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Bill 10 put on hold PREMIER DELAYS CONTENTIOUS LEGISLATION TO ALLOW MORE TIME FOR CONSULTATION BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF
GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANCES
Reaction in Red Deer to the debate around a bill that could segregate, but still permit, student led gaystraight alliances has ranged from exasperation to a willingness to work with the now paused proposal. After weeks of fierce debate and a contentious
A CLOSER LOOK AT WHAT BILL 10 PROPOSES A2 amendment Wednesday night, Alberta Premier Jim Prentice said Thursday debate around the bill would be on hold until after the holiday season. He stressed the need for further consultation with par-
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ents, school boards and constituents. Tony Jeglum, co-chair of the Central Alberta Pride Society, didn’t come out until long after he had left high school in 1998. He said having a gay-straight alliance club in school would have helped him. “How can we be having this conversation in 2014?� questioned Jeglum. “It boggles the mind.�
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107 CONFIRMED CASES BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF A whooping cough outbreak has been declared in Central Alberta. Alberta Health Services Central Zone made the announcement on Thursday after a sustained increase in the number of cases. Caused by a bacterial infection, the illness causes severe coughing that lasts for two to four weeks. Infants six months of age and younger are at greatest risk for serious complications, which include pneumonia, convulsions, brain damage and death. So far this year, 107 cases have been confirmed, with spikes in late summer and October. Cases have been concentrated in the central and western parts of the zone. Seven cases required hospitalization. Dr. Digby Horne, medical officer of health for Central Zone, said the zone had 100 cases of whooping cough in 2013 and this year it continues “unabated and in more geographic locations than last year.� “There are other cases throughout Alberta, but Central Zone seems to have the greatest rate of cases and it’s been persistent. South Zone did call an outbreak last year, but there’s no other zones that have declared an outbreak at this time,� Horne said on Thursday. It’s the most cases in Central Alberta since 2004, when there was almost double the number, he said.
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Brandon Weatherall lets a shot go with Cam Lissack standing by on the outdoor rink in West Park on Thursday. Although the ice is a little uneven and bumpy the two along with their friend Cory Thomson couldn’t wait to get out and get in some skating. Its expected that many of the ice surfaces around the City of Red Deer will be ready for shinny and pleasure skating soon.
Horse racing body reins in future events at Alberta Downs BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF The starting gate appears to have closed for good at Alberta Downs horse racing track near Lacombe. Bob Allen, owner of the Lacombe track, said Horse Racing Alberta has not approved any races for next year, threatening the track’s seventh season. “They’ve given my horses, given my (race) days, given my off-track betting to the new track in Calgary. That’s what it looks like on the surface,� said Allen. He is referring to Century Downs Racetrack and Casino, which is due to open in April near the CrossIron Mills mall north of Calgary. Scheduled to operate 100 days a year, the track is the first in Calgary
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never any long-term commitment nor any request for Alberta Downs to do anything on a long-term basis.� When Alberta Downs became available, some races were held there to add more dates and Horse Racing Alberta picked up the “considerable� operating costs, including providing veterinarians, judges, stewards and security. “It is a business decision,� she said. “You cannot recover your costs at the track.� Alberta Downs was not able to break even because it does not have an attached racino, which includes lucrative slot machines. Horse racing tracks in Grande Prairie, Lethbridge and Edmonton all have slots, as will Calgary.
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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS WINNIPEG — For almost 60 years now, Santa Claus has been coming to the Canadian North American Aerospace Defence Command region headquarters in Winnipeg for his annual pre-flight briefing. Each year, the responsibility of watching over Old Saint Nick falls to Norad, the joint Canada/ U.S. military organization that keeps an eye on North American skies. Santa met with military officials on Thursday to prepare for his annual trip around the globe in just three weeks’ time. Lt.-Col. Darrell Marleau says keeping Santa “safe and on his route and getting all the toys and gifts to the kids” is the most important thing they do. Once airborne on Christmas Eve, Santa will travel from east to west as he makes his way across Canada, escorted by Canadian fighter jets. Once he completes his mission here, they will hand him over to American fighters as enters the U.S. And of course he has help along the way. “As soon as Santa calls me, my toes just goes and I’m ready to go,” said Santa’s elf Eugene. Marleau had an extra request of Mr. Claus this year. “We’ve got a lot of men and women throughout the world right now who are defending all of our principles and ideals … so we have asked Santa to remember them especially,” he said. And with safety check complete, the countdown to Christmas is on. “I love the anticipation of what the children will feel in the morning when they wake up and look under the tree and see what we’ve brought them,” said Santa.
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One of two of Grant Kihn’s mules nuzzles up to Heritage Ranch manager Joel Martens at the Ranch on Thursday. Kihn brought his two mules, May and Bell, to the ranch to try them out on the trails in the park to see if they would be a good fit pulling sleighs this winter. Winter sleigh rides are up and running at the ranch with an added bonus of the Winter Night Lights Tour after dark. For information on the rides and other activities at Heritage Ranch, go to www.heritageranch.ca or call 403-347-4977.
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BILL 10: Response to private members bill The Progressive Conservative government drafted Bill 10 in response to a private member bill from Liberal MLA Laurie Blakeman, of Edmonton-Centre. Blakeman’s bill would have required all school boards to develop policies to support students who want to establish gay-straight alliance activities or organizations. The most recent version of Bill 10, after an amendment was passed on Wednesday night, makes students appeal to the education minister if a school board refuses to support a gay-straight alliance. At that point, the government would create one for students but the club would not be mandated to be on school grounds. “It’s honestly a lot of shock. You’d think this issue would have been settled years ago,” said Jeglum. “By and large, we have every conceivable right, privilege and responsibility heterosexual people have. “I’m quite disappointed.” Bill 10 was on the order paper for third reading on Thursday, but the legislature adjourned before any discussion could occur. In 2000, Lindsay Thurber Comprehensive High School became the first high school in Alberta to have gay-straight alliance when a subcommittee of the school’s Students and Teachers Opposing Prejudice organization was formed to discuss sexual orientation discrimination. Red Deer Public School District trustee board chair Bev Manning said there was a request made at Lindsay Thurber to develop a gay-straight alliance and students are working with the principal on getting it organized. “We believe in the acceptance and inclusion of all of our students,” said Manning, adding there is no opposition from the board to the creation of a gaystraight alliance. Paul Mason, Red Deer Catholic Regional Schools superintendent of schools, has been following the debate the past few weeks. “We will work with the legislation as best we can to follow through on the mandate of the legislation,”
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Bill 10 proposes changes to both the Alberta Human Rights Act and the School Act, and is centred around permitting, or denying, students the right to create gay straight alliance. It proposes: ● To continue to permit a school board to not allow students to create a gay-straight alliance. However, students can appeal to the education minister if they are denied. The minister will facilitate and support the establishment of such a group, but the legislation is not clear on whether the group will be allowed on school property. Originally, students would have had to appeal to the courts if they were denied a gay-straight alliance. An amendment made Wednesday evening changed the appeal process. ● Add sexual orientation to the list of prohibited grounds for discrimination in the Alberta Bill or Rights. ● Amend the Alberta Human Rights Act to remove the right of parents to withdraw children from instruction. However, the School Act would be amended to add a section giving parents the right to withdraw children from instruction, but without sexual orientation as a matter on which withdrawal would be permitted. said Mason. “Student groups that support a safe and caring environment, through their activities they demonstrate an understanding and respect for all students, yes we can engage in that conversation. If a student group was to limit participation based on ethnic or racial backgrounds, or abilities or disabilities, sexual orientation, we would have to seriously examine that request.” Mason said he is unaware and hasn’t heard of any attempt to start a gay-straight alliance in the Red Deer Catholic district. Conservative MLAs Cal Dallas (Red Deer South) and Kerry Towle (Innisfail-Sylvan Lake) voted in favour of the amendment . Mary-Anne Jablonski, PC MLA for Red Deer North, said she supports bill 10, but felt it was worth pausing the process to listen to voters at this point. “I think we’re doing the right thing by pausing and making sure we get it right,” said Jablonski. “Of course I support adding sexual orientation to the list of prohibited grounds for discrimination and of
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course I support enshrining the rights of parents. “I support gay-straight alliances within schools, but at the same time I want to hear what parents have to say.” Towle, who joined the Conservatives from Wildrose last week, tweeted on Thursday that she will not support Bill 10. “I was in favour of the amendment as I hoped it could help — however I will not be supporting Bill 10.” Wildrose’s Rod Fox (Lacombe-Ponoka) and independent Joe Anglin (Rocky Mountain House-Rimbey) were the only Central Alberta MLAs to vote against the amendment to Bill 10. In the legislature on Wednesday evening, Anglin called the amendment separate but equal and compared it to the civil rights movement of the 1960s. “It’s promoting a philosophy of equal but separate and I’m not going to support that. There is no such thing in my view,” said Anglin. Fox said the PC government voted against all Wildrose amendments to the bill, which included antibullying strategies. “Without some sort of anti-bullying strategy or alternative, I felt the government’s amendment failed to achieve what the bill originally intended to do, which is protect all students in schools,” said Fox. “The government should have taken more time. They now need to go back to the drawing board and get this legislation right.” But the broader issue for Anglin is the positives that gay straight alliances hold for students, specifically when it comes to dealing with teen suicide rates. A study by the University of British Columbia in 2008 showed that the odds of teens having suicidal thoughts were reduced by half in schools that have such groups in place. “The discussion here is these groups reduce discrimination, but more importantly have a proven record of reducing teenage suicide,” said Anglin. “If we’re talking about this core value of reducing the teen suicide rate, I’m all for that. To not address the issue or to avoid it or by silence perpetuate it.” Jeglum said history will decide which politician is on the right side of this issue and it will be interesting to look back five years from now and see who “felt it that important to say no — no, you kids you can’t have a group like that. You can’t have a group with the name gay in it, but you can have a diversity group. So long as it doesn’t actually say gay then it is OK.” mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com
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Bison industry mourns champion THOMAS ACKERMANN KILLED IN FARM ACCIDENT BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF It was typical of Thomas Ackermann to brave awful winter conditions to ensure his bison herd was tended. Tragically, that devotion cost him his life when his tractor slipped on an icy track and rolled on the afternoon of Nov. 27, fatally injuring the married father of three daughters. “That particular day, as we know, the roads were terrible and the snow was terrible and all he could think of was making sure the animals who graze would have been able to get access to water and feed if Thomas Ackermann they couldn’t get far enough down through the snow,� said Jacqueline Fisher, a friend and co-worker of Ackermann at Lacombe’s Canadian Rangeland Bison and Elk Inc., where he was CEO and marketing manager. “It’s a huge loss for the family, as well as his Canadian Rangeland family,� she said. Switzerlandraised Ackermann, 46, was one of the bison’s industry’s biggest champions on both the national and international stages. The chairman of the Bison Producers of Alberta and vice-chairman of the Canadian Bison Association, Ackermann backed up more than 20 years of livestock and marketing experience with a master’s degree in animal science and was a recent graduate of the University of Alberta’s executive leadership
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No deaths related to whooping cough have occurred in the zone this year. “A lot of (those infected) are less than 15 years of age. But we’re getting cases in parents and older adults as well.� He said there tends to be case clusters in families Alberta Downs has been a dream of Allen’s for and schools as it is highly transmittable and spread years and he has invested an estimated $8 million in by respiratory droplets from coughing or sneezing. the turf and dirt tracks. He had planned for up to 150 It’s hard to distinguish from the common cold before slots but ran into a government moratorium on apthe noticeable cough appears a week or two after proving new gambling machines in the province. infection. Allen is not giving up without a fight and is con“It will take a while to see whether the number sidering legal action. He is looking into whether he of cases is decreasing so probably in two or three can hold races without Horse Racing Alberta. months we’ll know better what the trend overall is.� There is a lot riding on his facility, which employs AHS says immunization can safely prevent the about 30 in peak season. disease and recommends adults in contact with inpcowley@reddeeradvocate.com fants be immunized. “What’s happened recently is that there has been a dose recommended for adults that they should receive any time after they turn 18 years of age. The majority of adults have not received that dose.� Adults over 18 receive a single dose to help proSeniors Plus plans help you tect them indefinitely. maintain your health so you can be He said recently immunization was recomthere for their every milestone. mended specifically for health-care workers and Our plans give you peace of mind, a couple of years ago, knowing your health is in good vaccination efforts began for parents of newhands. born infants. Additional immunization appointments are now available free of charge for the following Central Zone residents: � Infants and preschool aged children who are not up-to-date on immunizations. � Caregivers in close contact with infants such as parents, grandparents, nannies and childcare staff. � Health-care workers. � Women who are at dental care | vision care | podiatrist | chiropractor least 26 weeks pregnant or more. AHS says immupreferred hospital accommodation | accidental death benefit nizing women at or after 26 weeks of pregnancy is safe and increases protection for newborn infants by minimizing risk of infection in those around them, and giving them antibodies transferred during pregnancy. In Alberta, pertussis immunizations are offered free of charge through Alberta’s routine childhood immunization program. A series of doses is recommended, at two, four, six and Up To 18 months of age, at four and six years of age, and OFF again in Grade 9. o n Those uncertain of Select their child’s immunizaI tems tion history can consult their local community health centre. Pregnant women, adult caregivers or those in close contact with infants may also be able to access immunization through their physicians. They should call ahead to confirm availability. Anyone who suspects that they or a family member may be sick with whooping cough should stay at home and call a family physician or Health Link 5013 Ross St., Red Deer, AB T4N 1Y2 403.346.2291 Hours: Mon.-Fri. 9-6 Alberta toll-free at Toll Free 1.888.311.2291 www.sissonfurs.ca Sat. 9-5 1-866-408-LINK(5465), be-
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Nation-building realism PUTTING PASSION BEHIND THE LOGIC OF ENERGY EAST It suddenly seems possible that the premiers of Ontario and Quebec secretly want the Energy East pipeline project to go ahead, but feel they can’t say so publicly because of the political costs. Alberta Premier Jim Prentice came a-callin’ this week to two political leaders he desperately wants not to stand in the way of the $12-billion project which would carry bitumen from Alberta DOUG to Canada’s FIRBY East Coast. The responses he heard were not as discouraging as they could have been, given that the premiers had previously imposed seven conditions. On Wednesday, Ontario’s Kathleen Wynne said any of her province’s concern over greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions would be confined to those created within its border. That means the GHGs created during the construction of the pipeline,
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not those generated when the oil is extracted. Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard said basically the same thing, although he did tell Prentice that a terminal at Cacouna is not on because of its potential impact on beluga whales. Further, Couillard admitted the obvious: “Whatever the future of the TransCanada project, extraction (of oilsands bitumen) will take place.” Such ideology-free realism is a breath of fresh air. The National Energy Board estimates that next year, without one additional pipeline, Canada will export one million barrels of crude oil — roughly the equivalent of Energy East’s designed capacity. Even the most rigid energy critics have no way of stopping this trend, unless they can block the shipment of crude by rail. So far, they have been hopelessly ineffective in doing so, even with the high-profile Lac Megantic disaster as evidence of rail’s inherent dangers. In fact, the shipment of crude increased by 22 per cent year-overyear during the July to September period, according to the NEB. The facts help sharpen the focus on what this debate is really about. It isn’t an either/or proposition, as in either a pipeline or no oil. It’s really a ques-
tion of whether Canada’s premiers are ready to show bold leadership on a nation-building enterprise that is as much in the interests of their own constituents as it is in the interests of the oil-producing provinces. Prentice came to these meetings armed with facts, prepared by the Deloitte firm. It estimates Energy East will contribute $35 billion to the Canadian economy over the life of the project. Quebec will reap $6 billion of that harvest, and Ontario — which learned this week that there is risk it could lose one of its three mainstay domestic auto manufacturers entirely — would capture $13 billion. Tax revenues for all provinces along the route are estimated at another $10 billion. Critics fairly question whether there are consequences associated with embracing all this economic activity, job creation and community building. There is, after all, the risk of future pipeline rupture and environmental disaster. Those risks, however, have to be weighed against the much higher risks associated with shipping oil by rail. Rejecting the pipeline doesn’t eliminate risk; rather, it heightens it. All very logical, but as Prentice well knows logic is a largely impotent counterforce to resistance rooted in emotion. If people think of energy compa-
nies as untrustworthy, then even the most rigorous of regulatory oversight is unlikely to sway their minds. That also explains why the compelling economic case also gains so little traction. People who have Kalamazoo-sized images of catastrophe in their heads won’t buy into a pipeline at any price. It’s time to reset the national debate. Instead of focusing on what could go wrong, it’s time to start talking about what is possible for the entire country. We need to be talking about how we can achieve more, and be more, as a nation working together rather than engaging in self-destructive turf wars. It’s the kind visionary thinking that led to our first national railway against seemingly insurmountable odds. It’s the kind of visionary thinking that could once again galvanize a country to realize what is good for one region is good for all. Prentice has brought his persuasive skills to Couillard and Wynne. They can best show their concern for the people they represent by selling citizens on a project that help build a better future for the people who live in those provinces. That’s what leadership really means. Doug Firby is editor-in-chief of Troy Media and national affairs columnist. See more at troymedia.com.
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No place for American materialism; Canada doesn’t need Black Friday Good grief ... why are we adopting the very American and transparently materialistic concept of “Black Friday?” Are we not becoming more and more Americanized every day? With the horrid greed expressed by the Black Friday and the extension of Boxing Day into Boxing Week, I fear that we are throwing tradition under the bus in order to satisfy some very materialistic impulses. Surely Christmas is not a time when adults should look to buy themselves new cars or reignite their childhoods by self-gratification. It should be a time for selflessness and charity. I think it’s time we took a step back from our neighbours and re-declare our independence. Before we give everything Canadian away, including our identity and pride. D.T. Mathias Red Deer
Streamline our garbage pickup A few weeks ago, I started walking in the alleys because of better traction on the gravel and noticed how we look after our garbage. Some put out two to three bags, others one, while some are over the limit. Over-the-limit users should buy a $1 tag from the city, however most don’t so the extra bags are left for next week’s pickup, sometimes being ripped by animals and scattered. I think instead of the five-bag limit, the city should encourage two or three neighbours to have a common area (maybe the boundary between two properties) and have over-the-limit storage so that the operators of the garbage trucks only have to stop every third house or so and load. This will save time, fuel, truck maintenance, your taxes and ensure all garbage goes where it belongs, to the dump. So people, talk to your neighbours and councillors about sharing a pickup area. Regarding the blue boxes, if you are strong enough to carry a full box, please wait until it’s full so the drivers don’t stop for a small amount. Harry Currie Red Deer
Canadian way of life being ruined Premier threatens voters — that should be the headline of Tuesday’s paper. While the Alberta government wastes money building state-of-the art airports, luxury suites, hidden expenses and subsidizes foreign workers at $29,000 a year — not to mention the spouses they bring taking jobs, and their children in our schools. We don’t hear who pays the health-care costs they incur. Meanwhile business makes greatest profits ever and speaks out for municipalities to reduce workers’ pensions and wages. The federal government continues to cut our services while pocketing money without cutting their budgets (e.g. notice all the TV shows and movies we pay for with cable companies profiting). Is that really a job of government? Shame, shame. Do we have better standard of living working longer hours while business cuts our wages and disinte-
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grate our pensions? Those are our real stories (destruction of the middle class jobs) — not how fast we can deplete unrenewable resources. Do we profit from mega-oil and gas exports? Really, we wind up paying world prices, while more and more companies are overtaken by China, big corporations, not to mention Berkshire-Hathaway buying our electricity infrastructure. Try heating your home when our natural gas is gone — might be chilly. Think of your children and their children — quite a legacy to leave: Poor wages, no job security, working until you can’t work any more and emptying the earth as fast as we can of its minerals. Visions of Scrooge? Just as chilly are these politicians ruining Canadian way of life. Don’t forget business taxes once set at 22 per cent have been lowered to the lowest ever, while our taxes have increased from 22 to 49 per cent. Why shouldn’t business contribute to our society equally? It certainly worked in the past. That would be the first place to cut — not public service. Mr. Premier, blackmail is not a game people of integrity play. Money — pure and simple — is the motive behind these few politicians speaking for us all. Vote with your feet. Debbie Newbery Lacombe County
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Christie says Americans don’t value Canada enough BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — New Jersey’s governor says delaying the Keystone XL pipeline sends a bad message to investors, stunts the growth of the Canadian oilsands industry and is no way to treat a key ally of the United States. One of the Republican party’s top prospects for a run at the White House in 2016, Gov. Chris Christie travelled to Calgary on Thursday to back the controversial TransCanada (TSX:TRP) pipeline from Alberta’s oilsands to the Gulf Coast and pan the time it is taking Washington to make a decision on the project. “Keystone has now languished for much, much too long. I think it also sends a very unfortunate signal,” Christie told the Calgary Chamber of Commerce. “First, it reduces the willingness of investors to make significant investments in large-scale, capitalintensive projects that are needed to help energy reach its customers,” he said. “It stunts production. It risks stunting growth as well,” Christie added. “This is no way to treat a friend.” Speaking to reporters, along with Alberta Premier Jim Prentice, Christie said Americans don’t put enough stock in their relationship with Canada. His message was similar to the one he delivered on a trip to Mexico earlier this year: U.S. foreign policy should focus on its neighbours first. “I’ve gotten the impression over time, watching American foreign policy, that Canada has been an afterthought and I believe it should be a first thought,” he said. “I don’t think we pay enough attention to this relationship as Americans in general. I’ve made a very conscious decision to come to Canada and to come
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New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, right, and Alberta Premier Jim Prentice speak to the media in Calgary on Thursday. here to Alberta because we should treat our friends with both respect and attention.” Christie said the regulatory review of Keystone in the U.S. has gone overboard. “It should be approved,” he said. “You clearly have my position. The regulatory steps that have gone on here are way overboard. And the fact is that, even with those regulatory steps, the people who have looked at it say that it is something that should be approved, so we should get to approving it.” The price of a barrel of oil has fallen below US$70 since OPEC decided last week not to cut production. They say one of the residences was being used as a lab to cook cocaine into crack. A hydraulic cocaine press was seized from the apartment, along with other evidence of drug trafficking. Investigators also recovered a .357 Magnum revolver, ammunition and other weapons, including a collapsible baton, brass knuckles and body armour.
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women is addressed by the title of the bill, she is satisfied with it. The new law would deny entry to Canada to those seeking to practice polygamy, which is illegal in this country. It would also require “free and enlightened consent to marriage� and sets a federal minimum age for marriage at 16 — a threshold that wasn’t already enshrined in law. It also makes it an offence for anyone younger than that to be taken out of Canada to be married elsewhere. That’s a direct reference to the polygamous community of Bountiful, B.C., where it’s long been believed that teenage girls are shuttled back and forth to the U.S. for marriage. Four members of that community are currently facing charges in relation to that practice under existing Canadian laws, but past attempts to obtain a polygamy conviction in Bountiful have failed. The bill also seeks to clarify what it means to be provoked into committing a crime. That change seeks to remove the provocation option as a defence in cases that involve so-called “honour killings,� though immigration officials acknowledged no one has ever tried to use it before. “The law you bring here has very little evidence based to it,� Liberal Sen. Art Eggleton told Alexander. “We’ve heard of one case of forced marriage that this is based on, and absolutely no successful
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VANCOUVER — The federal government has confirmed the type of avian flu that infected poultry at two British Columbia farms, while saying birds at two additional farms are also sick with a strain of the virus. Dr. Harpreet Kochhar, Canada’s chief veterinary officer, said test results indicate birds at a turkey farm in Abbotsford and a chicken farm in Chilliwack were infected with high-pathogenic, or high-path, H5N2 avian flu. Previous H5N2 outbreaks in Canada were low path. Kochhar said further testing at two other nearby farms that received chickens from the Chilliwack site have been confirmed H5 avian flu. Pathogenicity does not indicate the level of danger a virus poses to people. High-path avian flu viruses kill birds, while low-path viruses can reduce egg production. About 18,000 birds are either already dead or set to be euthanized at the original pair of farms. The two other farms that had received chickens from the Chilliwack facility were placed under quarantine on Wednesday. Officials have cautioned that the virus does not pose a risk to consumers if poultry meat is properly handled and cooked, though in rare cases it can be transmitted to people who work in close contact with the animals. In 2010, a low-path strain of H5N2 avian flu at a
Manitoba turkey breeder farm led to the destruction of 8,200 birds. The Fraser Valley has previously seen two outbreaks involving low-path H5N2. About 74,000 turkeys and chickens were destroyed in 2009 after a low-path strain of H5N2 infected poultry at two Fraser Valley farms, and more than 60,000 ducks and geese were euthanized at two farms in the region in 2005. The most serious avian influenza outbreak in Canada was in 2004, when a high-path strain of H7N3 spread to 42 commercial farms and 11 backyard coups in the Fraser Valley. In response, the federal government ordered the slaughter of 17 million chickens, turkeys and other domestic birds. The current outbreak is already having an economic impact on the Canadian poultry industry. Since this avian flu was reported, Japan has banned all Canadian poultry products, as well as the import of chicks from B.C.; South Korea has banned chicks from Canada; Taiwan has banned all B.C. poultry and poultry products; and Hong Kong has banned poultry products from the Fraser Valley. B.C.’s Ministry of Agriculture says the province’s poultry industry produced 160 million kilograms of chicken in 2012, and 21 million kilograms of turkey.
OTTAWA — Why has the backlog plaguing the Conservative government’s social security tribunal grown so large as ailing, injured and debt-addled Canadians denied Canada Pension Plan disability benefits wait years for appeal hearings? Stakeholders and critics are scoffing at Employment Minister Jason Kenney’s explanation that a “rigorous pre-screening process” for new tribunal members is partly to blame for an 11,000-case social security appeals backlog, mostly involving CPP disability cases. They point out there were already 1,000 well-qualified part-time referees working in the old system who could have been approached to work on the new tribunal, or kept on while new members were being vetted, in order to prevent even further delays for some of Canada’s most vulnerable citizens. Most of those former referees were dismissed when the new tribunal launched, although some were appointed as full-time members. There are now 74 full-timers on the new panel and a freshly hired part-time complement of 22 employees. “That seems to me a very cogent piece of evidence about their lack of respect for, or sensitivity to, the needs and the situations of the people who are making these appeals,” said Ron Ellis, an administrative law lawyer and the former head of a workplace compensation tribunal.
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Flames rally for OT win over Avs BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Flames 4 Avalanche 3 (OT) CALGARY — Sean Monahan scored at 1:47 of overtime to lead the Calgary Flames to a 4-3 win over the Colorado Avalanche on Thursday. Monahan picked up a rebound in front of the net and lifted it over fallen Colorado goalie Semyon Varlamov as the Flames (17-8-2) won their fourth straight game. Dennis Wideman had a pair of goals for the Flames, Curtis Glencross also scored, while Kris Russell had three assists. Karri Ramo made his fourth straight start in net for the Flames and finished with 26 saves to improve his record to 8-2-1. Calgary coach Bob Hartley earned his 400th career National Hockey League win against his former team. Hartley earned 193 of those wins when he coached Colorado from the 1998-99 season until he was let go 31 games into the 2002-03 season. Matt Duchene, Nick Holden and Alex Tanguay scored for the Avalanche (9-11-6), which also lost 4-3 at home to the Montreal Canadiens on Monday. Varlamov, who missed Colorado’s past six games with a groin injury, made 26 saves in a losing cause. After scoring his first career hat trick to lead the Flames to a 5-2 win over the Arizona Coyotes two nights earlier at the Saddledome, Josh Jooris nearly gave the Flames a 1-0 lead early in the first period. Jiri Hudler kept the puck in at the blue-line before taking a quick shot that Jooris deflected off the post behind Varlamov. Michael Ferland had a pair of chances to open the scoring for the Flames in the first. Mid-way through the period he drove to the Colorado net at the same time as Ladislav Smid fired a shot from the point. Ferland corralled the rebound in front of Varlamov but he lost control of it before he could backhand a shot on net.
Later, Paul Byron picked up the puck behind the net and quickly centred a pass to Ferland, who one-timed a shot that Varlamov was able to stop with his right pad to end the scoring threat. The Flames went up 1-0 at 2:20 of the second with a power-play goal when Wideman drove to the net and batted a pass from Johnny Gaudreau out of mid air and past Varlamov. The Avs appeared to respond with a power-play goal of their own 89 seconds later, but the goal was disallowed after a lengthy review when it was determined that Daniel Brier used his left hand to bat the puck into the Calgary net. Colorado kept pressing and were rewarded when Duchene finished off a give-and-go passing play with Ryan O’Reilly by snapping a shot past Ramo at 13:23 of the second. Only 58 seconds later, the Avs took a 2-1 lead when Zach Redmond threw a pass to the front of the net that hit Calgary defenceman Ladislav Smid before bouncing off of Holden’s skate and past Ramo. The Flames, who held an 11-5 shot advantage over the Avs following Wideman’s goal, went almost 16 minutes without a shot before Varlamov made a blocker save to deny a scoring attempt by Hudler. Colorado outshot Calgary 15-7 in the second to take a 20-14 advantage into the third. Glencross scored at 1:14 of the third period when he one-timed a pass from David Jones past Varlamov. Tanguay then put the Avs up 3-2 at 14:14 of the third when he made a nice move to get past Russell before outwaiting Ramo and wristing a shot over the Calgary goalie’s blocker. Wideman sent the game to overtime when his shot from the point sneaked past Varlamov, who was screened on the play by both Hudler and Glencross. Just seconds into the extra period, Varlamov stuck out his right pad to deny a breakaway attempt by Byron.
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Calgary Flames’ Mark Giordano, right, celebrates Sean Monahan’s winning overtime goal against Colorado Avalanche goalie Semyon Varlamov, from Russia, during NHL overtime action in Calgary, Thursday.
Lightning teams going through rebuild BY JOSH ALDRICH ADVOCATE STAFF Rebels 50 Lightning 29 There have been few years since Scott Doan took over coaching the Hunting Hills Lightning senior boys basketball team in 2002 that he knew less about. The Lightning are returning just three bench players from their zone championship team of last season and have seven players up from junior varsity team to fill out the 10-man roster. On Thursday they opened their Central Alberta High School basketball season with a 50-29 loss to the Rocky Rebels. Normally Doan would be working with the kids through the summer, but was unable to due to chemotherapy treatments as continues his fight against soft tissue sarcoma. “The nice part is they’re nice kids, they seem pretty dedicated to what we want to do,” he said. “It’s just a new group and you think they’re getting it and you think they’re getting it, but we won’t know until we see how it goes (on the floor).” Linden Petersen led the Lightning with nine points while Jordan Vincent and Dan Ripley both had eight. Cody Bott led the Rebels with 23 points while Erik Weckesser had 11. Despite having a few weeks to work with the kids, the real test for them will come on the court. They have a lot to live up to. The Lightning have won four of the last five zone titles but Doan is doing his best to temper expectations. The three players back from last year’s team are Jordan Vincent, Linden Petersen and Dan Ripley. The hope is that they can pass on what they have learned over the last couple of years to the young group of players coming up like Rohit Razzaq and Zach Morgan. “We’re starting pretty new, we’re starting to build all over again,” said Doan.
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Hunting Hills Lightning Sarah Stewart fends off Rocky Rebel Amanda Soppit during high school girls basketball action at Hunting Hills on Thursday. “We’ve had a good run, we’ve had three years of pretty good teams so now we’ve got to start over again. You get a little nervous because you don’t know if they’ve picked up on what you’ve done and you won’t know until the game is on and then you find out.” It will be a work in progress all year for the Lightning as they figure out their own identity, but Doan will make sure they have a strong foundation. “It’s always the same for me: You work hard, you run, you push the ball and you play defence,” he said. “I know a lot of teams at this time of the year spend all of their time putting the offence in place, we haven’t even touched that. I spend all my time getting in shape and putting in defence.” Coaching basketball has been a
large part of his life since he started 36 years ago at St. Paul Regional High School, but being on leave of absence from teaching with an uncertain future — his cancer is currently being held in check — it means that much more to him. “I feel OK, the chemo took a lot out, so that was tough, but since September I haven’t done any, I have a threemonth hiatus from the treatments and we’ll see how I do without anything in me,” he said. “They do want me to be more active, so that means more coaching, so that’s good, it gives me something to do.” Lightning 45 Rebels 19 Donna Potts has been a head coach in many different sports, but this is
the first time she has run a bench in basketball. She normally is her daughter’s assistant coach with the Hunting Hills senior girls, but when Jill de Jong gave birth last week to her son Luuk de Jong, the head coaching reigns fell to Potts. It is an opportunity she is looking forward to, but she has a veteran group of players to help her through. That experience was on display as they beat the Rocky Rebels 45-19 in their first game of the season on Thursday at Hunting Hills High School. “I liked the way we played defence,” said Potts. “I thought our defence was stellar and that is going to be an important part of our game for the rest of the year. We’ve got to work on the offensive side now.” Grade 12 post Nicole Fischer led Hunting Hills with 11 points while Allie Busch had eight. Amanda Soppit lead the Rebels with six points. As a Grade 12 point guard, Busch will be at the centre of what they do on the court this season. “She’s off to a great start so I’m really going to look to her to provide a lot of control on the floor,” said Potts. They also have some up and coming pieces to build around for the future. There are a lot of returning players on this team, but most of them are just Grade 11s this year with just three Grade 12s. Though that could mean some growing pains, especially early, it sets them up for a strong couple of years. The Lightning are coming off a zone finals loss to the Lindsay Thurber Raiders last season, and it is their goal to get back at least to that point this season, though they have their work cut out for them. “It’s still going to be a battle between Lindsay Thurber, Hunting Hills and Notre Dame, but our goal is to win again and be back in the final,” said Potts. jaldrich@reddeeradvocate.com
Rachel Homan improves to 4-0 at Canada Cup curling tournament BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CAMROSE — Rachel Homan scored a single in the 11th end to top Val Sweeting 7-6 in Draw 6 of the Canada Cup curling tournament Thursday. The win improves Homan to 4-0, making her Ottawa rink the only undefeated foursome in both the women’s and men’s draws. Edmonton’s Sweeting is 2-2. She beat Olympic champion Jennifer Jones of Winnipeg, 10-8 in Draw 5 earlier in the day. In the morning draw, Homan drew to the button with her final stone to score one and beat Edmonton’s Heather Nedohin 5-4. Nedohin now sits at 3-1 after downing Sherry Anderson (2-2), 7-4 in the
late draw. Jones made a raised takeout for five in the ninth end in a 12-7 victory over Sherry Middaugh (1-3) of Coldwater, Ont., in Draw 4. Meanwhile on the men’s side, Glenn Howard (3-1) of Penetanguishene, Ont., lost his first match of the tournament, 7-4 to Olympic champion Brad Jacobs (2-2) of Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., in Draw 6. Jacobs scored two in the sixth end and added singles in the seventh and eighth to pull away with the victory. It was Jacobs’ first win of the day after falling to Brad Gushue (2-2) of St. John’s, N.L., 5-4 in the afternoon. Howard started his day with a 4-3 win over Winnipeg’s Mike McEwen (31) in Draw 5. McEwen took a 9-4 win over Jim Cotter (1-3) of Vernon, B.C., in
the morning. In other action from Draw 6, Calgary’s Kevin Koe improved to 2-2 with a 8-7 win over Canada (1-3), which is skipped by Calgary’s John Morris. Koe scored a single in the 11th end to seal the victory. On the women’s side, Middaugh of Coldwater, Ont., scored two in the 10th end to edge Alison Flaxey (0-4) of Listowel, Ont., 8-7. Round-robin play continues Friday with Draws 7, 8 and 9. Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS
Rachel Homan’s Ottawa rink scored singles in the first, second, fourth, sixth and 10th ends to improve to 3-0 and remain the only undefeated foursome on the women’s side of the draw.
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Conner Bleackley, No. 9, Centre Favourite team growing up; Colorado, they won the Cup in 2001 when I was young ... they always had a really good team, and Joe Sakic was my favourite player. Then I was fortunate enough to get drafted by them so it all worked out pretty good. Favourite player growing up; Joe Sakic, the class he presented himself with on and off the ice. He was a clutch performer, a good leader and there’s not much that can’t be said about Joe Sakic. He put up 1,600-pluspoints in the NHL and he’s definitely a role model for myself. Pre-game meal; Usually alfredo pasta with chicken or shrimp. Must-have travel item; My iPad, I could play that thing for a whole day if I had to — mostly games or Netflix, but anything I can find. Favourite minor hockey memory; My favourite memory of hockey growing up would be on the outdoor rink at my house with my older brothers and having friends over and playing until the late hours of the night and keeping the neighbours up. There’s definitely a lot of great memories out on the rink in my backyard.
It appears highly likely that Scott Feser’s junior A hockey days are over. That he’s a full-time WHLer for the remainder of this season is a given, and he quite possibly will be back with the Red Deer Rebels as a 20-year-old when the club heads into next season preparing to host the 2016 Memorial Cup tournament. The 19-year-old Red Deer native played nine games with the Rebels in 2011-12 and split the following season between the WHL club and the Camrose Kodiaks of the Alberta Junior League. After starting the 201314 season with Camrose and the AJHL Okotoks Oilers, Feser was recalled by the Rebels, and the rest is history. Given another chance to perform full-time at the major junior level, Feser contributed 28 points — including 15 goals — in 46 games with the Rebels last winter and has carried that momentum over into the current season. Heading into tonight’s 7 p.m. home-ice clash with the Moose Jaw Warriors, the fivefoot-11, 176-pound centre is tied with Wyatt Johnson for the Rebels scoring lead with 10 goals and 27 points in 29 games. Clearly, Feser has arrived as an offensive threat, looking much like the player who starred for the midget AAA Red Deer Optimist Chiefs during their run to the 2012 Telus Cup championship. “I’ve always been an offensive player and you have to remain confident in those abilities,” he said Thursday. “It takes time to mature at this level and when you get an opportunity to take on a more offensive role you just have to work hard and do your best to make the most of it. “I’m just trying to keep working hard and doing the things that have always worked for me. Some bounces have been going the right way, but as long as I’m being responsible at both ends of the ice then I’m doing my job.” Feser has developed into a key part of a Rebels team that has scored at an impressive clip this season. Only two Eastern Conference teams — Brandon and Calgary — have produced more goals than the Rebels, and
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Red Deer Rebels Scott Feser has turned into an offensive catalyst for the team and hopes to turn that into a spot on the team as a 20 year-old next season. yet Johnson and Feser sit well down the list of the league’s top offensive producers, tied for 32nd in scoring. In short, the Rebels have three lines that contribute offensively on a consistent basis and a fourth forward unit that doesn’t take a back seat to any in the conference. “We have the most depth on our team that I’ve seen since I’ve been here,” said Feser. “We have three lines that can go out and score and take over games. I think that’s what can make us successful — that any line can step up. Our fourth line contributes as well. It’s been impressive.” While Feser is dialed in on the current season, he admitted his thoughts sometimes wander to what might be in 2015-16, and whether he’ll be with the club as an overage skater.
“It’s kind of in the back of your mind, but it’s not really something to focus on right now,” he said. “Just being here this season and working hard doing my job now . . . that’s all I can control.” Rebels associate coach Jeff Truitt sees Feser as a valuable, two-way, versatile player. “He’s really been doing a great job offensively, using his shot to his advantage,” said Truitt. “He’s showing that veteran savvy that has developed over the last year. He plays on the power play, the penalty kill, he takes faceoffs. He’s a very reliable, consistent player for us and he’s been a real good catalyst.” In the event that the Rebels’ roster remains much the same heading into next season — with the exception of the graduat-
ing players, of course — Feser will join fellow forwards Johnson and Presten Kopek and defencemen Kayle Doetzel, Nick Charif and Kolton Dixon as the 20-year-olds in the mix for three jobs. Johnson is likely a given to land one of the overage spots. The others are up for grabs with Feser currenty a favourite to land one. “He’s definitely in that consideration, for sure,” said Truitt. “He such a good character kid too. There is a lot of things that go with that 20-yearold position, from character to contributing offensively. “A 20-year-old has to be a leader on and off the ice in different ways. He can handle that, for sure. He’s proven that this year.” gmeachem@reddeeradvocate. com
Noel tabbed as a quick fix in Vancouver
WHO’S HOT Moose Jaw Warriors RW Jack Rodewald is riding a nine-game points streak. The 20-year-old Winnipeg native has scored five goals and assisted on 13 during the stretch dating back to Oct. 24 and sits 11th in league scoring with 34 points (13-21).
HE SAID IT “I guess I’m kind of lucky. I felt all three times that I’m going to score this goal. If every single game we would have a Teddy Bear (Toss) I would score the first goal every game. Everybody is shocked. (Teammate) Sergey (Zborovskiy) said to me, ‘Are you serious? You scored this goal again?’ I guess so.” — Regina Pats RW Pavel Padakin, to Greg Harder of the Regina Leader-Post, after scoring the Teddy Bear Toss goal Wednesday in a 4-2 win over visiting Brandon, the third year in succession he executed the feat; the first two as a member of the Calgary Hitmen.
During his post-game interviews while the juices flowing again. My focus really is head coach of the Winnipeg Jets, Claude just to try to improve this situation. Where Noel displayed that he’s a man with a sense it leads and where it goes, that will play of humour. itself out. He’ll likely need it over the next few “I’m not sitting here trying to restart mymonths as the new bench boss of the Van- self and the objective is to get back to the couver Giants, who fired head coach Troy National League. Where it goes, we’ll sit Ward 25 games into the WHL down and figure that out.” season last week and earliNoel also showed off that sense er this week appointed Noel of ha-ha when he entered the foyas the man in charge of the er jammed with reporters and exfloundering club. pressed: ‘Holy geez, guys, wrong Ward had plenty of pro league. What league am I in here?” coaching experience when he The veteran tutor insisted he’s stepped behind the Giants’ embracing the challenge of coachbench this season, and yet he ing at the junior level for the first couldn’t make them winners. time since 1990. Now Noel has to prove that “It makes me better. It helps me his time behind pro benches grow. I have a lot to gain here, just can help him bring the team from the experiences alone,” he out of the doldrums. stated, as reported by Steve Ewen GREG There’s a natural assumpof the Vancouver Province. “I’m a MEACHEM tion among many observers passionate guy. I love players. I that Noel, in the event that love working with them and makhe gets another NHL or even ing them better.” AHL coaching offer, will be Noel added that he’s not a dyedout of Vancouver at the end of the season, in-the-wool, x’s-and-o’s coach insistent on that his hiring, in essence, is a quick fix. sticking with set systems. Whatever, the 59-year-old who was fired “I’m not a dump and chase type guy. I by the Jets last January, sounded like a give players guidelines and they make deman just happy to be back on the job when cisions on what they have to do. You have he met with the Vancouver media Monday. to be intelligent and smart. There’s a lot I He also sounded like a man who is well don’t know about this group but I’ll find out aware there will be doubters in regards to and I’m looking forward to it. him staying in Vancouver beyond the sea“I’m not trying to focus too much on team son. play. I think you have to allow the players “I know some people say, ‘Well, why is to let their mind go free and just play, rathhe doing that?’ Or, ‘What’s his objective?”, er than give them a whole lot of informasaid Noel, in a series of comments record- tion. There will be some things that I want. ed by Ian MacIntyre of the Vancouver Sun. I’d like us to just build a foundation of work “For me, it’s about getting back into it. I’m … we work hard for each other. Let’s focus a coach. I’m a worker. I’m not a guy that sits on that. Let’s just work first.” and does well. This situation works. It gets Veteran WHL coach Lorne Molleken
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Cowboys ride away with win over Bears BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Cowboys 41 Bears 28 CHICAGO — The Dallas Cowboys look like a team that’s ready for another first-place showdown. DeMarco Murray ran for a seasonhigh 179 yards and a touchdown, Tony Romo threw for three scores and the Cowboys beat the Chicago Bears 41-28 on Thursday night. The Cowboys (9-4) made it look easy for most of the night against a struggling team that lost star receiver Brandon Marshall to a rib injury. Dallas clinched its first winning season since 2009, but is looking for more, with an NFC East title and first playoff appearance in five years in sight. Led by Romo and Murray, Dallas rebounded from a blowout loss to the Eagles on Thanksgiving and pulled within a half-game of them with another meeting in Philadelphia next week. The Cowboys took a 14-7 halftime lead and scored 21 unanswered in the third quarter before the Bears (5-8) rallied in the fourth. With that, the Cowboys improved to a league-best 6-0 on the road, where they have won seven straight since a blowout loss at Soldier Field on a bone-chilling night last December. Romo, who has been bothered by a bad back, kept checking down and completed 21 of 26 passes for 205 after struggling against the Eagles. Murray, the league’s leading rusher, carried 32 times. He also had 49 yards receiving. Dez Bryant had six receptions for 82 yards and Cole Beasley caught two touchdowns. For the Bears, Marshall’s injury was another low in a disappointing season that will likely end with them missing
the playoffs for the seventh time in eight years. He was hurt taking a knee to the right side from the Cowboys’ Barry Church following a reception in the second quarter. That happened moments after he made a spectacular 42-yard catch, juggling the ball with his right hand, to help set up a touchdown. He stayed down for several minutes and gingerly walked off the field before heading to the locker room. TV cameras showed him leaving Soldier Field in an ambulance, and Marshall later posted on Twitter, “Thanks for the Prayers. .. I’m Good.” Jay Cutler was 32 of 46 for 341 yards and two touchdowns, but the Bears had trouble sustaining any drives or stopping the Cowboys. They also did not get much from the run game, although they made a little more of an effort after managing just eight attempts in the loss at Detroit a week earlier. Matt Forte had 13 carries for 26 yards after tying a career low with five rushes last week. Murray accounted for 105 yards during a busy half as Dallas, running for 65 and a touchdown and adding 40 receiving. Romo kept checking down and completed 17 of 21 passes for 123 yards, including a 13-yarder to Beasley in the closing seconds. That sent the Cowboys to the locker room with a 14-7 lead and they added to it in the third quarter. Romo connected with a leaping Beasley for a 24-yard TD early in the quarter after Anthony Spencer stripped Forte near midfield following a screen pass, making it 21-7. The Cowboys increased their lead to 21 minutes later when Romo found Gavin Escobar in the back of the end zone, a 43-yard
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Dallas Cowboys running back Joseph Randle (21) runs to the end zone for a touchdown during the second half of an NFL football game against the Chicago Bears Thursday, in Chicago. catch by Bryant setting up that score. Joseph Randle added a 17-yard TD run late in the quarter to make it 35-7. Cowboys defensive tackle Josh Brent played for the first time this season after serving a 10-game suspension for his intoxication manslaughter conviction.
He hadn’t played since Dec. 2, 2012, six days before the drunken-driving crash that killed teammate Jerry Brown. He was suspended the first 10 games and was inactive for two more. The Bears held out kicker Robbie Gould (right quadriceps) and defensive tackle Jeremiah Ratliff (knee).
Tiger Woods flubs 4 chips, Accolades to continue and flubs his return to to roll in for Elimimian competition at Isleworth as CFL all-star team is WINDERMERE, Fla. — Tiger Woods took on any shot without pain or worry Thursday, a feeling he hasn’t had on the golf course in a long time. As for his short game? He hadn’t seen anything like it in longer than he can remember, and it was shocking. Woods flubbed four chips. He took two shots to get out of a bunker on the par-5 seventh hole. He didn’t have a birdie putt inside 20 feet until the 11th hole. And on the four birdie chances he had inside 10 feet on the back nine, he made only one of them. And that was a tap-in. In his first competition in nearly four months, Woods wound up with a 5-over 77 at Isleworth, his home course for his first 16 years as a pro. That put him in last place in the 18-man field, 11 shots behind Jordan Spieth, who is coming off a runaway victory last week in the Australian Open. “One of those days where nothing went my way,” Woods said. The score was not nearly as significant as his health in what has been a lost year for Woods because of back problems. He had surgery a week before the Masters that kept him out for three months. He had not played since Aug. 9 at the PGA Championship because of lingering back issues, and the need to build up his muscle structure. Woods missed the cut at Congressional in June in his first tournament after back surgery. This time, he is coming back from injury and he is working with a new coach. In that respect, the score was not a surprise. It was the 10th time in 12 rounds that he failed to break par since his first return in June. Even so, some of the shots were shocking, especially around the green. On the par-5 17th, he hit his second shot just left of the green, pin-high in a deep collection area. Woods no sooner hit his chip that he angrily swung backhanded toward his divot, knowing what was coming next. The ball didn’t come close to reaching the green, and Woods turned his back as the ball rolled back toward his feet. He compensated on the next shot
and sent it well past the hole, and he had to make a 10-footer just to escape with par. The other two holes where he muffed chips cost him a double bogey at No. 8 and a bogey at the par-5 13th. Two shots out of the bunker on the par5 seventh led to bogey. “It is surprising that I could hit chips that poorly,” he said. The 77 was his second-highest score of the year. He had a 79 on the South Course at Torrey Pines in January. What kept the day from being a total loss is that Woods reported feeling “zero pain.” “I haven’t said that in a long time,” Woods said. “It’s very exciting to step up there and hit the drives I hit - especially on the back nine - and start launching it and feel nothing.” The opening drive set the tone for the day - and his return. Woods was about to hit his first shot in nearly four months when he heard a loud click of a camera and backed off. Then, he tugged his 3-wood through the fairway, beyond an iron fence into someone’s backyard and presumably into a swimming pool. He had to hit another from the tee and did well to escape with a bogey. Rust would seem to be an issue, but it certainly wasn’t the case for Steve Stricker. He hasn’t played since the PGA Championship, either, yet Stricker made five birdies in a bogey-free round of 67 and was one shot behind Spieth, along with Dubai World Tour Championship winner Henrik Stenson, Zach Johnson and Rickie Fowler. Woods played with Jason Day, who last competed at the Tour Championship three months ago. Day shot a 71. FedEx Cup champion Billy Horschel and Patrick Reed, both at 73, were the only other players over par on a warm, breezy afternoon. Spieth won by six shots in Australia last week for his second career title. The 21-year-old flew home to Dallas, then came out to Florida the next day. He was feeling sluggish on Wednesday, but there was no sign of jet lag on Thursday. And there is nothing wrong with his game. He ran off five straight birdies starting at No. 6, and saved his round with a 12-foot par putt on the 18th.
Posyluzny leads Titans to strong performance in Edmonton
announced BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — The post-season accolades continue to roll in for Solomon Elimimian. The B.C. Lions linebacker was named to the 2014 CFL all-star team Thursday. The move was hardly a surprise, as Elimimian took home the CFL’s most outstanding player and top defensive player awards last month. Elimimian, the first pure defensive player to win the CFL’s top individual honour, had a huge 2014 season with 143 defensive tackles and 151 total tackles, both league records, and added five sacks. It’s the second career all-star nod for Elimimian. The Edmonton Eskimos had the most nominations to the all-star team with seven. Running back John White, receiver Adarius Bowman and guard Simeon Rottier were called to represent the Eskimos on the offensive side, while defensive linemen Almondo Sewell and Odell Willis, linebacker Dexter McCoil and cornerback Patrick Watkins were named from Edmonton’s defence. The 2014 Grey Cup champion Calgary Stampeders had five players named to the team, led by star Canadian running back Jon Cornish. Cornish led the league in rushing
despite only playing half of the regular season. Centre Brett Jones, offensive tackle Stanley Bryant and defensive backs Brandon Smith and Jamar Wall were Calgary’s other representatives. Brandon Banks, whose electrifying returns helped Hamilton advance to the Grey Cup final, was named as the special teams player. Hamilton also sent defensive tackle Ted Laurent and cornerback Delvin Breaux to the all-star team. Toronto’s Ricky Ray, the East Division’s nomination for most outstanding player, was named the team’s quarterback. He was joined by Argos slotback Chad Owens, named an all-star for the fourth time in his career, and Swayze Waters, selected as the team’s kicker and punter. The Lions had one other nomination to the team, four-time all-star offensive tackle Jovan Olafioye. Offensive guard Brendon LaBatte, defensive end John Chick and safety Tyron Brackenridge were the Saskatchewan Roughriders who made the grade. The Montreal Alouettes were represented by receiver Duron Carter and linebacker Bear Woods. The Winnipeg Blue Bombers were represented by receiver Clarence Denmark. The expansion Ottawa Redblacks did not have a player selected to the team.
RDC KINGS HOCKEY Vikings 5 Kings 1 CAMROSE — The Red Deer College Kings (6-9-0-1) ended their pre-Christmas Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference schedule on a sour note, falling 5-1 to the Augustana Vikings (11-4-1-2) in Camrose on Thursday. Joel Topping scored for RDC while Kraymer Barnstable stopped 20 of 25 shots in net. The Vikings got two goals from Connor McLaughlin and one each from Adam Johnson, Jeremy Beirnes and Scott Swiston. Joel Danyluk made 37 saves for the win.
The game was a make up game for their snowed out contest last Thursday. The Kings host the Bentley Generals in an exhibition game on Saturday at 7 p.m. at the Penhold Regional Multiplex.
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TRACK AND FIELD In tykes combined events, Sarah MacDonald finished third overall after completing the 60-metre sprint in 10.97 seconds, 200-metres in 38.66 seconds, the standing long jump at 1.32 metres, and medicine ball throw at 3.41 metres. Emre Baragar, meanwhile, finished fourth overall with an 11.25-second 60 metre, a 41.21-second 200-metre, a standing long jump of 1.50 metres, and a medicine ball throw of 3.53 metres. In the peewee combined events, Ty Friss finished eighth overall while Abbey Rapske placed 17th. At the bantam level, Ethan Rapske and David Szucs tied for 20th. Up next for local track athletes is the University of Calgary Dinos Opener this weekend, with the next club meet the Golden Bear Invitational back at the Butterdome on Jan. 17-18 for the younger age groups and Jan. 23-25 for the older age groups.
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Brayden Posyluzny led a strong overall performance by the Red Deer Titans Track and Field Club at the Last Chance Meet at the University of Alberta Butterdome in Edmonton on the weekend. The Last Chance Meet is the final indoor club meet before athletes move up an age group, so it’s their final opportunity to set a record or personal best. Posyluzny finished first in the youth 60-metre sprint (7.36 seconds), the 200-metre sprint (23.73), the shot put (14.50 metres), and second in the high jump (1.70 metres). At the midget level, Sofia Iatrou finished third in the 2,000-metre run (7 minutes, 53.42 seconds) and Drew Seguin finished sixth in the 60 metre sprint with an 8.15 second time in the final — he was even better in the preliminary heat, qualifying at 7.99 seconds.
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SCOREBOARD Local Sports
FRIDAY, DEC. 5, 2014
Hockey
Today
● Senior high basketball: Notre Dame Cougar Classic girls tournament. ● WHL: Moose Jaw at Red Deer, 7 p.m., Enmax Centrium. ● AJHL: Calgary Mustangs at Olds, 7 p.m. ● Midget AAA hockey: Calgary Buffaloes at Red Deer, 8 p.m., Arena. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Coaldale at Stettler, 8 p.m.; Banff at Three Hills, 8 p.m. ● Chinook senior hockey: Stony Plain at Innisfail, 8:30 p.m.; Fort Saskatchewan at Bentley, 8:30 p.m. ● Midget AA hockey: Airdrie at Lacombe, 8:30 p.m.
Saturday
● Senior high basketball: Notre Dame Cougar Classic girls tournament. ● Minor midget AAA hockey: Rockyview at Red Deer Aero Equipment, 11:30 a.m., Arena; Calgary Rangers at Red Deer Northstar, 4:45 p.m., Arena. ● Bantam AA hockey: Wheatland at Red Deer Ramada, 12:20 p.m., Kinsmen A; Medicine Hat at Lacombe, 8:15 p.m. ● Peewee AA hockey: Airdrie at Sylvan Lake, 3:30 p.m. ● Junior women’s hockey: Medicine Hat at Central Alberta, 4:15 p.m., Penhold Regional Multiplex.
● Major bantam girls hockey: Edmonton at Red Deer, 4:30 p.m., Kinsmen B. ● Major midget girls hockey: Southeast at Red Deer, 5 p.m., Collicutt Centre. ● WHL: Red Deer at Lethbridge, 7 p.m. (The Drive). ● College men’s exhibition hockey: Bentley Generals at RDC Kings, 7 p.m., Penhold Regional Multiplex. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Okotoks at Stettler, 7:30 p.m.; Strathmore at Red Deer, 8 p.m., Arena; Banff at Ponoka, 8 p.m.; Medicine Hat at Three Hills, 8 p.m.
Sunday ● Major midget girls hockey: Southeast at Red Deer, 12:45 p.m., Kinsmen B. ● Bantam AA hockey: Bow Valley at Red Deer Ramada, 2 p.m., Kinsmen A; Medicine Hat at Sylvan Lake, 2:30 p.m., Bentley. ● Midget AAA hockey: Calgary Flames at Red Deer, 3 p.m., Arena. ● Midget AA hockey: Lacombe at Sylvan Lake, 3 p.m., Eckville; Wheatland at Red Deer Indy Graphics, 5:30 p.m., Arena. ● Men’s basketball: Grandview vs. NWS, All Sports Cresting Lacombe vs. Johns Manville, Alken Basin vs. Triple A Batteries, 4:15 p.m.; Orangemen vs. Carstar, Sheraton Red Deer vs. Henry’s Eavestroughing, Driven vs. Silver Spurs, 5:30 p.m.; all games at Lindsay Thurber.
Basketball Central Alberta Sr. Men’s Vikings 71 Rusty Chuckers 39 Vikings — Gabe Greening 21 points, Kevin Kras 15, POG: Mike Vandenberg. RC: Ben Cripps 18, Patrick Bauer 6, POG: Cripps. National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB Toronto 15 4 .789 Brooklyn 8 9 .471 6 Boston 5 11 .313 8 1/2 New York 4 16 .200 11 1/2 Philadelphia 1 17 .056 13 1/2 Southeast Division W L Pct GB Washington 12 5 .706 Atlanta 11 6 .647 1 Miami 9 9 .500 3 1/2 Orlando 7 14 .333 7 Charlotte 4 15 .211 9 Central Division W L Pct GB Chicago 12 7 .632 Cleveland 10 7 .588 1 Milwaukee 10 10 .500 2 1/2 Indiana 7 11 .389 4 1/2 Detroit 3 16 .158 9 WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct Memphis 15 3 .833 Houston 14 4 .778 Dallas 15 5 .750 San Antonio 13 5 .722 New Orleans 8 8 .500 Northwest Division W L Pct Portland 14 4 .778 Denver 9 9 .500 Oklahoma City 5 13 .278 Utah 5 14 .263 Minnesota 4 13 .235
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GB 1 1 2 6 GB 5 9 9 1/2 9 1/2
Golden State L.A. Clippers Phoenix Sacramento L.A. Lakers
Pacific Division W L Pct 15 2 .882 13 5 .722 11 8 .579 9 9 .500 5 14 .263
GB 2 1/2 5 6 1/2 11
Wednesday’s Games Washington 111, L.A. Lakers 95 Chicago 102, Charlotte 95 Atlanta 112, Miami 102 Boston 109, Detroit 102, OT Brooklyn 95, San Antonio 93, OT Houston 105, Memphis 96 Dallas 107, Milwaukee 105 Philadelphia 85, Minnesota 77 Toronto 123, Utah 104 L.A. Clippers 114, Orlando 86
European PGA-Nedbank Challenge Thursday At Gary Player Country Club Sun City, South Africa Purse: $6.5 million Yardage: 7,831; Par: 72 (36-36)
Friday’s Games Oklahoma City at Philadelphia, 5 p.m. Denver at Washington, 5 p.m. New York at Charlotte, 5 p.m. Cleveland at Toronto, 5:30 p.m. L.A. Lakers at Boston, 5:30 p.m. Atlanta at Brooklyn, 5:30 p.m. San Antonio at Memphis, 6 p.m. Houston at Minnesota, 6 p.m. Phoenix at Dallas, 6:30 p.m. Miami at Milwaukee, 6:30 p.m. Orlando at Utah, 7 p.m. Indiana at Sacramento, 8 p.m. Saturday’s Games Philadelphia at Detroit, 5:30 p.m. Golden State at Chicago, 6 p.m. Phoenix at Houston, 6 p.m. Minnesota at San Antonio, 6:30 p.m. Orlando at Sacramento, 8 p.m. New Orleans at L.A. Clippers, 8:30 p.m.
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Transactions Thursday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL - Named Bob Bowman president of business and media, Pat Courtney chief communications officer, Dan Halem chief legal officer, Jonathan Mariner chief investment officer, Tony Petitti chief operating officer, Bob Starkey chief financial officer and senior adviser and Joe Torre chief baseball officer. American League KANSAS CITY ROYALS - Agreed to terms with RHP Luke Hochevar on a two-year contract. SEATTLE MARINERS - Agreed to terms with OF Nelson Cruz on a four-year contract. TEXAS RANGERS - Agreed to terms with RHP Colby Lewis on a one-year contract and LIHP Michael Kirkman on a minor league contract. Named Jason Wood manager of Round Rock (PCL); Joe Mikulik manager of Frisco (TL); Spike Owen manager and Bobby Rose hitting coach of High Desert (Cal); Jose Perez hitting coach of Hickory (SAL); Dustin Vissering trainer of Spokane (NWL); and Salomon Manriquez hitting coach and Alex Rodriguez trainer of the AZL Rangers. TORONTO BLUE JAYS - Agreed to terms with OF Ezequiel Carrera on a minor league contract. National League ATLANTA BRAVES - Agreed to terms with RHP Michael Kohn on a minor league contract. CHICAGO CUBS - Named Dave Martinez bench coach, Brandon Hyde first base coach and Henry Blanco major league quality assurance coach. Reassigned first base coach Doug Dascenzo to outfield and baserunning co-ordinator. NEW YORK METS - Named Pat Roessler assistant hitting coach. BASKETBALL National Basketball Association NBA - Fined Orlando F Kyle O’Quinn $15,000 for making excessive contact above the shoulders with L.A. Clippers F Blake Griffin during Wednesday’s game. FOOTBALL National Football League NFL - Suspended Baltimore DT Haloti Ngata four games for violating the league’s policy on performance enhancing substances. BALTIMORE RAVENS - Released TE Allen Reisner from the practice squad. Signed TE Phillip Supernaw to the practice squad. CINCINNATI BENGALS - Signed LB Chris Carter. DALLAS COWBOYS - Released TE Jordan Najvar with an injury settlement. HOUSTON TEXANS - Placed LB Max Bullough on injured reserve. Signed TE Anthony Denham from the practice squad and WR Jace Davis to the practice squad. INDIANAPOLIS COLTS - Signed OT Andrew McDonald. MIAMI DOLPHINS - Signed WR L’Damian Washington to the practice squad. NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS - Placed WR Aaron Dobson on injured reserve. NEW YORK GIANTS - Signed G Rishaw Johnson to the practice squad. NEW YORK JETS - Placed WR Greg Salas on injured reserve. Signed WR Chris Owusu from the practice squad. SAN DIEGO CHARGERS - Placed G Ryan
GA 65 89 77 101 110 108
Pt 40 33 33 32 26 16
WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF Kelowna 29 23 3 3 0 134 Victoria 31 15 14 2 0 101 Kamloops 30 12 13 3 2 92 Prince George 28 13 15 0 0 84 Vancouver 28 10 18 0 0 84
GA 69 106 103 118 102
Pt 49 32 29 26 20
Everett Portland Spokane Tri-City Seattle
GP 26 30 26 27 27
U.S. DIVISION W L OTLSOL GF GA Pt 17 5 3 1 90 68 38 15 12 0 3 102 109 33 14 9 3 0 72 73 31 15 12 0 0 75 70 30 11 12 2 2 70 75 26
Wednesday’s results Regina 4 Brandon 2 Prince Albert 5 Prince George 2 Kelowna 5 Saskatoon 1 Everett 4 Spokane 2 Friday’s games Lethbridge at Swift Current, 6 p.m. Regina at Brandon, 6:30 p.m. Spokane at Kootenay, 7 p.m. Moose Jaw at Red Deer, 7 p.m. Edmonton at Calgary, 7 p.m. Prince Albert at Kamloops, 8 p.m. Saskatoon at Victoria, 8:05 p.m. Prince George at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m. Portland at Vancouver, 8:30 p.m. Medicine Hat at Everett, 8:35 p.m. Tri-City at Seattle, 8:35 p.m.
Miller on the reserve-non-football injury list. Signed OL Jeff Baca from the practice squad. Canadian Football League CFL - Named league chairman Jim Lawson interim commissioner, effective Jan. 9. HOCKEY National Hockey League CAROLINA HURRICANES - Recalled G Drew MacIntyre. COLORADO AVALANCHE - Recalled F Garrett Meurs from Fort Wayne (ECHL) to Lake Erie (AHL). DALLAS STARS - Assigned G Anders Lindback to Texas (AHL). FLORIDA PANTHERS - Traded D Colby Robak to Anaheim for D Jesse Blacker and draft considerations. Reassigned Blacker to San Antonio (AHL). MONTREAL CANADIENS - Assigned F Michael Bournival to Hamilton (AHL). Recalled F Drayson Bowman from Hamilton. NEW JERSEY DEVILS - Placed F Martin Havlat on injured reserve, retroactive to Nov. 29. Assigned D Peter Harrold to Albany (AHL). Activated D Jon Merrill from injured reserve. Recalled F Mike Sislo from Albany. NEW YORK ISLANDERS - Assigned F Sebastian Collberg from Bridgeport (AHL) to Stockton (ECHL). OTTAWA SENATORS - Signed F Daniel Alfredsson to a one-day contract and announced his retirement. Recalled G Chris Driedger from Evansville (ECHL) to Binghamton (AHL). PITTSBURGH PENGUINS - Recalled F Matia Marcantuoni from Wheeling (ECHL) to WilkesBarre/Scranton (AHL). WINNIPEG JETS - Placed D Zach Bogosian on injured reserve. Recalled D Julien Brouillette from St. John’s (AHL). American Hockey League ALBANY DEVILS - Signed D Mike Keenan to a professional tryout agreement. CHARLOTTE CHECKERS - Returned F Kyle Jean to Greenville (ECHL). CHICAGO WOLVES - Returned G John Griggs to Missouri (ECHL). LEHIGH VALLEY PHANTOMS - Loaned G Martin Ouellette to Reading (ECHL). OKLAHOMA CITY BARONS - Recalled LW Josh Winquist from Bakersfield (ECHL). ECHL ECHL - Suspended Kalamazoo F Ray Kaunisto one game. ALLEN AMERICANS - Loaned F Spencer Asuchak to Providence (AHL). BRAMPTON BEAST - Signed D Riley Austin. CINCINNATI CYCLONES - Signed F Francis Drolet and traded him to Orlando. ELMIRA JACKALS - Signed F Ryan Hand. KALAMAZOO WINGS - Released F Colin Murray. MISSOURI MAVERICKS - Released D Ryan Hill. RAPID CITY RUSH - Traded F Justin Sawyer to Elmira for future considerations. READING ROYALS - Released G Pete Dundovich as emergency backup. STOCKTON THUNDER - Released D Michal Spacek. UTAH GRIZZLIES - Released G Billy Fadel as emergency backup. Loaned D Connor Hardowa to Texas (AHL).
G 31 9 17 12 20 19 15 7 5 16 13 13 19 15 14 8 15 14 14 15 13 12 9 6 8 11 11 7 11 11 8 13 13 13 10 10 8 7 15 14 11 10 9 8 5
A 19 40 20 25 16 17 21 29 31 19 21 21 14 18 19 25 17 18 18 16 18 19 22 25 22 18 18 22 17 17 20 14 14 14 17 17 19 20 11 12 15 16 17 18 21
GF 97 70 82 84 63 53 64 45
GA 69 68 67 77 63 62 68 82
Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts N.Y. Islanders26 19 7 0 38 Pittsburgh 25 17 6 2 36 N.Y. Rangers24 11 9 4 26 Washington 25 11 10 4 26 New Jersey 26 10 12 4 24 Philadelphia 25 8 13 4 20 Carolina 25 8 14 3 19 Columbus 25 8 15 2 18
GF 82 82 71 70 63 66 57 58
GA 68 58 70 70 75 81 71 87
WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts Nashville 25 17 6 2 36 St. Louis 26 16 8 2 34 Chicago 25 16 8 1 33 Winnipeg 26 13 9 4 30 Minnesota 24 14 9 1 29 Colorado 26 9 11 6 24 Dallas 26 9 12 5 23
GF 69 70 78 55 67 70 75
GA 51 59 49 58 56 83 94
Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Vancouver 26 18 7 1 37 82 69 Anaheim 27 16 6 5 37 76 72 Calgary 27 17 8 2 36 87 69 Los Angeles 26 14 7 5 33 71 57 San Jose 26 12 10 4 28 70 71 Arizona 27 10 14 3 23 64 85 Edmonton 26 6 15 5 17 58 90 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.
Thursday’s Games Columbus 4, Florida 3, SO Vancouver 3, Pittsburgh 0 Washington 2, Carolina 1 New Jersey 5, Toronto 3 N.Y. Islanders 2, Ottawa 1 Detroit 5, Dallas 2 Tampa Bay 5, Buffalo 0 Nashville 4, St. Louis 3 Calgary 4, Colorado 3, OT Los Angeles 4, Arizona 0 Boston at San Jose, late
Saturday’s games Brandon at Swift Current, 6 p.m. Moose Jaw at Edmonton, 7 p.m. Red Deer at Lethbridge, 7 p.m. Saskatoon at Vancouver, 8 p.m. Prince George at Kamloops, 8 p.m. Everett at Portland, 8 p.m. Prince Albert at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m. Medicine Hat at Seattle, 8:05 p.m. Kootenay at Spokane, 8:05 p.m.
Rourke Chartier, Kel Nick Merkley, Kel Cole Sanford, MH Cole Ully, Kam Austin Carroll, Vic Oliver Bjorkstrand, Por Brayden Point, MJ Joe Hicketts, Vic Trevor Cox, MH Chase De Leo, Por Jack Rodewald, MJ Jayce Hawryluk, Bra Tyson Baillie, Kel Tim McGauley, Bra Nikita Scherbak, Eve Madison Bowey, Kel Jaedon Descheneau, Koo Adam Helewka, Spo Coda Gordon, SC Adam Tambellini, CAL Connor Gay, Reg Dryden Hunt, Reg Matt Needham, Kam Nicolas Petan, Por Ivan Provorov, Bra Colby Cave, SC Rihards Bukarts, Bra Jansen Harkins, PG Connor Rankin, CAL Luke Philp, Koo Parker Bowles, TC Brett Pollock, Edm Craig Leverton, P.A. Wyatt Johnson, RD Travis Sanheim, CAL Scott Feser, RD Ivan Nikolishin, Eve Peter Quenneville, Bra Reid Gardiner, P.A. Jari Erricson, PG Carson Stadnyk, Eve Radel Fazleev, CAL Brandon Magee, Vic Reid Duke, Bra Brett Cote, RD
National Hockey League EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts Tampa Bay 27 18 6 3 39 Montreal 27 17 8 2 36 Detroit 26 15 6 5 35 Toronto 25 13 9 3 29 Boston 26 14 11 1 29 Florida 24 10 7 7 27 Ottawa 25 10 10 5 25 Buffalo 26 9 15 2 20
Wednesday’s Games Anaheim 5, Philadelphia 4, SO Minnesota 2, Montreal 1 Chicago 4, St. Louis 1 Winnipeg 3, Edmonton 2, OT
Friday’s Games Anaheim at Minnesota, 6 p.m. Colorado at Winnipeg, 6 p.m. Montreal at Chicago, 6:30 p.m.
WHL Scoring Leaders
Thursday’s Games Cleveland 90, New York 87 Indiana at Portland, late New Orleans at Golden State, late
First Round Ross Fisher George Coetzee Marcel Siem Alexander Levy Tim Clark Miguel Angel Jimenez Louis Oosthuizen Stephen Gallacher Brooks Koepka Charl Schwartzel Danny Willett Jonas Blixt Thongchai Jaidee Luke Donald Shane Lowry Joost Luiten Lee Westwood Kiradech Aphibarnrat Brendon Todd Dawie Van der Walt Pablo Larrazabal Jaco Ahlers Martin Kaymer Tommy Fleetwood Jamie Donaldson Marc Warren Mikko Ilonen Kevin Na Danie van Tonder Thomas Bjorn
CENTRAL DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF Medicine Hat 27 19 6 1 1 102 Calgary 29 15 11 1 2 110 Edmonton 29 14 10 3 2 89 Red Deer 29 14 11 3 1 105 Kootenay 28 13 15 0 0 85 Lethbridge 27 6 17 3 1 63
Sunday’s games Moose Jaw at Calgary, 4 p.m. Medicine Hat at Portland, 6 p.m. Kootenay at Tri-City, 6:05 p.m. Seattle at Spokane, 6:05 p.m.
Golf Hero World Challenge WINDERMERE, Florida (AP) - Scores Thursday in the Hero World Challenge, a US PGA Toursanctioned event at 7,354-yard, par-72 Isleworth Golf and Country Club: First Round Jordan Spieth 31-35 -66 Zach Johnson 37-30 -67 Steve Stricker 34-33 -67 Rickie Fowler 36-31 -67 Henrik Stenson 34-33 -67 Graeme McDowell 34-34 -68 Hideki Matsuyama 36-32 -68 Jimmy Walker 34-34 -68 Matt Kuchar 37-32 -69 Bubba Watson 34-35 -69 Chris Kirk 37-33 -70 Hunter Mahan 37-34 -71 Jason Day 37-34 -71 Keegan Bradley 34-38 -72 Justin Rose 38-34 -72 Billy Horschel 38-35 -73 Patrick Reed 36-37 -73 Tiger Woods 41-36 -77
WHL EASTERN CONFERENCE EAST DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Pt Brandon 29 21 6 2 0 135 96 44 Regina 28 17 10 1 0 102 76 35 Swift Current 30 14 12 0 4 88 94 32 Prince Albert 28 14 14 0 0 89 94 28 Moose Jaw 27 12 12 2 1 80 91 27 Saskatoon 29 7 20 2 0 77 135 16
Pts 50 49 37 37 36 36 36 36 36 35 34 34 33 33 33 33 32 32 32 31 31 31 31 31 30 29 29 29 28 28 28 27 27 27 27 27 27 27 26 26 26 26 26 26 26
Saturday’s Games Ottawa at Pittsburgh, 11 a.m. St. Louis at N.Y. Islanders, 11 a.m. Philadelphia at Los Angeles, 2 p.m. Vancouver at Toronto, 5 p.m. N.Y. Rangers at Detroit, 5 p.m. Columbus at Tampa Bay, 5 p.m. Buffalo at Florida, 5 p.m. Washington at New Jersey, 5 p.m. Chicago at Nashville, 5 p.m. Montreal at Dallas, 5 p.m. Boston at Arizona, 6 p.m. San Jose at Calgary, 8 p.m. Thursday’s summaries Flames 4, Avalanche 3 (OT) First Period No Scoring. Penalties - Holden Col (interference) 5:07. Second Period 1. Calgary, Wideman 9 (Gaudreau, Russell) 2:20 (pp). 2. Colorado, Duchene 9 (O’Reilly) 13:23. 3. Colorado, Holden 2 (Redmond, Sgarbossa) 14:21. Penalties - Guenin Col (holding) 1:57, Ferland Cgy (interference) 2:49, Barrie Col (delay of game) 7:50. Third Period 4. Calgary, Glencross 5 (Jones, Monahan) 1:14. 5. Colorado, Tanguay 9 (O’Reilly, Barrie) 14:14. 6. Calgary, Wideman 10 (Russell, Glencross) 18:43. Penalties - None. Overtime 7. Calgary, Monahan 10 (Giordano, Russell) 1:47. Penalties - None. Shots on goal Colorado 5 15 9 0 - 29 Calgary 7 8 7 3 - 25 Goal - Colorado: Varlamov (LO, 4-5-5); Calgary: Ramo (W, 8-2-1). Power plays (goal-chances) - Colorado: 0-1; Calgary: 1-3. Kings 4, Coyotes 0 First Period 1. Los Angeles, Brown 5 (unassisted) 8:59. Penalties - Doughty LA (delay of game) 15:28. Second Period 2. Los Angeles, Brown 6 (Clifford, Stoll) 9:57.
Rebels vs. Moose Jaw Warriors Tonight, 7 p.m., Enmax Centrium The Warriors enter this evening’s contest with a 1212-2-1 record — 4-8-0-1 on the road — which has them occupying fifth place in the East Division and ninth spot in the Eastern Conference. Moose Jaw is 5-3-2-0 in the last 10 outings . . . C Brayden Point, who will attend the Canadian national junior team’s final selection camp later this month, is the Warriors’ go-to guy with a team leading 36 points (15g,21a), good for seventh place among WHL scorers. RW Jack Rodewald is a solid right-hand man and sits 11th in WHL scoring with 34 points (13-21). LW Tanner Eberle has sniped 12 goals and D Alexey Sleptsov has contributed 15 points — all assists — from
3. Los Angeles, Stoll 3 (Martinez, Brown) 15:41 (pp). Penalties - Martinez LA (holding) 6:43, Chipchura Ari (high-sticking) 14:40, Rieder Ari (boarding) 18:20. Third Period 4. Los Angeles, Martinez 3 (Williams, McNabb) 9:26 (pp). Penalties - Crombeen Ari (hooking) 8:23. Shots on goal Los Angeles 8 16 18 - 42 Arizona 8 9 9 - 26 Goal - Los Angeles: Jones (W, 3-2-1); Arizona: Smith (L, 5-13-2). Power plays (goal-chances) - Los Angeles: 2-3; Arizona: 0-2. Predators 4, Blues 3 First Period 1. St. Louis, Tarasenko 15 (Steen) 5:46. 2. Nashville, Forsberg 11 (Ribeiro) 14:10. 3. Nashville, Nystrom 5 (Ribeiro, Fisher) 19:07. Penalties - Ribeiro Nash (hooking) 16:53. Second Period 4. Nashville, Ribeiro 8 (Neal, Forsberg) 1:25. 5. St. Louis, Tarasenko 16 (Gunnarsson, Stastny) 3:51. Penalties - Nash Bench (too many men) 7:09, Berglund StL (holding) 19:28. Third Period 6. Nashville, Wilson 5 (Josi, Smith) 9:30. 7. St. Louis, Schwartz 9 (Shattenkirk) 12:32. Penalties - Ekholm Nash (delay of game) 5:30, Lindbohm StL (holding) 13:14. Shots on goal St. Louis 12 11 9 - 32 Nashville 16 4 4 - 24 Goal - St. Louis: Brodeur (L, 0-1-0); Nashville: Rinne (W, 17-4-1). Power plays (goal-chances) - St. Louis: 0-3; Nashville: 0-2. Red Wings 5, Stars 2 First Period 1. Detroit, Helm 3 (Quincey, Kronwall) 3:58. 2. Dallas, Sceviour 1 (Jo. Benn, Demers) 4:13. 3. Detroit, Weiss 4 (Sheahan, Jurco) 11:14. 4. Detroit, Datsyuk 11 (Weiss, Tatar) 18:52 (pp). Penalties - Ericsson Det (hooking) 15:27, Garbutt Dal (slashing) 17:17. Second Period 5. Dallas, Seguin 19 (Daley, Spezza) 14:26 (pp). Penalties - DeKeyser Det (high-sticking) 12:55, Weiss Det (interference) 16:38, Eakin Dal (delay of game) 19:30. Third Period 6. Detroit, Quincey 1 (Sheahan, Weiss) 7:39. 7. Detroit, Helm 4 (Tatar, Datsyuk) 13:07. Penalties - Klingberg Dal (holding) 11:06. Shots on goal Dallas 9 12 3 - 24 Detroit 10 10 9 - 29 Goal - Dallas: Rynnas (L, 0-1-0); Detroit: Howard (W, 12-5-4). Power plays (goal-chances) - Dallas: 1-3; Detroit: 1-3. Islanders 2, Senators 1 First Period No Scoring. Penalties - Grabner NYI (goaltender interference) 7:33, Lazar Ott (boarding) 16:39. Second Period 1. NY Islanders, Nelson 12 (Nielsen, Leddy) 11:45 (pp). 2. Ottawa, Zibanejad 4 (Karlsson, Legwand) 15:07 (pp). Penalties - Turris Ott (hooking) 10:41, Nelson NYI (cross-checking) 13:53, Strait NYI (high-sticking) 14:36. Third Period 3. NY Islanders, Cizikas 4 (Hickey) 13:33. Penalties - Chiasson Ott (hooking) 18:28. Shots on goal NY Islanders 5 13 7 - 25 Ottawa 4 5 12 - 21 Goal - NY Islanders: Halak (W, 14-4-0); Ottawa: Anderson (L, 5-6-4). Power plays (goal-chances) - NY Islanders: 1-3; Ottawa: 1-3. Devils 5, Maple Leafs 3 First Period 1. New Jersey, Gelinas 3 (Merrill, Brunner) 4:53 (pp). Penalties - Franson Tor (interference) 4:16. Second Period 2. Toronto, Santorelli 4 (Lupul, Gardiner) 5:37. 3. New Jersey, Gionta 1 (Bernier, Merrill) 8:00. 4. Toronto, Kadri 7 (Santorelli, Robidas) 11:14 (sh). 5. New Jersey, Cammalleri 11 (Gelinas, Ryder) 16:48 (pp). Penalties - Franson Tor (hooking) 9:42, Lupul Tor (boarding) 15:00. Third Period 6. New Jersey, Bernier 2 (Zidlicky, Zubrus) 6:12. 7. New Jersey, Henrique 7 (Ryder, Zidlicky) 11:58. 8. Toronto, Kessel 13 (Bozak, van Riemsdyk) 19:25 (pp). Penalties - Ryder NJ (cross-checking) 7:29, Ruutu NJ (tripping) 17:56. Shots on goal New Jersey 10 11 5 - 26 Toronto 13 10 9 - 32 Goal - New Jersey: Schneider (W, 10-11-3); Toronto: Bernier (L, 9-6-3). Power plays (goal-chances) - New Jersey: 2-3; Toronto: 1-2.
the back end . . . Zach Sawchencko, who doesn’t turn 17 until Dec. 30, is sixth among WHL netminders with a 2.50 goals-against average. He also possesses a 7-6-1-0 record with a .920 save percentage and two shutouts. Injuries: Moose Jaw — D Tyler Brown (upper body, 4-6 weeks), LW Ben Duperreault (lower body, 2-3 weeks), C Noah Gregor (upper body, 3-4 weeks), D Spencer Jensen (upper body, day-to-day), G Zach Sawchenko (lower body, day-to-day), D Alexey Sleptsov (upper body, day-to-day). Red Deer — D Nick Charif (lower body, 1-3 weeks). Specials teams: Moose Jaw — Power play 13 per cent, 21st overall; penalty kill 77.9, 14th. Red Deer — Power play 19.3 per cent, 13th overall; penalty kill 86.1 per cent, third.
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Football Central Alberta High School Football 2014 All-stars Ponoka Broncos Kellyn Pritchard, Ethan Pylypow, Callon Perry, Calvin Turner, Ashton Soosay, Ashton Sandin. Wetaskiwin Sabres Justin Mantai, Aaron Abrahamson, Jeremy Krause, Justin Warnke, Jeffrey Oliver, Derek Kasur, Curtis Hallett. Lacombe Rams Zachary Bailey, Kava Waqatabu, Ryley Latta, Donovan Hompoth, Cole Nelson, Skylar Schellengberg, Trent Kroetsch, Cam Heslop. Rocky Mountain House Rebels Erick Weckesser, Darian Kristoff, Levi Munday, Anders Ecklund, Cal Peters, Kiefer Cuerrier, Jesse Holbein, Shaye Kristoff. Ecole Notre Dame Cougars Keegan MacDonald, Taylor VIda, Johannes Smith, Reiss Flunder, Steven MacLeod. William Albach, Jacob Plamondon, Parker Dahl, Jesse Kowalchuk. Stettler Wildcats Mike Loblaw, Teron Garbutt, Jeremy Kirk, Brycen Bainbridge, Austin Rosland, Kyle Lawrence, Jordan Lane, Clayton Page, Thomas Cassidy. Lindsay Thurber Raiders TK Kunaka, Owen Smith, Ben Pasiuk, Sam Vesely, Alastair Mahood, Bryce Maki, Tony Morelli, Matt Atchison, Carter O’Donnel, Gordie Walls. Camrose Trojans Bret Tetz, Devon Moss, Keith Schmidt, Riley McNabb, Michael Davidse, Brandon Thompson, Llayden Neuman, Alex Loosemore, Deryk Campbell, ReConnor Pearson. Sylvan Lake Lakers Chase Elwood, Skyler Selk, Korey Prediger, Dylan Keller, Landon Rosene, Tyrese Hamilton, Matt Bossert, Sulley Larocque, Liam Hoven, Brandon Tweed, Josh Rideout, Kyle Eckenswiller. Hunting Hills Lightning Brandt Burzuk, Linden Petersen, Brett Barrett, Braydon Moorman, Connor Dunphy-Brace, Matt Larsen, Tanner Olstad, Landon Willoughby, Dawson McCrady, MacGregor Black, Travis Imber, Kyle Nordquist. National Football League AMERICAN CONFERENCE
New England Miami Buffalo N.Y. Jets
W 9 7 7 2
Indianapolis Houston Tennessee Jacksonville
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Cincinnati Baltimore Pittsburgh Cleveland
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PA 253 232 217 319
Pct .667 .500 .167 .167
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PA 283 247 338 329
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PA 276 249 224 337
PF 375 343 257 244
PA 285 301 319 322
PF 291 323 228 220
PA 299 318 331 314
PF 380 231 233 281
PA 267 207 257 378
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Thursday’s Game Dallas 41, Chicago 28 Sunday’s Games N.Y. Giants at Tennessee, 11 a.m. Carolina at New Orleans, 11 a.m. N.Y. Jets at Minnesota, 11 a.m. Pittsburgh at Cincinnati, 11 a.m. St. Louis at Washington, 11 a.m. Baltimore at Miami, 11 a.m. Indianapolis at Cleveland, 11 a.m. Tampa Bay at Detroit, 11 a.m. Houston at Jacksonville, 11 a.m. Buffalo at Denver, 2:05 p.m. Kansas City at Arizona, 2:05 p.m. San Francisco at Oakland, 2:25 p.m. Seattle at Philadelphia, 2:25 p.m. New England at San Diego, 6:30 p.m. Monday’s Game Atlanta at Green Bay, 6:30 p.m. NFL Odds (Odds provided by Western Canada Lottery; favourites in capital letters) Spread O/U Sunday Tampa Bay at DETROIT 9.5 41.5 INDIANAPOLIS at Cleveland 4.5 49.5 Pittsburgh at CINCINNATI 3.5 47.5 HOUSTON at Jacksonville 5.5 42.5 Baltimore at MIAMI 2.5 44.5 NY Jets at MINNESOTA 6.5 40.5 Carolina at NEW ORLEANS 9.5 49.5 NY GIANTS at Tennessee 0.5 45.5 ST. LOUIS at Washington 2.5 44.5 Buffalo at DENVER 10.5 48.5 Kansas City at ARIZONA 1.5 40.5 SAN FRANCISCO at Oakland 8.5 40.5 Seattle at PHILADELPHIA 0.5 48.5 NEW ENGLAND at San Diego 3.5 51.5 Monday Atlanta at GREEN BAY 12.5 55.5
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Canadian Saunders honoured to play for Jays BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Michael Saunders used to daydream about playing for the Toronto Blue Jays. It won’t be long before he gets to do it in real life. A day after Toronto acquired the Canadian outfielder in a deal with the Seattle Mariners, Saunders spoke about getting the opportunity to ply his trade on home soil. “I think it was more of a storybook ending for me if you would, like ‘One day it would be really cool if I was able to wear a Blue Jays uniform,”’ Saunders said on a conference call Thursday. “There’s 30 teams and the chances are slim that that would actually happen. “I’m honoured to be able to wear a Blue Jay uniform and I’m very proud of that.” The Victoria native, who spent 10 years with the Seattle organization, played for Canada at the World Baseball Classic in 2013 and said he understands the burden that comes with playing north of the border. “I’m a proud Canadian,” said the 28-year-old, who cheered for the Blue Jays and Mariners growing up. “If I was to get traded to a team I couldn’t pick a better one than Toronto. “I’m extremely excited to play for the Blue Jays, but it’s not just about representing the Blue Jays, it’s about representing my country.” Saunders, who was acquired for lefthander J.A. Happ, said he was at his daughter’s swimming lesson when he found out about the trade from Seattle general manager Jack Zduriencik. “I was sitting there watching my daughter swim when I got the call,” said Saunders. “Last night was kind of a blur for me. There were so many mixed emotions. This is my first time going through a situation like this.” It’s expected Saunders will take over in left field for Melky Cabrera, who declined the Blue Jays’ US$15.3million qualifying offer last month and is a free agent. An 11th round pick of Seattle back in 2004, Saunders said he spoke with
both Toronto GM Alex Anthopoulos and manager John Gibbons soon after the deal was struck. “I definitely got the feeling that I was wanted,” said Saunders. “They’re just going to go out and let me play. I know that there’s some talented outfielders in the organization and that’s not to say Alex is finished making moves. “But I’m going to do everything I can to hold down the everyday left field job.” Saunders hit .273 with eight home runs and 34 RBIs in 78 games last season while battling joint inflammation in his right shoulder and a strained left oblique. “If you play the game hard sometimes you put yourself at risk to injure yourself by trying to make the play,” he said. “You do that for the team. You’re playing for the team at that point, and the fans.” While he’s happy to be joining Toronto, Saunders doesn’t leave Seattle on the best terms after Zduriencik criticized his ability to stay healthy for 162 games following the 2014 campaign. “The comments came as a surprise. I’m not going to lie to you,” said Saunders. “I’m very confident in what I do in the off-season to prepare my body. I think the comments might have come out of frustration more than anything due to the fact we were one game away from going to the playoffs. “Jack and I have had numerous conversations since then and there have been no hard feelings, but as far as calling my conditioning into question, (it’s) something I think is uncalled for. I work just as hard as anybody.” In parts of six seasons, Saunders has a .231 average with 51 home runs, 182 RBIs and 54 stolen bases in 553 games, only becoming an everyday player at pitcher-friendly Safeco Field in 2012. “I really think you learn more from failure than you do from success,” he said. “I know what I bring to the table and I try to continually get better at that. I just try to bring an all around game and do whatever I can to help the team win.” Saunders has played well at Rogers Centre - a stadium known for its home
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Victoria, B.C. native Michael Saunders makes a catch while playing for the Seattle mariners against the Baltimore Orioles during a game last season. Saunders is excited to suit up for the Toronto Blue Jays after being traded there earlier this week. runs - but he said joining Toronto’s potent lineup that includes Jose Bautista, Edwin Encarnacion, Jose Reyes and newly acquired Josh Donaldson and Russell Martin is what excites him the most. “You have multiple all-stars, you have MVP finalists and guys that really know how to hit,” he said. “There’s certain people in the game that strike fear in you when you’re on the opposing team, and there’s a couple different guys in that lineup that do that. “I think the first thing you see when you think of the Blue Jays is the power that’s there. There’s no question there’s a ton of power in the lineup,
but not only that, there’s professional hitters from 1 to 9.” Saunders said he would always check the schedule to see when Seattle was coming to Toronto and added that his wife, Jessica, is also pleased about the move. “I love the city, my wife loves the city. It was funny, when we first met we were discussing where to raise the kids and she said ‘Absolutely not in Canada. We’re raising them in the U.S.,”’ said Saunders. “Then she came to visit me when we were on the road and she said ‘OK, I’ll let you raise the kids in one spot in Canada and that’s Toronto.”’
Mariners finalize $57 million contract with Nelson Cruz BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SEATTLE — Had things come together last season, Nelson Cruz’s introduction with the Seattle Mariners would have taken place a year ago. Seattle pursued Cruz last year but when it didn’t work out, he went on to lead the majors in home runs playing on a one-year deal in Baltimore. The Mariners were quick to try to find a deal that would work for both sides as soon as this off-season arrived. “We were open and honest as we could possibly be and say, ‘This is the guy that we want,”’ Seattle general manager Jack Zduriencik said Thursday. “He was the guy we wanted to bring into this organization and it just came together.” Seattle landed the right-handed power bat that was a priority this offseason with a $57 million, four-year contract that was finalized Thursday. He gets a $1 million signing bonus payable by Dec. 31 and yearly salaries of $14 million. Cruz parlayed an $8 million, oneyear contract with Baltimore into a long deal with the Mariners after hitting 40 homers and driving in 108 runs for the Orioles. Zduriencik said adding a fourth year to the contract - which will take Cruz to age 38 - was critical to getting the deal done. “With Nelson, the fact that because he’s such a power guy, and in our game today it’s so difficult to find,” Zduriencik said. “In our league he can be a DH which will preserve him somewhat, he’s in great shape, he’s a really good worker. He may age very well. We had to do that to get him here and we did
it.” Cruz served a 50-game suspension in 2013 for violations of the major league drug agreement in relation to the sport’s investigation of the Biogenesis of America clinic. He again referred Thursday to making a mistake taking banned substances and said he’s moved on from the suspension. He’ll likely hit behind fellow Dominican star Robinson Cano, who will be starting the second season of a $240 million, 10-year contract, and will also reunite with Dominican teammate Fernando Rodney, the Mariners’ closer. “We’ve been pretty close,” Cruz said of Cano. “He’s also one of the reasons why I’m here. I think he was pulling for me the whole time. I was pulling for this right here, to be part of this.” The Mariners have among the top pitching staffs in the AL but missed the post-season by one game last season due to offensive shortcomings. Cruz fits the need, even if he’s never posted big numbers at Safeco Field. Cruz has hit at least 22 homers in every season since 2009 and has been an AllStar three times. Cruz’s .271 batting average and .525 slugging percentage last season with Baltimore was his highest since 2010 with Texas. Cruz has hit .240 with nine homers and 19 RBIs in 52 games in Seattle better than his .185 career average in Oakland and .218 in Anaheim. “I just believe great players make players around them better and I think having Nelson in the middle of our lineup is not only going to give (Cano) a lot more pitches to hit, but whoever is hitting behind him will have an opportunity to drive in runs as well,” Seattle manager Lloyd McClendon said. “Obvi-
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Seattle Mariners’ Nelson Cruz poses for photos as he displays his new jersey after he was officially introduced by the team at a news conference, Thursday, in Seattle. ously, he’s going to make guys better around him in that lineup.” The middle of Seattle’s order is no longer filled with questions. With Cano, Cruz and All-Star Kyle Seager, the Mariners have a legitimate 3-4-5 to build around. McClendon said Cruz would be primarily a designated hitter but also would be used in the outfield. Cruz
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Alfredsson ends NHL career LONGTIME SENATORS CAPTAIN ANNOUNCES RETIREMENT IN OTTAWA BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Daniel Alfredsson rehearsed the speech 10 or 15 times. When he read it to a friend over the phone, he cried. The longtime Senators captain read it one more time Thursday morning at Canadian Tire Centre with family, friends and former teammates watching. “Here we are,� Alfredsson said. “Today I officially retire as an Ottawa Senator and another new chapter will begin tonight as we say goodbye to Ottawa.� Alfredsson called it a career back in the nation’s capital, his “adopted hometown,� the place he played 17 of his 18 NHL seasons. The captain from 1999 through 2013 who left 17 months ago to sign with the Detroit Red Wings got to put on his old red No. 11 Senators jersey for one more day. The 41-year-old signed a ceremonial one-day contract that will allow him to lace up his skates in his old stall and take part in pre-game warm-ups with his old team. “Being out there with the boys again, is going to be a special feeling,� Alfredsson said. “I’m going to try to not fall down.� The Senators pulled out all the stops to honour Alfredsson on what unofficially became “Alfie Day� in Ottawa. Wife Bibbi and sons Hugo, Loui, Fenix and William, along with former teammates like Erik Karlsson and Wade Redden, looked on as the face of the franchise bid adieu, a decision prompted by lingering back problems. Alfredsson, who had 444 goals and 713 assists in 1,246 NHL games, tried to rehab the injury. If he played one more season, it would have been for the Red Wings. According to Senators owner Eugene Melnyk, he and general manager Bryan Murray would have welcomed him back to Ottawa. “During the summer we spoke a couple of times, but it was more about how he felt and whether he could play 100 per cent,� Melnyk said. “Bryan and I said, ‘Look, give us 80 per cent, we’re happy.’ And he would not play unless he was 100 per cent.� Remembered fondly for the goal he scored against the Buffalo Sabres to send the Senators to the Stanley Cup final in 2007, for the love fest at the 2012 all-star game and for winning a gold medal with Sweden at the 2006 Olympics, Alfredsson also knows his career was marked with phone calls and major decisions. It began with the decision to leave Goteborg, Sweden at 22 to play for the Senators, who drafted him in the sixth round in 1994. Alfredsson was glad he and Bibbi, his girlfriend at the time, “made the leap.� “One evening nearly 20 years ago a young man
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Daniel Alfredsson leaves the stage with Ottawa Senators owner Eugene Melnyk, left, and General Manager Bryan Murray, right, after signing a one day contract and retiring as a member of the Senators in Ottawa on Thursday. The Senators have signed their longtime captain to a one-day contract so he can skate in pre-game warm-ups with the team one last time Thursday night and take a ceremonial faceoff before they take on the Islanders. in a small town in Sweden got a phone call that would change his life,� Alfredsson said. “We began an incredible new chapter of our lives in your town starting in August 1995. Our marvellous boys were born here, and we grew from youngsters into aging parents. You made your town our town.� Ottawa was Alfredsson’s town in his Calder Trophy season in 1995-96 and through 15 playoff appearances. One of his favourite memories was seeing thousands of people lined up along the street to celebrate the trip to the Cup final. “It was an incredible experience to play hockey with so many great players, so many great friends over so many great seasons,� he said. “I really realize that I’m a very lucky guy.� Back problems flared up in 2011, what Alfredsson called “signals that all these years of hockey had a cost.� “I worked hard to fight it off and I got some great help along the way,� he said. “But in the back of my mind, I still knew that the clock is ticking.� With the clock ticking on his career, Alfredsson got to a crossroads in the summer of 2013, after he decided to continue playing but did not have a contract
to return to the Senators. On the morning of June 29, he said he got a call from “an old Swedish pal.� “This call started a process that would launch the next chapter in our lives,� Alfredsson said of signing with Detroit. “It was a very, very hard decision to make: changing teams, uproot my family, start over again in a new place. But change helps you grow.� No doubt the relationship between Alfredsson and the Senators organization was strained by his departure. But during and after an off-and-on injury season with the Red Wings that still included him tying for the team lead in scoring, Alfredsson stayed in touch with Murray. “I have great respect for Daniel and I know he has great respect for the Senators for what happened here,� said Murray, who coached Alfredsson for two seasons, including 2006-07. “It wasn’t very hard for us to get together and talk. He took me for a drive in his new car. He drove me out to my old house in Birmingham (Michigan). He showed me where he lived. We had I think mutual respect for each other all along.� Setbacks in Alfredsson’s rehab kept him from playing and forced him to make one final decision.
Radford using voice as an athlete to help other young gay people TORONTO - Eric Radford’s success on the ice doesn’t end with a trip to the podium or a gold medal. The 29-year-old figure skater hopes to use position as one of Canada’s top athletes to help guide or inspire other young gay people. “I feel so lucky that my skating is giving me a voice big enough for people to listen,� Radford said Thursday. In between Thursday morning’s practice with pairs partner Meagan Duhamel and a physiotherapy appointment, Radford was conducting interviews to talk about his decision to come out. The two-time world championship bronze medallist publicly came out in an interview this week with “Outsports.� “There has always been a part inside of me that would have eventually, whether it was now or later,� he said. “I want to use my talent in more than just one dimension. I have my talent, I’m a great skater with Meagan, and we’ve had a lot of success and hopefully we’ll have more. But I want to use that as much as possible in every way, and I think that my story, and me just being myself as a gay man can possibly affect and help and in a way guide young gay people, not just athletes.� Radford has been open about the bullying he suffered growing up in Balmertown, Ont., a tiny town of 1,000 people - and one arena - that’s a 28-hour drive from Toronto. Figure skating was a girl’s sport, and his classmates let him know it. “A lot of name-calling,� Radford said in a previous interview. “Whenever there was a group and I was by myself, they’d always make fun of me. It was really hard. I just couldn’t understand, I thought, ‘All I’m doing is skating, it’s not a big deal. Why does everybody have to hate me?�’ Radford thought about coming out before the Sochi Olympics, where Russia’s anti-gay laws made headlines daily. “It was (hard), I was so torn before,� Radford said. “I didn’t like feeling like that, because my main goal was my skating, I wasn’t going over there to make a political statement, I had thought about maybe when I was done competing, when I didn’t have that stress of competing anymore, I might make a statement or say something about it.� He chose this week to coincide with the Canadian Olympic Committee’s announcement of its “OneTeam� athlete ambassador program. The initiative is part of the COC’s new partnership with leading lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender organizations as it aims to protect and support LGBTQ athletes, youth and coaches in sport and schools. “I knew that I wanted to be a part of that, for obvious reasons,� he said. Radford and his boyfriend Normand, a triathlete, have been together four years, and with Normand’s 14-year-old daughter the three have become a close family unit, the skater said. When Radford returned home from Osaka, Japan, where he and Duhamel had captured their second straight Grand Prix title of the season last weekend, Normand’s daughter had posted a sign on the front door: “Welcome home champion!� “We get along so well. She’s so supportive of my skating,� Radford said. “I think just in the gay world to have that sort of responsibility is a little bit more of a rare thing, and I don’t know if everybody would be up for the responsibility. I guess I feel proud of myself for that, learning about all that, and just embracing that opportunity.� Coming out publicly, he said, didn’t feel like a huge deal. All his friends and virtually everyone in the skating world already knew. His parents, who’ve always been supportive, laughed and said ‘Well everybody already knows anyway,’“ Radford said. But the skater said the sports world still trails the rest of society when it comes to the treatment of gay
athletes. “I think the tide is turning a little bit for gay athletes, I think the climate and the atmosphere is changing and making it less of a big deal for an athlete to come out and more comfortable for an athlete to come out,� Radford said. “But I know each sport would have its own challenges. Like playing on a team, where you’re with 20 other guys, it’s going to be more challenging than for me when I’m out on the ice by myself and with Meagan. I can imagine the pressure is a lot more intense and you would feel a lot more uncomfortable.
“The fact that a team or fans don’t know that an athlete is gay doesn’t change the fact that they are. It’s almost like just choosing not to see something even though it’s there. “I hope the day will come that it’s not even an issue. It’s about going out and being the best athlete you can be on the day, and race, religion, and sexual orientation will have nothing to do with it, and will not play a part in the way the athlete is perceived and that only their skill, and being a good human being in general, will determine how they’re seen in the public eye.�
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Ready for anything at FIFA World Cup draw CANADIAN WOMEN’S SOCCER TEAM WANT TO BE ORGANIZED AND PREPARED HOST BY THE CANADIAN PRESS The Canadian women’s soccer team has left virtually no stone unturned ahead of next year’s World Cup. Coach John Herdman has looked to have his team play in tournament venues to familiarize themselves with hotels, training facilities and lockerrooms. They’ve even timed the drive from the hotel to the stadium. “We’ve said this to the players. The one thing we’ll do is make sure that we’re the most organized and prepared team for a home World Cup and really take advantage of the fact that we are at home,” said Herdman. “With the support that’ll we get and the Canadian roar behind us, I think the other piece that we can make sure is that there isn’t any logistics that we haven’t had experience of. There won’t be too many things tripping us up.” But Saturday’s draw at the Museum of History in Gatineau, Que., is out of Herdman’s hands, although the Canadian braintrust has been studying the possible permutations for months. With the field not set until Tuesday (Ecuador beat Trinidad and Tobago to became the 24th participant), FIFA
has yet to divulge details of the draw procedure. That will happen at a news conference in Ottawa on Friday when the seedings and pots are announced. As host, eighth-ranked Canada will be placed atop Pool A and will play its first two games in Edmonton and the third in Montreal. Each of the other five pools will get a seeded country to keep the elite teams apart in the round-robin stage. The U.S., Germany and defending champion Japan, currently ranked No. 1 through 3 in the world, are certainties to be seeded. No. 4 France is also likely to earn a seed. That leaves No. 5 Sweden and No. 6 Brazil favoured for the final seed with No. 7 England and No. 9 Norway also in the running. Canada will be kept away from the U.S. and No. 40 Costa Rica in the pool stage to spread the CONCACAF content. “You can’t really get a good prediction until after the draw,” said Herdman, a native of Newcastle, England, who took over Canada after a disastrous 2011 World Cup. “But what is guaranteed is we know who the seeded teams are likely to be. And you know which teams that your worst-case scenario, group of death,
might be.” A worst-case scenario for Canada could be a group with Africa champion Nigeria (widely seen as far better than its No. 35 ranking), Asian runner-up Australia (No. 10) or No. 14 China, and No. 7 England or No. 9 Norway. “There are definitely some challenges,” said Herdman That includes just about any European team. The lowest-ranked of the eight European entries is No. 18 Switzerland. “There’s no pushovers at the world level now of women’s football. But there definitely are some Tier 1 teams we don’t want in our group and some Tier 2 and 3 teams that will be more preferable,” said Herdman. “You expect to play five Tier 1 teams in a World Cup to get to a final,” he added. “You may actually have one of those teams in your group which impacts the rotation of your squad, your substitutes, your planning, et cetera et cetera. These things have to be considered. “How may games does (captain Christine) Sinclair have to play backto-back? Can she go all seven if we have a tough group? These are things we have to consider and be one step
ahead of the curve if we can.” The draw was not kind to Canada, then ranked sixth in the world, at the 2011 tournament in Germany. The Canadians, under coach Carolina Morace, went 0-3-0 while being outscored 7-1 in a pool with European champion Germany, African champion Nigeria and France. Canada could finish as low as third in its group and still advance to the knockout stage. But its route will be easier in terms of opposition and geography if it wins its pool. The 2015 tournament is slated for June 6 to July 5 in Moncton, Montreal, Ottawa, Winnipeg, Edmonton and Vancouver, Herdman’s team has already played friendlies in Vancouver, Edmonton, Montreal and Winnipeg this year. It’s been a tough schedule despite the familiar surroundings with Herdman testing out talent and tactics. Canada went 4-5-2 this year with the losses coming against Japan (twice), the U.S., Germany and England. Saturday’s draw will impact Canada’s pre-tournament schedule, with Herdman looking to play teams similar in nature to those awaiting at the competition. He expects Canada will play around 13 games in advance in 2015.
‘England DNA’ program intended Coach says Canadian women made artificial turf a to boost national team’s prospects have World Cup advantage BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON — The English Football Association released proposals on Thursday designed to enhance England’s prospects which have been inspired by models from Germany and Belgium. The “England DNA” program will be rolled out to more than 1,500 coaches at the national team’s St. George’s Park base in central England. The FA hopes to create joined-up thinking along the pathway taking players from under-15s to the under-21s, with a view to eventual success for the senior side. As well as developing a similar playing philosophy, the plan focuses on ensuring players have pride in representing England, whose only major title came on home
soil at the 1966 World Cup. The intention is for the program to keep evolving, and players will be given wristbands containing digital information from it to refer to when they are with their clubs. “It is very important we have a very clear idea of what principles we are going to follow and what we want the players to be doing in different situations,” England coach Roy Hodgson said. “We want to improve their awareness tactically and their game management. “All these types of thing are what I think is going to make England teams stronger going forward, and it is very much a coaching matter. “The earlier we can get these messages across to the players and really bed them in, it should help the seniors
when the players progress through the levels and arrive in that team.” FA director of elite development Dan Ashworth said the organization conceived the plan after looking at rivals in Europe and South America. “It’s really dangerous to copy another country, but it would be remiss of us not to look at some of the lessons other countries have had,” Ashworth said. “Certainly, two that spring to mind are Belgium and Germany, who have had strong programs and leadership from their associations, and a clear direction. “In that respect it’s similar ... but we do have a vision.” FA chairman Greg Dyke last year set England the target of winning the 2022 World Cup.
BY THE CANADIAN PRESS While some denigrate the use of artificial turf at the Women’s World Cup, Canadian coach John Herdman pragmatically sees it as an advantage. The Canadian women have stayed out of the fray, for the most part. Players behind a legal challenge surrounding the artificial surface elected not to involve the Canadians given that the Canadian Soccer Association doubles as the 2015 tournament’s organizing committee. Herdman says he and his staff have tried to keep the chatter about the legal challenge out of sight and out of mind. “I think we’ve had to position it like that,” he said in an interview. “I mean look, in Canada a lot of these players (in) North America are used to playing on turf so it won’t be a major shock. Because pretty much all our
home matches over the last two years have been on turf. “So it’s not a shock. It’s a consistent surface for our players. There are definite pros of doing it. There are also cons in many people’s mind. But I think what’s been great about our players (is) they just accepted the challenge and said ‘Look, we’ll become turf experts. We’ll become experts at playing on turf and we’ll use that as one of our home advantages’ over the opponents who may have a mindset and be stuck on other things.”’ The lawyer for the women challenging artificial turf kept the pressure up Thursday ahead of Saturday’s tournament draw by releasing another letter to FIFA secretary-general Jerome Valcke. The letter questions the credentials and connections of FIFA consultants and experts as well as the difference between prize money at the men’s and women’s tournaments.
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Mancini and Bowe head Boxing Hall of Fame BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CANASTOTA, N.Y. — When Ray Mancini got the call, he was caught off guard. “It was pretty incredible. Who gets in the Hall of Fame?” the boxer known as “Boom Boom” marveled Thursday at his selection for the International Boxing Hall of Fame. “I don’t know exactly what it takes to get in there. It’s the culmination of a career. It’s terrific. “I’m so honoured to be with my heroes, and there’s a couple of guys I beat pretty good,” said Mancini, chuckling. “I never thought of myself as a Hall of Famer. It never even crossed my mind.” The rest of the class of 2015 announced Thursday includes heavyweight champion Riddick Bowe, featherweight champion “Prince” Naseem Hamed of England, light flyweight champion Yoko Gushiken of Japan, manager Rafael Mendoza of Mexico, referee Steve Smoger of Norfolk, Virginia, journalist Nigel Collins of England, and broadcaster Jim Lampley of Asheville, North Carolina. Posthumous honorees include Japanese flyweight Masao Ohba, middleweight Ken Overlin of Decatur, Illinois, and publicist John F.X. Condon of New York. Mancini, the pride of Youngstown, Ohio, followed his late father, Lenny, into boxing and turned pro in 1979. He captured the NABF lightweight title in 1981 from Jorge Morales and in 1982 scored a first-round knockout of Arturo Frias to win the WBA lightweight title. That might have been his crowning moment. His dad was “Boom Boom” first, a promising fighter who never got that title fight he was oh-so-close to achieving when World War II intervened. “My father was my inspiration. My mother was my motivation,” Mancini said. “She always told me I could be anything I want in this world. I had a great balance. I wish they were here with me. They’d be floating. They’d be so proud, so happy.” Though his career was brief, Mancini was wildly popular and left an impact on the sport. In November 1982, he defended his title against 23-year-old challenger Duk Koo Kim of South Korea at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas in an outdoor bout televised live by CBS. Mancini scored a knockout in the 14th round, but Kim suffered brain inju-
ries that led to his death four days later. The WBA immediately shortened its title fights to 12 rounds and by 1990 all sanctioning organizations had followed suit. But Kim’s death was a cruel reminder of the perils of the sport. Mancini also made successful defences against Ernesto Espana, Orlando Romero, and Hall of Famer Bobby Chacon before losing the title to Livingstone Bramble in 1984 and in their rematch the next year. He officially retired in 1992 with a pro record of 29-5 (23 KOs). “I want to be remembered as a guy who gave everything he had - left it all in the ring a pretty good fighter,” Mancini said. Bowe compiled a 104-18 amateur record that included a super heavyweight silver medal at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, losing the gold-medal fight to Lennox Lewis. Bowe became the undisputed heavyweight champ when he scored a decision against Evander Holyfield in 1992 for the three major crowns. One of 13 siblings who grew up in poverty in Brooklyn, Bowe had somehow made his way to the pinnacle of the sport. A 6-foot-5, 235-pounder, Bowe won his first 31 fights to get a shot at the title, knocking out all but two of them. He fought only 10 times after taking the crown and won nine of them, but it was evident his career was declining when he had to get up off the canvas to stop Holyfield in their third and final meeting. Bowe suffered two straight beatings from Andrew Golota in 1996, although he won both fights because Golota hit him with low blows. In interviews after the second fight, Bowe’s speech was badly slurred and former manager Rock Newman persuaded him to retire. Bowe then joined the Marines before quitting after only a few days of basic training. Out of the ring, his marriage quickly unraveled and he kidnapped his ex-wife and kids at gunpoint for what he thought would be a reconciliation. He served time in federal prison and after his release returned to the ring in 2004 and won three more fights, the last in 2008 to improve his pro record to 43-1 (33 KOs). “He was just a big, wonderful kid,” Newman told the AP in a 2000 interview. “In the middle of all this, he survived without using drugs or alcohol or anything.” Hamed learned to box at
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TOP: In this Jan. 16, 1984, photo, World Boxing Association lightweight champion Ray “Boom Boom” Mancini, right, hammers a solid right to the head of challenger Bobby Chacon during their title fight in Reno, Nev. Riddick Bowe and popular lightweight champion Ray “Boom Boom” Mancini have been selected for induction into the International Boxing Hall of Fame. The induction ceremony will be held June 14 at the Hall of Fame in upstate New York. RIGHT: In this Nov. 4, 1994, photo, referee Joe Cortez, left, signals heavyweight champion Riddick Bowe the winner as Bowe celebrates his victory over Evander Holyfield at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. age 7 and turned pro in 1992. In the ensuing decade, he captured bantamweight, super bantamweight and featherweight titles and had an impressive string of 15 successful title defences before retiring in 2002 with a pro record of 361 (31 KOs). The Tokyo-born Ohba turned pro in 1966 and compiled a 25-2-1 record before winning the WBA flyweight championship in 1970. He successfully defended the title five times over the next three years and in his lone
bout outside his native country stopped Rocky Garcia in the ninth round in the United States. His last fight was a successful title defence over Thailand’s Chartchai Chionoi in January 1973. Three weeks later, he died at 23 from injuries suffered in an automobile accident, finishing with a pro record of 352-1 (16 KOs). Overlin learned to box in the Navy and turned pro in
1931. Perhaps his finest moment was a 10-round victory over future heavyweight king Ezzard Charles. He retired in 1944 with a record of 135-19-92NC (23 KOs) and died in 1969 in Reno, Nevada. Inductees were selected by the Boxing Writers Association and a panel of international boxing historians. They will be enshrined in June at the Hall of Fame in upstate New York.
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TORONTO — Canadian Rory MacDonald finds out Saturday who he will have to beat for the UFC welterweight title. The 25-year-old from Kelowna, B.C., who trains out of Montreal, has been promised the next shot at the winner of Saturday’s UFC 181 main event in Las Vegas between champion Johny (Bigg Rigg) Hendricks and No. 1 contender Ruthless (Robbie) Lawler. Hendricks (16-2) won a unanimous decision over Lawler (24-10 with one no contest) when the two met in March at UFC 171 to fill the title vacated by Montreal’s Georges St-Pierre. Hendricks lost a controversial split decision to St-Pierre at UFC 167 while Lawler won a split decision over MacDonald on the same November 2013 card. MacDonald, meanwhile, has comprehensively beaten Tyron (The Chosen One) Woodley and Tarec (Sponge) Saffiedine since Hendricks claimed the crown. MacDonald (18-2) will be cageside at the Mandalay Bay Events Center to figure out his future, with the ensuring title fight possibly coming as early as March in Montreal depending on how battered Saturday’s winner is. Hendricks says he’s not looking beyond Saturday, although he knows all about the well-rounded Canadian waiting in the wings. “A tough fighter,” Hendricks said simply of MacDonald, who is ranked No. 2 in the 170-pound division. Lawler believes MacDonald is a better fighter today than 13 months ago when he faced him. “I think he’s getting better every day,” Lawler said. “He’s young, he’s getting stronger, he’s getting faster, he’s working on his technique. He’s a force to be reckoned with for sure.
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Rory MacDonald from Montreal, salutes the crowd after defeating Tarec Saffiedine from in their welterweight bout at UFC Fight Night 4 in Halifax October 4, 2014. “He’s hungry and he’s coming for the top.” MacDonald also has a new nickname, with Red King replacing Ares which replaced The Water Boy. GSP may also be a factor again down the line. The 33-year-old ex-champ has yet to say whether he will return to action following his hiatus. The 31-year-old Hendricks has not fought since securing the title, requiring surgery in the aftermath to repair a torn bicep. Hendricks had hurt the arm in training and the injury got worse in the first round. He promises he will be a different fighter this time. Hendricks, a two-time NCAA wrestling champion, blames the arm injury for making just two of 10 takedown attempts against Lawler. He also hurt his shin in the fight. The time off was rejuvenating, Hendricks said. “Fighting is a tough business,” he said “It’s a gruelling business, it’s a grind. What was nice was I got that desire back, that willing to fight again, to remember why you fight ... Getting that hunger back I think is really going to help me for that next fight.”
Hendricks has no apologies to make. Hendricks-Lawler 1 was a thriller, with the champion winning the first two rounds before Lawler came on in the third and fourth. Hendricks decided it with a gritty fifth round. “Robbie’s very tough. He’s very hard to put away,” said Hendricks. He says Lawler pulled ahead in the middle rounds because the injured arm hindered his defence. “He saw those openings and he capitalized on it,” said Hendricks, who trains in the Dallas area. “That’s what I’ve got to make sure I don’t allow this time.” The two fighters attempted a combined 728 significant strikes, with Hendricks good on 159 of 397 and Lawler successful on 150 of 331. “He just did a couple of things better than me,” said Lawler, who has moved his family to Florida from Iowa to train year-round at American Top Team. “He’s a competitor, he knows how to win, he knows how to win rounds. He competed a little bit better than me that night.”
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Canada has advanced to the quarter-finals on the women’s side of the Emirates Airline Dubai Rugby Sevens, winning two of three pool games Thursday. Ghislaine Landry contributed 19 points via three tries and two conversions in a 26-10 win over Brazil and was one of seven Canadian try-scorers in a 47-5 romp over Fiji. The day ended on a down note in a 17-12 decision to England, which ran up a 12-0 halftime lead. Bianca Farella and Jen Kish scored second-half tries for Canada. “We obviously fell short of our Day 1 goal of being a top seed with the loss to England,” said Canadian coach John Tait. “Other than a few wrinkles in the Brazil game, we were building well towards our match with England, especially with the quality we showed against Fiji. “Unfortunately when we played England, we just took too many needless penalties which led to them capitaliz-
ing on us scrambling back and falling off one too many tackles. England is just too good a side to make those compounding errors against.” The Canadian women, second in Pool C, will face the Pool A runner-up Americans in the knockout round. The top four men’s and women’s teams at the end of the season automatically qualify for the 2016 Olympics. “Win and we will be holding a top-four qualifying position and not adding any more pressure moving towards the next event,” Tait said of the U.S. matchup. “U.S.A. is physical and plays a simple direct game plan. We know what to expect but will need to impose the way we want to play and make sure we control the tempo and not them.” The other quarter-finals are New Zealand versus Russia, England versus France and Australia versus Fiji. The 12-team tournament is the first of six on the women’s circuit. The Canadian men begin play Friday in Dubai, which is the second stop on the HSBC Sevens World Series.
EUGENIE BOUCHARD TORONTO — Eugenie Bouchard is Tennis Canada’s female player of the year after making the Wimbledon final and two other Grand Slam semifinals in 2014. The 20-year-old jumped from 32nd to fifth in the WTA world rankings this year to become Canada’s highest-ranked singles player ever. The Westmount, Que., native was also named the most improved player for 2014 while
Ottawa’s Gabriela Dabrowski earned the female doubles player honour. Bouchard lost to the Petra Kvitova in the Wimbledon final after making the semifinals in the Australian Open and French Open. Canada’s highest-ranked doubles player on the WTA circuit at No. 59, Dabrowski won her first WTA title in 2014 with partner Shuko Aoyama in Washington.
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DISPATCH, RESPONSE TIMES REMAIN ISSUES FOR RURAL MUNICIPALITIES BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF Some rural municipalities remain concerned with ambulance dispatch and response times, and would like to see changes. Rural municipalities strongly backed a resolution at their annual conference last week urging the province to find ways to transport clinically stable patients between facilities without tying up ambulances. Politicians representing rural areas worry that emergency coverage is thinned when ambulances and their crews are tied up with routine transfers between facilities. While Alberta Health Services has a system in which ambulances from surrounding areas are pulled in to cover emergency calls, it often means they must be drawn from farther away.
As well, their crews may not be familiar with the area to which they have been dispatched. Al Kemmere is a Mountain View County councillor and recently elected president of the Alberta Association of Municipal Districts and Counties. His county sponsored the ambulance resolution and has seen some service gaps and a few lengthy response times. “They’ve done some pilot (projects) on this, and they appeared to have worked quite well. The question is where did this go?” Kemmere sees the initiative as a way to add efficiencies into the system, a goal shared by rural communities and Alberta Health Services. A resolution passed with wide support calls on Alberta Health Services to undertake a review of the 911 system to ensure it is operating efficiently between police, fire and emergency
medical services. Concerns have been expressed about the number of times that volunteer firefighters are dispatched to 911 medical calls when ambulances and paramedics are not nearby. Kemmere said it has been an ongoing issue. “I wouldn’t say it is increasing, but it is at a level where it’s occupying a lot of their time,” he said. For volunteering firefighters, getting the call means leaving their day job and an employer who doesn’t know when their worker will return. “We acknowledge that voluntary firefighters are very valuable, but businesses supporting volunteer firefighters are just as valuable.” Rural municipalities are also seeking some financial compensation for when volunteer firefighters are called out to assist in an ambulance call. Fire departments are compensated
Fridge fundraiser turns pink This year, an annual charity raffle is a little different as it takes on a special meaning. For about 10 years now, Trevor Comfort has repainted antique refrigerators red and white, to look like an old 1950s Coke machine. Comfort, who owns an automotive restoration shop just west of Red Deer, then raffles the fridge off at a private function, and the money is donated to a local charity such as the food bank. The antique fridge he acquired for this year’s raffle came from a Red Deer man whose wife passed away from breast cancer, Comfort said on Thursday. After Comfort acquired the fridge this summer, he got to thinking about doing something different. The result is that this year’s fridge has been painted in 1959 Cadillac wildrose metallic (pink), and pearly white, and has the breast cancer pink ribbon symbol on it. Comfort said he got the fridge from Wally Stack. His wife Patricia lost her battle with cancer in 2011. She took good care of the fridge and had it for many years. She had bought the 1947 McLary model with her sister in 1950, Comfort learned. Comfort said he is honouring Patricia and everyone fighting breast cancer. The winner of the raffle will be known Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff during the Red Deer Street Rodders’ an- Trevor Comfort of Comfort Collision puts the shine on a McLary refrigerator built in 1947. Comfort nual Christmas party has been refurbishing refrigerators for years. The fridges have been raffled off at the annual Red on Saturday, with Deer Street Rodder’s Christmas party with the proceeds going to a variety of charities. This year donations going to breast cancer re- proceeds will be donated to the Canadian Cancer Society. search. auctioned to the highest bidder at the said Comfort, thus raising the final One of the great amount raised. things about the raffle, said Comfort, Christmas party. The custom fridge auctions have There are businesses in the comis that most years the raffle winner donates the fridge back, and it is then munity that aren’t in attendance but raised thousands of dollars over the via phone get involved in the bidding, years for charity.
for responding to incidents on provincial highways, but a similar system is not in place for other calls involving provincially overseen ambulances in other areas. Alberta Health Services spokesman Francis Silvaggio said it is investigating options to assist in low-risk patient transfers in Central Zone. “Low-risk resources are being safely and effectively used elsewhere in the province, and we’re now determining the best way to provide similar resources to communities in the Central Zone,” he said. However, it appears that volunteer fire departments will not be in line for compensation for responding to 911 calls. Silvaggio said there has “never been an intention for AHS to compensate municipalities.” pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com
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Noise, wood fires, off-leash park on agenda BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Noisy vehicles may soon be muffled in Red Deer. City council will weigh the pros and cons of a vehicle noise pilot project on Monday. Administration is recommending a one-year pilot that would see a public awareness campaign, decibel reading events, the makings of an urban centre noise strategy and design options to tone down the noise. The issue has been on the city’s radar since 2010 when a notice of motion was brought forward asking the city to review its policies and practices related to vehicle noise and to consider setting regulations and restrictions. A ban on wood fire boilers will also be up for a potentially heated debate. Wood-fire boilers are typically in sheds outside the home and act like a boiler system. The boilers do not have low-emission standards of wood stoves and can cause significant smoke impacts in populated areas, according to city documents. As air is one of the seven focus areas in the Environmental Master Plan and the city has been looking at ways to improve the air quality in the community. Council will hear an Environmental Advisory Committee’s report and recommendations on the issue. And council will also be asked to halt the planning for a downtown off-leash dog park. Last November, the city began preliminary planning and consultation to assess the need for an off-leash area in the downtown. Research indicated there is a need for more off-leash dog areas in the city but there is not a huge demand in downtown Red Deer. The project was approved with roughly $50,000 in funding for planning and construction during the 2013 and 2014 budgets. Council will be asked to return the leftover money to the original funding source. The Recreation, Parks and Culture Department may be directed to use a community development approach for future off-leash dog parks, when funding becomes available. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com
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MPC approves 134 new units BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR A pair of proposed assisted living facilities with a combined 134 units have received a thumbs-up from Red Deer’s municipal planning commission. The larger of the two is a project by Christenson Developments of Edmonton. Planned for 42 Timberstone Way in Timberstone Park, it will consist of 122 units spread over three storeys. Greg Christenson, president of Christenson Developments, said the
60 single-bed units on the ground floor will be designed for memory care residents and those requiring a higher level of care. The second and third floors — which he compared to a highend condominium — will contain a mix of one-, two- and even three-bedroom apartments, each with a full kitchen. The estimated cost of the project is $28 million, said Christenson, with $4.7 million of this to come from the province.
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Work underway on 139-suite project BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF Red Deer’s newest supportive living facility for seniors — Points West Living — is starting to take shape. Work has been underway on the $30-million facility being built at 6791 65th Ave. near Taylor Drive since about May. The five-storey building will have 139 suites. Alberta Health Services will contract Points West Living to provide
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supportive living care for 114 people. A total of 39 beds will be available for dementia residents requiring supportive living Level 4 care, along with 75 regular supportive living Level 4 beds. Level 4 is one level below longterm care, the highest care level for seniors. Another 25 independent living suites will be located on the top floor. The project was initially announced by government in June 2013.
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BRIEFS Stolen property found; suspects charged Two Red Deer men have been charged with a combined five counts of possession of property obtained by crime after tips from the public led to their arrest in Penhold. Innisfail RCMP received a report that five welders were stolen during a break and enter at a Penhold business on Nov. 27. Tips from the public led the police to a parked vehicle in Penhold where one of the welders was found. Two men were arrested. Police found items stolen from a nearby store with the men. A wallet containing a credit card that was reported stolen in Erskine was found on one of the men. Police learned that the Visa had been used to buy numerous gift cards in the Central Alberta area. A 30-year-old Red Deer man has been charged with three counts of possession of property obtained by crime and one count of breach of probation. The second suspect, a 29-year-old Red Deer man, has been charged with two counts of possession of
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MPC: Garden Heights concerns addressed The second project is planned for 14 Greenway St. in the Garden Heights subdivision. The two-storey building there will have 12 living units, consisting of one-, two- and three-bed spaces. The Garden Heights application, which was made by Hafso Developments Ltd., was originally heard by the commission on Nov. 5. Concerns about parking, waste enclosures and the impact of the large building on nearby landowners resulted in the matter being tabled until Wednesday — at which time a revised proposal with more parking and a new orientation that increased the building’s setback from the street was presented. Christenson expects the Timberstone facility to be under construction early next year, and completed by August 2016. He said the building’s location in a new residential subdivision, and near an apartment building, reflects a community integration philosophy. Christenson even hopes that staff there will be able to provide services to people living in the neighbourhood. “It’s a new concept that we’re promoting to Alberta Health Services,” he said. “We think that having an assisted living facility in the heart of a residential community has a number of benefits, not just to the 122 (-plus) people living there.” Christenson hopes the community integration concept will become commonplace. He said it would reduce demands on the province’s health-care system. “We think it’s going to be an exciting prototype in Red Deer for Alberta communities.” hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com
Time to lace ’em up — most outdoor neighbourhoods rinks will be open this weekend. Bower Ponds, Bower Place, Mountview, Oriole Park and Grandview rinks are expected to open by the end of next week, if Mother Nature co-operates. The thin ice signs will be removed when the natural ice surfaces are ready. When community shelter rinks are ready, the nets will be out and lights will be turned on. The city would like to remind ice users that helmets are recommended at all times. Hockey pucks and sticks are not allowed at Bower Ponds or the Recreation Centre’s oval. For more information on the skating rinks, call 403-342-8159 or go to www.reddeer.ca/rpc.
Amanda Lang to speak in January A well-known television host and senior business correspondent for CBC will speak in Red Deer on Jan. 28. Amanda Lang will present her view of leadership and lessons she has learned from the many interviews that she has done with some of the world’s most powerful and influential people. Lang is one of a series of speakers that the Donald School of Business at Red Deer College is bringing but there’s been a ton of work done since. “There’s so much work that goes in the ground before things start to come up. “There’s a few hundred piles put in the building to support a five-storey steel and concrete structure,” Mills said. Two elevator towers are being constructed. They now reach the fourth floor and soon work will begin on exterior walls, he said. The province put $5.5 million toward construction through the Affordable Supportive Living Initiative. “This new supportive living facility will provide a
to the city as part of its Distinguished Speaker Series. The series is intended to connect RDC students to experts in the business world. Lang is host of CBC TV’s The Exchange with Amanda Lang and is senior business correspondent on CBC’s The National. She was New York correspondent for the Financial Post, and has also worked for CNN and BNN. Tickets to see Lang are $75. The event is at the Welikoklad Event Centre at 4922 49th St. Refreshments and networking start at 4:30 p.m. Lang speaks from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. For tickets, visit Black Knight Ticket Centre online at www.bkticketcentre.ca or call 403-755-6626 or toll-free at 1-800-661-8793.
Join vet clinic in helping SPCA A local vet clinic is asking the public to pitch in to help the Red Deer and District SPCA. Dog and Cat Hospital will hold a spay and neuter day at its Clearview location on Saturday for the Red Deer and District SPCA. Hospital staff are donating their time to prepare SPCA cats and dogs for adoption. The clinic is challenging Red Deer residents and businesses to donate money, bedding or toys to the SPCA. The Clearview location of Dog and Cat Hospital is located at 110, 31 Clearview Market Way in Red Deer. The phone number is 403-343-8883. range of care levels for adults and seniors in a homelike setting,” said Kerry Bales, chief zone officer for AHS Central Zone in a press release. “These spaces will offer a mix of living options, including dementia care, to meet the varied health and personal needs of its residents. Now, as needs change, seniors will not have to move to a different facility.” The facility is expected to start accepting residents in early 2016. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com
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CIBC eyes U.S. expansion BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — CIBC (TSX:CM) is eyeing acquisitions in the private banking and wealth management business south of the border, chief executive Victor Dodig said as the bank reported its fourth-quarter results. “We’re trying to look at companies that could fit our culture and will contribute not only to the strength of our culture, but also will contribute over the medium term to our bottom line,” Dodig told a conference call with investors Thursday. “That stuff takes time. And when the right time comes, we’ll make those investments. But there’s so much opportunity at home today that we need to focus on that element of our franchise, as well.” Dodig said the bank needs to ramp up the scale of its operations, particularly in private wealth management in the U.S., and would like to snatch up a company in the $1 billion to $2 billion range. CIBC raised its quarterly dividend by three cents to $1.03 per share as it reported Thursday a fourthquarter profit of $811 million, or $1.98 in diluted earnings per share, down from $825 million, or $2.02 per diluted share, in the same quarter a year ago.
However, its adjusted net income rose to $911 million, from $894 million a year earlier, while adjusted diluted earnings per share rose to $2.24 from $2.19 last year. Revenue for the quarter was $3.42 billion, up from $3.18 billion a year earlier. Analysts had expected adjusted earnings of $2.25 per share and revenue of $3.4 billion. Talk of making a deal in the U.S. by CIBC’s new chief executive, who took over the top job in September, comes as the bank has been making tentative steps to move back into the U.S. market. CIBC had scaled back in the U.S. after making several expensive missteps including a US$2.4-billion payment to settle an Enron lawsuit. However, the bank acquired Atlantic Trust Private Wealth Management in the U.S. earlier this year in a bid to grow its wealth management business. While emphasizing that the bank is not in any rush to make an acquisition, Dodig added that there a number of “interesting companies” that are particularly appealing and have some scarce and valuable traits. “If the culture fits, if the math works, we would do those. if it doesn’t work for now, we take our time.” Barclays analyst John Aiken said he doesn’t believe an acquisition is imminent, but noted it does
seem the bank would prefer to go shopping than return excess cash to shareholders. “We believe the market is fully expecting an acquisition,” Aiken said in a note to clients. “However, management is prudently cautious, attempting to temper the outlook for timing as it does not want to rush into any transaction just for the sake of doing a deal, preferring to make sure that the criteria match up.” The bank said its fourth-quarter profit included several items that collectively had a negative impact totalling 26 cents per share. The largest item, an $82-million after-tax charge related the valuation of its uncollateralized derivatives, was worth 21 cents per share. Another item, worth $13 million after taxes or three cents per share, related to its travel rewards credit cards and its deal with Aeroplan and TD Bank . CIBC’s retail and business banking division had $2.05 billion of revenue and $602 million of net income in the fourth quarter. Wealth management had $584 million of revenue and $119 million of net income, while wholesale banking had $468 million of revenue and $136 million of net income.
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Stock hits record BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Enbridge Inc. (TSX:ENB) shares jumped to their highest price on record after the pipeline company announced major changes to its dividend policy and financial structure - moves that its executives described as “icing on the cake” for investors. Shares of the Calgary-based company, which operates one of North America’s largest pipeline networks, surged as much as 20 per cent on Thursday before giving up some of the gains. The shares still closed above their previous 52-week high of $56.87, finishing the session at $60.04 - up about 10 per cent from the previous close. Enbridge had announced the changes late Wednesday after markets closed. It said its dividend will increase by one third to 46.5 cents per share with the next dividend payable on March 1, 2015. Enbridge also said it plans to transfer $17 billion in assets to its Canadian affiliate, Enbridge Income Fund (TSX:ENF) in what’s known as a “drop down” transaction. Competing Canadian pipeline firm TransCanada Corp. (TSX:TRP) has been under pressure from activist investor Sandell Asset Management Corp. to drop down more of its assets into its affiliates. On a conference call Thursday, Enbridge CEO Al Monaco appealed to the sweet tooth of analysts in describing the benefits of the changes. He said to think of Enbridge’s $44-billion capital program, and the earnings growth that comes with it, as a cake that would be enhanced by the icing of the newly announced changes. “We’ll continue to make sure we’re baking that cake with the right care and attention,” he said. Enbridge said the moves are designed to enhance the main company’s shareholder value while providing low-cost funding for its capital program and asset acquisitions. In other words, the icing should help to better reflect the value of the cake. “So we’re looking to the icing here... as really boosting or maximizing the value of what is already a very good plan,” said Monaco On Wednesday, Enbridge’s board of directors approved a revised dividend payout policy range of 75 per cent to 85 per cent of adjusted earnings. The previous payout policy range was 60 per cent to 70 per cent. Enbridge’s annual dividend growth rate is expected, based on current planning, to average between 14 per cent and 16 per cent from 2015 to 2018. Enbridge Income Fund Holdings Inc., which manages the fund, said it hadn’t received a formal proposal from Enbridge but would form a committee of independent directors to assess it.
BRIEF Canada’s industry minister approves Burger King’s takeover of coffee shop chain Tim Hortons TORONTO — The Canadian government is approving Burger King Worldwide Inc.’s takeover of the iconic Canadian coffee shop chain Tim Hortons Inc. Miami-based Burger King agreed in August to buy Tim Hortons in a friendly cash-and-stock deal worth more than $10.5 billion (CA$12 billion). Industry Minister James Moore signed off on the deal Thursday. Burger King has agreed to maintain the existing employment levels at Tim Hortons franchises across Canada and expand in the U.S. and globally faster than planned as part of the approval. The combined company will establish its headquarters in Oakville, Ontario, and list on the Toronto Stock Exchange.
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Second Cup launches new-look cafe BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — The Second Cup has unveiled a new-format store that includes a redesigned circular “slow bar” where patrons can plug in their personal electronics while they sit and watch servers work an array of high-end brewing machines. The new store at King and John Streets - in Toronto’s theatre district - is part of the specialty coffee chain’s attempt to inject new life into a Canadian brand that has languished in recent years. Among other things, the new-look Second Cup cafe has a Steampunk coffee and tea brewing system that the company describes as “true theatre in motion.” It has also collaborated with Canadian artists to design special paper cups: “Optimism” by Matt Andres of British Columbia, “Creativity” from Adrian Forrow of Ontario and “Collaboration” by Zela Lobb from Quebec. The Mississauga-based franchise company (TSX:SCU) has been working for months to recover
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A group of fast food workers and their supporters protest for higher wages along a “fast food row” of businesses in north Jackson, Miss., Thursday. The protestors are seeking a $15-an-hour wage. The concentration of fast food establishments enabled the protestors to appeal for support from morning commuters.
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its position in the Canadian market, hiring Alix Box - who has held senior positions at Holt Renfrew and Starbucks - as its chief executive in February. “This cafe is an important step in our revolution and reflects our passion for coffee in creative and collaborative ways,” Box says. “For me, the Steampunk embodies our new essence because it is a high-end artful machine that is famous with coffee connoisseurs and trendsetters around the world.” To fund its growth initiatives, Second Cup recently issued 2.9 million common shares at $2.75 each, for gross proceeds of about $8 million including overallotment options. Second Cup has been faced with increased competition in recent years from both high-end coffee retailers such as Starbucks and major restaurant chains such as Tim Hortons (TSX:THI) and McDonald’s. In the third quarter, it reported a $26.2 million loss — mostly due to a writedown of its trademarks’ value. Second Cup previously suspended dividend payments to shareholders and reduced its management structure. “You have to appreciate that the dollar store business is a labour-intensive business,” Rossy told analysts.
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TD Bank Q4 profit rises but falls short of analyst estimates
MONTREAL — Dollarama is facing rising costs including higher minimum wages, new duties on imports and the inflationary impact of a lower Canadian dollar. “We’re hearing about even price increases on incoming inbound freight from the Orient,” CEO Larry Rossy said Thursday during a conference call to discuss third-quarter results. The Montreal-based retailer said labour costs are rising as five provinces - Alberta, Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia and Saskatchewan - have increased minimum wages by an average of 2.5 per cent and a lower loonie is driving the cost of imports that fill its store shelves higher. New Brunswick is set to hike its minimum wage on Dec. 31, followed by Newfoundland and Labrador in 2015. Costs are also expected to rise when tariffs increase by three per cent on many imported products from China and other countries starting in January. Dollarama said it plans to offset the higher costs by improving its efficiency rather than cut jobs.
TORONTO — TD Bank (TSX:TD) increased its fourth-quarter profit but failed to meet analyst expectations as it increased provisions for credit losses and other expense items. The Toronto-based banking group had $1.746 billion of net income in the fourth quarter, or 91 cents per share, up from $1.616 billion or 84 cents per share a year earlier. Its adjusted profit also increased, rising to $1.862 billion or 98 cents per share, from $1.815 billion or 95 cents per share in the fourth quarter of 2013. TD’s Canadian retail and its wholesale banking operations both saw increases from last year while its U.S. retail operation was relatively unchanged. However, TD’s profit missed analyst estimates of $1.05 per share of adjusted earnings and $1 per share of net income, according to data compiled by Thomson Reuters. The bank’s revenue increased by $452 million from a year earlier to $7.452 billion.
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Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 110.03 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 47.97 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52.05 BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . 11.91 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.14 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 55.99 Cdn. National Railway . . 77.58 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . . 22.70 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 40.17 Capital Power Corp . . . . 26.76 Cervus Equipment Corp 19.07 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 49.77 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 60.04 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 24.50 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 39.26 General Motors Co. . . . . 33.09 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 21.51 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.50 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 41.56 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 31.04 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 41.52 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . 10.34 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 56.57 Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 125.96 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 15.30 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 15.84 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 59.11 MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto stock market tumbled nearly two per cent as traders launched a broad-based selloff, with the energy and financial stocks making the biggest declines. The S&P/TSX composite index pulled back 284.11 points to close at 14,469.95, while the Canadian dollar ended at 87.91 cents US, down 0.07 of a cent. Energy stocks dropped 4.1 per cent as the January crude oil contract fell 57 cents to settle at US$66.81 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange, after news that Saudi Arabia reduced its January prices to U.S. and Asian customers. Financial stocks were also lower as two more Canadian banks added to fourth-quarter earnings results that have largely underwhelmed investors. TD Bank (TSX:TD) missed analyst expectations with net income of $1.75 billion, as it increased provisions for credit losses and other expense items. Shares of the bank dropped 5.1 per cent, or $2.88, to $54.03. CIBC (TSX:CM) beat analyst expectations by one cent, as it reported a quarterly profit of $811 million that fell slightly from $825 million a year ago. The bank also raised its quarterly dividend by three cents to $1.03 per share. Its shares dropped 3.4 per cent, or $3.64, to $103.52. Accelerating the TSX pullback was the looming deadline for tax-loss selling in the final week of December, which has likely motivated some decisions from investors, said Ron Meisels, president of Phases and Cycles in Montreal. “Energy stocks are still the ones that are getting hammered, the price of oil is influencing the market, so generally speaking we see all of that coinciding,” he said. Meisels added that the TSX is undergoing a correction that should find support around 14,400, a floor the market hovered around in late October. On Wall Street, the declines were less substantial with the Dow Jones industrials off 12.52 points to 17,900.10. The Nasdaq moved back 5.03 points to 4,769.44 while the S&P 500 index lost 2.41 points to 2,071.92. The market moves in the U.S. followed news that the number of people seeking unemployment benefits slipped below 300,000 last week, after having spiked above that level in the prior week for the first time in nearly three months. The U.S. Labor Department said weekly applications fell 17,000 to a seasonally adjusted 297,000. The four-week average rose 4,750 to 299,000. On Friday, November job figures will be released from both Canada and the United States, offering further insight into the momentum behind the economic growth. In other key commodities, the February gold bullion contract fell $1 to US$1,207.70 an ounce, and the March copper contract moved ahead 4.3 cents at US$2.915 a pound. Enbridge Inc. (TSX:ENB) shares lifted 10 per cent after the pipeline company announced a 33 per cent increase to its next quarterly common share dividend as part of a restructuring plan that will transfer part of its business to an affiliated income fund. Its stock gained $5.61 to $60.04. FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS Highlights at the close of Thursday at world financial market trading. Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index 14,469.95, down 284.11 points Dow - 17,900.10, down 12.52 points S&P 500 - 2,071.92, down 2.41 points Nasdaq - 4,769.44, down 5.03 points Currencies: Cdn - 87.91 cents US, down 0.07 of a cent Pound - C$1.7831, up 0.03 of a cent Euro - C$1.4088, up 0.97 of a cent Euro - US$1.2385, up 0.75 of a cent Oil futures: US$66.81 per barrel, down 57 cents (January contract) Gold futures:
Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 94.37 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 40.74 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.82 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 24.01 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 52.93 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 3.17 Penn West Energy . . . . . . 3.33 Pinecrest Energy Inc. . . . 0.025 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 6.82 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 35.89 Talisman Energy . . . . . . . . 4.61 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.66 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 5.51 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 48.36
Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 18.11 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 13.43 Tim Hortons . . . . . . . . . . 95.39 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84.76 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 34.30 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 13.58 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 19.50 First Quantum Minerals . 17.41 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 22.74 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 8.49 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 3.56 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . 16.86 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 39.70 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.50 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 16.75 Energy Arc Resources . . . . . . . . 25.00 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 28.92 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 57.61 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.01 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 39.39 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 37.21 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . 10.98 Canyon Services Group. . 8.59 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 25.05 CWC Well Services . . . 0.5200 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 17.02 Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 1.52
Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 80.21 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 67.58 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103.52 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 33.15 Carfinco . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.18 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 33.11 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 46.86 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 79.45 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 22.38 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 50.40 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.49 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 80.63 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 42.58 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54.03
US$1,207.70 per oz., down $1.00 (February contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $19.607 oz., up 22.1 cents $630.37 kg., up $7.11
$425.30; July ‘16 $1.70 higher $425.30; Nov. ‘16 $1.70 higher $425.30. Barley (Western): Dec. ‘14 $2.00 higher $174.00; March ‘15 $2.00 higher $177.00; May ‘15 $2.00 higher $179.00; July ‘15 $2.00 higher $179.00; Oct. ‘15 $2.00 higher $179.00; Dec. ‘15 $2.00 higher $179.00; March ‘16 $2.00 higher $179.00; May ‘16 $2.00 higher $179.00; July ‘16 $2.00 higher $179.00; Oct. ‘16 $2.00 higher $179.00; Dec. ‘16 $2.00 higher $179.00. Thursday’s estimated volume of trade: 407,680 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 407,680.
ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: Jan ‘15 $0.40 higher $412.70; March ‘15 $0.60 higher $410.90; May ‘15 $1.20 higher $412.70; July ‘15 $1.30 higher $413.80; Nov ‘15 $1.50 higher $410.50; Jan. ‘16 $1.80 higher $415.70; March ‘16 $1.70 higher $423.60; May ‘16 $1.70 higher
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KEYSTONE XL PIPELINE
WASHINGTON — From within the Obama cabinet, there’s a new argument being made against the Keystone XL pipeline — and this one involves aboriginal rights. A U.S. cabinet member has cited aboriginal lands as a concern as her colleagues in the Obama administration near the completion of a review into the Canadian oil project. The secretary of the interior laid out that concern in an interview. “I think the fact that tribal nations are standing up saying, ‘We’re concerned about this. We’re concerned about water quality. We’re concerned about tribal sovereignty. We’re concerned about what this pipeline may do for our lands and our rights,’ needs to be heard,” Sally Jewell said in an interview with MSNBC. “In my role as secretary of the interior we will make sure there is a platform for those tribal voices to be heard. And I think they will be able to make a very effective case, because they know their lands better than we do.” Last month, a South Dakota tribal leader warned that approving the pipeline would be an act of war. Sioux Rosebud president Cyril Scott said the pipeline would cross treaty lands and that his people weren’t consulted as a sovereign nation. Pipeline opponents celebrated Jewell’s words. A Nebraska activist who helped organize the initial campaign against the pipeline described it as a first in the years-long debate - since the conversation hasn’t dwelled much on aboriginal concerns, as opposed to the economic effects, climate concerns, and even ranchers’ rights, which have driven the discussion. “For the past five years, the voices of Native Nations have not been acknowledged in a public and high-lev-
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On December 1, 2014, the Development Officer issued approval for the following applications: www.reddeerevents.ca
Municipal Planning Commission Decisions On November 26, 2014, the Municipal Planning Commission issued the following decision for development permit applications:
Permitted Use Clearview Ridge 1. McGonigal Signature Homes – a 1.07 metre relaxation to the minimum rear yard to a proposed single family dwelling and attached garage, to be located at 5 Cobb Court.
Permitted Use Approval:
Glendale 2. A. Jadhav – a 1.08 metre relaxation to the minimum rear yard to a proposed deck, to be located at 22 Greenhouse Place.
Woodlea Marcel Leblanc – relaxation to an existing detached garage with a height of 6.81m, a 2.31m (51.3%) relaxation, located at 5120 44 Avenue.
Laredo 3. True-Line Contracting Ltd. – a 0.55 metre relaxation to the minimum rear yard to a proposed deck, to be located at 54 Little Close.
You may appeal discretionary approvals and denials to the Red Deer Subdivision & Development Appeal Board, Legislative Services, City Hall, prior to 4:30 p.m. on December 19, 2014. You may not appeal a Permitted Use unless it involves a relaxation, variation or misinterpretation of the Land Use Bylaw. Appeal forms (outlining appeal fees) are available at Legislative Services. For further information, please phone 403-342-8132.
Vanier Woods East 4. J. Marks – a 0.73 metre relaxation to the distance from the doors to the lane, to a proposed detached garage, to be located at 10 Village Crescent.
Land Use Bylaw Amendment 3357/AA-2014 Add Microbreweries as a Discretionary Use in Riverlands (DC 21) and Railyards (DC 28) Districts City Council is considering amending the Land Use Bylaw to define microbreweries and add them as a discretionary use in the Riverlands (Direct Control District 21) and Railyards (Direct Control District 28). The Land Use Bylaw currently provides for uses such as manufacturing and processing, retail, drinking establishments and restaurants in these areas – allowing microbreweries as a use bridges these types of uses. The proposed definition for this use is as follows: “Microbrewery means a use where the small-scale production and packaging of alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages takes place and includes distribution, retail or wholesale, on or off the premises, and includes at least one of the following: tasting room where guests may sample alcoholic beverages without charge, Drinking Establishment, or Restaurant; the floor area devoted to the production and packaging shall be no more than 70% of the total floor area.” The total floor area of the brewery is limited to no more than 70% (about two thirds) as a way of ensuring that there is an equitable mix of uses and this does not become a large scale brewery. The proposed bylaw may be inspected at Legislative Services, 2nd Floor City Hall during regular office hours or for more details, contact City of Red Deer Planning Services at 403-406-8700. City Council will hear from any person claiming to be affected by the proposed bylaw at the Public Hearing on Monday, January 5, 2015 at 6:00 p.m. in Council Chambers, 2nd Floor of City Hall. If you want your letter included in the Council agenda you must submit it to the Manager, Legislative Services by Monday, December 29, 2014. You may also submit your letter at the Public Hearing, or you can simply tell Council your views at the Public Hearing. Council’s Procedure Bylaw indicates that each presentation is limited to 10 minutes. Any submission will be public information. If you have any questions regarding the use of this information please contact the Manager, Legislative Services at 403-342-8132.
Land Use Bylaw Amendment 3357/X-2014 Omnibus Amendments City Council is considering amending the Land Use Bylaw to improve and streamline the development permit application process, eliminate redundant and difficult to monitor Land Use Bylaw procedures, reword sections to follow current internal procedures and practices as well as minor changes to provide improved consistency to the bylaw. Some of the changes include:
An Amendment for the Additional Potential Two Storey Walkout Development City Council is considering amending the Timber Ridge Neighbourhood Area Structure Plan to include the identification of additional, potential two storey, walkout basement developments. The majority of proposed walkout locations are in non-developed green field areas. The difference in lot height/grade is deemed minimal and acceptable based on comparable development housing style height difference.
CITY OF RED DEER SHORT-TERM BORROWING BYLAW Borrowing Bylaw 3527/2014 Red Deer City Council proposes to pass the following bylaw to provide for short-term borrowing up to the amount of $25,000,000 from time to time to finance operating expenditures until such time as taxes can be collected. The public may inspect the proposed bylaw at Legislative Services 2nd Floor of City Hall during regular office hours. BYLAW Number/Name Bylaw 3527/2014 Short-Term Borrowing
Borrowing Detail Borrowing Amount • Borrowing will Up to only be made $25,000,000 to temporarily fund operating expenditures in the event of negative cash flow
The electors may submit a separate petition with respect to this bylaw calling for a vote of the electors to determine whether the proposed bylaw should be passed. The petition must meet the formal requirements of Sections 221-226 of the Municipal Government Act and be filed with the, Manager, Legislative Services within 15 days after the last date the proposed bylaw is advertised. The last date of advertisement for this bylaw is December 5, 2014. Any petition will be public information. This Bylaw will be considered by Red Deer City Council at the Monday, January 5, 2015 Council Meeting. If you have any questions regarding the petition process or the use of the petition please contact the Manager, Legislative Services, at 403-342-8132.
Land Use Bylaw Amendment 3357/U-2014 Northeast High Schools and Play Fields City Council is considering amending the Land Use Bylaw to redistrict the northeast high school site and play fields, approximately 22.58 ha (55.79 acres) of land, from A1-Future Urban Development District to P1-Parks and Recreation District and PS-Public Service (Institutional or Government) District to facilitate subdivision and the development of the subject land.
2. Delete reference to Municipal Planning Commission in Section 3.3(3)(i) and replace with Development Authority 3. Clarify “assisted living facility” as a discretionary use in the R2 Residential (Medium Density) and R3 Residential (Multiple Family) Districts. 4. Move Temporary Building Permit regulations from Residential District Regulations to a new section in General Regulations applicable to All Districts and rename the section to “Temporary Buildings” Reword Section 1(b)(vii) for clarity of regulation 5. Modify C1 Commercial (City Centre) District maximum building height. 6. Add “accessory building, subject to Section 3.5” as a discretionary use to the A1 Future Urban Development District.
City Council will hear from any person claiming to be affected by the proposed bylaw at the Public Hearing on Monday, January 5, 2015 at 6:00 p.m. in Council Chambers, 2nd Floor of City Hall. If you want your letter included in the Council agenda you must submit it to the Manager, Legislative Services by Monday, December 29, 2014.You may also submit your letter at the Public Hearing, or you can simply tell Council your views at the Public Hearing. Council’s Procedure Bylaw indicates that each presentation is limited to 10 minutes. Any submission will be public information. If you have any questions regarding the use of this information please contact the Manager, Legislative Services at 403-342-8132.
Timber Ridge Neighbourhood Area Structure Plan Amendment 3357/D-2014
You may appeal Discretionary approvals to the Red Deer Subdivision & Development Appeal Board, Legislative Services, City Hall, prior to 4:30 p.m. on December 19, 2014. You may not appeal a Permitted Use unless it involves a relaxation, variation or misinterpretation of the Land Use Bylaw. Appeal forms (outlining appeal fees) are available at Legislative Services. For further information, please phone 403-342-8190.
1. Delete reference to “Parkland Community Planning Services” in the introduction section
The proposed bylaw may be inspected at Legislative Services, 2nd Floor City Hall during regular office hours or for more details, contact City of Red Deer Planning Services at 403-406-8700.
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The proposed bylaw may be inspected at Legislative Services, 2nd Floor City Hall during regular office hours or for more details, contact City of Red Deer Planning Services at 403-406-8700. City Council will hear from any person claiming to be affected by the proposed bylaw at the Public Hearing on Monday, December 8, 2014 at 6:00 p.m. in Council Chambers, 2nd Floor of City Hall. If you want your letter included in the Council agenda you must submit it to the Manager, Legislative Services by Friday, December 5, 2014. You may also submit your letter at the Public Hearing, or you can simply tell Council your views at the Public Hearing. Council’s Procedure Bylaw indicates that each presentation is limited to 10 minutes. Any submission will be public information. If you have any questions regarding the use of this information please contact the Manager, Legislative Services at 403-342-8132.
The proposed bylaw may be inspected at Legislative Services, 2nd Floor City Hall during regular office hours or for more details, contact City of Red Deer Planning Services at 403-406-8700. City Council will hear from any person claiming to be affected by the proposed bylaw at the Public Hearing on Monday, December 8, 2014 at 6:00 p.m. in Council Chambers, 2nd Floor of City Hall. If you want your letter included in the Council agenda you must submit it to the Manager, Legislative Services by Friday, December 5, 2014. You may also submit your letter at the Public Hearing, or you can simply tell Council your views at the Public Hearing. Council’s Procedure Bylaw indicates that each presentation is limited to 10 minutes. Any submission will be public information. If you have any questions regarding the use of this information please contact the Manager, Legislative Services at 403-342-8132.
CITY OF RED DEER CAPITAL PROJECTS Borrowing Bylaws Red Deer City Council proposes to pass the following bylaws to provide for debenture borrowing in the amount of $110,798,000 to finance development and construction of capital projects listed below. The public may inspect the proposed bylaws at Legislative Services 2nd Floor of City Hall during regular office hours. BYLAW Number/Name Capital Project Borrowing Amount Bylaw 3521/2014 • River Bend Golf & $20,009,000 Recreation Area Canada Winter Facility enhancements Games Projects • Canyon Ski facility enhancements • Red Deer College Centre for Health, Wellness and Sport • Downtown Games Plaza • Great Chief Park facility improvements Bylaw 3522/2014 • Red Deer Arena $31,068,000 Reconstruction Building Projects • North Red Deer Regional Community Centre Construction • RCMP Downtown 2nd Floor Development Bylaw 3523/2014 • Taylor Drive Linkage $16,183,000 • South East Sector Road Transportation Improvement Improvements Projects Bylaw 3524/2014 • West QEII Business $23,037,000 Park (NE25) Phase 3 Road Offsite • Development of 20 Projects Avenue Berm Bylaw 3525/2014 • EHN (NW26) $3,570,000 Northlands Drive Storm Offsite Trunks Project Projects • Queens Business Park (NE35) Pond I3 Project Bylaw 3526/2014 Station • Station 3 Relocation $8,800,000 • Station 4 Relocation Relocation Projects Bylaw 3528/2014 • Purchase of an $1,816,000 Enterprise Content Information Management System Management • Implementation of digital preservation systems Bylaw 3529/2014 • Stabilization of the $6,0315,000 toe of the Red Deer Riverview Park River upstream of Bank Stabilization the Riverview Park Neighborhood
The electors may submit a separate petition with respect to each advertised bylaw calling for a vote of the electors to determine whether the proposed bylaw should be passed. The petition must meet the formal requirements of Sections 221-226 of the Municipal Government Act and be filed with the Manager, Legislative Services within 15 days after the last date the proposed bylaws are advertised. The last date of advertisement for these bylaws is December 12, 2014. Any petition will be public information. This Bylaw will be considered by Red Deer City Council at the Monday, January 19, 2015 Council Meeting. If you have any questions regarding the petition process or the use of the petition please contact the Manager, Legislative Services at 403-342-8132.
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Sears 3Q loss widens BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill. — Sears Holdings Corp. tried to reassure investors Thursday that financial manoeuvrs - closing stores, selling assets and slashing inventory - mean it still has enough cash available to run its business. The Hoffman Estates, Illinois-based company, which operates Kmart and Sears, said it has raised $2.2 billion so far this year. Still, Sears’ third-quarter loss widened on a 13 per cent revenue decline. The report shows the challenges continue for billionaire hedge fund manager Edward Lampert, who is Sears Holdings’ CEO and chairman, in turning around the company. Lampert combined Sears and Kmart in 2005, about two years after he helped bring Kmart out of bankruptcy. But the combination has proved unsuccessful. The company is on track to post its eighth annual revenue drop and its fourth annual loss when it reports its fourth-quarter results early next year. To prop up its operations, Sears took out a $400 million short-term loan from a hedge fund run by Lampert in September. Sears is selling most of its 51 per cent stake in its Canadian unit to raise as much as $380 million
in a rights offering. It also spun off its Lands’ End business earlier this year. Sears reiterated Thursday it is might sell 200 to 300 of its buildings to boost its liquidity. The manoeuvre would entail forming a real estate investment trust that would hold the stores. Sears would continue to operate the stores by leasing them back. At the same time, the company is shifting its focus from running a store network to operating an online and offline business tied together by its Shop Your Way loyalty program. The company said that during the third quarter, its Shop Your Way program accounted for 72 per cent of eligible sales, the same as last year’s third quarter. The company’s biggest albatross remains its stores, which have been criticized for being outdated and shabby. So far this year, the company has announced or closed about 235 underperforming stores, the majority of which are Kmart stores. The company says it has more than 1,830 Sears and Kmart stores and is hoping that those shoppers will remain with the brand by going online. The chain had a total of 3,523 stores five years ago. “Our stores are often in the wrong place and are often too large for our needs,” Lampert said in a prerecorded conference call for investors early Thursday.
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WE’RE PROUD TO ANNOUNCE THAT... CHANDOS, a full-service construction company, is extremely proud to announce Leroy Ehnes has joined the team in the Red Deer Office in the role of Director, Business Development. Leroy’s hiring reflects Chandos’ method to recruiting the right person for the job, focusing on attitude, personality and approach. Leroy joins us from the financial sector. During his 30 years service he has developed a great understanding of the importance of relationships, adding to the strong team at Chandos, as we continue to strive to See Things Differently for our employees and clients.
CHANDOS CONSTRUCTION | RED DEER #120, 4732 60th STREET, RED DEER T4N 7C7 403.340.1805 | www.chandos.com As our business continues to grow in Central Alberta, the need for an Operations Manager in our Red Deer office became apparent. We are happy to appoint Jason Towers into this position. Since the opening of our Red Deer office in December 2011 Jason has been instrumental in making this a success.
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Offer(s) available on select new 2014/2015 models through participating dealers to qualified retail customers who take delivery from December 2, 2014 to January 2, 2015. Dealers may sell or lease for less. Some conditions apply. See dealer for complete details. All offers are subject to change without notice. All pricing includes delivery and destination fees up to $1,665, AMVIC fee, tire levy and $100 A/C charge (where applicable), and excludes taxes, licensing, registration, insurance and dealer administration fees (up to $699). 1“Don’t Pay Until Next Year” (60-day payment deferral) applies to purchase financing offers on all new 2015 models on approved credit. No interest will accrue during the first 30 days. After this, interest starts to accrue and purchasers repay the principal plus interest monthly over the term of the contract. Offer ends January 2, 2015. 2Cash bonus amounts are offered on the cash purchase of select new 2014 models and are deducted from the negotiated price before taxes. $6,000 maximum cash bonus amount only available on the new 2014 Optima Hybrid EX (OP74CE) and includes a $1,000 ECO-Credit. 3Representative finance example: 0%/0%/1.99% financing offer for 84 months available on the new 2015 Rio LX MT (RO541F)/2015 Sorento 2.4L LX AT (SR75BF)/2015 Sorento 2.4L LX AT AWD (SR75CF) with a selling price of $14,102/$26,782/$28,282 and includes a $1,500/$2,000/$2,500 loan rebate. 364 weekly payments of $39/$74/$83 for 84 months with $0 down payment. Credit fees of $0/$0/$2,021. Total obligation is $14,102/$26,782/$30,303. See retailer for complete details. 4Model shown MSRP for 2015 Forte SX (FO748F)/2015 Rio4 SX with Navigation (RO749F)/2015 Sorento 3.3L EX AT AWD (SR75HF)/2015 Rondo EX Luxury (RN756F) is $26,695/$22,395/$34,495/$32,295. 5Highway/city fuel consumption is based on the 2015 Rio LX+ ECO AT/2015 Forte 1.8L MPI 4-cyl MT/2015 Sorento LX 2.4L GDI 4-cyl AT/2015 Rondo 2.0L GDI 4-cyl AT. These updated estimates are based on the Government of Canada’s approved criteria and testing methods. Refer to the EnerGuide Fuel Consumption Guide. Your actual fuel consumption will vary based on driving habits and other factors. 6Loan rebate amounts are offered on financing offers on select new 2014/2015 models and are deducted from the negotiated purchase price before taxes. Offer ends January 2, 2015. 7Cash purchase price offer for the new 2015 Forte LX MT (FO541F)/2015 Rondo LX MT (RN551F) with a selling price of $12,999/$19,582 includes a $4,503/$3,500 cash credit. Offer cannot be combined with 0% financing. See retailer for complete details. 8Cash credit amounts are offered on select new 2014/2015 models and are deducted from the negotiated cash purchase price before taxes. Available on cash purchase offer only. Offer varies by trim. Certain conditions apply. Offer ends January 2, 2015. See your dealer for complete details. 9$1,000 Holiday Bonus amounts are offered on select new 2015 Winter Edition models and are deducted from the negotiated purchase price before taxes. Available on financing offers only, on the 2015 Forte LX+ AT Winter SE (FO74SF), 2015 Rondo LX AT (5-seat) Winter SE (RN75SF), 2015 Rondo LX AT (7-seat) Winter SE (RN75TF) and 2015 Optima LX AT Winter SE (OP74SF). Offer ends January 2, 2015. For more information on our 5-year warranty coverage, visit kia.ca or call us at 1-877-542-2886. Kia is a trademark of Kia Motors Corporation.
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Prices are in effect until Thursday, December 11, 2014 or while stock lasts. 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. Customer Relations: 1-866-999-9890.
Wise customers read the fine print: *, •, ★, ≥, >, †, § The Be Your Own Santa Holiday Sales Event offers are limited time offers which apply to retail deliveries of selected new and unused models purchased from participating dealers on or after December 2, 2014. Offers subject to change and may be extended without notice. All pricing includes freight ($1,695) and excludes licence, insurance, registration, any dealer administration fees, other dealer charges and other applicable fees and taxes. Dealer order/trade may be necessary. Dealer may sell for less. *Consumer Cash Discounts are offered on select 2014/2015
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for complete details. ≥3.99% purchase financing for up to 96 months available on the new 2015 Dodge Grand Caravan/2015 Dodge Journey Canada Value Package models through RBC, Scotiabank and TD Auto Finance. Examples: 2015 Dodge Grand Caravan/2015 Dodge Journey Canada Value Package with a Purchase Price of $20,998/$19,998 (including applicable Consumer Cash and Ultimate Bonus Cash Discounts) financed at 3.99% over 96 months with $0 down payment equals 208 bi-weekly payments of $118/$112 with a cost of borrowing of $3,545/$3,376 and a total obligation of $24,543/$23,374. >2.79%
Dodge, Ram or FIAT vehicle (except 2014 Dodge Avenger SE and 2014/2015 Dodge Viper) at a special fixed rate on approved credit through Royal Bank of Canada, TD Auto Finance or Scotiabank. Offer does not apply to Scotiabank special rate financing contracts longer than 90 months. Monthly/bi-weekly/weekly payments will be deferred for 60 days and contracts will be extended accordingly. Interest charges will not accrue during the first 60 days of the contract. Customers will be responsible for any required down payment, license, registration and insurance costs at time of contract. Some conditions apply. See your dealer
vehicles and are deducted from the negotiated price before taxes. •$500 Holiday Bonus Cash is available on select new 2015 Chrysler, Jeep, Dodge, Fiat or Ram models at participating dealers from December 2-31, 2014 only. Excludes 2015 Jeep Patriot/2015 Dodge Grand Caravan Canada Value Package/2015 Dodge Journey Canada Value Package. Bonus Cash will be deducted from the negotiated purchase/lease price after taxes. See dealer for complete details and exclusions. ★The Make No Payments for 90 Days is a limited time offer which applies to retail customers who finance a new 2014/2015 Chrysler, Jeep,
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DON SOLEY Dec. 8, 1944 - Dec. 5, 2012
TOY Ken 1930 - 2014 Mr. Ken Bill Toy of Red Deer, Alberta passed away peacefully, with his wife and son, Lee by his side at the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre on Monday, December 1, 2014 at the age of 84 years. Bill was a loving husband to his wife, Mary of sixty-four years; caring father to his children, Lee, Art (Yvonne), Patty (Kevin), Gordon and Debbie; devoted grandfather to his grandchildren, Ryan, Rachel, Jason and Janine; and loving uncle to his nieces and nephews. Bill will be lovingly remembered and dearly missed. Bill was predeceased by his parents, Jim and Lowi Gee Toy; older brother, Kam Wing and older sister, Kam Chung. Relatives and friends are invited to come and pay their respects at Parkland Funeral Home and Crematorium, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer, Alberta on Saturday, December 6, 2014 between the hours of 7:00 and 9:00 p.m. A Funeral Service will be held at Parkland Funeral Home and Crematorium, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer, Alberta on Monday December 8, 2014 at 11:00 a.m. Interment will follow at the Alto Reste Cemetery, Red Deer, Alberta. Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com Arrangements in care of Ashley Paton, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer. 403.340.4040.
CANN Bonnie Jean On Tuesday, November 25, 2014, Bonnie Jean Cann (nee McLeod) slipped with a graceful peace from the loving embrace of her family into the waiting arms of her Heavenly Father. Bonnie was predeceased by her parents; Jim and Lucile McLeod, her brother and sister-in-law; Blain and Margaret McLeod, along with numerous beloved aunts, uncles and cousins. She is survived by her husband of 62 happy years, Don Cann of Red Deer, and her daughters; Joyce Cann of Red Deer, Laurel and Don Johnson of Millet, Maureen and George Klingenberg of Blackfalds, and Betty and Chris Tronnes of the Rimbey area. She is also survived by her grandchildren; Rebecca and Eric Bouwsema and great-grandson Caleb of Calgary, SaraDawn and Brad Taylor or Wetaskiwin, Jamie Klingenberg of Blackfalds, Crystal Johnson and Kyle Brignall of Prince George, Michael Klingenberg and his girlfriend Cortney Taylor of Blackfalds and Lacombe, Scott and Brittney Tronnes of Penhold, and David Tronnes of Vancouver. Bonnie was born in Mirror, Alberta on May 18, 1932 and moved to Camrose where she completed her high school and met her future husband. She began her teaching career in Edberg, Alberta, and then taught in Camrose after she was married. Bonnie and Don welcomed their four daughters into the world, and then Bonnie returned to teaching with the Red Deer Public School District in 1967. She taught grade one at West Park Elementary School for many years and was much loved by her students. Even into her retirement, she would often hear “Hi, Mrs. Cann!” when she was spotted by former students. Bonnie was always devoted to her family first - was an avid bird watcher, wild flower lover, knitter of many warm things, and she loved many pets throughout her life. Her warm and loving smile will be remembered by many. Special thanks to the staff on unit B2 at Bethany Collegeside, and a sincere thank you to Dr. Konynenbelt who went above and beyond for our mom. Your care and compassion have not gone unnoticed. A Graveside Service will take place at the Red Deer Cemetery, 55 Street, Red Deer, on Saturday, December 6, 2014 at 1:00 p.m. A Celebration of Bonnie’s Life will follow at Gaetz Memorial United Church, 4758 Ross Street, Red Deer, at 2:30 p.m. In Bonnie’s memory and in lieu of flowers, donations would be gratefully accepted by the Red Deer & District S.P.C.A., 4505 77 Street, Red Deer, Alberta, T4P 2J1 or at Gaetz Memorial United Church. 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
Memories don’t fade. They just grow deep for the one we loved, but could not keep. We hold our tears when we speak your name, but the ache in our hearts remains the same. No one knows the sorrow we share when the family meets, and you are not there. We laugh, we smile, we play the part, behind it all lies broken hearts. Unseen, unheard, you are always near. So loved, so missed, so very dear. Just as you were, you will always be forever in our memory. Always remembered, Forever loved ~ Your loving family ~
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KRAVIK Murray Edgar March 4, 1945 - Dec. 2, 2014 It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of a loving husband, father and grandfather. We would like to ask family and friends to celebrate his life on Saturday, December 6, 2014 at 2:00pm at the Bowden Evangelical Missionary Church. Memorial donations may be made to the Alberta Children’s Hospital. Heartland Funeral Services, Ltd., Innisfail entrusted with arrangements.Phone 403-227-0006 www.heartlandfuneralservices.com
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Technical Support Agent Growing national software company based in Red Deer seeking FT perm Tech Agent. Please visit us at visual-eyes.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.
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BEARSPAW is a moderately sized oil and gas company operating primarily in the Stettler and Drumheller areas. We are currently accepting applications for a
JUNIOR OIL AND GAS OPERATOR
in our Stettler Field. Applicants need to be mechanically inclined, motivated to work hard and learn quickly. F/T LIVE IN caregiver posiAssociated industry tion, private household, experience eg. instrumen$11/hr., in Innisfail, hightation or facilities school diploma and construction experience criminal check req’d, child would be an asset but is care and household duties not necessarily required. caregiverposition6@gmail.com This position offers a diverse and challenging Live in Nanny needed for 7 work environment with and 1 1/2 year old must be competitive pay, attractive able to commute from sylvan lake to Red deer benefits and the ability to grow within the organiza403-505-9935 tion. Applicants must live LIVE-IN Nanny required for or be willing to relocate to infant to start September within a 20 minute 1st, 2015. Must have child commute of the work care experience or place location (Stettler). training. 403-341-0302 Please Submit Resume’s Attention Human LOOKING for live-in careResources giver for a school age boy. Email: payroll@ $10.20 hourly fees, room bearspawpet.com and board. e-mail resume Fax: (403) 258-3197 to bautista_annielee@ Mail: Suite 5309, 333 96th yahoo.com Ave NE Calgary, Alberta T3R 1H1 P/T F. caregiver wanted Classifieds for F quad. Must be reliable Your place to SELL and have own vehicle. Your place to BUY 403-505-7846
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LUND Norman Harold Aug. 22, 1930 - Nov. 18, 2014 Norman H. Lund of Kelowna, B.C., formerly from Red Deer, Alta. passed away peacefully at the Kelowna Hospital on the morning of Nov. 18, 2014 after a brief illness. He will be remembered and sadly missed by his son Brian Lund from Kelowna BC., partner, Bernice Van Tighem, sister in law Jessie Lund from Red Deer, Alta., daughter in law Debbie Lund from Kelowna, B.C., 2 grandchildren, Ryan Lund and Brittany (James) Appleton both of Kelowna B.C., and 2 nephews, Don and Bob Lund of Red Deer, Alta.. Norm was predeceased by his parents, Dan and Lydia Lund, wife, Joyce Lund in 1975, brother, Gordon Lund in 2009 and a son, David Lund in 2014. There will be no Service at Norm’s request. Condolences may be sent to the family by visiting: www.springfieldfuneralhome.com 250-860-7077.
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Daily the Advocate publishes advertisements from companies, corporations and associations from across Canada seeking personnel for long term placements.
in the Classifieds 309-3300 Email classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com CENTRAL ALBERTA’S DAILY NEWSPAPER
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OUTSIDE SALES OPPORTUNITIES
We are a young, energetic company that provides specialized transportation and rental equipment to the oil and gas industry. Please email resumes to careers@ avedaenergy.com 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
NOW ACCEPTING RESUMES FOR
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.
NOW HIRING
Well Testing Personnel Experienced Supervisors & Operators Must have valid applicable tickets. Email: lstouffer@ testalta.com
Full -Time Position
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Human Resources Administrator/ Recruiter,
PRODUCTION TESTING EXPERIENCED SUPERVISORS and to start as soon as posTESTERS sible in the Red Deer area. Day & Night Must have tickets. DUTIES: Top paid wages. This position will require Based out of Devon, AB. Email resume to: • Recruiting manpower kathy@dragonsbreathpt.ca as jobs come up, setting up interviews and screening applicants, reference checks • Record Maintenance accurate and timely processing of hire SERVICE RIG packages, rate changes, Bearspaw Petroleum Ltd employee files is seeking a • Organizing logistics for LEASEHAND travel Locally based, home every night! Qualified applicants • General Office duties etc. must have all necessary REQUIREMENTS valid tickets for the position 5 years minimum in the oil being applied for. and gas industry, Bearspaw offers a 3 years in a Recruiting/ very competitive salary Human Resources Admin and benefits package position Highly organized, along with a steady detail orientated, capable work schedule. of multitasking Proficient in Please submit resumes: Microsoft Office; including Attn: Human Resources word, excel and Outlook Email: Motivated and have the payroll@bearspawpet.com ability to maintain strict Fax: (403) 252-9719 or confidentiality as well as a Mail to: Suite 5309, professional attitude Able 333-96 Ave. NE to be on call, work some Calgary, AB T3K 0S3 evenings and weekends Able to work independently and as part of a team; encourage excellence through positive contributions
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
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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
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C & C COATINGS in Innisfail is seeking F/T experienced Sandblaster. On site blasting, various equipment, trucks and trailers. 75% new construction. Competitive wages and benefits. Fax resume to: 403-227-1165 or email bslager@telus.net
Please submit cover letter and resume to: resumes@ newcartcontracting.com or fax to (403) 729-2396 Attn. HR. No phone calls Please.
Restaurant/ Hotel
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F/T Food Service Supervisor and Store Manager. $13-$19.50/hr. Must be able to work nights/days and weekends. Call Little Ceasars Red Deer at 403-346-1671 or email to allan_barker25@yahoo.ca 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 Start your career! See Help Wanted
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KFC requires
DELIVERY DRIVERS
Daytime, Evening, FT & PT Shifts Available Apply by: Fax: (403) 341-3820 or in person at Downtown KFC 4834-53 St., Red Deer
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MILLARD TRUCKING LTD. is looking for a 2 Licenced Journeyman Heavy Duty Mechanics. The successful applicant must be able to work well in a high paced environment. We offer a great working environment, very competitive wages and performance bonuses. All interested person are invited to apply to: Millard Trucking Ltd. Box 960, Sundre, AB T0M1X0 Fax: 403-638-4987 email: mbrodie@enerchem.com
ADULT EDUCATION AND TRAINING
WINTER START GED Preparation
F/T TRUCK drivers req’d. Minimum Class 5 with air and clean abstract. Exp. preferred. In person to Key Towing 4083-78 St. Cres. Red Deer.
Would you like to take the GED in your community?
Tired of Standing? Find something to sit on in Classifieds
HALLCON is seeking qualified drivers to transport rail crews throughout Red Deer area. Drivers are ideally based out of RED DEER. No overnight stays required. This position is an on call position. Employees are responsible for taking trips during the period they have designated themselves available to do so. Transportation is done in Hallcon company vehicles. Vehicles are extensively & consistently maintained ensuring optimal safety for drivers and clients. Drivers must possess valid Class 1, 2, or 4 license, with clean driver abstract. Assisted licensing upgrade to achieve a class 4 is available. Pay is based at a rate of $16.00. Earning potential is based on your availability, as our operation runs on a 24/7 on call basis. Both full time and part time employees are welcome. Semiretired, retired, full time, part time employees are welcome. Forward resumes & current driver abstract: Shane Flack asmabnorth@gmail.com.
Business Opportunities
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Seeking mature individuals with car or small truck that are available during the day to deliver the new YP/Telus phonebooks into Red Deer. This is door to door delivery, no selling involved, can start immed. All payments made by cheque 1-800-661-1910 Esthetician Wanted Full Time Permanent Min.of 2 yrs experience,certification required. Duties:Clean, shape,polish nails,related services. Wage:15.00$/hr. K Club Salon&Spa Keliani United Corp. 155 Leva Ave Red Deer,AB T4e0a5 403598-3073 info@kclub.ca LABORERS NEEDED F/T FOR SNOW REMOVAL & MAINTENANCE WORK. Must have driver’s license. Call 403-506-8928 or Fax 403-886-5814
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START YOUR OWN COMMERCIAL CLEANING BUSINESS Revenue between $24,000 - $120,000 Initial cash required as low as $6,000 In Business for over 20 years *Guaranteed Cleaning Contracts Incl. *Training Incl. *Ongoing Office Support
Trades NEWCART is looking for a full time
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Red Deer Rocky Mtn. House Rimbey Caroline Castor Sylvan Lake Innisfail Stettler Ponoka Lacombe Gov’t of Alberta Funding may be available. 403-340-1930 www.academicexpress.ca
FEMALE for cleaning, shopping, assist senior male. Paid daily. Resume, & ref’s req’d. 403-342-6545 SALES ASSOCIATE REQUIRED: Side Street Fashion is looking for an outgoing individual on a part-time basis. Retail experience an asset, but not necessary. Submit resume to 3310 50 Ave (located in the Sheraton Hotel) or sidestreet@ sidestreetfashion.com 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.
DO YOU: - Want extra income - Know the city well - Possess a clean, valid drivers license - Have a friendly attitude - Enjoy customer service - Want part-time work (12 to 22 hrs/week) As part of our service team, you will be dispatched in response to service concerns to deliver newspapers and flyers to customers or carriers. A delivery vehicle provided by company! Work 3 to 4 shifts a week. Hours of shifts are morning shifts of Monday through Friday 5:00 AM to 9:00 AM. Saturday starting at 7 AM. Wednesday to Friday Shifts starting at 1 PM. *All Shifts based on 4 hours and likely to run longer. Please apply with resume to: qmacaulay@reddeeradvocate.com or call 403-314-4302 and speak with Grant.
Ph: 780-468-3232 or 403-290-0866 TOO MUCH STUFF? Let Classifieds help you sell it.
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ACADEMIC Express
DRIVERS for furniture moving company, class 5 required (5 tons), local & long distance. Competitive wages. Apply in person. 6630 71 St. Bay 7 Red Deer. 403-347-8841
JJAM Management (1987) Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s Requires to work at these Red Deer, AB locations: A CARF accredited agency 5111 22 St. that has long been recognized 37444 HWY 2 S for providing quality support 37543 HWY 2N FULL TIME - Permanent services to individuals with Trades 700 3020 22 St. Brewer needed for developmental disabilities, FOOD ATTENDANT Drummond Brewing currently seeking an Req’d permanent shift ADVANTAGE VALVE Company Ltd located in individual to join our team weekend day and evening MAINTENANCE & RENTALS 8 6610 71 Street, in the above capacity. The both full and part time. LTD. IS HIRING Red Deer, AB T4P 3Y7. Direct Support Worker’s 16 Vacancies, $10.20/hr. + Start Date: ASAP Valve Technicians role is to provide benefits. Start ASAP. Main Duties include: knowledgeable in API, ANSI supervision, training, Job description Operate machinery to and Actuated Valves personal support and www.timhortons.com process and bottle, can or with the ability to deal with mentorship in accordance Education and experience otherwise package beer, customers in service. with individual’s needs and not req’d. Observe gauges, computer Entry Level positions aspirations across multiple Apply in person or fax printouts and video are also available Oilfield environments which will resume to: 403-314-1303 monitors to verify specified experience would promote personal growth, processing conditions, be a great asset. We offer THE RUSTY PELICAN independence and Maintain shift log of competitive wages and a is now accepting resumes increase social inclusion. production and other full benefit package with for experienced Applicants should possess data, Set up and adjust 100% prescription coverage. F/T SERVERS prior experience in the processing and packaging Must have Ref’s & Pro-Serve. Please forward a resume human service field, machines, Check products to Advantage Valve Apply within: 2079-50 experience supporting for defects and to ensure either via e-mail at: Ave. 2-4 pm. Mon.-Fri. people with anxiety conformance to company sbowman Fax 403-347-1161 Phone disorders and dementia standards, Perform @advantagevalve.com calls WILL NOT be accepted. are a definite asset. Corrective Machine cliff@advantagevalve.com Vehicle and valid driver’s adjustments, clean tanks or fax resume to our license required. and immediate work areas, Sylvan Lake branch. CARS provides in-service Brewing beer, transferring 1 Charles Industrial Way training to meet position beer, filtering. Sylvan Lake, Alberta requirements, for which Education: Completion of Tel: 403-887-1462 staff receive compensation high school - Experience: Fax: 403-887-1463 in most cases. THE RUSTY PELICAN Minimum 6 months of www.advantagevalve.com Hours/Compensation: is now accepting resumes experience as a machine Only qualified applicants * Primarily evenings 3-11, for an EXPERIENCED operator or labourer in will be notified. weekend shifts may be BARTENDER. MUST beverage or associated required on occasion HAVE REFERENCES. Looking for a place products are required, on * $16.15 - $18.81 per hour Able to work evening shift. to live? the job training in brewery Apply within: 2079-50 Take a tour through the will be provided. Specific Forward Resumes to: Ave. 2-4 pm. Mon.-Fri. CLASSIFIEDS experience as a brewer CARS Fax 403-347-1161 Phone is a definitive asset but #101 - 5589 47 St. calls WILL NOT be accepted. LICENSED MECHANIC & not required. Red Deer, AB T4N 1S1 AUTO BODY TECH. Salary: $18.45 to $23.00 Fax: 403-346-8015 Buying or Selling Reasonable rate. for 42.00 Hours per week. Email: markw@carsrd.org your home? A.J. Auto Repair & Body We provide disability Check out Homes for Sale 11, 7836 49 Ave. benefits, uniforms, meals in Classifieds Call 403-506-6258 and transportation Apply by e-mail to: cody@ Restaurant/ NEWCART drummondbeer.com, mail Hotel is looking for a fulltime (address above)
Central Alberta Residence Society
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Winch Truck Drivers & Swampers
DIRECT SUPPORT WORKER
We thank all applicants for their interest; however only selected candidates will be contacted.
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Landscape Labourer,
Now Hiring GASOLINE ALLEY LOCATION FULL TIME and PART TIME SHIFTS AVAILABLE • Very Competitive Wages • Advancement Opportunities With medical Benefits • Paid training • Paid Breaks
as soon as possible. Duties will include: cutting grass, raking, litter removal, fertilizing, watering, snow clearing, operating light and heavy duty machinery, maintaining property maintenance equipment, general yard maintenance etc. This position will require some evenings, weekends, early mornings. 2 years experience minimum required. Hourly wage is $23-$25.00 depending on experience. Benefits available after 3 month probation period. Please submit resumes to: resumes @newcartcontracting.com or fax to 403-729-2396. NO phone calls please.
SIDING INSTALLER with or without trailer & tools. F.T. year round work, must have truck and 2 yrs. exp. $1.30 per sq.ft. 403-358-8580
Apply in person or send resume to: Email:kfcjobsrd@yahoo.ca or Fax: (403) 341-3820
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JOIN us at Aveda Transportation and Energy Services as a
HIRING SERVER AND CHEFS Apply in person at Shiso Japanese Restaurant, 3731 Gaetz Avenue No Phone Calls Please!
Growing industrial supply company in Red Deer looking for OUTSIDE SALES REPRESENTATIVES to join our team. We offer an attractive compensation, benefits & bonus program. Sales experience is not necessary but an industrial background is a definite asset. Please forward your resume to human.resources.depart1 @gmail.com
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Truckers/ Drivers
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SUNTERRA Meats in Trochu is looking for a Journeyman Electrician to join our maintenance team. Job entails but is not limited to installation, maintenance, repair, service and trouble shooting. Successful candidate must have Industrial Electrician Red Seal Certificate and 3 years experience in the electrical field. Meat processing plant experience a definite asset. For more information call Dave Guay at 403-442-4202 or send resume to dave. guay@sunterrameats.ca.
STUDON Electric & Controls Inc. is one of Canada’s Best Managed Companies. We are an industry leading Electrical & Instrumentation Contractor that prides itself in having committed and dedicated employees. We are currently hiring for the position of:
JOURNEYMAN INSTRUMENTATION TECHNICIAN (Full-Time; Red Deer Area)
The ideal candidate will have the following: • Journeyman Instrumentation • Fall Protection, CSTS (Version 0.9) • Strong written and verbal communication skills • Committed dedication to safety; reflected in practice and experience • Strong focus on customer satisfaction • A team player with strong people skills 40 Hour Week / Monday – Thursday Starting Rate: $43.06/hour STUDON offers a competitive salary, and an opportunity to apply your skills in a challenging and rewarding environment. Please forward your resume to the address below. We thank all applicants for their interest; however only those candidates interviewed will be contacted.
STUDON Electric & Controls Inc. ATTN: Recruiting Fax # 403-342-6505 Email hr@studon.com
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Alta-Fab offers a number of exciting career opportunities. We’re always looking for great people to fill positions within our company. At Alta-Fab, we value our people as much as our products. We’re proud of the culture we’ve built, and our employees are a testament to that. Sixty per cent of our staff have worked at Alta-Fab for over 5 years, and the average term of service among all our staff is 12 years.
To Advertise Your Business or Service Here
Call Classifieds 403-309-3300 classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com
We are seeking talented and motivated people who are committed to excellence and value team work for the following:
Accounting
Field Service Mobile Technicians
INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp. with oilfield service companies, other small businesses and individuals RW Smith, 346-9351
As a member of our team you will benefit with a comprehensive compensation package and opportunities to learn and excel through our various training and educational assistance programs. • Year Round Employment • Profit Share Program • In-House Benefit Program • Company Sponsored Benefit Plan • Company Paid Apprentice Training Program • Day Shift with Overtime Available
• Personal Protective Equipment Allowance • Field Premium Allowance • Field Living Out Allowance • Field Travel Allowance • Outstanding Safety Culture • Family Oriented Culturally Diverse Workplace
Contractors
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BRIDGER CONST. LTD. We do it all! 403-302-8550 DALE’S Home Reno’s Free estimates for all your reno needs. 403-506-4301
To start this exciting career opportunity with Alta-Fab, please forward a resume, copy of current First Aid ticket, H2S Alive ticket, valid class 5 drivers license and a 10 year Commercial Drivers Abstract to:
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Escorts
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KAYLA 392-0891 *BUSTY* INDEPENDENT w/own car
Handyman Services
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ATT’N: Are you looking for help on small jobs around the house or renovate your bathroom, painting or flooring, or cutting small trees? Call James 403-341-0617
Massage Therapy
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Massage Therapy
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FANTASY SPA
International ladies Elite Retreat, finest in VIP treatment. 10-2am Private back entry. 403-341-4445 **********
Misc. Services
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5* JUNK REMOVAL
Property clean up 340-8666
Moving & Storage
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MOVING? Boxes? Appls. removal. 403-986-1315
Painters/ Decorators
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JG PAINTING, 25 yrs. exp. Free Est. 403-872-8888
Seniors’ Services
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HELPING HANDS
Home Supports for Seniors. Est 1999. Cooking, cleaning, companionship. At home or facility. Call 403-346-7777 for information.
BODY BALANCING, New GARAGE DOOR SERVICE. Location. 403-352-8269 Save 50%. All yard & bobCHINESE massage thera- cat services, junk/tree/snow py. Direct bill. Gift card. removal. 403-358-1614 The easy way to find a 403-986-1691 4606-48 Ave buyer for items you want to RMD RENOVATIONS MASSAGE ABOVE ALL sell is with a Red Deer SNOW shoveling/dump runs Advocate want ad. Phone Bsmt’s, flooring, decks, etc. WALK-INS WELCOME /odd jobs 403-885-5333 309-3300. Call Roger 403-348-1060 4709 Gaetz Ave. 346-1161 DOORS, windows, siding, soffit, fascia and custom cladding. Call Dean @ 403-302-9210.
Email: hr@altafab.com | Fax: 780-955-1832 | Website: www.altafab.com Please visit Working at Alta-Fab on our website to view all current opportunities.
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Household Appliances
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KENMORE washer and Maytag dryer, large capacity, both $75 403-782-7439
CLASSIFICATIONS TOP WAGES, BENEFITS. EXP’D. DRIVERS & SWAMPERS REQUIRED. MAPLE LEAF MOVING Call 403-347-8826 or fax resume to: 403-314-1457.
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Firewood
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AFFORDABLE
TRAINING CENTRE
Homestead Firewood
OILFIELD TICKETS
Spruce & Pine -Split. Firepits avail. 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472
Industries #1 Choice!
“Low Cost” Quality Training
403.341.4544
24 Hours Toll Free 1.888.533.4544
FIREWOOD, birch, spruce & pine. North of Costco 403-346-7178, 392-7754
LOGS
Semi loads of pine, spruce, tamarack, poplar. Price depends on location. Lil Mule Logging 403-318-4346 278950A5
(across from Totem) (across from Rona North)
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TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, office, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.
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R H2S Alive (ENFORM) R First Aid/CPR R Confined Space R WHMIS & TDG R Ground Disturbance R (ENFORM) D&C B.O.P. R D&C (LEL) #204, 7819 - 50 Ave.
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LITTLE TYKES castle, 4 1/2 ft high, $100; wooden play kitchen set, 5 ft. long, $75. 403-227-5306
EquipmentHeavy
309-3300 Employment Training
1500-1990
Children's Items
Now Offering Hotter, Cleaner BC Birch. All Types. P.U. / Delivery. Lyle 403-783-2275
Household Furnishings
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2 DUSTY ROSE upholstered arm chairs, 1 rocker, 1 recliner, $60/ea. or both for $90.; Sewing machine cabinet, dark oak, 3 large side drawers, fits any size machine. $85.; ROASTER, electric, large aluminum, $20; 403-348-6449 2 END TABLES 28” x 28” Solid wood, opening doors in front. $10 each; colonial style wooden rocker w/cushions $25 403-782-7439 2 HIGH back chairs, new, rayon material, small stripes $100/ea 403-347-2046 MOVING TO LODGE, House and entire contents. Low maint., close to senior citizens’ bus route. Avail. Immed. 4611 44 ST. Monte Keith 43-314-9759 NIGHT Tables, (2) Oak, 1 drawer & 2 doors with glass top to protect from scratches. $70 ea. 403-352-8811
WANTED
Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514
Misc. for Sale
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Employment Training
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CHRISTMAS Tree, Blue Spruce, 4’. LIVE in ground. Not yet cut, Perfect tree for small space. $60. obo 403-227-2976
ENROLL TODAY! Classes Starting Soon!
DUVET COVER, Navy, King sz., like new $30. 403-346-2070 GARBAGE compactor $100 obo call 403-728-3485
Medical Office Assistant / Unit Clerk
Misc. for Sale
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QUEEN patchwork quilt, pillow, hand towels, facecloths, beige throw rug all for $25; Damask table cloth 60” round, 8 matching napkins, new in pkg, $15 403-314-9603 SNOWBLOWER, Poulan, 30”, 291cc, elec. start, used about 8 hrs. Purchased 2013. 403-347-1637 VACUUM, Rainbow, older model from Estate, works well. Good for allergies, uses water, no dusty filters. $200. 403-227-2976
Musical Instruments
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CORNET (Trumpet) F.E.OLDS & Son, made in Los Angeles, $89. 403-877-0825
Pets & Supplies
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2 AQUARIUMS/CRITTER CAGE - NO LEAKS. 20 gallon Hartz in box c/w hood light. $50. 5 Gallon, $20. AQUARIUM GRAVEL - 10 lbs (new), white, $15. OR all 3 for $75. 403-227-2976
Cats
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2 BALINESE KITTENS 1 SNOWSHOE SIAMESE 3 BURMAN $25/ea. 403-887-3649 2 KITTENS black/white to give away. GONE BEAUTIFUL kittens, (3), tan tabby F, silver spotted tabby w/orange cheeks, black calico F, unique face markings, free to good home 403-782-3130
Sporting Goods
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SKIS, 205 Mega Sport Tyrolia, and boots Sz. 10, HEADBOARD, for queen Memo Salomon. bed, 60” wide, $35; $40. ea. or both for $70. 3 Clean wool accent 403-346-2070 matching 3x5 oval carpets, $35. for all 3; David Winter Collector’s houses in Collectors' original boxes, $25/ea; Upright Hoover Dirt Finder Items Vacuum Cleaner, self propelled, allergen VINTAGE record storage filtration, $50. footstool, beige, good 403-352-8811 cond. $25 403-314-9603
On-site work experience Unit Clerk Specialty curriculum Under one-year full Diploma program Planning for a Successful Career Seminar Nationally recognized Medical Assisting First Aid / CPR Training Professional Certificate Hospital Scrubs included Train with Industry experts Perfect graduate job placement rate reported last year
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Advocate Opportunities
Call Today (403) 347-6676 www.academyoflearning.ab.ca
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MORRISROE AREA:
Adult Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the RED DEER ADVOCATE With only 64 papers, approximately: $350.00/mo.
Advocate Opportunities
For More Information, Please call Prodie 403-314-4301 CARRIERS REQUIRED To deliver the CENTRAL AB LIFE 1 day a week in: INNISFAIL Penhold Olds Sylvan Lake Please call Debbie for details 403-314-4307
ADULT Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the
NEWSPAPER CARRIERS NEEDED For Afternoon Delivery 3 Days/Week (Wed., Thurs. & Fri.)
Johnstone Crossing Jenner Cres. & Judd Cl. WESTPARK & WESTLAKE For more information or to apply call Joanne at the Red Deer Advocate 403-314-4308
RED DEER ADVOCATE
CARRIERS REQUIRED
Monday through Saturday. Delivery to be done before 6:30 am. Reliable vehicle needed.
CENTRAL AB LIFE & LACOMBE EXPRESS
DOWNTOWN AREA $697./mo PARKVALE AREA $484./mo. DEERPARK AREA Dixon Cres, Donnelly Cres, Duston St. area $482.00/mo. Deschner Close, Dubois Cres., Doherty Close, Duston St. and area. $327.00/mo. Dempsey St., Dodge Ave, Donlevy Ave area $327.00/mo. Dowler St., Daniel Cres. Dawe Cl., Dunham Close and area $412.00/mo. For More information, please call Jamie 403-314-4306
To deliver the 1 day a week in: LACOMBE BLACKFALDS Please call Rick for details 403-314-4303 CARRIERS NEEDED FOR FLYERS, FRIDAY FORWARD & EXPRESS
3 days per week, no weekends ROUTES IN:
ANDERS AREA Abbot Close/Allan St. Addinell Close/Allan St. Adamson Ave/Arthur Close Alwright Close Anderson Close Anquetel Close BOWER AREA Brown Close/Barrett Drive Baile Close
ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Friday Forward ONLY 3 DAYS A WEEK in DOWNTOWN AREA South East Downtown and Parkvale area $212.28 mo. DEER PARK AREA
INGLEWOOD AREA Illingworth Close Ingram Close Iverson Close Isbister Close MORRISROE AREA Vista Village SUNNYBROOK AREA Savoy Cres./Sydney Close Stirling Close Sherwood Cres
Dixon Cres. $100.20/mo. Dunning Cres, Cl., and Depalme St. plus 3 blocks of Douglas Ave. $136.24/mo.
LANCASTER AREA Lampard Cres Lancaster Drive Long Close Lougheed Close Lyons Close
GRANDVIEW AREA
VANIER AREA
4400 Block of 41A Ave., 4000 Block of 46 + 47 St. Area. For More Information Call Jamie at the Red Deer Advocate 403-314-4306
Vickers Close Vincent Close Viscount Drive Call Prodie @ 403- 314-4301 for more info **********************
TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 403-314-4300
Travel Packages
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TRAVEL ALBERTA Alberta offers SOMETHING for everyone. Make your travel plans now. Celebrate your life with a Classified ANNOUNCEMENT
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Ancient cancer killed man 4,500 years ago SASKATCHEWAN SCIENTIST INVOLVED IN FIND BY THE CANADIAN PRESS SASKATOON — A group of researchers, including a Saskatchewan scientist, have found what may be the oldest case of human cancer in the world. Bones of a man exhumed in Siberia that date back 4,500 years to the Early Bronze Age show he had lung or prostate cancer, which eventually spread through his body from his hip to his head. He died between 35 and 45 years old. “This is one of — if not the oldest — absolute cases of cancer that we can be really, really confident saying that it’s cancer,” said Angela Lieverse, a bioarchaeologist at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon. She said there have been similar cancer discoveries in remains estimated to be 5,000 to 6,000 years old. But those involved unconfirmed cancers or tumours that were later found to be benign. The latest study, co-authored by Daniel Temple from George Mason University in Virginia and Vladimir Bazaliiskii with Irkutsk State University in Russia, was published Wednesday in the scientific journal PLOS ONE. Lieverse said the cancer she and her partners found refutes a widely held belief that the disease is a modern phenomenon. “We’ve had this perception that it was almost non-existent in antiquity, because people didn’t live the same kind of lifestyle that we live now. “They lived in these pure, toxin-free environments and they were very active and ate natural foods,” she said. “But it was more common than we like to think it was.” Lieverse speculates that as well as non-environmental factors, natural carcinogens played a role in ancient
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cancers. The man in the study was a hunter-gatherer, who would have built wood fires to keep warm in the cool climate. He would have often inhaled smoke, which could have given him lung cancer, she suggested. The cancer then ate holes throughout the man’s bones, which were meticulously preserved and therefore easier to diagnose than typical remains. Lieverse said as soon as she saw the skeleton in 2012, she recognized the marks left by cancer. She had travelled to Russia as part of a project based at the University of Alberta that studied age-old huntergatherers in northeast Asia. But when she saw the bones of the man, her research began to focus on him. She stayed for months documenting the remains and taking photographs. Lieverse said the man had been buried in a small cemetery in the CisBaikal region. He was found in a fetal position in a circular pit with an intricately carved bone spoon, unlike most men of the time who were buried lying on their backs with their fishing or hunting gear. He must have lived a distinct life in his community, she said, but he also would have experienced a most agonizing death. Near the end, he would have been nauseous, fatigued, unable to breathe and in constant pain. “It’s a tragic story. It breaks your heart to think of what he went through.”
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NEW YORK — Civil rights leaders Thursday decried the grand jury decision not to charge a white police officer in the chokehold death of a black man and announced plans for a march and a summit on racial justice in Washington later this month. National Urban League President Marc Morial said the lack of an indictment in the death of Eric Garner was “a travesty of justice.” He said he and other civil rights leaders are calling for 2015 to be “a year for justice and jobs.” The decision Wednesday not to bring charges against Officer Daniel Pantaleo triggered protests around the country and sent thousands into New York’s streets, where they marched, chanted and blocked traffic. Police said 83 people were arrested, mostly on disorderly conduct charges. Pataleo’s lawyer and police union officials argued that the grand jury got it right, saying that the officer used an authorized takedown move - not a banned chokehold — against a man who was resisting arrest. And they said Garner’s poor health was the main cause of his death. To find Pantaleo criminally negligent, the grand jury would have had to determine he knew there was a “substantial risk” that Garner would die. About 20 civil rights leaders met behind closed doors Thursday at the Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network headquarters. Sharpton said a civil rights summit will be held following a Dec. 13 march in Washington. He said the topics will include education and boycotts. The Garner case — combined with the decision by a grand jury last week not to charge the white officer who shot and killed unarmed black 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri — stirred a national conversation about race, police training and the grand jury process. On Thursday morning, yet another case was added to the mix: A white former police chief in Eutawville, South Carolina, was charged with murder in the shooting death of an unarmed black man after an argument at a town hall meeting. Garner, 43, died after a scuffle that broke out July 17 as officers tried to arrest him for selling untaxed cigarettes on the street. The last moments of his life were caught on video that showed Pantaleo holding the unarmed Garner in a chokehold as he repeatedly gasped, “I can’t breathe.” The medical examiner ruled that the chokehold contributed to the death. Staten Island District Attorney Daniel Donovan said the grand jury found “no reasonable cause” to bring charges. But New York law forbids him to give details on how the grand jury arrived at its decision. The district attorney said he is asking for a court order allowing some information to be released. Rep. Peter King, RN.Y., defended the grand jury decision, saying the outcome would have been the same if Garner had been white. He said Garner’s death was largely the result of his health problems, which included obesity, diabetes and heart trouble. And he said police were right to ignore Garner’s pleas that he couldn’t breathe. “The fact that he was able to say it meant he could breathe,” said King, the son of a police officer. “And if you’ve ever seen anyone locked up, anyone
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BAGHDAD — A string of car bomb attacks across Iraq killed at least 37 people on Thursday, Iraqi officials said. Three of the attacks targeted Shiite districts in the capital, Baghdad, while the fourth targeted a Kurdish neighbourhood in the oil-rich northern city of Kirkuk. Police officials said the first attack targeted a line of small restaurants in the Shiite district of Sadr City Thursday night, killing 11 people and wounding 25 others. Minutes later, a second car bomb blast near an outdoor market in the same district killed seven people and wounded 21 others. Later on, a bomb exploded near a restaurant in Baghdad’s Shiite northern neighbourhood of Shaab, killing three people and wounding 12 others. In the oil-rich city of Kirkuk, a car bomb attack near a cafe killed 16 people, said deputy chief of the Kirkuk police, Maj. Gen. Torhan Abdul-Rahman Youssef. The blast took place in a Kurdish district in the city, 290 kilometres north of Baghdad.
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Nigerian police, soldiers repel attack by gunmen DAMATURU, Nigeria — Nigerian police and soldiers repelled an attack by gunmen on a French-owned cement factory on Thursday in northeast Nigeria, where security forces are battling an Islamic uprising, a police official said. The gunmen tried to shoot their way into the compound in the morning, police spokesman Deputy Supt. Fwaje Atajiri said. An attack on the same Ashaka Cement factory, a subsidiary of Lafarge SA in Gombe state, was carried out a month ago by suspected gunmen of the Boko Haram extremist group. The gunmen fled with large amounts of dynamite loaded onto stolen pickup trucks. No one was killed. Lafarge SA in Paris confirmed an attack by “militants” was repelled Thursday and that no one was wounded, a company spokeswoman said.
Police arrest suspect in death of teacher in Abu Dhabi ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — Police in the United Arab Emirates have arrested a woman they say is behind the stabbing death of an American teacher and a separate plot to bomb another American’s house, a top official said Thursday as authorities moved swiftly to calm fears of instability in the normally peaceful Gulf nation. Interior Minister Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan, who is also deputy prime minister, said the attacker targeted her victims based on their nationality alone in an attempt to create chaos and terrorize the country. He called the stabbing of the woman, who previously lived in Colorado, a crime that is “alien to our secure country.” “The victim of this brutal crime was a schoolteacher who was committed to building strong future generations,” he told reporters. Word of the gruesome killing, which left a trail of blood in a public restroom at an Abu Dhabi
LONDON — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Thursday that Russia could rebuild its relations with the West “if it simply helps to calm turbulent waters” on its border with eastern Ukraine, where pro-Moscow separatists are fighting with Kyiv forces. Speaking in Basel, Switzerland at a meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, Kerry called on Moscow to uphold an earlier cease-fire agreement, which calls for withdrawing its support for the separatists in Ukraine and persuading them to release hostages. The U.S. and European Union have imposed sanctions on some Russians and separatists as punishment for their actions. “The U.S. and countries that support Ukraine’s sovereignty and rights do not seek confrontation,” Kerry said. “It is not our design or desire that we see a Russia isolated through its own actions.” “No one gains from this confrontation,” Kerry said. The secretary met briefly — and separately — with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Georgian Foreign Minister Tamar Beruchashvili. The United States and Russia are partners in the OSCE.
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MAYVILLE, Wis. — Two young brothers from southeastern Wisconsin are likely hoping they haven’t landed on Santa’s naughty list after police showed up at their doorstep. The boys, ages 3 and 6, thought the best way to get in touch with the North Pole was by phone. And for youngsters of that age, their Christmas lists could be considered an emergency. So, the brothers used their Dad’s cellphone to place a 911 call, hoping to be connected with the North Pole and the big guy himself. The Beaver Dam Daily Citizen says that brought police to their Mayville home where officers gave the boys some advice. If you want to talk to Santa, do it in person. Mayville is 80 kilometres northwest of Milwaukee.
ALBANY, N.Y. — A chimpanzee is not entitled to the rights of a human and does not have to be freed by its owner, a New York appeals court ruled Thursday. The three-judge Appellate Division panel was unanimous in denying “legal personhood” to Tommy, who lives alone in a cage in upstate New York’s Fulton County. A trial level court had previously denied the Nonhuman Rights Project’s effort to have Tommy released. The group’s lawyer, Steven Wise, told the appeals court in October that the chimp’s living conditions are akin to a person in unlawful solitary confinement. Wise argued that animals with human qualities, such as chimps, deserve basic rights, including freedom from imprisonment. He has also sought the release of three other chimps in New York and said he plans similar cases in other states.
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LOS ANGELES — A woman suing Bill Cosby for sexual battery attempted to sell a story about the comedian to a tabloid a decade ago and tried to extort money in exchange for her silence, Cosby’s attorney said in a court filing Thursday. Attorney Martin Singer wrote in the filing that the lawsuit by Judy Huth and her attorney followed a failed attempt to extort $250,000 from Cosby. In the filing, Cosby seeks monetary damages from Huth and her attorney. The filing comes two days after Huth sued, claiming the comedian forced her to perform a sex act in 1974 when she was 15. The incident occurred in a bedroom of the Playboy Mansion after Cosby gave Huth and a 16-year-old friend alcohol, according to her lawsuit. The filings state that Singer and Huth’s attorney, Marc S. Strecker, had several conversations about the allegations in the weeks before the lawsuit was filed. Strecker first demanded $100,000, then raised the demand to $250,000 in order to keep from filing a lawsuit on Huth’s behalf, Singer wrote. Strecker did not return phone messages seeking comment Thursday. “Your demand for money from Mr. Cosby is rejected,” Singer wrote in a Dec. 1 letter filed with the court. Her lawsuit stated she only recently discovered that she had suffered psychological damage as a result of the incident, which under California law
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would allow filing of the case. Cosby’s response, however, notes that Huth unsuccessfully tried to sell her story a decade ago and that her lawsuit was not accompanied by a certification from a psychologist that the trauma was newly discovered. The certification is required for the case to proceed under rules that extend the statute of limitations, Cosby’s filing states. In recent weeks, more than a dozen women have alleged that Cosby drugged them and sexually assaulted them. Cosby was sued by a Pennsylvania woman, Andrea Constand, in 2005 and that lawsuit was settled before it went to trial. Cosby has never been charged in connection with either Constand’s suit or any of the recent allegations and Singer has denied some of the recent allegations, while another Cosby attorney called others “discredited.” Since the allegations arose in early November, Cosby’s career has suffered. NBC cancelled a comedy in development, Netflix postponed a special and performances have been cancelled in at least nine cities in his current tour of the U.S. and Canada. Additionally, he resigned from the Temple University board of trustees this week and other colleges have pulled away from their associations with the comedian. On Thursday, the U.S. Navy revoked Cosby’s title of honorary chief petty officer, saying allegations of sexual abuse made against the comedian are serious and conflict with the Navy’s core values. eos released by al-Qaida’s rival, the Islamic State group. It was the first word from the 33-year-old since he was snatched from the streets of Sanaa more than a year ago. He had been working for nearly three years in the impoverished Arab nation, “living as a normal Yemeni,” friends and colleagues told The Associated Press. A statement by Pentagon press secretary Rear Adm. John Kirby acknowledged for the first time Thursday that a raid last month had sought to rescue Somers but that he turned out not to be at the site. White House spokeswoman Bernadette Meehan also said Thursday that President Barack Obama had authorized a rescue operation to free Somers and other hostages but “regrettably, Luke was not present.”
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The Wet Secrets wear retired Red Deer Royals marching band uniforms during every performance — complete with cylindrical busby hats, resembling those worn by guards at Buckingham Palace.
Marching to a different beat ART STUNT TURNED SERIOUS, THE WET SECRETS ARE SOMETHING OUT OF THE ORDINARY BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF
It’s a scary, wonderful, crazy time for The Wet Secrets — the Edmonton band that performs in old Red Deer Royals uniforms and was co-founded by awardwinning filmmaker, musician and Red Deer native Trevor Anderson. First came the scare: Anderson was sure he would die when he lost control of his fishtailing van on black ice near Innisfail, while travelling to a Calgary music competition during a Nov. 27 snow storm. His vehicle rolled twice across the southbound lanes and ended up with the windows smashed and a caved-in roof. But Anderson and his two passengers were uninjured, thanks to their shoulder belts, and a wire fence that prevented the van from jumping the median into oncoming traffic. Then came the wonder: On the evening of that
same day, Anderson and the rest of The Wet Secrets won the top $100,953 prize in the Peak Performance Project competition between three band finalists at Calgary’s Republik club. The richest prize in Alberta’s music history will go towards producing the band’s next album — planned for a fall 2015 release — and marketing The Wet Secrets across Canada. “I am so grateful. This is a terrific opportunity,” said Anderson, who’s sure residual adrenaline from the crash contributed to his performance at the contest, sponsored by Calgary’s The Peak radio station and administered by the Alberta Music Industry Association. “It was (great) to be there with something to do, other than dwell on and replay what had happened. Having the audience there also helped — it was a soldout crowd — and I got to beat on something ... it was a great release,” said Anderson, the band’s drummer. He’s thankful other musicians and instruments
were travelling in different vehicles that made it to Calgary safely during a storm that caused so many accidents that police closed Hwy 2. “It’s far better to have been presented with a large novelty cheque than to end up in a body cast,” he said. Anderson jokingly lamented, “I didn’t get to roll around in the money! It would have been great to put it on my bed and roll around in it.” Instead, the $100,953 is being held in trust for the band, to be used to pay the tab for professional development, recording projects and other business services. Now for the crazy/surreal part: The Wet Secrets wasn’t even supposed to be a serious band. The group was started as an “art stunt” by Anderson and his friend Lyle Bell in 2005. They wanted to see if they could put together a band, write, record and release a record in a week.
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Corner Gas will pump up show’s fans BIG-SCREEN VERSION OF HIT TV SERIES RETAINS ITS SMALL-TOWN CHARMS Corner Gas: The Movie 2.5 stars (out of four) Rated: PG BY LINDA BARNARD SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE
Corner Gas: The Movie, opening this weekend for a brief theatrical run, has no illusions about being, as one of its characters might mock, a fancy-pants cinematic experience. So fans of long-running series Corner Gas will rejoice that the Canuck sitcom that put Dog River, Sask., on the TV map returns five years after its final episode with a big-screen version that doesn’t stray from its small-town roots. The budget is bigger, there are a couple of reveals among the likable cast of returning characters and for once, there’s actually a lot goin’ on. What with the municipal financial crisis, a hare-brained plan to win a quaintest town contest and the threat of a coffee franchise Goliath steamrolling everything, it’s more action than they’ve seen since, well, ever. Directed by longtime series helmer David Storey, Corner Gas: The Movie retains both the look and plot lines of its sitcom heritage. In truth, it often plays like a few TV episodes stitched together into 96 minutes, which doesn’t work especially well on a big screen. But I have a feeling this won’t matter to fans of the show who are dealing with Dog River withdrawal. As when we left them, comic book-reading underachiever Brent Leroy (show creator Brent Butt) is still running the only gas station for miles, aided by wisecracking Wanda Dollard (Nancy Robertson). Cutie Lacey Burrows (Gabrielle Miller) the former big-city gal, looks after things over at The Ruby coffee shop, while Brent’s dim-bulb best pal Hank Yarbo (Fred Ewanuick) still hasn’t got much to do. The town’s financial mess forces new realities on the Prairie burgh, including layoffs and schemes to take advantage of tough times. Meanwhile, Lacey tries to motivate the local bellyachers and naifs to work together to spruce up the town.
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Directed by longtime series helmer David Storey, Corner Gas: The Movie retains both the look and plot lines of its sitcom heritage. In truth, it often plays like a few TV episodes stitched together into 96 minutes, which doesn’t work especially well on a big screen. It’s all in the aid of a story that doesn’t stray from its proven TV formula. Why tinker? Corner Gas was watched by some one million Canadians weekly, with a farewell episode that tripled the audience, a record that still stands for a homegrown scripted series. Corner Gas: The Movie may rely on Dog River yuks and the occasional hoary pratfall, but it’s being rolled out with a 2014 business plan: crowd-source funding, a five-day theatrical release goosed by a 20-minute pre-show video and a cross-platform si-
mulcast on CTV on Dec. 17, the day after its DVDBlu-ray release. From 21 Jump Street to Red Green: Duct Tape Forever, TV shows are no strangers to multiplex second acts. Here, we get a classic comedy that’s been stretched so there’s enough time to munch a jumbo popcorn. And that will sit just right with Corner Gasheads. Linda Barnard is a syndicated Toronto Star movie critic.
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2014 a ‘golden age of television’ ters (and the actors who play them) began to show their real and deeper selves when they were on their own or in smaller groups. Standout performances included Melissa McBride (as Carol) and Norman Reedus (as Daryl); by the time the group was reunited at Camp Cannibal (I mean, Terminus) for Season 5 this fall, The Walking Dead felt like it was running on new fuel, even if it’s still the most depressingly hopeless show on my list.
BY HANK STUEVER ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES It’s been a fantastic year for TV watchers and an exhausting year for DVRs and broadband routers. Some shows that I’ve loved all along got even better, while some new surprises (Fargo, Transparent) bumped some older favourites off the list (such as Veep). Let’s get right to it — here are my top 10 shows for 2014: 1. The Americans (FX) This exhilarating and exquisitely plotted espionage drama set in early-1980s Washington offered a near-perfect second round, especially as Keri Russell’s performance finally equaled and occasionally outpaced her co-star, Matthew Rhys. The Americans has everything we say we value in this “golden age of television”: high-tension storytelling, precise writing, big surprises, period details and deeply conflicted characters. The fact that it doesn’t have an Emmy — or twice as many fans — is a real puzzle. The show returns for a third season in January, leaving you just enough time to catch up. 2. Fargo (FX) Greeted with understandable skepticism by fans of Joel and Ethan Coen’s 1996 film, Noah Hawley’s 10-episode series took only what it needed from the original (setting and tone, mainly) and became a strikingly original work that stands on its own. Martin Freeman was brilliant as a loser acting on and even relishing in his worst impulses; Allison Tolman was even better as the small-town sheriff’s deputy determined to catch him. And hats (and toupees) off to Billy Bob Thornton, who delivered his best
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Keri Russell, left, and Matthew Rhys as Elizabeth and Philip Jennings in The Americans, Hank Stuever’s favourite show of 2014. performance in years as a Mephistophelean hitman. 3. Game of Thrones (HBO) The sense of sprawling, with so many parallel story lines, should be this show’s undoing; instead it’s what made it better — almost to the point that critics have run out of words and ways to praise it. Game of Thrones is so consistently brilliant at what it’s doing (chronicling the end of an epoch on a make-believe, medieval continent) that it’s entered the realm of permanence on the list of great TV shows of the early 21st century, up there with Breaking Bad, The dience was dressed in the same jaunty attire as the band. “I have very fond memories of the Royals. I loved it very dearly. And I remember when those uniforms were brand new and we first pulled them out of the boxes.” Everyone thought they were so striking, said Anderson. “They arrived just in time for the July parade and we were so proud to be wearing the red and white.” He still loves their vintage look, which recalls the 1970s or even 1950s. Anderson remembers the Red Deer Royals wore those uniforms when supplementing the cast of The Music Man, when the musical was staged at Red Deer College (where he took Theatre Studies). “We filled the stage and the aisles during the 76 Trombones number. ... They were perfect Music Man band outfits.” Now Anderson believes they’re a great way to invoke a “sense of whimsy and nostalgia — and also theatricality and showmanship.” When an audience see The Wet Secrets musicians (including vocalist/ bassist Bell, keyboardist Paul Arnusch, trumpeter Kim Rackel, trombonist Emma Frazier, and sax player Christan Maslyk) wearing marching
Eighteen months later, the friends discussed whether to keep their music project going. “We discussed do we break up the band now? Have we finished what we started? Is our hobby done now, or should we ... keep it going to see what happens if we take this as seriously as we can?” said Anderson. He and Bell decided on the latter course, and the everything seems to be falling into place. The band recently made a music video with Joe Flaherty, of SCTV fame, reprising his Count Floyd character. And it has been performing regularly in Edmonton and Calgary with plans for future bookings in Red Deer and beyond. One of the things that sets The Wet Secrets apart from many other rock bands is the retired Red Deer Royals marching band uniforms the musicians wear during every perforACADEMY AWARD WINNER ACADEMY AWARD NOMINEE mance — complete with JENNIFER LAWRENCE BRADLEY COOPER cylindrical busby hats, resembling those worn by guards at Buckingham “JENNIFER Palace. LAWRENCE Anderson said he loved IS SUBLIME” playing the alto saxophone as a Royal while growing up in Red Deer in the 1980s, so he jumped “A BEAUTIFUL at the chance to buy some FILM” old uniforms when his mother called to tell him they were being replaced by the local marching “THE CHEMISTRY band. IS EXPLOSIVE” He was able to buy 20 of the red-and-white outfits at a greatly reduced BASED ON THE ACCLAIMED NOVEL rate. He was seriously FROM ACADEMY AWARD WINNING DIRECTOR SUSANNE BIER considering buying all 200, but sadly discovered the rest of the uniforms had been ruined. “They S O M E LOV E S C A N N E V E R L E T YO U G O were being stored in a basement that flooded.” Anderson had envisioned making a music EXCLUSIVE ENGAGEMENT STARTS TODAY GALAXY RED DEER video where the entire auCheck Theatre Directory for Showtimes.
Sopranos and The Wire. If you haven’t been watching it, fine, but know that you’re missing out on something that people will still be talking about years from now. 4. The Walking Dead (AMC) The nihilistic, video-game pace of this wildly successful drama had grown tiresome (Walking in Circles became my pet name for it), but then a wonderful thing happened earlier this year, in the back half of Season 4: after a disastrous showdown at the prison sent our survivors fleeing in different directions, The Walking Dead’s characband finery, “they know they’re in for something out of the ordinary.” Anderson is best known as being an independent filmmakers whose shorts were screened (and sometimes awarded at) film festivals including Sundance, Hot Docs, SXSW, the Berlin Film Festival, and others. In 2012, he was selected to study under master filmmaker Werner Herzog at his Rogue Film School. Anderson doesn’t see any conflict between being a filmmaker and a musician. In fact, with the making of music videos, he even sees some overlap. The Wet Secrets have a new split single If I Was a Camera/I can Swing a Hammer coming out in January. The
5. Transparent (Amazon) Jill Soloway’s ensemble dramedy, about a father (Jeffrey Tambor) who comes out to his adult children as a transitioning woman, is on this list not only because it was so well written and performed, but also because of its excellent timing; it arrived just as our perceptions about the transgender experience are rapidly changing and catching up with other urpgrades in civil rights and social respect. But rather than preach, Transparent bears no agenda other than to tell a great story about family whose idiosycracies are more typical than they seem. 6. The Good Wife (CBS) The breakup of the Lockhart Gardner law firm and the shocking murder of Will Gardner (Josh Charles) put this drama back near the top of everyone’s list of favourite TV shows. Two other, big reasons: one, of course, is the writing — if you watch The Good Wife from a purely technical perspective, it rarely wastes a word (as a one-hour show on CBS, it can never afford to).
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Since the first trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens came out over the Thanksgiving weekend, fans have debated literally everything in and about the short clip, from the racial composition of the Imperial Navy to the utility of crossguards on a lightsaber. And while we are all reading things into these precious seconds of footage at this point, I found myself just as excited by the image of a frightened, sweating man sitting up and looking around the waste in which he is marooned as I was by the sight of the Millennium Falcon soaring skyward. In the Star Wars universe, politics, even on the highest level, is almost always a personal affair. Palpatine pursues democratic power and then dictatorship because of his own belief in his abilities, and because his private devotion to the Sith, which in George Lucas’ films is essentially a cultic religion. Darth Vader has a similar absolute faith in the Emperor’s power. His opposition to the Rebellion is rooted not in a political program or philosophical differences, but in a distaste for disorder and anything that challenges Palpatine’s reign. In his original trilogy, Lucas is similarly focused on individuals who join the Rebellion and personify the Empire, rather than in explaining the grand strategy of either side. Mon Mothma, a Galactic Senator-turned-Rebellion leader and eventual Chief of State of the New Republic, appears mostly in the backgrounds of scenes and in briefings. Grand Moff Tarkin and other Imperial officials talk about tactics and technology rather than about their political visions. Princess Leia may be the series’ most committed revolutionary, but we know essentially nothing about what she believes in other than freedom from Imperial tyranny and the idea that blowing up other
John Boyega’s face, as a sweaty, lost storm trooper, is the first we see in the trailer for Episode VII.
7. Silicon Valley (HBO) When I heard Mike Judge (Office Space, King of the Hill, etc.) was making a half-hour comedy series about the high-tech world and its start-up culture’s slavish devotion to “disruption,” I yawned, imagining that there were no more jokes or stereotypes left to exploit in that particular nerdworld. Sometimes I love being wrong: Judge and company delivered a witheringly funny sendup of the real Silicon Valley. Even the extraordinarily hypersensitive tech culture admitted it was a spot-on show. 8. Olive Kitteridge (HBO) What a pleasure to see Elizabeth Strout’s novel (winner of a Pulitzer Prize in 2008) winnowed down and transformed into such a quietly moving and fascinating two-part movie. Frances McDormand stews and simmers as the title character, a sourpuss retired math teacher in a small, New England town. Olive Kitteridge is like a love letter (minus most of the love) to those of us who’ve had quite enough of relentlessly positive people telling us to smile. 9. The Roosevelts (PBS) Ken Burns and his collaborators keep a tireless schedule, routinely delivering quality, mul-
10. Orange Is the New Black (Netflix) Creator Jenji Kohan’s second season of the women’s prison dramedy was just as good, and sometimes a little better, than the first. Meanwhile, every business story about Netflix’s successful entry into the originalprogramming arena mentions House of Cards (snore) as the prime example of success, where it should be touting the far more interesting, more innovative OINTB. ★★★ Let me fix this list for you, Hank — you forgot True Detective. Sorry to say, I’m still firmly in the “so what?” camp about the HBO show everyone else gave far too much praise. While I admired large chunks of True Detective on technical merits (I’ve watched all the episodes twice now), my ears simply couldn’t abide the excessively florid verbiage that creator/writer Nic Pizzalatto kept cramming into his characters’ mouths; it’s a real testament to the show’s stars, Woody Harrelson and especially Matthew McConaughey, that the dialogue didn’t come off sounding more pretentious than it did. I was also underwhelmed by the beenthere-done-that aspect to the show’s basic serialkiller mystery and the overwrought displays of “dirty South”-style Southern-ness. What else almost made this list? Plenty, starting with the careful and beautifully imagined sendoff for HBO’s Boardwalk Empire, as well as strong comedies/ dramedies from HBO with Veep, Looking, Girls, Last Week Tonight
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Still more, further down the list: AMC’s Mad Men and Turn (now subtitled Washington’s Spies); The CW’s Jane the Virgin and The 100; ABC’s Black-ish, Cinemax’s The Knick, Fox’s Gotham, BBC America’s Orphan Black, SundanceTV’s The Honorable Woman and a trio of Comedy Central shows (Key & Peele, Inside Amy Schumer and Review). Some readers like the bad reviews better than the good reviews. What was the worst thing on TV in 2014? It pains me to see Jimmy Fallon still getting high ratings for his obnoxious and increasingly stale Tonight Show, which relies far too much on vapid fawning over his guests, selfabsorbed sketches and inane little games in which his guests must essentially prove that they can be a cool hang, too. I miss the notion that a talk show is about two people listening to each other and having something to say. That used to be known as a conversation.
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With John Oliver and the long-awaited comeback of The Comeback. Also: FX’s Louie and You’re the Worst and the second season of The Bridge. On Starz, I loved The Missing, Survivor’s Remorse and Outlander. On Showtime, Homeland has self-corrected enough to become addictive again; I like The Affair more after its recent plot pivots, and I remain a big fan of Shameless and Masters of Sex.
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people’s home planets is not attractive behavior. Han Solo gets in on the action for the cash and stays for the kisses and a restored sense of personal honour. Luke Skywalker first hungers for adventure, then for revenge and finally craves balance. Lando Calrissian’s quasi-libertarian approach to running the Cloud City mining colony without attracting the attention and oversight of either the Empire or the Rebellion is the closest thing we get to a character arguing that there is a best way to run institutions. Discussions of Lucas’ prequel movies tend to focus on the dreadful acting and racist foolishness therein, but they are also the movies where Lucas tried to develop actual political factions and positions. And even though he failed, there are a lot of interesting things going on in his creations.
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In the Trade Federation, we get a vision of corporate leaders as small-minded and easy to manipulate. General Grievous, a cyborg with formidable lightsaber skills, represents the uneasy melding of man and machine that is in opposition to the Force. He also reminds us that even in a universe that recognizes many kinds of beings as sentient and intelligence, there are still bound to be clashes between people who see themselves as superior and those they understand to be lesser. These flickerings of political ideas were why I was excited that John Boyega’s face, as a sweaty, lost storm trooper, is the first we see in the trailer for Episode VII. Imperial Storm Troopers have always been formidable in part because of their anonymity, and in the prequel films, we learned that this blankness was in part by design: the first men to wear the white armor in Imperial service were clones. Now, for the first time since those white suits were filled with cloned troops, we are getting a glimpse of a storm trooper as an individual and separated from his colleagues. Whether he was cooked up in the lab or joined the Imperial Navy of his own volition, Boyega’s character is one of our first chances to see why an individual might join the Imperial Navy at the rank and file level — and why he might leave. By venturing a to a galaxy far, far away, the original Star Wars movies managed to shake loose of the allusions to contemporary politics that shape so many fantasy and science fiction movies today. But if the most basic step in a hero’s journey — the decision to leave home — translated to a dusty little foreign planet of George Lucas’ imagining, the most basic question of politics — how to have a better life — can as well. And if J.J. Abrams wants to tell a story about the awakening of an old power and the victory of a new political movement over a sclerotic old system, it is an issue that ought to inform his story and his new characters.
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Concerns over mental health of friend draws worry Dear Annie: I am a middle school very close relationship, with frequent student, and one of my friends is de- telephone calls, personal contacts pressed. and shared vacations. When the famShe and her family are atheists, ily gathers for the holiday dinners, and they have been repeatedly ha- these four women separate themrassed about it to the point that her selves from the remaining family and worst fear is dying and going to hell. have a raucous time together with I’m really scared for my friend. their private jokes, etc. They go to When we found out she was think- another room and make no attempt ing about suicide the first time, we to include others in their “clique,” got her to go to the school counselor, so the other three women and the rewho, instead of telling her maining family are left out MITCHELL that she was depressed of this merriment. The men & SUGAR and needed psychologidon’t seem to mind. Howevcal help, told her she er, we, the three excluded had made mistakes and women, feel this behavior needed to be more careis rude. ful. This only decreased her already It makes us feel isolated and oflow self-esteem. Now she thinks she’s fended. After one such holiday, a a coward. comment was made to a clique memI do not trust the school to help, ber that they should attempt to soand neither does she. Everyone says cialize outside their group, but their she’s just being dramatic. I have no behavior hasn’t changed. One of the idea what I am supposed to do. — offended females is questioning why Powerless she and her spouse should even atDear Powerless: First understand tend these gatherings. that harassing someone for her reliDo you have any suggestions as to gious beliefs (or lack thereof) is bul- how to handle this situation? — On lying and should be reported to the the Outside Looking In school authorities. Dear Outside: Are the parents It is very difficult when a student around? Mom or Dad should make it doesn’t conform to the dominant at- clear that this rude, exclusive behavtitudes of the school, and it takes a ior is inappropriate for family gathgreat deal of courage to stand your erings and will not be tolerated. If ground. She is fortunate to have you there is no authority figure whom on her side. these women will listen to, your best If the bullying continues, her par- option is to ignore them. It would be ents should speak to the school board a shame for these family gatherings and even the local police. to disintegrate because a few people We assume her parents are aware are terminal adolescents. of the bullying. If not, please tell Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy them immediately. Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime ediDear Annie: Our extended family tors of the Ann Landers column. Please is relatively small, and we all live email your questions to anniesmailbox@ nearby. We gather for annual holiday comcast.net, or write to: Annie’s Maildinners. box, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Four of the seven women have a Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.
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Captivated by You: A Crossfire Novel By Sylvia Day Romance (Mature Audience) Published by Berkley Trade New York Times No. 1 bestselling author Sylvia Day returns with the newest edition to her Crossfire Novel series, Captivated by You. Characters Gideon Cross and Eva Tramell take the literary stage for the continuation of their twisted, KIRSTEN obsessive love story. LOWE Eva and Gideon, although they have eloped, announce to friends and family (and, of course, the media) that they are engaged (while already referring to themselves as husband and wife). But even though their relationship has had its fair shares of up and downs and the two are desperate to start a new life together, there are still demons within Gideon that he must confront. Along with their inner struggles, the ever-continuing drama from other sources is never far from causing more conflict. First we have Gideon’s mother, who at first is enraged by the couple’s engagement, claiming that Eva will tear the family apart. She makes references to how much better Gideon’s ex, Corinne, is suited to be his wife. Corinne herself even shows up at one point, begging Gideon to take her back and threatening Eva, followed by a lot more outside drama by other characters. Gideon is self righteous and he has a stone cold guard built up around him — making the aura of his character very unnerving. In some cases, he seems like a self-obsessed jerk. There are times when I enjoy Eva, when she’s with
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at Samaritan Bay. There is Nicolas Crisp, a wordy sort of gentleman who believes in the future but sermons forth on the past. He manages the Hot Pools at the Bay. Thomas King is the author of The Inconvenient There is Dr. Gabriel Quinn, formerly employed by Indian, a non-fiction book about the gradual and con- Domidian in chemical research, now back at Samaritinuing losses faced by the First Nations, in most of tan Bay. He left the reserve, a gifted student bound their dealings with governments. for University. Now he’s bent on suicide for his part This novel, told in King’s usual style, in “The Ruin.” is a serious subject treated with a kind of Mara Reid is an indigenous artist. She humour specific to this author and mayabandoned family at Samaritan Bay in be to Canadian Aboriginals. You aren’t the past and is now back trying to make quite sure when he is pulling your leg; amends. it’s a kind of humour that kicks you in Sonny is the village innocent who pines the pants. for the time when the bay was a tourist atThis novel takes place in two places. traction for its hot pools and its famed turThe Domidian Complex, in Toronto and tle birthing ground, when the birds were (fictional) Samaritan Bay, on the coast of there and the rocks were covered with British Columbia. lichens and sea life. Domidian is a multinational conglomThere is an odd character here (not surerate with holdings in the tarsands and prising in a story by King), and that “permany chemical manufacturing compason” is the dog, Soldier. He is really the nies. They are responsible for the develbrains of the outfit, always in the right opment of Greensweep, a defoliant that place at the right time, almost physic in unPEGGY kills all growth. derstanding the needs of Crisp, Sonny and FREEMAN The CEO of Domidian is Dorian Asher, Gabriel. a man whose sole interest is profit. He This odd assortment of people, in spite of is the grinch in human clothing, almost woes, personal and global, believe that good a caricature except that the damage his times will return. company visits on the world is chilling to imagine. The turtle, is revered in Native Peoples lore. He employs an assistant, Winter Lee, a female When the troubled world ended in a flood, the muskreminiscent of an android. Her daily report of indus- rat was able to swim down to retrieve a handful of trial accidents and coverups is a horrific litany. earth from the floor of the sea. The soil placed on the Samaritan Bay is close by the Smoke River Re- turtle’s back grew to be a big island, then a land. A serve. There are few people living on the reserve saviour in anyone’s terms. now, since “The Ruin,” an environmental disaster Armageddon or renewal, King shows us a choice. that killed most of the residents. The other characters in this story are the remnant Peggy Freeman is a local freelance books reviewer.
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BRIEF JK Rowling’s 2008 commencement speech at Harvard to be issued next spring as a book NEW YORK — A new book from J.K. Rowling will offer no magic — only words of wisdom. Publisher Little, Brown and Company announced Tuesday that Rowling’s 2008 Harvard University commencement speech will be released in April as the book Very Good Lives. Proceeds will be donated to Lumos, a charity for disadvantaged children that Rowling founded, and to a financial aid program at Harvard. In her speech, the Harry Potter author spoke of her early struggles as a writer and the importance of failure as a “stripping away of the inessential.”
New Toni Morrison, God Help the Child, coming out in April NEW YORK - Nobel laureate Toni Morrison has a new novel coming next spring. God Help the Child will be released April 30, publisher Alfred A. Knopf announced Tuesday. It’s the 11th novel by Morrison, who turns 84 in February. Knopf Doubleday Chairman and Editor-in-Chief Sonny Mehta says God Help the Child is a contemporary story about the consequences of a student’s allegation against a teacher. The new book is a “compact, fierce work,” he says.
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Year-End Cash is not combinable with CPA, GPC, CFIP, Daily Rental Allowance and A/X/Z/D/F-Plan programs. Delivery allowances are not combinable with any fleet consumer incentives.††Until January 2, 2015, lease a new 2015 Escape S FWD with 2.5L engine/2014 Focus S 4Dr Manual for up to 36/48 months and get 0% APR on approved credit (OAC) from Ford Credit. Not all buyers will qualify for the lowest APR payment. Lease a model with a value of $30,000 at 0% APR for up to 36/48 months with an optional buyout of $13,200/$10,800 and $0 down or equivalent trade in, monthly payment is $466.67/$400.00, total lease obligation is $16,800.12/$19.200.00, interest cost of leasing is $0 or 0%APR. Additional payments required for PPSA, registration, security deposit, NSF fees (where applicable), excess wear and tear, and late fees. Some conditions and mileage restrictions apply. Excess kilometrage charges are 12¢per km for Fiesta, Focus, C-Max, Fusion and Escape; 16¢per km for E-Series, Mustang, Taurus, Taurus-X, Edge, Flex, Explorer, F-Series, MKS, MKX, MKZ, MKT and Transit Connect; 20¢per km for Expedition and Navigator, plus applicable taxes. Excess kilometrage charges subject to change, see your local dealer for details. ***Until January 2, 2015, receive 0% APR purchase financing on new 2015 Escape for up to 36 months, 2014 Ford Edge models for up to 60 months, and 2014 Focus, C-MAX, F-150 (excluding Regular Cab XL 4x2 value leader and Raptor) and 2015 Fiesta and Fusion models for up to 72 months to qualified retail customers, on approved credit (OAC) from Ford Credit. Not all buyers will qualify for the lowest interest rate. Example: $25,000 purchase financed at 0% APR for 36/60/72 months, monthly payment is $694.44/ $416.66/ $347.22, cost of borrowing is $0 or APR of 0% and total to be repaid is $25,000. Down payment on purchase financing offers may be required based on approved credit from Ford Credit. *Purchase a new 2015 Fiesta S 4 Dr Manual/2015 Fiesta Titanium/2014 Focus ST/2014 Fusion SE/2014 Fusion Titanium/2015 Escape S FWD with 2.5L engine /2014 Escape Titanium for $13,739/$21,514/$31,664/$19,999/$35,699/$24,849/$37,449 after Year-End Cash of $2,500/$0/$750/$4,750/$4,750/$0/$0 is deducted. Taxes payable on full amount of purchase price after total Year-End Cash has been deducted. Offers include freight and air tax but exclude variable charges of license, fuel fill charge, insurance, dealer PDI (if applicable), registration, PPSA, administration fees and charges, any environmental charges or fees, and all applicable taxes. Manufacturer Rebates are not combinable with any fleet consumer incentives. **Until January 2, 2015, receive 0.99%/5.89%/2.99% annual percentage rate (APR) purchase financing on a new 2015 Fiesta S 4Dr Manual/ 2014 Fusion SE /2015 Escape S FWD with 2.5L engine for a up to 84/ 72/84 months to qualified retail customers, on approved credit (OAC) from Ford Credit. Not all buyers will qualify for the lowest interest rate. Example: 2015 Fiesta S 4 Dr Manual /2014 Fusion SE/2015 Escape S FWD with 2.5L engine for $13,739/$19,999/$24,849(after $0/$0/$0 down payment or equivalent trade-in, and $2,500/$4,750/$0 Year-End Cash deducted) purchase financed at 0.99%/5.89%/2.99% APR for 84/72/84.months, monthly payment is $169/$330/$328 (the sum of twelve (12) monthly payments divided by 26 periods gives payee a bi-weekly payment of $78/$152/151), interest cost of borrowing is $487.22/$3,790.07/$2,721.93 or APR of 0.99%/5.89%/2.99% and total to be repaid is $14,226.22/$23,789.07/$27,570.93. Down payment may be required based on approved credit from Ford Credit. All purchase finance offers include freight and air tax but exclude variable charges of license, fuel fill charge, insurance, dealer PDI (if applicable), registration, PPSA, administration fees and charges, any environmental charges or fees, and all applicable taxes. ▲Offer only valid from December 2, 2014 – January 2, 2015 (the “Offer Period”) to resident Canadians with an eligible Costco membership on or before November 30, 2014. Receive $750 towards the purchase or lease of a new 2014/2015 Ford Fiesta (excluding S), Focus (excluding S and BEV), C-MAX, and $1,000 towards all other Ford models (excluding GT500, GT350, 50th Anniversary Edition Mustang, Raptor, and Medium Truck) (each an “Eligible Vehicle”). Limit one (1) offer per each Eligible Vehicle purchase or lease, up to a maximum of two (2) separate Eligible Vehicle sales per Costco Membership Number. Offer is transferable to persons domiciled with an eligible Costco member. Applicable taxes calculated before CAD$1,000 offer is deducted. ® Registered trademark of Price Costco International, Inc. used under license. ^^Based on 2007 - 2013 and YTD August 2014 R. L. Polk vehicle registrations data for Canada in the Large Premium Utility, Large Traditional Utility, Large Utility, Medium Premium Utility, Medium Utility, Small Premium Utility, and Small Utility segments.‡‡Claim based on analysis by Ford of Polk global new registration for CY2012 for a single nameplate which excludes rebadged vehicles, platform derivatives or other vehicle nameplate versions.©2014 Sirius Canada Inc. “SiriusXM”, the SiriusXM logo, channel names and logos are trademarks of SiriusXM Radio Inc. and are used under licence. ©2014 Ford Motor Company of Canada, Limited. All rights reserved.
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