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WIN AT ANY COST STEROIDS. DIURETICS. INSULIN. PEDS. EPO. THE PRESSURE OF SPORT IS PUSHING SOME ATHLETES TO LOOK FOR THAT EXTRA EDGE

BY JOSH ALDRICH ADVOCATE STAFF When a record-setting steroid bust was made in Edmonton in October, it was clear the demand for performance-enhancing drugs was far from just an Olympic or professional sports problem.

Those steroids were produced in a local lab and many likely destined for Alberta streets and gyms. More than 360,000 pills, 10,000 vials and over three dozen types of liquids and powders were seized. The value of the materials is pegged at $9.3 million.

Pursuit of glory at any level and in any sport will push athletes to contemplate what they are willing to risk to attain that success.

One local gym owner, who will remain anonymous in this story due to the negative impact steroids carry in his industry, pushed himself to that limit during his bodybuilding career, but he reached a limit where it was too much 15 years ago.

He has been clean since and now does his best to steer athletes to an all-natural existence.

It wasn’t just the steroids, it was diuretics and insulin and other PEDs that caused him to stop competing.

“I love the sport to this day and I love promoting regional shows because I love giving first-time athletes that opportunity to experience something amazing about their own body,” says the gym owner. “But when I saw where the sport was going, I didn’t see the long-term benefit out-weighing the risks of the things I would need to do to be successful.”

Maintaining ethics in sports The Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport is an independent non-profit organization largely responsible for the monitoring and testing of Canadian athletes. Their client list includes the Canadian Olympic Committee, Canadian Interuniversity Sport, Canadian Colleges Athletic Association, Canadian

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Tens of thousands of athletes are under their watch. Regularly testing them all is impossible from a financial and a time stand point. So the centre has to figure out how best to monitor each federation.

In cases like the CIS, they target some sports — like football and hockey — more than others, and they lean heavily on random drug tests.

Once tests are administered — urine or blood depending on the federation — it is separated into

A a n d B samples and taken to the World Anti-Doping Association lab in Montreal for analysis. If the A sample tests positive, they will contact the athlete, conduct a review and then test the B sample.

If that too proves to be positive, the athlete will face a suspension.

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STEROIDS: Athletes looking for that little bit extra The current list of suspended athletes includes everyone from bodybuilders, to football players, cyclists, track athletes, wrestlers, lacrosse players, bobsledders, curlers, weightlifters, swimmers and boxers.

“You have the athlete who is trying to get to the next level, they are on the cusp, they are on the Olympic team, they’re trying to make the team and they’re looking for that little bit extra — they’re a higher risk group,” said CCES president and CEO Paul Melia. “The athlete who is recovering from injury and wants to speed up the recovery process tends to be another high-risk athlete. Athletes coming towards the end of their career can also be a high risk group because they want to extend their career. … There are a lot of factors.”

The list of substances that will deliver a positive test is lengthy: from many multiple types of steroids to EPO (a synthetic blood booster favoured by cyclists and endurance athletes), testosterone, diuretics, amphetamines and human growth hormone, among many others.

One of the biggest drug scandals in Canada in the last decade was the University of Waterloo football program, where an ingrained steroid ring was uncovered through the investigation of a break and enter.

When the dust settled, nine players were suspended, wide receiver Nathan Zettler was in jail for possessing and trafficking and the university shut down the football team for the 2010 season.

Red Deer Rebels head coach Brent Sutter had an 18-year NHL career and has coached at the junior and NHL level since 1999. In all his time in hockey, he says he has never seen anyone use PEDs, although there were suspicions. The Rebels spend considerable time educating their players on the pitfalls of doping and on the types of things they can put in their body.

“Sometimes it’s accidental, sometimes it’s stuff you’d never guess, it’s an oversight that the normal person would take if they were sick or had a cold,” he said. “But unfortunately in sport, some of that stuff is banned and sometimes kids or players or parents don’t know that and that’s where the educational part is huge.”

Hunting Hills Lightning head football coach Kyle Sedgwick talks about the perils of PEDs with his athletes, particularly his Grade 12s who are eyeing university scholarships and junior football roster spots. But the program’s biggest concerns are nutrition, proper fitness and avoiding energy drinks and improper supplements. Sedgwick preaches a lot of patience.

“That time between when you graduate and turn 19, you put on 20 or 25 pounds,” he said. “If they go to a junior or CIS program right away, they are put on strict training programs and they will get bigger.

A lot of guys train and get frustrated that they fail to get bigger or see the muscle, but what they fail to understand is that even though they aren’t getting bigger, they are getting stronger and they are getting more prepared for football.”

Al Parada, who owns Can-Pro Training Centre in Red Deer, works with the Rebels, Olympic athletes and 11 current NHLers, and many other athletes.

He stresses an all-natural form of training, especially when it comes to supplements.

“It’s a big thing … they all have to be ready to be tested, so they have to look for products that are NSF (Certified for Sport program) or informed choice approved,” said Parada. “(Younger athletes) really only need to be taking a good protein supplement, a multi-vitamin mineral and if they do want to get on something like a BioSteel product that is a pre-workout drink, they can do that.”

The other gym owner, who chose to remain anonymous, also now pushes all-natural substances for his athletes. He says one of the big issues with buying steroids from the black market is athletes don’t really know what they’re getting. Being unregulated, mislabelling occurs and there is no way to really know what they are taking.

“It’s why I don’t condone that use with amateurs,” he said. “Your body responds so differently to different things, that if you think you’re taking one thing but you are actually taking something else, it often works against an athlete for their end outcome.”

How steroids work and hurt In addition, there is a misunderstanding about how steroids work. There is no Popeye effect, where they work as quickly as it takes the cartoon character to pop a can of spinach. But they do allow the athlete

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Allan Parada poses in the Can-Pro Training Centre Tuesday afternoon. He co-founded the centre with NHLer Chris Mason in 2008, and aids athletes of all levels with training and proper nutrition. to train longer, train harder and recover faster by boosting hormones like testosterone.

But the health effects are many. Some are superficial like body acne, but most are more harmful and longer lasting: ● The steroid-boosted body breaks down quicker and becomes more susceptible to serious injury. ● Steroids introduce large amounts of testosterone into the body, causing the testes to shrink and promoting the growth of breast tissue in men. ● They can accentuate underlying problems, leading to ’roid rage, and heart issues and kidney failure, among other side effects.

It is a dangerous game, particularly if use not supervised correctly.

It gets even dicier when mixed with other performance-enhancing drugs.

What scared the anonymous gym owner in particular was the increasing reliance on diuretics and insulin as bodybuilders entered the final stage of their preparation for a competition. In that process, they dehydrate themselves to trim water weight and to accentuate their muscles. If they end up in the hospital for dehydration and the doctor gives them insulin when they are already on it for a non-diabetic reason, they are potentially looking at a coma.

“Steroids get the most attention, but I think they are the least dangerous,” he said.

Why some athletes cheat The natural pressure of the sport that pushes many bodybuilders to PEDs, particularly at the pro level. For them it’s another tool in the tool box, and when your “uniform is your own skin,” everything has to be perfect.

“When it comes to bodybuilding, it’s a unique sport physiologically,” he said. “Whether it’s drugs or food or training or all of the above, you’re forcing your body to do something it doesn’t or wouldn’t otherwise do. You put it on display.”

There are bodybuilding federations that do not test and there are some that do test, requiring athletes to be clean for a certain length of time before they can even register. Some of these groups, like the World Natural Bodybuilding Federation, even use lie detector tests on every competing athlete.

But according to the gym owner, who still works with amateur bodybuilders and drug-free promotions, there is no fail safe. Because of the expense involved in testing — a single Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport test costs about $1,000 — not everyone is tested.

And when someone who has won fails a test, the

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“Everything in our world is about instant gratification. You have an athlete who wins today who does happen to get tested and tests positive three or four months from now, he gets called up and told ‘You failed a test, you must send back your trophy’ — but nobody cares about that. The publications have been printed, the articles have been written, the exposure opportunities that existed were already awarded to the athlete who has now failed the test.”

Cracking down on cheaters The CCES is stepping up its effort to curb cheating. Although the budget hasn’t grown, the group is changing monitoring methods, relying more on outof-competition testing, when the athletes are actually training, and looking at athletes who are showing major gains.

More emphasis is being put on uncovering doping rings and improving relationships with border officials and police detachments.

The group is also developing biological passports for international athletes to help better monitor hormones and other levels, making it easier to stay on top of new designer steroids and other substances that come on the market and leave them in a chase position.

In January, penalties will increase. Currently, a first failed test results in a potential two-year ban with a second getting the athlete a lifetime suspension. With the changes, the first offence jumps to a four year ban — to cover a full Olympic quadrennial.

In all cases, athletes have the right to bring their sanctions to an independent arbitrator for review.

“It’s important to keep in mind that the reasons the substances are on the banned list … to begin with is that they are harmful to the athlete’s health.

But some athletes are willing to take that risk,” said the CCES’s Melia.

“If we don’t try to police that, if we don’t try to stop those athletes from doing it, then the other athletes they feel pressure to do it. They don’t want to risk their health, but the only way they can keep up is to do it. …

“Unfortunately, the decisions they make and the role models that they provide the young kids is not a good one ... then kids think the only way they can make it to the pro sport ranks or make the Olympic team is to dope … and the harmful effects of these substances is even greater on a young developing child’s body.” jaldrich@reddeeradvocate.com

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Warrant issued for suspect’s arrest

BY ADVOCATE STAFF Police are looking for a suspect considered armed and dangerous who allegedly kidnapped and sexually assaulted a woman at knifepoint in a rural area near Penhold early Wednesday.

A warrant has been issued for the arrest of Justin Chase Mueller, 28.

Residents are encouraged to contact police if they come into contact with suspect. He may be travelling to the Edmonton area.

Blackfalds RCMP say a 20-year-old was leaving her job at a hotel in Gasoline Alley when a man with a knife

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Penhold woman to stand trial in February A Penhold woman accused in a fatal hit and run last spring will stand trial in February.

Jessica Masyk, 25, is charged with leaving the scene of a fatal collision, mischief and driving while disqualified in connection with the death of Penhold resident Trystan Sorensen, 18. Sorensen was struck down while walking with his longboard on the side of the highway west of Penhold on May 20.

Masyk faces further charges in connection with an incident in Red Deer in August, when a police car and other vehicles were smashed by two suspects trying to escape arrest.

Masyk is scheduled to stand trial in Red Deer provincial court on Feb. 27.

Review finds wildlife officers justified in killing cougar at Calgary hospital CALGARY — An Alberta govern-

approached her from her driver’s side door and forced her into the passenger seat around 12:20 a.m.

The male then drove to Westerner Park and then to the CIBC on 22nd Street in Red Deer. There he brought the female into the vestibule and Justin Mueller forced her to withdraw mon-

ey from her account at knifepoint.

Police say he then took the woman to a rural location near Penhold and sexually assaulted her.

The man then drove the victim back to Red Deer and dropped her off at a convenience store in the Inglewood area before driving away in the woman’s vehicle. Police were contacted and an immediate investigation was undertaken to identify the suspect.

Eight hours later, the woman’s vehicle was found on the west side of Gasoline Alley in a construction site.

The suspect is described as a white male with brown/blonde hair, cut short on the sides and longer on the top.

He was wearing a black jacket, black

toque, black dress shoes and blue jeans. He has black ink tattoos on both of his biceps.

This suspect has not been captured so RCMP are urging women to be vigilant when out at night and when possible to be accompanied to their vehicles if leaving work later at night.

Mueller has been charged with committing a sexual assault with a weapon, commit robbery with a weapon, kidnapping, uttering threats and theft over $5,000.

If any person has information on these serious crimes or the identity of the suspect, they are asked to contact the Blackfalds RCMP at 403-885-3300 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS.

ment review has concluded wildlife officers did the right thing when they shot and killed a cougar outside a hospital in September.

A report released this week by Alberta Justice found an officer first tried to fire a tranquillizer gun at the cougar, but didn’t realize the safety was on. Another officer then made a decision to kill the animal, three shots were fired and horrified onlookers recorded the shooting at Calgary’s South Health Campus on video.

The officers initially faced public criticism for killing the cat.

The review determined it was the right call and chided officers for trying to tranquillize the cougar in the first place.

“The good intentions of the officers to attempt to tranquillize a free-ranging cougar in an urban environment were misguided and came as a direct result of pressure, real and perceived, placed on them by the public, media and political/social factors,” said the report.

It detailed how the animal had been sitting in tall grass, which made it difficult for officers to target areas of its body where tranquillizers are most effective. It also said tranquillizer darts can anger cougars and, because of their speed and agility, make them difficult to contain.

The review recommended policy be changed so that tranquillizing cougars in urban areas is no longer an option for officers, an approach consistent

with other jurisdictions that have cougar populations, such as Arizona.

Brendan Cox, a spokesman with the fish and wildlife branch, said the policy change will be made. The shooting will also be used as a case study for training future wildlife officers in how to deal with cougars in cities Policy remains different for nonpredatory animals, Cox said. When it comes to moose, officers are to first attempt to tranquillize them.

On Friday, officers did just that, but ended up shooting and killing a moose on the loose. Two moose had been roaming outside a Calgary shopping mall and were getting too close to people, said Cox. When officers hit one with a tranquillizer, it ran off into a residential neighbourhood and damaged a backyard fence.

“Because it was agitated and because of the failed attempt to tranquillize it, our officers unfortunately felt they had to put the moose down to protect people from getting hurt and also to prevent further property damage.”

Cox said the second moose had hunkered down by Friday afternoon in an

industrial area on the eastern edge of the city. Officers determined the area was too open to approach the animal with a tranquillizer.

Worker killed in crash at oilsands mining site FORT MCMURRAY — A worker has died at an oilsands site in northeastern Alberta.

RCMP say a pickup truck collided with a large transport vehicle at the Horizon site owned by Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. near Fort McMurray.

The crash sparked a fire and a man, believed to have been inside the pickup, was killed.

A company spokeswoman says operations have been suspended in the site’s mining area.

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The name of the worker has not been released.

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Liberals retain lawyer to investigate misconduct claims against MPs ST. JOHN’S, N.L. — A month after he set off a political furor by suspending two MPs for alleged misconduct, federal Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau says the party has retained a lawyer to investigate the still murky claims.

He said Cynthia Petersen, a Toronto-based lawyer who has argued several landmark Charter and gay rights cases before the Supreme Court of Canada, will probe allegations against two MPs he removed from the Liberal caucus.

Trudeau refused to speculate on the outcome of the investigation, how long it will take, or whether any part of Petersen’s findings will be made public.

“I look forward to receiving her advice,” Trudeau said Friday in St. John’s. It was his first visit to the city since suspending Newfoundland MP Scott Andrews and Quebec MP Massimo Pacetti on Nov. 5, citing complaints of “serious personal misconduct.”

Trudeau did not elaborate on the unproven allegations at the time. He refused again Friday to offer any details.

Trudeau said he hopes that the two unidentified female NDP MPs who have made the allegations will co-operate with Petersen. In any case, their allegations have been expressed to the party, he added.

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Petersen declined to comment Friday.

New Jersey Gov. Christie meets Harper in Ottawa

after he laid a wreath at the National War Memorial in Ottawa.

“We could make it even stronger and I admire the prime minister greatly for the leadership he’s providing here in Canada.”

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Christie received an unusually warm welcome in Ottawa for a governor of a U.S. state, landing meetings with Harper as well as senior Conservative cabinet ministers.

small — less than that found in remote rivers in wilderness parks.

“The lead values in the Athabasca River are much lower than the Nipissing River in (Ontario’s) Algonquin Park,” he said.

Shotyk didn’t measure major contaminants such as mercury and hydrocarbons, which have both been shown to be entering the environment from oilsands mines.

His results have not yet been peer-reviewed or published. But they promise to complicate the understanding of the environmental impact of the oilsands industry.

Previous studies from both university and government scientists have shown significant levels of heavy metals in the river and the regional snowpack.

Those found increasing circles of concentration with the bull’s-eye centred on oilsands developments.

Athabasca River water very low in lead from oilsands: University of Alberta lab

Judge orders release of exhibits used to sentence Justin Bourque

EDMONTON — New research suggests that heavy metals released from the oilsands aren’t finding their way into nearby rivers.

“If you buy bottled water in a glass bottle, you’ll find five or 10 times more lead in that water than you would in the Athabasca River,” Bill Shotyk of the University of Alberta said Friday.

Shotyk was releasing preliminary results from the university’s new $4.7-million lab that is capable of measuring water contaminants to parts per quadrillion. Shotyk and his colleagues used that equipment to analyze water taken in October from 12 sites on the Athabasca River from just upstream of Fort McMurray to 125 kilometres downstream.

They found that the amount of heavy metal contamination dissolved in the water is vanishingly

MONCTON, N.B. — A judge in New Brunswick ordered the release Friday of all exhibits entered into evidence at the sentencing hearing of Justin Bourque in the killing of three Mounties in Moncton.

News media organizations including The Canadian Press asked for access to exhibits used to sentence Bourque, who pleaded guilty to three counts of first-degree murder and two counts of attempted murder in the June 4 shooting rampage.

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Woman recounts confronting killer

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1989 MONTREAL MASSACRE

MONTREAL — Nathalie Provost will never forget confronting gunman Marc Lepine just before he shot her four times during an armed assault that left 14 women dead at Montreal’s Ecole polytechnique.

Provost was an engineering student on Dec. 6, 1989, when Lepine went on a 20-minute shooting rampage that eventually sparked a national gun-control debate that continues until this day.

“It (the massacre) is now intimately woven into the fabric of my life in a number of ways,” Provost told The Canadian Press just days ahead of Saturday’s 25th anniversary of the tragedy.

The 23-year-old came face-to-face with Lepine and his 223-calibre Sturm-Ruger rifle in a classroom and she says nothing would have convinced him to change his plan to kill feminists - people he blamed for ruining his life.

“He told us he was there because we were feminists and I just replied that we were not feminists, that we were just studying in an engineering school and that he would be able to come and study with us and then he shot (opened fire),” she recalled.

Provost survived being hit with bullets in the forehead, both legs and a foot.

Asked how the horrific events of 25 years ago have changed her life, Provost said she believes they’ve made her more sensitive and more in touch with her own vulnerability.

“I realized when I was very young that I was not invincible, that I could die quite quickly,” she said of the chilling events.

“I remember when I saw the eyes of one of my classmates. She closed her eyes and I knew she was dead. I remember this image. It’s clear in my memory.”

Lepine took his own life after a 20-minute barrage of bullets that also wounded 13 other people - nine women and four men.

While the date of Dec. 6 brings back painful memories, Provost also recalls “marvellous” ones.

One of her children started to walk on Dec. 6 and she learned she was pregnant with her third child on the 10th anniversary of Polytechnique.

“For me it was a victory of life,” she said.

Yet it took her years to come to terms with what had happened before she could move on.

“The first five years were the longest, maybe, and I was still fighting inside myself with everything around: what happened with feminism, with violence, with the fact that it happened to me,” she said.

“After five years I was ready to have my kids and that was a new world that opened to me and Polytechnique faded away a little bit - (but) it never disappears.”

Even today, the sound of a pot cover crashing to the floor brings back memories of the shootings.

“It upsets me because the noise awakens in me a memory of the firearm of Marc Lepine — and I become very upset and aggressive,” she said.

The tragedy also took a toll on relatives of victims.

Jim Edward, whose sister Anne-Marie was killed, said it took 10 years to overcome his grief.

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Carry-on luggage that squirms and poops Can pigs fly?

Of course, as long as they meet the criteria of an “assistance animal” and behave themselves on the airline.

A flying pig made headlines last week when a passenger boarded a US Airways flight in Connecticut with a potbellied oinker draped over her shoulder. It was the day before U.S. Thanksgiving, but the RICK porker wasn’t on ZEMANEK the menu. It was an “emotionalsupport animal” that passenger Rachel Boerner relies on to cope with stress.

Unfortunately Hobey, weighing about 36 kg (80 pounds), did a no-no in the aisle and started howling when Boerner scolded the pig as she cleaned up the poop. Pig and owner were asked to leave the plane because Hobey was considered “disruptive” under airline policies.

U.S. and Canadian airlines permit assistance animals on flights at no extra cost. Besides pigs, they allow miniature horses, monkeys — and, of course, dogs and cats — providing their handlers can prove the animals fall within the assistance category guidelines laid down by individual airlines.

And a double bonus is that some airlines allow the animals to travel free. Some are even treated to firstclass seats with their handlers.

Calgary-based WestJet says on its website that the airline “allows service, specialty and emotional-support animals ... free of charge, when on du-

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Allowed to fly to most destinations are service and emotional-support dogs, cats, miniature horses, pigs and monkeys. But WestJet urges passengers to check well ahead of time to determine if their animal qualifies as an assistance companion under the airline’s policies.

WestJet also says “other ‘unusual animals’ (with the exception of snakes, reptiles, ferrets, rodents and spiders, which pose safety and/or public health concerns) may be accepted as a service or emotional-support animal on a caseby-case basis.”

Similar policies are in effect on U.S. airlines.

Last year, Charlotte, a 135-kg (300-pound) Vietnamese pot-bellied pig, was allowed to fly First Class free with its owner on a US Airways flight from Philadelphia to Seattle. Maria Tirotta Andrews says she has a heart condition so severe she needs the companionship of the pig to relieve stress.

A complaint was filed to the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration over allowing the unusual passenger on board. (Yes, a pig is a pig. But how many times have frequent flyers put up with much worse from the person seated next to them? And chances are Charlotte was better behaved.)

The FAA ruled against the complaint, saying the airline “acted in a reasonable and thoughtful manner, based on a legitimate request to transport a qualified individual with a disability and her service animal.”

Besides dogs, cats and pigs, monkeys — in particular the capuchin monkey — are allowed to travel as assistance animals. The capuchins are trained to assist with grasping of items and performing manual tasks such as opening doors and fetching things.

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Rachel Boerner carries Hobey on her shoulder while leaving the passenger plane after being told the pig was being disruptive. vide support for those with problems standing upright are also allowed.

In the U.S., the rules are so rigid they require airlines to provide “relief areas” for service animals. “With respect to terminal facilities you own, lease, or control at a U.S. airport, you must, in co-operation with the airport operators, provide relief areas for service animals that accompany passengers with a disability who are departing, arriving, or connecting at an airport on your flights,” states a Department of Transportations manual.

Pot-bellied pigs can be trained to use a litter box. But accommodating a miniature horse or an assistance monkey may require some creative thinking.

Assistance pigs are smart. They have saved human lives, can detect an oncoming epileptic seizure and some have a soothing effect on those challenged by emotional disorders. One pig even made the news for fighting off several dogs that were attacking its owner. (Those with farming backgrounds know you don’t mess with an angry pig.)

One of the most famous heroic pigs is Lulu, the pot-belly from Pittsburgh.

According to reports, a woman named JoAnn was pig-sitting for her daughter, and the two bonded. All was fine until JoAnn suffered a major heart attack, fell to the ground and started shouting for help. Sensing the dilemma, Lulu

ran from the yard and laid down in the middle of the street, stopping traffic. Passersby paid no attention to the frantic pig. Lulu frequently ran back to the yard to check on JoAnn, then back to the street and laid down, until a motorist finally stopped, followed Lulu and called 911 when JoAnn was found.

Lulu was honoured with the American SPCA’s Trooper Award for bravery.

But it’s apparently going to take a whole lot of understanding, and quite a bit more tolerance, before the whole notion of support animals — and inanimate objects — becomes accepted.

The U.S. Transportation Security Administration has come under fire after several incidents involving its treatment at airports of mentally disabled people who arrive with items that provide emotional support (not animals).

In June 2011, for example, at Detroit’s McNamera Terminal, the TSA seized a six-inch plastic toy hammer from a severely handicapped man, who carried the toy for emotional security.

The 29-year-old passenger, with the mental capacity of a two-year-old, was subjected to a thorough pat-down by TSA agents, who then threw away the toy after determining it was “a weapon.”

Maybe when pigs can fly, we will see little more tolerance all the way around.

Zemanek is a former Advocate editor.

Is artificial intelligence a real threat?

The experts run the whole gamut from A to B, and they’re practically unanimous: artificial intelligence is going to destroy human civilization.

Expert A is Elon Musk, polymath co-founder of PayPal, manufacturer of Tesla electric cars, creator of Space X, the first privately funded company to send a spacecraft into orbit, and much else besides.

“I think we GWYNNE should be very DYER careful about artificial intelligence (AI),” he told an audience at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in October. “If I were to guess what our biggest existential threat is, it’s probably that.”

Musk warned AI engineers to “be very careful” not to create robots that could rule the world. Indeed, he suggested that there should be regulatory oversight “at the national and international level” over the work of AI developers, “just to make sure that we don’t do something very foolish.”

Expert B is Stephen Hawking, the world’s most famous theoretical physicist and author of the best-selling unread book ever, A Short History of Time.

He has a brain the size of Denmark, and on Monday he told the British Broadcasting Corp. that “the development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.”

Hawking has a motor neurone disease that compels him to speak with the aid of an artificial speech generator. The new version he is getting from Intel learns how Professor Hawking thinks, and suggests the words he might want to use next. It’s an early form of AI, so naturally the interviewer asked him about the future of that

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A genuinely intelligent machine, Hawking warned, “would take off on its own, and redesign itself at an ever increasing rate. Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn’t compete and would be superseded.”

So be very, very careful.

Musk and Hawking are almost 50 years behind popular culture in their fear of rogue AI turning against human beings (HAL in 2001: A Space Odyssey).

They are a full 30 years behind the concept of a super-computer that achieves consciousness and instantly launches a war of extermination against mankind (Skynet in the Terminator films).

Then there’s The Matrix, Blade Runner and similar variations on the theme.

It’s taken a while for the respectable thinkers to catch up with all this paranoia, but they’re there now.

So everybody take a tranquilizer, and let’s look at this more calmly. Full AI, with capacities comparable to the human brain or better, is at least two or three decades away, so we have time to think about how to handle this technology.

The risk that genuinely intelligent machines that don’t need to be fed or paid will eventually take over practically all the remaining good jobs — doctors, pilots, accountants, etc. — is real. Indeed, it may be inevitable.

But that would only be a catastrophe if we cannot revamp our culture to cope with a great deal more leisure, and restructure our economy to allocate wealth on a different basis than as a reward for work.

Such a society might well end up as a place in which intelligent machines had “human” rights before the law, but that’s not what worries the sceptics.

Their fear is that machines, having achieved consciousness, will see human beings as a threat (because we can turn them off, at least at first), and that they will therefore seek to control or even eliminate us. That’s the Skynet scenario, but it’s not very realistic.

The saving grace in the real scenario is that AI will not arrive all at once, with the flip of a switch. It will be built gradually over decades, which gives us time to introduce a kind of moral sense into the basic programming, rather like the innate morality that most human beings are born with. (An embedded morality is an evolutionary advantage in a social species.)

Our moral sense doesn’t guarantee that we will always behave well, but it certainly helps. And if we are in charge of the design, not just blind evolution, we might even do better.

Something like Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics, which the Master laid down 72 years ago.

First Law: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

Second Law: A robot must obey the orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.

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Not a bad start, although in the end there will inevitably be a great controversy among human beings as to whether self-conscious machines should be kept forever as slaves. The trick is to find a way of embedding this moral sense so deeply in the programming that it cannot be circumvented.

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Look deeper to see truth Just when I think that I have covered almost every subject or perhaps all problems that can be encountered at the kitchen, someone comes along to teach me something new. I was confronted with another one evening after supper was finished.

The larger majority of my articles are based on the first impressions that I receive whenever I meet new people or encounter new happenings.

I don’t always have all the facts simply because most people are reluctant to speak, so I will garner any information that I can and write with what I have at that particular time.

My helper and I were collecting our personal items CHRIS and getting ready to leave afSALOMONS ter another busy and successful supper.

I was tired and with all my senior’s aches and pains, I was more than ready to call it a day. This is when she came abruptly through the door, sunglasses perched askew on her head and her backpack and coat all in disarray, asking desperately to charge her phone for two minutes.

“I missed a very important ride and I need to see

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if I can still catch them.”

We still had a few minutes before we were ready to leave so we consented.

My first impressions of “Betsy” were that she stood out from the rest of the kitchen clientele in that she always seemed to take care of herself, and other than seeming tired periodically, I was under the illusion that she was not involved in the drug world as were her peers.

In our few minutes of conversation, she made me aware how far off base I really was.

The ride she thought she had missed was to bring her to her parents for a month or so in order to find a reprieve from the demands of the drugs. So when I asked what was her drug of choice, she stated matterof-factly, “Crystal meth.”

One look at the clear complexion of this cute-asa-button, twentyish young woman almost made me think, “no way,” (usually using meth makes them break out in open sores, especially on the face and neck), but she went on to say how it affected her health in other ways, so I accepted the fact that she was just straight-forward in her confession of addiction.

“Even though I want to,” she went on, “I don’t scratch the outbreaks on my skin, (most crystal meth users do) but there are many other issues that I just hate. So it is really important that I catch this ride.”

With that, she started packing her phone away and so I took the opportunity to let her know that we had

people available who were sincere in their efforts to try TO help in any way we could.

“I know that — I almost did once with one individual here, but I didn’t take it any further.”

With that she picked up her pack and with thanks for letting her charge her phone, she was out the door.

Later in the evening when I had some time to reflect on what I had just experienced, I became aware of just how little of a person’s life is revealed on first impressions. Usually, people project only what they want the public to see; even in conversation, they generally only disclose personal information that is non-damaging.

As well, when I wrote about ordinary “Fred,” I have since found out that he is far from ordinary; but that’s a subject for another story.

We acknowledge that often we are being deceived and that lies are used as a personal protection and safeguard, so when “Betsy” spoke the way she did, I almost didn’t know how to react.

She was just totally honest and revealing; so I felt that she was at a point of making life-changing choices for her own future.

The question at this point is always: will this be the right time to go all out and extend all the help we can muster, or are we once again being deceived?

Our belief and philosophy is the former.

Chris Salomons is kitchen co-ordinator for Potter’s Hands ministry in Red Deer.

Dolls. These little cabbages have motorized mouths that “eat” little plastic “food.” Unfortunately, they also chomp on little fingers and munch on hair. And they won’t stop and they won’t let go. And that’s just plain scary.

5. Buckyballs. This desk toy consisted of small metal balls made of “super strong magnets” so that you could create shapes and noodle around with them as a “stress reliever.” But smaller kids tend to get a hold of things and put them in their little mouths and swallow them (see No. 8 and No. 9 above). Get this: over 1,000 children required surgery to remove Buckyballs that were magnetically stuck together (on the inside as it were), damaging various interior organs. Yikes.

4. CSI Fingerprint Identification Kit. Kids get to dust for fingerprints just like on the TV show! Guess what the fingerprint “dust” contained in this toy kit?

In a word: asbestos.

3. Splash Off Water Rockets. We had something like this back in the Mesozoic Era, where you pump water into a little plastic rockets and you release the pressure and WHOOSH! — up it goes about half a metre and flops back down on the ground leaking water. The “new” versions just apparently break apart and/or fly violently every which way. Thirtyseven injuries to face, hands and nearby windows reported.

2. Aqua Leisure Baby Boats. I don’t even want to think about this one. Little inflatable boats for wee kidlets, except that they were so cheaply made the bottoms (of the boats) rip apart easily. Luckily no babies were injured, but the Aqua company was fined $650,000 for hiding consumer complaints for over six years!

1. The Easy Bake Oven. “Wait a minute!” I can hear you say. “Everybody had one of those in the house!” Yes, and in 2006 the Easy Bake Oven was inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame! But

hold on — the very next year, one million were recalled due to 250 reported serious incidents where the Oven was baking more than cupcakes. And that’s kind of sad, isn’t it? Even the classics ain’t what they used to be.

So to heck with the Worst Toys Ever — what about the classics that are still classic?

I dug out some marbles this week. You see, I had the privilege of being a guest visitor to Madame Kennedy’s Grade 4/5 Class at Mountview Elementary School where a packed classroom of high-energy creative kids were working on writing stories. They had lots of insightful questions, most of which I couldn’t answer, and they shared their excellent stories with me, and we (I) talked about my (shameless plug) new book I Seem to Have Misplaced My Marbles (finally available in one or two book stores), and it was a terrific and fun time spending time with some awesome young people.

And when I dug out my purple Seagram’s Crown Royal marble bag and had the students each choose a couple of lucky marbles to keep, they didn’t even think it was dumb. Lots of laughter and smiles and mayhem and marbles everywhere — and I was thinking: there’s still hope for humanity when kids these days can still get a kick out of the simplest of toys.

And not a single one of them swallowed a single marble. (I’m pretty sure.)

As I was leaving, an excited little tow-headed boy with big glasses and a big grin called out: “Hey, Mr. Hay! Don’t forget to put marbles on your wish list for Santa!”

“I won’t!” I called back. And in fact, I’ve already added them. Right after that Lionel Polar Express electric train set.

Harley Hay is a local freelance writer, award-winning author, filmmaker and musician. His column appears on Saturdays in the Advocate. His books can be found at Chapters, Coles and Sunworks in Red Deer.

Hits, misses for your Santa list I don’t know about you, but I’ve been thinking about toys lately.

It might be all those marbles on my brain in recent weeks, or it might be all the 357 TV commercials per hour and the 15 kg (87 pounds) of flyers in the newspaper per day. Or it might be on account of Christmas appears to be percolating happily in the rapidly approaching future like one of those old-fashioned bubble lights we still put on the fireplace mantle every year.

HARLEY So if we dutifully follow that train (a Lionel Polar HAY Express electric train) of thought, let’s all consider toys for a moment, shall we? But this time, what say instead we delve into the dark side just a wee bit and take a closer look at the Worst Toys Ever.

This year I give you: Ten Incredibly Dangerous Banned Toys, as reported on Listverse.com.

10. Snap Bracelets. Remember those spring-loaded plastic or metal bracelets that kids could straighten out until rigid and then snap onto a wrist and the bracelet would instantly curl and grab on like a handcuff? Well, they’re baaaccckkk! And they’re banned. Again. They have been proven to slice and dice innocent wrists quicker than a Ronco Veg-OMatic.

9. Monster Science Colossal Water Balls. Aside from the fact that, as Dave Barry would say, this would make a great name for a rock band, the Monster Science Colossal Water Balls are marble sized spheres what rapidly increase to “hundreds of times their original size.” Unfortunately younger kids and some older adults like to put things into their mouths, and guess what happens when these things reach the stomach and start growing? Let’s put it this way, make sure an emergency room surgeon is standing by.

8. Aqua Dots. You click little beads onto a plastic mounting board and when you pour water on them, they also grow into fun shapes. Fun shapes that contain toxic chemicals causing life-threatening hospitalization. Spin Master toy company was fined $1.3 million for their “fun” little poisonous Aqua Dots.

7. Kite Tube. You know those “donut” inner tube thingies people pull behind their speed boats with people in them? How about adding a parasail to the donut so that when the riders yank a chord, they fly the height of a three-storey building? And then the riders fall out. Kite Tubes were voluntarily removed from the market by the manufacturer after two actual deaths and dozens of serious injuries.

6. Cabbage Patch Snacktime Kids Dolls. It’s the evil version of the once insanely popular Cabbage Patch

HAY’S DAZE

Underlying cracks in Canada’s economy A fast read of the latest International Monetary Fund report card on Canada makes it sound as though Canada’s economy is performing really well.

That’s the way the government treated it, implying the IMF had given it an A+ for its economic performance.

Yet reading the IMF report carefully, it is clear that Canada still has serious problems and that growth prospects remain modest. As the IMF put it, “Investment has been weak over the past few years” and “investment decisions have tended to replace or upgrade capital, and hiring decisions have focused more on adding temporary capacity (e.g., onethird of jobs added so far in DAVID 2014 have been part-time — a CRANE share above its historical average).”

In a recent speech, Timothy Lane, deputy governor of the Bank of Canada, acknowledged that Canada’s recovery from the Great Recession has been unbalanced.

As Canada climbed out of the Great Recession of 2008-09, “economic growth became increasingly reliant on building more and more homes, mortgaged at rock-bottom interest rates and driving up the indebtedness of Canadians to unprecedented levels.” This has “built up vulnerabilities in our financial system, which could spell troubles down the road,” Lane warned.

A revealing Bank of Canada survey of face-toface meeting with 151 senior executives published recently had some disturbing findings. “Canadian firms,” it said, “have generally placed more empha-

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sis on defensive competitiveness strategies, aimed at reducing cost structures or differentiating existing products to help retain customers, than on measures targeting expansion or longer-term competitiveness.” Companies are cutting costs, relying more on temporary workers and investing mainly to sustain the existing business than investing in future growth, innovation and productivity.

Business cannot cut their way to future growth.

But there was little evidence that executives and their companies were particularly entrepreneurial or forward-looking. “For instance,” the Bank of Canada survey found, “while many firms considered innovation to be an ongoing and central part of their strategic plan, the majority viewed their organizational capabilities as most closely geared towards maintaining and extending existing competitive advantages rather than generating new advantages.”

There is a big risk here, with serious implications for Canada’s future economic prosperity. Expectations of continued slow growth could lead to further delays in investment in innovative, forward-looking projects, the bank concludes. Without innovation what will we sell to the world, aside from raw materials?

Most firms, the bank said, felt that there were sufficient barriers to entry into their industry so that “imperatives for innovation and long-term productivity enhancements may not appear that pressing. A prolonged period in which firms postpone investment and follow strategies for incremental reductions in costs that are not accompanied by investment in new technology would undermine the longer-term advantages of the Canadian business sector.”

And “a sustained failure to invest would imply a lower rate of potential output growth.” This, in turn, would have negative implications for government

revenue, employment and productivity After 25 years of Canada-U.S. free trade, the innovation/productivity gap has not narrowed, despite claims that this would be one of the biggest FTA gains. Instead, Canadian companies have been losing competitiveness and are failing to capture business in the fast-growing new markets in Asia and Latin America.

A 2012 Bank of Canada study on competitiveness and Canada’s declining share of world trade found that Canada’s share of world exports had fallen from 4.1 per cent in 1990-2000 to 3.7 per cent in 2001-07 and 2.8 per cent in 2008-10.

We need to be better exporters.

As Bank of Canada governor Stephen Poloz said in a recent speech, oil exports are “the main source of natural growth in our economy today” but “growth in energy exports alone cannot make up for the loss of exports we have experienced since the crisis [the Great Recession].”

The persistent strength of the Canadian dollar, over-dependence on the U.S. market, stiffer competition from China and Mexico and technological change were all factors in Canada’s loss of competitiveness — which translates into fewer good jobs and a smaller economy. A nation with a weak tradable goods sector will end up turning to international debt, as the U.S. has done, to finance its domestic consumption.

As a country, we face a huge challenge in building a prosperous and sustainable economy for the future. A U.S. recovery and a somewhat weaker Canadian dollar would help a bit. But something more fundamental is needed — major investments in advanced manufacturing and high-value business services are critical.

Economist David Crane is a syndicated Toronto Star columnist. He can be reached at crane@interlog.com.

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TOP: Padre Island National Seashore has over 100 km of remote beach camping.

ABOVE: Captain Smiley laughed and joked all day with his charismatic Tex-Mex accent.

LEFT: A tricoloured heron eyes for prey. Laguna Madre is world-renowned for birding.

Padre Island is a long spit of sand dunes guarding mainland Texas from the destructive tornadoes and winter storms that pound in from the Gulf of Mexico.

Between this narrow barrier island and the mainland lies Laguna Madre, a shallow hyper-saline sea renowned for sensitive sea grass — and world-class kite surfing, birding and fishing.

On some Padre beaches, camping is free. South of Corpus Christi, at Padre GERRY Island National SeaFEEHAN shore, free squatting extends for over 100 km. But the entrance is also the only exit.

So, after you bite off as much of the hard-pack sand road as you wish to chew and you’ve had your fill of remote surf and turf, a tight U-turn and a long return drive up the beach is required to get back to civilization.

It was shoulder season so we had the whole shoreline to ourselves. The weather was atrocious: 3C with a 70-km/h wind. Only

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In the morning the weather cleared, the sun shone and the wind ebbed, portending a fine day on the Laguna Madre.

We drove back across the causeway to the mainland, toward Arroyo City and a lovely campground along a canal fronting the ocean. We chose a site protected by live oak trees in case (heaven forbid) the weatherman’s prognostication was inaccurate and the wind began to howl anew. As per our typical modus operandi, we arrived at dusk, sans reservation.

The other campers were all outfitted for fishing.

“When in Rome,” thought I and asked the park ranger if he knew of any local guides.

“No, I sure don’t,” he said. “Y’all could check with the live-bait store back in town.

Look for the big sign — a redfish — out front.

They may have a’ idea.”

I asked Florence if she’d mind hanging out for a day while I went angling.

“No, go ahead. I’ll spend the day relaxing, reading and knitting.”

I wandered down the road. When I saw red, I stepped in.

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ABOVE: A great blue heron fishing with the fishermen at sunrise.

BELOW: This live oak tree is over 1,000 years old. Florence is dwarfed in the background.

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TEXAS: Great fishing The shop smelt.

After baiting the proprietor with fishing small-talk, I asked, “Do you think you could you find a guide to take me out tomorrow?”

“Well, I know of a fella lives right by,” he said, chewing uncertainly on a pork rind, “but it’s kind of late and I doubt he’d be available on short notice. I could call if you like.”

Five minutes later, Captain Smiley was shaking my hand and arrangements were being made to tackle an early morning.

The sun had not yet risen when the Captain putt-putted up to our riverfront campsite and welcomed me aboard. Minutes later, dawn greeted us as we cast our first lines into the shallow, glassy waters of Laguna Madre. A fat red drum hit on my second cast; a fighting day was upon us.

I had a great time with Smiley. Affirming his moniker, he laughed and joked all day long in his charismatic Tex-Mex accent.

The night before I had warned the Captain that I was short on greenbacks and would need to pay by cheque. He crossed my fingers. The machine slowFlorence asked, “Are you going fishing knitting. hesitantly agreed. When we arrived ly spat six tattered twenties at me. A again tomorrow?”

Gerry Feehan is a retired lawyer, avid back at dock he expertly prepped my full day of guided fishing is not cheap.

“Naw,” I said. “Smiley’s got a custraveller and photographer. He lives in red-fish “on the half-shell” for grilling.

I repeated the process a few times. tomer lined up for the morning.”

Red Deer. For more of Gerry’s travel Driving me back to our campsite he Eventually the tired machine coughed “Gee, that’s too bad,” she said, “this adventures, please visit www.gnfeehan. cleverly diverted his battered pickup up enough cash to retire my piscatofish is incredible.” She was eyeing her blogspot.com. truck toward the bait shop. Pulling up, he informed me that there was an ATM rial debt.

I handed the dough to Smiley. He inside. Evidently he preferred cash to smiled and asked, “Do you want to fish a cheque written on the honourable tomorrow?” I couldn’t envisage endur(but foreign) Royal Bank of Canada. I ing another ATM debacle and, in any smiled faintly, opened the door and event, it was time for us to move on headed into the store. from this arroyo.

I had no bank card, just a U.S. Visa.

“No thanks,” I said, “we need to hit Uncertain if I could withdraw cash or the road tomorrow.” whether my PIN would work, I shoved “Aw, that’s too bad,” said Smiley. the card in, chose English over Span“Tomorrow’s my day off and what I do ish as my language of preference and, on my day off is … go fishing. I’ll take after agreeing to an exorbitant fee you out on my dime.” for the pleasure of using the bank I saw my calendar clearing. machine (“in addition to whatever adI called Florence to ask leave. She ditional charges your financial instituconcurred, delighted. (Apparently, one tion may impose”), prayed silently as I day away from her beloved was insuffientered my personal security particucient to create an overwhelming desire lars. to be reunited in the confines of our The machine sat quietly for a time, small RV.) made some distant interior rumblings , Red Deer I had another great “caught my and eventually announced: “Request limit” day of fishing. As I fried up a 105661A1 Declined.” delicious speckled sea trout that night, I peaked through a stack of chili-flavoured TRAVEL WITH pork rinds, over a bat403-347-4990 | 1-888-LET-S-BUS (538-7287) tered flag of the LoneStar State hanging in the www.frontierbuslines.com dirty window, and into Visit our website or call for details “because we care” the parking lot. Smiley was … waiting.

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The first time I stepped foot on the long expanse of sand at Pacific Rim National Park, on the west coasts of Vancouver Island, I was in awe This was the longest stretch of sand beach that I had ever seen, seemingly stretching to the horizon.

The tide was out the first morning and as the fog lifted, the beach was exposed as a smooth, wide expanse of hardpacked sand and I could see people jogging, walking and riding their bicycles.

The beaches at Pacific Rim go for 50 km along the open Pacific Ocean between Tofino and Ucluelet. There are beaches at Florence Bay, Wickaninnish, Combers, Green Point, Long Beach, Chesterman Beach and beyond.

I was convinced on that first day that this was really the Hawaii of Canada.

In the 1960s, the hippies would park their Volkswagen camper buses or set up tents and camp right on the beach.

My brother-in-law, who lives in Vancouver, has many stories to tell about those days.

At that time, the road from Port Alberni was just a gravel trail and it took most of the day to get to the Pacific Rim beaches. The national park was developed in the early 1960s and today there is a paved road, although hilly, from Port Alberni to the Pacific Rim. One of the highlights of my first trip to Pacific Rim was finding a crab trap. Our boys were three and seven at the time and on this earlymorning walk on the beach, we found a crab trap and long float line that had drifted up onto the beach. Lots of people were standing around and looking at this weird contraption all covered in kelp.

As the day drifted on we heard that this trap might belong to a local crab fisherman in the nearby town of Tofino and that he might give some crab if we retrieved the trap off the beach. That was enough enticement for our two boys to start lugging the trap off the beach and up the steep trail to our campground. The trap had a cement block in the bottom to act as a weight and about 15 metres of heavy rope attached to a marker buoy.

It was very heavy work for them but with a little help from Dad, we eventually got the heavy trap up the steep hill trail and to our camper truck.

We eventually found the owner of the trap and he gave young Stephen and David a dozen live crab for their efforts.

Now a dozen crab are a lot for a family on a camping trip. The boys got the bright idea that they should try to sell some of the crab to other campers. So they

put some crab in a paper bag and started their sales trip around the campground. Shortly thereafter, I could hear the screams of the threeyear-old that the bag had broken and the crab were on the loose. I don’t recall if the boys actually sold any crab, but I do remember cooking the crab one at a time in my small pot on the Colemen stove and finishing the final cooking at midnight. The crabs were sure good.

That was 35 years ago and the boys are grown up, but my love for the Pacific Rim has never changed. It is one of Canada jewels.

Over the years, I have returned many times to the area, in a variety of seasons.

Along the Pacific Rim, nature never disappoints.

It’s amazing to see the place in a winter storm, watching the full fury of a West Coast storm. November through March is the most dramatic storm season.

The seas are very rough at this time of year and you must be very careful where you go. The strong surges can make the beach access unpredictable and treacherous. You need to especially stay off the drift logs if the tide or swells are high. Consult the tide tables, swell forecast and wave hazard signs at the park information centre.

The visitor centre’s observation deck at Wickaninnish Beach, the visitor centre south to the Totem Pole at Lismer Beach and Florencia Bay Lookout are great places to watch the winter storms.

There are all sorts of hiking trails and natural areas to visit in the park. At Ucluelet, the village on the south end of Pacific Rim, there is the Wild Pacific Trail. It follows the rugged coastline through the rainforest and offers panoramic views. This is an excellent spot to watch the storms.

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BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR Rebels 2 Warriors 1 Red Deer Rebels captain Conner Bleackley hit a milestone Friday at the Enmax Centrium, but like a true leader he insisted the end result was more important.

“I actually knew when I scored that it was my 50th (of his WHL career),” said Bleackley, who notched both goals in a 2-1 win over the Moose Jaw Warriors in front of 5,081 fans.

But did he keep the puck?

“No, that one will go up on the win wall. To me, that’s better than 50 goals,” he added.

For the third consecutive home game, the Rebels failed to score first.

Overage forward Jack Rodewald gave the visitors their only lead of the night 13:22 into the contest, but Bleackley answered just 36 seconds later when he cruised into the high slot and buried a feed from Riley Sheen.

The goal brought on a flurry of winter wear from the stands as it was the Rebels’ annual touque-toss night.

Bleackley then potted his second of the evening, his 10th of the season and his 50th as a Rebel dating back to the 2011-12 season when he played 16 games as a 15-year-old. The eventual winner, a power-play tally, came at 2:30 of the middle frame when Tyler Sandhu intercepted a clearing attempt in the high slot and found Bleackley alone at the side of the net.

The Rebels carried the play most of the evening, and although they didn’t run up the score their defensive effort was a darn sight better than in Tuesday’s 9-5 home-ice loss to the Calgary Hitmen, in which they coughed up five unanswered first-period goals.

“Our start tonight was obviously better but I think we still have a bit more to go,” said the Rebels captain. “But I think our game as a whole was pretty good. Any time you can limit a team to 20 shots and one goal . . . that’s kind of what we’ve been keying in on after giving up nine the other night. “Hopefully we can do more of that going forward and set ourselves up for the second half (of the season).”

The Rebels directed 29 shots at Warriors netminder Justin Paulic while Rebels goaltender Ryan Toth faced 19. While Toth wasn’t busy Friday, he came up with a handful of top-notch saves, robbing Torrin White on a second-period breakaway and making a

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Moose Jaw Warrior goaltender Justin Paulic moves to bat away a shot by Red Deer Rebel Conner Bleackley during first period WHL action at the Centrium in Red Deer Friday. stop on an in-close deflection late in the contest.

“It was a tight game, a close-checking game,” said Rebels GM/head coach Brent Sutter. “I thought we had some pretty decent looks at times. For the most part both teams played very similar at certain times of the game.

“We needed to have a (positive) response after the other night. It really wasn’t what happened the other night, it was how we were going to respond

to what happened. We wanted to tighten things up tonight and be better on both sides of the puck and we certainly were that.”

Sutter like the Rebels’ all-around game.

“We were better defensively and I thought we did a really good job in the offensive zone,” he said. “We created some scoring chances and made some plays. We probably didn’t finish as much as we would have liked, but

that being said, it was a big win.”

The win pushed the Rebels into third place in the Central Division, one point ahead of the Edmonton Oil Kings who were 6-2 losers at Calgary Friday.

Red Deer trails the second-place Hitmen by a single point.

The Rebels displayed their offensive balance Friday as all four lines created scoring opportunities.

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General Manager Craig MacTavish speaks about the state of the Edmonton Oilers after an 11-game losing streak, during a press conference in Edmonton on Friday.

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

EDMONTON OILERS

Edmonton Oilers general manager Craig MacTavish, in a testy, defensive news conference Friday, tossed the boys under the bus and doubled down on head coach Dallas Eakins.

“The accountability of the players to execute has to improve,” said MacTavish.

“Visually to me we’re a better hockey team. “(But) there isn’t any tangible evidence of any of that improvement, and that’s what’s so difficult for everybody to swallow.”

MacTavish has been feeling the heat from fans and media with the team at the bottom of the NHL standings (6-155) in the throes of an 11-game losing streak.

The Oilers have not been in the playoffs since 2006. Since then, fans have endured multiple coaching changes and failed rebuilding plans.

MacTavish said the team has not progressed as fast as he expected, but said he won’t deviate from his longterm plan to draft and develop talent.

“As painful as this process is, we feel that it’s a necessary step to get us to the next level,” he said.

Asked if the plan is not just behind

schedule, but the wrong plan or the right plan executed by the wrong people, MacTavish retored: “Is it time to punt out the core of these players at 23 and 24 years old as they’re developing?”

“I’ve switched out 14 or 15 players in the 18 months that I’ve been on the job, and what I think I have now is a group that is capable of growth.”

MacTavish said everyone is “under scrutiny” from the front office to the dressing room, but defended his first hire, second-year coach Dallas Eakins.

He suggested Eakins isn’t going anywhere.

“He’s evolving,” said MacTavish. “(But) we’ve changed assistant coaches. We’ve brought in co-coaches.

We’ve brought in former head coaches. (We’ve had) four coaching changes (since 2009).

“Those coaches were all delivering the same message and we need a higher level of execution (by the players).”

Eakins has been criticized for giving some players too much rope, doing too much X’s and O’s analysis and not enough yelling.

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Flames prospect happy with progress after shoulder surgery

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — The Scotiabank Saddledome has turned out to be a pretty exciting workout facility for injured prospect Sam Bennett, who is recovering from shoulder surgery.

The injury-riddled Flames, arguably the NHL’s biggest surprise this season at 17-8-2, sit one point back of the Anaheim Ducks and Vancouver Canucks for the lead in the Western Conference entering Friday’s games.

“It’s amazing being part of a rebuild and how much success we’ve been having,” said Bennett, selected fourth overall by Calgary in this year’s draft.

“It’s been awesome just being in the room. Everyone is so happy and in such good moods. It’s just great to see how well not only the young guys, but how everyone is playing.”

Bennett, 18, underwent surgery on Oct. 14 to repair a torn labrum in his left shoulder. Meeting with the media for the first time Friday since the operation, he said he’s pleased with his recovery.

“They anchored it back onto the bone. It all went really well and they had no issue,” Bennett said. “I’m really happy with the progress so far. I’ve gone a solid month now of solid rehab.

I’m starting to do some strength work now too and I haven’t had any issues so

it’s all positive.”

Bennett spent the past month in Calgary where a typical day consists of arriving at the rink, attending the team meeting, then going for a workout as the players get ready for practice. In the gym, he works on his conditioning and his lifting with Flames strength and conditioning coach Ryan van Asten.

Once that’s complete, it’s off to see the trainers for some physical therapy.

“The goal is to be skating come the New Year and from there, keep progressing and if I have no issues skating, then we’re going to keep ramping it up,” said Bennett.

Bennett, a native of Holland Land-

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ing, Ont., hopes to get in some games before the end of this season. He said he’s learned a lot from being around the Flames for the past four weeks.

“I’m a pretty hard-working guy but just coming here and seeing the amount of work that not only I have to put in but the guys that are playing put in, it’s pretty impressive and you definitely appreciate it more when you’re here,” said Bennett.

Coach Bob Hartley said the Flames are trying to do everything they can to make something positive out of what was a negative situation.

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LeBron leads Cavs over Raptors

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Cleveland 105 Toronto 91 TORONTO — The Cleveland Cavaliers exacted some revenge Friday on a Toronto Raptors team missing DeMar DeRozan.

LeBron James scored 24 points to lift the Cavaliers to a 105-91 win over Toronto, less than two weeks after the Raptors beat the Cavs on their home court.

Amir Johnson had a season-high 27 points, and Kyle Lowry added 22 points and nine assists. But that wasn’t enough to carry an East-leading Raptors team (15-5) that had only three players score in double figures - James Johnson finished with 11.

Tristan Thompson of Brampton, Ont., finished with season highs for both points (21) and rebounds (14) for the Cavs (11-7), who stretched their winning streak to six games.

The Raptors had topped the Cavaliers 110-93 on Nov. 22, battling back from a 19-point first-quarter deficit.

The result worked as a wakeup call for Cleveland, who promptly went on a five-game winning streak.

They made it six Friday night, leading from the opening whistle in front of a star-studded Air Canada Centre capacity crowd of 19,800 that included NBA legends Magic Johnson, Charles Barkley and Dikembe Mutombo, who gave his signature finger wag to the ACC crowd when shown on the Jumbotron.

The Raptors, who were 2-1 without DeRozan heading into Friday, could sorely have used the all-star, who’s out indefinitely with a torn groin tendon.

They trailed by as many as 14 points and went into the fourth down 76-64.

The Raptors managed to pull within six points a couple of times in the final 12 minutes, a dunk by Amir Johnson pulling them within 97-91 with 1:53 to play. But that was as close as they would get.

The Cavs shot 49 per cent on the night to Toronto’s 41, and outrebounded them 48-40.

Photo byTHE CANADIAN PRESS

Cleveland Cavaliers forward LeBron James (23) drives the net past Toronto Raptors forward Terrence Ross, right, during first half NBA basketball action in Toronto on Friday.

The two teams meet again Tuesday in Cleveland.

Johnson, Barkley, Mutombo, and Tracy McGrady were in Toronto as part of the Raptors’ celebration of Nelson Mandela, who died a year ago to the day.

McGrady was honoured with a video tribute during a first-quarter timeout as part of the Raptors’ 20th anniversary celebrations, and received a standing ovation from the ACC crowd.

McGrady said pre-game that he was

looking forward to the video.

“Cool to see what I used to do a little bit, I mean, it’s been what . . .16 . . .

16 years, damn,” McGrady said.

McGrady was the Raptors’ ninth pick in the 1997 draft and played three seasons in Toronto.

“When I started playing at SkyDome, you do something exciting, it’s like crickets in the building,” McGrady said. “You just didn’t get that great excitement, that warm reception that you need to get when you’re playing

Spieth beats the dark at Isleworth

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

PGA

WINDERMERE, Fla. — The guy in a red shirt put on quite a show Friday in the Hero World Challenge to get into contention.

That was Patrick Reed — and Tiger Woods watched it all.

Reed, playing alongside Woods at Isleworth, was 8 under through 10 holes and wound up with a 9-under 63 in the second round, which was delayed 90 minutes by heavy rain. Jordan Spieth elected not to finish his round in darkness, mainly because he had a tough chip short of the 18th green and couldn’t see the flag from 30 feet away.

Spieth was at 11 under, two shots ahead of Henrik Stenson, who had a 68.

Reed was another shot back, along with Justin Rose.

He became the third player this year to shoot a 63 while playing with Woods.

“I never played with Tiger before, besides a practice round at the British,” Reed said. “It was good to finally be able to play with him, especially in competition. It was a lot of fun. We had a good time. I felt like we enjoyed ourselves out there, and luckily I played well.”

Woods was better that his opening 77, except for a sour ending because of another flubbed chip.

Woods was making progress toward his goal of getting back to even par for the tournament. He hit a 5-iron out of the rough to 4 feet for eagle on the par-

5 13th, followed with a flip wedge into 3 feet for birdie on the 14th, and he hit another wedge to 5 feet for birdie on the 16th.

But after the rain, Woods had mud on his ball in the fairway and could only smile as it sailed left and long of the green. What followed was another bad chip — that’s six already in two rounds — that travelled only about 10 feet. He wound up with a double bogey for a 70. He remained in last place, 14 shots behind Spieth.

“It’s not very good,” Woods said of his short game.

The best golf in the group came from Reed, who grew up trying to pattern his game after Woods, even down to the wardrobe. He always wears black trousers and a red shirt on Sunday, the ensemble Woods has made famous on his way to 79 PGA Tour wins and 14 majors. Every now and then, Reed likes to wear black and red on Friday.

This was a good time for that.

Reed wasn’t even sure he would be in the tournament until Jim Furyk withdrew last week. And if there was ever a time to get excited about opening with a 73, this would be the occasion. It meant Reed would be paired with Woods, in the first group out.

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REBELS: Hurricanes up next “It’s really how we want to play, we want to be a four-line team,” said Sutter. “There are times when you have to shorten your bench, but for the most part we do want to roll four lines and use six defencemen. When we play the way we want to play, we’re playing a high-tempo game. And they (Warriors) do too. Moose Jaw plays very similar.”

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OILERS: MacTavish not to blame The coach skated the players hard in Friday’s practice but insisted it wasn’t a punishment for poor performance, rather it was a pre-scheduled “conditioning day.”

“The worst day is when my boss and the players’ boss has to come in here and get pelted with bullets and questions about the team,” Eakins said of MacTavish’s news conference. “That responsibility falls on me, my staff and the players in that room. It’s something I take personally and certainly all of the players should be taking it personally.”

Eakins said his main concern was not whether he might lose his job but bridging the divide between the fans and the team.

Reed opened with three straight birdies. He rolled in a 40-foot eagle putt on the seventh, and he went out in “We’re doing everything we can to repair that,” he said.

MacTavish has been around the Oilers for much of the last, lost decade, as a coach or in another front office capacity, but lashed out when a reporter tried to tie him to it its failings.

“Don’t lop me in to a situation of (previous) power and influence in the management level of this organization,” said MacTavish. “I’ve been on the job for 18 months.”

MacTavish has been criticized for leaving Eakins with little to work with at centre after Ryan Nugent-Hopkins while saddling him with subpar goalies in Ben Scrivens and Viktor Fasth.

MacTavish said it’s not easy to trade when you have so few tradeable assets.

“There are four or five (Oilers) players that would bring us significant value, (but if you trade one) we solve one (problem) and we create another.”

Captain Andrew Ference agreed with MacTavish that the players need to step up.

“As players, we all know that everybody has a role in what’s be going on,” he said. “All of us have different facets we have to work on and improve on which will collectively make us more successful.”

But fan anger this year has shifted squarely to the front office given the Oilers have drafted few meaningful players outside the first round in recent years while some Oilers players traded away flourish under other coaches and systems.

Fans have also focused their vitriol on owner Daryl Katz, who came of age cheering for MacTavish, Oilers hockey operations president Kevin Lowe, and other players during the team’s glory years in the 1980s.

Katz is too close to his old buddies and won’t pull the trigger to fix the front office, say critics.

MacTavish said no one is more upset about the Oilers’ plight than the

29 after making a 15-foot birdie putt at No. 9.

After his 7-foot birdie putt at No. 10, Reed even began “thinking in the 50s,” though that ended quickly. With a sand wedge from the rough, his ball came back off a hill behind the 12th green with so much steam that Reed begged it to “hit the microphone.” That would have been the only thing to keep it from rolling into the water, and it missed. He made bogey.

Rory McIlroy shot a 63 with Woods in the opening round at Dubai this year (Woods shot 68). Spieth played with Woods at Torrey Pines and shot 63 on the North Course (Woods shot a 71).

Woods is playing for the first time since Aug. 9 at the PGA Championship. He took nearly four months off to strengthen his muscle structure, and during the time away, he hired a new swing coach.

His swing looks fine. His short game does not.

And that’s why Reed didn’t read too much into a seven-shot advantage over Woods in their first pairing.

“He had a couple of loose shots here and there, but he knows what he’s doing,” Reed said. “When was the last time he played a competitive tournament? It’s been awhile.”

That’s not the case for Spieth or Stenson.

Spieth won by six shots last week in the Australian Open. Stenson won the World Tour Championship in Dubai the week before.

man in charge.

“I would characterize the owner as upset. He’s like a lot of our fans times 10,” he said.

The Oilers next play the San Jose Sharks at home on Sunday. ★★★ ● The Oilers are closing in on dubious history. Here is a look at record NHL and Oilers streaks: ● Longest NHL winless streak: 30 games, 1980-81 Winnipeg Jets ● Longest NHL losing streak: 17 games, 1974-75 Washington Capitals and 1992-93 San Jose Sharks ● Longest Oilers winless streak: 14 games, 1993-94 team ● Longest Oilers losing streak: 13 games, 2009-10

BENNETT: ‘This kid is going to be a special one’ “A day like today is a great day at school for Sam Bennett,” said Hartley.

“He sees the (Mark) Giordanos and company in the gym, preparing for tomorrow. Even though most of those guys didn’t skate, it was a work day, it was not a day off.”

You get the sense that if Hartley was assigning grades, Bennett’s marks so far would be pretty darn good.

“This kid is going to be a special one. He’s eager. If we would listen to him, not only would he be skating with us, he’d be playing right now. He’s champing at the bit to the point where he’s almost annoying,” Hartley said with a laugh.

With Mason Raymond (shoulder), Matt Stajan (knee), Joe Colborne

in front of your home crowd. We built that my last year here when we made the playoffs, first team that made the playoffs in Raptors history.

“It’s great to see the way it is today.

I feel good knowing that what I went through and what I witnessed to what it is now. I’m proud to say that I was a Raptor.”

The Raptors host the Denver Nuggets on Monday.

SPORTS

BRIEFS

Yankees sign lefty Miller, acquire shortstop Gregorius NEW YORK — The Yankees made their first big moves to reshape for 2015, acquiring a shortstop to replace Derek Jeter and a relief pitcher who could take over from David Robertson as closer.

As part of a three-team trade, the Yankees obtained shortstop Didi Gregorius from Arizona and dealt righthander Shane Greene to Detroit. A few hours later, they agreed to a $36 million, four-year contract with reliever Andrew Miller.

New York is uncertain whether it will re-sign Robertson, who had 39 saves in his first season after replacing retired great Mariano Rivera as closer.

A free agent, Robertson is expected to command a four-year deal at a much bigger price than Miller.

“I can’t predict yet as his free agency continues where he’s going to land,” Yankees general manager Brian Cashman said. “I certainly would not allude to the level of our participation. We’ve been in touch with his agency, and I’ll just leave it at that.”

A 29-year-old left-hander who is an imposing 6-foot-7, Miller held opponents to a .153 batting average this year while going 5-5 with a 2.02 ERA for Boston and Baltimore. He averaged 14.87 strikeouts per nine innings, second in the major leagues. (wrist) and Mikael Backlund (abdomen) all out with injuries, it has opened up playing time and Calgary’s rookies have stepped in and played significant roles.

With Johnny Gaudreau (4-16-20) second in rookie points, unheralded Josh Jooris (8-4-12) tied for third in rookie goals and Markus Granlund (3-6-9) in the top 15 in rookie scoring, it bodes well for the future.

“It’s awesome with some of the bigname guys we have out right now,” said Gaudreau. “A lot of younger guys including myself have stepped in and I think we’ve done a pretty good job so far. We’re still winning games with us younger guys in the lineup. We’re helping contribute offensively and defensively and it’s just great to see us younger guys help the team out here.”

That’s a future that will inevitably include Bennett, the Flames’ highest draft pick in team history. “(Bennett) being here is going to be a good experience for him,” said sophomore centre Sean Monahan, who’s second on the team with 10 goals. “He’s going to be learning a lot just by being around the dressing room.”

Monahan played against Bennett in junior and knows the calibre of player the Flames have on their hands.

“Obviously, we’ve seen him in the pre-season and what he can do,” he said. He’s going to get confidence being here and knowing what some of the young guys are doing and he’s going to be a great player for us.

“It’s going to be a bright future and it’s going to be a good team here for a long time.”

Notes: The Flames will kick off a four-game Eastern trip on Tuesday night in Toronto. They’ll bring Bennett along with them and he’ll stay at home in nearby Holland Landing until early January when he meets again with his surgeon. After that appointment, he’ll make his way back to Calgary.

SCOREBOARD Local Sports ● 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.

Golf HERO WORLD CHALLENGE At Isleworth Golf and Country Club Windermere, Fla. Purse: $3.5 million Yardage: 7,354; Par: 72 Second Round Henrik Stenson 67-68-135 Patrick Reed 73-63-136 Justin Rose 72-64-136 Bubba Watson 69-68-137 Jimmy Walker 68-69-137 Rickie Fowler 67-70-137 Jason Day 71-67-138 Keegan Bradley 72-66-138 Chris Kirk 70-68-138 Zach Johnson 67-71-138 Matt Kuchar 69-70-139 Hideki Matsuyama 68-73-141 Graeme McDowell 68-73-141 Hunter Mahan 71-71-142 Billy Horschel 73-72-145 Tiger Woods 77-70-147 NEDBANK CHALLENGE Friday At Gary Player Country Club Sun City, South Africa Purse: $6.5 million Yardage: 7,831; Par: 72 (36-36) Second Round Luke Donald 71-63-134 Ross Fisher 66-70-136 Alexander Levy 68-70-138 Danny Willett 71-68-139 Marcel Siem 68-72-140 Tommy Fleetwood 74-67-141 Brendon Todd 73-68-141 Thongchai Jaidee 71-70-141 Charl Schwartzel 70-71-141 Tim Clark 70-71-141 Lee Westwood 72-70-142 George Coetzee 68-74-142 Stephen Gallacher 70-73-143 Louis Oosthuizen 70-73-143 Pablo Larrazabal 73-71-144 Shane Lowry 72-72-144 Jonas Blixt 71-73-144 Brooks Koepka 70-74-144 Miguel Angel Jimenez 70-74-144 Dawie Van der Walt 73-72-145 Kiradech Aphibarnrat 72-73-145 Joost Luiten 72-74-146 Marc Warren 75-73-148 Jaco Ahlers 74-75-149 Martin Kaymer 74-75-149 Kevin Na 77-73-150 Thomas Bjorn 80-72-152 Mikko Ilonen 76-78-154 Danie van Tonder 77-78-155 Jamie Donaldson 74-WD

Basketball

Friday’s Games Oklahoma City 103, Philadelphia 91 Washington 119, Denver 89 Charlotte 103, New York 102 Cleveland 105, Toronto 91 Boston 113, L.A. Lakers 96 Atlanta 98, Brooklyn 75 San Antonio 107, Memphis 101 Houston 114, Minnesota 112, OT Phoenix 118, Dallas 106 Milwaukee 109, Miami 85 Orlando 98, Utah 93 Indiana at Sacramento, 8 p.m.

Today’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.

Sunday’s Games Washington at Boston, 11 a.m.

Denver at Atlanta, 1:30 p.m.

Miami at Memphis, 4 p.m.

Oklahoma City at Detroit, 4 p.m.

Milwaukee at Dallas, 5:30 p.m.

Portland at New York, 5:30 p.m.

New Orleans at L.A. Lakers, 7:30 p.m.

SATURDAY, DEC. 6, 2014

Hockey

Today

NBA EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct Toronto 15 5 .750 Brooklyn 8 10 .444 Boston 6 11 .353 New York 4 17 .190 Philadelphia 1 18 .053 Southeast Division W L Pct Washington 13 5 .722 Atlanta 12 6 .667 Miami 9 10 .474 Orlando 8 14 .364 Charlotte 5 15 .250 Central Division W L Pct Chicago 12 7 .632 Cleveland 11 7 .611 Milwaukee 11 10 .524 Indiana 7 12 .368 Detroit 3 16 .158 WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct Houston 15 4 .789 Memphis 15 4 .789 San Antonio 14 5 .737 Dallas 15 6 .714 New Orleans 8 9 .471 Northwest Division W L Pct Portland 15 4 .789 Denver 9 10 .474 Oklahoma City 6 13 .316 Utah 5 15 .250 Minnesota 4 14 .222 Pacific Division W L Pct Golden State 16 2 .889 L.A. Clippers 13 5 .722 Phoenix 12 8 .600 Sacramento 9 9 .500 L.A. Lakers 5 15 .250

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GB 6 7 1/2 11 1/2 13 1/2 GB 1 4 1/2 7 9 GB 1/2 2 5 9 GB 1 1 6 GB 6 9 10 1/2 10 1/2 GB 3 5 7 12

WHL EASTERN CONFERENCE EAST DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Brandon 30 21 7 2 0 137 99 Regina 29 18 10 1 0 105 78 Swift Current 31 15 12 0 4 93 96 Prince Albert 28 14 14 0 0 89 94 Moose Jaw 28 12 13 2 1 81 93 Saskatoon 29 7 20 2 0 77 135 CENTRAL DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Medicine Hat 27 19 6 1 1 102 65 Red Deer 30 15 11 3 1 107 102 Calgary 29 15 11 1 2 110 89 Edmonton 29 14 10 3 2 89 77 Kootenay 29 14 15 0 0 87 111 Lethbridge 28 6 18 3 1 65 113

Pt 44 37 34 28 27 16 Pt 40 34 33 33 28 16

WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Pt Kelowna 29 23 3 3 0 134 69 49 Victoria 31 15 14 2 0 101 106 32 Kamloops 30 12 13 3 2 92 103 29 Prince George 28 13 15 0 0 84 118 26 Vancouver 28 10 18 0 0 84 102 20 U.S. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Pt Everett 26 17 5 3 1 90 68 38 Portland 30 15 12 0 3 102 109 33 Spokane 27 14 10 3 0 73 75 31 Tri-City 27 15 12 0 0 75 70 30 Seattle 27 11 12 2 2 70 75 26 z-league title; y-conference title;d-division leader; xclinched playoff berth. Note: Division leaders ranked in top three positions per conference regardless of points; a team winning in overtime or shootout is credited with two points and a victory in the W column; the team losing in overtime or shootout receives one point which is registered in the OTL or SOL columns Friday’s results Swift Current 5 Lethbridge 2 Regina 3 Brandon 2 Spokane at Kootenay, 7 p.m.

Red Deer 2 Moose Jaw 1 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.

Wednesday, Dec. 10 Brandon at Moose Jaw, 6 p.m.

Regina at Swift Current, 6 p.m.

Kamloops at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Kelowna at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.

Prince Albert at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

Thursday, Dec. 11 Kamloops at Red Deer, 7 p.m.

Friday, Dec. 12 Moose Jaw at Saskatoon, 6:05 p.m.

Swift Current at Brandon, 6:30 p.m.

Prince Albert at Kootenay, 7 p.m.

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

Spokane at Portland, 8 p.m.

Vancouver at Victoria, 8:05 p.m.

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

Prince George at Everett, 8:35 p.m.

FRIDAY’S SUMMARIES Rebels 2, Warriors 1 First Period 1. Moose Jaw, Rodewald 14 (Valentine, Point) 13:22.

2. Red Deer, Bleackley 9 (Sheen, Pawlenchuk) 13:58.

Penalties - Musil RD (elbowing) 19:42.

Second Period 3. Red Deer, Bleackley 10 (Sandhu) 2:30 (pp).

Penalties - Jensen MJ (hooking) 1:21, Yakubowski MJ (fighting) 3:30, Musil RD (fighting) 3:30, Eberle MJ (hooking) 6:00, Grman RD (hooking) 10:02.

Third Period No Scoring.

Penalties - Fleury RD (hooking) 10:22.

Shots on goal by Moose Jaw 7 5 5 - 17 Red Deer 12 7 10 - 29 Goal - Moose Jaw: Paulic (L, 5-5-1); Red Deer: Toth (W, 13-8-3).

Power plays (goal-chances) - Moose Jaw: 0-3; Red Deer: 1-2.

Referees - Reid Anderson, Jason Cramer.

Linesmen - Cody Huseby, Tyler Jensen.

Attendance - 5,081 at Red Deer.

NHL EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF Tampa Bay 27 18 6 3 39 97 Montreal 28 17 9 2 36 73 Detroit 26 15 6 5 35 82 Toronto 25 13 9 3 29 84 Boston 27 14 12 1 29 67 Florida 24 10 7 7 27 53 Ottawa 25 10 10 5 25 64 Buffalo 26 9 15 2 20 45 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts GF N.Y. Islanders 26 19 7 0 38 82 Pittsburgh 25 17 6 2 36 82 N.Y. Rangers 24 11 9 4 26 71 Washington 25 11 10 4 26 70 New Jersey 26 10 12 4 24 63

Today’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.

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.

Philadelphia 25 8 13 4 20 66 81 Carolina 25 8 14 3 19 57 71 Columbus 25 8 15 2 18 58 87 WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Nashville 25 17 6 2 36 69 51 Chicago 26 17 8 1 35 82 52 St. Louis 26 16 8 2 34 70 59 Winnipeg 27 14 9 4 32 61 60 Minnesota 25 14 10 1 29 71 61 Colorado 27 9 12 6 24 72 89 Dallas 26 9 12 5 23 75 94 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Anaheim 28 17 6 5 39 81 76 Vancouver 26 18 7 1 37 82 69 Calgary 27 17 8 2 36 87 69 Los Angeles 26 14 7 5 33 71 57 San Jose 27 13 10 4 30 77 75 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.

Tuesday, Dec. 9 Medicine Hat at Kootenay, 7 p.m.

Saskatoon at Prince George, 8 p.m.

Prince Albert at Victoria, 8:05 p.m.

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

GA 69 72 67 77 70 62 68 82 GA 68 58 70 70 75

Friday’s Games Anaheim 5, Minnesota 4 Winnipeg 6, Colorado 2 Chicago 4, Montreal 3 Today’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.

Sunday’s Games Anaheim at Winnipeg, 1 p.m.

Detroit at Carolina, 3 p.m.

Vancouver at Ottawa, 5 p.m.

San Jose at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

FRIDAY’S SUMMARIES Jets 6, Avalanche 2 First Period 1. Winnipeg, Thorburn 1 (Postma, Pardy) 4:31.

2. Colorado, Iginla 5 (Landeskog) 9:19.

3. Winnipeg, Little 9 (Wheeler) 12:29.

Penalties - Stollery Col (boarding) 1:04, Landeskog Col (interference) 19:48.

Second Period 4. Winnipeg, Ladd 9 (Chiarot, Little) 19:15.

Penalties - Ladd Wpg (hooking) 3:39, McLeod Col (stick holding) 3:39, Duchene Col (goaltender interference) 3:48.

Third Period 5. Winnipeg, Little 10 (Wheeler) :45.

6. Winnipeg, Little 11 (Ladd, Wheeler) 1:17.

7. Colorado, Iginla 6 (Redmond, Landeskog) 10:24 (pp).

8. Winnipeg, Byfuglien 6 (unassisted) 13:20.

Penalties - Peluso Wpg (tripping) 3:59, Pardy Wpg (tripping) 5:46, Slater Wpg (fighting) 6:09, Talbot Col (fighting) 6:09, Talbot Col (roughing) 6:09,

Slater Wpg (roughing) 6:09, Trouba Wpg (roughing) 6:09, Peluso Wpg (misconduct) 6:09, McLeod Col (misconduct) 6:09, Sgarbossa Col (misconduct) 9:59, Pardy Wpg (misconduct) 9:59, Pardy Wpg (holding) 9:59.

Shots on goal by Colorado 4 5 13 - 22 Winnipeg 16 10 11 - 37 Goal (shots-saves) - Colorado: Varlamov (L, 4-6-5) (30-25), Berra (1:17 third, 7-6); Winnipeg: Hutchinson (W, 5-1-2).

Blackhawks 4, Canadiens 3 First Period 1. Chicago, Rozsival 1 (Bickell, Shaw) 2:13.

2. Chicago, Smith 2 (Kruger, Nordstrom) 18:16.

3. Montreal, Gallagher 7 (Galchenyuk, Plekanec) 18:42.

Penalties - Shaw Chi (cross-checking) 14:52, Gonchar Mtl (interference) 19:11.

Second Period 4. Montreal, Gonchar 1 (Gallagher, Emelin) 7:58.

5. Montreal, Subban 7 (Markov, Desharnais) 17:22 (pp).

Penalties - Subban Mtl (high-sticking) 0:16, Richards Chi (interference) 1:59, Hossa Chi (tripping) 13:40, Kane Chi (tripping) 17:09, Emelin Mtl (tripping) 20:00.

Third Period 6. Chicago, Toews 11 (Richards, Versteeg) 4:18 (pp).

7. Chicago, Saad 5 (Kane, Toews) 19:33.

Penalties - Subban Mtl (hooking) 4:05.

Shots on goal by Montreal 14 11 16 - 41 Chicago 12 12 12 - 36 Goal - Montreal: Price (L, 14-7-1); Chicago: Raanta (W, 3-2-0).

Ducks 5, Wild 4 First Period 1. Anaheim, Kesler 7 (Palmieri, Fowler) 1:31.

2. Anaheim, Silfverberg 2 (Cogliano, Smith-Pelly) 11:44.

Penalties - Zucker Minn (unsportsmanlike conduct) 9:26, Ballard Minn (fighting) 11:28, Thompson Ana (fighting) 11:28, Manson Ana (cross-checking) 12:10.

Second Period 3. Anaheim, Kesler 8 (Lindholm, Jackman) 2:28.

4. Minnesota, Koivu 4 (Granlund, Scandella) 4:59 (pp).

5. Minnesota, Parise 10 (Granlund, Brodin) 5:10 (pp).

6. Minnesota, Brodin 1 (Pominville, Parise) 17:49.

Penalties - Getzlaf Ana (delay of game) 3:57, Kesler Ana (high-sticking) 4:25, Parise Minn (holding) 15:31, Manson Ana (hooking) 18:47, Minn Bench (too many men) 19:49.

Third Period 7. Minnesota, Fontaine 2 (Brodziak, Prosser) 2:07.

8. Anaheim, Jackman 2 (Kesler) 3:37.

9. Anaheim, Beleskey 13 (Getzlaf, Palmieri) 8:28.

Penalties - Parise Minn (tripping) 19:19.

Shots on goal by Anaheim 7 8 6 - 21 Minnesota 4 11 10 - 25 Goal (shots-saves) - Anaheim: Andersen (W, 13-44); Minnesota: Kuemper (L, 11-8-0)(18-13), Backstrom (8:28 third, 3-3).

Transactions BASEBALL American League NEW YORK YANKEES — Traded RHP Shane Greene to Detroit, which sent LHP Robbie Ray and INF Domingo Leyba to Arizona. Arizona sent SS Didi Gregorius to the Yankees. Agreed to terms with LHP Andrew Miller on a four-year contract.

TAMPA BAY RAYS — Named Kevin Cash manager.

National League ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — Named Deric Ladnier director of scouting.

CHICAGO CUBS — Announced the retirement of RHP Ryan Dempster, who will become special assistant to the president and general manager.

LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Claimed C Ryan Lavarnway off waivers from Boston. Designated C Drew Butera for assignment.

NEW YORK METS — Named Chris Zaber vicepresident, ticket sales and services.

SAN DIEGO PADRES — Agreed to terms with SS Clint Barmes on a one-year contract.

American Association GARY SOUTHSHORE RAILCATS — Signed INF Zac Mitchell.

WICHITA WINGNUTS — Signed 1B Chris Garcia.

Can-Am League OTTAWA CHAMPIONS — Signed INF Ryan Lashley.

ROCKLAND BOULDERS — Re-signed manager Jamie Keefe to a one-year contract.

Frontier League

SOUTHERN ILLINOIS MINERS — Signed INFs Chris Burke and Steve Marino to contract extensions.

TRAVERSE CITY BEACH BUMS — Named Dominick Gaudioso hitting coach.

Pioneer League BILLINGS MUSTANGS — Announced the club has been sold to Main Street Baseball, LLC. BASKETBALL National Basketball Association DETROIT PISTONS — Assigned F Tony Mitchell to Grand Rapids (NBADL).

NEW ORLEANS PELICANS — Signed G Gal Mekel.

PHILADELPHIA 76ERS — Signed G Malcolm Lee from Delaware (NBADL) FOOTBALL National Football League NFL — Fined Buffalo LB Nigel Bradham $16,537, Kansas City TE Travis Kelce $11,025 and Cleveland G John Greco $8,268 for their actions during last week’s games.

ARIZONA CARDINALS — Activated LB Matt Shaughnessy from injured reserve. Signed RB Kerwynn Williams from the practice squad. Released RB Michael Bush and TE Matthew Mulligan.

CAROLINA PANTHERS — Signed TE Kevin Greene to the practice squad.

CHICAGO BEARS — Placed WR Chris Williams on injured reserve.

DENVER BRONCOS — Released DE Gerald

Rivers from the practice squad.

ST. LOUIS RAMS — Signed P Johnny Hekker to a six-year contract extension.

SAN DIEGO CHARGERS — Signed G Bryce Quigley to the practice squad.

TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS — Released offensive co-ordinator Jeff Tedford from his contract.

Canadian Football League SASKATCHEWAN ROUGHRIDERS — Announced the retirement of QB Kerry Joseph.

HOCKEY National Hockey League NHLPA — Announced the retirement of RW George Parros.

ARIZONA COYOTES — Traded F Rob Klinkhammer and a conditional 2016 fifth-round draft pick to Pittsburgh for D Philip Samuelsson. Recalled D Andrew Campbell and F Jordan Martinook from Portland (AHL). Assigned D David Schlemko to Portland.

CAROLINA HURRICANES — Reassigned G Drew MacIntyre to Charlotte (AHL).

LOS ANGELES KINGS — Assigned F Andy Andreoff to Manchester (AHL) for conditioning.

MINNESOTA WILD — Assigned F Raphael Bussieres and G Johan Gustafsson from Iowa (AHL) to Alaska (ECHL).

NEW YORK ISLANDERS — Called up D Ryan Pulock from Bridgeport (AHL) under emergency conditions.

American Hockey League MILWAUKEE ADMIRALS — Recalled F Joe

Pendenza from Cincinnati (ECHL).

PROVIDENCE BRUINS — Recalled F Andrew Ammon from South Carolina (ECHL).

ST. JOHN’S ICECAPS — Recalled D Ralfs Freibergs from Ontario (ECHL).

WILKES-BARRE/SCRANTON PENGUINS Recalled D Alex Boak and Clark Seymour from Wheeling (ECHL).

ECHL ALASKA ACES — Released F Andy Bathgate and G Andy Iles.

BRAMPTON BEAST — Signed D Frank Littlejohn.

EVANSVILLE ICEMEN - Claimed F Colin Murray off waivers from Kalamazoo.

FLORIDA EVERBLADES — Added G Jason Burriss as emergency backup.

ORLANDO SOLAR BEARS — Released F Derek Elliott.

SOUTH CAROLINA STINGRAYS — Signed D Scott Ford.

UTAH GRIZZLIES — Added G Brent Troyan as emergency backup.

COLLEGE COLUMBIA — Announced the resignation of Pete Mangurian football coach.

KANSAS — Named David Beaty football coach.

NEBRASKA — Signed football coach Mike Riley to a five-year contract.

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PA 253 232 217 319

PF 382 287 213 186

PA 283 247 338 329

PF 260 328 320 252

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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

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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.

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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

Canadians first and second at skicross World Cup WORLD CUP SEASON OPENS WITH RACES IN ALBERTA

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS NAKISKA — Olympic champion Marielle Thompson posted the top qualifying time Friday for the season-opening skicross World Cup at Nakiska Ski Area.

Thompson, from Whistler, B.C., had a time of one minute 10.50 seconds. She was followed by teammate Georgia Simmerling of North Vancouver, B.C., in 1:11.07.

“I still feel like I could have been better in a few spots, but it was overall really good,” said Thompson. “I felt like I fixed my mistakes in my training runs, so that was good. There’s a smaller field here than most World Cups, but the Europeans all bring their strongest racers so it’ll be a good field.”

The top 16 women advanced to Saturday’s elimination heats, which will feature four skiers racing each other down a course of turns, jumps and bumps.

“I’m definitely looking forward to racing now that qualifying’s over,” said Thompson, who won her second career Crystal Globe as overall World Cup champion last season.

Like Thompson, Simmerling is looking forward to testing her skills against top-flight international competition.

“We’re both super-pumped to get in the gates with other girls, where it counts,” said Simmerling.

“I think (a medal) can definitely happen and I’m going to keep skiing smart and clean and fast. Hopefully that’s what’s going to happen.”

Switzerland’s Fanny Smith finished third in qualifying while Sweden’s Anna Holmlund and Sandra Naeslund rounded out the top five. Smith won the inaugural World Cup race at Nakiska two years ago before finishing second behind Thompson

Hernandez asks judge to bar evidence from 2012 killing for his 2013 murder trial BOSTON — Former New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez has asked a judge to bar prosecutors from telling a jury at his upcoming murder trial about evidence of his other alleged crimes, including the fatal shootings of two Boston men in 2012.

last year.

In the men’s qualifiers, Calgary’s Brady Leman finished fourth in 1:08.16.

“I just had a mistake at the bottom of the course,” Leman said. “It’s so tight, you can’t have any mistakes, but the rest of the run was OK so I guess we’ll see.”

After training hard in the off-season, Leman is hoping to improve upon his third-place showing in Nakiska last year.

“It’s a lot of work to get back here every year,” he said. “The first one is always so intense. It’s going to be important to get out quick, for sure.”

Austria’s Johannes Rohrweck had the fastest qualification run of the day in 1:07.91. Teammate Anton Grimus and French skier Jean Frederic Chapuis rounded out the top three.

Montreal’s Chris Del Bosco finished ninth in a time of 1:08.46 to also advance to Saturday’s races.

“I was looking forward to a good start here - have a decent qualifier and then it’s a whole different ball game,” Del Bosco said. “I’m fired up for the season. I worked really hard this summer. Now it’s time for the fun. We put in all that work, so we can have fun all year. Hopefully that will translate into some good results.”

Four other Canadian men also made the 32-skier cut.

David Duncan of London, Ont., was 17th in 1:08.80, Ian Deans of Kelowna, B.C., was 19th in 1:08.83, Tristan Tafel of Canmore, Alta., was 22nd in 1:09.05, while Louis-Pierre Helie of Berthierville, Que., was 28th in 1:09.22.

In a motion filed Friday, Hernandez’s lawyers argued that any evidence of so-called “bad acts” are not relevant to the murder charge against him in the 2013 killing of semi-professional football player Odin Lloyd. Hernandez’s trial in that case is scheduled to begin next month in Fall River Superior Court.

Hernandez’s lawyers said evidence about the double slaying in Boston in 2012 and other alleged crimes would risk “undue prejudice” against Hernandez in the Lloyd trial.

Hernandez has pleaded not guilty in all three slayings.

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Halak a stabilizing force in goal for Islanders SET FRANCHISE RECORD FOR GOALIE WIN STREAK WITH 11 STRAIGHT

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA - Maybe Jaroslav Halak just needed to feel wanted.

First the goaltender was second fiddle to Carey Price in Montreal then got pushed out in St. Louis for Ryan Miller. Nothing more than a rental in Washington, Halak last June heard from a team that wanted to turn the reins over to him and invest in him for the long term.

Now the New York Islanders are atop the Metropolitan Division, riding the wave of Halak’s all-star-calibre play during his franchise record 11-game winning streak.

“This team showed interest in me and interest in signing me,” Halak said. “Interest was on both sides, and I’m glad it worked out well.”

It has worked out for the first-place Islanders because general manager Garth Snow was willing to trade a fourth-round pick for Halak’s rights two weeks after the regular season ended and even more willing to give him a long-term contract. Halak did his homework on the Islanders, talking to current and former players, and ultimately signed a US$18-million, fouryear deal.

The season is only 26 games old, but so far that looks like a bargain. At 14-4-0 with a 2.05 goals-against average and .926 save percentage, the former Canadien has stabilized the goaltending position that has gone through so much recent change and fits of inconsistency.

“Since I’ve been here, we’ve gone through a lot of goalies, and they’ve been quality goaltenders,” coach Jack Capuano said. “But to know that we have a couple guys now back there and hopefully we can stay healthy, it’s been a big plus for our hockey club.”

Capuano is referencing backup Chad Johnson, too, but the onus really has been on Halak to shoulder the load for New York. The way the schedule sets up - the Islanders only have one back-to-back for the next month - the fifth-year head coach can’t help but want to keep putting Halak on the ice.

On Thursday night, the 29-year-old Slovak beat the Ottawa Senators to break Billy Smith’s franchise record of consecutive victories with his 11th.

“It’s great to see him break the record and he deserves it,” Capuano said. “He’s working real hard and he’s enjoying himself between the pipes right now.”

Halak has an intense demeanour on the ice, something captain John Tavares notices when Cal Clutterbuck shoots high on him early in practice.

Halak doesn’t take too kindly to that.

“I think you can just tell by his facial expressions,” Tavares said.

Maybe Halak doesn’t smile too much, but he’s loving life with the Islanders, who are a world away from where they were a year ago. Back then they were losers of 10 in a row during a season in which they didn’t get great goaltending from Evgeni Nabokov, Anders Nilsson or Kevin Poulin.

These Islanders underwent significant off-season changes. Snow signed former Maple Leafs forwards Mikhail Grabovski and Nikolai Kulemin, then a few days before opening night traded for defencemen Johnny Boychuk and Nick Leddy.

Quite simply, this is a better team all over the ice.

“We just play a good poised game, and we have a lot of depth, so we’re able to come at teams with every line and all our D,” Tavares said. “We just want to put teams on their heels. We want to play with the puck, obviously.

I think the more energy you’ve got to

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New York Islanders goaltender Jaroslav Halak blocks the puck with his face mask as teammate Griffin Rienhart and Ottawa Senators’ Milan Michalek look on during second period NHL hockey action in Ottawa Thursday. spend to try to get it back, I think it makes it tough for the other team to generate offence, generate opportunities.”

Tavares pointed out there’s “no panic” in Halak’s game and likewise no panic on the bench or in the lockerroom in difficult situations, unlike last season. There’s little doubt the Islanders feed off their No. 1 goaltender.

“Everyone sort of plays like Jaro a bit,” defenceman Thomas Hickey said.

“He’s quiet in the net and I think it rubs off on us. ... When any goalie’s playing on their game it makes it really easy on the team.”

Things haven’t exactly been easy lately, even as the Islanders have been

on a roll. Just four of their past nine victories have come in regulation.

That speaks to some strong play in close games but also to New York’s slim margin for error. Halak plays a part in that because he’s not prone to giving up soft goals.

“He makes every save he should,” Hickey said. “You don’t see him making the 10-bell save because he’s always in position, he doesn’t need to.”

During this winning streak, which will be on the line Saturday against the St. Louis Blues, Halak has stopped 275 of the 289 shots he has faced (.952 save percentage) and put up a 1.24 GAA. Capuano said Halak was “dialed in.”

Tampa turns to former big league catcher Cash REPLACES LONG TIME MANAGER MADDON WHO OPTED OUT OF HIS CONTRACT

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

In this Feb. 12, 2013, file photo, Cleveland Indians manager Terry Francona, left, and bullpen coach Kevin Cash watch during spring training baseball in Goodyear, Ariz. Cash was hired as the new manager of the Tampa Bay Rays on Friday. but was fired in August of the following season when Seattle stumbled to a 42-70 start.

Former Rays bench coach Dave Martinez, onetime Indians manager Many Acta, Hall of Famer Barry Larkin, San Francisco Giants bench coach Ron Wotus, Rays minor league manager Charlie Montoyo and ex-major league players Craig Counsell and Doug Glanville rounded out a list 10 initial candidates for the job.

Madden opted out of the final year of his contract after Friedman left the Rays for the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Tampa Bay went 754-705 in nine seasons under Maddon, making the playoffs four of the past seven seasons, winning two AL East championship and the 2008 AL pennant - all while operating under the constraints of one of baseball’s lowest payrolls.

The Rays finished 77-85 this year, ending a stretch of six consecutive winning seasons. Maddon was under contract through 2015, but exercised an option to leave when talks on a new deal broke down.

Feared pugilist Parros hangs up his skates TORONTO - Veteran forward George Parros announced his retirement Friday after nine NHL seasons.

Parros played for the Los Angeles Kings, Colorado Avalanche, Anaheim Ducks, Florida Panthers and Montreal Canadiens over his career. He had 36 points (18 goals, 18 assists) and 1,092 penalty minutes over 474 regular-season games.

“It’s been an honour to play in the greatest league in the world,” Parros said in a release issued by the NHL Players’ Association. “Thanks to the organizations I’ve had the good fortune to play for, especially to the Samueli and Molson families. I’ve had the most amazing support from all of the fans who have supported my many endeavours throughout my career, for that I am eternally grateful.

“A final thank you to my parents Jim and Lynne, my wife Tiffany and my children who have made this dream of

mine a reality.”

Known for his trademark moustache and long hair, Parros became a fan favourite for his tough style of play and his ability to protect teammates on the ice. He made his biggest impact during his run of five-plus seasons with the Ducks and won a Stanley Cup with Anaheim in 2007.

The 34-year-old native of Washington, Pa., was drafted by the Kings in the eighth round (No. 222) of the 1999 NHL Entry Draft.

For an old-fashioned family Christmas celebration, there’s no better way to start than with a fun family outing to cut down your own Christmas tree on public land.

Christmas tree permits are now available online at esrd.alberta.ca (Clearwater Region) as well as these locations: Caroline Caroline Supplies - 5116-50 Ave. Cow Lake Grandview Stage - Hwy 752 South Nordegg RaceTrac Gas Red Deer Sportsmen’s Den - #6, 7667-50th Ave. Wolverine Guns & Tackle - 411 37400 Hwy 2 Rimbey Outdoors Inc. Inc. -- 5043-50 5043-50 Ave. Ave. Game on On Outdoors Rocky Mountain House Canadian Tire Ltd. - 5440-46 St. Sundre Zim’s Mini Mart - 205 Main Ave. W.

A SCRATCH TICKET ISN’T A GIFT FOR MINORS.

Environment and Sustainable Resource Development Rocky Mountain House Red Deer Sundre Your permit allows you to cut up to three Christmas trees from designated areas. Get your permit for $5 plus GST.

In Alberta, minors (any person under the age of 18) are prohibited from participating in provincial gambling activities. These include purchasing, playing or cashing in lottery tickets.

For more information, call the Environment and Sustainable Resource Development office at 403-845-8250.

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To learn more, visit aglc.ca

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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Kevin Cash is the new manager of the Tampa Bay Rays.

The team announced the former Cleveland Indians bullpen coach as Joe Maddon’s replacement on Friday, selecting him over ex-Seattle Mariners manager and current Kansas City Royals bench coach Don Wakamatsu.

Cash, who turns 37 on Saturday, has no previous managerial experience. The former big-league catcher, who appeared in 13 games with Tampa Bay in 2005, served as Cleveland’s bullpen coach for the past two seasons and becomes the youngest active manager in the majors.

Veteran outfielder Raul Ibanez, who is still an active player, was the third finalist for the job. He withdrew his name from consideration this week.

Maddon opted out of his contract with Rays on Oct. 24, later joining the Chicago Cubs as their new manager.

Rays principal owner Stuart Sternberg said Cash’s “energy and dynamic personality will fit seamlessly with our clubhouse.”

President of baseball operations Matt Silverman, who led the search, echoed that sentiment.

“Kevin is passionate, genuine and dedicated, and those attributes will resonate throughout our clubhouse,” Silverman said. “As a catcher, a scout and a coach, he has always been a student of the game, and his communication and tireless work will put our club in a position to win, night in and night out.”

Wakamatsu was the only candidate among the finalists with prior managerial experience at any level, having gone 127-147 in one-plus season as the Mariners’ skipper in 2009 and 2010.

Ibanez, 42, batted .167 with five homers and 26 RBIs in his 19th major league season and is still considered an active player appearing in 90 games with the Royals and Los Angeles Angels. He removed himself from consideration before a scheduled interview Thursday with Silverman, who’s had a busy first six weeks as Andrew Friedman’s successor as the Rays’ top baseball executive.

A Tampa native, Cash is not a stranger to the AL East after playing all but 20 games of an eight-year big league career with the Toronto Blue Jays, Boston Red Sox, New York Yankees and Rays.

Before joining the Indians in 2013, Cash spent one season as a major league advance scout for the Blue Jays.

Wakamatsu, 51, has spent 10 seasons as a bench coach with the Royals, Blue Jays, Oakland Athletics and Texas Rangers. The Mariners went 85-77 in 2009,

B8 RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, Dec. 6, 2014

Missouri looks to be ultimate SEC spoiler ALABAMA PLAYS FOR SPOT IN PLAYOFF

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ATLANTA — Alabama is right where it always seems to be — playing for a title.

For Missouri, this is also becoming the norm.

The top-ranked Crimson Tide (11-1) will be trying to lock up a spot in college football’s inaugural playoff when it takes on the No. 14 Tigers (10-2) in the Southeastern Conference championship game Saturday.

In what passed for a rebuilding year in Tuscaloosa, Alabama survived the brutal SEC West to make it to Atlanta for the fourth time in the last seven years under coach Nick Saban.

If the Tide knocks off Missouri — and Alabama is a two-touchdown favourite — the next game will likely be on New Year’s Day at the Sugar Bowl in a national semifinal.

Rest assured, Saban will make sure his players aren’t looking ahead.

“What’s special about this one is you get a chance to run for a ring, an SEC championship ring, and be named conference champion,” safety Landon Collins said. “It’s going to be one of the best games you play in.”

Missouri is back at the Georgia Dome for the second year in a row as SEC East champions.

Not bad for a school that’s only been in the league for three years.

“Any team that can repeat and represent the East, they’re a great team and a great program,” Alabama’s Nick Perry said. “We’re definitely not overlooking these guys.”

Missouri also went to the Big 12 title game in 2007 and 2008, before shifting to the SEC. But, while the Tigers keep getting close to the prize, they haven’t been able to win an outright conference title since 1960. They were blown out by Oklahoma in their two Big 12 appearances, and couldn’t keep up with Auburn in last year’s SEC championship game, losing 59-42.

After going 5-7 its first year in the

Kings of the castle The Kingsmen toppled Carstar 99-93 in a Central Alberta Senior Men’s Basketball Association game Thursday.

Dario Viveros scored 31 points to pace the winners.

Grizzlys fall short OLDS — Mason Mitchell tallied twice Friday to lead the Calgary Mustangs to a 5-3 Alberta Junior Hockey League win over the Olds Grizzlys.

Also scoring for the visitors before 503 fans at the Sportsplex were Kurtis Rutledge, Spencer Johnston and Scott Salberg. The teams were tied 1-1 after one period and the Grizzlys led 3-2 after 40 minutes before giving up three unanswered third-period goals.

Jade McMullen, with two, and Ty Mappin scored for Olds, which got a 38-save performance from Jesse Gordichuk. Mustangs netminder Ravi Dattani stopped 26 shots.

Raonic named Tennis Canada’s male player of the year TORONTO — Milos Raonic was named Tennis Canada male player of the year on Friday, taking the honour for the fourth year in a row.

Raonic, from Thornhill, Ont., made his first career Grand Slam semifinal last season and qualified for the ATP World Tour Finals for the first time.

The world No. 8 was also named Ten-

SEC, Missouri has beaten out more traditional football powers such as Georgia and Florida the last two seasons to make an immediate mark in its new home.

“I’m one of those guys that goes in thinking I’m going to win every game every year as a coach,” Pinkel said Friday. “After the first year (in the SEC), I probably would have questioned that a little bit. We had a lot of injuries.

But we’ve been very, very healthy the last couple years, which has certainly helped us.”

Of course, no one has ruled the college football landscape like Alabama since Saban took over the program in 2007. His first year was a struggle, but since then the Tide has gone 83-10 with three national championships and two SEC crowns.

“Bear Bryant, Woody Hayes, a lot of the coaches, great, great coaches ... most of those guys had 95, 105, 115 scholarships at least a portion of their career. I don’t know that anybody has done as consistent a job at coaching with 85 scholarships as Nick Saban has,” Pinkel said.

Some things to watch for when Alabama faces Missouri: BAMA’S DYNAMIC OFFENSE — The Tide can win in a bunch of different ways, whether it’s throwing to WR Amari Cooper (103 receptions, 1,573 yards, 14 touchdowns) or handing off to the running back duo of T.J. Yeldon and Derrick Henry (who have combined for 1,639 yards and 16 touchdowns). Senior quarterback Blake Sims has come up big in his only year as start, and the line has surrendered only 11 sacks.

MIZZOU’S QUESTIONABLE OFFENSE — While Alabama has been an offensive juggernaut, Missouri has endured some rocky times with the ball in its hands. Quarterback Maty Mauk threw four interceptions in the Tigers’ only SEC loss, a 34-0 blowout at home by Georgia. They had to grind out wins the last three weeks against Texas A&M, Tennessee and Arkansas, moving the ball effectively but not exnis Canada’s most improved male player.

Wimbledon doubles champion Vasek Pospisil was named male doubles player of the year. He teamed with American Jack Sock to win the title at the All England Club last summer.

“I am so impressed by how Milos has composed himself throughout his career and how he is able to get better and better every year,” Tennis Canada president Kelly Murumets said in a release. “He continues to outdo himself and he put together an extraordinary season, one of the best for a Canadian tennis player ever. He and Vasek are both excellent role models to our growing base of tennis fans in Canada, and I wish them both the best in their very bright futures. Congratulations to Milos and Vasek on absolutely incredible years.”

Eugenie Bouchard of Westmount, Que., was named female player of the year earlier in the week.

Women’s World Cup downhill season opens LAKE LOUISE — Tina Maze of Slovenia won the first women’s World Cup downhill of the season Friday at the Lake Louise Ski Resort.

The double Olympic gold medallist finished first in one minute 50.98 seconds.

Anna Fenninger of Austria was second in 1:51.43 and Tina Weirather of Liechtenstein was third in 1:51.49.

American Lindsey Vonn was eighth and Larisa Yurkiw of Owen Sound, Ont., was 22nd.

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Alabama head coach Nick Saban tracks his defensive backs as they work through drills during an Alabama NCAA college football practice, Tuesday. actly dominating.

THE SABAN FACTOR — Saban is an imposing figure to any opponent, and Saturday’s game will be no different. His defensive adjustments are the stuff of legend, so even if the Tigers have some success in the first two quarters they’ll have to be prepared for a totally different look in the second half.

MISSOURI’S D-LINE — The Tigers have a chance to create some havoc with a defensive front led by ends Shane Ray (13.5 sacks, 20.5 tackles for

losses) and Markus Golden (8.5 sacks, 16 tackles for losses). Pressure can be the great equalizer against a high-powered offence.

BATTLED TESTED — Alabama has faced a much tougher schedule than Missouri, beating five teams that were in the Top 25 when they played the Tide.

Missouri faced only two teams that were ranked at the time, losing badly to Georgia and winning 21-20 at South Carolina, a team that long ago plummeted out of the polls.

A second downhill is scheduled for Saturday and a super-G race is set for Sunday.

Donald shoots 63, leads Nedbank Challenge

Joseph retires a Roughrider

SUN CITY, South Africa — Luke Donald birdied seven of his first 10 holes Friday to shoot 63 and take a two-shot lead after the second round of the Nedbank Golf Challenge.

The former top-ranked Englishman was one shot off the course record at the Gary Player Country Club, giving himself a chance of a memorable end to a pretty average year.

Donald’s round was four strokes better than anyone else to move to 10-under 134. He leads Ross Fisher (70), with Alexander Levy (70) a further two shots back at 6 under.

Brendon Todd of the United States was another big mover with a 4-under 68 to tie for sixth in the European Tour season-opener.

REGINA — Saskatchewan Roughriders quarterback Kerry Joseph is retiring once again.

He played 179 regular-season games over his CFL career and won a Grey Cup with the Riders in 2007. The 41-year-old pivot came out of retirement last October after regular starter Darian Durant suffered an elbow injury.

Joseph, who won the league’s most outstanding player award in 2007, played parts of three seasons (2006-’07, ‘14) in Saskatchewan. He also spent time with the Ottawa Renegades (2003’05), Toronto Argonauts (2008-’09) and Edmonton Eskimos (2010-’13).

Joseph’s best season in the CFL was arguably the 2005 campaign with the Renegades. That year he set career highs in passing yards (4,466), touchdowns (25) and rushing yards (1,006).

Joseph saw limited action upon his return last season as the Riders struggled in Durant’s absence. Saskatchewan finished third in the West at 10-8 and dropped an 18-10 decision to Edmonton in the division semifinal.

Over his 12-year career, Joseph completed 2,061 of 3,532 passes for 28,097 yards. He had 148 touchdown passes and 126 interceptions.

Joseph also scored 57 rushing touchdowns. He rushed the ball 697 times for 4,593 yards (6.6-yard average).

Werth sentenced to 10 days jail FAIRFAX, Va. — Washington Nationals outfielder Jayson Werth has been convicted of reckless driving and sentenced to 10 days in jail for driving over 100 miles an hour on the Capital Beltway.

A Fairfax County judge sentenced Werth Friday following a short trial.

It is not unusual in Virginia for defendants to receive short jail sentences on reckless driving convictions where the speeds exceed 100 miles an hour.

The 35-year-old Werth will have the option of appealing his conviction to Fairfax County Circuit Court.

Markakis wants to continue Braves’ winning tradition

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career, it’s where I started my foundation and this occupation. I have great memories there, lots of friends. That’s something that can never be taken away from me.

“Everything I did over there is in my past now. I don’t hold any grudge, I don’t hold anything back. ... In this job, things like that happen. I’m grateful for the opportunity they gave me.”

Added Markakis: “It’s a new chapter in my life. I’m going to turn that page.”

He said signing with Atlanta “just felt right.”

“The way they handled the whole situation was first class,” he said.

“They made me and my family feel real comfortable. Those are things you look for when you make a commitment to a team. ... They made me feel comfortable and that was most important to me.”

Markakis, who wore No. 21 with the Orioles, was assigned the No. 22 jersey that had been worn by Jason Heyward, who he’ll replace in right field. Hall of Famer Warren Spahn’s No. 21 was retired by the Braves.

Heyward was dealt to the St. Louis Cardinals last month in a four-player trade that brought pitcher Shelby Miller to the Braves.

ATLANTA — Nick Markakis walked into the Turner Field home clubhouse on Friday and rattled off the names of Braves players he cheered for as a kid living near Atlanta.

Chipper Jones. Andruw Jones. David Justice. Fred McGriff. Greg Maddux. John Smoltz. Tom Glavine.

Born in New York, Markakis moved to Woodstock, Georgia, north of Atlanta, when he was 10. He said he remembers his parents taking him to games at old Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium.

“It was fun to watch those guys do things the right way,” Markakis said after passing a physical exam that made his four-year, $44 million free-agent deal with Atlanta official.

“That’s what they preach over here and it’s something you look for in a team,” he said.

Now Markakis is the Braves’ new right fielder.

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The Markakis signing could lead to more moves by the Braves. Left fielder Justin Upton and catcher/outfielder Evan Gattis have been mentioned in trade rumours.

The Heyward deal was seen as a sign the Braves are in a rebuilding stage after finishing 79-83 in 2014.

Markakis said he studied the roster and said he has faith in a roster that includes starting pitchers Miller, Julio Teheran, Mike Minor and Alex Wood.

“I saw what they had on paper and I know what guys they have over here and the coaching staff and front office and their fan base,” he said.

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Saturday, Dec. 6, 2014

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Innisfail

Saturday, Nov. 15, 2014, marked the second annual Gala for Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Innisfail at the Royal Canadian Legion Branch No. 104 in Innisfail.

Themed Sparkle, this year’s event more than lived up to its name. With capacity attendance of over 220 guests from throughout the region, the gala literally sparkled against a backdrop of glitter and stars.

Feted to an evening of great entertainment by Alberta’s own Randi Boulton, great dining from

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Sponsored by Stantec Consulting, Central Alberta Co-op, and Innisfail Kinsmen, Sparkle realized all of the goals of both the board of directors and the gala committee, who put a lot of sweat and soul into the event.

The evening raised over $12,000 in support of Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Innisfail, and its efforts to provide quality mentoring to nearly 140 children in the communities of Innisfail, Bowden,

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To all who attended, provided great silent auction and raffle items, donated bid, and supported Sparkle 2014, thank you from the board, the committee and, most of all, the kids.

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CLOCKWISE FROM BOTTOM LEFT: Lucille Paquette-Lohmann, Big Brothers Big Sisters urban mentoring co-ordinator, at the reception desk; Mark Kemball, master of ceremonies, deputy mayor and owner of Innisfail Dairy Queen; Randi Boulton gets a little help from Amber Armstrong, one of Big Brothers Big Sisters Little Sisters; the West Hall at Royal Canadian Legion Branch No. 104.

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Violent robbery brings jail PIZZA OUTLET HOLDUP RESULTS IN MAN GETTING 39-MONTH SENTENCE

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF A Red Deer man who wrapped a phone cord around an employee’s neck during a violent armed robbery at a pizza outlet was sentenced to 39 months in prison.

Ernest Leslie Bedore, 44, plead guilty to robbery, unlawful confinement and choking with intent to overcome resistance in Red Deer provincial court on Friday.

Bedore was arrested by police after robbing a Domino’s Pizza shop less than a block from the downtown police

headquarters at about 11 p.m. on Jan. 30, 2013.

Court heard that Bedore and an accomplice went into the pizza outlet at Gaetz Avenue and 45th Street and waited until two other employees left before they acted.

Alarmed when Bedore mentioned a gun to his accomplice, the store employee grabbed a phone and called 911.

Bedore went behind the counter and ripped the phone from the wall and wrapped the cord around the worker’s neck.

When the employee tried to escape, he was punched and kicked by Bedore.

The worker eventually managed to get out through a locked back door and got help from two police officers who were arriving on foot from their nearby station.

Bedore and an accomplice, David Fehr, were arrested. Bedore had $328.50 on him in cash and rolled coins.

The two were not armed.

The Crown prosecutor suggested a sentence of four years and the defence proposed a sentence of time served, which would have amounted to 19 months in custody, plus 18 months probation.

Provincial court Judge Jim Hunter said it was clear Bedore was the “main

actor” in the robbery. The violence of the robbery and his lengthy criminal record were aggravating factors in sentencing.

Bedore, who is a construction worker with no contact with his four children, was sentenced to 39 months and given credit for 19 months in custody, leaving 20 months to serve.

He must provide a DNA sample to a national database and was given a lifetime weapons prohibition.

Fehr plead guilty to robbery on March 15, 2013, and was sentenced to 21 months in jail. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

RED DEER’S NEW FIRE CHIEF

Photo by CRYSTAL RHYNO/Advocate staff

Red Deer’s new fire chief Brian Makey took over the reins of the Emergency Services Department on Oct. 6, moving here from Fort McMurray.

A burning desire to help

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Taking a post in Red Deer was a no brainer for the city’s new fire chief.

After only two months on the job, Brian Makey says Red Deer Emergency Services is one of the best.

Makey says he is still getting his traction but he knows for certain that the department has the city covered.

The 50-year-old replaced former fire chief Jack MacDonald, who retired on Oct. 6.

Makey comes via Fort McMurray, where he worked as chief operating officer.

Makey’s plate has been full as the department is fine-tuning the details

of a master plan that will paint the department’s future, including required stations, manpower, response times and service levels. The plan is expected to come to council by the fall of 2015.

Makey said this is his first priority.

The work done by his predecessors has positioned the department to meet the challenges of growth as it relates to response times, he added.

He said the crews will continue to meet the High Intensity Residential Fire (HIRT) standard of within 10-minute response 90 per cent of the time.

Last week, residents in a two-block section in the Bower neighbourhood raised the alarm about the potential longer waits for fire trucks when two fire halls are relocated in 2016.

Makey said they will be looking at response times in the Bower area, north and southeast Red Deer as part of the master plan work.

“As it stands right now, before the relocation the citizens of Red Deer are covered within the 10-minute response times,” said Makey.

“We signed our contracts with Alberta Health Services so the integrated fire department system remains intact.”

Makey followed in the footsteps of his father, Tom, who had a 41-year career in fire services, including a stint as Alberta’s fire commissioner.

He has an extensive background in public safety and emergency services.

He joined the Strathcona County Fire department in Sherwood Park at age

Rental scam warning issued by police Warnings of a rental scam are being issued in Red Deer.

RCMP have received three complaints this week of people paying in advance for rental properties found on the Kijiji shopping website, only to discover that those properties do not exist.

“Rental scammers claim to be out of the country. They instruct victims to send the damage deposit and first month’s rent through an untraceable wire transfer service such as Moneygram or Western Union and say they will send the keys once they have received the money,” says Cpl. Sarah Knelsen, media relations officer for the Red Deer City RCMP. Victims may also be asked to fill out a detailed application

form.

Doing that exposes them to further fraud by providing sensitive personal information.

People looking for a new place to live are being advised to be especially cautious and consider the following safety tips issued by the RCMP on Friday: ● Do not pay a deposit if you are not allowed to view the inside of the property. ● Be aware of prices for similar properties. If it sounds to good to be true, it usually is. ● Scrutinize the photos carefully. Professional photos or photos of model homes may have been lifted from a real estate site. Photos of low quality or showing only a single feature such as the bath-

room may indicate that the person who made the ad does not have access to the house or apartment. ● Be leery of long, flowery descriptions of rental properties, which may have been copied from a real estate listing. Descriptions of issues such as roof repairs or furnace upgrades should be a red flag, since those items should not be at issue to renters. ● Do not respond to ads asking for personal information. ● Review Kijiji’s “Staying Safe on Kijiji” tip section. ● Visit www.antifraudcentre.ca for more tips.

Knelsen also asks people to help vulnerable friends and family members recognize and protect themselves against fraud.

18 and worked there for a few years before moving to Fort McMurray.

As a firefighter, he moved up the ranks to fire lieutenant, deputy fire chief and fire chief before turning to the administrative side with roles such as the executive director of Protective and Public Services.

Makey said he was drawn into the field because of the camaraderie and his strong desire to help the community.

Makey and his wife Rita have two sons and a daughter. His wife has worked in the fundraising field for non-profit organizations, including the United Way. “It’s in your blood,” said Makey. “I am still a firefighter at heart.” crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

Sylvan rink coming down Sylvan Lake Arena’s walls will come tumbling down next week.

What’s left of them anyway.

A demolition crew will be on site on Monday to begin the work of tearing down the 42-year-old arena, finishing the job started by heavy snowfalls last January.

Some specialized work has already been done, such as removing asbestos.

The dismantling will begin with the roof in the southeast corner.

As a safety precaution, the attached Multiplex will be closed during the demolition, which is not expected to have any impact on the adjacent building.

A list of salvageable items has been created. Metals and concrete will be recycled or salvaged, and arena speakers, score clock, rink divider pads, netting, rain harvesting tanks and shoring cables and turnbuckles will be saved.

It is expected to take three to four days to finish the wrecking job.

Plans are already well advanced to replace the arena with a new $30-million multiplex featuring a new ice surface and curling rink. Seniors and children’s centres, multi-purpose rooms, a running track and lobby will also included in the new facility to be known as the NexSource Centre.

It is expected to open in the fall of 2016.

Carolyn Martindale, City Editor, 403-314-4326 Fax 403-341-6560 E-mail editorial@reddeeradvocate.com

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RELIGION

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What does science tell us about the soul?

BY BRANDON WITHROW SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE Last year, a Harris poll discovered that 64 percent of Americans believe in the survival of the soul after death, with 68 percent convinced of a heaven and 58 percent of hell.

Many beliefs are discarded over time, but the existence of the soul isn’t likely to disappear anytime soon. There are good reasons, however, to think it should.

For millennia, theologians, philosophers, and poets have spoken of the soul as the immaterial counterpart to the body and the home of your feelings, intellect, and will. It is the center of your consciousness and personality; it is your mind.

The idea of a soul is infused into our vocabulary, as in when we talk of “soul mates” or “soul-sucking jobs.” Even the science fiction trope of uploading minds, as seen in Inception or Transcendence, implies that there is an immaterial essence that is the real you; you have a body, but your mind transcends the physical.

But is it the real you? Does it even exist?

Neuroscientists using tools like an fMRI have repeatedly found that these things we have attributed to the soul are actually occurring in the brain.

Here are three implications of recent scientific research that challenges the notion of a soul:

Your brain is a pharmacy Just as drugs manipulate the brain, the brain itself also produces chemical cocktails that influence us.

Love, for example, is classically understood as an action of the soul. But there are good reasons to see love as the domain of

the brain, which handily produces a hormone called oxytocin.

This complicated chemical helps form romantic attachments, mother-infant bonding, foster empathy, aid in memory, and increase trust.

So your soul mate might actually be your brain mate. The phenomenon that moves us to proposals of marriage or deep love of our offspring is happening in the brain.

You can have two brains If you have an immaterial mind or soul that is the real you, then an altered brain — either due to an accident or surgery — should not change who you are. But what happens to the brain can and does tremendously alter the entire person.

Scientists have controlled severe epileptic seizures by separating the left and right hemispheres of the brain (the corpus callosum).

The loss of communication between the hemispheres creates some unusual results, which has been described as having two brains.

By directing questions to one eye or the other — the left eye connects to the right hemisphere and the right eye to the left — doctors can ask split-brain patients specific questions or to perform tasks. In these studies, it becomes clear that the left side of the brain does not know what the right side of the brain knows (and vice-versa). Communication between the two has to occur outside of the brain, when information is passed visually or verbally.

This phenomenon only gets stranger: when neuroscientist V.S. Ramachandran asked a split-brain patient, “Do you believe in God?,” the right hemisphere replied “yes,” but the left hemisphere replied “no.”

You think, therefore I am When philosopher René Descartes said, “I think, therefore, I am,” he probably hadn’t considered the development of Brain Control Interfaces (BCI). For a while now, scientists have worked to create brain-to brain-interfaces, with initial success coming in the form of a remotely connected human moving a rat’s tail.

That was quickly followed by other research, with the most recent being two remotely connected human brains, with one playing a videogame through the hand of another person.

This technology has significant benefits for those paralyzed, but it also has ramifications for the will.

It implies that willing is centered in the physical brain, not in an immaterial self.

Your brain can light up my brain, willing me to blow up alien invaders.

For many centuries, the idea of the soul has been the best explanation we have for much of human experience. But we’ve never seen a soul in a lab or run tests on it.

The brain, however, now provides a testable mechanism for explaining the idea of the self. The force of these discoveries has even moved some theologians to rethink the soul, favoring instead a form of Christian materialism.

From split-brain patients to brain-control interfaces, every new scientific discovery appears to be slowly taking away the role and necessity of the soul and giving it to the brain.

Brandon G. Withrow teaches religious studies at The University of Findlay and is mostrecently co-author (with Menachem Wecker) of a forthcoming book, Consider No Evil: Two Faith Traditions and the Problem of Academic Freedom in Religious Higher Education. He regularly blogs at The Discarded Image

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LUTHERAN CHURCHES OF RED DEER

Sunday, December 7

ST. LEONARD’S ON THE HILL

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10:30 am Worship Service Speaker: Terry Wiebe “Obstacles to Eternal Life” Mark 10: 17-31

43 Avenue & 44 Street 403-346-6769 www.stleonardsonthehill.org

Officiant: Rev. Gary Sinclair

8:00 a.m. Holy Communion

Ages 2 1/2-Grade 5

7:00 p.m.“The Gathering” Prayer and Praise

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Celebration Service

9:00 a.m. Celebration Service 10:30 a.m. Holy Eucharist with Sunday School/Nursery

Sunday School

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4718 Ross St. • 403-346-4560 Minister The Rev. Wayne Reid

“Deliverance is Near” 10:30 am Worship Service www.knoxreddeer.ca

West Park Presbyterian 3628-57 Ave. 403-346-6036

12 Stanton Street 403-347-6073

10:30 a.m.

Worship Service “New Beginnings” Babyfold, Toddler Room, Sunday Club www.sunnybrookunited.org Babyfold, Toddler Room Sunday Club www.sunnybrookunited.org

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Sunnybrook United Church

Sunday 9:30 a.m. Sunday School Youth & Adult Forum 10:30 a.m. Worship

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Guest Worship Leader: Don Friesen

Children’s Programs weekly

403-340-1022 Rev. Dr. Marc Jerry

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Worship Service Sunday 10:30 a.m.

“White Gift Sunday” with Silver Bells

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Sunday 10:00 a.m.

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Lutheran Church 10:00 a.m.

Second Sunday In Advent Pastor Harold Rust and Students from Camrose Lutheran Bible Institute (CLBI)

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Bahá’í Faith “ The fundamental purpose animating the Sundays at 9:30 am and 11:15 am

Faith of God and His Religion is to safeguard the interests and promote the unity of the human race, and to foster the spirit of love and fellowship amongst men.” Abdu’l-Bahá Christmas is a wonderful time to strengthen that love and fellowship with all people. For information about the Bahá’i Faith, call 403-343-0091 www.ca.bahai.org

LOCAL EVENTS Today

Knox Presbyterian Church Christmas Tea and Bake Sale will be offered on Dec. 6, from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Admission is $5 and includes light lunch. Preschoolers free. There will be a selection of baked goods, frozen savoury pies and Christmas treats available to purchase.

The Adventures of Katie: The Case of the Missing Nativity will be performed at Deer Park Alliance Church on Dec. 5 at 7 p.m., and on Dec. 6 and 7 at 3:30 and 6:30 p.m. Tickets cost $3 each.

See www.AdvneturesofKatie.ca. Phone 403343-1511. Suitable for the whole family.

Tuesday

English/Dutch/Afrikaans Christmas Carol Sing-along will be offered on Dec. 9 at First Christian Reformed Church at 2:30 p.m. Dr. Jack Hielema will officiate. Refreshments will be served and a freewill offering will be taken for Salvation Army.

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Bringing back the good ol’ days PIANIST FRANK MILLS ENJOYS HOW HIS CONCERTS BECOME SING-ALONGS

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF Back before computers and television, the entertainment devices in many homes were pianos.

“We had one of those families,” reminisces popular Music Box Dancer pianist Frank Mills. “My mom would play the piano and we would gather around and sing our hearts out. ...

“I’d like to bring us back to those days,” added Mills, who intends to perform a wide selection of singable favourite tunes on Thursday, Dec. 11, at Red Deer’s Memorial Centre.

While his piano concerts aren’t billed as singalongs, Mills believes this is what they unofficially are. “Whenever I play Christmas carols, like Silent Night or The Huron Carol, which is my favourite, I’ll bring the sound down and realize that everybody is singing along — which is funny because if I asked people to sing they wouldn’t sing! And here I don’t do anything and they are singing!” he said.

The same thing happens when Mills launches into his medleys, including Beatles tunes and scores from movies, such as Out of Africa, Hotel California and Wizard of Oz. “Whenever I play Somewhere Over the Rainbow

they all start singing it.”

The genial 72-yearold only tours once a year in the late fall, alternating between smaller centres in Eastern and Western Canada.

But nearly 40 years after his tinkly piano tune Music Box Dancer became an inexplicable hit after being introduced on an Ottawa rock station, Mills can still pack in the crowds.

“It’s amazing. I’m astonished. Some of these people have been to several of my concerts,” said the Montreal native, who has had many pinch-me moments in a career that goes back to jingle writing.

The pianist leads a pretty bucolic life now with this second wife.

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Pianist Frank Mills intends to perform a wide selection of singable favourite tunes on Thursday, Dec. 11, at Red Deer’s Memorial Centre.

Cellphones are killing stand-up comedy

BY ELAHE IZADI ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES Anyone who’s had semi-serious experience with stand-up comedy will tell you that it’s an art that can only be developed and refined in front of actual human beings.

So for many years, prominent stand-up comedians continued working out new material in the same way they did when they weren’t famous: they’d write jokes and test them in the low-stakes space of an open mic.

But technology is changing that. Well-known comedians who want to test out material in front of live audiences are facing a world where everyone has a quality video recording device — and the ability to instantly publish videos for everybody to see. It’s this reality that Chris Rock laments in a new interview with Vulture, in which he explains how it forces some sort of “self-censorship.”

“Prince doesn’t run a demo on the radio,” Rock says. “But in stand-up, the demo gets out. There are a few guys good enough to write a perfect act and get onstage, but everybody else workshops it and workshops it, and it can get real messy. It can get downright offensive.

“Before everyone had a recording device and was wired like (expletive) Sammy the Bull, you’d say something that went too far, and you’d go, ‘Oh, I went too far,’ and you would just brush it off. But if you think you don’t have room to make mistakes, it’s going to lead to safer, gooier stand-up. You can’t think the thoughts you want to think if you think you’re being watched.”

Weeks before the interview, Rock stopped by an open mic in New York and told the audience he was

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Comedian Patton Oswalt got into a back-and-forth with an audience member who he caught filming a bit that he was still working out. It resulted in a very public argument, as Oswalt continued to tear into the woman after she left. “there to work out stuff,” as host Aparna Nancherla recounted later. According to Nancherla (disclosure: she’s a friend of mine), Rock then “gets into one of his first bits. He gets out the setup and then suddenly addresses someone in the audience to put away their phone, because he can see them taping. Oh. No.” “It gets worse,” Nancherla continued. “He goes back to start his joke again, momentarily thrown off, as he’s just there working on stuff. And then notices ANOTHER person taping him, a guy in the front row.

It seems like the guy starts arguing with him a little, and then Chris gets fed up and walks offstage, barely over a minute or two after he got there.”

It’s potentially embarrassing for a famous comedian to have a still-rough bit posted online — and it can also affect a comedy star’s livelihood. In 2012, comedian Patton Oswalt got into a back-and-forth with an audience member who he caught filming a bit that he was still working out. It resulted in a very public argument, as Oswalt continued to tear into the

woman after she left.

“It’s the equivalent, to me, of sitting at a table in a coffee shop or library, writing the first draft of a short story, or screenplay or, were I a musician, song lyrics, and having someone walk by, snap the sheet away from my fingers, snap a pic with their camera, and then say, ‘Hey, I’m a fan of your stuff. I want the new thing you’re working on permanently on my phone now. I’m deciding when it’s ‘done,’” Oswalt wrote later.

He also said new jokes he was planning to use for a stand-up special had made their way to YouTube weeks before taping.

There’s a valid argument that anything said in public is open game for criticism, that you should have to stand by remarks you made before a small audience just as much as remarks you made for, literally, anyone to hear.

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Peter Pan Live! falls flat NEW YORK — This Peter Pan needed a lot more fairy dust.

NBC’s live telling of J.M. Barrie’s classic tale Thursday was an oddly ponderous, disconnected, disjointed and jerky mess. If it had been a Broadway show, it would have gotten the hook (pun intended).

It wasn’t the small things that broke the spell — ungraceful wire work, clunky transitions, a Tinkerbell that was as annoying as a mosquito and sounded like a wind chime, a tea cup that fell from Peter’s head and some technical glitches.

Peter Pan Live! simply never flew.

It suffered a draggy start, cursed by a Downton Abbey drawing room dialogue and a call for everyone to go to bed. It grew better in the colourful Neverland but veered into parody with a Captain Hook by Christopher Walken that seemed like a failed Saturday Night Live sketch about Johnny Depp.

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The whole thing lost steam by the second hour. Was anyone still trying to save Tinkerbell with 45 minutes to go?

The show came almost a year after NBC’s three-hour live telecast of The Sound of Music starring Carrie Underwood revived the idea of a broadcast network mounting a full-scale musical for live TV. That attracted nearly 19 million viewers and made live theatre cool again — on TV. Like that previous show, Peter Pan Live! wisely leaned on Broadway performers, including five-time Tony Award-nominee Kelli O’Hara, who was sadly underused. Melissa Joan Hart’s endless shilling for Wal-Mart during the commercial breaks made more of an impact.

HBO Girls star Allison Williams was admirable in a role made famous

by Mary Martin and Cathy Rigby. Her voice wasn’t strong but it was true and she was game for plenty of physical effort.

Please see PETER PAN on Page C6 of a comedy club or theatre. After a Hannibal Buress bit about rape allegations against Bill Cosby went viral, Buress told an audience in St. Louis: “I was saying that (stuff) for the 600 people there, not for the Internet.”

He added: “That’s not how you help your career.”

The problem of phone recordings is most pronounced for already established comedians, as Rock explained to the New York Times in 2012: “The sad thing, with all this taping and stuff, no one’s going to do stand-up. And every big stand-up I talk to says: ‘How do I work out new material? Where can you go, if I have a half an idea and then it’s on the Internet next week?’”

Rock continued: “I’m just trying to figure out how I’m going to do it. ‘Cause the few times I’ve gotten onstage and thought about touring, immediately, stuff’s on the Internet, I’m getting calls, and I’m like, this isn’t worth it.”

Instant publishing has democratized and broadened comedy. So many more people can consume stand-up now than when it was mostly confined to late-night television, comedy clubs or records.

And as in music, film and other mediums, technology and social media have given comedians new ways to find their audiences. A booker thinks you’re too young, or too weird, or whatever? Get thyself to the YouTube and post your musings there. Bo Burnham started as a 16-year-old on YouTube.

Podcasts have also helped boost the profiles of comics going through

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non-traditional channels. Then there’s Twitter, where comics can test jokes, and comedy writers have been discovered; Twitter helped a Midwest IT guy land a writing gig with Late Night With Seth Meyers.

“Twitter has democratized the process,” Meyers told Vulture. “We used to look at smaller samples, now you can look back and see what a person thought was funny for the past calendar year.”

Still, live performance requires practice, and that practice requires an audience. Could a draconian policy of no recording at open mics be needed?

Dave Chappelle banned mobile phones at his Oddball Comedy Festival shows last year. Granted, they weren’t open mics; but he’d had enough.

“I haven’t gone that far,” Rock told Vulture, “but I may have to, to get an act together for a tour.”

He added: “I swear I just had a conversation with the people at the Comedy Cellar about how we can make cell phones into cigarettes. If you would

have told me years ago that they were going to get rid of smoking in comedy clubs, I would have thought you were crazy.”

As the audience for stand-up has widened, perhaps there is now a need to educate newcomers. Today’s lesson: Recording and publishing an open mic bit that’s not refined is rude.

“Not everything will work, but there has to be an implicit agreement to be there and be present for it,” Nancherla writes about Rock’s open mic experience. “Trying to record things on your phone is a part of the time we live in.

Some of us are so mindlessly on our devices all day that you might not even consciously realize how much space they take up in your lives. Nobody experiences anything anymore just for the sake of experiencing it.

“You know what’s cool about live performance?

“You were there for it. You got to hear something that was just meant for you.

“Not for hits or views or clicks.”

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They have a farm in Vermont, where Mills raises “cute” Jersey cows and vegetables and a townhouse in the Bahamas, where he likes to fish. But there were plenty of lean years when Mills’ three children were young.

He remembers working as a real estate agent for a while in Toronto to supplement his income from writing music for commercials.

But he stuck with his love of music, even though he held a taxi driver’s licence in reserve just in case he had to use it (he never did.)

Suddenly in the late 1970s, his persistence began paying off. “I went from having done three commercials and one television show in a year to having hundreds of TV shows the next year,” he recalled.

The difference was that tinkly little recording that almost never got released at all.

Mills said he wrote Music Box Dancer in 1972-73 and recorded it in 1974, but the company that released it went broke and it stayed in a drawer for four years.

Mills was with Polydor Records in 1978 when they brought a new guy over from the U.K. to beef up the public profiles of their performers.

A friend who worked in radio was spoken to and next thing you know, an Ottawa rock station began playing his Music Box Dancer piano instrumental — to a huge reaction from listeners. “The MAKES A switchboards lit up,” reGREATS called Mills.

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PASSES THURS 9:30 CORNER GAS: THE MOVIE (PG) FRI FURY (14A) (COARSE LANGUAGE,GORY It’s not every day that 7:00; SAT-SUN 1:00, 7:00 BRUTAL VIOLENCE) CLOSED CAPTIONED a piano player gets orFRI-SUN 9:45; MON-THURS 9:10 SERENA (14A) CLOSED CAPTIONED chestral accompaniment, FRI 4:40, 7:20, 10:10; SAT-SUN 2:00, 4:40, INTERSTELLAR (PG) CLOSED CAPTIONED FRI 9:00; SAT-SUN 2:30, 9:00; 7:20, 10:10; MON-THURS 7:10, 9:50 said Mills, who wanted to share the experience with fans who play the piano.

While some of the tunes are quite complicated, there are many for beginners — as he intends to show on an informercial.

He added, “You can be a one-finger pianist and still play along with an orchestra.”

Mills sees his new CD collection as another attempt to bring back the good old days.

Tickets to the 7 p.m. show are $61.85 from the Black Knight Ticket Centre. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

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From left, John Allyn as Michael Darling, Allison Williams as Peter Pan, Jake Lucas as John Darling, and Taylor Louderman as Wendy Darling from the musical version Peter Pan Live!

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Ron James bringing tour to Red Deer in 2015

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Award-winning comedian Ron James will be bringing his Pedal to the Metal tour to Red Deer next year.

The kinetic comedian will perform “unshackled by network constraints and corporate oversight” on Sunday, March 1, at Red Deer’s Memorial Centre.

Known for his satiric, languagefuelled comedy and sharp wit, James is familiar to TV audiences for The Ron James Show, Blackfly and his top-rated comedy specials, West Coast Wild, Quest for the West, and Manitoba Bound.

He honed his skills for nine years with The Second City comedy troupe in Toronto before gaining success as a stand-up comedian, and is now one of Canada’s most recognized comics.

Tickets for the 8 p.m. show are on sale at the Black Knight Ticket Centre.

RDC theatre students star in Student Showcase First-year Red Deer College theatre students will be strutting their stuff in a special showcase next week.

Scenes, singing, movement, stage combat and more will be performed

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at the Student Showcase: First Year Class on Friday and Saturday, Dec. 12 and 13, at the Welikoklad Event Centre (former City Centre Stage).

Everyone is invited to enjoy these shows of theatrical highlights and demonstrated skills at 7:30 p.m. both nights (and also at a 1 p.m. Saturday matinee).

Admission is by donation. The showcase is sponsored by the Theatre Society.

Emily Promise Allison awarded scholarship Red Deer artist Emily Promise Allison was awarded the $5,000 Queen’s Golden Jubilee Scholarship for Visual Arts.

Allison is a graduate of RDC’s Theatre Studies program, who is furthering her studies at the Alberta College of Art and Design. Next spring she expects to graduate with a fine arts degree in sculpting.

The scholarship was established

needed to carry them off.

Barrie’s children’s book is enjoying a purple patch of late. Broadway, which recently had Peter and the Starcatcher, will soon have Finding Neverland. Plus Hugh Jackman will star next year in the film Pan. The character of Peter Pan will clearly survive this live event, but it remains to be seen if NBC’s lacklustre Peter Pan killed off the network’s brave experiment in live theatre.

by the Alberta government to commemorate the Queen’s jubilee, and to annually award a young Alberta visual artist who shows extraordinary talent, potential and demonstrates clear educational or training goals.

The Calgary-based Allison said, “I’m greatly honoured to receive the recognition and encouragement from my home province.”

She feels the scholarship will allow her to contribute to the world of contemporary art while “remembering where I came from and the generous people who support my endeavour.”

Benedict Cumberbatch to play Doctor Strange NEW YORK — Benedict Cumberbatch will star in Marvel’s Doctor Strange as the neurosurgeon-turned-

superhero.

Marvel announced Thursday that the Sherlock star, long rumoured for the part, will add another egotistical intellect to his already brainy filmography. Cumberbatch has won acclaim for the recently released Second World War thriller The Imitation Game, in which he stars as mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing.

Frozen short to play in theatres in March LOS ANGELES — Frozen favourites Anna, Elsa, and Olaf are headed back to the big screen in a new short film.

Walt Disney Animation Studios announced Wednesday it plans to show Frozen Fever in front of the live-action Cinderella that opens in theatres March 13.

The short reunites the Oscar-winning directing team from Frozen: Jennifer Lee and Chris Buck. It will tell the story of Elsa and Kristoff’s attempt to plan a birthday party for Anna.

Frozen is the fifth-highest grossing film of all time, with over $1.27 billion.

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She radiated a weird male energy, 6 Daykin Street, Red Deer but the telecast revealed a lot of weird stuff in the script. This wasn’t the Diswww.theredwoods.ca ney version of Peter Pan and its odd, old British roots were showing.

The show also starred Jake Lucas (who was in Newsies) as John Darling, a very good Taylor Louderman (Bring It On: The Musical) as Wendy, and a beefyarmed Christian Borle, a Tony winner and veteran of last year’s The Sound of Music Live! (In a twist, Borle won his Tony playing Captain Hook in the Peter Pan play Peter and the Starcatcher.) Borle was the best thing in the threehour event, hands down (punning again, Hook).

To be sure, the new show lifted the bar technically, making The Sound of Music Live! seem like summer stock in comparison.

This time, there was much more dancing, the addition of complicated flying routines, some mermaids, sword fights, digital overlays like Tinkerbell and shadows, and a live dog. Director and choreographer Rob Ashford had his work cut out for him.

But the sweeping cameras across scenic designer Derek McLane’s fine ship and flower-treed forests often captured the actors’ backs or cut away awkwardly. The addition of new visual toys made the show look overstuffed and yet not at all nourishing. Producers seem to have taken to heart Peter’s boast: “Oh, the cleverness of me!”

Some numbers were lovely — the Distant Memory duet between O’Hara and Louderman, the defiant I Won’t Grow Up and the pirate dance break Hook’s Tango — but so many others dragged and seemed like just filler.

Did we actually need that many Lost Boys scenes and pirate jigs? And why were there so many oncamera moments that seemed a surprise to the actors in them?

One big change this year was the flying. It was supposed to be like Cirque du Soleil, but it came out more SpiderMan: Turn Off the Dark.

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This time, there also was a little more Hollywood, with Walken being + + Walken — oddly a veteran of acting with a missing appendage since he starred in A Behanding in Spokane on Broadway — and an unseen-until-theend but effective Minnie Driver as the narrator.

It was a more culturally sensitive Peter Pan, with Alanna Saunders, a woman of Cherokee descent, portraying the Native American princess character Tiger Lily, and the offensive song Ugga-Wugg transformed into True Blood Brothers.

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON — The next James Bond film has a retro title that evokes the series’ past: SPECTRE — the dastardly fictional terrorist organization featured in Dr. No and other early 007 adventures.

Director Sam Mendes announced ‘FOR BOND FANS, the name of the THIS IS THE BEST 24th official Bond movie Thursday at CHRISTMAS PRESENT Pinewood Studios — THE RETURN OF near London, along with the identity JAMES BOND AND of several new cast CLASSIC ELEMENTS members and a new version of Bond’s OF THE SERIES iconic Aston Martin WITH YET ANOTHER car.

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Daniel Craig will play the suave spy for a fourth time and Mendes returns as director after 2012’s Skyfall.

Other returning cast members include Ralph Fiennes as spy chief M, Ben Whishaw as gadget-master Q and Naomi Harris as secretary Miss Moneypenny.

Producers said the next film centres on “a cryptic message from Bond’s past (that) sends him on a trail to uncover a sinister organization.�

SPECTRE — Special Executive for Counterintelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion — was the terrorist organization headed by Ernst Blofeld that featured in several early Bond films.

Waltz, an Oscar winner for Inglourious Basterds and Django Unchained, said his character is called Oberhauser — but fans hope he is really Blofeld, one of the most enduring Bond villains.

The cat-stroking evildoer, played by actors including Donald Pleasence and Charles Gray, has not appeared for several decades because of a legal dispute over rights to the character. The case was settled last year.

Mendes also revealed that Bond will drive an Aston Martin DB10, replacing the vintage DB5 that was spectacularly destroyed in Skyfall.

Initial fan reaction to the latest details was enthusiastic. “For Bond fans, this is the best Christmas present — the return of James Bond and classic elements of the series with yet another classic title coined by Ian Fleming,� said Ajay Chowdhury, who edits the journal of the James Bond International Fan Club.

Principal photography on the new film begins Monday. Filming will take place at Pinewood Studios and on location in Italy, Morocco, Mexico and Austria. SPECTRE is due for release late next year.

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ACKERMANN Thomas April 6, 1968 - Nov. 27, 2014 It is with deep sadness the family of Thomas Ackermann announce his sudden passing on Thursday, November 27, 2014 at the age of 46 years.

Thomas will be forever loved and missed by all who knew him. A funeral service for Thomas will be held on Tuesday, December 9th, 2014 at 1:00 p.m. at the Lacombe Memorial Centre 5214 - 50 Avenue, Lacombe, Alberta. Memorial donations can be made to the children’s trust fund called “The Ackermann Princess Trust Fund” c/o any ATB Alberta Branch. Condolences may be made by visiting www.wilsonsfuneralchapel.ca WILSON’S FUNERAL CHAPEL & CREMATORIUM serving Central Alberta with locations in Lacombe and Rimbey in charge of arrangements. Phone: 403.782.3366 or 403.843.3388 “A Caring Family, Caring for Families”

JOA Harold J. It is with heavy hearts that we announce the passing of our Dad, Harold Joa on December 3, 2014 in Drumheller. Dad lived his 81 years as a hard working, honest man. He was a ‘jack of all trades’ from an electrician to a Corrections Officer at the Drumheller Institution. Dad loved his sports and was an avid fastball player as a young man in Red Deer. Dad was predeceased by his wife Jayne, of 52 yrs in 2011. He is survived by his son Blair Joa, Drumheller, his daughter Cheryl (Martin) Elkes, Drumheller and the two who lit up his life, his grandaughters, Shelby and Brinley Elkes.

Dad also leaves behind his siblings Jerry (Rose) Joa, Red Deer, Mildred Anderson, Lacombe, Pat (Nellie) Joa, Lethbridge, Irene Sather, Moose Jaw, Sask., Helen Thompson Regina, Sask., Memorial Mass services to be held Thursday Dec 11th, 2014 at 11am. St. Anthony’s Church Drumheller. Personal Alternatives of Airdrie are taking care of arrangements

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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.

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Is holding it’s Annual Christmas Open House & Sales Sat. Dec. 6, from 9 a.m. - 3 p.m.

COME AND VISIT SANTA 10- NOON. 2 miles E on 39th Street from 30th Ave., Red Deer.

FIRST AID, CPR, BLS HCP QUALITY COURSES AT AFFORDABLE PRICE CERTIFIED INSTRUCTORS J A & HEART AND STROKE. CALLSAUD saudm01@hotmail.com 403 307 7444 RED DEER FISH & GAME ASSOCIATION Annual Special General Meeting & Christmas Social Mon. Dec. 15, 2014 @ 7 pm. at the Red Deer Legion. Election of officers for 2 yr. term. Food and beverage provided after.

Info call Neil 403-342-5015

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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$2500 Bonus Every 100 days IMMEDIATE OPENINGS Oil & Gas Well Testing Supervisors, Night Foremen, Experienced/ Inexperienced Junior Day/Night Operators Must have H2S, First Aid, valid driver’s license.

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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

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Applicants need to be mechanically inclined, motivated to work hard and learn quickly.

Associated industry experience eg. instrumentation or facilities construction experience would be an asset but is not necessarily required.

This position offers a diverse and challenging work environment with competitive pay, attractive benefits and the ability to grow within the organization. Applicants must live or be willing to relocate to within a 20 minute commute of the work place location (Stettler).

Please Submit Resume’s Attention Human Resources Email: payroll@ bearspawpet.com Fax: (403) 258-3197 Mail: Suite 5309, 333 96th Ave NE Calgary, Alberta T3R 1H1 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.

PRODUCTION TESTING EXPERIENCED SUPERVISORS and TESTERS Day & Night Must have tickets.

Top paid wages.

Based out of Devon, AB. Email resume to: kathy@dragonsbreathpt.ca

LIVE-IN Nanny required for infant to start September 1st, 2015. Must have child care experience or training. 403-341-0302 LOOKING for live-in caregiver for a school age boy. $10.20 hourly fees, room and board. e-mail resume to bautista_annielee@ yahoo.com P/T F. caregiver wanted for F quad. Must be reliable and have own vehicle.

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Bearspaw Petroleum Ltd is seeking a LEASEHAND Locally based, home every night! Qualified applicants

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WORKER must have all necessary Full -Time Position valid tickets for the position being applied for.

Bearspaw offers a Central Alberta very competitive salary Residence Society and benefits package along with a steady A CARF accredited agency work schedule. that has long been recognized Please submit resumes: for providing quality support Attn: Human Resources services to individuals with Email: developmental disabilities, payroll@bearspawpet.com currently seeking an Fax: (403) 252-9719 or individual to join our team Mail to: Suite 5309, in the above capacity. The 333-96 Ave. NE Direct Support Worker’s Calgary, AB T3K 0S3 role is to provide supervision, training, Central Alberta’s Largest personal support and Car Lot in Classifieds mentorship in accordance with individual’s needs and aspirations across multiple Start your career! environments which will See Help Wanted promote personal growth, Looking for a new pet? independence and Check out Classifieds to increase social inclusion.

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CONSULTING FIRM LOOKING FOR PROJECT CARS provides in-service training to meet position BASED CONTRACTORS. requirements, for which Prefer candidates with staff receive compensation background in agriculture, in most cases. business or sciences.

Hours/Compensation: Must have post secondary * Primarily evenings 3-11, education and have weekend shifts may be excellent writing, research required on occasion and communication skills. * $16.15 - $18.81 per hour Must be proficient with MS Office and be able to work Forward Resumes to: independently.

CARS Apply in confidence with #101 - 5589 47 St. cover letter and resume to: Red Deer, AB T4N 1S1 shan@kbsl.ca Fax: 403-346-8015 TOO MUCH STUFF? Email: markw@carsrd.org Let Classifieds Tired of Standing? help you sell it.

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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

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F/T LIVE IN caregiver position, private household, $11/hr., in Innisfail, highschool diploma and criminal check req’d, child care and household duties caregiverposition6@gmail.com

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- PROGRAM SUPERVISOR (Full Time) - THERAPIST (Full Time) - FUNDS DEVELOPMENT OFFICER (Part Time) - YOUTH & FAMILY COUNSELLORS (Full Time) - YOUTH COUNSELLOR/ RESIDENTIAL COOK (Full Time) - YOUTH COUNSELLOR – Residential (Fri/Sat Overnights) - YOUTH COUNSELLORS – Residential (Relief) Please visit our website www.vantagecommunityservices.ca for more information.

Applicants are sincerely thanked in advance for their interest. Only those selected for an interview will be contacted. Competition closes when positions are filled.

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ADVANTAGE VALVE MAINTENANCE & RENTALS LTD. IS HIRING NEWCART is looking for a fulltime

Human Resources Administrator/ Recruiter,

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Recruiting manpower as jobs come up, setting up interviews and screening applicants, reference checks Record Maintenance accurate and timely processing of hire packages, rate changes, employee files Organizing logistics for travel General Office duties etc.

Valve Technicians

knowledgeable in API, ANSI and Actuated Valves with the ability to deal with customers in service.

Entry Level positions are also available Oilfield experience would be a great asset. We offer competitive wages and a full benefit package with 100% prescription coverage.

Please forward a resume to Advantage Valve either via e-mail at: sbowman @advantagevalve.com cliff@advantagevalve.com or fax resume to our Sylvan Lake branch.

1 Charles Industrial Way Sylvan Lake, Alberta Tel: 403-887-1462 Fax: 403-887-1463 www.advantagevalve.com Only qualified applicants will be notified.

REQUIREMENTS 5 years minimum in the oil GOODMEN and gas industry, 3 years in a Recruiting/ ROOFING LTD. Human Resources Admin Requires position Highly organized, detail orientated, capable SLOPED ROOFERS of multitasking Proficient in LABOURERS Microsoft Office; including & FLAT ROOFERS word, excel and Outlook Motivated and have the Valid Driver’s Licence ability to maintain strict preferred. Fax or email confidentiality as well as a info@goodmenroofing.ca professional attitude Able or (403)341-6722 to be on call, work some NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE! evenings and weekends Able to work independently LICENSED MECHANIC & AUTO BODY TECH. and as part of a team; Reasonable rate. encourage excellence A.J. Auto Repair & Body through positive 11, 7836 49 Ave. contributions Call 403-506-6258 Please submit cover letter Central Alberta’s Largest and resume to: Car Lot in Classifieds resumes@ newcartcontracting.com or fax to (403) 729-2396 MILLARD TRUCKING LTD. Attn. HR. is looking for a 2 Licenced No phone calls Please.

Journeyman Heavy Duty Mechanics.

The successful applicant Restaurant/ must be able to work well in a high paced environHotel ment. We offer a great working environment, very F/T Food Service Supercompetitive wages and visor and Store Manager. performance bonuses. $13-$19.50/hr. Must be All interested person are able to work nights/days invited to apply to: and weekends. Call Little Millard Trucking Ltd. Ceasars Red Deer at Box 960, Sundre, AB 403-346-1671 or email to T0M1X0 allan_barker25@yahoo.ca Fax: 403-638-4987 HAMPTON INN & SUITES email: Red Deer is now accepting mbrodie@enerchem.com resumes for a housekeeping supervisor. Must be able to work weekends.

Apply within 128 Leva Ave. Red Deer County. Fax NEWCART 403-341-9996 or email: is looking for a full time info@hamptoninnrd.com

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HIRING SERVER AND CHEFS Apply in person at Shiso Japanese Restaurant, 3731 Gaetz Avenue No Phone Calls Please!

JJAM Management (1987) Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s Requires to work at these Red Deer, AB locations: 5111 22 St. 37444 HWY 2 S 37543 HWY 2N 700 3020 22 St. FOOD ATTENDANT Req’d permanent shift weekend day and evening both full and part time.

16 Vacancies, $10.20/hr. + benefits. Start ASAP. Job description www.timhortons.com Education and experience not req’d.

Apply in person or fax resume to: 403-314-1303

LUCKY’S LOUNGE located in Jackpot Casino, requires Waitress’s Fri. - Sun. Please apply in person at 4950 47 Ave. No phone calls please THE RUSTY PELICAN is now accepting resumes for experienced F/T SERVERS Must have Ref’s & Pro-Serve.

Apply within: 2079-50 Ave. 2-4 pm. Mon.-Fri. Fax 403-347-1161 Phone calls WILL NOT be accepted.

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.

NOW HIRING for following Positions Tile setters $28.25/hr Floor Covering Installer $ 28.25 / hr Full time and Permanent 40hrs/week Min 3 year experience Labourer $20/hr 40hrs/week No experience required Full time and permanent position Valid Driver’s Licence preferred email resume at: cat1employment @gmail.com or drop off resume at Central Alberta Tile One 7619 50 Ave Suite 9 Red Deer

SIDING INSTALLER with or without trailer & tools. F.T. year round work, must have truck and 2 yrs. exp. $1.30 per sq.ft.

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Trades THE RUSTY PELICAN is now accepting resumes for an EXPERIENCED BARTENDER. MUST HAVE REFERENCES. Able to work evening shift.

Apply within: 2079-50 Ave. 2-4 pm. Mon.-Fri. Fax 403-347-1161 Phone calls WILL NOT be accepted.

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OUTSIDE SALES OPPORTUNITIES

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 Start your career!

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Truckers/ Drivers

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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

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.

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.

MCL Waste Systems & Environmental is looking for 3 Drivers to work in our Highway Division. If you have valid Class 1 license and 2 years driving experience with a clean abstract and have proven success dealing with customers, then we want to talk to you! Walking floor experience is preferred but will train the right candidate! This position is located in Red Deer County at the Horn Hill Waste Transfer Facility.

Competitive wages!

Excellent benefit program after completion of probationary period.

Apply with us today at jmaga@cerfcorp.com or fax your resume to 780-485-2645

SHREDDING/recycling Company req’s driver 20 - 25 hrs/wk. class 3 licence, no criminal record. Incld’s some warehouse duties.

May be suitable for semi-retired. email : papercuts.ltd@gmail.com or fax to 403-342-0544

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ACADEMIC Express Esthetician Wanted Full ADULT EDUCATION AND TRAINING

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BAKER PRODUCE CLERK GROCERY CLERK DELI CLERK COURTESY CLERK Please forward resumes to Frank.Bangma@sobeys.com fax (403) 347-4588 apply online at:

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FIREWOOD, birch, spruce & pine. North of Costco 403-346-7178, 392-7754

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Semi loads of pine, spruce, tamarack, poplar.

Price depends on location.

Lil Mule Logging 403-318-4346

Household Appliances

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KENMORE washer and Maytag dryer, large capacity, both $75 403-782-7439

Advocate Opportunities

ADULT Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the

RED DEER ADVOCATE Monday through Saturday.

Delivery to be done before 6:30 am.

Reliable vehicle needed.

WESTPARK & WESTLAKE

DOWNTOWN AREA $697./mo

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

PARKVALE AREA $484./mo.

INNISFAIL Penhold Olds Sylvan Lake

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.

Please call Debbie for details 403-314-4307

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

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

CARRIERS NEEDED FOR FLYERS, FRIDAY FORWARD & EXPRESS

3 days per week, no weekends

CARRIERS REQUIRED

THE RED DEER PUBLIC School District Invites applications for the position of Caretaker at Lindsay Thurber High School. 4:00 - 8:00 p.m.

Monday-Friday. For More information visit our website at: www.rdpsd.ab.ca Deadline for applications will be noon on December 18, 2014. applications forms may be forwarded to 4747- 53 Street, Red Deer, AB T4N 2E6.

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Abbot Close/Allan St. Addinell Close/Allan St. Adamson Ave/Arthur Close Alwright Close Anderson Close Anquetel Close

1 day a week in: LACOMBE BLACKFALDS

Please call Rick for details 403-314-4303

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

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)

INGLEWOOD AREA Illingworth Close Ingram Close Iverson Close Isbister Close

DOWNTOWN AREA

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.

MORRISROE AREA

South East Downtown and Parkvale area $212.28 mo.

Vista Village SUNNYBROOK AREA Savoy Cres./Sydney Close Stirling Close Sherwood Cres

DEER PARK AREA 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

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

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Vickers Close Vincent Close Viscount Drive

4400 Block of 41A Ave., 4000 Block of 46 + 47 St. Area.

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

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:

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

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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

Accounting

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

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.

Contractors

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Handyman Services

1200

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

Call James 403-341-0617

Massage Therapy

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Massage Therapy

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Escorts

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SPA

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5* JUNK REMOVAL

Property clean up 340-8666

GARAGE DOOR SERVICE. BODY BALANCING, New Save 50%. All yard & bobLocation. 403-352-8269 cat services, junk/tree/snow removal. 403-358-1614 DALE’S Home Reno’s CHINESE massage theraFree estimates for all your py. Direct bill. Gift card.

SNOW blowing, junk/metal reno needs. 403-506-4301 403-986-1691 4606-48 Ave p/u, odd jobs 403-885-5333 RMD RENOVATIONS Bsmt’s, flooring, decks, etc.

Moving & Call Roger 403-348-1060 International ladies Elite Retreat, finest in VIP treatment. 10-2am Private back entry.

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Painters/ Decorators

MASSAGE ABOVE ALL JG PAINTING, 25 yrs. exp.

WALK-INS WELCOME Free Est. 403-872-8888 4709 Gaetz Ave. 346-1161 LAUREL TRUDGEON Residential Painting and Misc.

Colour Consultations.

Services 403-342-7801.

BRIDGER CONST. LTD. We do it all! 403-302-8550

FANTASY

488407L5,6

STUDON Electric & Controls Inc. ATTN: Recruiting Fax # 403-342-6505 Email hr@studon.com

1660

Now Offering Hotter, Cleaner BC Birch. All Types. P.U. / Delivery. Lyle 403-783-2275

TOP WAGES, BENEFITS. EXP’D. DRIVERS Children's & SWAMPERS REQUIRED. Items MAPLE LEAF MOVING Call 403-347-8826 or fax resume to: 403-314-1457. LITTLE TYKES castle, 4 1/2 ft high, $100; wooden play kitchen set, 5 ft. long, $75. 403-227-5306

Johnstone Crossing Jenner Cres. & Judd Cl.

1699960AbLtd is looking for 2 F/T permanent shift supervisors for days, evenings, wknds. 120 - 47 Clearview Market Red Deer, AB. must have exc. customer service, cash handling, and supervisory related. wage $13.75 w/at least 1 year exp. email: restuarantbusiness@ hotmail.ca

Firewood

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

CLASSIFICATIONS

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

1630

Homestead Firewood

1500-1990

The easy way to find a buyer for items you want to sell is with a Red Deer Advocate want ad. Phone 309-3300.

EquipmentHeavy

TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, office, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.

stuff

403-340-1930 www.academicexpress.ca

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

900

SAFETY

Gov’t of Alberta Funding may be available.

EASY!

Sobeys Village Mall is now hiring for the following positions:

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 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

Red Deer Rocky Mtn. House Rimbey Caroline Castor Sylvan Lake Innisfail Stettler Ponoka Lacombe

40 Hour Week / Monday – Thursday

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

880

Misc.

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Professionals

Storage

1300

MOVING? Boxes? Appls. removal. 403-986-1315 Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds

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Seniors’ Services

1372

HELPING HANDS

Home Supports for Seniors.

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

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Household Furnishings

1720

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, Àts 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

1760

CHRISTMAS Tree, Blue Spruce, 4’. LIVE in ground.

Not yet cut, Perfect tree for small space. $60. obo 403-227-2976 DUVET COVER, Navy, King sz., like new $30.

403-346-2070 GARBAGE compactor $100 obo call 403-728-3485

Grain, Feed Hay

2190

LARGE round straw bales. $20 loaded. Can Supply Trucking. 403-340-9111

wegot

4000-4190

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rentals Realtors & Services FOR RENT • 3000-3200 WANTED • 3250-3390

CLASSIFICATIONS

Houses/ Duplexes

2 BDRM. Avail. Jan. 1 Vanier Woods, 6 appls. $1500 403-341-5005 www.RentBoard.ca 2 BDRM. main Áoor house, $1150. + DD. incld’s utils. quiet adults, n/s, no pets, no drugs. Ref’s required.

342-1207

Sturdy home on a large park like lot, 24x30 garage.

Lots of recent upgrades. $279,000. 4003-886-4540

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

Houses For Sale

4 BDRM. 2 1/2 bath, 5 appls, garage $1695 mo.

403-782-7156 or 357-7465

Hpman.ca

Christmas Special LAST ONE! RISER HOMES STARTER HOME

SYLVAN LAKE: fully furnished, inclds dishes, bedding, 50” tv, utils.

Avail. Now! $1200.

403-880-0210.

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

4 Plexes/ 6 Plexes

3050

ACROSS from park, 3 bdrm. 4-plex, 1 1/2 bath, 4 appls. Rent $1175/mo. d.d. $650. Avail. Jan. 1st 403-304-5337

Suites

3060

BACHELOR suite, avail. immed. $600 403-346-1825

1830

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

2 BALINESE KITTENS 1 SNOWSHOE SIAMESE 3 BURMAN $25/ea. 403-887-3649

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

2 KITTENS black/white to give away. GONE

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

Cats

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

1860

SKIS, 205 Mega Sport Tyrolia, and boots Sz. 10, Memo Salomon. $40. ea. or both for $70.

403-346-2070

Collectors' Items

NEWLY RENOVATED 1 & 2 bedroom suites available in central location. Heat & water included. Cat friendly.

86 Bell Street, Red Deer leasing@rentmidwest.com 1(888) 679-8031

2 bdrm., 2 bath.

Many upgraded features, Don’t Miss out on this 1170 sq.ft. 134 Morris Court To view call Lloyd Fiddler 403-391-9294 Total sale price $329,900.

Prices includes legal fees, GST, appliances, sod & tree.

MOVE IN READY! #2 Ardell Close T4N 2R4 CA0048054 $575,000 4 Bed/3 Baths Located in Anders Park East Dbl Heated Garage, So many Features in this 1770 Sq Ft. Executive Home. To View call Margaret Comeau RE/MAX 403.391.3399

MOVE IN TODAY

1550 sq. ft. bi-level w/dbl. att. garage $499,900 403-588-2550

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

TRAVEL ALBERTA Alberta offers SOMETHING for everyone.

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Mobile Lot

Springbrook must see!

3 bdrm. updated, garage and more! $239,900.

403-505-2707

Blackfalds near Abbey Centre. 2 bdrm, 2 bath, Double garage. $279,900. 403-600-1794

GREAT restaurant opportunity. Has been operated in the same location for 40 years. $39,900.

HELP-U-SELL RED DEER 403-342-7355

Lots For Sale

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wheels Eastview bungalow w/legal suite & dbl garage. New shingles hot water tank & high efÀciency furnace. $352,900

CLASSIFICATIONS 5000-5300

Cars Springbrook 1/2 duplex, 3 bdrm. hardwood, garage. $224,900. 877-8821

HELP-U-SELL OF RED DEER 403-342-7355

Condos/ Townhouses

4040

2001 Chev Malibu, 4 dr.

134,000 kms. 403-352-6995 1999 BUICK Regal, 4 dr., grey leather. 403-352-6995

5180

3 BRIDGESTONE DUELER 235/60/18 75% wear left $125 403-302-0987

Auto Wreckers

5190

RED’S AUTO. Free Scrap Vehicle & Metal Removal.

AMVIC APPROVED. We travel. May pay cash for vehicle. 403-396-7519

2 bdrm 18+ top Áoor condo at Cosgrove place. Wood Àreplace. $146,500.

403-350-1779

Affordable Penhold condo!

2 bdrm. updated, balcony, Laundry $139,900.

403-886-2095

For Sale By The Board of Trustees of Chinook’s Edge School Division No. 73 (the Board), has for conditional sale by tender in accordance with the Deposition of Property Regulation (A.R. 181/2010), a parcel of land comprising 2.1685 hectare (5.35 acres) more or less, in the City of Red Deer known as Lot 2 located at 4210 - 59 Street in the City of Red Deer (the west portion of the former River Glen School site). The Board will consider tenders from interested parties. A deposit of $500.00 (Five Hundred Dollars) should accompany the offer. This deposit will be nonfundable upon execution of a purchase and sale agreement.

Desireable location, upgraded, well kept condo across from Bower Shopping Mall. $147,900.

The subject property (Lot 2) is being subdivided from a larger parcel.

The subdivision has been conditionally approved but is not yet complete.

Completion of the subdivision, approval of the successful tender, if any, by motion of the Board, and written approval of the Minister of Education and/or Minister of Infrastructure, are all pre-conditions to any sale.

Immediate possession Sierras on Taylor condo in exceptional condition. $275,000.

HELP-U-SELL RED DEER 403-342-7355

A complete tender package is available on our website at www.chinooksedge.ab.ca.

Offers will be received until 2:00 P.M. on December 9, 2014 and should be sent to the attention of Mr. Allan Tarnoczi, Associate Superintendent, 4904 - 50 Street, Innisfail, Alberta T4G 1W4. For more information please call: 1-800-561-9229 or 403-227-7070.

478582K27-L6

5030

BMW, 39,000 kms., AWD, grey, 6 cyl. auto., A/C, heated leather, keyless ignition. Mint! 403-346-5718

Tires, Parts Acces.

Large Deerpark condo.

2 bdrm, 2 bath, den, laundry, top Áoor. $229,900.

TENDER

4160

BUILDERS. Duplex and single family lots for sale.

Great revenue potential! Terms available 10% down New hot water tank and high and start to build. Located efÀciency furnace. Mother in Lacombe. Buy direct from developer 403-396-1094 in law suite. $219,900.

PERMIT ready duplex lots Lacombe 403-348-1262

HELP-U-SELL OF RED DEER 403-342-7355

6020

4140

FLOWER Art & Gifts Store Sylvan Lake. 587-377-2023

3080 3190

MULTI-USE commercial/ residential, 2 large suites with separate shop & yard. $534,900. Help-U-Sell Red Deer 403-342-7355

Misc.

Automotive

QUIET home for working M/F, utils. wiÀ incl. N/S, $475/mo. 403-506-1907

4100

Income Property

Businesses For Sale

1 bdrm. adult building, N/S. No pets.

403-596-2444

PADS $450/mo.

Brand new park in Lacombe.

Spec Mobiles. 3 Bdrm., 2 bath. As Low as $75,000.

Down payment $4000. Call at anytime. 403-588-8820

Tenders

Well cared for property in Ponoka. Granite countertops and hardwood Áoor. $329,900. 403-396-7024

EASY!

1870 1900

4 bdrm, 2 bath backing onto park. Wrap around patio and Wood burning Àreplace. $283,900. 403-302-0620

The easy way to find a buyer for items you want to sell is with a Red Deer Advocate want ad. Phone 309-3300.

UNIQUE 1 bdrm. + small room for den, downtown, YOU can save thousands!

Helping sellers sell for a $825/mo., d.d. $825, no low set fee. No advance fee. pets, n/s, 403-346-0824 VINTAGE record storage Money back guarantee. footstool, beige, good cond. $25 403-314-9603

Travel Packages

Fresh makeover inc. paint, Áooring, skirting & deck.

Great location! $105,900.

403-350-5903. HELP-U-SELL RED DEER 403-342-7355

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Roommates Wanted

4090

FOR SALE! WHAT A DEAL! Fully Upgraded Double Wide Mobile home 6307 69 Street Located in Glendale 3 Bed/2 bath $85,000 CA0050115 Margaret Comeau RE/MAX 403.391.3399

Good revenue potential.

New Áooring fridge and dishwasher. Garage. $205,000. 403-302-1232

4020

3 BDRM. DUPLEX IN CLEARVIEW

$1425/month. This home has lots of space for a great price. 5 appl., large deck and fenced yard.

Avail. Jan.1. Call Lucie at 403-396-9554

1.38 ACREAS overlooking the Red Deer River Valley.

Only 6 miles from RD on pavement. $269,900.

HELP-U-SELL RED DEER 403-342-7355

Manufactured Homes

3020

2 BDRM Duplex overlooking Kin Canyon, 5 appls. 1.5 bath, NO PETS. $1200 incl. water, garbage & sewer, d.d. $1000. 403-346-3179

YOU can save thousands!

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Pets & Supplies

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HEADBOARD, for queen bed, 60” wide, $35; 3 Clean wool accent Condos/ matching 3x5 oval carpets, Townhouses $35. for all 3; David Winter Collector’s houses in SEIBEL PROPERTY original boxes, $25/ea; www.seibelprperty.com Upright Hoover Dirt Finder Ph: 403-304-7576 Vacuum Cleaner, or 403-347-7545 self propelled, allergen Christmas Special 6 locations in Red Deer Àltration, $50.

RISER HOMES ~ Halman Heights 403-352-8811 Move in Ready. ~ Riverfront Estates QUEEN patchwork quilt, Gorgeous 2 storey 1700 pillow, hand towels, face- ~ Westpark sq. ft. 3 bdrm., 2 1/2 bath, cloths, beige throw rug all ~ Kitson Close master bath has a spa for $25; Damask table ~ Kyte & Kelloway Cres. atmosphere 5 pc. ensuite, cloth 60” round, 8 match- ~ Holmes St. bonus room, indoor/outS.D. $1000 ing napkins, new in pkg, door Àreplace, front porch, Rent $1245 to $1445 $15 403-314-9603 too many upgrades to men3 bdrm. townhouses, SNOWBLOWER, Poulan, 1.5 bath, 4 & 5 appls., blinds, tion. A must see! $399,500 incds. GST, legal fees, 30”, 291cc, elec. start, used lrg. balconies, no dogs. appls. pkg, and front sod about 8 hrs. Purchased N/S, no utils. incl. entry.

To view call Lloyd 2013. 403-347-1637 Avail. immed. & Jan. 1 Fiddler 403-391-9294 References required.

VACUUM, Rainbow, older model from Estate, works well. Good for allergies, SOUTHWOOD PARK uses water, no dusty 3110-47TH Avenue, FREE Weekly list of Àlters. $200.

2 & 3 bdrm. townhouses, properties for sale w/details, 403-227-2976 generously sized, 1 1/2 prices, address, owner’s baths, fenced yards, phone #, etc. 342-7355 full bsmts. 403-347-7473, Musical Help-U-Sell of Red Deer Sorry no pets. www.homesreddeer.com Instruments www.greatapartments.ca CORNET (Trumpet) F.E.OLDS & Son, made in Los Angeles, $89.

403-877-0825

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5240

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Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

In this image provided by NASA, following splashdown of the Orion module, U.S. Navy crews from the USS Anchorage begin recovering the parachutes while other teams begin saving the spacecraft as it floats in the Pacific Ocean, Friday. Earlier in the day, Orion made a dramatic test flight that took it to a zenith height of 3,600 miles and ushered in a new era of human exploration aiming for Mars.

NASA’s Orion splashes down after first test flight

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA’s newest space vehicle, Orion, accomplished its first test flight with precision and pizazz Friday, shooting more than 3,600 miles out from Earth for a hyperfast, hot return not seen since the Apollo moon shots.

For a space agency still feeling the loss of its shuttles, the four-hour voyage opened a new era of human space exploration, with Mars as the plum. It even brought some rocket engineers to tears.

“There’s your new spacecraft, America,” Mission Control’s Rob Navias said as the unmanned Orion capsule came in for a Pacific splashdown after two orbits of Earth.

NASA is counting on future Orions to carry astronauts out into the solar system, to Mars and beyond.

The next Orion flight, also unmanned, is four years off, and crewed flights at least seven years away given present budget constraints. But the Orion team — spread across the country and out in the ocean, is hoping Friday’s triumphant splashdown will pick up the momentum.

“We challenged our best and brightest to continue to lead in space,” lead flight director Mike Sarafin said with emotion as he signed off from Mission Control in Houston. “While this was an unmanned mission, we were all on board Orion.”

W. Michael Hawes, a former NASA official who now leads the Orion program for prime contractor Lockheed Martin Corp., choked up as he recalled the pre-shuttle days.

“We started with all the Apollo guys still there. So we’ve kind of now finally done something for the first time for our generation,” he said, pausing for composure. “It’s a good thing.”

Orion splashed down 270 miles off Mexico’s Baja peninsula, just a mile from the projected spot — “a bull’seye” according to NASA. Navy ships quickly moved in to transport the crew module 600 miles to San Diego, where it was expected Monday. From there, it will be loaded onto a truck and returned to Cape Canaveral just in time for Christmas.

Preliminary test reports were encouraging: Not only did the capsule arrive intact, all eight parachutes deployed and onboard computers withstood the intense radiation of the Van Allen belts surrounding Earth. What’s more, everything meant to jettison away did so as Orion soared into space.

“It’s hard to have a better day than today,” said a beaming Mark Geyer, NASA’s Orion program manager.

Sensors placed inside and out of the crew module will tell the full story: “Our big focus now is to get that data from those 1,200 sensors so they can pore over it in the next month or so,” Geyer said.

Most critical was the heat shield covering Orion’s bottom, the largest of its kind ever made. NASA wanted to be sure it would hold before committing to a human mission.

Orion reached a peak altitude of 3,604 miles, higher than any crew module since NASA’s final manned moon mission, Apollo 17, in 1972. That’s more than 14 times higher than the International Space Station.

The capsule came in over the Pacific at 20,000 mph and endured 4,000 degrees. In just 11 minutes, it slowed to 20 mph for splashdown. A crew would have endured as much as 8.2 Gs, or 8.2 times the force of Earth gravity, double the Gs of a returning Russian Soyuz capsule, according to NASA. Earth shrank from view through Orion’s capsule window during its trip out into space, and stunning images were relayed back home. Having part of the window frame in the picture drove home the fact that this will be an astronaut’s view from inside, Geyer said.

“It’s different than a satellite taking a picture of the Earth ... very moving,” he said.

More spectacular views came from Orion’s return, recorded by an unmanned drone flying over the recovery zone. Helicopters also provided images of the crew module bobbing in the water. Three of the five air bags deployed properly, enough to keep the capsule floating upright. All but two parachutes were lost at sea.

This inaugural run was intended to be brief — just two laps around Earth, shorter than even John Glenn’s orbital achievement in 1962.

The same capsule will be reused around 2017 for a launch abort test, followed by a second Orion heading to space in 2018 aboard the SLS megarocket NASA is developing.

“The sight of the Orion on top of the Space Launch System is going to take your breath away, even before it takes flight,” promised astronaut Rex Walheim.

Officials expect it will be 2021 before Orion carries people, but NASA Administrator Charles Bolden Jr. was already calling Friday’s test “Day One of the Mars era.”

Indeed, the team working the Mars Curiosity rover tweeted a quick congrats: “We’re one step closer to bootprints next to these rover tracks.”

Lockheed Martin, which handled the $370 million test flight for NASA using a Delta IV rocket, already has begun work on a second Orion and plans to build a whole fleet. An asteroid redirected to lunar orbit is intended for the first stop in the 2020s, followed by Mars in the 2030s. Monthslong journeys would include habitats as well as the four-person capsules, which are bigger than the old-style Apollo and considerably enhanced.

“Everybody wants to go to Mars,” Walheim noted.

D4 RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, Dec. 6, 2014

Police brutality turns beat cops into killers KENYA

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NAIROBI, Kenya — In Kenya, where the police have long been known to harbour death squads, evidence mounts that many ordinary cops on the beat have turned into killers — doling out death to terror suspects, civilians, even children.

And shakedown victims like three cable guys who, on one hot day on a dusty street corner of a sprawling Nairobi slum, pleaded with police for a break.

They earned their living installing pirated cable, giving locals an illegal discount on Latin American soap operas and British soccer. But earlier that day, two plainclothes officers had confiscated their equipment, demanding a bribe for its return.

The police wanted 50,000 Kenyan shillings, roughly $550. When the cable guys said they only had $230, the officers threatened them, said Mohammed Gulow, the oldest of the three.

“He told us we are going to see fire and returned to the car,” said Gulow, 34. “We soon saw fire.”

The officer rolled down his window, aimed a pistol and shot twice, according to Gulow and his buddy, Adan Hussein. The first bullet hit Aliyow Alinoor and sent him reeling through a shanty door. The second bullet caught Hussein in the arm, shattering the bone.

Alinoor, 21, was pronounced dead at a nearby hospital. Hussein, 33, lost the use of his hand.

The May 13 shooting in Mukuru slum, recounted to The Associated Press by Gulow and Hussein, is one of hundreds of similar cases, according to other eyewitness accounts and interviews with human rights workers.

Underpaid, caught up in a brutal war with terrorists, too many police have become outlaws themselves. And the evidence suggests that the killers are rarely punished.

Concerns about impunity were also raised when the International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor in The Hague on Friday dropped all “crimes against humanity” charges against Ke-

nya’s president for lack of evidence.

That case was linked to violence after the 2007 elections.

Police said the shooting in Mukuru is being investigated. Gulow says no action has yet been taken against the officers.

Dr. Eric Thuo, a forensic specialist at the Independent Medico-Legal Unit, a Kenyan human rights organization, studied gunshot-related deaths in six major urban areas between 2009 and 2014. By examining post-mortem records, he found 1,873 gun deaths. Police were involved in nearly two-thirds of them, many of them suspected assassinations.

“Illegal killings are the norm rather than the exception,” Thuo wrote in his report.

Thuo’s findings, which he says are conservative, contradict Kenya’s official statistics. Thuo was told by the Independent Police Oversight Authority that only 120 people were fatally shot by police between September 2012 and February 2014.

But Thuo’s post-mortem reports indicated that nearly twice that many died from police fire in six cities alone — Nairobi, Mombasa, Eldoret, Kisumu, Kakamega and Nyeri.

Kenyan police spokeswoman Zipporah Mboroki declined to comment about the allegations of police executions. The Independent Police Oversight Authority would not comment on how many of the police killings were suspected of being extrajudicial assassinations.

But some officers acknowledged the killings, and even their own participation — though they would not be identified, for fear of reprisals. Three senior officers who spoke to AP confirmed that such killings were common. Bosses are well aware of what’s going on, the officers said, adding that, in some cases, the orders to kill suspects come from the bosses themselves.

The constant killings are spreading fear, breeding corruption and have the potential to inflame Kenya’s terrorism problem.

“The broader picture here is one of utter impunity,” said Leslie Lefkow, deputy director of Human Rights Watch’s Africa Division. “My fear is that the pattern of extrajudicial killings will only worsen.”

Some of the deaths, like Alinoor’s,

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

In this Monday, Jan. 28, 2008, file photo, Kenyan men from the Luo tribe armed with machetes and rocks enforce a makeshift roadblock, searching passing vehicles for Kikuyus trying to flee the town in order to kill them, during postelection violence on the main road to the Ugandan border near the airport in Kisumu, Kenya. The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor dropped all crimes against humanity charges against Kenya’s president Uhuru Kenyatta on Friday, Dec. 5, 2014 highlighting the court’s problems in bringing to justice the high-ranking officials it has accused of atrocities. come from alleged shakedowns gone wrong. Others are committed to make a point: One officer said he had had taken part in a killing in the capital.

“I took part in an extrajudicial killing at the time there was pressure to reduce muggings downtown and we needed to send a message,” the officer said, without giving details on who was killed.

Others come from increased police vigilance in poor neighbourhoods - like the Somali enclave of Eastleigh, just outside Nairobi - in an attempt to fight terror, an effort that has been financed by the United States and other Western nations.

The Islamic militant group al-Shabab has been fighting for years to establish Islamic rule in neighbouring Somalia. When Kenya sent in troops, the group, which is linked to al-Qaida, retaliated with terrorist attacks. It claimed responsibility for the Westgate shopping mall attack in Nairobi

last year that left 67 dead, along with two recent massacres of non-Muslim civilians.

Observers say Kenya’s bid to crush al-Shabab is often used as cover for a wide variety of abuses.

The bodies of Yusuf Mohamed and four of his friends - Mohamed Kaburu, Kevin Kahuri, Simon Kingori and Martha Wairimu - were discovered deep in a forest near the central Kenyan city of Nyeri on April 17. The men had been shot in the head. Wairimu’s corpse was hanging from a nearby tree.

The last time Mohamed and his friends were seen alive, his family said, they were in police custody.

The five friends, aged between 20 and 25, had been watching a soccer match at a local pub. After the match, police arrested the four men and drove them toward the Nyeri police station.

Wairimu was not arrested, but she followed them in a taxi with cash to bail them out.

Police complain of being demonized SAY CHOKEHOLD VICTIM COMPLICIT IN HIS OWN DEATH

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In this Oct. 24, 2014 file photo, Secretary of State John Kerry speaks at the State Department in Washington.

Kerry asked Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Sen. Dianne Feinstein on Friday to “consider” the timing of the expected release in coming days of a report on harsh CIA interrogation techniques.

Kerry asks intelligence officer to consider timing of CIA report’s release

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Secretary of State John Kerry asked the head of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Comm8ittee on Friday to “consider” the timing of the expected release of a long-awaited report on the CIA’s harsh interrogation techniques.

The official said Kerry called Sen. Dianne Feinstein to talk about the implications of publicly releasing a declassified summary of her committee’s report given the combustible situations in various world hotspots. The official, however, said the administration’s support for the summary’s release remained unchanged. The official was not authorized to discuss the private call by name and spoke on condition of anonymity.

Tom Mentzer, a spokesman for the California Democrat, said he had no immediate comment.

The Senate Intelligence Committee is poised to release early next week the first public accounting of the CIA’s use of torture on al-Qaida detainees held in secret facilities in Europe and Asia in the years after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

It will come in the form of a 480-page executive summary of the 6,200-page report by Democrats on the committee, who spent six years reviewing millions of secret CIA documents.

According to many U.S. officials who have read it, the document includes disturbing new details about the CIA’s use of such techniques as sleep deprivation, confinement in small spaces, humiliation and the simulated drowning process known as waterboarding. President Barack Obama has acknowledged, “We tortured some folks.”

But the report goes much further than to simply condemn the brutal methods, which Obama banned in 2009 and were repudiated by the three most recent CIA directors. It alleges that the harsh interrogations failed to produce unique and life-saving intelligence.

And it asserts that the CIA systematically lied about

the covert program to officials at the White House, the Justice Department and congressional oversight committees.

That sweeping indictment is hotly disputed both by the former officials who defend the techniques as necessary pressure short of torture, and by current CIA officials who believe that the use of the harsh methods were a mistake. Both groups insist that some of the detainees subject to what were euphemistically dubbed “enhanced interrogation techniques” did provide crucial intelligence, including clues that helped the CIA find al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden hiring in Pakistan.

In an op-ed posted Friday on the Washington Post website, Jose Rodriguez, who ran the interrogation program as a top CIA operations officer, repeated longstanding assertions that Democratic lawmakers who are now criticizing it were fully briefed on it at the time.

“In the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, lawmakers urged us to do everything possible to prevent another attack on our soil,” he wrote. “Members of Congress and the administration were nearly unanimous in their desire that the CIA do all that it could to debilitate and destroy al-Qaeda. The CIA got the necessary approvals to do so and kept Congress briefed throughout. But as our successes grew, some lawmakers’ recollections shrank in regard to the support they once offered.”

However, Feinstein, in remarks on the Senate floor in March, said the CIA in briefings to Congress had fundamentally mischaracterized the nature of the interrogations, which she called “chilling,” ”brutal“ and ”un-American.“ “The interrogations and the conditions of confinement at the CIA detention sites were far different and far more harsh than the way the CIA had described them to us,” Feinstein said.

The expected release of the report has raised concerns about potential backlash to Americans and U.S. interests around the world.

NEW YORK — Eric Garner was overweight and in poor health. He was a nuisance to shop owners who complained about him selling untaxed cigarettes on the street. When police came to arrest him, he resisted. And if he could repeatedly say, “I can’t breathe,” it means he could breathe.

Rank-and-file New York City police officers and their supporters have been making such arguments even before a grand jury decided against charges in Garner’s death, saying the possibility that he contributed to his own demise has been drowned out in the furor over race and law enforcement.

Officers say the outcry has left them feeling betrayed and demonized by everyone from the president and the mayor to throngs of protesters who scream at them on the street.

“Police officers feel like they are being thrown under the bus,” said Patrick Lynch, president of the police union.

The grand jury this week cleared a white patrolman, Daniel Pantaleo, who was caught on video applying what appeared to be an illegal chokehold on the black man. Mayor Bill de Blasio said the case underscores the NYPD’s need to improve relations with minorities.

But Lynch said: “What we did not hear is this: You cannot go out and break the law. What we did not hear is that you cannot resist arrest. That’s a crime.”

At the noisy demonstrations that have broken out over the past few days, protesters have confronted police who had nothing to do with the case. Signs read: “NYPD: Blood on your hands,” ”Racism kills“ and ”Hey officers, choke me or shoot me.“ Some demonstrators shouted, ”NYPD pigs!“ More than 280 people have been arrested, and more demonstrations were planned Friday.

In private and on Internet chat rooms, officers say they feel demoralized, misunderstood and “all alone.”

Some are advising each other that the best way to preserve their careers is to stop making arrests like that of Garner’s, in defiance of the NYPD’s campaign of cracking down on minor “quality of life” offences as a way to discourage serious crime.

“Everyone is just demonizing the police,” said Maki Haberfeld, a professor of police studies at John Jay College of criminal justice. “But police follow orders and laws. Nobody talks about the responsibility of the politicians to explain to the community why quality-of-life enforcement is necessary.”

The fatal encounter occurred in July after Pantaleo and other police officers responded to complaints about Garner, a heavyset 43-year-old father of six.

The video showed Garner telling officers to leave him alone and refusing to be handcuffed. Pantaleo, an eight-year veteran, appeared to wrap his arm around Garner’s neck and take him down to the ground with the help of other officers.

Garner could be heard saying, “I can’t breathe,” several times before he went motionless.

The medical examiner later found that a chokehold resulted in Garner’s death, but also that asthma, obesity and cardiovascular disease were contributing factors.

While many have decried the death of another black man at the hands of a white officer, no evidence has come to light to suggest that Pantaleo’s actions were racially motivated. His supervising sergeant at the scene was black, and so were some of the officers involved in the confrontation.

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Share more with overbearing parents Dear Harlan; I am currently strug- be honest, they tell me that its my own gling with my relationship with my fault. parents.

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Dear Harlan; I was in a relationship for two years, but my boyfriend was always a flirt and even cheated on me several times, always with girls. But after we broke up, I found out he had sex with a guy. Was our whole relationship a lie? Is he most likely gay?— Making Sense of It Dear Making Sense; Lots of women sleep with gay men and bisexual men.

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Dear Harlan; I have feelings for one of my coworkers from my job this past summer, but factors like distance and being pretty close friends has me wondering if I should admit it to him.

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You have strong feelings for one of your friends. You are giving this friend a chance to date you when he’s ready.

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Canada loses 10,700 jobs in November JOBLESS RATE UP SLIGHTLY TO 6.6 PER CENT

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The overall drop in Canada’s job market last month was so small it fell within the survey’s rounding error, but experts remained optimistic Friday about the country’s labour prospects for the future.

Statistics Canada’s latest batch of monthly data showed the economy shed 10,700 net jobs last month and nudged the unemployment rate up slightly to 6.6 per cent.

RBC’s assistant chief economist Paul Ferley said the bank smoothes out the monthly data’s volatility by taking averages over a number of months.

In that respect, November’s numbers appeared “a little bit disappointing,” but looking over the longer term Canada’s labour force has seen “a respectable increase,” Ferley said.

Over the last 12 months, the Statistics Canada’s survey found there were 146,000 net new jobs across the country.

November’s data followed healthy back-to-back employment increases of 43,100 jobs in October and 74,100 in September. The October rise had dropped the unemployment rate to 6.5 per cent, it’s lowest level since November 2008.

National Bank senior economist Krishen Ran-

gasamy said with the help of the September and October gains, Canada has seen an acceptable improvement.

“Overall it’s not stellar because it’s way below what we used to have before the recession, but we’re creating jobs,” Rangasamy said.

He predicts better days are coming for Canada, particularly as the U.S. economy builds momentum.

On Friday, fresh data showed strong employment growth in the U.S. economy, which added 321,000 jobs last month.

“The U.S. economy is on an up trend and of course we’re going to see the benefits on the trade side,” he said.

“In our view, job creation will pick up next year in line with a stronger Canadian economy.”

The Canadian job market lost 45,600 private-sector jobs last month and added 22,600 positions in the public sector. Meanwhile, the number of selfemployed workers moved up by 12,300 jobs.

By industry, retail and wholesale trade lost 41,600 jobs in November, while there were 32,900 fewer positions in professional, scientific and technical services. But even with these declines, both sectors had changed little over the past year.

The youth unemployment rate for November increased by 0.4 percentage points to 13 per cent, but the survey found 56,400 more young people were

working compared to the year before.

Provincially, Ontario dropped 33,900 net jobs in November, which pushed its unemployment rate up half a percentage point to seven per cent.

The biggest provincial gain was detected in Quebec, where 19,600 net new jobs were added last month.

The marginal November rise in the unemployment rate matched projections of economists, who had also expected the economy to add 5,000 jobs, according to Thomson Reuters.

“The November jobs report saw the Canadian economy giving back some of the past months’ gains,” Brian DePratto of TD Economics wrote Friday in a note to clients.

“It should be cautioned though, that one month doesn’t make a trend.”

He pointed out that Canada saw significant gains in full-time employment in recent months, rising by 101,500 jobs between August and November.

DePratto said TD expects to see “continued modest trend employment growth” down the road, thanks to expectations the Canadian dollar will stay relatively low and help from the improving U.S. economy.

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Fed Chair Janet Yellen has cited stagnant wages as a key reason to keep rates low. Higher wages could lead to higher prices, and the Fed might feel compelled to raise rates to limit inflation.

Still, over the past 12 months, hourly pay has risen just 2.1 per cent, barely above the 1.7 per cent inflation rate. And Scott Anderson, an economist at Bank of the West, noted that inflation remains below the Fed’s 2 per cent target rate and will likely remain tame because of lower energy prices. That might give the Fed some leeway to wait.

The Fed has kept its benchmark rate near zero for six years to encourage more borrowing and spending.

Investors welcomed Friday’s positive news: The Dow Jones industrial average jumped 69 points in late-afternoon trading. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note rose to 2.31 per cent, from 2.25 per cent, a sign that investors likely foresee a Fed rate increase fairly soon.

So far this year, the economy has gained 2.65 million jobs. With one month to go, 2014 is already the best year for hiring in 15 years.

EDMONTON — Alberta’s environment minister says the province plans to use the upcoming climate change conference in Peru to discuss a uniform price for carbon across Canada and the rest of the continent.

“We would like to work with the rest of Canada - and by extension the rest of North America - on trying to establish the consistent, fair price on carbon,” Kyle Fawcett told The Canadian Press in an interview before he headed to Lima for the UN-sponsored conference.

“I know that’s not going to be an easy thing, but it’s something we want to be leaders in, and that will take engaging some of the other jurisdictions in this country to begin with.”

Fawcett said any agreement would have to be applied equally across borders and across economies, despite the inevitable attempts to include exemptions and special breaks for favoured industries.

Fawcett acknowledged that would put pressure on Alberta’s current carbon tax, which applies only to major emitters and only on greenhouse gas emissions above a government-mandated level. Most carbon tax models, such as British Columbia’s, apply much more broadly.

As well, Alberta’s $15-dollar-a-tonne price is considered too low to achieve actual reductions in emissions.

Fawcett said the government understands that to get a consistent price across jurisdictions, it may have to be higher.

“We’re well aware of that and that’s part of ongoing discussions,” he said.

“There hasn’t been any decisions (about a higher price). I’m not willing to comment on whether there will be increased costs or no increased costs until we’ve made those final decisions.”

Some of those decisions will be reflected in the province’s new environment strategy, which Fawcett said should be released before the end of the year.

He hinted it will go beyond industry.

“Each and every individual has a role to play in emissions management and I think that’s going to be very clear as we roll out our emissions plans.”

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A pair of specialists work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Friday. The main focus in the markets Friday was the monthly U.S. jobs survey from the Labor Department, which showed U.S. employers added 321,000 jobs last month, the biggest burst of hiring in nearly three years.

U.S. on pace for best job gains in 15 years

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON - The resurgence in U.S. hiring accelerated in November and put 2014 on track to be the healthiest year for job growth since 1999.

The gain of a robust 321,000 jobs — the most in nearly three years - put further distance between a strengthening American economy and struggling nations throughout the developed world. The job market still isn’t yet fully healthy. But its steady improvement raises the likelihood that the Federal Reserve will start raising interest rates from record lows by mid-2015.

The unemployment rate remained at a six-year low of 5.8 per cent, the Labor Department said Friday.

“These were boom-like numbers,” said Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics. “They indicate that the U.S. economy is on very solid ground.”

Friday’s report also raised hopes that Americans’ pay might finally be starting to increase after barely budging since the Great Recession began seven years ago. The average hourly wage rose 9 cents to $24.66, the biggest gain in 17 months.

Many ways to stay warm in winter for those who work outside Dear Working Wise: This is my first winter working as a roofer. We’ve already had a cold snap and I know that it’s going to get worse.

Do you have any tips on staying warm? — Chilled Dear Chilled: Working in the cold can be uncomfortable and even dangerous. Your employer should be monitoring the outside temperature and taking steps to protect you.

However, you also have a role to play in protecting yourself and your coworkers. You and your coworkers are the ones most likely to notice frostbite, hypothermia or dehydration.

Here are some tips to help you stay safe and warm this winter.

Dress in layers.

Layers allow you to adjust as the temperature, wind and your physical activity level changes. This prevents you from getting too cold or hot — causing you to sweat.

Damp clothing wicks away body heat and causes you to feel colder faster.

Stay out of the wind.

A mild 20 km/h wind can make -20C feel like -30C. If you can’t work inside, try building a windbreak.

Take frequent breaks.

Employers should provide a heated rest area. A schedule of regular rest breaks, based on the conditions, should be established to allow workers to

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Workers should be allowed to decide how often they need to take breaks — the schedule is just to ensure that you don’t forget to stop and warm up.

Limit your exposure.

Get your tools and nails ready before you go outside.

Work on small projects inside and then carry them outside for installation.

Work outside during the CHARLES warmer hours of the day and STRACHEY work inside during the colder ones.

WORKING Drink warm liquids to help you warm up and alternate WISE with water or a sports drink.

Caffeine speeds up your metabolism, causing you to sweat and possibly dehydrate and lose electrolytes.

Cover your head and hands.

The greater the surface area of your skin is exposed, the more heat your body loses. Be careful, scarves and gloves can get caught in moving equipment.

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Use enclosures and heating systems when possible.

Be sure the area is well ventilated to prevent the build up of carbon monoxide.

Know the signs of frostbite.

A tingling sensation or skin that looks pale and waxy are the first signs of frostbite. Your hands, face and feet are at the greatest risk, because your body diverts blood away from your extremities first when it starts getting cold.

Know the signs of hypothermia.

Severe shivering is an early sign of hypothermia.

A severely shivering worker should be warmed up immediately.

Watch out for hazards.

Snow can hide tripping hazards like extension cords or even icy surfaces. Wear proper footwear and mark or remove hazards.

Ask your co-workers.

The people you work with have learned what works and what doesn’t. Check out what they wear and ask them what they recommend.

For more information and tips, read the Best Practice — Working Safely in the Heat and Cold publication at http://goo.gl/YYHPqq. Working Wise is compiled by Charles Strachey, a manager with Alberta Human Services, for general information. He can be contacted at charles.strachey@gov. ab.ca.

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Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 127.57 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 15.02 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 16.05 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 59.19 MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO - The Toronto stock market eked out a small gain on Friday as crude oil prices settled at a five-year low.

The S&P/TSX composite index closed relatively flat, up 3.75 points to 14,473.70. The TSX was down 1.8 per cent for the week.

The Canadian dollar ended at 87.47 cents US, down 0.44 of a cent, after a slight increase in the country’s unemployment rate in November.

TSX energy stocks pulled back 0.1 per cent as January’s crude oil contract on the New York Mercantile Exchange fell 97 cents at US$65.84 a barrel - its lowest level since May 2009.

Crude oil prices have plunged about 38 per cent since mid-summer because of lower demand and a glut of supply, due in large measure to greatly increased production in the U.S. Midwest.

Economists and traders have questioned how much further the price could decline in the coming months.

“From my experience, the market overshoots to the upwards or downside,” said Allan Small, a senior adviser at HollisWealth.

“So it wouldn’t surprise me if the price of oil fell a lot more and became something ridiculous before it snapped back to a more reasonable level.”

Helping keep the TSX positive were mining stocks, which rose 1.2 per cent, and the information technology sector, which climbed 2.5 per cent following a deal by OpenText (TSX:OTC).

The Waterloo, Ont., business software company announced it was buying software analytics company Actuate Corp., based in Silicon Valley, for US$330 million. OpenText intends to fund the takeover with cash on hand, and said the agreement has already been approved by boards at both companies. Shares of OpenText rose 2.9 per cent, or $1.91, to $68.

Financial stocks on the TSX were 0.09 per cent lower, weighed by a selloff in banks, as the country’s biggest financial institutions wrapped up a disappointing earnings season.

Profits at Scotiabank (TSX:BNS) weakened in the fourth quarter as it recognized severance expenses for a recently announced downsizing and other items. The bank’s net income fell 14 per cent from last year to $1.438 billion. Its shares fell $1.38 to $66.20.

National Bank (TSX:NA) boosted its profits a modest three per cent to $330 million and said its quarterly dividend will rise by four per cent to 50 cents per common share with the next payment. Its shares were off 70 cents to $49.70.

In commodities, February bullion dropped $17.30 to US$1,190.40 an ounce, while March copper declined about a penny to US$2.90 a pound.

On Wall Street, the Dow Jones industrials gained 58.69 points to 17,958.79. The Nasdaq picked up 11.32 points to

Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 18.00 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 13.44 Tim Hortons . . . . . . . . . . 96.97 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84.12 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 34.04 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 13.21 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 19.39 First Quantum Minerals . 17.93 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 22.31 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 8.77 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 3.55 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . 17.44 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 40.42 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.48 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 16.64 Energy Arc Resources . . . . . . . . 25.26 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 29.57 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 57.02 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.09 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 39.00 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 37.14 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . 11.21 Canyon Services Group. . 8.73 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 24.39 CWC Well Services . . . 0.5300 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 16.84 Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 1.54 4,780.76 while the S&P 500 index inched ahead 3.45 points to 2,075.37.

U.S. employers added 321,000 jobs in November, the biggest burst of hiring in nearly three years. The U.S. Labor Department also said Friday that 44,000 more jobs were added in September and October combined than the government had previously estimated.

Meanwhile, Canada’s unemployment rate nudged up in November to 6.6 per cent as 10,700 jobs were lost last month. However, Statistics Canada said the decline was within its survey’s margin of error and noted that it followed two months of strong employment growth.

In other corporate news, the merger between Tim Hortons Inc. (TSX:THI) and Burger King Worldwide Inc. was approved late Thursday by the federal government, with a list of stipulations that include a five-year promise on jobs for employees at its restaurant locations and a continuation of its current community support levels. Tim Hortons shares gained 1.7 per cent, or $1.58, to $96.97.

MARKET HIGHLIGHTS Highlights at the close of Friday at world financial market trading.

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index 14,473.70, up 3.75 points Dow - 17,958.79, up 58.69 points S&P 500 - 2,975.37, up 3.45 points Nasdaq - 4,780.76, up 11.32 points Currencies: Cdn - 87.47 cents US, down 0.44 of a cent Pound - C$1.7802, down 0.29 of a cent Euro - C$1.4050, down 0.38 of a cent Euro - US$1.2290, down 0.95 of a cent Oil futures: US$65.84 per barrel, down 97 cents (January contract)

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The consecutive autumn increases marked the first stretch since December 2012 that the agency’s see-saw jobs survey results recorded two straight months of employment growth, outside the margin of error.

On Friday, Statistics Canada also released data on Canadian international merchandise trade for October.

The agency found that merchandise imports increased by 0.5 per cent to $44.8 billion, while exports crept up by 0.1 per cent to $44.9 billion. Canada’s trade surplus with the world narrowed from $307 million to $99 million between September and October.

Statistics Canada also produced third-quarter data for labour productivity of Canadian businesses, which it said moved up 0.1 per cent after recording a two per cent rise in the second quarter.

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Canada’s chief veterinary officer, Harpreet Kochhar, says agencies are looking for any sign the virus has moved beyond the four farms in the Fraser Valley east of Vancouver.

Test results Thursday identified the flu strain as H5N2. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says it’s the same variety as three previous outbreaks in Canada.

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STORIES FROM D6

GAINS: Millions have given up looking for a job That is partly a reflection of the anemic pace of hiring for much of the recovery. Only this year, five years after the recession officially ended, have job gains reached levels historically associated with a strong economy.

Even now, the job market remains far from fully recovered. There are 6.9 million people with parttime jobs, for example, who would prefer full-time work - up from 4.1 million before the recession.

And millions have given up looking for jobs. That has been a factor in the declining unemployment rate: Once people stop seeking a job, they’re no longer counted as unemployed.

A broader measure of unemployment, which includes involuntary part-time workers and people who have stopped looking for a job, stands at 11.4 per cent.

In addition, the number of unemployed people who have been out of work for more than six months is 2.8 million, more than double its pre-recession level.

“At this rate, we won’t return to pre-recession labour market health until October 2016 - nearly nine years since the recession began,” said Elise Gould, an economist at the liberal Economic Policy Institute.

Even among the Americans who have found jobs, many are earning less than they did before the recession.

One of them is Stephen Tripp, 40, who’s starting a job this month in the Minneapolis area as a cook at Aramark, a corporate food-services provider, after years of intermittent work at country clubs and restaurants.

The job pays much less than the $75,000 he made as an executive chef in 2007.

“I’m kind of taking steps back in the hopes of moving forward,” Tripp said.

Hiring last month was boosted by seasonal hiring related to the holiday shopping season. Retailers added 50,200 jobs, the most in 11 months. Transportation and warehousing gained 16,700.

Shipping companies have announced ambitious plans, after some holiday gifts that were ordered online arrived late last year.

UPS has said it expects to add up to 95,000 seasonal workers, up from 85,000 last year. FedEx plans to hire 50,000, up from 40,000.

But solid job growth ranged across many industries in November.

A measure of industries that added jobs reached its highest point since 1998.

Manufacturers added 28,000 jobs, the most in a year, and education and health services 38,000.

Professional and technical services, a category that includes higher-paying jobs such as accountants, engineers and architects, gained 37,500 positions, the most in 3 ½ years.

Construction firms added 20,000.

The surge in hiring comes after the economy expanded from April through September at its fastest six-month pace in 11 years.

Many analysts foresee the economy growing 3 per cent next year. If so, 2015 would mark the first time in a decade that annual growth reached that threshold.

Overall, the improving U.S. job market contrasts with weakness elsewhere around the globe. Growth among the 18 European nations in the euro alliance is barely positive, and the eurozone’s unemployment rate is 11.5 per cent.

Japan is in recession. China’s growth has slowed.

Other large developing countries, including Russia and Brazil, are straining to grow.

The U.S. economy is less dependent on exports than are Germany, China and Japan. American growth is fueled more by its large domestic market and free-spending consumers.

Most of the industries that have enjoyed the strongest job gains depend on the U.S. market, such as retailers, restaurants, and education and health care.

Seva, a chain of fast-casual spas located mainly inside Wal-Mart stores, has been adding jobs while expanding from about 75 to 100 sites. It plans to open more free-standing spas in Georgia and Illinois next year.

CEO Vas Maniatis says customers have grown willing to splurge on higher-priced services such as body waxing and facials.

“People want the services,” he said. “They are willing to spend more money.”

CARBON: Past point of debating science of climate change Industry has been involved in developing those plans, he said.

Although Fawcett suggested Alberta has “a good story to tell” on the environment, the province is often painted as a ecological villain. Its greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise, new information is being released on toxins released by the oilsands and concerns keep growing about the energy industry’s impact on the environment.

He acknowledged Alberta has a ways to go in convincing a skeptical world at conferences such as the one in Lima that the province is serious about improving its environmental record.

“We know that we haven’t necessarily been on track there. That means we have to redouble our efforts and think smarter about what it’s going to take to get there.

“We know that when we make commitments to the world, that there’s a trust factor there, and when you make those commitments you’re expected to meet those.”

Fawcett said it’s still possible for Alberta to do its share to meet announced federal targets that would bring greenhouse gas emissions 17 per cent below 2005 levels by 2020.

“It’s not going to be an easy task, but it is a possible one. There’s a lot of discussion that needs to happen on how to make that work.

“We’re past the point where there’s any debate around the science of climate change.”

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Festive décor — with a masculine slant

Question: How do you decorate for Christmas whilst retaining a modicum of (traditional) manly reserve?

Panic not — we can help.

As much as we recognize an army of ‘new’ Canadian men who know exactly how to decoCOLIN & rate, we still meets JUSTIN legions of fellas who, by their own admission, need a helping hand and a little gender-specific guidance.

Scrutinized carefully, our male-oriented festive guide will stop your home from tipping over and becoming a total turkey.

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If your space is on the bland side, add rich reds, natural elements and gold to enliven. Transform a scented candle into a masculine style statement by placing in a glass storm lamp. Head into HomeSense and peek at their fabulous festive displays. Their Christmas vignettes are always wonderful and packed with design inspiration.

1. If your starting point is on the dark side, lighten proceedings with sparkly finishes, silver or purest white. And don’t feel you have to spend a fortune to make a big statement: we recently completed a TV styling segment using HomeSense festive decor and the results were utterly top notch.

2. Transform a scented candle into a masculine style statement by placing in a glass storm lamp. Try the Vancouver Candle Company (www.vancouver-candle-company.myshopify.com) for fabulous options. Made in BC — but shippable cross country — they’re dreamy to the max.

3. Go easy on garlands — it’s Christmas, dude, not Sydney Mardi Gras. A few tasteful accessories will enhance, rather than compete with, your existing décor.

If you create a scene that looks forced (please: no black synthetic trees) your dinner date will leave it at, erm, dinner.

Jeesh — forget romance: she will run from your gaudy balls and baubles.

4. In addition to a preferably real (and forest-sustainable) tree, your fireplace makes a great focal point, so butch it up with decorative garlands and candles.

Provide drama with holly, white berries and rich red poinsettias and add sparkle with a polished nickel reindeer stocking hook from Marshalls. Just manly enough.

5. If you don’t have a mantelpiece, transform a dresser or sideboard into a funky eye-catcher. Swag with greenery and black satin bows, pile with fruit and nuts and embellish with chocolate and candles. Dreamy!

6. For a quirky talking point, peg cards onto a bunch of sturdy twigs and place in a large vase. Or decorate with jewel wrapped liquor chocolates: wrap wire round each and suspend from branches.

If you neck just a couple of these, rather than sinking an entire bottle of wine, you’ll impress your prospect with holiday abstinence.

7. Avoid splashing out on too many exclusively Christmas items. Instead, fix classy foil snowflake stickers to champagne flutes and side plates for temporary sparkle without the expense. Your other half will be impressed as you tailor festive spending.

8. Hang a holiday wreath on your door to provide a warm welcome and, if your florist is making the garland, ask for the off cuts and use on the mantelpiece to unite ‘indoor and outdoor’ looks. Come on fellas — we’re having a credit crunch so don’t waste a dime!

9. Pile natural cones into baskets interspersed with a few sprayed gold or silver. Come on guys — crafting isn’t just for girls. Add some manly baubles to the mix. It’s a great — and inexpensive — way to proffer an organic look with a little added shimmer.

10. Scatter wrapped chocolate coins across your Christmas lunch table for delicious added bling. It’s a fabulous way to persuade the kids to behave on the promise of a post-prandial ‘hoover up’, Your other half will be so impressed by this ingenuity that the chimney festive stockings won’t be the only ones you end up taking down.

11. Hide a diamond or jewel (don’t panic; it doesn’t have to be of Koh-i-Noor proportions) inside a cracker and watch her weep with joy as she tugs the banger apart. ...

12. Head into HomeSense and peek at their fabulous festive displays. Their Christmas vignettes are always wonderful and packed with design inspiration.

An inspiring swoop around the aisles should help erase any remaining festive confusion.

Happy decorating, Mr. Christmas. And we’ll see you next week for further inspiration. This time gender non specific!

Colin and Justin are regular home and design experts in print and on TV. Find their international product range in stores like HomeSense, Winners and Marshalls. facebook.com/ColinJustin, twitter.com/colinjustin, colinandjustin.tv.

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Easy entertaining style Dear Debbie: I love to entertain, but have little storage for special dishes and trays. Have you any ideas for stylish entertaining in small spaces?

Thanks. — Beverley Dear Beverley: This is an exciting season, when plans to host holiday celebrations abound.

There is no need for big rooms and scores of fancy dishware to make your parties special.

The secret is organization and a few versatile pieces of furniture.

One of my personal favourites is the bar cart, which DEBBIE can be wheeled around to any TRAVIS location and then tucked into a corner when not in use.

West Elm’s MidCentury Bar Cart shown here has yearround style and sets up well for any party. Your selection of refreshments and glassware plus a small seasonal bouquet will help set the theme. If you love the look, the Mid-Century wood design repeats in bottle stoppers and a cocktail shaker. Also, look for bar tools that hang on a rack; they save space and display well (www.westelm.com).

There is a variety of trays available that serve double purpose. Two sizes, small 18-inch-by-14-inch and large 28-inch-by-18-inch give you the option of grouping the trays or stand-alone.

Look for a unique finish, such as a mirrored or herringbone pattern.

Coloured lacquered trays in a range of shades from orange, yellow and blue to natural raffia, espresso and black are perfect for holding a mix of jewelry, keys, cards and loose change on a bedroom dresser, but also make bright serving trays for party food or piled with napkins and silverware for your guests.

You can find silver and pewter serving trays at flea markets and second hand stores. They look fabulous for the holidays.

Cutting boards and cheese boards are everyday items that can add to your party décor. Shop for small cutting knives that have character to match your theme; these are easily stored.

Tiered serving plates save space on the table and always look inviting with layers of goodies from which to choose.

Edit what you have on hand, and choose a selection of items that have dual purpose, for every day and fan-

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A good coat of primer sealer should have been applied to the fresh drywall. So now you have two choices. It is possible to remove the paper without damaging the drywall by soaking the paper with water.

You can rent water compressors to soak down the paper. Let the water soak in for at least ten minutes so that it has time to loosen the wallpaper glue. Then use a scraper to lift the paper off. It should come away without marking the drywall and the drywall will dry.

Your second option is to paint over the paper. Remove any loose bits and sand the edges gently. If the paper is

textured spread a thin coat of spackle to smooth the surface. Then apply clear caulk around the bottom and top edges of the wall to seal the edges of the paper. Prime over the paper with oil-based primer.

Then paint with a good quality latex paint. For your hallway, even out the damage with a coat of spackle before you paint.

Debbie Travis’s House to Home column is produced by Debbie Travis and Barbara Dingle. Please email your questions to house2home@debbietravis.com. You can follow Debbie on Twitter at www.twitter. com/debbie_travis, and visit Debbie’s new website, www.debbietravis.com.

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cy soirees. Your party spirit and your guest list will take care of the rest.

Have a great holiday.

Dear Debbie: My home has wallpaper on every wall. It appears to have been applied directly to the drywall so that parts of the drywall come off when I try to remove the paper as I did in the hall.

Can I paint over wallpaper, as it is going to be very labour intensive to remove it and repair the walls? Any suggestions would be appreciated. — Cynthia Dear Cynthia: You are correct in assuming the walls were not properly prepared before the paper was hung.

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Improving bathroom exhaust fans venting moisture migration is what may need to happen for a permanent cure. Installing a heavy, waterproof membrane underneath the sand will do this.

Adding attic insulation

This super-quiet bathroom exhaust fan was added as a retrofit, after initial home construction.

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Eliminating fuzz on crawlspace floor Question: How can I get rid of the patches of white fuzzy stuff that’s forming on the sandy surface of my crawlspace floor? This first appeared two years ago, in a house I’ve lived in for 28 years. I don’t know what changed, but something has.

Answer: Mould is usually grey or black, not white, so chances are good that what you’ve got is actually a fine mineral deposit caused efflorescence.

As small, invisible amounts of mineral-rich moisture wick up through the sand, it dries when it reaches the surface, leaving a growing and fluffy mouldlike deposit of minerals behind. This happens most often on concrete basement walls and floors, but it can happen on sand, too.

Efflorescence is harmless, so there’s no need to fear for your health.

I don’t know why this situation has just appeared now, after all these years, but it could be caused by changes in moisture patterns outside your house.

Check eavestroughs and downspouts, and make sure all soil is sloped away from your house.

Even with these things on your side, moisture can still migrate up through the sand. That’s why pre-

Answer: According to local building codes, minimum attic insulation values can vary, even within the same province sometimes. That said, code minimums are not what you should shoot for.

Over the last 30 years, there’s been a steady rise in the amount of attic insulation that pays off big.

From time to time, experts tell us that X is the right amount and anything more is a waste. But a few years go by and everyone seems to agree that some higher level is now the new ‘maximum.’

The amount of insulation required for best performance is a matter of opinion, not fact, because there really is no absolute point where more insulation makes no sense.

For instance, I know a man who rebuilt a 1950s bungalow, more than doubling the insulation value in the walls compared

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Question: What can I do to improve my bathroom exhaust fan? I’m sick and tired of the noisy thing. Besides being loud, it doesn’t even seem to do much to clear the air after a shower.

Answer: Not all bathroom fans are equal. While many manufacturers are locked in a race for the bottom when it comes to fan price and quality, quieter and more effective performance is definitely available for those willing to buy better fans.

Panasonic makes some of the best household exhaust fans anywhere. They’re superquiet, so you can still get excellent performance without a lot of noise.

Regardless of the brand you choose, select a model that can move about 10 to 12 times the air volume of the bathroom each hour. The quietest exhaust fans on the marSTEVE ket are rated at 1.0 sones or MAXWELL less of sound output, so you should look for this, too.

Question: How many inches of attic insulation is enough? I need to reduce my energy costs this winter.

with building code minimums for new homes today, and almost doubling the code-minimum amount of insulation in the attic. He installed many other energy-saving features, too, and even in the coldest part of a Canadian winter, this guys spends less than $20 per month heating his home. Sounds crazy, but you can read all the details at stevemaxwell.ca/furnacefree-home.

So how much is enough attic insulation?

As much as you can afford to install is probably the best answer, since the more you put in, the greater your long-term savings. Aim for a minimum of 24 inches of loose-fill or batt insulation.

Steve Maxwell has been helping Canadians with reliable home improvement advice since 1988. Check out his free library of articles, videos and how-to resources at stevemaxwell.ca.

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New twists on holiday symbol, the wreath

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Say “wreath,” and the beloved evergreen standard comes to mind — unadorned or dressed for the holiday season with lights, bows, fruit or ornaments.

Each year, however, brings more and more inventive versions of wreaths.

Regional variations have become common, often in unexpected materials: driftwood wreaths with shells and starfish, for example, or fiery circles of Southeastern chili peppers.

Today’s wreath might be a square, star or rectangle. Traditional holiday colours might cede ground to vibrant limes, deep indigo, pale pink or soft cream.

Retailers are offering more modern choices than ever. Alternatively, let your inner elf loose and craft your own holiday creation.

Crate & Barrel has a pretty wreath made of silverpainted magnolia leaves that would work in both traditional and contemporary homes. Another is made of rolled paper and twigs to create a swirl of texture that taps the rustic trend. (www.crateandbarrel.com ) White felt leaves or balls make elegant, monochromatic winter wreaths at West Elm. (www.westelm.com ) At One King’s Lane, find a reindeer moss wreath in festive and chic chartreuse. (www.onekingslane. com )

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Stylish decorating with trees and branches

Exquisitely artificial Designer Brian Patrick Flynn, founder of Flynnside Out Productions, loves the look and scent of real trees.

But he is “hands down, 100 per cent on Team Artificial,” thanks to the convenience and range of today’s fake trees.

White trees are “excellent for more elegant, sophisticated spaces,” Flynn says. He layers on ornaments in shades of white and metallics “for a less-is-more, tone-on-tone look.”

Designer Lee Kleinhelter, founder of the Pieces home decor store in Atlanta, agrees. She uses a high-quality, fake white tree in her home because “it feels a little modern, and is a clean slate where I can use interesting objects to accessorize.”

If you can’t quite imagine your handmade or hand-me-down ornaments on a sleek, white tree, consider getting a real tree for keepsake ornaments and putting a white tree in another location, perhaps near the front door, decked out in monochromatic ornaments. Sarah Fishburne, director of trend and design for The Home Depot, says many Americans now use one fake tree and one real one.

If white isn’t your style, Flynn recommends realistic fake green trees with a “woodsy, rustic” look, or fake green trees coated with fake white snow, which are called “flocked”

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Really easy Beginning this year, Home Depot is making it simpler to bring home a fullsize real tree with “white glove” delivery service, says Fishburne. Choose a tree online and the company will bring it to your home and set it up in the stand for you.

Another way to make real trees more manageable is to buy several small, potted trees in varying sizes, rather than one large one.

“Groupings of trees really make an impact in any space,” Flynn says, “and if you’re going the untraditional route, or don’t have lots of windows to dress up or have an actual fireplace mantel, I think a grouping of trees in one spot creates enough of a focal point and it can stand on its own.”

Simple and safe Pre-lit LED trees save you the time and effort of stringing lights. Some models also resolve any arguments over whether to use white lights or colored ones, says Fishburne; you can buy LED-lit trees that let you switch

Once you’ve chosen your tree, where should you put it?

“The size and scale of your house can dictate a tall skinny tree by a staircase, or a more round, robust tree in a sunroom visible to the street,” Kleinhelter says. Rather than tucking your tree in a corner, she suggests finding a spot “where you can enjoy the tree on all sides.”

If you have a large “showstopper of a front window” that faces the street, Fishburne suggests placing the tree there. “There’s something really lovely about coming home to that big tree in the window,” she says. It’s easy to put tree lights on a timer so they glow on schedule each evening.

Flynn agrees that “if you really want your tree to make an impact inside and outside, sticking with a room toward the front of the home is the way to go.” But for maximum enjoyment, he says, “it’s also wise to make sure it’s just as much of a focal point from adjacent rooms as it is inside the space and from outside of the house.”

Non-Christmas trees All three designers mentioned that it can be beautiful to use undecorated trees or branches to celebrate the season, whether or not you celebrate Christmas.

If you’d like to try your hand at wreath design, crafts stores have wire, foam and wood bases. Heat up the glue gun and let your imagination go.

You might find inspiration in designer Stephanie Hung, known for creative holiday craft ideas in Style at Home magazine. She’s found some unexpected uses for common household items this season. Red plastic spoons, striped paper straws, patterned clothespins and even white Styrofoam cups can be used to make wreaths that are as much sculptural art as decor. An ornate ceiling medallion is given a coat of bright green paint. Clothespins are covered in washi tape and arranged in rows in a wreath frame. Instructions are in the magazine’s November issue. (www.styleathome.com) Battery-operated, miniature LED fairy lights can be threaded through a wire wreath frame to be hung anywhere or put on a mantle. Look for warm white lights on silvery or copper wire, or go with all crimson or midnight blue. (www. save-on-crafts.com ) If you can get your hands on a bucketful of acorns, glue them in rows on a wreath form. You can leave them in their natural caramel hue and tie on a plaid or gingham flannel bow, or consider spray-painting the whole thing in a favouritecolour and add a co-ordinating tie. The 3-D symmetry of the rows looks great no matter what you do.

Another option: Wrap a wreath frame in bold black and white ribbon. Or swathe it in tufts of navy tulle and tie with a red silk ribbon. Cover the frame with white paper doilies, adding fairy lights for white winter magic.

No matter what your wreath’s made of, the message is one of welcome, comfort and holiday cheer.

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LED lights also don’t burn as hot as traditional bulbs, so they may be a safer option, especially for rooms where children play and might try to touch the tree. “When I was little,” Fishburne says, “we knocked over a lot of trees.”

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For generations, the choice was simple: 1. Strap a live Christmas tree to the roof of your car, wrestle it into a tree stand at home and hope it wouldn’t fall over. Or, 2. Put up an artificial tree that was unmistakably fake.

Fortunately, the options have expanded dramatically, from realistic fake trees pre-lit with softly glowing LED lights to environmentally friendly, abstract “trees” made from reclaimed shipping pallets. Options for a real, live tree include “white glove” service that includes delivery and professional set-up.

Here, three interior designers help sort out some options and share advice on stylishly decorating with holiday trees and branches, even in households where Christmas isn’t celebrated.

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“Flocked trees add amazing texture and can really tone down the overall greenness of an artificial tree, making it a little softer,” he says.

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BC Ferries plans off-peak travel discounts and airline-style booking are doing and basically have everybody pre-pay,” said Corrigan.

“Some airlines and other companies have 95 per cent to 98 per cent of their transactions paid for before their customers even show up.

“That’s where we want to get to.”

He said the plan, which won’t be ready until 2017, will cost up to $15 million to implement but could be paid off within three years because traffic is expected to increase by up to five per cent.

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Company president Mike Corrigan said Wednesday that the service has submitted a plan to B.C. Ferry Commissioner Gord Macatee as part of a cost-cutting operation to reduce the pressure on potential fare increases.

He said the Fare Flexibility and Digital Experience Initiative will modernize how BC Ferries sets prices, markets travel, manages loads and discounts fares at off-peak travel times through e-commerce and information-and-technology upgrades.

Corrigan said fare discounts haven’t been determined, but the current reservation-fee system will be dropped for customers who book online, while travellers who arrive at the ferry terminal without booking will pay more.

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Well rounded man gets the girl despite height Dear Annie: You gave great advice ible to women. Read on for more ento “Too Small,” the teenage boy who is couragement: worried that his short stature means From New York: My older son has he will never have a girlfriend. been short all of his life, but has exI recommend he check celled in everything he has his hygiene, making sure it’s done. impeccable. He also should Today, at 32, he is 5-foot-4, make sure his clothes are married with three boys, a neat, clean and pressed and youth minister and full of learn some communication life. What you do with your skills so he’s an excellent life is more important than conversationalist and a your stature. great listener.

Florida: My son was born I’d suggest he develop prematurely and had many some varied interests and health issues growing up. make education a priorBut he saw a growth spurt ity. It’s personally appealat age 27, raising his height ing and something you do by several inches. He is MITCHELL for yourself that no one can well educated and success& SUGAR take away from you. Selfful. We are ALL different in confidence is extremely some way. sexy!

Redondo Beach, Calif.: Last but not least, he Suggest that he Google one should learn to dance. Yes, really! of the most famous Marines in our hisGirls of all ages love to dance. The guy tory: Lt. General Victor Krulak. Though who can dance is the hit of every gath- 5-foot-4 and 116 pounds, Krulak’s nickering. The grumps are sitting on the name was “Brute.” He fought in WWII, sidelines.

Korea and Vietnam and was one of the Ultimately, a well-rounded person most decorated Marines in the history is a woman’s dream date. — B. of the Corps. I knew a Marine with a Dear B.: We were surprised by the chest full of medals. number of readers who suggested he His name was Bill, and he was about learn to dance as a way to be irresist- 5-foot-6. I’m 6-foot, but when I stood

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Texas: Your list of celebrities missed one. I invite you to look up a Texan by the name of Audie Murphy.

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Saturday, Dec. 6 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Sunday, Dec. 7 Lindsay Price, 38; Dulce Maria, 29; Larry CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Bourgeois, 26 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Today we will Ellen Burstyn, 82; Noam Chomsky, 86; Jenhave a Full Moon in Sagittarius. This is abso- nifer Carpenter, 35 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Today will be lutely the new wonderful start that everyone needs after this year of hardship. It will show pleasant. You will have a strong desire for us our childhood patterns and how we can emotional contact with someone now. Havchange them. There will be an element of ing that need, you will have to decide whether others in your life can fulfil your restlessness, as there is always needs or not. Today will be full of that with a Full Moon. The difdaydreaming and fantasies. Arference is that we will crave the tistic inspiration is highlighted. new and will change now.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If toHAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today day is your birthday, this year is your birthday, this year will will prove to be the year when prove to be the year when you you finally meet “the one.” That will finally learn what you do that is, if you are single, one of your prevents you from achieving all friends could become a signifiyour wildest dreams and wishes. cant relationship for you. If you The lessons learnt this year will are with someone, you will bond help you be that authority figmore with them. Throughout the ure within the world. Perhaps year you will want to imagine the you will share this knowledge LARISA MAIRA best of others, so do so. Just rethrough writing or teaching or OZOLINS member to make sure your emosimply travelling and training clitional needs are being met. ents — Great year ahead!

ARIES (March 21-April 19): ARIES (March 21-April 19): Yes, dear Aries, you like to talk If you have been feeling slightly and today you will over commudown, this Full Moon in Sagittarius will lift your spirits. You will most likely travel starting now nicate. It is most likely best to keep some or go on a trip that will help you understand things to yourself now. You will have a strong your truth at a more profound level. Start by desire to connect with others, but if they don’t taking a walk down memory lane with some see your perspective, then be entertained by them. Speak of your true dreams. photos.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): We all know TAURUS (April 20-May 20): This Full Moon in Sagittarius will highlight your true val- Taurus individuals like to talk about their posues. What is it that established your views in sessions. Today will not be any different. that area early on in life? Do you understand This is not bad; it simply will be emphasized that your family has the same perspective? now. You could be purchasing something for Your dreams are coming true, think positively the home or your family. Try to hold off with spending, you’ll regret it later. now, and let go of past pains.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You will no GEMINI (May 21-June 20): With this Full Moon, others in your life will pull out a lot doubt have a strong desire to socialize with of thoughts from you. There will be a lot of others today, so do just that. Most likely you discussion going on today, some good and will be in a daydream all day, anticipating some bad. All in all, it will be a wonderful new meeting up with those special others in your start with you and those significant individuals life. Yes, you’ll be sympathetic, but make sure they are giving that energy back as well. within your life — enjoy!

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Please do CANCER (June 21-July 22): This Full Moon will help you see the correlation be- not take your dreams last night as a precurtween a habit you have that could potentially sor for things to come. On a subconscious be detrimental to your health and how this level, you want to see certain things tranpattern was established within early life. On spire. When this happens, everything else a very positive note, it will help you define the falls short. Just focus on what you love, who you love and the rest will be appreciated as service you want to provide others.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): This Full Moon an extra.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You might be a in Sagittarius will allow you to see just what friends have done to help you achieve more little overindulgent today, so do watch out for joy in your life. There will be a sense that you that. Also, if you purchasing something today will want to improve on how much gratitude that you fancy, you will most likely regret it you provide them now. Start by seeing joy in later. All in all, a good day for forming closer bonds with romantic interests and with friends everyone you meet from now on.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Some issues alike. Enjoy the pleasant atmosphere.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You will crave with your parents will be brought up with this Full moon in Sagittarius. You will be better to be connected with family throughout the able to understand their position on certain day. You will be daydreaming about what you matters and see the long term implications of could be doing if you weren’t at work. Try to their truth. It will be easy for you to let go of focus a little more, but truly it is a day to relax, have fun and form closer bonds with those anything that no longer serves you.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): A new and you work with and later on, family.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You will be positive perspective will be triggered by this Full Moon. You will enjoy all that you do, as missing those at a distance from you today. more excitement through those you interact There seems to be an over emphasized need with now will lift your spirits. Take the time to see them and you will crave their guidance. to understand certain negative thinking and So do get in contact with them if you have a chance. You will be sensitive to others in your what might have caused that in early life.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The Full local area as you will feel their strife too.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You will Moon will show you exactly where you are supported and who shares the same beliefs want to be closer to those who share the as you do. There will be an element of excite- same values as you. Whoever and whatever ment with this Full Moon, so be prepared for causes you are looking to join forces with a jolt out of the blue that will help you shed today will be your primary concern. You will readily express this need with all you encounsome of your beliefs as well — Enjoy!

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): The ter today. It is a pleasant day to share with Full Moon in your own sign today will be just others.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): what you need in order to get you out of the doom and gloom feeling that your finances There’s great potential for you to meet somewill never improve. You will be able to break one today that could be a potential significant off childhood routines and get yourself aligned relationship. This could be when you are out with friends, so do accept those invitations. with your proper path now.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You You are more easily moved by others today, are truly going to understand yourself on a so be prepared to be swept off your feet now.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Those deeper level after this Full Moon and it will be great! As you realize what has tripped you up you see daily will likely pull out some fears the past and what mistakes you keep making of yours that may not obvious to you. Do be now, you’ll actively change those patterns aware that is what will happen and be ready to calm those energies. There is no doubt that and step into the new and untried!

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Your en- you will be more sensitive to others’ needs, ergy levels are high now and it can only help especially those of your peer group now.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Do not with implementing the awareness of what needs to change for you. It will take this Full spend foolishly today — you will later regret Moon for you to understand what inspired the purchase. Do socialize with as many indicertain dreams you currently have. Enjoy the viduals as you can now. You will bond more easily, as everyone will be willing to share ride down memory lane!

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): This Full their true feelings and wishes. There is much Moon in Sagittarius, another Jupiter ruled to be realized and feel grateful for now. sign, will almost have you jumping for joy. A Please see HOROSCOPE on Page E8

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near Col. Bill, I felt like he was 7 feet tall.

Chicago: I tower over my boyfriend of two years. He’s 4-foot-9. I am 5-foot-7.

I love him both for who he is and because of his height. It may take a while to find them, but there absolutely are women who dig short men.

Louisville, Ky.: His parents should take him to an endocrinologist immediately. His small stature may be the result of a lack of growth hormone.

Salem, Ore.: As a short man, my teen years were no fun. I wanted girlfriends who were pretty and popular. Fortunately, my parents encouraged me to use my mind and creative talents and not worry about my size.

Even if they seemed to last forever, the teen years turned out to be a blink of an eye. I hope this boy’s parents understand his anxieties and can help him find a mentor who can direct him toward a path where physical size does not matter.

The world is a big place with lots of opportunities. As a bonus, you are

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Why snot?

Gooey gunk is a vital part of your body’s protective arsenal

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HOROSCOPE: Pisces PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You will be pleasantly surprised by today’s energy. There is a sense that you will be more in touch with your deeper feelings, especially later today when dealing with your public status and with your career.

Don’t daydream too much, but do enjoy the sensitivity from others.

Larisa Maira Ozolins is an internationally syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate.

Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

A woman is silhouetted as she uses a tissue to blow her nose. With cold and flu season looming, snot — or nasal mucus, as it can be more delicately described — is something many of us will experience first hand in the not-too-distant future. of what comes out when you blow.

Some of the enzymes produced when white blood cells break down contribute to the change in colour you might see in your nasal mucus during a cold, Vescan says. It may become yellow, or even greenish.

Both Lee and Vescan say some patients read those changes as a signal, thinking coloured mucus is evidence of a bacterial infection that may require treatment with antibiotics. But that’s not necessarily so.

“Discoloured mucus is definitely a sign of something happening. And yes, patients do interpret discoloured mucus as infection and often think it needs an antibiotic,” Vescan says.

“But we don’t use the colour of the mucus as our guide for when to give antibiotic. It’s usually the amount of time the patient has had symptoms and the severity of the symptoms that will often guide that.”

Lee says the rule of thumb is that if nasal mucus remains discoloured for seven days or longer - especially if the colour gets deeper - then suspicion grows that a bacterial sinus infection may be at work.

“At that point I would say it’s worthwhile seeking

medical attention to consider whether you do in fact have a sinus infection that might require antibiotic treatment,” he says.

Otherwise, the options are relatively limited. You can keep plenty of tissues handy. You can use a saline nasal spray or a nasal rinse.

“Saline lavage or douching of the nose is something that we highly recommend,” says Vescan.

Gross? Maybe. But apparently the technique is very effective for alleviating the symptoms of congestion. Just remember to use distilled or boiled water.

A few years ago a Louisiana woman died when she developed a brain infection after using contaminated tap water for a nasal rinse.

Lee says nasal decongestants can be used, but with caution. The products, which are sold over-thecounter, should not be used for longer than a few days, he says.

“Beyond that, you’ve got to be careful because prolonged use can cause both rebound and also more deleterious effects to the lining and the health of the nose and the sinuses. The lining of the nose does not like being decongested constantly.”

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TORONTO — It’s icky and messy and sometimes it clogs your airwaves, making you feel like you can’t breathe. Heck, even its name is repugnant.

We’re talking about snot here.

Yeah, gross topic. But with cold and flu season looming, snot - or nasal mucus, as it can be more delicately described - is something many of us will experience first hand in the not-too-distant future.

Here are some things you may not know about this decidedly disgusting bodily fluid: Let’s start with what might be a startling fact. We all produce quite a lot of nasal mucus every day.

How much? Between one and two litres, experts say.

That’s right. One to two litres. Every day. If you are having a hard time picturing that, think about the milk cartons in your fridge.

Snot is what’s known as the mucus blanket of the mucus membranes of the nasal passages and the sinuses. For those tissues to do their jobs properly, they need nasal mucus.

The nasal passages are actually lined with tiny little hairs called cilia, explains Dr. John Lee, a head and neck surgeon at Toronto’s St. Michael’s Hospital.

Nasal mucus sits on top of those hairs, keeping them moist so they operate properly. It also humidifies the air we breathe in.

As well, the mucus is like a fly paper strip. Impurities in the air you draw into your nasal passages - things like dust, pollens, and other debris - stick to the mucus so they don’t get into your lungs.

Those little hairs, the cilia, wave in a conveyor belt motion, moving the mucus towards the back of your nasal passages and into your throat. You swallow it and the gastric acids in your stomach neutralize anything the mucus is carrying. This is something you do all day, every day.

Yeah, still gross. But try to think of it this way: This is one of the basic weapons in your body’s protective arsenal. This stuff is keeping you healthy.

Nasal mucus is made by glands in your nasal passages - goblet cells, to be precise. It’s mostly water - 95 per cent in fact, says Lee. The remaining five per cent is made up of proteins, salts and cells from the immune system.

Most of us don’t think about snot unless something happens to increase the amount of it that we produce or we become aware of changes to its colour or viscosity. Our noses start running. A tissue captures a thick gob of yellow goo. We feel like we’re swallowing wads of chewing gum.

When we are infected with something that triggers a cold - generally a virus - our production of nasal mucus increases. Depending on how bad the cold is, we can feel like we’re drowning in gallons of snot like we’ll be blowing our noses forever.

“Whether we go from one to two litres to gallons, I think that might be a bit of a stretch,” says Dr. Allan Vescan, a head and neck surgeon at Toronto’s Mount Sinai Hospital.

“But there’s definitely some quantifiable increase. And then because the properties of it change - it’s not the normal, clear, viscous mucus, it becomes thicker, it can become discoloured for various reasons and there’s more of it - that’s when you start to feel it and notice it more.”

So what’s going on when that happens?

The immune system responds to the invasion by sending more blood to the tissues in your sinuses and nasal passages. Those tissues swell as a result, contributing to the feeling of congestion, Vescan says.

White blood cells, a critical component of the immune system, also move into the area. This inflammation of the nasal tissues stimulates increased production of nasal mucus and changes the quality

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