part of the École Barrie Wilson, which was built as a P3 partnership. Such projects typically do not have air conditioning because the schools do not operate in the summer months. Installing the air conditioning will bring that library up to standards of the downtown

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was extricated from the vehicle by emergency workers. She suffered non-life-threatening injuries and was taken to Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre.

She is from Rocky Mountain House.

According to her obituary, Kaniusis was on the way home from Christmas shopping with her mother.

The driver of the truck, a 46-year-old Benalto man, has not been identified by police. Police said he was ejected from his vehicle and did not appear to be wearing his seatbelt. Kaniusis had her seatbelt on.

Police said roads were not a factor in the collision.

A prayer service for Kaniusis will be held on Sunday at 7 p.m. at St. Matthew Parish in Rocky Mountain House. Mass of the Christian Burial will be held on Monday at 1 p.m. at St. Matthew Roman Catholic Church. and G.H. Dawe branches. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

ROBBERY: Sentencing set for March 6 He phoned a number that he found online and arranged to meet with a woman at a downtown apartment building.

On his way there, the victim withdrew $500 from a banking machine, expecting to pay $300 for the services he had arranged.

A woman met him at the building’s fire escape, but she then left and two masked and armed men appeared, said Ayre.

He was robbed of his wallet, cellphone, bank cards, cash and car keys, and forced to give up the PIN numbers on his cards, she said.

Mazzei confirmed for Sisson that she had disposed of the cellphone and told him she also got rid of the cards.

Sentencing was adjourned to March 6 to allow time for preparation of a pre-sentence report.

She was released from custody earlier.

Also arrested with Mazzei were Florian Edward Poitra, of Innisfail, and Mark William Bitterman, of no fixed address.

Poitra, 32, was sentenced to four years after pleading guilty to his role in the escort scheme on Oct. 13, 2013.

Bitterman, 32, is awaiting trial on the charges.

Bitterman is also scheduled for a preliminary hearing in January on a charge of first-degree murder. The charge was laid after Bitterman’s arrest in B.C. by Red Deer RCMP investigating the death of former Eckville resident Curtis Leroy Rangen, 43.

Rangen’s body was found in a freezer at his Red Deer apartment on May 3, 2013. bkossowan@reddeeradvocate.com

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ALBERTA BRIEF Child advocate wants changes after suicide of aboriginal teen EDMONTON — Alberta’s children’s advocate wants social workers to better connect aboriginal kids in government care with their families and culture.

It’s one of three recommendations made in Del Graff’s report examining the suicide of a 15-year-old aboriginal boy.

The teen had tried four other times to kill himself before he was found hanging in a playground near his group home in 2012. He was taken to hospital and died two days later.

“He was a young man who struggled to have a sense of belonging,” Graff wrote in his report released Wednesday.

He noted that the boy was in and out of care before the province took permanent guardianship of him at age 10. Over the next five years, he had eight case workers and was moved 13 times.

He was diagnosed with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder and sometimes lashed out violently against other teens and care home staff. But he also thrived in some of his placements and was named president of his junior high school’s student council, the report said.

Graff didn’t identify the boy, but gave him the pseudonym “Tony.”

“Case workers were challenged to find a home for Tony that could meet his behavioural needs and he ended up living far away from his home community,” wrote Graff. “His relationships with those who mattered the most to him were weakened.”

There was a long-term plan for Tony to move in with a grandfather whom he was close with on his home reserve. But the plan was scuttled when the man became terminally ill. In the days before his suicide, Tony had visited his grandfather in hospital and argued with a girlfriend, said the report.

Graff further recommended the government better assess children at risk of suicide and do so on a regular basis, “not just at the time of crisis.”

The government also needs to encourage more information sharing between caregivers, Graff said. The gains Tony made in one home may have continued if strategies that worked best for him were passed on, he suggested.

Graff said Tony’s death reminded him of the case of Richard Cardinal, a 17-year-old Métis boy found hanging outside his foster home in 1984. A review of his case led to significant child welfare changes in the province.

THURSDAY, NOV. 27, 2014

Smith, Towle no longer BFFs

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Alberta Wildrose Leader Danielle Smith says that after talking to her team she is confident the caucus hemorrhaging has stopped.

“There will be no more floor-crossings,” Smith told reporters Wednesday.

She also said she is not resigning as leader and that the Opposition Wildrose is ready to start anew doing what it does best — holding the Progressive Conservative government’s feet to the fire.

“After a couple of days’ reflection with my caucus, we are, as you can see, back at it, doing our job holding the government to account,” Smith said.

She said she has taken stock with Albertans and with political confidantes in the last few days after two members of her caucus quit to join the governing PCs. “They recognize that the only reason why the government is making some steps in the right direction is because they’re being pushed in that direction by us,” said Smith.

“We’ve been an incredibly effective Opposition. I’m now on my fourth premier.

And we believe that there’s still a lot of

work to do to hold them to account.”

Wednesday was the first day Smith took questions from reporters after her seniors critic, Kerry Towle, and agriculture critic Ian Donovan crossed over to the PCs. Both said problems within the Wildrose party and the promise of reform under Premier Jim Prentice lured them across the aisle.

Towle was a bitter blow.

She had been the Wildrose’s dogged and high-profile fighter to fix problems in seniors care and was considered a rising star.

She has promised, as a government backbencher, to continue her fight for the disadvantaged.

Smith said that may not be as easy as Towle thinks.

“I think it’s a shame that one of the most outspoken advocates for our most vulnerable has now been silenced by sitting on the backbenches in the PC caucus,” she said.

“That’s what happens in the PC caucus.

It’s whipped votes and people don’t have the ability to stand up and represent their constituents the way we do.”

She said it was a personal blow, as well.

“We were friends, and I say that in the past tense,” said Smith.

What is Towle to you now? she was asked. “She’s a member of the party across the aisle.”

Emotions ran high after the defections.

On Tuesday, someone in the Wildrose office sent a picture to Towle of her coffee mug smashed to pieces.

“I don’t know how (the cup) got smashed, but I know it was incredibly inappropriate to send her the picture. I understand that the staff member feels very regretful,” said Smith. “My chief of staff talked to him and let him know it was completely unacceptable.”

NDP finance critic Brian Mason, a former party leader and longtime legislature member, said Tuesday that Towle’s decision was a breathtaking defection for someone so close to a leader.

“It was the greatest act of personal betrayal that I have seen in my 25 years of elected office,” said Mason.

Smith is trying to pull her caucus and party out of a tailspin following four byelection defeats to Prentice on Oct. 27.

The defeats led to internal criticism of Smith: that the byelection strategy was too negative, that she had lost touch with her party and caucus.

Lacombe extends photo radar trial for another year

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF Lacombe is extending its photo radar experiment another year.

In place since November 2013, the socalled automated traffic enforcement program led to 10,528 tickets issued — about six an hour when cameras were operating.

Photo radar cameras were rotated between 26 different locations, where speeding was seen as a particular problem.

Of those issued tickets, 48 per cent were local drivers and the rest were from out of town.

Four warning signs, posting drivers’ speeds but not used to issue tickets were also put in place. Between 33 and 43 per cent of drivers were over the speed limit, depending on location, according to data collected by the signs.

Mayor Steve Christie said the signs appear to be getting out the city’s message that drivers need to slow down.

At most of the warning sign locations, the percentage of speeding drivers dropped over the course of the year.

Also, the number of collisions in town was down 26 per cent from January to November compared with the same period a year earlier Christie said council wants another year to gauge photo radar’s success before considering a longer term commitment.

“It’s something that we’re monitoring.”

Besides its role in slowing drivers down, photo radar and warning signs are provided information to the city on traffic patterns and driver habits.

“That is information that can be passed on to our Lacombe Police Service so they know where to patrol,” he said.

Council has budgeted revenues of $300,000 from photo radar next year against

expenses of $150,000.

While some critics dismiss photo radar as a cash cow for municipalities, Christie points to the statistics to show it has changed driver behaviour locally.

Lacombe Police Service Chief Steve Murray said they are taking a “wait-andsee-approach” to the role of photo radar.

Traffic safety typically ranks in the top three of local priorities for residents, he said.

“We know that we can’t be everywhere all the time and we’re looking at different strategies to achieve the ultimate goal, which is safer streets, fewer collisions and to try to see an overall improvement in driver behaviour.”

It has been too short a time to assess the impact of photo radar so far, he said.

“We would be supportive of it continuing so we could actually do a proper objective assessment.” pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

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A matter of integrity DEFECTIONS ONLY A PART OF WILDROSE PARTY’S PROBLEMS If anyone enjoys the cut and thrust of partisan debate, it would be two former Wildrose MLAs from Central Alberta, Joe Anglin and Kerry Towle.

Anglin has been regarded as sort of a lone wolf for some time now, so it’s fitting that if he could not sit as a member of the Wildrose Party for which he was first elected, he would sit as an independent.

GREG Towle, on the NEIMAN other hand, is more naturally bent toward the team. The Innisfail-Sylvan Lake MLA a joiner, not a loner. So her defection on Monday to the governing Conservatives carries double importance. Probably more than double.

It takes a huge amount of stress to make a committed partisan switch teams. So I look to the factors behind Monday’s events to help explain why Anglin, Towle and Ian Donovan of the Little Bow riding left their party.

They did not leave the party in disarray. It was that way before they left.

Read what you like into this: on Monday, the Wildrose caucus passed a motion that was defeated by party membership at the party’s annual meeting.

Former Tory— now Wildrose MLA — Rob Anderson said on Monday that caucus would follow the policy they voted on, not what was passed by the party in general at its annual conference.

What does that tell you? It tells me there’s serious a divide between the members the party elected and the people who took out party memberships.

NDP Leader Rachel Notley said that Monday’s defections were “not a good sign of democracy in the province.”

I disagree. I say it’s a very strong sign of a resurgence of democracy in this province. I wish we could have more of this, including (maybe even especially) at the federal level.

Wildrose Leader Danielle Smith had a brief statement for the press and took no questions later. But she mentioned two prominent Conservative MLAs who had earlier crossed the floor to join Wildrose.

She spoke darkly that Donovan and Towle will have to answer for their decision to abandon the party that got them elected. Not so much Heather

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Forsythe and Rob Anderson, who went the other way. Anglin would remain beneath her radar.

I say it’s a good day for democracy when elected members switch parties.

I say it’s a good day when an MLA decides constituents and personal values should govern a member’s voting pattern in the legislature, not party membership.

Both Towle and Smith mentioned that Wildrose is a party of free votes.

Smith is balancing denial of the will of party members and the public line on the issue. Towle is balancing an espousal of free votes, while joining a government that is measurably less free in that regard.

Wildrose has only two female members left of its 14 remaining MLAs, and Forsythe has already said she will not run again.

Wildrose membership watered down a policy statement on protecting the equality of minority groups, particularly gay, lesbian and transgendered people. Elected MLAs, who know their constituents and the facts on the ground better than the party

card-holders, actively rejected their will.

Smith says she won’t be leading the party if it doesn’t win the next election. Is that confidence in the party’s promise or an ability to read writing on the wall that party members cannot seem to decipher?

In my version of democracy, any group can create a political party with a declared set of values and seek candidates who would reflect those values. But once elected, the members are beholden first to their voters, not the party.

I’m not about to suggest that any of the five MLAs who crossed the floor since the last election (Anderson, Forsythe, Anglin, Donovan and Towle) did so to gain perks or score points. I have no basis to believe that was their motivation.

Rather, I believe such decisions can show integrity to personal values. We should have more of this, both federally and provincially.

The more that party leaders (and party membership) understand that elected members are not the property

of their party whips, the better.

For their part, the party leaders have not gotten the memo. But I sense a sea change among an electorate that is tired of being tuned out between elections.

We want more voter participation in elections, but why bother if elected members are simply forced to a party line rather than what people want?

Notley was a bit too cynical Monday, describing the forces that brought Towle and Donovan to the Conservatives. She said phase one of the Tory plan is “break your promises.” Phase two, she said, is to “become Wildrose.”

When even the Wildrose leader and her MLAs don’t want what the Wildrose Party membership says they should want — and a couple left the party because of it — I don’t think the Tories will want to be Wildrose.

When you think about it, as things stand now, neither will Alberta voters.

Greg Neiman is a retired Advocate editor. Follow his blog at readersadvocate. blogspot.ca or email greg.neiman.blog@ gmail.com.

A sad day in Alberta politics The defection of two Wildrose MLAs to the Progressive Conservatives has been viewed by many as the end of the Wildrose Party and its legacy as an effective opposition to a 43-year one-party reign in this province.

Sadly, it has also been celebrated as a victory for this province. A victory it is not, unless Albertans prefer to enjoy an environment where the ruling party is never examined or tested for its business methods and policy direction.

The Wildrose Party was the first party to turn up the heat on the PCs and they had a generous arsenal of reasons to question PC policy.

JIM Truth is I have been a cardSUTHERLAND carrying member of both parties, although I am not currently a member of either of them. My temporary memberships in the PC Party were largely determined by my personal connections with local PC candidates over the years, as far back as 1982, in the case of former MLA Jim McPherson.

My membership in the Wildrose was based upon the party leadership campaign of Danielle Smith. I wanted Smith to become the voice and face of a new direction in Alberta politics. She was the perfect choice for me because she was well-informed, articu-

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late and had the ability to lead a conservative movement based upon fiscal responsibility rather than social issues.

The problem Smith faced was how to lead a small, relatively unknown alternative conservative party into a position to challenge a juggernaut like the PCs. She needed to launch a campaign to unseat a party that has been in power since a time when I was too young to vote for them and, in 1971, I would have gladly voted for the young Turks in Alberta’s rising PC party had I been old enough.

The problem with 43 years of one-government rule is the fundamental lack of change in how they do business and the way they do business. The situation becomes a king-maker for party loyalists and eventually the issues of entitlement and corruption become firmly entrenched in policy.

The 2012 election was the first time since the early 1990s when Alberta voters considered a change of government. The endless revelations of PC misdeeds and misconduct surfaced on an almost daily basis as the Wildrose unearthed incident after incident about the PC way of doing business after four decades in power.

Unfortunately, the Wildrose Party was the political fall guy when it came time to vote because they had a few candidates who made the news for all of the wrong reasons and crippled the overall momentum of the Wildrose on the eve of the vote.

Smith did not oust these two candidates and paid a big price with voters. She forgot Alberta voters look for any reason not to vote for an alternative to

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PC and will forgive a massive litany of reasons to oust the current regime.

The recent byelections, and other issues, initiated the defection of two Wildrose MLAs to the PCs and a few people seemed to be overjoyed with their decisions. I would not be among them, because their defections reek of political opportunism.

They were elected as Wildrose MLAs and their actions betray every voter who chose them over the PC candidate in their constituency.

For the record, I do not believe any politician should change horses during their term in office. It is unethical and lacks principle.

All of these events bring me to the current situation for Alberta politics. I believe the Wildrose made a big mistake during their last meeting when they chose to focus on an amendment to a human rights clause. They have to stay out of the social issues and focus on the fiscal issues to prevent further decline in their popularity.

The best example of a successful new party alternative can found next door in Saskatchewan, where the Saskatchewan Party enjoys enormous popularity in a province formerly famous for socialism (NDP) and corruption (PC) in its political history.

The Saskatchewan Party was a badly-needed political alternative and makes a great blueprint for a change in this province.

The question arises: will Danielle Smith be able to steer her party in the same direction?

I suggest she have a talk with Brad Wall.

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Director of humane society sticks up for Winnipeg zoo after seal death WINNIPEG — The executive director of the Winnipeg Humane Society says it’s unrealistic to expect a zoo or any other agency giving care to animals to be perfect.

Bill McDonald spoke out Wednesday in support of the Assiniboine Park Zoo, where a seal drowned earlier this week after its head became stuck in an underwater drain.

The animal was unable to get free and staff found him dead in his pool Monday morning.

The seal was the second zoo fatality this year that wasn’t the result of natural causes.

A tiger died during a fight with another tiger after a gate was left open that was supposed to separate the two.

McDonald said no agency can plan for the unexpected, particularly if it’s a new facility.

“Sometimes you can’t think of everything and then in the installation, zoo officials can’t guarantee that the work is going to be done 100 per cent according to the architect’s plan,” he said.

“We’re humans. Sometimes we fail.”

Tory-hired expert backs claim about Liberal candidate’s comments OTTAWA — A Conservative cloak-and-dagger caper aimed at capturing a Liberal candidate in a verbal gaffe has taken another twist, with the governing party producing expert audio analysis to back up its version of who said what.

The Conservative party asked Edward J. Primeau, an audio forensic expert with 30 years experience,

RED DEER ADVOCATE Thursday, Nov. 27, 2014 A5 to analyze audio of a secretly recorded conversation involving Marlo Raynolds, the Liberal candidate in Banff-Airdrie.

In a report to the party, given to The Canadian Press, Primeau concludes that it was indeed Raynolds who said the Tory income-splitting plan would give couples with children money that they’d waste on television sets and cars, rather than caring for their kids.

Raynolds was flabbergasted Wednesday to learn the Conservatives are refusing to back down, even though another individual involved in the conversation, Tam McTavish, has said he’s the one who uttered the offending remarks. Sun Media has retracted the story on which the Tories based their attacks.

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Matthew de Grood, 23, is accused of killing the five at a house party last April.

Several media outlets have requested access to warrants and witness interviews done immediately after the attack.

The submissions before Judge Tim Hironaka are under a publication ban and cannot be reported. He put the matter over until March 10.

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RIVIERE-DU-LOUP, Que. — Witnesses to the seniors’ fire that killed 32 people in Quebec last January have described a horror-filled night with residents begging to be saved as flames engulfed them.

Conrad Morin was living on the top floor of the Residence du Havre in L’Isle-Verte when the blaze erupted just after midnight last Jan. 23.

In gripping testimony Wednesday at a coroner’s inquest into the fire, the 89-year-old Morin said his first instinct was to save his wife, Eva, who lived on a lower floor because she had limited movement.

But as he rushed into the corridor he was forced back because of thick smoke, while his wife would die in the tragedy.

“I could hear women shouting, ‘Come get us, come get us’,” he told coroner Cyrille Delage, who is overseeing the inquest at the courthouse in Riviere-du-Loup.

The former firefighter was able to get out via a door two floors above the ground after ripping off plastic weatherstripping.

“I took my blankets and tied them to a railing but they came loose and I fell on the ice,” he said.

“Seven fractures,” he replied when asked by Marie Cossette, counsel for the inquest, whether he’d been injured.

The inquest also saw a video filmed by Nathalie Paquin Tanguay, who was travelling in the area with her family as the fire raged.

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Quebec MP Massimo Pacetti, left, and Scott Andrews, the member for Avalon in Newfoundland and Labrador and the party’s ethics critic, both insist they’ve done nothing wrong. pended Pacetti and Andrews over what he called “serious personal misconduct.”

But Mulcair said Wednesday he sees his proposal as a “starting point” for creating a process to deal with the current situation and added that he’s open to other suggestions from other leaders.

“I’m not claiming to have tranquil possession of the truth on this. I want to make sure that we get a result.

That’s the obligation.”

Trudeau welcomed the NDP’s apparent change of heart.

“We have said from the very beginning that we believe that the Speaker’s office is the best place to launch an independent, confidential, third party process in this situation,” he said.

“I’m glad it looks like we’re going to be able to embark upon a rigorous third party process.”

OTTAWA — A Conservative backbencher is raising eyebrows with a bizarre warning to colleagues against “consorting without protection” in the wake of revelations about misconduct allegations on Parliament Hill.

Edmonton MP Peter Goldring said he wears video recording equipment due to unspecified past encounters with authority figures to “prevent besmirchment when encounters run awry.”

“It will not be good enough to simply say that your intentions were honourable and you were just inviting a colleague to your apartment at two in the morning to play a game of Scrabble at the end of a day of playing sports and drinking,” Goldring said.

“MPs must learn, as I have from encounters with authority figures in the past, that all do not tell the truth.”

Liberal MPs Massimo Pacetti and Scott Andrews were suspended from caucus this month amid allegations of misconduct levelled by two NDP colleagues.

One of the New Democrat MPs, whose name has not been disclosed publicly, spoke to the media this week.

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Andrew Scheer, the Speaker of the House of Commons, last week offered the use of House administration resources as well as “external experts” to help resolve the complaints against Massimo Pacetti and Scott Andrews, both of whom insist they’ve done nothing wrong.

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Mulcair urged other leaders to endorse his proposal to develop a formal code of conduct for MPs and appoint a non-partisan officer of Parliament to investigate complaints.

“Instead of passing this back and forth like a hot potato, take the concrete proposal that’s on the table, sit down together and start trying to come up with a solution to deal with this,” Mulcair said.

The NDP leader has had no response from Prime Minister Stephen Harper or Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau since making his proposal two weeks ago, he added.

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‘I wanted to destroy him’ MAN ACCUSED OF MURDER AT SEA TOLD POLICE PORT HAWKESBURY, N.S. — A Nova Scotia fisherman who has pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder told police he shot at and rammed the boat of another man after the victim cut his lobster traps, threatened to set his house on fire and taunted him for years, a jury heard Wednesday.

A videotaped interview that Joseph James Landry gave to the RCMP six days after Phillip Boudreau vanished last year was played in Nova Scotia Supreme Court in Port Hawkesbury.

During the interview, Landry repeatedly maintained his innocence and denied that the crew of the Twin Maggies fired shots at and rammed Boudreau’s speedboat on June 1, 2013, in Petit de Grat harbour in Cape Breton.

“I didn’t do nothing,” Landry says. “I’m telling you the truth.”

But later on during that same interview, Landry told the RCMP he fired a rifle at Boudreau four times and intended to kill him, adding that he took the wheel of the Twin Maggies and ran over Boudreau’s boat.

Landry, now 67, said Boudreau had threatened to burn down his house, cut dozens of the crew’s lobster traps and taunted him for years.

“I wanted to destroy him,” Landry says. “I was seeing black. I was so mad.”

Landry said he later told the crew of the Twin Maggies that they had made a mistake.

“I regret it,” he tells an RCMP investigator. “I told you the truth. It’s all over now.”

Landry said he hoped that by telling the truth, it

would prevent the other crew members of the Twin Maggies from getting in trouble.

“I’d like to keep the other boys out of it,” says Landry, eating a cheeseburger and onion rings during his interview at an RCMP station.

“If I had to do it now I wouldn’t do it. But it’s too late.”

The Crown has told the jury that Landry used a fishing gaff to drag Boudreau out to sea. Prosecutor Steve Drake has said that the three-member crew of the Twin Maggies then tied an anchor to Boudreau’s neck and upper arms after his body turned face down in the water, dropping him in an area with a water depth of about 22 metres.

The body of the 43-year-old Boudreau has not been found. Landry told the RCMP during his interview that he didn’t know what happened to Boudreau’s body.

During his interview with the RCMP, Landry said Boudreau’s brother called him the day before the incident and told him that Phillip Boudreau was going to tamper with their traps.

Landry said Boudreau’s brother then said, “There’s only one thing to do. Get rid of him.”

Landry also told the RCMP that he was concerned for the well-being of his daughter Carla Samson, the owner of the Twin Maggies who is charged with accessory after the fact.

“I don’t want to see my daughter in trouble,” Landry says.

His third cousin, Craig Landry, is also charged with accessory after the fact.

Dwayne Matthew Samson, the captain of the Twin Maggies, is charged with second-degree murder.

Those three accused have yet to stand trial.

New Brunswick government to ease access to abortion as of January

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS FREDERICTON — The New Brunswick government is scrapping a section of a contentious regulation that restricted access to abortion for decades and set the province apart for its unique policies on the procedure.

Premier Brian Gallant made the surprise announcement Wednesday in Fredericton, saying the planned amendments mean women will no longer have to get the approval of two doctors before having an abortion.

The procedure will also no longer have to be done by a specialist, meaning access could become more timely as more doctors will be able to do it.

“As a province, we have a responsibility to respect women’s rights by providing this procedure in a safe environment like any other insured service under medicare,” he said.

“Regardless of our personal views, we need to respect the reproductive rights of women that have been confirmed by the Supreme Court of Canada.”

The changes will come into effect Jan. 1.

Gallant said he decided to make the amendments after determining that a section of Regulation 84-20 of the Medical Services Payment Act hindered access to the procedure.

The regulation, introduced in the 1980s, stipulated that women could only receive abortions at two hospitals in the province after getting referrals from two doctors who deemed the procedure medically necessary.

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Crown psychiatrist suggests it’s possible Magnotta was sane, aware during slaying MONTREAL — A psychiatrist hired by the Crown says it is possible Luka Rocco Magnotta was sane and aware of his actions the night he killed Jun Lin. Dr. Gilles Chamberland consulted expert reports prepared for the defence that said Magnotta was psychotic and wasn’t able to tell right from wrong when he killed and dismembered Lin in May 2012.

Chamberland testified again today at Magnotta’s first-degree murder trial and said there was enough in the reports to show the accused knew what he was doing.

The accused has admitted to killing the Chinese engineering student, but has pleaded not guilty by way of mental disorder.

Magnotta gave contradictory versions of the events surrounding Lin’s death to two defence psychiatrists.

Chamberland has previously said Magnotta refused to meet him for the prosecution report, which meant he couldn’t say his own findings were definitive.

“It still seems very possible that the sane part of the gentleman, which was in touch with reality at the time of the acts, was amply sufficient to enable him to appreciate the nature of his acts and to know those actions were wrong,” Chamberland wrote in his nine-page report.

Canada sends parkas, boots to Ukraine OTTAWA — Canada is sending the Ukrainian army more than $22 million worth of cold weather gear, including jackets and boots.

Defence Minister Rob Nicholson announced the donation today from surplus military stocks.

He says the Department of Foreign Affairs will follow up with an additional $5 million in non-lethal aid early in the new year, including a field hospital and bomb-disposal equipment.

Nicholson would not say whether the Harper government supports providing heavy military equipment, including tanks and armoured vehicles, to replace those destroyed in fighting against Russianbacked separatists in eastern Ukraine.

He says Ukraine’s embattled government is only asking Canada to provide non-lethal aid.

The Obama administration and the Pentagon have so far ruled out sending arms, despite a plea from Congress and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko’s government.

Last week, the U.S. deputy national security adviser told the Senate that the administration is reviewing that position in light of the renewed appearance of Russian armoured vehicles in eastern Ukraine.

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They said that situation became worse after the Morgentaler Clinic in Fredericton, the only private facility in the province offering abortions, closed in July citing a lack of funds. Some women left New Brunswick to seek abortions in the United States or other provinces.

The closure intensified debate around access to abortion, with clinic supporters hoping possible regulatory changes might allow it to reopen if the province agreed to cover the procedure.

But Gallant said abortions covered under medicare will have to be done in hospitals.

Provincial NDP Leader Dominic Cardy, who pressed the Liberals throughout the campaign last September to repeal the section of the regulation, praised Gallant for moving forward with the changes.

But he said he hopes to see the Morgentaler Clinic included as one of the sites that could provide reproductive care.

“We do have a clinic in Fredericton that is a fully equipped women’s health centre,” he said. “It seems like a waste of resources in a cash-strapped province to just abandon that.”

Gallant said the regulation also resulted in a lack of accurate and non-judgmental information provided on a telecare line that did not refer callers to abortion services and instead, according to critics, promoted pro-life resources.

The decision to repeal the section comes after a committee, including officials and deputy ministers from the departments of Justice, Health and the Women’s Equality branch, was asked to identify barriers to abortion, said a spokesman for the premier.

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And some of the serpents are going to school.

The family collected 221 plains garter snakes in the fall that had wriggled in through foundation cracks on their old farm house outside Regina.

Megan Lawrence with the Salthaven West wildlife centre says the family recently brought in more serpents, bringing the total to 310.

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Protesters demonstrate on the steps of the Old Courthouse in downtown St. Louis, Wednesday. Since a grand jury’s decision was announced Monday night, Nov. 24, not to indict a white Ferguson, Mo., police officer who killed Michael Brown, an unarmed black teen, protesters in cities throughout the country have rallied behind the refrain “hands up, don’t shoot,” and drawn attention to other police killings.

FERGUSON, Mo. — Several people protesting the Ferguson grand jury decision stormed into City Hall in St. Louis on Wednesday, leading police to lock down the building and to call in more than a hundred additional officers.

At least two people were arrested after the incident, in which the protesters shouted “Shame, shame” while rushing into the building.

Those who made it inside City Hall were part of a group of about 300 protesters who marched and held a mock trial of Darren Wilson, the Ferguson police officer who shot and killed 18-year-old Michael Brown during an Aug. 9 confrontation in the St. Louis suburb.

An influx of National Guardsmen helped make the second night of protests after the grand jury’s decision not to indict Wilson much calmer than the first, when 12 commercial buildings were burned down and several others were set ablaze. There were 58 arrests overnight at area protests, including 45 in Ferguson and 13 in St. Louis.

Demonstrators took to the streets again Tuesday night, but there were hundreds of additional troops standing watch over neighbourhoods and businesses.

Officers still used some tear gas and pepper spray, and demonstrators set a squad car on fire and broke windows at City Hall.

Since the grand jury’s decision was announced Monday night, protesters in cities throughout the country have rallied behind the refrain “hands up, don’t shoot,” and drawn attention to other police killings. As the tension in Ferguson eased somewhat, Wilson broke his long public silence, insisting on national television that he could not have done anything differently in the confrontation.

The toll from Monday’s protests — 12 commercial buildings burned to the ground, plus eight other blazes and a dozen vehicles torched - prompted Missouri governor Jay Nixon to send a large contingent of extra National Guard troops.

The governor ordered the initial force of 700 to be increased to 2,200 in the hopes that their presence would help local law enforcement keep order in the St. Louis suburb.

Cleveland police identify officers Ebola may have involved in shooting of boy reached peak: minister SIERRA LEONE

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ANOTHER DOCTOR INFECTED

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FREETOWN, Sierra Leone — The Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone, which has been surging in recent weeks, may have reached its peak and could be on the verge of slowing down, Sierra Leone’s information minister said Wednesday.

But in a reminder of how serious the situation is in Sierra Leone, yet another doctor - the 9th in the country - became infected Wednesday, and the World Health Organization said the country accounted for more than half of the new cases in the hardest-hit countries in the past week. By contrast, infections appear to be either stabilizing or declining in Guinea and Liberia, where vigorous campaigning for a Senate election this week suggests the disease might be loosening its grip.

In all, 15,935 people have been sickened with Ebola in West Africa and other places it has occasionally popped up. Of those, 5,689 have died.

The disease is transmitted through contact with bodily fluids of the sick, putting health workers at particular risk. Dr. Songo Mbriwa, a top military doctor who was working at a treatment centre in the capital, tested positive for Ebola on Wednesday, according to Abass Kamara, a Health Ministry spokesman.

Nearly 600 health workers have become infected in the West African outbreak, many in the hardesthit countries of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone all of which had too few to begin with.

Still, Alpha Kanu, Sierra Leone’s minister of information, told journalists in an online press conference that with the imminent completion of two British-built treatment centres, the worst could be over for the country.

“We believe that now that those treatment centres are ready, the transmission of new cases will start reducing,” he said.

“I don’t think we can get any higher than we are now - we are at the plateau of the curve and very soon we will have a downward trend, once we have somewhere to take people.”

BRIEF City smelling of cat urine NEW CASTLE, Pa. — Residents are hoping tests on air samples can explain why their western Pennsylvania city smells like cat urine.

New Castle residents began noticing the smell Nov. 1.

State environmental officials don’t believe the odour is harmful, but they don’t yet know what’s causing it.

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This undated photo provided by the family’s attorney shows Tamir Rice. Rice, 12, was fatally shot by police in Cleveland after brandishing what turned out to be a replica gun.

The officers involved have been interviewed, and police have obtained statements from several other people, Tomba said.

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The compressed video shows the confrontation in stuttered images but lacks sound. Police said it was being released as requested by the family of the boy, Tamir Rice. They also released audio of a 911 call reporting a gun and a dispatcher directing officers to the scene.

“This is not an effort to exonerate. It’s not an effort to show the public that anybody did anything wrong,” Deputy Chief Edward Tomba said. “This is an obvious tragic event where a young member of our community lost their life. We’ve got two officers that were out there protecting the public that just had to, you know, do something that nobody wants to do.”

Tomba refused to comment on what the officers said in their statements, including whether Tamir made any comments to them.

Police identified the responding officers as 26-year-old Timothy Loehman, who was appointed to the force this year and was identified as the officer who fired on Tamir, and 46-year-old Frank Garmback, who’s been with the department since 2008.

Police say Tamir was told to raise his hands three times, then reached into his waistband for what appeared to be a firearm. Police later determined it was an airsoft gun — which shoots small plastic pellets — that did not have an orange safety indicator at the end of the barrel.

The boy was shot Saturday as officers responded to a call about someone with a gun at a Cleveland playground. Police said Tamir was given first aid less than 4 minutes after the shooting, and emergency medical personnel arrived three minutes after that.

He died at a hospital the next day.

The video of the shooting was to be made available to media later.

The shooting has led to an investigation of the officer’s use of force and protests referencing this and other police-involved shootings.

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THURSDAY, NOV. 27, 2014 FLAMES SHUT OUT SHARKS

Injuries starting to pile up for Rebels FAFARD OUT INDEFINITELY, MAHURA QUESTIONABLE FOR WEEKEND GAMES

BY ADVOCATE STAFF The Red Deer Rebels will enter the weekend without a valuable member of their fourth line.

Devan Fafard, who this season was moved from defence to forward, suffered an upper-body injury in last Sunday’s 6-2 loss to the host Calgary Hitmen and — according to the Western Hockey League injury report — is out indefinitely.

While Fafard, who brings toughness and experience as a 20-year-old, clearly won’t be in the Rebels lineup for Fridays’ meeting with the Tigers at Medicine Hat or Saturday’s clash with the visiting Swift Current Broncos, he could be available sooner than later.

“We’re hoping he can be back in a couple of weeks,” Rebels GM/head coach Brent Sutter said Wednesday.

In Fafard’s absence, Sutter — for starters — will either go with seven defencemen and 11 forwards, or insert rookie Mason McCarty into Fafard’s spot.

First-year rearguard Josh Mahura, meanwhile, is listed as questionable for the weekend with an upper body ailment after being hit from behind in Sunday’s game at Calgary.

“It’s still possible that he (Mahura) could play this weekend but he hasn’t practised the last two days,” said Sutter.

“If he can’t play we’ll dress both (rookie defenceman Mario) Grman and McCarty.”

Remaining on the Red Deer injury list are first-year centre Brayden Burke and veteran blueliner Nick Charif, both sidelined with lower-body issues.

Burke will out until mid-December and Charif isn’t expected back until just after the Christmas break. ● Former Rebels forward Cole Chorney has landed in Merritt, B.C. The 18-year-old, who was released — although the Rebels retain his WHL rights — Nov. 10 and was expected to join an Alberta Junior Hockey League team, has signed on with the Merritt Centennials of the BCHL. “He had a choice of where he could go,” said Sutter. “Being 18, he could inter-branch. He had three or four teams that were after him and he chose Merritt.”

The Beaumont product is pointless with two minutes in penalties in two games with his new team. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

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Calgary Flames goalie Karri Ramo stops a shot from the San Jose Sharks during the second period of an NHL game Wednesday, in San Jose, Calif. Ramo made 32 saves for his third career shutout and Jiri Hudler scored both goals to lead the Flames to a 2-0 victory over the Sharks. Hudler broke a scoreless tie with a goal in the second and sealed the game with an empty-net goal on the power play late in the third as the Flames bounced back a night after losing 3-2 in Anaheim to win for just the second time in their past nine trips to San Jose. Antti Niemi made 17 saves for the struggling Sharks, who have lost four straight. San Jose hasn’t led at any point during the skid, marking the first time since February 2013 that the Sharks have gone four straight games without a lead.

Grey Cup coaches Austin, Hufnagel have CFL history together

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER - They’ll share the sidelines at B.C. Place as opponents Sunday, but Grey Cup head coaches Kent Austin and John Hufnagel have a CFL history together.

Austin began his CFL career with the Saskatchewan Roughriders in 1987, when Hufnagel was a player-coach with the club. Austin went on to play 10 seasons with the Riders, B.C. Lions, Toronto Argonauts and Winnipeg Blue Bombers, winning two Grey Cups (‘89 with Riders, ‘94 with Lions) and passing for over 36,000 yards.

But on Wednesday, the Hamilton Tiger-Cats head coach and general manager credited Hufnagel, the head coach/GM of the Calgary Stampeders, with helping him make a seamless transition to the three-down game following his collegiate career at Ole Miss.

“I’ve got a lot of respect for John,” Austin said. “It (Canadian football) was a different game, a totally different game than what I was comfortable with and used to.

“Having somebody like John to kind of cut the corners, to give you the shortcuts that you needed to at least have a chance to be successful early on instead of going through huge growing pains with a guy that didn’t have a lot

MORE GREY CUP COVERAGE B2 of experience playing the position, was a huge benefit.”

And it was clear Wednesday that Austin still holds Hufnagel in high regard, allowing the Calgary coach to answer questions first and often agreeing with his counterpart.

Hufnagel, 63, remembers a young Austin taking advantage of his chance to play after injuries to other quarterbacks, including Hufnagel.

“My first year as a coach, I was a player-coach, and that player part of it only lasted three quarters then I tore my Achilles tendon,” he said. “We had two young quarterbacks at the time, Jeff Bentrim and Tom Burgess, (but) they were injured.

“I brought Jeff Tedford up (but) he lasted four plays and broke his foot.

And in that timeframe, Kent walks in, and prepares himself to play and his first start was against the Hamilton Tiger-Cats in Hamilton. He won his first start, had a terrific football game.”

Hufnagel and Austin followed similar paths to their current positions.

Both played at major U.S. colleges (Hufnagel starred at Penn State) and spent time in the NFL before coming to Canada. After winning Grey Cups as players, Hufnagel and Austin began their coaching careers in the CFL, then

headed to the U.S. before returning north of the border to head up their respective franchises’ football operations departments.

After serving as an assistant with Saskatchewan (‘88) and Calgary (‘90’96), Hufnagel took over as head coach/ GM of the Arena Football League’s New Jersey Red Dogs. He had stints in the NFL as quarterbacks coach with Cleveland, Indianapolis, Jacksonville and New England and offensive coordinator with the New York Giants before returning to the Stampeders.

During his time in the NFL, Hufnagel had the opportunity to coach big-name quarterbacks Peyton and Eli Manning as well as Tom Brady, earning a Super Bowl ring with New England in 2003. Hufnagel said he didn’t have a burning desire to leave the CFL when he left for New Jersey. But after being bypassed for three head-coaching positions while an assistant with Calgary, Hufnagel said he wasn’t about to let the next opportunity pass him by.

“Once all the smoke cleared (in ‘95) I was still an assistant coach with the Calgary Stampeders, which was fine,” Hufnagel said. “But I did say that - to myself - the next time the phone rings and a head coaching job is offered, I would accept it, no matter what the time of year.

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RDC curling teams hoping for solid start at host bonspiel The Red Deer College curling pro- ter the first weekend — you go .500 and gram opens the Alberta Colleges Ath- you stay in the running at least,” said letic Conference season this weekend head coach Brad Hamilton. “Then you surrounded in the great unknown. have two months before the next one They are the defending national happens to get a lot better if need be.” champions in women’s curling but reSecond Courtney Smith is the lone turn only one player from returning member of the that rink. Meanwhile their Queens rink, skipped by Kaitmen’s and mixed teams lyn Sherrer, that went on a are still in the developCinderella run at last year’s mental phase.

CCAA’s. This year the rink is They will see just skipped by freshman Marla where they are at as they Sherrer and features fellow host the ACAC fall refirst years Julie Selvais at gional this weekend at the third and Sarah Gerrard at Pidherney Curling Cenlead. tre.

Lacombe products Selvais The round robin tourand Gerrard are the only ones nament will feature some who had curled together priof the best college rinks or to this season, though as JOSH in the country, including a group they are showing a ALDRICH the defending men’s Calot of promise, sitting undenadian Colleges Athletic feated in the Red Deer ladies Association champion league.

MacEwan University Grif“So far so good, they get a fins (skip Jordan Steinke, Benjamin long really well, they communicate reBissell, Tristan Steinke and Brett Win- ally well, which is a good thing,” said field), and the defending ACAC wom- Hamilton. “It will be interesting to see en’s champion NAIT Ooks (skip Karynn what happens when things don’t go Flory, Richelle Baer, Klara Smiley and quite as well as they have been going.

Kaitlyn Roskewich). ... This weekend will be a good test.”

The bonspiel is a purely round robThe men’s team is coming off a difin tournament with each team getting ficult season in which they did not win six games. They will be added to their a game at either the ACAC fall or winrecords following the winter bonspiel ter bonspiels, but they do return three in at the end of January with the top out of the four members of that team. four teams in each division advancing Red Deer’s Ryan Dahmer is back at to provincials. skip, Jeffrey Ireland at third and Lo“It’s an overall record of the two gan Oddie at lead, the lone newcomer weekends, so you hate to be out of it af- is Ponoka’s Maul Maas at second.

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Hamilton is hoping to see them take a big step forward this year.

“They should have won a few games last year but their lack of experience probably cost them more than anything else,” said Hamilton. “They’re a year older, they’ve experienced the curling now so I’m hoping for better things now but they do have some strategy things every once in a while that do hurt them.”

Hamilton is not sure what to expect out of RDC’s mixed team. They are a brand new team this year with five freshman filling out the lineup: skip Chloe Logelin, third Luke Nibourg, second Tremayne Smith, lead Robert Raincock and spare Cyril House.

“They’ve been together since the first of October,” said Hamilton. “The way college curling is right now, there’s nationals for the men’s and the women’s there isn’t for the mixed, so the majority of the colleges put their four best women on the women’s team and their four best men on the men’s team and then after that the mixed team is picked. They’re somewhat of a development team ... we’re probably somewhere in the middle — I guess we’ll find out this weekend.”

The winter tournament will be hosted by MacEwan University, Grande Prairie Regional College is hosting provincials and Olds College nationals.

Other top teams this weekend at the fall tournament in Red Deer include the MacEwan women, Olds College and Lakeland College.

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p.m. with the final draw going on Sunday at noon.

“My goal is to get everyone to provincials,” said Hamilton. “The way we are at RDC, if we’re not here to go to provincials then I’m not sure why we’re doing it.” ● Queens volleyball player Miranda Dawe was named ACAC women’s athlete of the week, as she helped lead RDC to a sweep over the undefeated Olds College Broncos. ● RDC volleyball has a home-andhome series with the SAIT Trojans, host on Friday with the women going at 6 p.m. and the men at 8 p.m. They are in Calgary on Saturday. The Kings and Queens are both ranked No. 1 in the CCAA. ● RDC basketball is in Caronport, Sask., on Friday and Saturday to play the Briercrest Clippers. The Kings (82) are back up to No. 14 in the CCAA rankings, despite being in first place in the ACAC South Division. The Queens are still looking for their first win of the season, but it could come against the winless Clippers this weekend. ● After a weather-induced bye weekend, the RDC Kings (6-7-0-1) hockey team is back in action, in Camrose tonight to play the Augustana Vikings (9-4-1-2) at 7:30 p.m. and then host Augusta on Saturday at 7 p.m. in Penhold. ● The Queens (2-4-2) hockey team has a home-and-home with the SAIT Trojans (4-3-1), hosting tonight at the Red Deer Arena at 7 p.m. and then in Calgary on Friday at 7 p.m. jaldrich@reddeeradvocate.com

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Raptors roll over Hawks for record start offensively as the Raptors took time to select better shots. It marked the second time in two wins over Atlanta this season that they had seven players score in double figures.

Reserve guard Greivis Vasquez was a major beneficiary, scoring all 21 of his points in the second half.

“It was great to see Greivis get going with his shooting,” Casey said. “He has just needed to see the ball go through the hoop.”

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Raptors 126 Hawks 115 ATLANTA - DeMar DeRozan loves when the Toronto Raptors have a balanced scoring attack.

“That’s what it’s going to take to win,” he said. “Honestly, that’s what it’s all about.”

DeRozan scored 27 points, Lou Williams added 22 and the Raptors beat the Atlanta Hawks 126-115 on Wednesday night for their sixth consecutive victory.

The Eastern Conference-leading Raptors had their highest point total of the season. They have won 11 of 12 to match the best stretch in the franchise’s 20-year history, also accomplished from March 22-April 14, 2002.

Jeff Teague had 24 points and 12 assists for Atlanta, and Al Horford scored 23 points.

The Hawks, who won in Washington on Tuesday night, were trying to beat the East’s top two teams on consecutive nights.

Kyle Lowry had 14 points and 13 assists for Toronto, which is 4-1 on the road for the first time in team history.

“I wanted to get my guys involved,” Lowry said. “My shot wasn’t falling the way I wanted it to, but the guys did a great job of screening and getting some great shots.”

Hawks guard Kyle Korver hit a pair of free throws to cut Toronto’s lead to 109-105 with 4:45 remaining, but the Raptors pulled away from there. James Johnson’s fast-break dunk increased Toronto’s advantage to 13 just 1:16 later.

Korver finished with 19 points.

SPEAKING UP Ten fans staged a peaceful protest of the Ferguson grand jury decision during the first half.

Seven men and three women marched briskly through upper and lower levels of Phillips Arena on Wednesday night and shouted “Hands up! Don’t shoot!” for 10 approximately minutes.

The game was not disrupted during the march.

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Toronto Raptors forward Amir Johnson fights for the ball against Atlanta Hawks guard Jeff Teague (0), center Al Horford (15) and forward DeMarre Carroll (5) in an NBA game in Atlanta, Wednesday.

Williams, playing his first game in his hometown since getting traded by the Hawks last summer, hit four 3-pointers and went 6 for 6 on free throws.

“Three nights in a row it’s been somebody else stepping up,” said Williams, who scored a career-high 36 last Saturday night as Toronto overcame an

18-point deficit to win at Cleveland. “It just shows the depth and the character of this team.”

Raptors coach Dwane Casey was pleased to watch his team’s defence guard the perimeter better in the second half.

Once Toronto had itself together defensively, the ball movement improved

NICE START DeRozan hit all five of his field-goal attempts to finish the first quarter with 14 points. Williams added seven.

TIP-INS Raptors: Reserve big man Tyler Hansbrough missed his fourth straight game with a sprained right shoulder.

Hawks: Reserve swingman Thabo Sefolosha was sent home before the game with flu symptoms.

UP NEXT Raptors: Host Dallas on Friday night.

Hawks: Host New Orleans on Friday night.

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CFL: Take advantage “And happened to be the New Jersey Red Dogs . . . and that’s why I left the CFL, to take advantage of a head coaching job,” Hufnagel added.

Austin finished his playing career after the ‘96 season with Winnipeg. He joined the Ottawa Renegades quarterbacks coach in ‘03 before becoming Toronto’s offensive co-ordinator. He was hired as Saskatchewan’s head coach in ‘07. After winning a Grey Cup he returned to Ole Miss as the offensive coordinator and then spent three seasons as Cornell’s head coach before returning north with Hamilton in 2013.

Austin and Hufnagel are the only ones in the CFL with the dual coach/GM titles, with Austin also being Hamilton’s director of football operations.

“I’m not sure it’s an advantage, it’s a little bit more single-minded as far as the direction you want to take,” Hufnagel said. “And everybody that’s working for you has that single direction.

“It’s a lot easier to get things you want as far as the grocery list. And so I enjoy it. It’s a unique position, and I relish the job that I have in Calgary.”

Austin agreed.

“I would just reiterate what John said,” he said.

“I mean, it gives you the ability to choose your team and to piece the puzzle together the way that you and your staff believe is the best. “...At the end of the day, if you can make the decision to build your team, then the buck really falls with us to put together a team that has a chance.”

Hufnagel has certainly put Calgary in position to win since his return, amassing an impressive 89-361 regular-season record. But some football pundits point to Calgary’s 6-5 playoff record and just one Grey Cup title over that span. Twenty-five players remain from the Stampeders squad that lost the 100th Grey Cup game to Toronto in 2012 and Hufnagel said those individuals have a chance Sunday to end the negative talk.

“There’s been a lot of things said about this group of players over the years,” he said. “Until they do something about it, it’s going to keep on being said.

“I don’t judge myself, that’s what you guys (reporters) do. I just go to work every day and try to do the best job I can. We have a pretty good regular-season record and we’re batting one game over 500 in the playoffs. I’m not so sure there’s a whole lot of teams over the last seven years that can say that.”

Austin is appearing in a third straight Grey Cup as a head coach, winning in ‘07 with Saskatchewan before losing last year’s finale to the Riders at Mosaic Stadium.

“The truth of the matter is you have to have many great people around you,” Austin said. “I’ve been really fortunate to have the ability to have a great staff, first and foremost, have a great organization in both cases that produced an environment to allow us to be successful.”

things his running back does, Cornish is just one piece of Calgary’s puzzle.

“Jon’s a very good football player, but he plays for a very good football team,” said the veteran coach. “Whether Jon’s in the game or not in the game, the Calgary Stampeders are still a good football team. But he does bring an extra dimension.

“He’s a strong, hard runner. You know, if we can get him into the second level, it can be a long day for the defence. Unfortunately, it’s going to be very difficult to get to second level against Hamilton.”

The Tiger-Cats, who were 9-9 before downing the Montreal Alouettes in the East final, allowed by far the fewest rushing yards per game in 2014 with an average of just 72.7.

“Jon is a very important key to our offence because we are a run-first team and we are going to rely on him a lot of the time,” said Mitchell. “He’s a very hard player to stop and you have to focus on him.”

While Cornish won’t get this year’s most outstanding player nod, his teammates see what he does on a daily basis and marvel at his talents.

“He’s still the best player in this league. Everybody knows it,” said Calgary slotback Nik Lewis. “He’s the most valuable person to our team, but to win 15 games and only have him for nine is pretty amazing, too.”

The Stampeders lost the 2012 Grey

Cup to the Toronto Argonauts before falling to the Saskatchewan Roughriders in last season’s West final, with that second defeat standing out for the cerebral Cornish.

“I truly felt there was something more going on than a football team losing to another football team. I felt that the Riders had an impetus, something that was pushing them that we didn’t have,” said Cornish, who sat out both of Calgary’s games against Hamilton this season. “When I faced down their defence ... they believed in something that maybe we didn’t at the time.

“That’s what guided my entire offseason, and coming to now I think we’ve been able to cultivate that, cultivate our team camaraderie, cultivate our drive, and I think that’s the reason we’re standing here today.”

Cornish - who won a high school title at B.C. Place - has one Grey Cup ring from Calgary’s 2008 championship team and said another in his home province would be even more special.

“It’s hard to win Grey Cups,” he said. “It’s not something that just happens all the time. You can be a great team during the regular season, but as has been shown if another team comes into your house with drive and that will to win they can defeat you.

“That’s what we’ve understood this entire year - whatever we’ve done during the season doesn’t matter, it’s what we do right now.”

Organizers say 4,300 tickets to Sunday’s Grey Cup remain unsold

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER - Grey Cup organizers say about 4,300 tickets remain unsold for Sunday’s game between the Calgary Stampeders and the Hamilton Tiger-Cats.

Jamie Pitblado, 102nd Grey Cup Festival general manager, said Wednesday there was a spike in sales after the two clubs advanced with playoff victories on Sunday, but added there are still plenty of seats available.

“We’re definitely headed in the right direction,” he said. “(We) will keep focused and keep working with the teams and their fans to make sure we can accommodate whatever requests and needs are coming in.”

The last three Grey Cup games have featured the host team, but the B.C. Lions were eliminated in the first round of the 2014 post-season, while the Saskatchewan Roughriders and their rabid fanbase were also knocked out at the same stage.

That has made the job of selling the game at the 54,500-seat B.C. Place Stadium more difficult, along with the fact that Vancouver also hosted the Grey Cup just three years ago.

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“I think it’s building for more than just the game, but the festival as well - the whole experience.”

Prior to the East and West Division finals there were about 6,500 tickets left to sell. As of Wednesday, the remaining 4,300 seats were mostly in the corners of the upperdeck and priced around $250 apiece. “(Sales) are starting to pick up again,” said Pitblado. “We’re kind of where we want to be, where we expected to be. We’ve still got some work to do and we’re going to keep plugging away at it.”

The newly renovated B.C. Place hosted a sold-out Grey Cup in 2011 when the Lions beat the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in the venue’s first major event following the 2010 Olympics.

While Pitblado would not guarantee a sellout for this year’s game, he said he expected it to be close.

“We’re going to work darn hard,” said Pitblado. “That’s our goal, that’s what we expect and we’re going to try out best to get there.”

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VANCOUVER - Every single move Jon Cornish makes on a football field is planned.

A student of the game, the Calgary Stampeders running back almost effortlessly slices through defences, but each juke or spin that leaves a defender grabbing at air has been researched and studied, with a story of its own.

“The strongest memory is no match for the faintest ink,” said Cornish.

“People can think about things all they want. I have it written down so I can see exactly what I’m going to do.

“My game is so far removed from the thought process. It’s natural. I’m out there and I just ‘do’ ... I think a lot of people try to interfere in the process of playing football - they (inject) thought.”

The Stampeders hit the practice field at B.C. Place Stadium on Wednesday ahead of Sunday’s Grey Cup game against the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, and Cornish explained how he developed a physical list of moves so that all he has to do on the field is react.

“I realized primarily through meditation that a lot of the stuff we do is not real,” said the 30-year-old. “I’ve had the move list for about 2 ½ years now and after I found it was effective I added a few extra moves. If you see me do a few different things on the field

it’s never a new move, it’s always stuff that I’ve researched.”

A native of nearby New Westminster, B.C., Cornish has even started to add techniques used by fellow University of Kansas running back and NFL great Gale Sayers.

“I truly believe Gale Sayers is the greatest running back that ever lived,” said Cornish, who won the Lou Marsh Trophy as Canada’s top athlete last year. “Every running back likes to credit his vision, but Gale Sayers was able to see in 360 (degrees). He knew everything that was going on on the field and that’s something that I’ve tried to (incorporate).”

Also the CFL’s most outstanding player in 2013, Cornish was injured for a big chunk of this season, but still managed to lead the league in rushing with 1,082 yards to go along with five touchdowns for a team that went 15-3 before thumping the Edmonton Eskimos in the West Division final.

“Jon does what he does because he is a different person,” said Stampeders quarterback Bo Levi Mitchell. “When I say that I mean that he’s not doing your normal preparations during the off-season. He’s doing different things - learning how to meditate, learning how to do karate. Whatever it is, he’s learning how to be a different and better athlete.”

Stampeders head coach John Hufnagel stressed that for all the great

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New coach, new players lead push in Nashville PREDATORS HAVE A LOT OF FACTORS THAT HELPED THE TEAM’S RESURGENCE TO TOP OF WEST

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NASHVILLE - Pinning down a single reason for the Nashville Predators’ resurgence this season is nearly impossible.

There’s a new coach in Peter Laviolette bringing his offensive approach.

New scorers in James Neal and Mike Ribeiro. And Pekka Rinne is healthy and back to dominating form as one of the NHL’s stingiest goaltenders.

Add in the league’s top rookie through the first 20 games, and the combination has the Predators atop the Central Division and third in the Western Conference after missing the playoffs the past two seasons.

“It’s been a good start, but at the same time to stay at the top of the league it’s probably the hardest thing, and everybody who comes here or any team we’re going to face they want to get a piece of us,” Rinne said. “You have to be ready for it. But it’s been good. All the changes we’ve made ... obviously you got the record. It’s easy to say that it’s been working.”

Indeed.

The Predators have yet to lose consecutive games yet and have 30 points through 21 games after a 4-3 shootout win Tuesday night over the defending Stanley Cup champion Los Angeles Kings. The Predators now are 8-1-1 at home and 5-1-1 against the Pacific Division.

Defence always has been a Nashville hallmark, and the Predators are tied for second in the NHL in goalsagainst average allowing 2.10 goals per game.

Now the Predators are scoring.

They are second in the NHL scoring five-on-five and have outscored opponents 47-28 in an area the Predators were minus-21 last season. They also are the league’s least-penalized team averaging only 7 penalty minutes per game.

Forward Eric Nystrom credited everyone with being on the same page quickly in the first season with Laviolette, hired in May as only the second coach in this franchise’s history.

“That makes such a huge difference when you can rely on your teammate being in the right position so you can go in a certain situation and knowing

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BRIEFS Prince Albert Raiders pulls Arabian-themed mascot, sorry if anyone offended PRINCE ALBERT, Sask. - A Saskatchewan junior hockey team has pulled its new Arabian-themed mascot that critics were calling offensive to Middle Eastern people.

The Prince Albert Raiders have announced that there will not be a team mascot at their Western Hockey League home games until further notice.

The mascot depicts an Arabian

you’re going to go in those situations,” Nystrom said.

Laviolette was hired to boost the offence for a team that struggled scoring the past two seasons under Barry Trotz. His system has freed up defencemen like captain Shea Weber to jump into the rush with the puck, and Laviolette has put together Neal and Ribeiro with rookie Filip Forsberg giving the Predators possibly their best top line yet.

The coach says he’s happy with how the Predators are working, and they’ve shown plenty of chemistry and confidence no matter the score. The Predators blew a 2-0 lead late in regulation Saturday night against Florida only to win when Forsberg scored the only goal in the shootout.

“Even if sometimes when we’re down by two, it doesn’t seem to phase our guys that much,” Laviolette said.

Rinne is off to the best start of his career with his 14 wins tying him for the most in the league, and he ranks second in goals-against average (1.97).

It’s a big change from a year ago when the Finland native was healing from surgery to clear an infection out of his hip, limiting him to 24 games last season when Nashville missed the postseason by three points.

The goaltender isn’t thinking about the past two years now.

“Our team is totally different now, and obviously personally you want to always play as well as you can possibly play,” Rinne said.

Forsberg has helped the scoring.

Acquired from Washington in a trade for Martin Erat in April 2013, the rookie ranks 12th in the NHL with 22 points and also leads the league with a plus-18 rating, meaning he’s been on the ice for 18 more even-strength and shorthanded goals his team has scored than allowed.

Nystrom said the Predators just need to keep improving and peak in the playoffs. Nashville has plenty of room to do that on special teams ranking 26th on the penalty kill and 24th on the power play - last on home ice scoring only one goal with the man advantage.

“It’s going to be a test to see if we can stay at the top,” Nystrom said.

“That’s not an easy challenge, and we’re looking forward to that.” raider character holding a sword and a hockey stick.

The announcement came just one game into the mascot’s career with the Raiders.

The Western Hockey League said Monday it asked the team to review its mascot policy and supports the club’s decision.

The mascot sparked controversy and attracted national attention, with some people saying it was stereotyping Middle Eastern people.

The Raiders had said the mascot was meant to show their history, as it was modelled after the logo they used when they won the Memorial Cup in 1985.

“The mascot unveiled Nov. 14, 2014, was a derivation of the team’s original logo with the goal of enriching the game night experience for our loyal fans and was not intended to be offensive in nature,” the Raiders said in a

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Nashville Predators’ Filip Forsberg, center, celebrates after scoring against Edmonton Oilers goalie Viktor Fasth in an NHL game Nov. 11, 2014, in Nashville, Tenn. Forsberg is just one of the many reasons the Predators have vaulted to the top of the standing after a great start to the season. statement posted on the team website Friday.

“The organization apologizes if anyone was offended by the character.

There will be no further comment from the organization in this matter.”

Last week, Rhonda Rosenberg, executive director of the Multicultural Council of Saskatchewan, said the mascot plays into possible discrimination.

Former AHL Abbotsford Heat head coach fired by WHL’s Vancouver Giants VANCOUVER - The Vancouver Giants announced Wednesday that Troy Ward has been relieved of his duties as head coach of the Western Hockey League team.

Assistant coach Matt Erhart has

been named the club’s interim head coach while strength and conditioning coach Ian Gallagher and skills coach Yogi Svejkovsky will serve as assistants.

“Obviously with where we are in the standings, it just wasn’t working with Troy,” said Giants general manager Scott Bonner. “This is the unfortunate part of sports, but we thought change was needed. We wish Troy all the best in the future.”

The Giants are last in the WHL’s Western Conference with a 9-16-0 record. They’ve won just two of their past 10 games.

This season was Ward’s first as head coach of the Giants. He previously served as head coach of the American Hockey League’s Abbotsford Heat from 2010-2014.

Ward also served as an assistant coach for the Pittsburgh Penguins for three seasons, from 1997-2000.

Elimimian likely to make history with outstanding player honour

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Solomon Elimimian is poised to make CFL history Thursday night.

The B.C. Lions rugged linebacker is expected to be the runaway winner of the league’s outstanding player award after registering a CFL-record 143 tackles this season. If Elimimian is selected ahead of Ricky Ray of the Toronto Argonauts in voting by the Football Reporters of Canada and the nine league head coaches, he’d become the first pure defensive player to capture the honour.

The six-foot, 227-pound Elimimian is certainly one of the league’s top feelgood stories of the season and is expected to also walk away with the top defensive player honour during the league’s awards banquet at the Queen

Elizabeth Theatre. But Ray deserves equal consideration as the CFL’s outstanding player.

The 35-year-old Californian was the CFL leader in passing yards (4,595), touchdowns (28), completion percentage (68.5), attempts (620) and completions (425). Ray was the only league quarterback to crack the 4,000-yard passing plateau and was a big reason why Toronto sported the league’s top aerial attack in 2014. He did so in spite of an injury-ravaged receiving corps that saw veteran slotbacks Andre Durie, Jason Barnes and Chad Owens and promising rookie Anthony Coombs all miss significant chunks of the season. The absence of Durie, Barnes and Owens left Ray without trusted veteran players while continually having to get used to new faces in the lineup.

What’s more, Ray played the ‘14 campaign with a shoulder ailment that required off-season surgery, yet he still made 17 regular-season starts.

Ray’s detractors suggest his comple-

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sive player. Montreal linebacker Bear Woods was second overall in tackles with 89 and is a deserving finalist.

Top Canadian - Cornish wins this honour for the third straight year after posting a league-high 1,082 yards rushing in just nine games. Had Cornish been able to maintain that pace over an 18-game schedule, he would’ve broken Mike Pringle’s single-season rushing record and been a lock for a second straight outstanding player award.

Hamilton’s Ted Laurent is the finalist.

Top lineman - Calgary centre Brett Jones likely wins, an accomplishment for a second-year player. Montreal’s Jeff Perrett is the finalist.

Special-teams award - Toronto’s Swayze Waters was the league’s leading scorer and punter. Winnipeg’s Lirim Hajrullahu is the finalist.

Top rookie - Edmonton linebacker Dexter McCoil (tied for league lead with six interceptions) should get the nod ahead of Toronto defensive lineman Tristan Okpalaugo (12 sacks).

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tion percentage and 15 interceptions are clear indications of a down year for the Toronto quarterback. Certainly, in 2013 Ray threw just two interceptions while completing a league-record 77.2 per cent of his passes.

However, Ray only made 11 starts last season in being named the finalist for the league’s outstanding player award behind Calgary running back Jon Cornish. However, despite being less than 100 per cent physically and with a seemingly ever-changing receiving corps, Ray helped Toronto finish with an 8-10 record to narrowly miss making the East Division playoffs.

Even with Elimimian’s outstanding season, B.C. (9-9) finished fourth in the West Division standings to become the No. 3 playoff seed in the East before losing 50-17 to Montreal in the division semifinal. Here’s a look at who should win the other individual honours: Top Defensive Player - Elimimian, again, as he was by far the league’s most dominant and consistent defen-

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WHL EASTERN CONFERENCE EAST DIVISION GP W LOTLSOL GF GA Pt Brandon 26 19 5 2 0 123 86 40 Swift Current 28 14 10 0 4 82 82 32 Regina 25 14 10 1 0 88 70 29 Prince Albert 26 13 13 0 0 81 86 26 Moose Jaw 26 11 12 2 1 76 89 25 Saskatoon 25 7 17 1 0 68 118 15 CENTRAL DIVISION GP W LOTLSOL Medicine Hat 25 17 6 1 1 Edmonton 27 13 10 2 2 Red Deer 26 13 10 2 1 Calgary 26 13 10 1 2 Kootenay 25 11 14 0 0 Lethbridge 25 6 15 3 1

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GF GA Pt 95 60 36 84 74 30 91 86 29 92 74 29 74 100 22 61 102 16

WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION GP W LOTLSOL GF GA Pt Kelowna 27 22 2 3 0 128 65 47 Victoria 29 14 13 2 0 92 97 30 Kamloops 27 11 11 3 2 82 88 27 Prince George 27 13 14 0 0 82 113 26 Vancouver 26 9 17 0 0 78 96 18 U.S. DIVISION GP W LOTLSOL GF GA Pt Everett 23 16 4 2 1 81 59 35 Spokane 23 13 7 3 0 67 64 29 Tri-City 25 14 11 0 0 69 66 28 Portland 27 12 12 0 3 88 101 27 Seattle 24 9 11 2 2 61 67 22 z-league title; y-conference title;d-division leader; xclinched playoff berth. Note: Division leaders ranked in top three positions per conference regardless of points; a team winning in overtime or shootout is credited with two points and a victory in the W column; the team losing in overtime or shootout receives one point which is registered in the OTL or SOL columns

Wednesday’s results Moose Jaw 4 Saskatoon 2 Lethbridge 4 Vancouver 0 Prince Albert 2 Calgary 1 Edmonton 4 Swift Current 1 Regina 5 Prince George 2 Everett 2 Kamloops 1 Spokane 4 Victoria 2 Kelowna 4 Tri-City 1 Friday’s games Kootenay at Portland, 4 p.m.

Brandon at Saskatoon, 6:05 p.m.

Vancouver at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Swift Current at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Red Deer at Medicine Hat, 7:30 p.m.

Regina at Kamloops, 8 p.m.

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

Seattle at Everett, 8:35 p.m.

National Hockey League EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts Montreal 23 16 6 1 33 Tampa Bay 23 15 6 2 32 Detroit 22 12 5 5 29 Boston 23 13 9 1 27 Toronto 22 11 8 3 25 Ottawa 21 10 7 4 24 Florida 20 8 6 6 22 Buffalo 22 6 14 2 14

GF 61 81 64 59 70 58 42 37

GA 57 63 54 57 67 56 51 72

Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts Pittsburgh 21 15 4 2 32 N.Y. Islanders 22 16 6 0 32 Washington 21 9 8 4 22 N.Y. Rangers 21 9 8 4 22 New Jersey 22 9 10 3 21 Philadelphia 21 8 10 3 19 Carolina 21 6 12 3 15 Columbus 21 6 13 2 14

GF 76 72 58 60 53 59 48 51

GA 49 59 57 62 63 66 63 76

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts Nashville 21 14 5 2 30 St. Louis 22 14 6 2 30 Chicago 22 13 8 1 27 Winnipeg 24 12 9 3 27 Minnesota 21 12 9 0 24 Dallas 22 9 9 4 22 Colorado 23 8 10 5 21

GF 61 59 66 51 58 64 59

GA 45 46 46 54 48 74 73

Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Anaheim 23 14 4 5 33 63 56 Vancouver 22 15 6 1 31 67 61 Calgary 24 14 8 2 30 75 64 Los Angeles 23 12 6 5 29 64 53 San Jose 24 10 10 4 24 62 66 Arizona 23 9 11 3 21 57 71 Edmonton 22 6 14 2 14 51 77 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Wednesday’s Games Winnipeg 2, Buffalo 1 N.Y. Islanders 3, Washington 2, OT Detroit 5, Philadelphia 2 Tampa Bay 4, N.Y. Rangers 3 Florida 1, Carolina 0 Pittsburgh 4, Toronto 3, OT Los Angeles 4, Minnesota 0 Chicago 3, Colorado 2 Calgary 2, San Jose 0 Thursday’s Games Edmonton at Nashville, 6 p.m.

Friday’s Games N.Y. Rangers at Philadelphia, 11 a.m.

Chicago at Anaheim, 2 p.m.

N.Y. Islanders at Washington, 3 p.m.

Winnipeg at Boston, 5 p.m.

Montreal at Buffalo, 5 p.m.

Detroit at New Jersey, 5 p.m.

Carolina at Pittsburgh, 5 p.m.

Vancouver at Columbus, 5 p.m.

Ottawa at Florida, 5:30 p.m.

Edmonton at St. Louis, 6 p.m.

Minnesota at Dallas, 6:30 p.m.

Wednesday’s summaries Flames 2, Sharks 0

Kings 4, Wild 0 First Period 1. Los Angeles, Richards 4 (King, McBain) 4:21.

2. Los Angeles, Brown 4 (McNabb) 13:13.

3. Los Angeles, Toffoli 9 (unassisted) 18:18.

4. Los Angeles, Williams 5 (Brown, Stoll) 19:50.

Penalties - Niederreiter Minn (roughing) 1:01, Greene LA (roughing) 1:01, Parise Minn (goaltender interference) 8:34.

Second Period No Scoring.

Penalties - Zucker Minn (interference) 3:41, Williams LA (holding) 9:56.

Third Period No Scoring.

Penalties - Doughty LA (tripping) 12:16.

Shots on goal Los Angeles 10 5 7 - 22 Minnesota 10 10 8 - 28 Goal - Los Angeles: Jones (W, 2-2-1); Minnesota: Kuemper (L, 9-7-0).

Power plays (goal-chances) - Los Angeles: 0-2; Minnesota: 0-2.

Blackhawks 3, Avalanche 2 First Period No Scoring.

Penalties - Keith Chi (hooking) 4:10, Barrie Col (holding) 4:55, McLeod Col (roughing) 14:38, Keith Chi (tripping) 19:57.

Second Period 1. Colorado, Talbot 2 (Cliche, McLeod) 7:35.

2. Chicago, Toews 10 (Seabrook, Kane) 11:50 (pp).

3. Chicago, Shaw 4 (Kane, Hossa) 14:21 (pp).

Penalties - Barrie Col (cross-checking) 3:54, Vincour Col (high-sticking) 10:48, Holden Col (holding) 12:51.

Third Period 4. Colorado, O’Reilly 3 (Holden, Tanguay) 3:36.

5. Chicago, Bickell 3 (Kane, Keith) 14:43.

Penalties - MacKinnon Col (holding) 4:47.

Shots on goal Chicago 13 19 13 - 45 Colorado 9 10 10 - 29 Goal - Chicago: Crawford (W, 10-5-1); Colorado: Pickard (L, 2-3-0).

Power plays (goal-chances) - Chicago: 2-6; Colorado: 0-2.

Tuesday’s results Saskatoon 5 Brandon 4 (OT) Medicine Hat 6 Vancouver 1 Prince Albert 4 Edmonton 3 Portland 4 Victoria 2

Tuesday’s Games Ottawa 3, St. Louis 2, SO Nashville 4, Los Angeles 3, SO Winnipeg 4, Columbus 2 Dallas 3, Edmonton 2 Colorado 4, Arizona 3, OT Vancouver 2, New Jersey 0 Anaheim 3, Calgary 2

First Period No Scoring.

Penalties - Bollig Cgy (roughing) 17:41, Burns SJ (interference) 18:43.

Second Period 1. Calgary, Hudler 9 (Brodie) 17:16.

Penalties - Brodie Cgy (roughing) 5:59, Wingels SJ (roughing) 5:59, Giordano Cgy (tripping) 11:30, Glencross Cgy (roughing) 16:05, Pavelski SJ (roughing) 16:05.

Third Period 2. Calgary, Hudler 10 (Monahan) 19:10 (en-pp).

Penalties - Braun SJ (tripping) 18:16.

Shots on goal Calgary 9 6 4 - 19 San Jose 11 11 10 - 32 Goal - Calgary: Ramo (W, 5-2-1); San Jose: Niemi (L, 7-7-3).

Power plays (goal-chances) - Calgary: 1-2; San Jose: 0-2.

Penguins 4, Maple Leafs 3 (OT) First Period 1. Pittsburgh, Comeau 6 (Malkin, Ehrhoff) :26.

2. Pittsburgh, Malkin 11 (Letang, Crosby) 12:39 (pp).

Penalties - Malkin Pgh (hooking) 3:27, Spaling Pgh (slashing) 9:15, Clarkson Tor (holding) 11:11.

Second Period 3. Toronto, Komarov 3 (Santorelli, Kadri) 8:11.

4. Toronto, Komarov 4 (Phaneuf, Santorelli) 10:48.

5. Pittsburgh, Comeau 7 (Kunitz, Malkin) 13:19.

6. Toronto, Bozak 9 (unassisted) 16:21 (sh).

Penalties - Sutter Pgh (slashing) 3:36, Robidas Tor (hooking) 15:21.

Third Period No Scoring.

Penalties - Phaneuf Tor (hooking) 4:33, Hornqvist Pgh (stick holding) 4:33, Rielly Tor (stick holding) 5:19.

Overtime 7. Pittsburgh, Comeau 8 (Letang, Crosby) 2:53.

Penalties - None.

Shots on goal Toronto 14 10 3 0 - 27 Pittsburgh 7 12 5 2 - 26 Goal - Toronto: Bernier (LO, 7-5-3); Pittsburgh: Fleury (W, 13-3-1).

Power plays (goal-chances) - Toronto: 0-3; Pittsburgh: 1-3.

Lightning 4, Rangers 3 First Period 1. Tampa Bay, Stamkos 15 (Filppula, Callahan) 5:25 (pp).

2. NY Rangers, Zuccarello 4 (Nash) 9:00.

3. NY Rangers, Boyle 1 (Stepan, Brassard) 11:04 (pp).

4. Tampa Bay, Callahan 9 (Garrison, Stamkos) 17:34 (pp).

Penalties - Zuccarello NYR (interference) 4:39, TB Bench (too many men) 10:53, Nash NYR (highsticking) 16:34, Nash NYR (roughing) 16:34.

Second Period 5. Tampa Bay, Callahan 10 (Stamkos, Killorn) 10:17.

Penalties - Palat TB (hooking) 11:14, Carle TB (tripping) 18:37.

Third Period 6. Tampa Bay, Kucherov 8 (Johnson, Carle) 9:38.

7. NY Rangers, Nash 15 (unassisted) 12:49.

Penalties - Kreider NYR (cross-checking) 19:34.

Shots on goal NY Rangers 5 6 8 - 19 Tampa Bay 11 9 9 - 29 Goal - NY Rangers: Lundqvist (L, 8-6-3); Tampa Bay: Bishop (W, 13-3-2).

Power plays (goal-chances) - NY Rangers: 1-3; Tampa Bay: 2-4.

Panthers 1, Hurricanes 0 First Period 1. Florida, Bjugstad 8 (Pirri, Huberdeau) :21.

Penalties - Jokinen Fla (hooking) 19:38.

Second Period No Scoring.

Penalties - Thornton Fla (slashing) 10:22.

Third Period No Scoring.

Penalties - Semin Car (hooking) 4:23, Mackenzie Fla (tripping) 14:50.

Shots on goal Carolina 6 10 17 - 33 Florida 15 8 5 - 28 Goal - Carolina: Ward (L, 6-8-1); Florida: Luongo (W, 7-5-5).

Power plays (goal-chances) - Carolina: 0-3; Florida: 0-1.

Jets 2, Sabres 1 First Period 1. Winnipeg, Little 8 (Trouba, Ladd) 3:41 (pp).

Penalties - Kaleta Buf (roughing) 3:06, Ladd Wpg (cross-checking) 14:49, Bogosian Wpg (hooking) 19:13.

Second Period 2. Winnipeg, Frolik 5 (unassisted) 14:20 (sh).

Penalties - Foligno Buf (hooking) 3:23, Peluso Wpg

(fighting) 9:36, Weber Buf (fighting) 9:36, Lowry Wpg (boarding - major) 14:06, Lowry Wpg (game misconduct) 14:06, Pardy Wpg (roughing) 14:06, Stewart Buf (roughing) 14:06, Stuart Wpg (hooking) 19:51.

Third Period 3. Buffalo, Stewart 2 (Foligno) 5:30.

Penalties - Meszaros Buf (tripping) 8:49.

Shots on goal Winnipeg 10 9 7 - 26 Buffalo 6 4 10 - 20 Goal - Winnipeg: Pavelec (W, 8-8-2); Buffalo: Enroth (L, 3-9-1).

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

Today ● College women’s hockey: SAIT at RDC, 7 p.m., Arena. ● Midget AA hockey: Olds at Lacombe, 7:15 p.m. ● Men’s basketball: Orangemen vs.

Wells Furniture, Bulldog Scrap Metal vs.

Grandview, 7:15 and 8:30 p.m., Lindsay Thurber.

Red Wings 5, Flyers 2 First Period 1. Detroit, Weiss 3 (Helm, Kindl) 10:12.

Penalties - Ericsson Det (tripping) 1:28, Zetterberg Det (holding) 13:08, Raffl Pha (cross-checking) 15:35.

Second Period 2. Philadelphia, Giroux 7 (unassisted) 2:31.

3. Detroit, Jurco 2 (DeKeyser, Quincey) 10:18.

4. Detroit, Datsyuk 6 (Kindl) 11:47 (pp).

5. Detroit, Datsyuk 7 (Helm, Weiss) 18:39.

Penalties - Giroux Pha (interference) 4:59, Voracek Pha (holding) 11:42, DeKeyser Det (interference) 12:23, Couturier Pha (fighting) 14:53, Quincey Det (fighting) 14:53.

Third Period 6. Philadelphia, Voracek 8 (Simmonds, Giroux) 12:25 (pp).

7. Detroit, Zetterberg 5 (Nyquist, Ericsson) 18:38 (en).

Penalties - Kronwall Det (holding) 12:13.

Shots on goal Philadelphia 7 6 11 - 24 Detroit 7 13 5 - 25 Goal - Philadelphia: Mason (L, 4-7-2); Detroit: Howard (W, 10-4-4).

Power plays (goal-chances) - Philadelphia: 1-4; Detroit: 1-3.

Islanders 3, Capitals 2 (OT) First Period 1. NY Islanders, Lee 4 (Strome, Nelson) 5:11.

2. Washington, Ovechkin 10 (Niskanen, Backstrom) 13:46 (pp).

3. NY Islanders, Hamonic 3 (Clutterbuck, Cizikas) 17:38 (pp).

Penalties - Martin NYI (holding) 13:10, O’Brien Wash (slashing) 15:45.

Second Period 4. Washington, Ovechkin 11 (Backstrom, Johansson) 18:47 (pp).

Penalties - Ovechkin Wash (roughing) 10:43, Hamonic NYI (roughing) 10:43, Wilson Wash (fighting) 18:07, Lee NYI (fighting) 18:07, Lee NYI (roughing) 18:07.

Third Period No Scoring.

Penalties - Backstrom Wash (holding) 5:53.

Overtime 5. NY Islanders, Tavares 9 (Strome, Boychuk) 4:36 (pp).

Penalties - Backstrom Wash (stick holding) 2:38.

Shots on goal Washington 9 10 8 0 - 27 NY Islanders 12 11 7 5 - 35 Goal - Washington: Holtby (LO, 7-5-3); NY Islanders: Halak (W, 11-4-0).

Power plays (goal-chances) - Washington: 2-2; NY Islanders: 2-3.

NHL Scoring Leaders G 9 7 17 10 14 10 8 6 6 12 11 9 14 10 8 6 5 8 8 7 7 4 10 9 8 8 7 6

Sidney Crosby, Pgh Jakub Voracek, Pha Tyler Seguin, Dal Evgeni Malkin, Pgh Steven Stamkos, TB Patric Hornqvist, Pgh Ryan Johansen, Clb Mark Giordano, Cgy Claude Giroux, Pha Vladimir Tarasenko, StL Phil Kessel, Tor Filip Forsberg, Nash Rick Nash, NYR Nick Foligno, Clb Jaden Schwartz, StL Tyler Johnson, TB Henrik Sedin, Vcr Jamie Benn, Dal John Tavares, NYI Joe Thornton, SJ Jori Lehtera, StL Daniel Sedin, Vcr Brock Nelson, NYI Joe Pavelski, SJ Logan Couture, SJ Tyler Bozak, Tor Brent Burns, SJ Ryan Getzlaf, Ana

A 20 22 11 15 10 14 16 18 18 11 12 13 7 11 13 15 16 12 12 13 13 16 9 10 11 11 12 13

Pts 29 29 28 25 24 24 24 24 24 23 23 22 21 21 21 21 21 20 20 20 20 20 19 19 19 19 19 19

AJHL North Division GP W LOTLSOL GF GA Pt Spruce Grove 29 21 5 2 1 125 67 45 Lloydminster 29 17 9 1 2 89 73 37 Sherwood Park 31 16 12 1 2 86 80 35 Fort McMurray 29 14 12 2 1 85 90 31 Bonnyville 27 11 10 5 1 82 90 28 Drayton Valley 27 10 13 1 3 62 75 24 Grand Prairie 30 11 19 0 0 70 120 22 Whitecourt 29 8 17 2 2 88 109 20 South Division GP W LOTLSOL GF Camrose 27 21 3 2 1 94 Okotoks 30 20 7 1 2 86 Brooks 27 20 6 0 1 105 Drumheller 28 18 6 3 1 93 Olds 28 13 11 3 1 100 Canmore 28 13 14 0 1 98 Cal. Canucks 29 9 16 2 2 75 Cal. Mustangs 30 7 21 1 1 80

GA 52 71 68 69 105 108 113 128

Pt 45 43 41 40 30 27 22 16

Tuesday’s results Drumheller 1 Camrose 0 (OT) Spruce Grove 3 Drayton Valley 2 Olds 4 Calgary Canucks 0 Canmore 10 Calgary Mustangs 5 Wednesday’s results Lloydminster 6 Bonnyville 5 Thursday’s games Calgary Canucks at Calgary Mustangs, 7:30 p.m.

Friday’s games Spruce Grove at Canmore, 7 p.m.

Drayton Valley at Brooks, 7 p.m.

Drumheller at Okotoks, 7 p.m.

Camrose at Sherwood Park, 7 p.m.

Olds at Bonnyville, 7:30 p.m.

Grand Prairie at Fort McMurray, 8 p.m.

Saturday’s games Brooks at Canmore, 7 p.m.

Spruce Grove at Calgary Canucks, 7 p.m.

Drayton Valley at Okotoks, 7 p.m.

Whitecourt at Sherwood Park, 7 p.m.

Olds at Lloydminster, 7:30 p.m.

Camrose at Drumheller, 7:30 p.m.

Grand Prairie at Fort McMurray, 8 p.m.

Football CFL Playoffs Sunday, Nov. 16 Division Semifinals East Bye: Hamilton Montreal 50 B.C. 17 West Bye: Calgary Edmonton 18 Saskatchewan 10 Sunday, Nov. 23 Division Finals East Hamilton 40 Montreal 24 West Calgary 43 Edmonton 18 102nd Grey Cup Sunday, Nov. 30 At Vancouver Calgary vs. Hamilton, 4 p.m.

CFL Grey Cup Champions List 2013 - Saskatchewan Roughriders 2012 - Toronto Argonauts 2011 - British Columbia Lions 2010 - Montreal Alouettes 2009 - Montreal Alouettes 2008 - Calgary Stampeders 2007 - Saskatchewan Roughriders 2006 - British Columbia Lions 2005 - Edmonton Eskimos 2004 - Toronto Argonauts 2003 - Edmonton Eskimos 2002 - Montreal Alouettes 2001 - Calgary Stampeders 2000 - British Columbia Lions 1999 - Hamilton Tiger-Cats 1998 - Calgary Stampeders 1997 - Toronto Argonauts 1996 - Toronto Argonauts 1995 - Baltimore Stallions 1994 - British Columbia Lions 1993 - Edmonton Eskimos 1992 - Calgary Stampeders 1991 - Toronto Argonauts 1990 - Winnipeg Blue Bombers National Football League AMERICAN CONFERENCE East

New England Miami Buffalo N.Y. Jets

W 9 6 6 2

L 2 5 5 9

T 0 0 0 0

Pct .818 .545 .545 .182

PF 357 285 238 177

PA 227 219 207 303

Pct .636 .455 .182 .091

PF 333 242 192 161

PA 256 226 293 305

Indianapolis Houston Tennessee Jacksonville

W 7 5 2 1

South L T 4 0 6 0 9 0 10 0

Cincinnati Baltimore Pittsburgh Cleveland

W 7 7 7 7

North L T 3 1 4 0 4 0 4 0

Pct .682 .636 .636 .636

PF 246 295 288 242

PA 234 208 263 219

W 8 7 7 1

West L T 3 0 4 0 4 0 10 0

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PA 260 195 216 285

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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

Seattle San Francisco St. Louis

7 7 4

4 4 7

0 0 0

.636 .636 .364

279 228 209

218 225 285

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.

Sunday, Nov. 30 Tennessee at Houston, 11 a.m.

Oakland at St. Louis, 11 a.m.

Carolina at Minnesota, 11 a.m.

Washington at Indianapolis, 11 a.m.

Cleveland at Buffalo, 11 a.m.

San Diego at Baltimore, 11 a.m.

N.Y. Giants at Jacksonville, 11 a.m.

Cincinnati at Tampa Bay, 11 a.m.

New Orleans at Pittsburgh, 11 a.m.

Arizona at Atlanta, 2:05 p.m.

New England at Green Bay, 2:25 p.m.

Denver at Kansas City, 6:30 p.m.

Monday, Dec. 1 Miami at N.Y. Jets, 6:30 p.m.

Thursday, Dec. 4 Dallas at Chicago, 6:25 p.m.

PF 342 292 233 217

PA 275 240 294 273

Atlanta New Orleans Carolina Tampa Bay

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South L T 7 0 7 0 7 1 9 0

Pct .364 .364 .318 .182

PF 262 288 215 207

PA 281 286 300 300

Green Bay Detroit Chicago Minnesota

W 8 7 5 4

North L T 3 0 4 0 6 0 7 0

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PF 354 197 236 202

PA 246 190 303 244

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NFL Odds (Odds provided by Western Canada Lottery; favourites in capital letters) Spread O/U Thursday Chicago at DETROIT 6.5 47.5 Philadelphia at DALLAS 3.5 54.5 Seattle at SAN FRANCISCO 1.5 39.5 Sunday Oakland at ST. LOUIS 6.5 42.5 New Orleans at PITTSBURGH 3.5 53.5 Washington at INDIANAPOLIS 9.5 51.5 Carolina at MINNESOTA 2.5 43.5 CINCINNATI at Tampa Bay 4.5 44.5 NY GIANTS at Jacksonville 2.5 44.5 San Diego at BALTIMORE 5.5 45.5 Cleveland at BUFFALO 2.5 40.5 Tennessee at HOUSTON 6.5 42.5 ARIZONA at Atlanta 2.5 44.5 New England at GREEN BAY 3.5 58.5 DENVER at Kansas City 1.5 49.5 Monday MIAMI at NY Jets 5.5 41.5

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

Saturday ● College curling: ACAC Fall Regional at Pidherney Centre. ● Minor midget AAA hockey: Calgary Gold at Red Deer Northstar, 11:30 a.m., Arena. ● 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. ● 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. ● Major bantam hockey: Lethbridge at

Red Deer White, 2 p.m., Arena. ● Junior women’s hockey: Sherwood Park at Central Alberta, 3:45 p.m., Penhold Regional Multiplex. ● Major bantam girls hockey: Lloydminster at Red Deer, 4:30 p.m., Kinsmen B. ● Midget AAA hockey: Lloydminster at Red Deer, 4:45 p.m., Arena. ● WHL: Swift Current at Red Deer, 7 p.m., Centrium. ● College men’s hockey: Camrose Augustana at RDC, 7 p.m., Penhold Regional Multiplex. ● Midget AA hockey: Sylvan Lake at Red Deer Elks, 7:15 p.m., Collicutt Centre; Wheatland at Olds, 7:30 p.m. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Three Hills at Red Deer, 8 p.m., Arena.

Sunday

● College curling: ACAC Fall Regional at Pidherney Centre. ● 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. ● Major bantam hockey: Southeast at Red Deer Black, noon, Arena. ● 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. ● Major bantam girls hockey: Lloydminster at Red Deer, 12:45 p.m., Kinsmen B. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Cochrane at Ponoka, 2:30 p.m. ● Minor midget AAA hockey: Calgary Canucks at Red Deer Aero Equipment, 2:45 p.m., Arena. ● Midget AA hockey: Bow Valley at Olds, 5:30 p.m.

Basketball National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB Toronto 13 2 .867 Brooklyn 6 8 .429 6 1/2 Boston 4 8 .333 7 1/2 New York 4 12 .250 9 1/2 Philadelphia 0 15 .000 13

Washington Atlanta Miami Orlando Charlotte

Chicago Milwaukee Cleveland Indiana Detroit

Southeast Division W L Pct 9 5 .643 7 6 .538 8 7 .533 6 11 .353 4 12 .250

GB 1 1/2 1 1/2 4 1/2 6

Central Division W L Pct 9 6 .600 9 7 .563 7 7 .500 6 9 .400 3 12 .200

GB 1/2 1 1/2 3 6

WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct Memphis 12 2 .857 Houston 12 3 .800 San Antonio 10 4 .714 Dallas 11 5 .688 New Orleans 7 6 .538

Portland Denver Utah Oklahoma City Minnesota

GB 1/2 2 2 4 1/2

Northwest Division W L Pct 12 3 .800 7 8 .467 5 11 .313 4 12 .250 3 10 .231

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Pacific Division W L Pct

GB

Golden State L.A. Clippers Phoenix Sacramento L.A. Lakers

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2 5 6 6 11

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Tuesday’s Games Atlanta 106, Washington 102 Golden State 114, Miami 97 Sacramento 99, New Orleans 89 Milwaukee 98, Detroit 86 Denver 114, Chicago 109 Wednesday’s Games Brooklyn 99, Philadelphia 91 Golden State 111, Orlando 96 Portland 105, Charlotte 97 Cleveland 113, Washington 87 Dallas 109, New York 102, OT Toronto 126, Atlanta 115 L.A. Clippers 104, Detroit 98 Oklahoma City 97, Utah 82 Houston 102, Sacramento 89 Milwaukee 103, Minnesota 86 San Antonio 106, Indiana 100 Phoenix 120, Denver 112 Memphis at L.A. Lakers, late Thursday’s Games No games scheduled Friday’s Games Chicago at Boston, 11 a.m.

Golden State at Charlotte, 5 p.m.

New Orleans at Atlanta, 5:30 p.m.

Dallas at Toronto, 5:30 p.m.

Milwaukee at Detroit, 5:30 p.m.

New York at Oklahoma City, 6 p.m.

L.A. Clippers at Houston, 6 p.m.

Orlando at Indiana, 6 p.m.

Sacramento at San Antonio, 6:30 p.m.

Phoenix at Denver, 7 p.m.

Memphis at Portland, 8 p.m.

Minnesota at L.A. Lakers, 8:30 p.m.

Transactions Wednesday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES - Agreed to terms with INF Rey Navarro on a one-year contract.

CLEVELAND INDIANS - Traded LHP Scott Barnes to Baltimore for cash considerations.

LOS ANGELES ANGELS - Assigned LHP Michael Roth, C Jackson Williams and OF Alfredo Marte outright to Salt Lake (PCL).

TAMPA BAY RAYS - Designated INF Sean Rodriguez for assignment. Agreed to terms with RHP Ernesto Frieri on a one-year contract. Released C Jose Molina and 2B Cole Figueroa.

National League MILWAUKEE BREWERS - Assigned RHP Ariel Pena outright to Colorado Springs (PCL).

SAN DIEGO PADRES - Assigned OF Yeison Asencio outright to El Paso (PCL). Announced RHP Blaine Boyer declined outright assignment and elected free agency.

American Association FARGO-MOORHEAD REDHAWKS - Signed RHP Brian Ernst.

KANSAS CITY T-BONES - Traded RHP Patrick Mincey to Winnipeg for INF Jake Blackwood.

WINNIPEG GOLDEYES - Signed OF Brady Wilson.

Can-Am League OTTAWA CHAMPIONS - Acquired RHP Brad Orosey from Rio Grande for cash.

TROIS-RIVIERES AIGLES - Traded RHP Nick Purdy to Ottawa for a player to be named.

FOOTBALL National Football League NFL - Fined Detroit C Dominic Raiola $10,000 for his actions in last week’s game.

ARIZONA CARDINALS - Released OT Kelvin Palmer from the practice squad.

ATLANTA FALCONS - Released WR Ryan Spadola from the practice squad. Signed WR Freddie Martino to the practice squad.

BUFFALO BILLS - Claimed WR/KR Marcus Thigpen off waivers from Tampa Bay. Released DE Bryan Johnson.

CHICAGO BEARS - Placed OL Brian de la Puente on injured reserve. Signed DT Brandon Dunn from the practice squad.

DALLAS COWBOYS - Placed DE Jack Crawford on injured reserve. Signed LB Keith Smith from the practice squad and DT Davon Coleman to the practice squad.

HOUSTON TEXANS - Released OT Chris Martin from the practice squad.

INDIANAPOLIS COLTS - Released LB Victor Butler. Released LB Trevardo Williams and RB Michael Hill from the practice squad. Claimed LB Shaun Phillips off waivers from Tennessee.

MIAMI DOLPHINS - Released DB Jalil Brown.

Released DE Emmanuel Dieke from the practice squad. Signed DB R.J. Stanford. Signed DB Ahmad Dixon to the practice squad.

NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS - Signed WR Matthew Slater to a two-year contract extension.

Released LB Deontae Skinner and DB Daxton Swanson from the practice squad. Signed TE Xavier Grimble and LS Charley Hughlett to the practice squad.

NEW YORK GIANTS - Signed OT Michael Bamiro to the practice squad.

MINNESOTA VIKINGS - Placed OT Phil Loadholt on injured reserve. Signed OT J’Marcus Webb.

OAKLAND RAIDERS - Placed TE David Ausberry on injured reserve. Signed DT Ricky Lumpkin from the practice squad.

TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS - Signed TE D.J. Williams. Signed LB Denicos Allen and TE Cameron Brate from the practice squad. Released RB Marcus Thigpen. Released DB Quinton Pointer and TE Ted Bolser from the practice squad.

TENNESSEE TITANS - Released TE Richard Gordon. Signed LB Kaelin Burnett from Arizona’s practice squad and LB Chaz Sutton to the practice squad.

HOCKEY National Hockey League CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS - Assigned G Mac Carruth from Rockford (AHL) to Indy (ECHL).

DALLAS STARS - Assigned F Taylor Peters from Texas (AHL) to Idaho (ECHL) and G Maxime Lagace from Texas to Missouri (ECHL).

NEW YORK RANGERS - Assigned F Chris McCarthy from Hartford (AHL) to Greenville (ECHL).

American Hockey League ALBANY DEVILS - Assigned F Alexandre Carrier to Orlando (ECHL).

BINGHAMTON SENATORS - Assigned F Danny Hobbs to Evansville (ECHL).

MILWAUKEE ADMIRALS - Assigned F Patrick Cehlin to Cincinnati (ECHL).

NORFOLK ADMIRALS - Returned F Alexander Krushelnyski to Utah (ECHL).

WILKES-BARRE/SCRANTON PENGUINS - Assigned D Alex Boak to Wheeling (ECHL).

ECHL EVANSVILLE ICEMEN - Released F Prab Rai. IDAHO STEELHEADS - Released F Jordan Sims.

Phillip Hughes dies in hospital 2 days after being hit on the head by a ball during match SYDNEY, Australia - Australia team doctor Peter Brukner says batsman Phillip Hughes has died in hospital, two days after being struck in the head by a cricket ball during a domestic first-class match.

Brukner issued a statement saying “It is my sad duty to inform you that a short time ago Phillip Hughes passed away. He never regained consciousness following his injury on Tuesday.”

Brukner said Hughes, 25, was not in pain, and was surrounded by his family and close friends.

JUNIOR B HOCKEY Wally Samson and Robin Carlson each sniped a pair of goals Tuesday as the Blackfalds Wranglers buried the visiting Stettler Lightning 7-1 in Heritage Junior Hockey League action.

Also scoring for the winners, who directed 59 shots at Stettler netminders Simon Thieleman and Jordan McCallum, were Jordan Jakubow, Garrett Glasman and Andrew McLennan. Thomas Isaman made 18 saves for the hosts.

The Lightning, who trailed 3-0 after one period and 6-1 after 40 minutes, were assessed five of eight minor penalties.

RED DEER ADVOCATE Thursday, Nov. 27, 2014 B5

Osborne-Paradis among fastest in training run for World Cup in Lake Louise

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS LAKE LOUISE - Going in with the philosophy that you perform how you practise, Canada’s Manny Osborne-Paradis pushed the pace in the first World Cup downhill training run of the season.

Norway’s Kjetil Jansrud posted the fastest time at Lake Louise with the Osborne-Paradis right behind him. Jansrud, who won downhill bronze and super-G gold at this year’s Winter Olympics, laid down a time of one minute 54.21 seconds in falling snow.

Osborne-Paradis of North Vancouver, B.C., was .33 back in 1:54.54. Olympic downhill champion Matthias Mayer of Austria was third in 1:54.92.

Between 30 to 50 centimetres of snow were projected to fall Thursday and Friday in the mountain parks west of Calgary, which is problematic for training runs scheduled before Saturday’s race.

That amount of snow significantly adds to the workload of grooming the course, so cancelling one or both training runs to give technicians time to prepare the track for races is a possibility. The first World Cup downhill of 2014-15 is Saturday followed

by Sunday’s super-G. Osborne-Paradis wanted a quality training run Wednesday in case it was the only one. The 30-yearold also wanted to simulate race speed so it won’t feel like a completely different gear Saturday. “I knew there might not be a (another) training run and for me personally, if I want a chance at any overall globe in my career, to get a higher world ranking or anything, I have to be better in training runs,� he said. “It’s just the same speed in the race instead of having to be way faster. I’ve just been trying to keep up that race pace.�

Jeffrey Frisch of Mont-Tremblant, Que., was sixth.

Calgary’s Jan Hudec, who won Olympic bronze in super-G, was 17th. “The other thing we talked with coach about in the meeting yesterday was this might be our only training run,� Hudec said. “If you kind of ease your way down today, you’ve got to pull something big out of the bag on Saturday.�

Former world champion Erik Guay of Mont-Tremblant, Que., will not race this weekend. Canada’s most decorated World Cup racer with 22 career medals has delayed the start of his racing season after a pair of off-season knee surgeries.

Canadian skier Jan Hudec says Olympic medal mirrors the way he lives his life

Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

Benjamin Thomsen of Canada races down the course in the first training run for the World Cup men’s downhill ski race in Lake Louise on Wednesday.

Lake Louise is the lone Canadian stop on the World Cup alpine ski circuit. Osborne-Paradis was the last Canadian man on the podium in 2009 when he won super-G. That win capped a run of four straight years a Canadian finished somewhere on the men’s podium in Lake Louise in either downhill or super-G. OsborneParadis was also second in downhill in 2007. “I feel confident on my skis,� Osborne-Paradis said Wednesday. “That’s definitely Step 1. I’ve come here before and not felt great, but I don’t know if you can really tell a whole lot from today. Hopefully we get another training run and just take it day by day.�

Norway’s Aksel Lund Svindal is not in Lake Louise after claiming three straight super-G wins as well as the downhill two years ago. He injured his Achilles’ tendon playing soccer last month.

The prize purse in each race this weekend is $117,000 with $35,000 going to the victor.

Osborne-Paradis, 30, married Lana McIntosh on Sept. 20. The couple live in Invermere, B.C. “I didn’t wear my ring today because it’s race season,� Osborne-Paradis said. “I told her I wasn’t going to wear it as long as I started actually racing.

“With the amount of people hitting their hands on gates and stuff, you don’t want to break your finger and then lose your ring finger.�

Former Austrian racer Hannes Trinkl is now an assistant referee in Lake Louise, where he won the downhill in 1999. Trinkl has set a course the Canadians feel is a throwback with less turns. “It’s probably set the way it was when he raced it more or less. Back when downhill was downhill,�

Hudec explained. “(Teammate) Ben Thomsen made a comment this morning, ‘I’m excited to race my first ever World Cup downhill’, as a joke because our downhills have been getting turnier and turnier over the years and more technical. “People think this suits me more, but obviously Manny’s been really fast in training especially in gliding. So far, he’s killing it. In those years, I’ve learned how to turn so I now like the turns.�

In other results Wednesday, Morgan Pridy of Whistler, B.C., was 45th and his brother Conrad finished 57th. Ben Thomsen of Invermere placed 61st and Dustin Cook of Lac-Sainte-Marie, Que., was 64th.

Broderick Thomson of Whistler placed 73rd and Calgary’s Tyler Werry 79th.

McIlroy opens with lead at Australian Open THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SYDNEY, Australia - Rory McIlroy’s defence of his Australian Open title began with a 2-under 69 on a cool, overcast and often drizzly morning at The Australian Golf Club.

McIlroy, winner of back-to-back majors this year at the British Open and U.S. PGA, began play on the back nine and made the turn at even-par after a birdie and a bogey.

He birdied the first hole of his second nine, added another at the par-5 fifth, but made bogey on the seventh.

He finished strongly, hitting his approach on the

ninth to less than two feet and making an easy birdie.

McIlroy was a stroke behind Australian Aron Price, who was the best of the morning groupings with a 68.

It was a day that almost made him feel at home in McIlroy said. “It was cold, windy and a little bit of rain here and there,� explained the Northern Irishman. “When I think of playing golf in Australia, it’s not the kind of day I expected.�

McIlroy said the wind was tricky and predicted it could get tougher for the afternoon starters.

Adam Scott, who finished second in last year’s tournament at Royal Sydney when McIlroy birdied the 18th hole of the final round, was in an afternoon group that included American Jordan Spieth.

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LAKE LOUISE - Jan Hudecâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Olympic ski medal is dented and scratched, just like its owner. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s beat up and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s shown that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been around the block a few times,â&#x20AC;? he said this week in Calgary. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kind of like me. The more scars it has, the more stories it has to tell.â&#x20AC;?

The super-G bronze medal Hudec won Feb. 16 in Sochi, Russia, was Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first Olympic alpine ski medal in two decades. The Calgary racer tied for third with U.S. veteran Bode Miller.

Racing with knee bones grinding together and a cranky back, Hudec was a feel-good story of the 2014 Winter Olympic Games.

The medal has been dropped a couple of times - once under Hudecâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s car - and it also flew with its owner off a motorcycle in Switzerland this summer. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I just figured itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s laugh lines on a face, laugh lines on a medal,â&#x20AC;? he said in an interview this week. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Now that Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not injured and still standing here, I can tell you I crashed a motorbike and the medal was on the motorbike when I crashed it. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was on a Ducati in Switzerland and the medal was right on the tank when I crashed. I picked the bike up, like I do with my life so many times, and put all the broken pieces in my backpack and continued driving.â&#x20AC;?

After seven knee surgeries - six on the right and one on the left - going under the knife is routine for Hudec. He had fun tweeting gruesome photos of a blood-filled bulge over his lower back prior to surgery last spring. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The alien is gone. It was a boy,â&#x20AC;? quipped Hudec.

The 33-year-old skier is accustomed to people asking him if heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll retire and give his beatn-up body a rest.

But Hudec is doing what he always does at this time of year - preparing for the season-opening World Cup downhill races at Lake Louise, Alta.

The first of three training runs are scheduled for Wednesday at the Alberta ski resort west of Calgary.

The downhill is Saturday and the super-G is Sunday.

Hudec earned the first of his five World Cup medals at Lake Louise in 2007 when he won the menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s downhill. â&#x20AC;&#x153;For me, when youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re beat up, your target priority is what is right in front of your face,â&#x20AC;? Hudec said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;For me, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to start with Lake Louise. I need to start off on the right foot in Lake Louise and really set the pace for what I want to do this year.â&#x20AC;?

Hudec is relatively healthy to start a ski racing season. A minor shoulder injury in the motorcycle incident hampered his dryland training this fall, but he says he had an excellent summer ski camp in Zermatt, Switzerland.

Hudecâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s parents fled what was then Czechoslovakia in 1982 when he was a baby. The family eventually made their way to Alberta in 1986 and Hudec grew up ski racing in the Banff area.

Nicknamed â&#x20AC;&#x153;Pandaâ&#x20AC;? for the animated character Po in â&#x20AC;&#x153;Kung Fu Panda,â&#x20AC;? Hudec likes playing the drums and loves riding motorcycles. He lives an eventful life away from skiing.

He opened an optometry business at a posh downtown Calgary location two before the 2014 Winter Olympics, but sold it and also put his Calgary home up for sale this year.

Hudecâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s girlfriend in the Czech Republic, Jarka Svejstilova, is about to give birth to their baby â&#x20AC;&#x153;any day now,â&#x20AC;? Hudec says. He also has an eight-year-old son Oaklee.

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CHARITY CHECKSTOP

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It’s that time of year again when the RCMP and other police services along with other agencies in Central Alberta get together for their annual Charity CheckStops. The CheckStops are scheduled in a number of communities including Red Deer, Innisfail, Sylvan Lake, Lacombe and Blackfalds. Lacombe’s charity CheckStop will be first up, taking place this Friday from 5 to 8 p.m. on 50th Ave. at the Lacombe Police Service station. Red Deer will follow on Saturday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. along Taylor Drive north of 32nd Street. The Red Deer event is held in partnership with the food bank, Women’s Outreach and the Christmas Bureau. Above Ray Montroy of Wetaskiwin dishes out a handful of change to Vicki Raines and David Neil, volunteers at the annual Charity CheckStop Charity in Red Deer last year.

CALENDAR THE NEXT SEVEN DAYS

Friday ● Visions Country Gospel Christmas Concert will be presented at Mount Calvary Lutheran Church in Red Deer on Nov. 28 at 7 p.m. Tickets cost $15 from the church, 403346-3798, or from Johanna at 403-342-4729, or at the door. ● Free Speech Tour featuring Ezra Levant and Brian Lilley of Sun News Network will be held on Nov. 28, 7:30 p.m. at Welikoklad Event Centre. Tickets available at www.blackknightinn.ca or 1-800-661-8793. ● St. Andrew’s Supper and Dance will be held on Nov. 28 at Balmoral Community Hall with supper at 6 p.m., ceilidh and Scottish dancing to follow. Admission is $20 for adults, $6 for children under 12 years. Contact Lily at 403-343-0975 or Bob at 403-3464594. ● Red Deer Public Library will be at Candy Cane Lane at Festival of Trees, Nov. 28 and 29 from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., and Nov. 30 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Enjoy Christmas stories, songs, puppet shows for the whole family. ● Poetry reading at Sunworks will feature readings by Tracy Hamon reading from Red Curls, and Kimmy Beach reading from The Last Temptation of Bond, followed by book signing, appetizers, and wine bar, Nov. 28, 7 p.m., upstairs in The Coconut Room.

For information, phone 403-341-3455. ● Klaglahachie Fine Arts Society presents Anne of Green Gables at Ponoka United Church with performances on Nov. 28 to 30, Dec. 5 to 7, and Dec. 12 and 13. For tickets or information, phone 403-783-4087. ● A Gathering Place Reunion will be celebrated Nov. 28, noon to 3 p.m. and features a luncheon, sing-a-long, talent show, cribbage tournament and more. Members and guests welcome. ● Light Up the Lake Christmas Celebration at Sylvan Lake will be featured Nov. 28 and 29. Homes and businesses are invited to decorate for the holiday season. Nominations for best decor accepted at 403-887-2199.

Spirit of Sylvan Yuletide Festival will be held at Sylvan Lake Multiplex from 4 to 10 p.m. on Friday, and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday.

Santa Claus Parade will be held on Friday at 7 p.m. with fireworks set up on the Pier at 8:15 p.m. Breakfast with Santa will be offered on Saturday from 8:30 to 10 a.m. or 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Saturday and includes free photos with Santa at Fox Run School gym.

See www.sylvanlake.ca, or contact 403-8872199.

Saturday ● Parkland Garden Centre Annual Craft and Market Shows will be held on Nov. 29, Dec. 6 and 13 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission is a donation to the Red Deer Food Bank. See www.parklandgarden.ca or phone 403-346-5613. ● Knox Presbyterian Church Fundraiser featuring St. James’ Gate in Concert will be held on Nov. 29. Church doors open at 6:30 p.m. Concert at 7:30 p.m. followed by wine and cheese, silent auction. Tickets cost $35 each. Contact 403-346-4560, knoxrd1898@yahoo.ca. ● Victory Church Cookie

Walk/Craft Sale will be offered on Nov. 29, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Table rental available for $15 per table. Contact Shirley at 403-8721345, or Sandi at 403-986-1605. All proceeds to Food Zone. ● Ladies Auxiliary of Royal Canadian Legion Ponoka Craft and Bake Sale will be offered on Nov. 29 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. For information or table rental contact Marlene at 403-783-6560, or Verna at 403-783-5396. ● Christmas Muffins and Coffee Party at Gaetz Memorial United Church goes Nov. 29, 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. A free will offering will be accepted. There will also be baking, Christmas items, white elephant items, preserves, and jewelry for sale. Phone 403-3472244. ● Rimbey and District Christmas Bazaar for non-profit organizations will be held at Rimbey Drop-In on Nov. 29 from 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Lunch available. Christmas ideas, home made baking and local crafts. ● Guess Who? at Dawe Branch of Red Deer Public Library will have a family surprise that will take guests on a journey of games, crafts, puppet shows, a scavenger hunt, and have an appearance of a guest literary character on Nov. 29 from 1 to 2 p.m. Free. ● Pioneer Lodge Art Market goes Nov. 29 from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the historic Pioneer Lodge. Enjoy coffee and snacks.

Featured items include raku-fired ceramics, functional pottery, water colour and oil paintings, pastels, hand-painted silk scarves, jewelry, hand-blown glass work, sculpture, art cards and more by Betty and Pat Matheson, Arne Handley, Deborah and Darren Peterson, Maxine and Art Whitehead, Candice Meyers, Donna Herrick and Kate More. ● Central Alberta Singles dance will be held Nov. 29 at Royal Canadian Legion Innisfail Hall. Music by Randy Hillman. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. Music starts at 8 p.m. Everyone welcome. For information, call Jim at 403-638-6563, or Murray at 403-357-8022. ● Coming up at Alberta Sports Hall of Fame are several events. On Nov. 29, the Annual Jersey Day will be offered from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wear your favourite jersey and get free admission to the Sports Hall of Fame and be entered to win a Calgary Roughnecks signed McBride jersey. A bus trip is being organized for Dec. 5 to Camrose to take in Canada Cup Curling. Cost is $100 including round bus trip and two draws. See www. ashfm.ca/events, or phone 403-341-8614. ● Mothers Against Drunk Driving Red Deer and District is looking for volunteers to held put with the annual Charity Checkstop taking place Nov. 29, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. This fun event is held in partnership with Red Deer Food Bank Society, Women’s Outreach, and Red Deer Christmas Bureau. Phone 403347-9922. ● MAGnificent Saturdays offer free art making with a professional artist from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery in downtown Red Deer. The Nov. 29 session is called The pen is Mightier Than the Sword. All materials supplied. Families welcome. Phone 403-309-8405. Free with admission. ● Penhold and District Museum Society Christmas Market and Cookie Walk will take place Nov. 29, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Cookie boxes cost $5 and $10, and over 40 vendors will present goods. Contact mk.shanna@yahoo.ca, 403-550-0417.

● Black Stache Affair Movember Red Deer Gala presented by Lime Green Realty will be held at Fionn MacCool’s on Nov. 29, 7 to 11 p.m. Advance tickets are available at Fionn MacCool’s for $20 each which includes appetizers, party favours, door prizes, live music and more. Contact 403-350-9755 or kimdesjardins@shaw.ca, 403-396-5046, jestsidloski@gmail.com.

Sunday ● Red Deer Interfaith Network Open House Initiative will take place Nov. 22 to 30. Opportunities to learn about various faith communities will be presented. Dates and denominations are: Nov. 30, 7 p.m. at Gaetz Memorial United Church. To find out more, contact Rev. Jeffrey Rock, 403-347-2244, Jeffrey.t.rock@gmail.com. ● Red Deer River Naturalists — Sunday Bird Focus meets Sunday from 1 to 3 p.m. at the Kerry Wood Nature Centre to depart on excursions in central Alberta. Dates and destinations are: Nov. 30 — Bower Woods. Come prepared for a full afternoon of birding. Bring along lunch, snacks, coffee, and dress for the weather. Be prepared to carpool. To join in, confirm attendance with Judy at 403-342-4150. ● German Canadian Club Craft and Bake Sale, Nov. 30, noon to 4:30 p.m. at 38167 Range Road 280 in Red Deer County.

Watch for signs. Phone 403-347-0751. ● Lincoln Hall has several upcoming events. Join the Grey Cup Party on Nov. 30. Doors open at 3 p.m. The game starts at 4 p.m. on the big screen. Cost is $20 per person at the door which includes 10 chicken wings, a bowl of baked beans, and two drink tickets. A 50/50 draw and game pool will be held. Bingo Night will be offered on Dec. 6 at 7 p.m. Children are welcome. There will door prizes, game prizes, black -out Bingo, turkey grand prize, open bar and more. Cost is $5 for first Bingo card, and $1 for additional cards. Families are asked to bring snacks to share. Contact Dana at 430-505-2611. The Lincoln Hall Christmas Concert will be celebrated on Dec. 12 at 7 p.m. followed by a visit from Santa, coffee and visiting. Performers are asked to contact Merrigold at 403-7826313. ● Botha Old-Time Dances are held on the last Sunday of each month at Botha Community Hall, Sept. through June with some exceptions from 1:30 to 5 p.m. on Sundays, with admission of $12.50. Different popular old time bands each dance. Please contribute to and enjoy a pooled luncheon of buns/ sandwiches and desserts to be shared by all, served at 5 p.m. All ages and families welcome. Call Doug at 403-742-3994. ● Free Sundays at the Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery are offered from noon to 4:30 p.m. Families and friends welcome.

Guided tours of current exhibits will be offered beginning at 2 p.m. Phone 403-309-8405.

Monday ● Golden Circle Senior Resource Centre card games are played on the following days: Canasta Mondays at 1 p.m., $1; Cribbage — Tuesdays at 1:30 p.m., $2; Singles Bridge — Wednesdays at 1 p.m., $2; Partner Bridge — second and fourth Tuesday of each month at 6:30 p.m., $3; Mixed cards — first and third Friday of each month, $1; Military Whist — second and fourth Friday of each month, $2. For more information on cards please call Diane at 403-343-6074. ● Ladies Auxiliary of Red Deer Royal Canadian Legion Branch #35 holds general meetings the first Monday of each month at 7 p.m. Next meeting will be on Dec. 1.

Meat draw every Friday at 5 p.m. ● Central Alberta Women’s Emergency Shelter Poinsettia and Gift Wrap Booth will be available at Bower Place from Dec. 1 to 24. Volunteers needed to fill shifts. Contact Heather at 403-550-7355, heather.lauder@ cawes.com. ● Studio Upstairs Yoga and Wellness Christmas Karma Yoga Week will be offered Dec. 1 to 6 in support of Sylvan Lake Food Bank. All classes will be free of charge with a minimum of two items donated. See www.studioupstairs.ca, 403-597-3844.

Tuesday ● Trendy Tech Gifts to Make or Buy will be offered on Dec. 2 from 7 to 8 p.m. in the Snell Auditorium at Downtown Branch of Red Deer Public Library. ● The Ultimate Gingerbread Build-Off will be held in the Snell Auditorium at Red Deer Public Library Downtown Branch on Dec. 2 from 3:45 to 5:15 p.m. Youth ages 12 to 18 years are invited. ● The Tony Connelly Singers choral group invites singers to join them on Tuesdays, 9:30 to 11 a.m. at the Senior Citizens Downtown House. The group shares the gift of music and friendship at various seniors’ functions from Sept. to June. Call Shirley at 403-342-5904, or Betty at 403-346-7316 for more information. ● Heartland Cowboy Church is on the first and third Tuesday of each month, 7 p.m., in the Stettler Agriplex, next Dec. 2 and 16.

Call 403-742-4273. ● Central Alberta Council on Aging presents Fraud Awareness for Seniors on Dec. 2, 9 a.m. at Golden Circle Senior Resource Centre. Corporals Slavica Doktor and Jess MacFarlane of Red Deer RCMP Fraud Squad will be presenting. Fee is $3. Contact Shirley at 403-343-0767. ● Red Deer Cultural Heritage Society International Christmas Tea will be celebrated on Dec. 2, 1 to 4 p.m. for a cost of $10 per person at Cronquist House. Sittings will be held at 1 and 2:30 p.m. Purchase tickets at Cronquist House, or call 403-346-0055. ● Hunting Hills High School Fine Arts Winter Celebration takes place Dec. 2, 7 p.m. in the gym and Gathering Area. There will be performances by Drama 20 students, Midsummer Night’s Dream cast, Drum line, Steel Drums, and bands including concert, jazz, and rock bands. Tickets available from the bookstore, or at the door for $10 each.

Contact greg.wheeler@rdpsd.ab.ca, 403-3426655 ext. 1313.

Wednesday ● Red Deer Legion Old-Time Dance with Five Plus One is on Dec. 3 at 7 p.m.

Cost is $7, or $13.95 with buffet starting at 5 p.m. Phone 403-342-0035. ● Travel Memories at Red Deer Public Library Downtown Branch will be held Dec. 3 from 2 to 3:30 p.m. in the Waskasoo Meeting Room. A husband and wife will share photos and adventures about their cross-Canada camping trip by travel trailer. Guests may also share their own travel adventures, and enjoy a coffee or tea. Contact Donna Stewart or Priscilla at 403-346-2100. ● Sylvan Lake Legion potluck and jam session is held the first Wednesday of each month, next Dec. 3, from noon to 4 p.m.

Come to play, sing, dance or listen. Admission is $2, including coffee and lunch at 2:30 p.m. Potluck begins at noon followed by the jam session at 1 p.m. Contact Margie at 403746-3153.

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Unboxing videos on the rise FREEZING THAT BIG REVEAL OF ANYTHING FROM NEW PHONE TO HAPPY MEAL

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Rrrrip goes the packing tape and squeak goes the protective foam. Are there sweeter, more seductive sounds than the opening of a new toy or gadget?

Not to unboxers and the millions of people who watch their videos on YouTube.

For the uninitiated, unboxing is the recording and sharing of the big reveal, whether it’s Dad behind the camera on Christmas Day or a geek reviewer fawning for his tech-specific fans.

The phenom covers everything from Happy Meals to gaming consoles, usually in minute detail accompanied by either great goofiness or hardcore earnestness — or both.

Unboxing videos leave toddlers wide-eyed by the surprises inside chocolate eggs cracked open by disembodied hands. Eager consumers watch the plastic wrap come off plug-ins and cables. Product reviewers young and older soak up advertising dollars through the unboxing of swag provided them by the makers of stuff.

With the mega-gift holidays nearly upon us and the start of the crazed shopping season, unboxing videos are more popular than ever. So says YouTube, which estimated 57 per cent more views this year over last. While not the most popular activity on the site, unboxing is up there and has enjoyed steady growth since such videos first surfaced, believed to be in 2006.

Their allure hasn’t been lost on brands looking to sell, sell, sell on social media. One in five consumers in a recent survey done by Google, which owns YouTube, said they’ve watched at least one unboxing video. As of midNovember, there were more than 20 million search results on YouTube for the keyword “unboxing.”

Google estimates that all these unboxing videos have more than a billion views, and uploads grew by 50 per cent over last year. They’re most watched during the holiday season, with 34 per cent of views for products related to food, electronics, toys and beauty-fashion between October and December last year.

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Google estimates that unboxing videos have more than a billion views, and uploads grew by 50 per cent over last year.

“They’re definitely integral to the way I buy things,” said 20-year-old Willy James, a fan in Pittsburgh of MKBHD (aka Marques Brownlee), one of the top tech unboxers with nearly 2 million YouTube subscribers.

“They’re therapeutic. My favourite is when they’re doing the tablet reviews and they peel off the layer of plastic film on the glass. I check the unboxing videos before I check an actual company website,” he added.

Is unboxing consumerism run amok?

There’s that, for some, but focused on the feels.

“I’m doing this in spite of a great urgency within myself to rip this box open and get to my iPhone,” declares

one unboxer who stretched his video - there’s shipping and product packaging - to 18 minutes and 50 seconds.

He took his mindful time to combine the experience with that of another YouTube phenom, ASMR, the video-sharing shorthand for the controversial autonomous sensory meridian response. It’s a specific tingling in the body that cult followers believe is brought on by whispering and certain sounds shared in videos also intended to help people fall asleep.

“I wonder if the box sounds any different now that it’s empty?” muses our soft-spoken sharer, with only his hands present on screen as he presses lightly on the tape-fringed flaps of his card-

board shipping box to create a scrapecrunch.

You’ve got your full-time unboxers in search of a living, your companies looking to cash in and some professional comics looking for a laugh, but you’ve also got your random folk who want to freeze that special moment, said Matt McLernon, a Google spokesman.

“It’s one of the larger trends on YouTube,” he said. “You can unbox a cellphone, a vinyl record, a Happy Meal.

It’s not just over-the-top consumerism as much as it’s feeling this connection with the thing that you’re watching.”

Obama defends his legal authority to pardon Thanksgiving turkeys

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama has issued an executive action that some of his Republican opponents may be hard-pressed to disagree with sparing Thanksgiving turkeys from the dinner table.

In the spirit of the holiday, Obama on Wednesday took “action fully within my legal authority, the same kind of

action taken by Democrats and Republican presidents before me,” to pardon the National Thanksgiving Turkey, a 49-pound bird named Cheese. He also spared an alternate turkey, a 47-pounder named Mac. Both came from Cooper Farms in Oakwood, Ohio.

“If you’re a turkey, and you’re named after a side dish, your chances of escaping Thanksgiving dinner are pretty low,” Obama said at the annual event, which drew international media

coverage. He was accompanied by his daughters, Malia and Sasha, who declined his invitation to pet the birds.

“No,” Malia said.

The ceremony was moved indoors because of cold, wet weather that blanketed Washington.

“So these guys are well ahead of the curve. They really beat the odds,” he said of Mac and Cheese.

Obama last week announced a series of highly anticipated executive

actions immigration that have left Republicans crying “fowl.”

Joking about his poultry action, Obama said: “I know some will call this amnesty. But don’t worry. There’s plenty of turkey to go around.” Later Wednesday, Obama took his family to a neighbourhood food pantry to donate a pair of turkeys “that didn’t make the cut.”

REGISTRATIONS LOCAL EVENTS AND ORGANIZATIONS

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Thursday ● App-tastic Party will be held at Downtown Branch of Red Deer Public Library on Dec. 4 from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Test some favourite apps, and share some faves. A limited number of tables are available. Please bring your own if you have one. For children ages eight and up. ● First Thursdays in the Snell are free chamber music concerts from 12:15 to 1 p.m. at Red Deer Public Library Downtown Branch in the Snell Auditorium on the first Thursday of each month. Café Noir will sponsor the series and provide free coffee and tea. Bring lunch, or purchase at the café. The Dec. 4 event features Red Deer College Jazz Ensemble as musical guests. Phone 403-3429122. Free will donation at the door. ● Your Homeschool Library at Down-

nadian Legion on Dec. 5 at 7 p.m. Refreshments served. Tickets cost $15 and are available from Jim at 403-391-1397 or Danae at 403-550-5702, or at the door. Youth under 12 years free. See www.VisionsCountryGospel.com, or contact VisionsCountryGospel@ shaw.ca, or dana@gtapleymusic.com. ● Annual Tree of Remembrance Service and Tea for Units 32 and 32 Palliative of Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre will be held on Dec. 7, 2 p.m. in the Dana Soltes Auditorium located on the lower level of the South Complex. This special time of remembrance will be offered for those whose friends and relatives who have deceased on these units Sept. 2013 to Aug. 2014. At the conclusion of the service an opportunity will be given to place an ornament marked with the name of the loved one and the date of their passing on the Tree of Remembrance which will be located at the front of the auditorium. After the service the tree will be relocated to the Hospital Chapel on the third floor until Jan. 1. Tea and refreshments follow the service. Contact Chaplain Dale Fallon at 403-309-2864. ● CrossRoads Church Seniors Ministry Christmas Banquet will be offered on Dec. 13 at 5:30 p.m. Tickets cost $25 and must be purchased by Dec. 5 from CrossRoads Church or online at www.crossroadschurch. ca. ● Lacombe and District Family and Community Support Services is seeking Rainbows volunteers to work with groups of three to five children on self-esteem, and other issues. Contact jpocock@lacombefcss. town Branch of Red Deer Public Library offers information on using library resources to learn a new language on Dec. 4, from 2 to 4 p.m. in the Waskasoo-Kiwanis Meeting Room. Call Adult Services at 403-342-9112. ● Teen Tinsel Town will be offered on Dec. 4 from 4 to 5 p.m. at Timberlands Branch of Red Deer Public Library. Teens aged 12 to 18 years are invited to celebrate the season and create their own bookish ornaments while sipping peppermint hot chocolate and noshing festive treats. ● Golden Circle Senior Resource Centre dance, Thursday, Dec. 4, 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. at the seniors’ centre. Dance to the music of Silver and Gold Band. Admission is $7.

Phone 403-347-6165. ● Tree House Youth Theatre presents ‘Ho, ho...huh?’ — a seasonal comedy by Matt Gould with performances on Dec. 4 to 6 and Dec. 11 to 13 at 7:30 p.m. with matinées at 2 p.m. on Saturdays at Scott Block. Tickets cost $20 from www.treehouseyouththeatre. ca.

net, 403-782-6637. ● Join hands for building a future for Somali Children Gala will be held on Jan. 30 from 6 to 9 p.m. at Festival Hall. Enjoy international cuisine supper, entertainment, keynote speaker, photo booth, silent auction, door prizes and more for $35 per person.

Tickets available from Little Star Restaurant, The Hub on Ross, Central Alberta Refugee Effort, and Central Alberta Immigrant Women’s Association. All money will go towards building, furnishing, and staffing a school for Somalian children. Donations may be made to TD Bank, Education for Somalian Girls and Boys, account 221-5234043. Contact Zainab. mohamoud@gmail.com, 403-550-4067. ● Self-Publishing and Co-Writing Workshop by authors Serge and Moira Stelmack will be offered at Sylvan Lake Municipal Library on Dec. 6 from 1 to 2 p.m. To register for this free event, phone 403-887-2130. ● Red Deer Players present Snow White and the Seven Nobbits — a Christmas Panto for the entire family — Dec. 26, 27, and Jan. 3, 7 p.m. nightly, with a matinee on Dec. 28 at 2 p.m. at Scott Block Theatre.

Tickets are available at Black Knight Inn Ticket Centre, 403-755-6626 or online. ● Shalom Counselling Centre offers Planning for the Future with information on Principles of Investing, Power of Attorney, and Personal Directives on Dec. 6, 8:30 a.m. to noon at Davenport Church of Christ. Light breakfast, presentations and panel discussions with experienced professionals. Free of charge. Register by Nov. 28 at 403-342-0339.

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● Cystic Fibrosis Canada Central Alberta Chapter meets at Bethany Care CollegeSide on various dates. Phone 403-3475075 for details. ● Friends Over 45 is a group for women who like to meet new friends and meets four times per month for coffees and meals at various restaurants in Central Alberta. Members may be new to the area, have recently had a lifestyle change, or just want to meet new friends. For further information contact Pat at 403-341-9606, or Heidi at 403-346-1718. ● Forshee Community Hall old-time family dance nights are the first Friday of each month from 7 to 10:30 p.m. Admission is $10 per adult, children 17 years and under are free. Evening lunch is included. Live old time music with Country Gold North Band.

Next dance is Dec. 5. For more information, call 403-748-3378. ● Arts and Craft Beer Fundraiser for Red Deer Arts Council and the Emerging Artist Award will be held on Jan. 31 at Festival Hall. Highlights include live music with St. James Gate, dancing, craft beer, live and silent auction, appetizers, and more. Tickets available at Black Knight Inn Ticket Centre for $50 per person, or $350 for a table of eight.

See www.reddeerartscouncil.ca ● Volunteer Central has a new website which makes it easy for potential volunteers to find the perfect volunteer opportunity. See www.volunteercentral.ca and search communities and areas of interest to find a suitable volunteer position. Phone 403-346-3710.

GAMES THIS WEEK!

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QUEENS HOCKEY vs. SAIT | Red Deer Arena | Nov. 27 @ 7 pm

VOLLEYBALL vs. SAIT | RDC Main Gym Nov. 28 @ 6 pm | Queens start, Kings follow

KINGS HOCKEY vs. Augustana | Penhold Multiplex | Nov. 29 @ 7 pm

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Visiting parents wearing on couple Dear Annie: I’ve been married to my sons make her incredibly happy. But husband for a year, and we moved into now it feels as though they are staying our first house roughly six months ago. with us every weekend, and the conI love our home, and I know we’re very stant company is starting to wear me fortunate. out.

Here’s the problem: I love my husband’s famMITCHELL His parents live two hours ily — after all, they raised the & SUGAR from us. My husband has man I married. How could I a younger sister who plays not appreciate all they have in the local youth symphodone? But I miss being alone ny. As a result, she is frewith my husband on the weekquently in town for music lessons and ends. concerts, and her parents must drive I’ve spoken with him about this, her to these events. and he understands, but neither of us Naturally, my in-laws asked wheth- knows how to solve the problem. His er they could spend the night at our parents have made it clear that if we place a few times. At first, I was only didn’t house them on the weekends, too happy to have them. I understand how difficult high school can be for a talented girl, and the les-

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It’s perfectly OK to tell them that you love having them, but you need a little alone time, too.

At some point, your sister-in-law will graduate, and this will no longer be an issue.

Dear Annie: I think you were way off in your response to “Ready to Empty Nest,” whose 21-year-old daughter, “Norma,” is a college graduate who doesn’t pay rent or help around the house, and the bathroom she uses, which is also the guest bathroom, is a disaster.

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What should we do? — Spending Too Much Time with the In-Laws Dear Spending: You need to get out during the weekends.

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The Spence family in Delhi Township, west of Cincinnati, says their 400-pound concrete statue of the mythical beast, which was reported stolen Saturday, has been found.

Sixty-one-year-old Ralph Spence says his two sons bought the statue for him several years ago. They affectionately call it “Squashy.”

Though it started out as a practical joke, the statue became part of the family. They even dress it up for holidays.

Spence says he received a call from a friend Tuesday who saw the statue in a nearby open field. A note found with the statue poked fun at its weight, and was signed by “the body building bandits.”

Spence says Squashy is “a legend around here in the neighbourhood.”

This eclipsing male American goldfinch is taking his time migrating south.

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She also won’t let her parents meet her boyfriend.

Annie, I see this entire situation differently. This young woman paid for her college education, along with her car insurance and phone. Can I adopt her?

She sounds fantastic — a hard worker, probably studying and working two jobs to pay for her tuition, and too busy to clean her bathroom.

The parents shouldn’t complain.

They can pick up and clean the bathroom when they have guests. Maybe Norma doesn’t bring her boyfriend around because her parents would criticize him also. — Would Be Proud to Have Her Dear Proud: You have pretty low expectations of grown children. Norma’s parents were happy to let her stay rent-free while she was paying tuition.

But she graduated and is still living rent-free.

There is no reason on Earth Norma cannot keep her bathroom clean. It is a matter of respect for her home, her parents and herself.

Dear Annie: You got it wrong in your response to “Going Deaf in Michigan,” the 82-year-old woman who complained that her neighbor’s workouts included dropping heavy barbells onto their garage floor. This activity belongs in a gym.

Just because the law permits noise until a certain hour doesn’t mean all noise is reasonable. You should suggest that if the neighbors are unwilling to cease this racket, “Going Deaf” should pursue a court order restraining them from engaging in activities that clearly disturb her peace. — Chiloquin, Ore. Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@ comcast.net, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

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SKIandSLED 2014 There are three steps Stephanie Schwartz with Turple Bros. says are vital to everyone sledding in the back country: an avalanche seminar, the full avalanche course and finally: getting the right gear.

Education key for anyone hitting backcountry powder: One-on-one with Red Deer’s own sled guru Stephanie Schwartz

By Renée Francoeur

There’s nothing like a fresh layer of untouched snow for Stephanie Schwartz of Red Deer.

A winter enthusiast for as long as she can remember, Schwartz is the go-to woman when it comes to all things snowmobiling.

Working part time at Turple Bros. in Red Deer for the past 13 years as well as leading her own women’s back country sled clinics and representing an avalanche gear company (among numerous other roles she juggles year-round including designing for a snowmobile outerwear company), Schwartz has been in the industry for the last 20 or so years.

Born in Revelstoke, BC, the 41 year-old was the first female to appear on the cover of SnoRiders West magazine and credits her parents for her love of sledding from an early age.

Her clinics have taken her around the world from Sweden to Russia where she rips through white wonderlands on various 450-pound machines.

But she loves the sense of community when she’s snowmobiling in Central Alberta.

“I am a mountain person but a poker rally around Caroline a couple years ago was a riot,” she said.

“Sure we have big snowmobile clubs in BC but the community I find here — every stop you have hot chocolate and it’s just so much fun.”

The biggest thing for Schwartz is education.

“Take an avalanche safety course; they’re called AST 1s. It’s a classroom session as well as an infield session where we head to the mountains and actually go through in-depth procedures.

People come in and say they need to get geared up for the backcountry but first you really need to get your education. You need a course, not just a seminar,” she said.

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“Know how to use them and be dressed appropriately and have your maintenance done on your sled before you head out.”

Schwartz said she’s impressed with the increasing level of knowledge among sledders.

“Skiers were notorious for knowing the back country and being prepared. Now, that’s changing and we’re very much prepared. The knowledge is

ten-fold now,” she said.

Another evolution in the sport she’s noticed is the closing gender gap.

“The number of women in the backcountry or sledding period is staggering,” she said. “It’s the largest growing demographic right now in the industry and they’re not necessarily going with their husbands or spouses; these are single girls wanting to get into it and it’s just growing and growing.”

Schwartz is hoping to unveil a ladies only clinic either this season or next to further boost women’s confidence on snowmobiles.

“Getting women dressed comfortably for the cold is important too. Once we get over that hurtle, the fun level spirals.”

There’s been a lot of local interest from women itching to explore snowmobiles, she added.

“There’s great trails around here and off trails and so know you don’t have to go to the mountains right away. That’s the best place to learn anyways: off the trail, into the deep snow. So I’m hoping to try to have a whole day for something like that.”

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Storm rolls into region HEAVY SNOW, COOLER TEMPERATURES BEING FORECAST Tune up those snow shovels and get out the woollies — major snow and cold are on the way.

An extensive snowfall warning that includes Red Deer and a large part of Central Alberta was issued by Environment Canada on Wednesday.

A major Pacific frontal system was bring heavy snowfall to parts of Central Alberta starting Wednesday evening and continuing through Friday.

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The snow will spread northward into the Grande Prairie region this eve-

ning and continue eastward toward the City of Edmonton and surrounding areas overnight.

Heavy snow will continue Thursday and Friday before the system moves into Saskatchewan.

Snowfall totals for this system, by the time Friday evening arrives, will likely be in the 15 to 30 cm range.

Behind the system, frigid arctic air will drop daytime highs well below normal for the weekend.

Environment Canada suggests people consider postponing non-essential travel until conditions improve. Visibility may be suddenly reduced at times in heavy snow. There may be a significant impact on rush hour traffic in urban areas.

While the temperature in Red Deer was expected to reach a low overnight of -9C, Thursday’s high will be -16C, a low of -20C overnight, a high of -20C on Friday and dipping to -24C overnight, and an overnight low of -26C on Saturday.

Snowfall warnings are issued when significant snowfall is expected. The snowfall warning includes the following Central Alberta areas: ● City of Red Deer ● Red Deer County near Elnora, Lousana and Delburne ● Red Deer County near Penhold Innisfail and Bowden ● Red Deer County near Pine Lake ● Red Deer County near Spruce View and Red Lodge Provincial Park

● Red Deer County near Sylvan Lake and Stephansson House ● Lacombe County near Clive, Alix and Mirror ● Lacombe County near Eckville ● Lacombe County near Lacombe Blackfalds and Bentley ● Ponoka County near Ponoka and Maskwacis ● County of Stettler near Big Valley ● County of Stettler near Botha and Gadsby ● County of Stettler near Byemoor and Endiang ● County of Stettler near Donalda ● County of Stettler near Stettler Nevis and Rochon Sands ● Camrose County near Bashaw and Meeting Creek

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A fire at 42 Malcolm Cres. in Red Deer caused an estimated $150,000 in damage.

Fire linked to smoking A discarded cigarette butt caused about $150,000 damage to a Morrisroe home early on Wednesday morning.

Red Deer Emergency Services were called to a house fire at 42 Malcolm Cr. shortly after 4:15 a.m.

Crews extinguished the fire and no one was injured.

Two adults and two children were evacuated from the home safely.

The investigation found the fire started at the exterior of the home after a cigarette butt was discarded into a blue box.

It is estimated that the single family home suffered $150,000 in damage.

Red Deer Emergency Services would like to remind residents to discard smoking material very carefully.

Deep, sturdy ashtrays or pails with sand should be used and placed away from anything that can burn.

Cigarettes should be out before they are discarded.

Hearing set over gang charges Four Red Deer-area people alleged to have ties with the Red Scorpions criminal group are scheduled for a preliminary hearing next fall.

Cory James Lesperance, Amber McLeod, Robin Joseph Stewart and Nicholas D.J. White were arrested in a co-ordinated drug sweep at sites in Airdrie, Calgary and Red Deer County on July 23.

Lesperance, 30, and Stewart, 52, were arrested at Stewart’s acreage home east of Red Deer. McLeod, 25, and White, 22, were picked up in

Calgary.

All four are facing a range of charges including possessing drugs for trafficking, possessing proceeds of crime and a variety of weapons offences.

In Red Deer provincial court on Wednesday, defence counsel for the accused asked that proceedings against them be heard in the Court of Queen’s Bench, with a preliminary hearing held beforehand to test the Crown’s evidence.

Lesperance, represented by Brad

Mulder of Red Deer, remains in custody after being denied bail during a previous hearing.

White, represented by Andrew Phypers of Red Deer, was released on Wednesday with the Crown’s consent, including $4,000 cash bail.

Stewart and McLeod, represented

by Akram Attia of Edmonton and Donna Derie-Gillespie of Sundre, were released earlier.

All four return to court on Sept. 2 for the opening of their preliminary hearing.

Oversized garage allowed to stay An enormous garage in Red Deer’s Woodlea neighbourhood that exceeds the city’s maximum allowable height for accessory buildings by more than one-half is being allowed to remain.

But it has focused attention on the local trend toward oversized garages.

Red Deer’s municipal planning commission voted unanimously on Wednesday to grant development approval for the structure at 5120 44th Ave. Had the owner’s application been rejected, the building — which has stood for some eight years — might have had to come down.

The commission heard that a 5.87-metre-high (19.25-foot) garage was approved for the site in 2006. A 30 per cent relaxation of the land use bylaw’s maximum permitted

height of 4.5 metres for accessory buildings was given at that time.

The city discovered recently that the garage was constructed to a height of 6.81 metres (22.3 feet), which exceeds the maximum allowed by 51.3 per cent.

Property owner Marcel Leblanc explained that his contractor calculated the garage’s height from the rear lane on the west side of the building — which is higher than the yard to the east. The garage has prompted no complaints over the years, he pointed out, and six of the nearest lots have changed owners since it was built.

Leblanc said he wasn’t aware his garage exceeded the city’s allowable maximum. And he noted that several other nearby garages are oversized as well.

Development officer Martin Kvap-

il said notice of the current application was sent to nearby landowners. Eighteen replies were received, with four raising concerns and 14 indicating no objections.

The commission voted unanimously in favour of the relaxation, but did include a condition that landscaping be added to the area.

“The issue of over-height garages in the community keeps manifesting itself in one form or another,” said Mayor Tara Veer. “So it tells me from a policy perspective that we have a gap.”

The matter may be addressed as area redevelopment plans for established neighbourhoods are adopted, said Veer, but she’s concerned about perceptions in the community that the “integrity” of the city’s land use bylaw is being undermined by such relaxations.

Carolyn Martindale, City Editor, 403-314-4326 Fax 403-341-6560 E-mail editorial@reddeeradvocate.com

Spending $156,000 for a feasibility study on the provincially-owned Roland Michener Recreation Centre drew some flak from city council on Tuesday.

The city has leased the facility from the province since 2007.

City manager Craig Curtis told council the study would determine the feasibility and projected costs related to operating the building independent from the rest of the Michener Centre.

Coun. Lawrence Lee questioned the logic of spending money on a building that may not end up in the city’s hands.

Curtis said there have been some preliminary discussions with the province at the administrative level that would have the facility transferred to the city.

Curtis said the city has to be prepared in the case the province offers up the building.

“The building is currently in the need of renovations.

“Although they said they would give us a three-year lease, they haven’t consummated that,” said Curtis.

“We are a little bit in limbo but we really don’t know what the facility needs. ... My recommendation is to get ahead of the game with a study with their permission and to position ourselves to negotiate.”

Coun. Dianne Wyntjes wondered about a cost-share of the study with the province.

Curtis said the province did a study a few years ago and likely underestimated the condition of the building.

Curtis said if they negotiated on the province’s term, they would likely end up with the wrong end of the stick.

The study would also look at the feasibility of constructing the multi-use aquatic centre at the site. Residents identified enhancing the Michener Centre as a community priority the city’s 2014 Community Amenity project.

Coun. Lynne Mulder said there has to be some money put into the study in order for the city to see what they are getting.

She said the community would be very disappointed if they did not do enough to secure the site.

River Bend gets cash from council The River Bend Golf and Recreation Centre has received another helping hand from the City of Red Deer.

As part of the 2015 capital budget, city council allocated $711,000 to the society for course equipment, the mini links, driving range and clubhouse.

This is the first year of the new three-year contract that outlines the responsibilities between the city and society.

The society is solely responsible for operating the golf and non-golf related amenities.

The city is responsible for capital costs related to the non-golf amenities and the cityowned assets, including the clubhouse.

Within the contract, the society may ask the city for capital funding on a year-to-year basis.

Coun. Dianne Wyntjes, who sat on the board as the council representative for two years, said there are some older issues such as driving range infrastructure, tree replacement, and sewer issues that have to be addressed at the golf course. They were not addressed in the 2012 report that directed the development of a longer term sustainability plan.

“It is an investment in our public municipal golf infrastructure and recreation,” said Wyntjes. “I hope once we do this there will be new beginnings for the board.”

The society is looking for a new general manager to replace Andrew Gilchrist, who left earlier this year. The current board’s term has been extended for another year.

Council also approved $443,000 for a number of upgrades on the recreation side, including repairs to the clubhouse, roads and parking lots in 2015.

Discovery Canyon is expected to get a major overhaul 2016.

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BRIEFS Persons with disabilities celebrated with activities A day full of activities is planned to mark international day of persons with disabilities at the Hub on Ross.

Starting at 10 a.m. on Dec. 3, the celebration starts with a make-an-art piece, allowing people to express their abilities.

The day also including entertainment from pianist Richard Langohr, sharing success stories, an award presentation and cake.

It all takes place at the Hub on Ross, at 4936 Ross St. in Red Deer.

The day is in celebration of worldwide efforts to break physical, social, economic and attitude barriers that exclude persons with disabilities from fully participating in society.

There will also be celebrations at Bethany Collegeside, 99 College Circle, from 10 a.m. to noon, and at Aspire Children’s Services, 4826 47th St., from 9 to 11:30 a.m.

Phone, Internet service restored for east country Telus phone customers in Mirror and Alix had their phone service restored on late Tuesday evening.

They lost phone service Tuesday afternoon after a construction crew working in east Red Deer severed a cable after a backhoe fell unto it.

Residents in the area now have phone service.

Wireless and Internet services in Stettler, Alliance, Oyen, Castor, Hanna, Coronation, Alsask and Halkirk were affected, but have also been restored.

RDC jazz quartet performs at library December’s first Thursday at the Red Deer Public Library features some educated jazz.

The Red Deer College Faculty Jazz Quartet will perform at the Snell Auditorium from 12:15 to 1 p.m. on Dec. 4 at the downtown branch of the library, at 4818 49th St. Coffee and tea will be provided

by Cafe Noir. There is no admission charge, but a free will donation will be accepted at the door.

Art exhibit at the Hub helps Madalene House This month’s art exhibit at the Hub on Ross Art Gallery, at 4936 Ross St. in Red Deer, aims to raise funds for the

Magdalene House of Red Deer.

The exhibit, by TY Photography, is called Captured. The opening night reception takes place on Dec. 5 from 4 to 6 p.m.

Those who purchase a framed photograph will help victims of exploitation and human trafficking.

The Magdalene House will sell fair trade goods during the opening reception.

How to get stories published subject of local workshop Two Central Albertan authors will lead a workshop to help people get their own stories published.

Serge and Moira Stelmack, writing under the pen name S.M. Stelmack, won the InD’tale RONE, awarded to self-published novels, award for best mystery novel in 2014 for their book Undertow.

The authors publish exclusively through Amazon and will discuss that during the workshop.

The free event takes place on Dec. 6 from 1 to 2 p.m. at the Sylvan Lake Municipal Library, at 4715 50th Ave. To register for the event, call the library at 403-887-2130.

Former Olds College instructor honoured Former Olds College instructor Ian Hall has received special recognition.

Hall was recently presented with the title of Instructor Emeritus, which recognizes excellence in instruction, contribution to industry, and contribution to Olds College after retirement.

Hall had a 39-year career at the college.

Hall was the OCSA Outstanding Faculty Award winner four times in his career, and the award was renamed the Ian Hall Outstanding Faculty or Staff award in 2002.

He was designated Master Instructor three times, and was among the first to receive the Olds College Certificate of Instructional Excellence.

He was an innovator and pioneer in farm management.

He advocated the need for farmers and agri-businesses to pay close attention to production costs, and the overall financial aspects of their operations.

Help educate Somali children at fundraiser

a school in Somalia, buy furniture, books and supplies, and pay staff salaries for at least a few months.

Tickets are $35 each and are available by calling campaign manager Zainab Mohamoud at 403-550-4067 or at Little Star Restaurant.

To donate items for the silent auction, contact Mohamoud.

Monetary donations can be made at the TD Bank under the account Education for Somalian Girls and Boys.

For more information, visit http:/ www.gofundme.com/g14gds.

Festival Hall is located at 4214 58th St.

Video surveillance image of poppy box theft suspect.

Poppy box thief sought by police On the eve of Remembrance Day, the poppy box at a Red Deer hotel was stolen and police are looking for a suspect.

Red Deer RCMP issued a release on Wednesday about the Nov. 10 robbery that took place at the Holiday Inn Express, at 2803 50th Ave. At about 9 p.m. that evening, they received a report that a man had stolen the Remembrance Day poppy box from the front desk of the hotel.

Surveillance footage shows a man taking the poppy box. Police describe the suspect as a Caucasian wearing a long dark jacket with fake fur on the hood and a light-coloured hoodie underneath the jacket. He was also wearing jeans, a red baseball hat with a light-coloured logo on it and running shoes.

Anyone with information about this incident is asked to call the Red Deer RCMP at 403-343-5575 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477, or go online at www.tipsubmit.com.

Tree of remembrance ceremony at hospital Red Deer hospital presents its 25th annual Tree of Remembrance, honouring those who have died at the hospital within the last year.

Friends and relatives can place an ornament with the name of their loved one and date of their passing on the tree.

The Tree of Remembrance Service and Tea will be on Dec. 7 at 2 p.m. in

An evening of food and entertainment on Jan. 30 will raise money to help educate children in Somalia.

Join Hands for Building a Future for Somalia Children, from 6 to 9 p.m. at Red Deer’s Festival Hall, will feature international cuisine, entertainment, a keynote speaker, bingo hour, silent auction, photo booth, and door prizes.

The goal is to raise $20,000 to build

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Local heart and stroke target set at $90,650 The Heart and Stroke Foundation’s fundraising goal for Central Alberta in 2015 is $90,650.

The new campaign runs during Heart Month, February.

Last year, $81,603 was raised through contributions from Red Deer and area residents. In Alberta, a total of $1,434,741 was raised and overall, in Canada, over $10 million was collected in 2014.

In Canada, someone dies from heart disease or stroke every seven minutes.

To volunteer for fundraising, contact 403-342-4435.

Renaissance Feast dinners tonight and Friday A two-day production of the Renaissance Feast features a mix of period and contemporary music, as well as a five-course meal.

The Red Deer Chamber Singers’ annual production is scheduled for today and Friday with doors opening at 6 p.m. at the Westerner Park Chalet, at 4847A 19th St. The event includes a five-course renaissance-era meal, as well as period and contemporary choral music.

Tickets cost $65 and can be purchased by calling Diane at 403-3476567.

Help kids join sports groups A national fundraising campaign underway now to January helps children get involved in sports.

KidSport, which assists children who face financial barriers to get involved in playing organized sports, helped raised just under $30,000 last year in Red Deer.

As a result, 161 local kids got to participate in organized sports, such as hockey.

Give the Gift of Sport contributions can help a child have a season of sport.

The campaign runs until Jan. 10.

To make a donation to the red Deer chapter, go to kidsportcanada.ca/alberta/red-deer.

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Following the event, the tree will be relocated to the hospital chapel on the third floor where it will remain until Jan. 1.

Tea and coffee will be served following the service.

For more information about this special event, hosted by staff and volunteers of the palliative ward, call Chaplain Dale Fallon at 403-309-2864.

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Welcome to the driver’s seat

Nissan Leaf is no glorified golf cart The Nissan Leaf relies solely on electric power for propulsion and was the first mass production EV (electric vehicle) sold in North America.

No glorified golf cart here, the Leaf can seat up to five adults and has more than enough power to be driven a highway speeds ... just like a normal car.

When Leaf was released as a 2011 model year vehicle Nissan already had pre-sale orders for its entire first-year production run of 20,000 units. Based on a stretched version of Nissan’s B-platform, Leaf uses a low-slung Lithium-Ion battery pack to store its electrical energy and it’s located near the centre of the vehicle, under the floor. In addition to ample rear cargo space, the battery position also helps make the Leaf more

stable and more nimble than other EV’s.

It’s a unique air cooled flat design of battery pack with four cells and 48 laminated modules.

It weighs about 250 kg (600 lbs.) and came with an eight-year/160,000 km warranty. An 80kW AC synchronous electric motor drives the Leaf’s front wheels. It can generate 107 horsepower and 207 lb-ft of torque. Leaf has a rated driving range of 160 kilometres on a single charge, but it’s capable of going longer distances if the conditions are right and the driver conserves power.

The battery pack can be charged up to 80 per cent of its full capacity within 30 minutes when connected to a dedicated (level 3) DC fast charger.

A level two (typical home unit) charger hooked up to a 240V outlet can do a full charge in less than

eight hours. The portable (level 1) charger can be used to top-up power and connects to any (110volt) electrical outlet. The charger port is hidden behind a small door up front.

The ultra quiet Leaf has a speaker near the front of the vehicle that makes a humming sound, at low vehicle speeds, to alert pedestrians to its presence. Like all electric motors, full power is available immediately. The (regenerative) brake pedal feel is a little different and the lack of telescopic steering column may put-off some buyers.

The 2012 Nissan Leaf was essentially unchanged, however, the 2013 model year brought a bunch of technology upgrades and a new lower-priced base S trim level. An upgraded 6.6KW onboard charger is capable of reducing level 2 charge time (with 30-amp service) to under four hours.

This Leaf also comes with an improved energy management and regenerative braking systems, a more efficient heater and improved aerodynamics.

Although the Leaf has consistently received a ‘Top Safety Pick’ rating from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, the 2013 edition got a ‘poor’ rating in a new (and tougher to pass) small overlap frontal crash test. This test is designed to replicate what happens when the front corner of a vehicle collides with another vehicle or a fixed object like a tree or utility pole, at 64 km/hour (40 mph).

While saving money on fuel is great, most Leaf owners are more concerned about the environment and our dependency on oil. So far, general reliability appears to be very good and EV maintenance costs are typically lower than a gas engine vehicle. Limited availability on the used car market is not too surprisingly, as most owners are hanging on to their Nissan Leaf.

Leaf has a rated driving range of 160 kilometres on a single charge, but it’s capable of going longer distances if the conditions are right and the driver conserves power

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Price Check: 2011 - 2013 Nissan Leaf (October 2014) Year Edition Expect to Pay Today 2011 SL $19,000 to $23,000 2012 SL $22,000 to $26,000 2013 SL $25,000 to $29,000 Prices vary depending on a used vehicle’s condition, mileage, usage and history. A complete mechanical check should always be performed by a reliable auto technician prior to purchase.

Safety Recalls: 2011 to 2014 Nissan Leaf: 2013/2014: The front passenger seat occupant classification system software may incorrectly classify the passenger seat as empty and deactivate the passenger side airbag. Dealers will reprogram the occupant classification system.

2014: The front member assembly may not have been welded to specification and it may not comply with the requirements of Canada Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (CMVSS) 208 - Occupant Protection and CMVSS 305 - Electrolyte Spillage and Electrical Shock Protection. Dealers will inspect vehicles for improper welding. Vehicles found to have been improperly welded will be replaced. bob.mchugh@drivewaybc.ca

Cute ute continues charm assault on Canadians It’s hard to remember a time when standard equipment. we didn’t have the RAV4 in Canada.

Inside Toyota helped develop the “cuteThe interior is a study in how ute” vehicles from Japan, along to maximize space for a family with the Honda CR-V. We had never but some of the small details seen anything like these vehicles could use refinement. The dash before but they went on to forever face is now covered with soft change the marketplace and the materials and looks much better way a family gets around. Today the My time with the thanks to the French stitching but compact SUV market has become this same panel also obscures RAV4 LE confirmed so popular it will soon exceed the the switches hidden below. The that Toyota knows compact car in terms of overall seat-heating buttons, the Eco and sales, which has been, for decades, how to make a Sport settings for the transmission the cornerstone of the Canadian are all switches the driver access thoroughly practical marketplace. The Toyota RAV4 frequently but they are not as easy and easy to use continues to be a sales market to see, as they should be. Other leader and for good reason. Many vehicle that pleases than the dash there is still a large buyers put their money into what I all passengers. percentage of the interior covered call “The Bank of Toyota” and know in hard plastic. The up side is a they will get a good return in terms Zack Spencer well laid out interior configuration. of reliability, practicality and resale value.

The doors open to a wide angle and expose a big Looks back seat with a flat floor, for easy access. The In terms of design, Toyota wanted to make this front seats are comfortable and now the driver’s latest RAV4 more of an emotional purchase and seat has a manual height adjustment. Standard not just a rational choice. The design has been features include tilt and telescopic steering, sharpened with more flow from the front bumper Bluetooth connectivity, USB connection and air and headlamps into a swept windshield and conditioning. The LE $1,500 upgrade package is added character lines. Gone is the old swing-out worthwhile because it includes the very important tailgate, replaced by a proper lift gate, which is heated front seats, larger 6.1-inch display audio now framed with protruding tail lamps that look with backup camera and upgraded speakers. This unique but also help with aerodynamics. One area brings the price up to $27,835. that could use an update are the cheap looking Drive hubcaps. These come standard on the $24,005 Honda recently unveiled the new 2015 CR-V that base front wheel drive (FWD) LE trim level and utilizes direct injection engine technology and a $26,270 AWD model. To get proper looking alloy slick, new continuously variable transmission. Not wheels the buyer needs to spend $28,340 for the case with the Toyota RAV4, it uses the same the XLE FWD or $30,540 for the XLE AWD. In the 176hp 2.5L 4-cylinder found in the last model and mid-sized sedan market many cars, like the Honda is matched to a 6-speed automatic. Launching Accord, costing the same amount as the base from a traffic light is brisk and the noise inside RAV4 come with nice looking alloy wheels as the cabin is fairly low. The steering is easy to

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maneuver but some might find the feedback to be too vague. Adjustable engine and transmission settings help the RAV4 to either use less fuel or perform better. The Eco button changes the settings of the car to improve fuel economy plus there is a small Eco light that reminds the driver when the car is being driven most efficiently.

The Sport buttons holds the transmission a little longer between shifts for more responsiveness.

Fuel economy is rated at 10.5L/100km in the city and 8.2L on the highway, using the new more stringent 2015 fuel economy test. The RAV4 was a solid leader on the fuel economy front but the new Honda CR-V now claims that crown.

Verdict Toyota is often criticized for not being bold enough in some of the choices it makes. Honda now has up-to-date technology in the new CR-V but Toyota is sticking with what works.

This approach might be viewed as a step behind but other might look at it as tried-and-true technology that is reliable and still delivers solid fuel ratings. Toyota RAV4 was a pioneer in the small SUV space and continues to be a market leader but now the market is so crowded with entries I suspect it will need to get new engine technology when it is totally refreshed in a few years. My time with the RAV4 LE confirmed that Toyota knows how to make a thoroughly practical and easy to use vehicle that pleases all passengers. zack.spencer@drivewaybc.ca The Lowdown Power: 2.5L 4-cylinder with 176hp Economy: 10.5L/8.2L/100km (city/highway) Sticker price: $24,005-$33,350

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Leroux offers insights for achieving success FARM CREDIT CANADA ANNUAL FORUM

BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR When he was 16, Patrick Leroux contemplated suicide after he cost his hockey team an important game and was humiliated by his coach in front of his teammates.

But rather than take the “easy way” out, the painfully self-conscious teen decided instead to learn about and emulate successful people — from athletes to actors. He discovered common characteristics and habits, and began incorporating these into his own life.

“I learned about loving what you do,” Leroux told an audience in Red Deer on Wednesday. “I learned if you want to succeed in life, you’ve got to stop waiting for your pension and start doing what you love the most.”

His other revelations included the importance of learning more to earn more, and of assuming responsibility for himself.

The Quebec native went on to become a successful businessman in a variety of pursuits.

“I have 17 streams of income, 17 businesses,” said Leroux, who’s also a business coach, public speaker and bestselling author of nine books.

Presenting at Farm Credit Canada’s annual forum in Red Deer, he offered some insights into how to achieve business and personal success.

For one thing, said Leroux, it’s important to have clarity of vision. He recommended having clear written

goals — something fewer than three per cent of people actually do.

“You have to have a life plan.”

To help achieve those goals, develop a sense of gratitude for the positive things you do have, he suggested. Start and end every day by reminding yourself of these, and positive energy will result, insisted Leroux.

“Don’t just say it, feel it.”

He’s also a proponent of visualization. This entails making a list of the things you want to achieve and documenting them.

“Why earn money if you have no idea what you’re gong to do with that money? You have to give yourself reason.”

Leroux also urged those listening to him to practise positive affirmation: reminding themselves every morning and night what it is they want to achieve.

“If twice a day, 365 times a year, you read out your positive affirmation, do you think it’s going to give you an edge on the 97 per cent of the population who do not have goals? You bet.

“If you’re very clear about that vision and you’re persistent and you believe it’s going to happen, then it will happen.”

One strategy for achieving business success is to give your customers memorable experiences, said Leroux.

He related his own experiences of a cruise line he once used sending him a birthday greeting, a hotel he stayed at where he found in his room a personalized greeting in drizzled chocolate on a plate, and a client that reserved

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Patrick Leroux speaks at the FCC conference at the Sheraton Hotel in Red Deer on Wednesday. for him a parking place with his name on it.

These types of actions create customer loyalty, which is more important than just customer satisfaction, said Leroux.

“Think about all of your customer touch points and how you can be different and unique,” he advised. “If you do, you’ll have success.”

Leroux also commented on the law of reciprocity, and how those who give more to their customers and employees typically get more in return.

The challenge for many, he said, is stepping out of your comfort zone to try new things, “You have to tolerate what’s uncomfortable until it becomes comfortable,” he said, pointing out that most people need to do something new for 21 to 66 days before it becomes a habit.

The other speakers at Wednesday’s FCC forum were Olympic gold medalist rower Adam Kreek, and famed author and Dragons’ Den angel investor David Chilton. hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

Stuart Olson acquiring Studon Electric & Controls IN $76.2M CASH AND STOCK DEAL THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY - Stuart Olson Inc. (TSX:SOX) is paying about $76.2 million, including the assumption of debt, to acquire Red Deer-based Studon Electric & Controls Inc. The deal includes an equity purchase price of $65.7 million - $58.1 million in cash and $7.6 million in com-

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BRIEF Angel Investor workshop set for Dec. 5 Are you interested in learning how to work with angel investors? A luncheon on Dec. 5 should provide some insights.

Innovate Calgary’s angel investor network, Invest-Tech, in collaboration with Alberta Innovates Technology Futures and Central Alberta: Access Prosperity, is staging a Red Deer workshop on how to prepare for and raise capital from angel investors.

Geared for companies involved in manufacturing technology, technologydriven oilfield services, and other knowledge-based businesses, the workshop will be led by Henry Kutarna, vice-president of investment and market development with Innovate Calgary. Accredited investors who are interested in learning about opportunities though Inves-Tech are also welcome to attend this free event.

The workshop will take place at Red Deer College and will run from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

Advance registration is required.

This can be done online at www.eventbrite.com/e/how-to-raise-capital-fromangel-investors-tickets-14428781875.

Blackfalds recognizes best businesses Blackfalds has recognized its top businesses for 2014.

The town’s Business of the Year Awards, which are sponsored by the Blackfalds & District Chamber of Commerce and the Town of Blackfalds economic development & tourism board, were presented this week.

Service Business of the Year was Alpen Dental, Retail Business of the Year was Peaceful Patch Quilt Shoppe, and Community Spirit Business of the Year was Blackfalds Farmer’s Market.

Transportation Safety Board says feds not doing enough to enforce safe transport

mon shares of Stuart Olson shares at a deemed price of $7.05 per share.

The Calgary-based construction and industrial contractor says the price could increase by a maximum of $25.8 million through earn-out payments over the next three years based on Studon’s annual EBITDA meeting certain targets. Studon, which employs between 500 and 1,000 electricians and instrumentation trades people at any given time, offers construction, mainte-

nance and turnaround services to the oil and gas, pipeline and petrochemical industries in Western Canada. Its management team will continue to lead the day-to-day operations of the business, while the company’s results will be reported as part of Stuart Olson’s Industrial Group.

“The acquisition of Studon is a critical step in our strategy to become an integrated, full-service construction company. In particular, it strengthens

ty Board says the federal government isn’t doing enough to enforce proper safety procedures by Canada’s railways, airlines and marine operators.

The board, which investigates transport accidents and makes recommendations for improvement, released its 2014 watch list of significant safety issues today.

The list took direct aim at Transport Canada’s oversight of self-regulatory safety systems.

Citing the deadly derailment and fire in Lac-Megantic, Que., that claimed 47 lives last year, the Transportation Safety Board says the federal regulator has failed to identify safety problems under its watch and has put too much emphasis on company audits rather than traditional inspections.

The board says self-regulatory Safety Management Systems on their own are not enough, and Transport Canada needs to exercise regular oversight and be prepared to intervene when it sees problems.

Government spending documents show that the budgets for rail, air and marine safety at Transport Canada have been cut significantly over the last five years, even as volatile oil-byrail shipments have increased

Record revenues for Lonestar West

BY ADVOCATE STAFF Lonestar West Inc. is reporting record revenues for the nine months ended Sept. 30 — capped off by third quarter revenues of more than $13 million.

That marked a 57 per cent increase on the $78.3 million generated during the same three-month period in 2013.

The Sylvan Lake-based company’s net income for the quarter ended Sept.

30, 2014 was $771,000, up from $92,000 in the same quarter last year.

“Lonestar is exceptionally pleased with both our organic growth and the contributions made by the Vamp Oilfield Inc. acquisition,” said Lonestar president and CEO James Horvath,

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referring to his company’s June purchase of the Saskatchewan business.

“The United States division has shown meaningful improvements and Vamp is having a significant impact on the Canadian division results.”

Lonestar added that it continues to expand its hydrovac and vacuum truck fleet, which consisted of 127 units as of Sept. 30. It’s since added seven more units and anticipates another 11 by the end of the fourth quarter. That would bring the fleet to 145 units by year-end, as compared with 68 units at the start of 2014.

Since Sept. 30, Lonestar has also opened field bases in Tulsa, Okla.; Nashville Tenn.; and Toronto. That’s increases its bases to 18.

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Saudi Oil Minister Naimi suggests OPEC does not need to cut output VIENNA - Top OPEC producer Saudi Arabia suggested Wednesday there is no need for the cartel to cut its output ceiling despite a plunge in prices that has poorer members of the organization hurting.

Saudi Oil Minister Ali Naimi told reporters he expects the oil market to eventually “stabilize itself.” That suggests the Saudis, who effectively determine OPEC’s production policy, will not back any calls for reducing output by other nations at Thursday’s oil ministers’ meeting.

The global price of oil has fallen 32 per cent since late June to $78 a barrel, from $115, amid booming shale production in the United States. That, and continued weakness in some major world economies, has led to supply outpacing demand.

While the Saudis can weather such prices, poorer OPEC members like Venezuela and Nigeria need prices closer to $100 to fund national budgets.

Iran too is suffering, with the price drop adding to huge revenue losses due to sanctions on it crude sales imposed over its nuclear program.

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Workers with Phoenix Construction Inc. install insulated panels on a new building on McCoy Drive in the McKenzie Industrial Business Park south of the city. With a footprint of 16,200 square feet, the westfacing building is being designed for two-storey office development on the front and shop space ‚including 10-ton cranes‚ at the rear. The building is expected to accommodate two tenants, with Salomons Commercial the leasing agent. Jason Adams is the developer.

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the vertical integration of our Industrial Group and supports our objective of growing this group into a selfperforming general contractor,” said Stuart Olson president and CEO David LeMay. The transaction is expected to close no later than Jan. 25, subject to Competition Bureau and TSX approval.

On the Toronto Stock Exchange, Stuart Olson shares closed down eight cents at $7.38 on Wednesday.

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Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 109.20 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 48.79 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52.87 BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . 11.77 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.38 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 56.22 Cdn. National Railway . . 83.75 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 235.79 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 40.36 Capital Power Corp . . . . 27.64 Cervus Equipment Corp 19.90 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 51.76 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 53.54 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 27.53 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 39.38 General Motors Co. . . . . 32.07 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 21.91 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.25 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 44.32 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 33.88 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 42.66 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . 11.54 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 55.89 Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 126.40 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 15.29 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 16.00 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 60.51 MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO - The Toronto stock market closed lower Wednesday, pulled down in part by energy stocks ahead of a key OPEC meeting.

The S&P/TSX composite index declined 35.24 points to 15,038.41.

The energy sector fell 2.3 per cent as oil dropped another 40 cents to a four-year low of US$73.69 a barrel.

The meeting of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries on Thursday has been described as the most important gathering of cartel oil ministers in many years. Prices have tumbled to around US$75 a barrel because of a stronger U.S. dollar, lower demand and much higher supplies.

Traders hope the cartel will come to an agreement to cut production in order to support prices that are down about 30 per cent from mid-summer.

However, there is plenty of doubt about whether the cartel will come to such a deal. On Wednesday, Saudi Arabia’s oil minister, Ali Al-Naimi, said he believes the crude market will “stabilize itself.”

Some analysts suggest it doesn’t matter what OPEC decides.

“If there is a cut, it won’t matter, they’ll cheat — they cheat all the time,” said John Stephenson, president and CEO of Stephenson and Co. “They all cheat for the same basic reason, which is that you can and because it’s in your interest to cheat because your share of profits is directly proportional to what you pump. So why not pump the most and make it someone else’s problem?”

Meanwhile, the Canadian dollar climbed 0.13 of a cent to 89 cents US. American markets were higher ahead of the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday on Thursday when they will be closed. The Dow

Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 18.87 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 13.79 Tim Hortons . . . . . . . . . . 94.80 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84.98 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 30.08 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 14.53 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 21.77 First Quantum Minerals . 19.76 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 23.49 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 9.53 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 3.43 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . 18.02 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 39.03 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.79 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 18.88 Energy Arc Resources . . . . . . . . 27.79 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 31.30 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 62.58 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.49 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 45.79 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 41.38 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . 16.45 Canyon Services Group. 10.68 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 27.02 CWC Well Services . . . 0.6800 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 20.02 Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 1.89 Jones industrials was up 12.81 points at 17,827.75, the Nasdaq gained 29.07 points to 4,787.32 and the S&P 500 index edged up 5.8 points to 2,072.83.

Elsewhere on the TSX, the base metals sector declined 1.4 per cent as March copper fell two cents to US$2.96 a pound.

February bullion faded 30 cents to US$1,197.50 an ounce and the gold sector fell about two per cent.

Gainers were led by telecoms and financials.

In U.S. economic news, durable goods orders put in a much better than expected showing in October, rising by 0.4 per cent versus an expected 0.6 per cent drop.

The U.S. Commerce Department also said consumer spending rose 0.2 per cent last month.

Consumer spending is closely watched because it accounts for 70 per cent of American economic activity.

Other data showed that U.S. new home sales edged up 0.7 per cent in October to the fastest pace since May. In earnings news, farm equipment maker Deere & Co. says its sales and profits will keep falling in its new fiscal year as the sector remains weak. Deere also said it earned $649.2 million, or $1.83 per share, in the fourth quarter on US$8.97 billion in revenue. Analysts had expected a profit of $1.57 per share and US$7.73 billion in revenue. Its shares were down almost one per cent.

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

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index 15,038.41, down 35.24 points Dow - 17,827.75, up 12.81 points S&P 500 - 2,072.83, up 5.80 points

Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 94.48 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 47.34 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.90 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 26.07 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 54.98 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 4.31 Penn West Energy . . . . . . 4.91 Pinecrest Energy Inc. . . . 0.040 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 8.47 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 39.07 Talisman Energy . . . . . . . . 6.52 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.92 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 6.12 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 57.79 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 83.59 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 70.20 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106.12 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 37.50 Carfinco . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.18 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 33.49 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 47.98 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 79.78 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 22.54 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 53.22 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.68 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 82.79 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 41.92 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57.08 Nasdaq - 4,787.32, up 29.07 points Currencies: Cdn - 89.00 cents US, up 0.13 of a cent Pound - C$1.7749, up 0.71 of a cent Euro - C$1.4056, up 0.15 of a cent Euro - US$1.2510, up 0.32 of a cent Oil futures: US$73.69 per barrel, down 40 cents (January contract) Gold futures: US$1,197.50 per oz., down 30 cents (February contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $19.43 oz., down two cents $624.67 kg., down 65 cents

TransCanada cuts ties with U.S. PR firm THE CANADIAN PRESS A Canadian pipeline company will no longer work with a controversial U.S. public relations firm on the Energy East proposal after leaked documents raised concerns about suggested tactics.

TransCanada (TSX:TRP) has cut ties with the multinational firm Edelman on the campaign to build support for a plan to bring Alberta’s oilsands crude to eastern refineries after it recommended secretly using third parties to attack the pipeline’s opponents.

The tactics were contained in documents leaked to the environmental group Greenpeace.

“In the current environment, we can’t have the respectful conversation that we want to have with Canadians and Quebecers about Energy East,” TransCanada spokesman Tim Duboyce said Wednesday in a release.

“We need to discuss the project on its merits, responding to valid concerns such as how we will protect water and marine life, instead of talking about communications tactics.”

The documents outlined what Edelman call a strategy with a “strong heritage in the more aggressive politics and policy fights in the U.S.” Edelman recommended working

with proxies to secretly “add layers of difficulties for our opponents,” the documents say. The plan suggested TransCanada conduct research on environmental groups and hand the results over to third parties, who can “put the pressure on, especially when TransCanada can’t.

“We will work with third parties and arm them with the information they need to pressure opponents and distract them from their mission.”

TransCanada immediately denied it had implemented those tactics, which were widely criticized.

Edelman defended its proposal in a statement released Wednesday, the first time it had addressed the issue.

“We stand by our strategy,” it said.

“It was both ethical and moral, and any suggestion to the contrary is untrue.

“Unfortunately, the conversation about our efforts has become so loud in certain areas that it is impossible to have an open and honest conversation about the pipeline project.”

TransCanada has its work cut out for it, said Keith Stewart of Greenpeace.

“They’re going to face a skeptical public,” he said.

“We want to see a different approach, not just a different PR company. How the debate is conducted is always important to the substance of the debate.”

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ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG - ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: Jan ‘15 $5.30 lower $429.90; March ‘15 $5.50 lower $430.80; May ‘15 $5.30 lower $432.50; July ‘15 $4.80 lower $433.30; Nov ‘15 $2.70 lower $430.30; Jan. ‘16 $2.60 lower $435.40; March ‘16 $2.60 lower $439.90; May ‘16 $2.60 lower $439.90; July ‘16 $2.60 lower $439.90; Nov. ‘16 $2.60 lower $439.90.

Barley (Western): Dec. ‘14 unchanged 170.00; March ‘15 unchanged $173.00; May ‘15 unchanged $173.00; July ‘15 unchanged $173.00; Oct. ‘15 unchanged $173.00; Dec. ‘15 unchanged $173.00; March ‘16 unchanged $173.00; May ‘16 unchanged $173.00; July ‘16 unchanged $173.00; Oct. ‘16 unchanged $173.00; Dec. ‘16 unchanged $173.00.

Wednesday’s estimated volume of trade: 282,800 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 282,800.

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Santa Claus and Nia Sanchez, Miss USA 2014, who will be in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, visit the trading floor after participating in opening bell ceremonies of the New York Stock Exchange, Wednesday. Stock indexes are holding near record levels as traders digest some mixed news on the U.S. economy.

Saskatchewan Canada Post on track for a premier continues profit this year to call for support of Energy East pipeline Despite more people still choosing email over snail mail, the Canada Post Group of Companies says it’s on track to earn a profit this year despite an earlier forecast for a multimillion-dollar loss.

The Crown corporation said it earned $84 million before tax for the first three quarters of the year, driven by its parcels business and higher stamp prices, along with lower employee benefit expenses.

In its 2014 corporate plan, it had projected that it would lose $274 million before taxes for the year.

“Despite the uncertainty about volume erosion, improvements to the bottom line are expected to continue in the fourth quarter and a net profit for the year ended Dec. 31,” Canada Post said as it reported third-quarter results Wednesday.

The last year it recorded a net profit was in 2010. The company said it earned a net profit of $22 million for the third quarter, as it handled more packages but was impacted by fewer mail and flyer distribution deliveries.

The profit reversed a net loss of $73 million in the same period a year earlier for the group, which also includes the Purolator courier service and other businesses. Revenue from operations were up seven per cent to $1.874 billion, compared with $1.752 billion a year ago. The improved finances come as Canada Post cuts costs and revamps its operations with the end of home mail delivery. In announcing the move last year, Canada Post also said about 6,000 to 8,000 positions would be eliminated within the next five years, mainly through attrition. The union representing postal workers has challenged the decision to end home mail delivery in Federal Court and argues that Canada Post can be successful without the move.

“At this point, it’s obvious that these cuts are based on attacking public services, rather than the facts,” Denis Lemelin, national president of the Ca-

nadian Union of Postal Workers, said Wednesday.

“Our post office has been profitable for the vast majority of the last 20 years and continues to be profitable. We need to stay headed in the right direction, not cut back on a good service.”

Canada Post, the group’s largest division, had a net profit of $6 million for the 13-week period ended Sept. 27. A year ago, it reported a net loss of $88 million for the same period.

The traditional post office business saw its revenue from operations climb 7.5 per cent to $1.443 billion, up from $1.343 billion in the comparable period of 2013, helped by growth in parcel deliveries and higher stamp prices.

Revenue for packages grew 8.2 per cent to $337 million in the latest quarter, as volumes jumped by nearly the same percentage or nearly three million pieces.

Despite the growth, Canada Post still felt the impact of lower mail volumes which continued to fall. Transaction mail was down 6.1 per cent or by 58 million pieces in the quarter as more people continued to turn to alternatives like email.

Canada Post said it doesn’t plan on hiking stamp prices in 2015, after increasing them earlier this year as part of a wider strategy to cut costs and improve results. The Crown Corporation said it also benefited from lower employee benefit costs, which came in at $48 million for the third quarter due to strong pension asset returns in 2013 and an increase in the interest rates used to calculate the pension plan liabilities. But, it warned that this could change easily.

“Employee future benefits, including pension, continue to be highly volatile and unpredictable and remain a significant factor in the corporation’s operating results,” the Canada Post Group said.

Meanwhile, the company’s Purolator business earned $14 million for the quarter on revenue from operations of $409 million, up from a profit of $12 million on $393 million in revenue in the same quarter last year.

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Premiers Kathleen Wynne and Philippe Couillard said last week that greenhouse gas emissions, among other issues, must be considered in the pipeline’s development.

“I don’t want them to be looking at some sort of analysis of greenhouse gases in projects, because where does that stop?” Wall said.“I honestly thought Energy East would not be controversial,” he said, adding that he is grateful to the Saskatchewan Opposition for supporting the motion.

Wall said he believes transporting oil in pipelines is safer than using the rail system and he hopes the Ontario and Quebec premiers will take a “national view” of the project.

REGINA - Saskatchewan’s legislature passed a motion Wednesday calling for the removal of what Premier Brad Wall calls unnecessary barriers to the Energy East pipeline project.

“We just wanted to make the point in the legislature that this is Canadian oil replacing foreign oil,” he said.

“Even though we are one of the most prolific producers of oil in the world, parts of our country import oil from Iraq, Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, the United States. This doesn’t make a lot of sense.”

The proposed $12-billion pipeline would ship more than one million barrels of western crude daily from Grande Prairie gets a lot Alberta and Saskatchewan to oil refineries in closer on Dec. 1.

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BC Ferries expects to save millions by converting largest vessels to LNG VICTORIA - BC Ferries plans to convert its two largest vessels to liquefied natural gas in an effort to save fuel costs after sinking $126 million into marine diesel fuel last year.

The company announced Tuesday that it has the BC Ferries commissioner’s approval to upgrade the Swartz Bayto-Tsawwassen route ships.

BC Ferries says it expects to save about $9.2 million annually by switching the two Spirit Class vessels to LNG because they account for 15 per cent of the fleet’s total fuel consumption.

It also has plans to build three dual-fuel vessels for the southern Gulf Islands and the Powell River-to-Comox route, with completion set for 2017.

The company says all five vessels are set to be operational by 2018, with the Spirit of Vancouver Island upgrades expected to be finished before those of the Spirit of British Columbia.

BC Ferries spokeswoman Deborah Marshall says the cost of the projects is not yet known and that contracts are expected to be awarded next year.

No one-stop shop for data on gov’t auto bailouts, auditor finds OTTAWA — Canadians would have to sift through a stack of different reports if they wanted to piece together how their tax dollars were spent on big auto bailouts, says a new report by the federal auditor general.

The document, tabled Tuesday, outlined how auditor general Michael Ferguson’s team struggled to get a full picture of the aid given to automakers, whether the money made a difference and how much was recovered and lost.

The auditor general said it’s because no single department or agency was in charge of collecting and reporting all this information.

Instead, the Finance Department, Export Development Canada and Industry Canada all reported separately, an approach the auditor general concluded put limits on the usefulness of the details.

The auditor general’s office recommended that those entities, along with other relevant players, should publish a report with clear information on the financial help provided to Chrysler and General Motors, such as total cash disbursed and how it was used.

It also called on the government to explain what kind of impact the support had on the health of the companies.

The government responded by saying it would publish a final report on the financial help given to GM and Chrysler before the end of the year.

Greece signals slower bailout exit PARIS — Greece resumed negotiations in Paris with bailout inspectors on Tuesday, as officials in Athens said the country would seek a more gradual exit from the massive rescue program than previously hoped. Greek Finance Minister Gikas Hardouvelis started the weeks-delayed talks with representatives from the European Commission, European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund.

The two sides are trying to overcome differences over a feared budget shortfall next year and the future of painful cost-cutting reforms.

Since coming to the brink of bankruptcy and losing market access in 2010, Greece has survived on bailout programs worth 240 billion euros ($300 billion)

Wal-Mart’s chief merchant leaves in management shakeup on eve of big holiday season THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK - Wal-Mart’s chief merchandising officer for its namesake U.S. division has left as the discounter makes leadership changes to perk up sales as the holiday shopping season revs up.

According to a memo provided to the media, Duncan Mac Naughton decided to leave to “pursue new opportunities” effective Tuesday.

According to the memo from Greg Foran, CEO of Wal-Mart’s U.S. business since August, the company will not name a replacement immediately. The heads of each of the merchandise categories will report directly to Foran.

“I would like to use this opportunity to get closer to the merchandising organization,” Foran wrote.

Foran, who had been CEO and president of Wal-Mart’s Asia business, told investors in October that he was conducting a major review of the U.S. Wal-Mart business. The company will update investors on its plans early next year.

Mac Naughton is leaving two days ahead of the Thanksgiving weekend sales bonanza.

Among other leadership changes, Steve Bratspies will move from his role as executive vice-president of general merchandise to executive vice-president of food, which includes a strong focus on the fresh category.

Jack Sinclair, who had been head of the food category, will be taking another role within Wal-Mart to be announced later.

Wal-Mart’s U.S business posted a slim 0.5 per cent increase in revenue at stores open at least a year in its fiscal third quarter.

That was its first increase in seven quarters.Its U.S. business has been hurt as its low-income shoppers are still not benefiting from a slowly recovering economy. But the business has also been tripped up by its own mistakes. It has had problems with its fresh produce. Shoppers have complained about empty shelves because it doesn’t have enough workers to unpack boxes of items that were in the backrooms.

For the holiday shopping season, WalMart is speeding up checkout lines. WalMart said it’s opening more cash registers than ever this holiday shopping season. It is adding hours for employees to do more stocking work, and it is focusing on getting better with its prices.

Longer term, it is scaling back its expansion plans for its supercenters next year and stepping up investments in its online operations.

New FDA rules will put calorie counts on menus, supermarket meals, movie popcorn THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Whether they want to or not, consumers will soon know how many calories they are eating when ordering off the menu at chain restaurants, picking up prepared foods at supermarkets and even eating a tub of popcorn at the movie theatre.

The Food and Drug Administration announced long-delayed calorie labeling rules Tuesday, requiring establishments that sell prepared foods and have 20 or more locations to post the calorie content of food “clearly and conspicuously” on their menus, menu boards and displays.

Companies will have until November 2015 to comply.

The regulations will also apply to convenience stores, bakeries, coffee shops, pizza delivery, amusement parks and vending machines.

The idea is that people may pass on that bacon double cheeseburger if they know it has hundreds of calories — and, in turn, restaurants may make their foods healthier to keep calorie counts down. Beverages are included in the rules, and alcohol will be labeled if drinks are listed on the menu.

“Americans eat and drink about onethird of their calories away from home and people today expect clear information about the products they consume,” FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg said.

The effort is just one way Americans can

combat obesity, she added.

The menus and menu boards will tell diners that a 2,000-calorie diet is used as the basis for daily nutrition, noting that individual calorie needs may vary.

Additional nutritional information beyond calories, including sodium, fats, sugar and other items, must be available upon request.

The rules deal a blow to the grocery and convenience store industries, which have lobbied hard to be left out since the menu labels became law in 2010 as a part of the health care overhaul.

Even before the new rules were announced, some Republicans in Congress had expressed concern that they would be too burdensome for businesses.

The law came together when the restaurant industry agreed to the labeling in an effort to dodge a growing patchwork of city and state rules. But supermarkets, convenience stores and many other retailers that sell prepared food said they wanted no part of it.

The restaurant industry pushed to include those outlets, as they increasingly have offered restaurant-like service.

The FDA issued proposed rules in 2011 that included supermarkets and convenience stores but excluded movie theatres.

The final rules being released Tuesday include all of them.

Representatives for the supermarket industry have said it could cost them up to a billion dollars to put the labels in place

—costs that would be passed on to consumers. They said the rules could cover thousands of items in each store, unlike restaurants, which typically have fewer items.

To assuage some of their concerns, FDA excluded prepared foods that are typically intended for more than one person to eat and require more preparation, like deli meats, cheeses or bulk deli salads.

But a sandwich for sale at the same counter would have to have a calorie label nearby, and many prepared foods in the grocery store will have to be labeled — from the salad bar to the hot food bar to individual cookies and slices of cake in the bakery. In some cases foods will have to be labeled in one area but not in another — cut fruit would be labeled on a salad bar, for example, but not in a container for sale, because that is generally meant to take home and eat over a period of time.

Leslie G. Sarasin, president and CEO of the Food Marketing Institute, said the group is extremely disappointed in the rules, which she said will affect stores’ offerings of “fresh, minimally processed, locally produced items” such as cut cantaloupe, mixed salads, or steamed seafood.

Hamburg acknowledged that the regulations seem complicated but said standards are necessary as supermarkets are selling more restaurant foods.

The FDA says the idea is to label calories of foods that are meant to be eaten in the store, as a customer is walking away or soon after they arrive at another location.

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Butt wary of ruining new movie

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS REGINA — The cast of the hit TV series Corner Gas are revelling in the newest set of shenanigans to befall the residents of Dog River — only this time the laughs and blunders are taking place on the big screen.

Brent Butt, Nancy Robertson and Lorne Cardinal were among the stars to walk the red carpet in Regina on Tuesday for the public world premiere of Corner Gas: The Movie.

Butt, who was born and raised in Tisdale, Sask., was a standup comic when he created the series in 2004, which ran on CTV for six seasons.

He said it was challenging to write a movie script and the cast and crew worried about not living up to fans’ expectations.

“Corner Gas was a thing that had a known rhythm, a known pace and known characters and the stories were of a certain level,” he said, adding that the writers were wary of creating one long 90-minute episode instead of a script fit for a movie.

“We thought, let’s not ruin Corner Gas, let’s make that priority one,” he said with a laugh.

Butt, who starred as gas station owner Brent Leroy, said he couldn’t be happier with how the movie has turned out.

“So far the response, it’s very gratifying. There’s that relief, you didn’t ruin it, it actually works.”

Nancy Robertson, who played gas station employee Wanda Dollard and is Butt’s real-life wife, said the Kickstarter campaign that helped to fund the movie was a “pat on the back” from fans.

The campaign raised nearly three times its goal of $100,000. Kickstarter is a crowdfunding website that allows people to donate to projects, often in exchange for rewards. For instance, a Saskatoon philanthropist won the right to hold the actual premiere of the movie — a private showing for about 300 people Monday night in Saskatoon that also served as a charity fundraiser.

Robertson said she wasn’t sure how the TV series would translate to film, but the sweeping expanse of the land around Roleau, Sask. — known to fans of the series as Dog River — was perfect for those big-screen cinematic shots.

“The prairie looks stunning,” she said, adding that the transition to film “felt really natural.”

As for the story it tells, the movie is set five years after the end of the series and finds the town of Dog River mismanaged and the target of a corporate giant.

Lorne Cardinal, who played police officer Davis Quinton, said the audience’s reaction at the Monday screening was encouraging.

“The audience loved it, they laughed where they were supposed to, and teared up where they were supposed to and (there was a) standing ovation at the end, so I think we hit it,” he said.

The movie will play in select theatres from Dec. 3 to 7 before it’s released on TV.

Rare Shakespeare Folio from 1623 found in France

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PARIS — The accidental discovery in a small library in northern France of an original first folio of Shakespeare’s plays has sent a jolt of excitement around the world of Shakespeare scholars.

The find brings the total of known folios in the world to 233, and is significant as each first folio can contain variations that shed light on the bard’s intentions. Among the 900 pages of the most recent discovery are rare annotations that suggest it was used for performance.

The annotations “might tell us something about Shakespeare’s reception at the time, how they were thought of as text for performance,” said Stanley Wells, honorary president Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.

Scholars have not yet had a chance to carry out the painstaking comparisons with the texts of other folios to determine what variations the latest discovery may contain.

Remy Cordonnier, the director of the Saint-Omer library’s medieval and early modern collection, happened upon the folio among the belongings of a Jesuit evangelist that were bequeathed from a now-defunct Jesuit college in the town.

“I first tried to keep a level head as I wasn’t sure 100 per cent of its authenticity,” Cordonnier said.

The first folios are the first complete printed collections of Shakespeare’s plays.

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Former CBC Radio host Jian Ghomeshi, centre, is escorted by police out of court past members of the media in Toronto on Wednesday.

Ghomeshi in court FORMER CBC HOST TO PLEAD NOT GUILTY TO SEXUAL ASSAULT CHARGES: LAWYER

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Former CBC radio host Jian Ghomeshi plans to plead not guilty to multiple counts of sexual assault, his lawyer said Wednesday.

Marie Henein made her comments just moments after Ghomeshi was released on $100,000 bail at a Toronto courthouse.

“We will address these allegations fully and directly in a courtroom,” she said as a sombre-looking Ghomeshi stood by her side.

“It is not my practice to litigate my cases in the media. This one will be no different. We will say whatever we have to say in a court of law,” said Henein, adding that Ghomeshi would not be speaking to the media either.

The 47-year-old Ghomeshi turned himself in to police earlier on Wednesday and was charged with four counts of sexual assault and one count of overcoming resistance by choking.

He looked tired as he appeared in the prisoner’s box of a packed Toronto courtroom wearing a dark suit with a

light shirt.

His bail conditions include living with his mother — who was present in court and acted as his surety — no contact with his alleged victims and an agreement to surrender his passport and remain in Ontario.

When asked by a judge if he understood the conditions of his release, Ghomeshi clasped his hands in front of him, nodded slightly and said “yes” and “I do.”

Ghomeshi’s lawyer requested a publication ban on the bail hearing, which was granted, meaning the allegations and evidence details at the proceedings could not be reported.

The former Q radio host was fired

by CBC on Oct. 26 after the public broadcaster said it had seen “graphic evidence” that he had physically injured a woman.

Since his dismissal, nine women have come forward with allegations that Ghomeshi sexually or physically assaulted them - three of them filed police complaints.

Ghomeshi has admitted that he engaged in “rough sex” but insisted his encounters with women were consen-

sual.

Toronto police said they began an investigation into several allegations of sexual assault relating to Ghomeshi on Oct. 31.

One of the women who contacted police was Lucy DeCoutere, an actress on the show Trailer Park Boys,” who was the first to speak on the record about her alleged experiences with Ghomeshi.

DeCoutere accused Ghomeshi of choking her “to the point she could not breathe” and slapping her “hard three times on the side of her head.”

In a statement issued Wednesday, DeCoutere said the Ghomeshi scandal has lead to “a major shift” in the conversation about violence against women.

“It has been an overwhelming and painful time for many people, including myself, but also very inspiring. I hope that victims’ voices continue to be heard and that this is the start of a change that is so desperately needed.”

None of the allegations against Ghomeshi have been proven in court.

His next court appearance is on Jan.8.

Witherspoon digs deep for soul-baring ride of Wild

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Once she’d decided to take on her gritty new role in Wild, there were a few things Reese Witherspoon knew she DIDN’T want to hear from movie studio executives: “We want her to be more likable.”

“We don’t want her to use drugs.”

“We don’t want her to be profane.”

And so, Witherspoon says, she didn’t give them the chance.

She developed the film, which follows a hard-living woman’s path to solace and redemption via a long trek in the wilderness, outside the studio system under the auspices of her own production company, with private financing. “And then I took it to the studios and said, ‘I’m not changing a word,”’ Witherspoon recounts. “And I had three bids on it that day.”

“And I think it’s important, you know?” the actress adds. “You grow up, you change — I’m a 38-year old woman now, I have three kids, and I’ve lived a lot of life experience. It’s really important to me that the things I put out into the world are meaningful and thought-provoking. Otherwise, what am I doing?”

Wild, based on the bestselling memoir by Cheryl Strayed, is a story of personal catharsis, and listening to Witherspoon, one gets the sense she was seeking a sort of professional catharsis by choosing it. The role, which has garnered significant Oscar buzz, includes difficult scenes depicting rough sex and heroin use. Witherspoon wore no makeup and spent days lugging a heavy backpack up and down hills.

“By far, it’s the hardest thing I’ve done in my life,” she says. “The physical aspects were really challenging — the elements, the heat, the cold, the water, the rain, 55 locations in 35 days, and carrying that backpack. And there was nothing else to cut to — just me.”

Emotionally, it was even harder, she says: “One day I’d be getting divorced.

Another, my mother would be dying.

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Reese Witherspoon stars as Cheryl Strayed in ‘Wild,’ a film based on Strayed’s bestselling memoir.

The next day I’d be using heroin. It was just nonstop — not even a roller coaster, just a continual descent downward! There are always scenes that I dread, that I say, ‘That day’s going to be miserable.’ And here, it was three weeks of that.”

Witherspoon’s director, Jean-Marc Vallee, calls the actress “a trouper.”

As well he should: he noticed that the backpack looked too light and forced her to carry a much heavier one. “And then he just walked away, and I was like, OK ...” Witherspoon laughs. “You can see it digging into my skin. Because it really WAS digging into my skin!”

Vallee says Witherspoon “went out there with no makeup, looking like nothing, on the trail for 65 per cent of the film, looking like a hiker, with a heavy backpack on her back. I removed the mirrors in the makeup trailer and she didn’t look at herself. ” Witherspoon, who already has one

Oscar on the mantelpiece for 2005’s Walk the Line, says it was no accident that she chose such a film at this point in her career, a time that finds her veering away from trademark sunny, bright roles and romantic comedies.

(Her 2012 supporting role in the Mississippi River coming-of-age tale Mud is another example of her new direction.)

“It’s something I consciously did for myself,” she says. Her production company, Pacific Standard, is specifically geared toward projects with complex roles for women — like the role played

by Rosamund Pike in Gone Girl, which came out in October.

“I was seeing sort of a deficit in leading roles for women,” she says.

“It was just sort of the lack of complex characters, of interesting, dynamic women onscreen. I have a 15-year old daughter and it’s very important to me what she sees, in movies and television.”

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Culture and sport team up to present Canadian hockey sweater story SASKATOON - An iconic Canadian story about a boy and his hockey uniform is bringing together a junior sports team and a symphony orchestra.

A musical adaptation of Roch Carrier’s The Hockey Sweater is to be presented live at SaskTel Centre by the Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra next March.

The Saskatoon Blades of the Western Hockey League decided they wanted the concert’s first performance on ice done in their home arena.

Kids will be allowed to skate with the team after the show, which is to include illustrations from the book projected onto the scoreboard.

Saskatoon Mayor Don Atchison will narrate the tale, and there will also be autograph sessions and interactive games.

The Hockey Sweater is based on a real experience Carrier had growing up in Quebec and is considered to exemplify Canada’s passion for the game.

It tells the story of a boy who is ridiculed when he is made to wear a Toronto Maple Leafs sweater by his mother after she mistakenly orders the wrong one to replace his worn-out Montreal Canadiens Maurice Richard jersey.

It’s also considered to be an allegory of the relationship and tensions that existed between francophones and anglophones in the 1940s.

The Saskatoon event is bringing many different things together, suggested Blades president Steve Hogle.

“Hockey’s a great platform. It is a really common bond among Canadians,” he said on the Blades website Tuesday. “We can use that and leverage that to get into things like music and literature and celebrate ... aspects of hockey as well.”

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Birdman leads Independent Spirit Awards nominations THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES — Birdman, a dark comedy about show business, took flight Tuesday with a leading six nominations for the 30th Film Independent Spirit Awards.

Star Michael Keaton and director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu picked up nominations for the film from Fox Searchlight.

Nods also went to its supporting actors Emma Stone and Edward Norton and to cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki.

Collecting five nominations each were the coming-of-age drama Boyhood, the Martin Luther King Jr. biopic Selma, and the noir thriller Nightcrawler.

Other films recognized in the best feature category included Whiplash and Love is Strange, both of which received four nominations.

Rosario Dawson and Diego Luna announced the nominees live from the W Hotel in Hollywood. The awards recognize achievements in independent film, and Oscar hopefuls are sprinkled throughout each category.

Nods in the male lead category went to David Oyelowo for his portrayal of Martin Luther King Jr. in Selma; Jake Gyllenhall for his turn as a sociopathic freelance reporter in Nightcrawler, John Lithgow for Love is Strange; and Andre Benjamin for Jimi: All Is By My Side.

Female lead nominations included Julianne Moore for her role as an Alzheimer’s patient in Still Alice; Marion Cotillard for the turn of the century drama The Immigrant; Tilda Swinton for the vampire pic Only Lovers Left Alive; Jenny Slate for the abortion comedy Obvious Child; and Rinko Kikuchi for Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter.

In addition to Inarritu, directing nominations went to Ava DuVernay (Selma), Damien Chazelle (Whiplash), Richard Linklater (Boyhood) and David Zellner (Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter).

Noticeably absent from the slate was the Alan Turing biopic The Imitation Game starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley, and Wild starring Reese Witherspoon, both of which are expected to be contenders for other major awards.

Film Independent would not comment on whether The Imitation Game was eligible for nominations.

It did honour Foxcatcher with its Special Distinction Award and Inherent Vice with the Robert Altman Award.

For unspecified reasons, neither film was eligible for individual nominations.

The Stephen Hawking biopic The Theory of Everything, starring Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones, was also missing from the slate because it is not an American film The Spirit Awards tries to recognize films outside the mainstream, but recent winners have tended to overlap with Academy Awards nominees.

Last year, the Spirit Awards winners matched the Academy Awards winners in several top categories, including best picture (12 Years a Slave), best actor (Matthew McConaughey for Dallas Buyers Club), and best actress (Cate Blanchett for Blue Jasmine).

Winners will be revealed at an awards ceremony on Feb. 21. 2015, a day before the Academy Awards.

The Spirit Awards ceremony will air live on IFC from Santa Monica.

This year’s 341 submissions were judged on such guidelines as uniqueness of vision, originality of subject matter, economy of means, and percentage of financing from independent sources.

Only films with a budget of $20 million or lower are considered.

Nominations are decided by members of Film Independent, which include critics, filmmakers, actors, festival programmers, past winners and nominees, and members of Film Independent’s board of directors.

OTTAWA - The Canadian children’s programs Justin Time, Rocket Monkeys and If I Had Wings have each won a $25,000 Shaw Rocket Prize.

The award is presented each year to top independently produced shows in three age categories.

From Toronto production company Guru Studio, Justin Time — about the adventures of Justin, Olive and Squidgy — won in the 0-to-5 age group category.

Rocket Monkeys (Toronto’s Breakthrough Entertainment) picked up the award in the age six to 12 category. It features brothers Gus and Wally, along with their friend YAY-OK, carrying out a series of missions.

In the age 13-17 category, the winner was If I Had Wings, by Vancouver’s Really Real Films. It’s about a blind teen who dreams of running for his schools cross-country team.

The finalists were chosen by a panel of industry experts, and then children from across the country voted for the winners.

The Shaw Rocket Fund is not-for-profit production fund backed by Shaw Communications, Shaw Pay Per View, a division of the Shaw Cablesystems, and Shaw Direct.

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A Premier salon offering a comprehensive array of both modern and traditional beauty services with emphasis on quality and personalized service.

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Please call to schedule a complimentary consultation or inquire about a service.

This feature contains stories and messages from the public as well as prominent members of our community.

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CLASSIFICATIONS 1000-1430

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2950 Bremner Ave. Red Deer, AB T4R 1M9 Circulation 403-314-4300 DEADLINE IS 5 P.M. FOR NEXT DAY’S PAPER

CLASSIFICATIONS 3000-3390

announcements Obituaries CAMPBELL Cathy Dianne 1967 - 2014 Cathy Campbell of Red Deer passed away suddenly at the Foothills Hospital on Friday, November 21, 2014 at the age of 47 years. Cathy will be lovingly remembered by her husband, Bruce McCabe, sister, Valerie Garrard, brother, Hal Sear, and numerous extended family and friends.

She was predeceased by her parents; Barbara and Art Sear. The family wishes to thank the staff at the Red Deer Regional Hospital and the Foothills Hospital for their attention and care they have given to Cathy and her family.

A Graveside Service will take place at the Alto Reste Cemetery, 3.6 kms east of 30 Avenue on Highway 11 East, Red Deer County, on Monday, December 1, 2014 at 1:00 p.m. 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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Legal

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Coming Events

Johnston Ming Manning LLP has an opportunity for a full time

Senior Conveyancer

This position requires someone who displays a team player outlook, effective communication skills, the ability to multitask, and the ability to work in a fast paced environment. The ideal candidate FREE FLU SHOTS will have prior experience Highland Green Value working in a law firm, and Drug Mart 6315 Horn St. a minimum of 2 years NOW PLAYING experience working as a VLT’S AT Legal Assistant in residential EAST 40TH PUB real estate. We offer a great benefit package, and PIONEER LODGE the opportunity for personal ART MARKET and professional growth.

SAT. NOV. 29, 10-4:30 pm Please respond in 4324 46 A Ave. Red Deer confidence with a cover 403-391-2574 letter and resume to: Human Resources Johnston Ming Manning LLP 3rd Floor, 4943 50th Found Street Red Deer, AB T4N 1Y1 FOUND ladies ring found Fax: (403) 342-9173 in Gasoline Alley Email: hr@jmmlawrd.ca 403-784-3800 We would like to thank all applicants, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

CHRISTMAS BAZAAR Fri. Nov. 28, 4 - 8 pm Estview Estates Community Hall 120 Ellenwood Dr.

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Personals

COCAINE ANONYMOUS 403-396-8298

jobs CLASSIFICATIONS 700-920

Caregivers/ Aides

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F/T LIVE IN caregiver position, private household, $11/hr., in Innisfail, highschool diploma and criminal check req’d, child care and household duties 403-227-4132

Births

Live in Nanny needed for 7 and 1 1/2 year old must be able to commute from sylvan lake to Red deer 403-505-9935 P/T F. caregiver wanted for F quad. Must be reliable and have own vehicle.

403-505-7846

Clerical

has a special package just for you & your little one!

For more information, Call Lori, 403-348-5556

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PROF. Accounting office looking for office admin/ bookkeeper to start immediately. Responsibilities will include: approx. 50% bookkeeping and dealing with clients, 25% year end file prep and pers. tax data entry and 25% pers. assistant/office admin. We are looking for one full time person, but would consider two part time positions.

The office is open Mon Fri with flexible hours. The ideal candidate is a positive, motivated and results driven individual who works well independently.

We are an office of long term employees looking for a like minded individual to join our team. We offer above average/competitive wages and benefits. Working knowledge of Simply Accounting is a must.

Would also be an asset to have experience with Mirc Office, Caseware Working Papers and Profile.

Resumes accepted ONLY via email - counseltech@ shaw.ca WELL established land surveying firm has an employment opportunity for a full-time RECEPTIONIST/ SECRETARY. Successful candidate will have strong organizational and communications skills, and enjoy working with clients in a fast paced environment. Preference will be given to those with post-secondary education.

We offer a competitive wage and benefits package and positive work environment. Please submit resume in confidence to: Snell & Oslund Surveys (1979) Ltd. 1, 5128 - 52 Street Red Deer, AB T4N 6Y4 Fax: 403-343-7025 Email: info@ snellandoslund.com Thank you in advance for your interest, however, only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted.

Dental ARE YOU EXPECTING A BABY SOON?

$2500 Bonus Every 100 days IMMEDIATE OPENINGS Oil & Gas Well Testing Supervisors, Night Foremen, Experienced/ Inexperienced Junior Day/Night Operators Must have H2S, First Aid, valid driver’s license.

Pre-employment Drug screening Competitive Wages.

Benefit Package Please submit resume with references to: apply@wespro.ca Only individuals selected for interviews will be contacted

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Oilfield

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NOW HIRING

Funeral Directors & Services

800

CLASSIFICATIONS

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SCOTT Shirley Roseanne Scott of Red Deer, Alberta, passed away of natural causes on November 24, 2014 at the age of 76 years. Shirley was born on October 22, 1938 in Bentley, Alberta to Rosie and William Martin. She is survived by her daughters, Donna McCullough, Beverly Kissik, Anita Scott, and Della Ablett; her sons, Trevor Saunders and Clarence Saunders; her sister, Faye Zdyb; her brothers, William Martin Jr. and Perry Martin; and numerous grandchildren and great grandchildren.

Shirley was deeply loved by those she left behind, and will be sorely missed. She had a special affinity towards her grandchildren, and was especially fond of the newest members of her family. A grave side memorial will be held at the Bentley Cemetery at 46 St, Bentley, Alberta on November 29, 2014 at 1pm.

In lieu of flowers, Shirley had made the request that donations be made to STARS Air Ambulance.

Oilfield

Oilfield

CLASSIFICATIONS 5000-5240

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Oilfield

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WHAT’S HAPPENING

You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!

Welcome Wagon

wegotads.ca

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IMMEDIATE OPENING FOR EXP’D. DENTAL RECEPTIONIST. We offer competitive wages & flexible hours.

Must be willing to work days, evenings & some Saturdays.

Please drop off resume ATT’N: Marina at Bower Dental Centre or email: marina@bowerdental.com

Well Testing Personnel Experienced Supervisors & Operators Must have valid applicable tickets. Email: lstouffer@ testalta.com

Experienced Swampers and Class 1 Drivers with tickets AND rig move and winch experience.

For Red Deer area.

Fax resume & abstract to 403-885-0473 email: info@trysonenergy.com No phone calls please.

LOCAL SERVICE CO. in Red Deer REQ’S EXP. VACUUM TRUCK OPERATOR Must have Class 3 licence w/air & all oilfield tickets.

Fax resume w/drivers abstract to 403-886-4475 Buying or Selling your home?

Check out Homes for Sale in Classifieds

Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY

Oilfield

NOW ACCEPTING RESUMES FOR

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

JUNIOR OIL AND GAS OPERATOR in our Stettler Field.

Applicants need to be mechanically inclined, motivated to work hard and learn quickly.

Associated industry experience eg. instrumentation or facilities construction experience would be an asset but is not necessarily required.

This position offers a diverse and challenging work environment with competitive pay, attractive benefits and the ability to grow within the organization. Applicants must live or be willing to relocate to within a 20 minute commute of the work place location (Stettler).

Please Submit Resume’s Attention Human Resources Email: payroll@ bearspawpet.com Fax: (403) 258-3197 Mail: Suite 5309, 333 96th Ave NE Calgary, Alberta T3R 1H1 Start your career!

See Help Wanted

ZUBAR Production Services is currently taking resumes for experienced Production Testing Personnel Email resume to: rdzubaroffice@telus.net or fax to (403)346-9420.

Restaurant/ Hotel

PRODUCTION TESTING EXPERIENCED SUPERVISORS and TESTERS Day & Night Must have tickets.

Top paid wages.

Based out of Devon, AB. Email resume to: kathy@dragonsbreathpt.ca

TANKMASTER RENTALS req’s Exp’d Class 1 Fluid Haulers for Central Alberta. Oilfield tickets req’d. Competitive salary and job bonuses. Resume to terry@tankmaster.ca or fax 403-340-8818

Professionals

810

Nonprofit requires coordinator with excellent organizational and networking skills to develop and manage the local chapter of the Tetra Society. Responsibilities include community outreach, volunteer management, implementing assistive device projects for people with physical disabilities.

Flexible, part-time hours, honorarium. Please reply with cover letter/resume to: info@tetrasociety.org

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Now Hiring GASOLINE ALLEY LOCATION

VALVE TECHNICIAN/SHOP ASSISTANTS

FULL TIME and PART TIME SHIFTS AVAILABLE

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

Fax: (403) 347-3406 Email: l.enzie@isolationequipment.com or drop by #239 Clearview Drive Clearview Industrial Park Red Deer County

Apply in person or send resume to: Email:kfcjobsrd@yahoo.ca or Fax: (403) 341-3820 Oilfield

CENTRAL ALBERTA MANAGEMENT CONSULTING FIRM LOOKING FOR PROJECT BASED CONTRACTORS. Prefer candidates with background in agriculture, business or sciences.

Must have post secondary education and have excellent writing, research and communication skills.

Must be proficient with MS Office and be able to work independently.

Apply in confidence with cover letter and resume to: shan@kbsl.ca

Human Resources Administrator/ Recruiter, to start as soon as possible in the Red Deer area.

DUTIES: This position will require 1. Recruiting manpower as jobs come up, setting up interviews and screening applicants, reference checks 2. Record Maintenance accurate and timely processing of hire packages, rate changes, employee files 3. Organizing logistics for travel 4. General Office duties etc.

REQUIREMENTS 5 years minimum in the oil and gas industry, 3 years in a Recruiting/ Human Resources Admin position Highly organized, detail orientated, capable of multitasking Proficient in Microsoft Office; including word, excel and Outlook Motivated and have the ability to maintain strict confidentiality as well as a professional attitude Able to be on call, work some evenings and weekends Able to work independently and as part of a team; encourage excellence through positive contributions Please submit cover letter and resume to: resumes@ newcartcontracting.com or fax to (403) 729-2396 Attn. HR. No phone calls Please.

Looking for a place to live?

Take a tour through the CLASSIFIEDS

Restaurant/ Hotel

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BOULEVARD Restaurant & Lounge Gasoline Alley, 37471 Hwy 2S,

• Very Competitive Wages • Advancement Opportunities With medical Benefits • Paid training • Paid Breaks

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:

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NEWCART is looking for a fulltime

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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.

Professionals

Red Deer County is seeking

Cook ~ $14.00/hr.

To prepare & cook all food up to standard, clean kitchen & maintain hygiene, follow recipes, assist in receiving & storing

Kitchen Helper ~ $11.00/hr.

To clean kitchen following safety & hygiene standards.

Clean utensils, cutlery, crockery & glassware items, floors, assist in prep.

All positions are permanent Full-time/Part-time, shift work & weekends.

Education: Above Secondary Work Experience not essential, training provided.

Fax resume to 780-702-5051

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

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

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

Competitive Wages and Immediate Benefits. Priority given to applicants with relevant experience, and a Class 1 Drivers License.

21 and 14 or 15 and 6 day rotations are offered. Wise will also provide any oilfield tickets needed.

For more information see:

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

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Trades

HAMPTON INN & SUITES Red Deer is now accepting resumes for a housekeeping supervisor. Must be able to work weekends.

Apply within 128 Leva Ave. Red Deer County. Fax 403-341-9996 or email: info@hamptoninnrd.com

Journeyman Millwrights, Electricians, and Machinists.

HIRING SERVER Apply in person at Shiso Japanese Restaurant, 3731 Gaetz Avenue No Phone Calls Please!

Individuals must be safety conscious, physically fit, able to work overtime and shift work.

Wages start at $40.00 per hour and offer an excellent benefit and pension package.

Please send resume to reddeerhr@evrazna.com or deliver in person to 27251 391 Township Road

HOLIDAY INN EXPRESS RED DEER

850

Trades

Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds

NEWCART is looking for a full time

Landscape Labourer, as soon as possible.

Duties will include: cutting grass, raking, litter removal, fertilizing, watering, snow clearing, operating light and heavy duty machinery, maintaining property maintenance equipment, general yard maintenance etc. This position will require some evenings, weekends, early mornings.

2 years experience minimum required.

Hourly wage is $23-$25.00 depending on experience.

Benefits available after 3 month probation period.

F/T SATELLITE INSTALLERS - Good hours, home every Please submit resumes to: night, $4000-$6000/mo. resumes is seeking Contractor must have truck FRONT DESK CLERK or van. Tools, supplies & @newcartcontracting.com or fax to 403-729-2396. ladders required. Training ~ $14.00/hr.

NO phone calls please. provided, no experience • Answer phone calls, needed. Apply to: take reservations. satjobs@shaw.ca • Check in/out guests.

Required Immediately • Balance cash out & LICENSED MECHANIC & attend to guest needs Parts Delivery AUTO BODY TECH. HOUSEKEEPING Driver / Warehouse Reasonable rate.

Must possess clean ROOM ATTENDANT A.J. Auto Repair & Body drivers abstract, know 11, 7836 49 Ave. ~14.00/hr. city well. The individual Call 403-506-6258 • Clean & vacuum rooms, must be able to work public areas, pool etc.

Tired of Standing? unsupervised in a fast • Replenish amenities, Find something to sit on paced environment. Some linens & towels. in Classifieds heavy lifting is required.

• Adhere to Holiday Inn safety standards.

Parts Person All positions are permanent MILLARD TRUCKING LTD. is looking for a 2 Licenced Parts person required for Full-time/Part-time, shift Journeyman Heavy rapidly expanding HD work & weekends.

Duty Mechanics.

Parts Supply Store.

Education: Above Secondary The successful applicant Must be able to work Work Experience not must be able to work well unsupervised in a fast essential, training provided. in a high paced environpaced environment.

Fax resume to 780-702-5051 ment. We offer a great Have experience in the HOLIDAY INN working environment, very heavy truck/trailer industry. competitive wages and Red Deer South, Must possess strong performance bonuses.

Gasoline Alley, customer service skills.

All interested person are 37471 Hwy 2S, invited to apply to: Above average wages, Red Deer County Millard Trucking Ltd. benefits package. is seeking Box 960, Sundre, AB Apply with resume @ FRONT DESK CLERK T0M1X0 Artic Truck, Email: ~ $14.00/hr.

Fax: 403-638-4987 ron.cain@nfleetsolutions.com • Answer phone calls, email: Fax: 403-348-5198 take reservations. mbrodie@enerchem.com • Check in/out guests.

• Balance cash out & Truckers/ attend to guest needs.

2803-50 Avenue,

Red Deer

860

Drivers HOUSEKEEPING ROOM ATTENDANT ~ $14.00/hr.

Clean & Vacuum rooms, public areas, pool, etc.

• Replenish amenities, linens & towels.

• Adhere to Holiday Inn safety standards All positions are permanent Full-time/Part-time, shift work & weekends.

Education: Above Secondary Work Experience not essential, training provided.

Fax resume to 780-702-5051

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JJAM Management (1987) Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s Requires to work at these Red Deer, AB locations: 5111 22 St. 37444 HWY 2 S 37543 HWY 2N 700 3020 22 St. FOOD ATTENDANT Req’d permanent shift weekend day and evening both full and part time.

16 Vacancies, $10.20/hr. + benefits. Start ASAP. Job description www.timhortons.com Education and experience not req’d.

Apply in person or fax resume to: 403-314-1303 THE RUSTY PELICAN is now accepting resumes for experienced F/T SERVERS Must have Ref’s & Pro-Serve.

Apply within: 2079-50 Ave. 2-4 pm. Mon.-Fri. Fax 403-347-1161 Phone calls WILL NOT be accepted.

We have an immediate opening for a full-time Journeyman Plumber to work within Red Deer and surrounding areas based out of our Red Deer location 2823 Bremner Ave. The main duties of this position include, but are not limited to: • The installation and service of water purification products • Installation of dishwashers, water softeners, fridge water lines, water heaters and humidification products.

The Company provides a comprehensive and competitive benefit program including such things as: • Employee & Family Assistance Program • Referral Incentives • Employee discounts • Paid overtime

Please submit your resume including cover letter and salary expectation to: reddeerjobs@trail-appliances.com or by fax at (403) 342-7168.

Security clearances will be conducted on successful applicants. We thank all interested applicants, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

850

GOODMEN ROOFING LTD.

“Low Cost” Quality Training

403.341.4544

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.

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Misc.

Help

ACADEMIC Express

WINTER START GED Preparation Would you like to take the GED in your community?

• • • • • • • • • •

Red Deer Rocky Mtn. House Rimbey Caroline Castor Sylvan Lake Innisfail Stettler Ponoka Lacombe

403-340-1930 www.academicexpress.ca 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.

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 Looking for a new pet?

Check out Classifieds to find the purrfect pet.

TRAVEL WITH

FRONTIER “because we care”

EXPERIENCED MOTOR COACH DRIVERS

Valid Driver’s Licence preferred. Fax or email info@goodmenroofing.ca or (403)341-6722 NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE!

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

MOTOR COACH CLEANER

Part time position. Shop is located 6 miles from Red Deer. Applicants must have own transportation and be able to work flexible schedule.

email or fax resume to: frontbus@platinum.ca 403-347-4999

www.frontierbuslines.com

CLASSIFICATIONS

Call Classifieds 403-309-3300 1200

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

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

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Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds

Contractors

BRIDGER CONST. LTD. We do it all! 403-302-8550

Massage Therapy

1280

DALE’S Home Reno’s CHINESE massage theraFree estimates for all your py. Direct bill. Gift card. reno needs. 403-506-4301 403-986-1691 4606-48 Ave DOORS, windows, siding, soffit, fascia and custom cladding. Call Dean @ 403-302-9210.

International ladies RMD RENOVATIONS Bsmt’s, flooring, decks, etc.

Call Roger 403-348-1060 Specials. 11 a.m.-3 a.m.

Private back entry. 403-341-4445

FANTASY MASSAGE

Now Open

Escorts

1165

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

MASSAGE ABOVE ALL WALK-INS WELCOME 4709 Gaetz Ave. 346-1161 STRESSBUSTERS 403-923-0682

1280

VII MASSAGE #7,7464 Gaetz Ave. Pampering at its BEST! 403-986-6686 2nd. location in Calgary coming Dec. 1. www.viimassage.com

Misc.

Services

1290

5* JUNK REMOVAL Property clean up 340-8666 GARAGE DOOR SERVICE. Save 50%. All yard & bobcat services, junk/tree/snow removal. 403-358-1614 SNOW shoveling/dump runs /odd jobs 403-885-5333

Painters/ Decorators

CLASSIFICATIONS 1500-1990

1520

VINTAGE Retro ANTIQUE SALE Sat. Nov. 29, 10-3 @OLSEN ST. HALL.

1580

ORIGINAL FISHER PRICE TOYS, 2 different houses, 2 schools, 1 school bus, 1 garage, 1 stove top, 1 three bears house pull toy All for $90. **SOLD**

Now Offering Hotter, Cleaner BC Birch. All Types. P.U. / Delivery. Lyle 403-783-2275

Health & Beauty

1700

NEW LIZ AREN NY, 1 red croc. make-up bag. c/w 12 eyeshadows, 2 blush, 1 nail polish, 1 lip gloss. $195 value, asking $75.

Would make a great Christmas gift.

403-227-2976

Household Appliances

1710

AMANA washer, white, 16 Classifieds...costs so little mo. old, exc. cond, Saves you so much! $350 403-347-1090

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Misc.

Help

DO YOU: - Want extra income - Know the city well - Possess a clean, valid drivers license - Have a friendly attitude - Enjoy customer service - Want part-time work (12 to 22 hrs/week) As part of our service team, you will be dispatched in response to service concerns to deliver newspapers and flyers to customers or carriers.

A delivery vehicle provided by company!

Work 3 to 4 shifts a week.

Hours of shifts are morning shifts of Monday through Friday 5:00 AM to 9:00 AM. Saturday starting at 7 AM. Wednesday to Friday Shifts starting at 1 PM. *All Shifts based on 4 hours and likely to run longer.

Advocate Opportunities

1310

JG PAINTING, 25 yrs. exp.

Free Est. 403-872-8888

Roofing

1370

PRECISE ROOFING LTD. 15 Yrs. Exp., Ref’s Avail.

403-896-4869

Seniors’ Services

1372

HELPING HANDS Home Supports for Seniors.

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

Tired of Standing?

Find something to sit on in Classifieds

Snow Removal

1380

ACE SNOW REMOVAL 403-596-5917

Yard Care

1430

FALL clean-up, Yard care, Junk/tree/snow removal, comm/res. 403-358-1614

Household Furnishings

1720

2 HIGH back chairs, new, rayon material, small stripes $100/ea 403-347-2046 CHINA CABINET, dark maple, corner model, great for storage, extra dishes, $100. 403-347-3849 DELUXE sofabed, beige free to give away 403-346-0573 DINING ROOM SET with 4 chairs & leaf, good shape. $175 obo. Nice top with light wood around side, brass legs on chairs.

403-346-4155 NIGHT Tables, (2) Red Oak, 1 drawer & 2 doors with glass top to protect from scratches. $75. ea.

403-352-8811 SET: COFFEE TABLE & 2 END TABLES. $150.

Lighter wood with glass tops. 403-346-4155

WANTED Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514

Stereos TV's, VCRs

1730

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

Misc. for Sale

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479 ASSORTED post cards, some vintage. $15 for all; 2 country roses serving dishes, $15. ea.; antique nesting hens, $25 ea.; 12 red rose tea figurines, $1.50 ea.; 10 vintage Vogart transfer patterns, $5 for all; 3, mother-in-law tongue plants, $3 ea.

403-342-1980 CLEARING: 6 NATIVE SHIELDS. 403-347-7405 please call to get address to view.

Misc. for Sale

1760

CHRISTMAS Tree, Blue Spruce, 4’. LIVE in ground.

Not yet cut, Perfect tree for small space. $60.

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To help quell riots, Israeli police deploy sophisticated spy balloons THE ASSOCIATED PRESS JERUSALEM - Israeli police are watching from above in their attempts to keep control in Jerusalem in the face of the city’s worst wave of violence in nearly a decade.

Police have been flying surveillance balloons over the city’s eastern sector and Old City - the location of its most sensitive holy sites - to monitor protests and move in on them quickly. They say the puffy white balloons, which carry a rotating spherical camera pod, have greatly helped quell the unrest. But the eyes in the sky are unnerving Palestinians.

“They want to discover everything that’s going on.

(They see) who is going, who is coming, who is that person,” said Imad Muna, who works at a local bookstore.

The Israeli company that makes the Skystar 180 aerostat system says the balloons can stay in the air for 72 hours and carry highly sensitive cameras.

Rami Shmueli, the CEO of RT LTA Systems Ltd, said his company gives police a “third dimension” in their quest to quell tensions in east Jerusalem, where they have been clashing regularly with masked youths hurling rocks and firebombs.

“We give them an aerial view of the streets and those people who are throwing stones, we can detect them even if they hide behind buildings or in gardens,” said Shmueli. “When we see them and when we see their activity, we can direct the police forces to their location. And even if they escape we can follow them and make sure that police catch them.”

Over the past month, 11 people have been killed in Palestinian attacks, including a deadly assault last week on a Jerusalem synagogue that killed five people. Most of the violence has occurred in Jerusalem, along with deadly attacks in Tel Aviv and the West Bank. The violence has been connected in large part to continuing unrest at Jerusalem’s most sensitive holy sit —a hilltop compound revered by Jews as the Temple Mount and by Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary. The Temple Mount, home to the ancient Hebrew temples, is the most sacred site in Judaism. Today, it is the site of the Al Aqsa Mosque and the gold-topped Dome of the Rock, the third-holiest place in Islam.

Jews are allowed to visit the site, but under a longstanding arrangement, they are barred from praying there. A growing number of visits by Jewish worshippers - some of whom seek to pray or want to rebuild

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the Jewish Temple there — has sparked rumours that Israel is plotting to take over the site - a charge Israel denies — and prompted violent riots by Palestinian youths. Israeli crackdowns and restrictions on Muslim access to the site, imposed as a security measure, have further enflamed tensions.

The helium-filled balloons were successfully used in Israel’s war in the Gaza Strip last summer. While various types of surveillance blimps have been used in the Jerusalem area for years, police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said a strategic decision was recently made to increase their use as part of a broader effort to use the latest technologies.

He said police currently have four surveillance balloons deployed over Jerusalem, including one that monitors the Old City and its volatile holy sites, and others over Arab neighbourhoods that have experienced unrest. Since the aerial deployment, he said there has been a marked decrease in street violence.

“It is tremendously important and gives us gives a 360-degree view of what is going on,” Rosenfeld said.

“Our units can respond a lot quicker, a lot faster and much more effectively.”

The Skystar system is currently also deployed in Afghanistan, Mexico, Thailand, Canada, Russia, in various countries in Africa and was used for security at the World Cup in Brazil, the company says.

The balloons are part of a broad collection of surveillance equipment that includes security cameras throughout the city, including 320 of them in the Old City - as well as undercover units, riot-control forces and intelligence gathering.

Police have arrested some 1,000 protesters since the summer, when the violence erupted following the killing of a 16-year-old Palestinian boy by Jewish extremists in a revenge attack for the earlier killing of three Israeli teens in the West Bank.

Sheik Ikrima Sabri, the imam of the Al Aqsa Mosque, said Palestinians are well accustomed to the aerial surveillance of mass prayers each Friday.

But he said the new surveillance over residential areas is a problem.

“It is practically over the houses. It violates the privacy of people. There are women in the houses and these machines can photograph them,” he said.

Saleem Mohtaseb, a resident of Shuafat, an Arab neighbourhood that has experienced frequent unrest, said the cameras have further frayed people’s nerves.

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International medical group reports uptick in people with cholera symptoms in Haiti’s capital PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - An international medical group says Haiti’s health system still does not have the capacity to adequately treat cholera patients and its staff is seeing an uptick in cases.

Doctors Without Borders says more than 2,000 people with cholera symptoms have required emergency hospitalization in Haiti’s capital of Port-auPrince since mid-October. Oliver Schulz is head of mission for the group in Haiti. He says the numbers of cholera patients has gone up “very quickly” in recent weeks.

During a Wednesday visit, an emergency centre set up by Doctors Without Borders in the Port-auPrince neighbourhood of Delmas had some 50 patients receiving treatment.

The cholera outbreak in Haiti began in 2010. Scientific studies have shown it was likely introduced in Haiti by UN peacekeepers from Nepal, where the disease is endemic.

6 UN peacekeepers detained after Congolese military uniforms found in their luggage KINSHASA, Congo - Congolese authorities detained six members of the UN peacekeeping force on Wednesday after Congolese military uniforms were found in their luggage.

The Ukrainian troops were held after a search of their luggage at the airport in Goma, in North Kivu province, according to the province’s governor, Julien Paluku. The large number of uniforms found included some for the presidential guard. Paluku said an investigation has been opened.

Charles Antoine Bambara, a spokesman for the force, said he was aware of the incident and said the force would co-operate with authorities in any investigation.

“If at the end of the investigation, there was misconduct on the part of the Ukrainian troops from MONUSCO, all measures will be taken in accordance with the United Nations,” he said, adding that the UN envoy to Congo has said there is no tolerance for misconduct of peacekeepers there.

The UNforce, known as MONUSCO has about 21,000 troops in eastern Congo, which is home to a number of armed groups competing for control of the region’s vast mineral resources. The Congo conflict is mainly a spillover from the 1994 genocide in neighbouring Rwanda. Hundreds of Hutus who participated in the mass slaughter escaped into Congo and still fight there, along with other armed groups.

Bulgarian Muslim leader charged with spreading propaganda for the Islamic State group SOFIA, Bulgaria - Bulgarian prosecutors have charged a Muslim religious leader and six others with spreading war propaganda for the Islamic State group.

Deputy Prosecutor General Borislav Sarafov told reporters Wednesday that six men and one woman, including an imam named Ahmed Mussa, were charged with preaching the anti-democratic ideology of the Islamic State group.

Sarafov said they are believed to have operated as an organized criminal group led by the imam, who allegedly had preached surrounded by the Islamic State flags urging his followers to be prepared to fight against Christianity.

Police operations in several cities uncovered a large number of shirts and banners with the logo of the Islamic State. Investigators also found evidence that the detainees helped western Europeans on their way to join the Islamic State group.

Deforestation drops 18 per cent in Brazil’s Amazon rain forest SAO PAULO - Brazil says that deforestation in the vast Amazon rain forest has dropped 18 per cent over the past 12 months - falling to the second-lowest level in a quarter century.

Environment Minister Izabella Teixeira said at a Wednesday news conference that 4,848 square kilometres of rain forest were destroyed between August 2013 and July 2014. That was down from 5,891 square kilometres (2,275 square miles) registered the year earlier.

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Tara, an endangered Sumatran orangutan, rests with her female baby at the zoo in Fort Wayne, Ind. The baby, born Saturday, is the only Sumatran orangutan born in the United States this year, although two other orangutans also are pregnant, according to the zoo.

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TENDER The Board of Trustees of Chinook’s Edge School Division No. 73 (the Board), has for conditional sale by tender in accordance with the Deposition of Property Regulation (A.R. 181/2010), a parcel of land comprising 2.1685 hectare (5.35 acres) more or less, in the City of Red Deer known as Lot 2 located at 4210 - 59 Street in the City of Red Deer (the west portion of the former River Glen School site). The Board will consider tenders from interested parties. A deposit of $500.00 (Five Hundred Dollars) should accompany the offer. This deposit will be nonfundable upon execution of a purchase and sale agreement.

The subject property (Lot 2) is being subdivided from a larger parcel.

The subdivision has been conditionally approved but is not yet complete.

Completion of the subdivision, approval of the successful tender, if any, by motion of the Board, and written approval of the Minister of Education and/or Minister of Infrastructure, are all pre-conditions to any sale.

A complete tender package is available on our website at www.chinooksedge.ab.ca.

Offers will be received until 2:00 P.M. on December 9, 2014 and should be sent to the attention of Mr. Allan Tarnoczi, Associate Superintendent, 4904 - 50 Street, Innisfail, Alberta T4G 1W4. For more information please call: 1-800-561-9229 or 403-227-7070.

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Why coconut Why we favour labelling GM foods a must-add food to meal plan As you put together your healthy eating meal plan, you’ll want to make sure that you are getting a sufficient level of healthy fats into the picture.

Healthy fats are not only going to provide a long-term energy source, but in addition to that, they’ll also help to maintain adequate vitamin uptake, help to cushion your organs, and help to keep your hormonal levels where they CABEL need to be.

MCELDERRY It is very critical, however, that as you go about choosing fats, you choose the right ones. Eat the wrong fats and it can be devastating for your health as well as your body composition.

Coconut is one of the healthiest fats you can consume for a number of reasons. Here are the main benefits this particular fat has to offer.

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First, despite the fact that this is a saturated form of fat, it’s a medium chain triglyceride, which is a healthier form of saturated fat — a heart healthy fat.

Coconut oil, coconut milk or dried unsweetened coconut flakes are all great additions to your diet plan and will help lower your bad cholesterol levels while preventing heart disease.

Immediate source of energy

Next, one unique quality of coconut is that it can be used as an immediate source of energy for the body. While most fats involve a lengthy breakdown period and take time to digest, therefore are considered long-term energy sources, that isn’t the case with coconut. Coconut’s energy will be available for the body almost immediately upon taking it in, so it acts much in the same way carbohydrates do.

This makes it an ideal choice for those who may be following a lower carbohydrate diet plan.

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The next factor to know about coconut fat is the fact that it also has, what’s referred to as a higher thermic effect of food.

This means that your body will burn more calories breaking it down and digesting it than other forms of fat.

Protein is the other food that has the higher TEF value, however coconut comes in a very close second. While most fats will only have you burning around 2 calories per 100 that you take in to break down and digest them, coconut comes in at around 15 calorie per 100.

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Finally, you’ll also get a good boost to your immune system by adding coconut to your diet. Maintaining a strong immune system is important as this will help you bounce back more quickly between your workouts and reduce the chances you fall ill as well. So if you are not making good use of coconut yet, it’s time to start. This is a very powerful healthy fat you should be taking in.

Cabel McElderry is a local personal trainer and nutrition coach. For more information on fitness and nutrition, visit the Fitness F/X website at www.fitnessfx.com.

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In a new survey, 72 per easier to spot future cent of Americans said problems and to provide that avoiding genetically future proof of safety. So modified food is imporhere’s our hype-free uptant to them. But that’s date on three things you not easy! should know about the An estimated 60 per GM food controversy: cent to 80 per cent of We’re concerned about packaged foods in your the environmental impact. supermarket contain inGM crops have triggered gredients derived from gethe rise of superweeds netically modified crops. that are resistant to weedThat’s because 90 per killers used on GM cotton, MIKE ROIZEN & MEHMET OZ cent of all feed corn, 93 soybeans and corn. Washper cent of soybeans and ington State University 95 per cent of sugar beets scientists warn that as a are genetically modified. result, weed-killer use These foods are mostly has risen 25 per cent anturned into ingredients nually in recent years. In like high fructose corn syrup from GM corn, sugar some parts of the Midwest, a major corn pest called from GM beets, and oil from GM canola, cotton and the Western corn rootworm is developing resistance soybeans. It’s then tucked into processed, packaged to the insecticides engineered into GM corn, so growfoods. ers are spraying more.

An eye-opening new study of 80 edibles labeled We don’t want you to fall for anti-GMO hype about “natural” — including breakfast cereals, chips and health dangers. The Internet’s jam-packed with scary, infant formula — indicated that every one of them misleading untruths about GM food. Case in point: had a GM ingredient, usually corn or soy.

The claim that they boost cancer risk. Turns out We believe you deserve to know as much as pos- that claim was based on a study in rats, and it was sible about the food you put on your plate and feed retracted in 2013 (for weak evidence) by the journal your families. That’s why we’re in favoUr of label- that originally published it. And what about the Ining GM foods. Some 61 countries around the world, ternet warning that GM foods trigger gluten intolerincluding most of Europe, do ... but not the United ance? It’s been dismissed by experts at the Celiac State or Canada.

Disease Foundation.

We say bravo to lawmakers who are introducYou can avoid GM ingredients, if you know where ing GM labeling bills in 20 states this year. Before to look on the label. Don’t rely on the word “natural”! the November elections, Connecticut, Vermont and Do look for foods labeled organic. They’re free of Maine already had label laws waiting to be activated: GM ingredients and synthetic pesticides. Or look for Vermont’s is set to go into effect in 2016. GM labels foods with the nonprofit Non-GMO Project’s “veriwill appear in the other two states when neighboUr- fied” seal. It’s a sign that a food maker has gone ing states sign on, too. through the group’s voluntary certification process We’re not fear-mongering. We eat GM foods every used on foods in the United State and Canada. day — without fear. So far, science says GM foods are The Environmental Working Group’s Shoppers not harmful to our health. The best evidence: In a Guide is available at www.ewg.org/research/shopdefinitive 2013 review of 1,763 genetically modified pers-guide-to-avoiding-ge-food. And remember: With organism studies, Italian researchers found “no sci- the exception of most papaya, a few varieties of entific evidence of toxic or allergenic effects.” zucchini, and a tiny percentage of sweet corn, fresh And more than 130 research projects funded by fruits and vegetables are non-GMO. Filling your the independent European Commission (not by pro- plate with organic or well-washed nonorganic fresh GM forces) concluded that GM foods pose no unique produce — a great eating strategy for good health — health threats. Meanwhile, a brand-new University is a good way to sidestep many GM ingredients. So of California, Davis, study of 100 billion farm animals eat your fill, without fear. found no differences in their health before 1996 The YOU Docs, Mehmet Oz, host of The Dr. Oz Show (when feed was all non-GMO) and today (when most and Mike Roizen of Cleveland Clinic, are authors of is).

YOU: Losing Weight. For more information, go to www.

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U.S. seeks to shore up world’s blind spots in preparation for next disease outbreak ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — The next Ebola or the next SARS. Maybe even the next HIV. Even before the Ebola epidemic in West Africa is brought under control, public health officials are girding for the next health disaster.

“It’s really urgent that we address the weak links and blind spots around the world,” Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told The Associated Press. “Ebola is a powerful reminder that a health threat anywhere can affect us.”

Ebola sprang from one of those blind spots, in an area that lacks the health systems needed to detect an outbreak before it becomes a crisis.

Now the Obama administration has requested $600 million for the CDC to implement what it calls the Global Health Security Agenda, working with an international coalition to shore up disease detection in highrisk countries and guard against the next contagion.

There’s little doubt there will be a next time.

Just in recent years, the world has seen bird flu sicken people in Southeast Asia, the respiratory killer SARS spread from China, the 2009 flu pandemic, growing threats from antibiotic-resistant germs, and SARS’ new cousin in the Middle East named MERS. And what if the next bug spills across borders even more easily than Ebola?

If bird flu ever mutates to spread between people, “we better look out. It will make Ebola look like a picnic,” Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, warned a recent Senate Appropriations Committee as he questioned whether $600 million was enough to do the job.

After all, less than 20 per cent of countries have reported meeting World Health Organization requirements showing they are adequately prepared to respond to emerging infectious threats.

The Obama administration kicked off the

global health security project in February at a White House meeting with representatives of more than two dozen countries - unaware that Ebola already was quietly brewing in Guinea.

Additional countries signed on in later meetings in Finland and Indonesia, and again at the White House in September, where President Barack Obama declared the world must “make sure we’re not caught flat-footed” in future outbreaks.

For its part in the international collaboration, the U.S. plans to assist at least 30 countries over the next five years to bolster local disease prevention and monitoring, improve laboratory diagnosis of pathogens and strengthen emergency response to outbreaks.

Consider Uganda, where in 2010 a lack of a good laboratory system was one reason it took “a shockingly long” 40 days to determine a mysterious outbreak was yellow fever, said CDC scientist Jeff Borchert.

Last year, CDC began a pilot project to improve Uganda’s disease detection by piggybacking on a small program that tested babies born to HIV-positive mothers.

Now, in a larger swath of the country, motorcycles race samples from sick patients to provincial capitals where they’re shipped overnight to a central lab to test for a variety of diseases.

The health ministry also set up an emergency operations centre to oversee potential outbreaks.

In March, Uganda’s new system proved itself, Borchert said, as the country fought an outbreak of nearly 200 cases of meningitis, using that network for testing of patients in remote areas. And last month, in an another example of its overall preparedness, Ugandan officials rapidly tracked down contacts of a health worker who died of Marburg virus, an Ebola relative, a case that fortunately didn’t spread.

CDC has long trained public health workers in various countries to be disease detectives, but the international collab-

oration is supposed to be more comprehensive.

Even before receiving any new funding, CDC started some additional small projects in countries such as India, Thailand, Jordan, Vietnam and Georgia.

Houses should be checked for radon gas CAN CAUSE LUNG CANCER, EXPERTS SAY

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO - It’s a naturally occurring radioactive gas that can seep through cracks and crevices in houses and other enclosed spaces - and can cause lung cancer. Yet many Canadians aren’t even aware of its existence or the health risk it can pose.

Radon, a colourless and odourless gas emitted through soil, is believed to be responsible for 16 per cent of lung cancer deaths in the country each year, making it the second-leading cause of lung cancer fatalities after tobacco use, says the Canadian Cancer Society.

It’s estimated that 3,000 Canadians die from lung cancer caused by radon annually. Yet a national survey commissioned by the society found that only one in three respondents was aware of health issues concerning radon gas, while about the same proportion knew the radioactive gas could be “very harmful.” About one-quarter of the 1,238 respondents had no idea it posed a health risk at all.

“Because it is a gas, it gets inhaled,” said Gillian Bromfield, director of cancer control policy. “Once inhaled into the lungs, it can do damage.”

Radon is released into the air as soil and rocks containing uranium gradually break down. Outdoors, released gas is quickly dispersed and

levels are low. However, when radon enters buildings through foundations, joints and vents, it can accumulate in higher concentrations - particularly in basements, which are often poorly ventilated.

The risk of developing lung cancer depends on how much radon a person is exposed to, how long their exposure is, and whether they smoke. The risk of lung cancer due to radon gas is much higher among people who smoke than those who don’t use tobacco.

Despite the potential danger, the survey found 96 per cent of respondents had not tested their houses for radon, although half said they would move if the gas were detected.

Janet Whitehead, 60, had never smoked, so she was stunned to learn five years ago that the breathlessness and persistent cough she’d been experiencing were symptoms of lung cancer. Whitehead and her husband had moved to Vancouver from Ontario, where the family had lived in Cornwall and Ottawa, so they “decided to explore it, to look further into what might have caused it,” she said.

They sent radon test kits to the owners of their former homes.

“We felt it was the right thing to do, to send a kit to those homes just in case that’s where I contracted the cancer,” said Whitehead, who was treated with surgery.

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Doctors puzzled by woman’s dizziness and sounds SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE ‘That’s it — I’m done,” Rachel Miller proclaimed, the sting of the neurologist’s judgment fresh as she recounted the just-concluded appointment to her husband. Whatever was wrong with her, Miller decided after that 2009 encounter, she was not willing to risk additional humiliation by seeing another doctor who might dismiss her problems as psychosomatic.

The Baltimore marketing executive had spent the previous two years trying to figure out what was causing her bizarre symptoms, some of which she knew made her sound delusional.

Her eyes felt “weird,” although her vision was 20/20. Normal sounds seemed hugely amplified: at night when she lay in bed, her breathing and heartbeat were deafening. Water pounding on her back in the shower sounded like a roar. She was plagued by dizziness.

“I had started to feel like a person in one of those stories where someone has been committed to a mental hospital by mistake or malice and they desperately try to appear sane,” recalled Miller, now 53. She began to wonder if she really was crazy; numerous tests had ruled out a host of possible causes, including a brain tumor. Continuing to look for answers seemed futile, since all the doctors she had seen had failed to come up with anything conclusive.

“My attitude was: If it’s something progressive like MS [multiple sclerosis] or ALS [amyotrophic lateral sclerosis], it’ll get bad enough that someone will eventually figure it out.”

Figuring it out would take nearly three more years and was partly the result of an oddity that Miller mentioned to another neurologist, after she lifted her moratorium on seeing doctors.

“It was very lonely sometimes,” she said of the five years she spent contending with feeling off-kilter even though she appeared to be perfectly normal. “I just gritted my teeth” and tried to carry on.

Miller vividly remembers the unusually hot spring day in 2007 when her problems began. While working in the garden, she bent over and a sudden wave of nauseating vertigo knocked her to her knees. Too dizzy to walk, she crawled into the house and spent the rest of the day in the air conditioning lying still. At first she blamed the heat and her lack of breakfast. Several hours later, after the spinning subsided, she noticed that her head felt funny and her vision seemed off.

The dizziness did not disappear and was sometimes severe. “My brain didn’t seem to know where my feet were, and my head seemed disconnected from my body.”

Her internist ordered a series of tests — CT scans of her brain and later MRIs — which found nothing. Over the next two years, she made the rounds

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By 2010, Rachel Miller, who suffered from dizziness and amplified body sounds, wondered if she’d ever be able to go fishing again: she couldn’t take the rocking motion of a boat. of specialists — ear, nose and throat doctors, neurologists and even a neuro-ophthalmologist — none of whom found anything noteworthy. An ENT thought that perhaps her deviated nasal septum and sinus polyps might be the cause. Miller underwent two sinus surgeries, but her symptoms remained undiminished.

A second ENT decided the most likely cause was a vestibular migraine, a severe headache of which vertigo is a common feature. He prescribed nortryptyline, a tricyclic antidepressant sometimes used to treat migraines, which Miller took for a year without noticing any improvement.

Other doctors focused on a concussion she suffered in 2003 when she was struck by a car. But none of them could figure out what the connection between her head injury and her symptoms might be.

By 2009 just getting through a workday had become a major effort. Miller had trouble concentrating, and she worried that she was so wobbly her coworkers might think she was drinking on the job.

Her vision was especially bothersome. Trained as an artist, Miller said she was “really, really aware of how I saw things” — and they didn’t look right. Parallel lines looked especially off.

Miller’s hearing also had undergone a change. As she lay in bed, her heartbeat and breathing sounded overly loud but oddly muffled, as though she was listening to both underwater. At the same time, her ability to hear out of her right ear had diminished.

In 2009, Miller consulted a neurologist who listened to her story and zeroed in on her training as an artist.

“You’re just like my wife,” Miller said he told her, “a sensitive person.”

“Are you telling me that this is all in my head?” she asked him, already surmising that his answer would be yes.

Miller said she found the doctor’s assessment devastating but not entirely surprising. Other doctors, at a loss for a diagnosis, had suggested she try Prozac. She resolved to stop talking about the problem or seeing specialists.

In 2010, Miller felt her symptoms were getting worse. She wondered if she’d ever again be able to go fishing, a favorite pastime, at the cabin in rural Canada where her family vacationed; she couldn’t take the rocking motion of the boat. During a physical, the nurse practitioner in her internist’s office asked Miller if she’d ever gotten an explanation for her balance problems.

Miller replied that she hadn’t; the nurse urged her to keep looking.

Miller resumed the search but decided she was done “mucking around with garden-variety doctors.” She remembered that the patronizing neurologist she’d seen in 2009 told her he had studied under David Zee, a vertigo expert at Johns Hopkins. And her ENT had previously suggested she consult John Carey, a professor of otolaryngology at Hopkins. Consulting them sooner, Miller says,”would have saved me about two years.”

She called Zee’s office and, after filling out a detailed 16-page questionnaire and collecting her medical records, was given an appointment with the neurologist.

“I was very belligerent when I saw him,” she said of the September 2011 appointment. She worried that Zee, an internationally prominent neurologist who directs the Vestibular/Eye Movement Treatment Lab at Hopkins, might blow her off, too.

Near the end of her visit, Miller mentioned something she’d told her other doctors; she considered it significant, but none of them had seemed interested. “You’ll probably think this is silly,” she told Zee, “but when I stick my finger in my right ear to scratch it and pull the finger out, I go blind for a second and lose my balance.”

Zee asked Miller to demonstrate.

She did and he watched intently, then asked her to repeat it several times.

The pressure created by the finger release caused her eyes to rotate abnormally. Later, Zee picked up a medical tuning fork, an instrument used to assess the nerves outside the brain and spinal cord. When Zee tapped her ankle bone, Miller told him she felt nothing but heard the sound vibrating loudly in her head.

Zee told Miller that she wasn’t crazy. Although further testing would be required for confirmation, he suspected she had a rare condition known as

superior canal dehiscence syndrome, or SCDS. Her increased sensitivity to sounds, along with the vertigo, unsteadiness, abnormal eye movements and visual disturbances were symptoms of the recent identified disorder.

The syndrome results from a dehiscence — a thinning or a hole in the temporal bone, which covers the fluid-filled canal in the inner ear. The hole allows the fluid, which helps control balance, to touch the brain, transmitting sounds such as a heartbeat, a voice or the ordinarily imperceptible sound of the patient’s eyeballs as they move. In essence, the body’s internal gyroscope is damaged, which affects balance, vision and hearing. In Miller’s case, the concussion she suffered in 2003 or an earlier head injury at age 15 when she was thrown from a horse may have triggered the problem.

The disorder is believed to be present at birth, but it can take a head injury to cause symptoms, which usually don’t show up until middle age. Some patients have no symptoms and are not candidates for surgery, while others, like Miller, are seriously affected.

SCDS was first identified in 1995 by Lloyd Minor, formerly a Hopkins ENT who is now dean of the medical school at Stanford University. In 1998, Minor devised a treatment that involves plugging the hole using tissue and bone taken from the skull. Both Zee and Carey, who operated on Miller, were members of Minor’s pioneering team.

“Most doctors, when you tell them you have vertigo, it just elicits an eye roll and they think, ‘There goes an hour,’” said Carey, who has treated more than 200 patients with SCDS. The causes of dizziness, one of the most common medical problems, could fill a textbook, and “most doctors don’t ask the right questions so they can winnow it down,” Carey said.

In some cases, patients with the syndrome are misdiagnosed as having a psychiatric disorder, including paranoid schizophrenia, after they complain of symptoms such as hearing their eyeballs move.

Carey operated on Miller in May 2012. She spent about six weeks recovering, a period that included dizziness worse than any she’d previously experienced. But the problem receded, then disappeared, as her brain reoriented itself.

A few days after surgery, Miller said, she awoke and was thrilled by what she didn’t hear: her heartbeat or her breathing. “It was quiet in my head for the first time in I don’t know how long,” she recalled.

Her vision and hearing are now normal, and although she has occasional balance problems when she gets a cold, Miller feels like her old self. “I’m incredibly grateful to them,” she said of Zee and Carey. “I told my husband I couldn’t believe I had lived like that for five years.”

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LUANN Nov. 27 1994 — B.C. Lions beat Baltimore Stallions 26-23 to win 82nd CFL Grey Cup game. First Grey Cup game with a U.S. expansion team.

1991 — The UN Security Council unanimously adopts a resolution that leads the way for the establishment of a UN peacekeeping operation in Yugoslavia.

1975 — National Defence to buy fleet of new long-range patrol aircraft for almost $1 billion,

as well as modern tanks.

1970 — Pope Paul VI, visiting the Philippines, is attacked at the Manila airport by a Bolivian painter disguised as a priest.

1961 — Gordie Howe becomes the first hockey pro to play in 1,000 NHL games.

1956 — Donald Arnold, Ignace d’Hondt, Lorne Loomer and Archie MacKinnon win a rowing gold medal for Canada in coxless fours at the Melbourne Olympic Games.

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D8 Suggestions for Xmas presents

There was a time when I’d emerge from the dark woods on the last day of the deer season, blinking at the sudden bright Christmas lights on neighbouring residences, and arrive home to a pile of reader queries about the non — appearance of the annual Christmas gift suggestion column.

This year I’m early because it is the season I always thought BOB I’d retire from SCAMMELL hunting.

So I’ve had time to recall what readers continue to tell me were the column’s best gift suggestions from the past, and think of items that served me well, some virtually lifesaving, and some still fun to use.

Without my first binoculars I’d never have seen my first deer and many of my big game animals that followed.

Binoculars are the greatest insurance to knowing exactly what you’re about to shoot at. Advances in optics have been huge, and very good binoculars can now be had for under $100. In fact, $60.00 Bushnell, mini auto focus, waterproof six powers still reside in my fishing vest for better looks at the goings — on along streams.

I still shudder to remember what my first and only prescription Polaroid sunglasses cost me.

Since the prescription changed, I have happily used $25 to $30 Polar Shield Polaroid sunglasses with both tan and grey lenses off drugstore racks.

They fit over my prescription tri-focal glasses, and greatly aid in seeing fish and game, not to mention miraculously improving driving visibility in fog and blowing snow.

Also in the visibility department, every outdoorsperson’s pack, vest, vehicle, whatever, should contain a modern, LED headlamp.

Without one on my last Nonamee Creek night fishing foray ten years ago, my bleached bones would still be out there somewhere in that maze of barbed wire.

No outdoors person ever has enough knives, because they keep losing them.

The multi tool knives: the Swiss Army models and the Leathermans are always great gifts.

Speaking as one who started with film, trail scouting cameras are fun, but the digital models in a wide range of prices are even more fun for anyone who wants to know what is using the trails on favorite hunting areas.

Without question, the column’s most

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popular gift suggestion over the years has been the best outdoorsperson’s camera, the shirt pocket, waterproof, point and shoot digital camera. This year a dozen people have thanked me for the suggestion. Now into the WG Optio series, there are many more models of this gem with slightly differing features.

If your outdoors person has “memories” drawers of beloved old slides, color print negatives, etc., he or she could have a lot of winter fun putting the whole archive on a fingernail-size memory card with a Digital Slide Converter from Hammacher Schlemmer, hammacher.ca.

Readers often ask which is the best general outdoors magazine, and I am happy to say Alberta Outdoorsmen, and not at all because I am one of its columnists. AO is the only place to read the truth about what is happening to Alberta’s outdoors, much of it written by several former Alberta Fish and Wildlife employees and scientists.

A recent issue had two gut-wrenching pieces about the war against wildlife being waged in our north by our government’s helicopter strafing and wolf poisoning program to make it look like they are doing something to save the few caribou still surviving in the scant habitat left from energy and forestry desecration and fragmentation.

A subscription for 12 issues is 38.00 (plus GST) from Sports Scene Publications, Inc., #100, 10642 178th St., Edmonton, AB T5S 1H4, www.albertaoutdoorsmen.ca, Phone 780-413-0331.

Clearly the place to shop for outdoors books and great tackle deals is from the online catalogue of the Bookmailer, www.thebookmailer.com, which offers more than 4,500 books in 24 categories. This is where you could obtain the fishing read of the year, John Gierach’s All Fishermen are Liars, perhaps autographed.

It has been a slow year for new Canadian outdoors books. I am looking forward to reading Jake MacDonald’s new anthology, Casting Quiet Waters: Reflections on Life and Fishing, published by Greystone Books and available at Chapters.

New Alberta outdoors books are rarer and scarcer than ever. Recently I have been informed and entertained by friend and colleague, Duane Radford’s The Cowboy Way: Wisdom, Wit and Lore, Blue Bike Books, www.bluebikebooks.com. Jim McLennan’s revised and updated edition of his Trout Streams of Alberta is a real deal because it incorporates material from his classic, but out of print Blue Ribbon Bow. E-mail Jim at mclennanal@ telusplanet.net for this one, and/or his Fly Fishing Western Trout Streams, or Watermarks.

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Christmas: The Phenological Fly for $20, and Good Old Guys, Alibis, and Outright Lies, for $10, or both for $25, picked up, inscribed and autographed, if desired, too — much more if mailed. Contact

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Bob Scammell is an award-winning columnist who lives in Red Deer. He can be reached at bscam@telusplanet.net.

Perfect gifts for gardeners Looking for the perfect gift for a gardener in your life?

Then visit the local crafts people and artisans.

T h e s e people make unique items for the garden or home.

Each piece is finished with skill and care.

There are many that make planters, gates, benches, feedLINDA ers, trellises, TOMLINSON obelisks and abodes for all types of wildlife.

Each finished project is as individual as the person who will receive it.

The material used is dependent of the artisan, but expect items in wood, metal, ceramic and occasionally glass.

Locating the unique pieces can be a bit of a challenge.

Often word of mouth, social media or, at this time of year, Christmas craft shows, provide the link between artisans and customers.

Different exhibitors will be at each show.

If looking for something specific, ask for a list of who has booths and what is displayed.

When attending a sale, always talk to the vendor about the finished product and the process used.

They might have more product outside or at home as floor space is limited and it can be hard to refurbish the stall when everything is very busy.

Or it could be one of a kind.

Purchasing from a vender is different than from a store.

Take cash.

It is unlikely people will have a debit machine or accept a cheque.

Chances are if you change your mind, they will not take it back and refund the money.

For this reason, know what you are buying and where it will fit.

As with anything purchased, look to see how the item is made.

Is it sturdy?

Does the item appear to have

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Birdhouses and bat houses are among the many gifts made by local crafts people. enough screws or welds to keep it together? Are the materials used of good quality?

Will the product retain its colour?

Will it have to be stored inside in the

off seasons?

When purchasing benches and chairs, sit down and take a rest.

Do your feet rest flat on the ground?

Will it need a cushion?

How heavy is it? Heavy enough to stay put in the wind but easy enough to be moved when needed?

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GIFTS: Sturdy enough to carry the weight Trellises, arbours and obelisks should be decorative as well as having spots for the plants to adhere to on their journey upwards.

Plants climb in a number of ways.

One is to twist or twine their way around existing materials.

Another climbing method is to cling by wrapping tendrils around anything in the vicinity.

Some perennial vines will send out tendrils that will penetrate any soft material.

Vines can be heavy.

Make sure that the item to be climbed is sturdy enough to carry the weight and can be anchored in the ground or to another structure.

The size and shape of a planter dictates what can be planted and how often it needs to be watered.

Usually any planter under 14 inches (20 cm) needs to be watered at least once a day.

The depth of the planter need not be deep as the roots are unlikely to grow more that six to eight inches (eight to 12 cm) in one season.

For a wooden planter to last, it must be made out of cedar or lined with plastic.

All planters must have drainage or the plant roots will get too wet and rot.

Birdfeeders and houses come in all different shapes and sizes. It is a matter of choosing one that will fit into the design of the yard.

The size of the feeder and perch dictates what birds can land. In a bird house, size of the hole determines what birds will nest inside.

If the hole is too large, predator birds will be able to reach the young or eggs inside.

Enjoy the Christmas markets, they are friendly places with interesting products.

The secret of purchasing individual pieces is to go to a number of markets, and compare the workmanship, designs and product availability.

Linda Tomlinson is a horticulturalist who lives near Rocky Mountain House. She can be reached at your_garden@hotmail.com.

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Yasha the sea lion climbs aboard the boat to take part in her training at the research facility in Port Moody, B.C., earlier this month. The UBC Marine Mammal Research Unit, in conjunction with the Vancouver Aquarium, work side by side at the Open Water Research Laboratory to do research to help the wild population of Steller sea lions and to try to better understand them.

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Batten down the hatches. It’s that time of year when boxelder bugs are snooping around looking for a winter home. Your home and mine, that is.

You know these bugs.

They are about a halfinch long and charcoal grey, with three red stripes on their thorax and red veins on their wings.

Viewed objectively, they might be pretty as individuals or clustered on the south wall of your home some warm fall or winter day. But viewed subjectively? Yuck.

Boxelder bugs are “true bugs.” That is, they are in the insect order known as Hemiptera, commonly known as true bugs, a group to which flies, bees, mosquitoes and aphids do not belong. Some identifying characteristics of true bugs are two sets of wings, the rear ones shorter than the front ones, wings at rest held flat on their backs, sucking mouthparts and a beak at the front of the head. Another characteristic of many true bugs is their scent, which is bad. As a gardener you may have experienced this scent from another true bug, the squash bug.

Stink bugs also are true bugs. Boxelder bugs are actually among the scentless true bugs.

In their search for a cozy, dry spot in which to spend the winter, boxelder females will sneak into cracks in a home’s foundation and around windows and doors, even gaps beneath siding. From there, some might accidentally find their way inside.

Come spring, the females will be out and about, eager to lay eggs.

The eggs hatch into bright red nymphs who resemble their mothers, except they have small or no wings.

The nymphs go through a series of molts to reach adult size, each time shedding their old, undersize skeletons, climaxing in the emergence of the fully developed adult in July.

The bugs will eat boxelder flowers, fruits, leaves and small twigs.

If pressed by hunger, the bugs also will feed on ash trees, other maple species (boxelder is a species of maple) and fruit trees.

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*Offer available with any activation of a new TELUS smartphone on a 2 year postpaid consumer rate plan. Promotional discount is the lesser of $100 and the price of the eligible device before tax. The mobility and TELUS Home Services accounts must be in the same name. †Offer available to consumers and businesses operated by a sole proprietor. TELUS Home Services are TV, Internet and TELUS Home Phone. Linking of home services and mobility accounts required to receive the $5/month discount. Only one discount available for each mobility account. The mobility and TELUS Home Services accounts must be in the same name. TELUS, the TELUS logo, Optik, Optik TV, telus.com and the future is friendly are trademarks of TELUS Corporation, used under licence. © 2014 TELUS.

D10 RED DEER ADVOCATE Thursday, Nov. 27, 2014

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BLACK FRIDAY IT’S ON!

DOUBLE the

GST

ON MOST ITEMS IN-STORE

Fri. & Sat. Nov 27 & 28

3 DAYS ONLY

DOOR CRASHERS!

NDAY! FRIDAY - SU V 30 NOV 28 - NO

3 DAYS ONLY Friday, Nov. 28 to Sunday, Nov. 30

25 off %

limited quantities, while quantities last. No rainchecks.

32"

ALL KITCHEN APPLIANCES

50"

40"

excluding all Clearance and POD Coffee brewing systems selection varies by store

NO TAX NO TAX NO TAX

159

$

*

limit 1 per customer after limit $248

RCA 32" LED TV

239

$

720p, HDMI x 2 each, 20621000

*

limit 1 per customer after limit $348

special buy!

429

$

RCA 40" LED TV Full HD 1080p, HDMI x3

*

limit 1 per customer after limit $598

each, 20742963

OR SATURDAY DO !

special buy!

CRYSAONSLYHERS

HITACHI 50" LED TV LE50H08

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Full HD 1080p, 120Hz each, 20819763

49977

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349

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AFTER SAVINGS

$50 PC® gift card with in-store coupon

Kinect Bundle $449.97+ free $50

PC gift card with in store coupon ®

each, 20837716

449

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DURACELL FAMILY PACK BATTERIES AA12/AAA8/9V4/C8/D8 OR QUANTUM AA10/AAA6/ 9V3/C6/D6 each,

PS4 500GB HARDWARE CONSOLE WITH THE LAST OF US AND GTA V

99

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XBOX ONE HOLIDAY VALUE BUNDLE WITH ASSASSINS CREED UNITY AND ASSASSINS CREED 4

SONY BLU-RAY PLAYER BDPS1200

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BBQTEK 60,000 BTU PROPANE GRILL WITH DOORS

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TOO HOT TO PRINT!

*Applicable electronics disposal surcharges are extra and vary by province. See store for details.

58"

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BUY ONE GET ONE FREE on Canon photo paper

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DURACELL 64GB USB STICK

CANON PIXMA MX532 WIRELESS ALL-IN-ONE PRINTER

each, 20801656

1497

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Double sided printing, network ready, scan direct to USB and 30 page duplex auto doc feeder, each, 20803347

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70 off

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TOSHIBA 58" SMART LED

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SONY 48" SMART LED TV W600B

HP 15.6" NOTEBOOK

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Windows 8.1, AMD Quad Core E2-6110

PROSCAN 9” TABLET

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each, 20829140

each, 20830451

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limit 1 per customer after limit $498

50%off BOXING REMOTE CONTROL ROBOTS each, 20803928

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Prices are in effect until Thursday, December 4, 2014 unless otherwise stated or while stock lasts.

500

PC® Fraser Fir Christmas tree 6-8’

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PC 16” outdoor wreath ®

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PC premium outdoor holiday arrangement ®

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Pot of Gold 283 g 20066178

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Maynards Bassett’s Allsorts 1 kg

Turtles holiday tin 333 g

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10

Lindt Lindor chocolate 600 g

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Friday & Saturday Nov. 28th & 29th. WE PAY DOUBLE THE GST. No returns accepted or rain checks issued for taxable items during this promotion. We reserve the right to limit purchases to reasonable family requirements. Offer only valid in participating stores. Cannot be combined with any other promotional offers. Does not apply to prior purchases.

EXCLUDES ALCOHOL, TOBACCO, PRESCRIPTIONS, DRY CLEANING, GAS BAR, LOTTERY, POSTAL SERVICES OR PRODUCTS FROM THIRD PARTY BUSINESSES WITHIN OUR STORES. Quantities and/or selection of items may be limited and may not be available in all stores. No rainchecks. No substitutions on clearance items or where quantities are advertised as limited. Advertised pricing and product selection (flavour, colour, patterns, style) may vary by store location. We reserve the right to limit quantities to reasonable family requirements. We are not obligated to sell items based on errors or misprints in typography or photography. Coupons must be presented and redeemed at time of purchase. Applicable taxes, deposits, or environmental surcharges are extra. No sales to retail outlets. Some items may have “plus deposit and environmental charge” where applicable. ®/™ The trademarks, service marks and logos displayed in this flyer are trademarks of Loblaws Inc. and others. All rights reserved. © 2014 Loblaws Inc. * we match prices! Applies only to our major supermarket competitors’ flyer items.

Major supermarket competitors are determined solely by us based on a number of factors which can vary by store location. We will match the competitor’s advertised price only during the effective date of the competitor’s flyer advertisement. WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO LIMIT QUANTITIES (note that our major supermarket competitors may not). Due to the fact that product is ordered prior to the time of our Ad Match checks, quantities may be limited. We match identical items (defined as same brand, size, and attributes) and in the case of fresh produce, meat, seafood and bakery, we match a comparable item (as determined solely by us). We will not match competitors’ “multi-buys” (eg. 2 for $4), “spend x get x”, “Free”, “clearance”, discounts obtained through loyalty programs, or offers related to our third party operations (post office, gas bars, dry cleaners etc.).We reserve the right to cancel or change the terms of this program at any time.

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