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Warming centre filling gap in service

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF New daytime programs for homeless adults in Red Deer are helping 40 to 60 people stay warm each day.

Central Alberta’s Safe Harbour Society for Health and Housing has extended hours for its day support program and Seventh-day Adventist Centre has a warming centre to help the homeless.

The services have been available for about two weeks, to fill the service gap after Berachah Place closed its doors in October.

Both the warming centre, at 5014 49th St., and Safe Harbour’s extended program, at 5246 53rd Ave., will run seven days a week until April 30.

Safe Harbour staffs both sites.

“One of the criteria for these programs is that these folks are actually homeless so Safe Harbour is familiar with a good majority of them. But not everyone who is homeless in Red Deer stays at Safe Harbour so we are meeting some new folks,” said Stacey Carmichael, director of programs with Safe Harbour, on Wednesday.

Safe Harbour will be open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. for those with physical and mental disabilities, illnesses and those under the influence of drugs or alcohol. Shower and laundry facilities are also available.

Individuals with fewer care needs are using the warming centre at the church daily from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Meals are not provided at either location as there are soup kitchens operating in the city. However, coffee, hot chocolate and healthy snacks are available.

People can also receive referrals and assistance with housing, cultural services and other community resources.

“We’re very deliberate about making those connections for folks because at the end of the day our philosophy is that we don’t believe a warmup centre or shelter is adequate for folks, and we’re pushing for permanent housing and encouraging folks to take advantage of what’s available in the community,” Carmichael said.

The two services are funded by the City of Red Deer, which provided $130,000. Alberta Health Services also funds the Safe Harbour day support program.

Carmichael said beds and mats at overnight shelters in the city are full.

“We’re not having to turn away that many folks at all this winter, which is great.”

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DYING RED DEER MAN UNDERGOING EXPERIMENTAL TREATMENT FOR TERMINAL CANCER

BY MARY-ANN BARR ADVOCATE STAFF

A Red Deer man diagnosed with fatal cancer began an experimental treatment in Vancouver on Thursday that might buy him some time.

Ultimately, he wants to try to get a costly treatment in Arizona.

Jason Kom-Tong, 35, has an aggressive Stage 4 tongue cancer. He was given three months to live in October.

“Because he’s considered terminal — he only has a short time to live — now he’s allowed to look at different options like experimental treatments,” his wife Bambi KomTong said on Thursday.

She drove her husband to B.C. recently and he is staying with relatives while he receives treatment.

Bambi, 32, is back in Red Deer, at home with their two children, Zack, six, and Kisenya, four.

A local fundraising drive began recently to try to cover the $175,000 cost of treatment in Arizona they hope will give Jason a chance of surviving.

The numbers are not finalized but about $70,000 may have been raised so far.

Jason has already had extensive surgery and treatment at University of Alberta Hospital in Edmonton.

He has undergone tongue reconstruction using arm and leg muscles, chemotherapy and radiation treatment. He had a second surgery to remove his tongue, and a reconstruction again using his own muscles.

His lower jaw was removed. He has had to learn how to walk again because a bone from his lower leg was used to reconstruct his jaw.

The couple had been searching for other treatment in Canada. “We asked for any kind of experimental treatment. This was the only place that they offered us,” she said of the Vancouver treatment, which

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ABOVE: Jason Kom-Tong shares a quiet moment with his four-yearold daughter, Kisenya.

LEFT: Jason Kom-Tong with his wife, Bambi, and their two children, Kisenya and Zack, taken during healthier times.

involves a new drug.

“Your cancer has a marker that hides it from the immune system. ... This drug goes into the blood stream and blocks the cancer-hiding marker. It stops the cancer from hiding. ... Essentially it kickstarts your own immune system to start

attacking the cancer,” she said.

Jason’s treatment lasts about five hours per day — the drug is administered intravenously — and then he goes home.

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They are Treasury Board directives, meaning they can be changed on short notice by the governing Tories behind closed doors.

NDP Leader Rachel Notley said Prentice promised to put those changes in law.

She called the watered-down law “all hat, no cattle.”

“I’ve seen a clear pattern of overpromising and under-delivering (by Prentice),” said Notley.

“Overall, this session has been marked by a premier who has done nothing but undo the record of the previous premier. That, to me, is not vision. That’s panicked issue management.”

Notley called the session a “doover” for the Tories.

Government house leader Jonathan Denis said the session was a success on both sides of the aisle, noting the Tories worked with the Opposition Wildrose party on an amendment to the Accountability Act. The act sets a tone for politicians of all stripes to follow, he suggested.

“You can’t make a rule for every possible situation and we do expect members to obey the law,” said Denis.

Prentice’s team also cancelled previously passed legislation — which had never been enacted — that rural landowners said gave the province wide latitude to expropriate their land for megaprojects while giving them little redress or adequate compensation.

The sitting saw a renewed, pitched battle over the rights of students to form gay-straight alliances. The alliances already exist in some public schools in Edmonton and Calgary.

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Premier Jim Prentice’s first tour of duty in the Alberta legislature was a disappointing “doover” that foreshadows little vision and a hard swing to the political right, critics said Thursday.

“I don’t see the leadership forward.

I see the leadership back and sideways,” said Liberal house leader Laurie Blakeman, a day after the legislature wrapped up its first sitting under Prentice.

“It’s definitely going hard right. He is chasing that right vote.”

The house sat for 15 days over the last four weeks. It passed legislation to clean up government and pulled back on controversial rules for gay students setting up school friendship clubs.

Prentice took over in September from scandal-plagued former premier Alison Redford. She quit the top job in March ahead of a party and caucus revolt over, among other issues, lavish spending on herself and her inner circle.

Prentice promised new rules to clean up government and on Wednesday the house passed the Alberta Accountability Act. It expands conflict-of-interest guidelines for political staff and extends a cooling-off period for those who leave government, but want to come back later to lobby or work for it.

It also restricts the amount of severance that can be paid to departing staff and changes the rules to assure a more level playing field for companies bidding on government work.

But the severance and procurement changes aren’t contained in legislation.

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Jason Kom-Tong in hospital.

CANCER: Buying time to keep fighting “He’s got his mom and his sister out there so he’s well taken care of,” Bambi said. “(Doctors) don’t think that this immunotherapy ... will stop (the cancer) but it will buy him time. It’s going quickly. You have to remember this all happened one year ago in October ... this has gone so quickly.”

Bambi said they hope the Vancouver treatment buys enough time that all the funds for the treatment in Arizona at the Envita Medical Centre can be raised. There Jason would receive several kinds of individualized therapy to fight the cancer. One of the treatments was to be immunotherapy, which he is getting in Vancouver.

Jason, who cannot speak, breathes through a tube in his trachea and sometimes has difficulty breathing when the tube gets plugged. “It’s terrifying,” said Bambi, who describes their lives as “very roller-coaster.”

“Right now I can tell you I feel spread very thin. I feel honestly useless out here. I feel like I’m not helpful. It’s hard being away from him when I’ve been with him the whole time.”

Jason’s treatment in Vancouver is for five months or until it’s no longer working.

“If they test him in eight weeks and they say, ‘Hey you know what, this actually isn’t slowing it down, this is

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pointless,’ essentially then he won’t be taking it any longer and he’ll come home. But I’m hoping everything will go well and he will be out there for the five months.”

Bambi said the community response in Red Deer is “astounding.”

“Red Deer has an amazing community. They have gone out of their way to help us. People are sharing our story.

Seems like almost the whole community has shared it. Can you imagine that?

It’s crazy.”

More information and updates on the Kom-Tongs’ situation is available on a Facebook page that has gathered 1,400 members, “Online Auction to support the Kom-tong family,” and fundraising continues to take place online at gofundme.com/hdrsdw.

A fundraising event that included an online auction was held on Saturday at Bo’s Bar and Grill. barr@reddeeradvocate.com

SERVICE: Space being utilized There is space for 35 people at People’s Place, as well as 11 mats available for winter use until the end of April.

Safe Harbour’s Mat program operates with 26 mats for homeless who are intoxicated or high.

“They are certainly being utilized. I think we’ve done a good job identifying the shelter beds we need.” szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

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Province to allow hunters to kill 500 more elk on military base SUFFIELD — Alberta is targeting more elk in the southeastern part of the province in hopes of reducing a growing herd that has been damaging crops around a military base.

Alberta Environment and the Department of National Defence have agreed to let hunters kill up to 500 additional female elk at Canadian Forces Base Suffield in February.

Earlier this year, Alberta issued tags to allow hunters to kill as many as 660 female elk on the base this fall.

“We really need to get the numbers of those animals down to a more manageable level,” Duncan MacDonnell, a spokesman for the provincial government, said Thursday.

About 200 elk were brought to the base in the 1990s to introduce grazing animals to the region, but the herd has since swollen to between 6,500 and 8,000 animals. The elk live on the base but jump fences to dine on and trample crops.

Ranchers have been lobbying the provincial and federal governments to hold a roundup to reduce the herd.

Along with crop damage, some ranchers are worried the elk could spread diseases such as tuberculosis and brucellosis to cattle.

Last summer, a group including ranchers and community leaders

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pitched a plan to humanely capture more than 1,500 elk each year, move the animals to an elk farm and slaughter them over time at a provincially approved abattoir. The meat would be donated to food banks.

The province said no to the idea in October, citing concerns about costs, federal jurisdiction and the environment.

MacDonnell said the government still believes that hunting is the best way to go.

“The female elk are the ones that reproduce, so if we reduce their numbers, we reduce the number of offspring and that helps to bring the total number of elk down to a more manageable level.”

Rancher Jeff Lewandoski is thankful the province is doing something about the herd, but said hunting alone won’t do the job.

He said it comes down to basic math. To actually reduce the size of the herd, hunters would have to kill more elk than are born each year on the sprawling 2,700-square-kilometre base north of Medicine Hat. The area includes undisturbed grasslands and the Suffield National Wildlife Area.

So far the government’s projections don’t add up, he said.

“They are trying, but it is still not enough,” Lewandoski said. “We could do this for 10 years and we will never catch up.”

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Killer not responsible children that someone on paper admitted to killing Rod, but at the same time is not responsible for the crime?” she asked as she choked back tears.

“This ruling does truly not allow the family to move on to a new level of healing, as the annual review will make us have to relive this tragic loss.”

Santana told court during the trial that Kloschinsky has been on anti-psychotic drugs and is “much better now,” although he continues to be delusional. However, the symptoms are less frequent and not as intense.

An autopsy found Lazenby was strangled and had 56 abrasions, contusions and lacerations to the face, head, neck, body and back. He also suffered numerous internal injuries.

Kloschinsky admitted he caused Lazenby’s death. He acknowledged dropping the officer off, handcuffed and unconscious, at a southeast Calgary police station, where he told officers he had apprehended a “dog thief.”

Kloschinsky eked out a living selling blue heeler dogs he raised on his property. Court heard how he thought Lazenby was corrupt and trying to steal his animals.

Lazenby was an RCMP officer for 35 years and often worked undercover in Vancouver. He once bunked with child killer Clifford Olson and went after dangerous drug dealers on Vancouver’s skid row. Lazenby joined the drug squad after he served as a military policeman.

He had retired in 2006 and moved to High River, Alta., to be closer to his daughter and her children.

His brother, Bryan Lazenby, said he doesn’t believe the family’s voice was heard in the case.

“Victim’s voices are rarely heard,” he said.

JUDGE RULES MAN WHO KILLED ALBERTA PEACE OFFICER NOT CRIMINALLY RESPONSIBLE

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — A judge has ruled that a man who killed an Alberta peace officer who had come to his property to investigate a dog complaint is not criminally responsible.

Trevor Kloschinsky was charged with first-degree murder in the death of Rod Lazenby.

But Queen’s Bench Justice Beth Hughes ruled that Kloschinsky, 49, did not realize that what he was doing was wrong.

“Wrong means morally wrong judged by the everyday standard of the ordinary person. It does not mean legally wrong,” she read Thursday from her decision.

“I find the evidence establishes that it was more likely than not that Mr. Kloschinsky’s mental disorder made him incapable at the time he caused the death of Mr. Lazenby of knowing the act was wrong.”

Doctors testified at Kloschinsky’s trial that they found him “actively psychotic.”

Hughes pointed to a report done by Dr. Sergio Santana, a forensic psychiatrist, who said Kloschinsky suggested to him that it was his right to defend his property against a thief, enforce the law and make a citizen’s arrest.

“Mr. Kloschinsky’s thinking processes were as affected by his delusional

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Robyn Halbert, sister of slain peace officer Rod Lazenby, speaks to the media in Calgary on Wednesday. A judge has ruled that a man who killed Lazenby in 2012 is not criminally responsible. thinking as to prevent him from realizing that assaulting officer Lazenby was wrong,” Hughes quoted from Santana’s report.

Lazenby’s family reacted with disappointment.

“I wasn’t surprised. We had half known it was going this way,” said Lazenby’s daughter, Meghan McLean, who was surrounded by several relatives who sat through the three-day trial.

“I do not feel justice has been served for my father, our family mem-

ber, peace officer Rod Lazenby.”

Lazenby, 62, died in August 2012 after going to Kloschinsky’s rural property near Priddis, south of Calgary, to investigate an animal complaint. Lazenby was a retired RCMP officer who was responsible for enforcing bylaws in the Municipal District of Foothills.

McLean said the family is unhappy that Kloschinsky is to be held at a mental hospital and subjected to annual reviews instead of being sentenced to time in prison.

“How do we explain to Rod’s grand-

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As public anger over the Tory bill grew on social media, the party amended it to say that the government would set up the clubs if a school refused.

Critics said forcing students off school grounds was akin to the segregation of blacks in the United States in the middle of the last century.

Prentice put the bill on hold pending further consultation and admitted that in trying to strike the right compromise he had made the issue worse.

Notley said that while Prentice projects himself as fiscally conservative and socially progressive, the issue revealed he is conservative on both counts.

Denis disagreed.

“I definitely see a shift with Prentice as premier towards a more common-sense conservative perspective, to governance which I think is in line with many Albertans,” he said.

They are friendship clubs for gay students and supportive classmates.

Supporters say the clubs help gay students feel comfortable and protected and reduce bullying.

The Tories were criticized in the spring when some joined with Wildrose members to defeat a non-binding motion supporting the alliances.

The battle arose again this fall when Blakeman brought in a private CENTRAL ALBERTA member’s bill that would SEXUAL ASSAULT SUPPORT CENTRE have forced all schools to accept gay-straightThe Central Alberta Sexual Assault Support alliances.

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Provincial dissent rising From climate change to pension reform, gun control, medically assisted death and pipelines: the list of issues on which various provinces are striking a course independent from that of Stephen Harper’s government keeps getting longer.

The latest addition is the Conservative government’s controversial prostitution law.

In theory it came into force on Saturday.

In practice, its implementation is uncertain in CHANTAL Canada’s largHÉBERT est province and possibly beyond.

Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne has asked her attorney general to provide her with an opinion as to whether it is constitutional. There are slim odds that the answer will be positive given the widespread reservations the law inspires within the Canadian legal community.

Last summer, 200 legal experts wrote to federal Justice Minister Peter

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MacKay to warn that his prostitution bill was no more charter-proof than the struck-down legislation it sought to replace. Last year, the Supreme Court found that crucial parts of the previous law violated the fundamental right to life, liberty and security of sex workers.

The logical expectation is that Ontario will refer the new federal law to the province’s Court of Appeal and, presumably, decline to prosecute offenders on its basis until its status is cleared up.

There is little that Harper can do about Ontario’s chosen course. The provinces are responsible for implementing the Criminal Code and while it is rare for one to decline to act on one of its sections, it is not unprecedented.

In the late 1970s, Quebec stopped prosecuting abortion-related charges after two juries refused to convict doctor Henry Morgentaler for performing the procedure on demand.

Ontario’s move on the prostitution bill is the latest episode in an ongoing cold war between Wynne and Harper’s governments. But it is also part of a larger pattern that is seeing provinces keep to their own counsel on an everexpanding range of national policy issues.

Last June, Quebec circumvented the federal ban on assisted suicide and euthanasia by including medically assisted death in its end-of-life care protocol. The Supreme Court will likely pronounce on that initiative as part of an upcoming ruling on the larger rightto-die issue.

On the energy front, the federal government is on a potential collision course with three of the four largest provinces over a projected expansion of the country’s pipeline network to carry Alberta’s oil to markets.

Three provinces — Quebec, Ontario, British Columbia — have presented the industry with their own conditions to support various pipelines projects.

At this week’s international climate conference in Peru, they, along with Manitoba, also signed an agreement with other subnational governments to combat climate change.

In so doing, four provinces that together speak for 80 per cent of Canadians pre-empted the stay-the-course speech federal Environment Minister Leona Aglukkaq was scheduled to deliver to the conference on Wednesday.

On the economic front, Quebec and Alberta continue to resist federal calls to join a national financial regulatory body. Until they do, the plan will be national in name only.

On the social policy front, Ontario is responding to Ottawa’s refusal to expand the CPP by promising the introduction of a supplementary public pension plan of its own.

And Quebec may yet substitute a provincial gun registry for the one the federal government eliminated.

There is a lot of provincial-federal autonomy built into the Canadian Constitution and a certain amount of diversity in policy approaches is par for the course for a federation. But at the end of the day it was not designed to operate as if it was a collection of stand-alone silos.

It is increasingly hard to see how the federal government can exercise leadership or advance an agenda for the country from an Ottawa bunker.

It has been almost a decade since the prime minister sat down with the premiers to discuss a national policy of any kind.

If he did, Harper might find that on many of the issues that set them apart — from a more liberal end-of-life regime to the notion of federal laws that are really charter-proof or the need for a proactive search for an environment/ energy balance — the provinces speak for more Canadians than he does.

Chantal Hébert is a syndicated Toronto Star national affairs writer.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Add more bus shelters to transit improvements The plans to upgrade our public bus system, improving awareness of the scheduled times for catching a bus, are very welcome and necessary expense that will benefit the city in the long run.

Hopefully, this will also encourage more citizens to actually use the bus system, knowing what wait times fit their own schedules best.

Standing out in nasty weather, hoping to see a bus, is not pleasant.

Which brings me to another suggestion to improve ridership: more bus shelters. The ones available seem to be few and far between in a random fashion.

Even on our busiest streets, many of the stops are wide open to the elements.

Shelters are pricey, of course, but would certainly encourage people to consider riding the bus more regularly. Our climate really demands more protection for transit users — many of them children, elderly or physically challenged.

I might also suggest that more prominently marked bus stops, with clear signage for the routes involved, would be encouraging.

I also applaud the upcoming addition of smaller buses — a very sensible, fuel-saving, and flexible improvement.

Bonnie Denhaan Red Deer

Setting the record straight on Rimbey Hospital This is in response to the article (referred to as a “special investigation”) which appeared in the Friday, Dec. 5, edition of the Edmonton Journal entitled Four steps to a better hospital system.

In the article, nine rural hospitals are identified as ones which the author believes should be closed by government, one of which is the Rimbey Hospital and Care Centre. The summary regarding the Rimbey Hospital is filled with inaccuracies and misleading information which needs immediate clarification. These are: ● Year built — reported as 1982 when, in fact, the acute care unit of the hospital was completed in 2008. It is state-of-the art and is highly functional with essential equipment. ● Number of beds — reported as 23. In fact, this is only the number of acute care beds. The facility also includes two family-centered care rooms, 12 emergency beds, and 84 continuing care beds. It is misleading to report 272 staff and only report the 23 beds. The 272 staff collectively covers 119 beds. ● Maternity service — The article states “Rimbey is one of the few rural sites that is still delivering babies, though it’s unclear why. The hospital can’t have that many deliveries each year. ...”.The article goes on to base this statement on the fact that the New Year’s baby was born on Jan. 20. In fact, there around 60 deliveries per year, and this figure is increasing due to there being two additional physicians in the community and that water births are offered. Perhaps rather than asking “why” something is, a more responsible journalistic practice would be to find out the “why.” In this case, there is a very good reason “why” and that reason demonstrates one of many reasons why this facility is so valuable to Rimbey and surrounding area. ● The deferred maintenance referenced in the article is for the replacement of the original 45 beds in long-term care. It is not for the acute care portion of the hospital, which, again as noted, was completed in 2008. ● What constitutes “close” in the statement “Rim-

CENTRAL ALBERTA’S DAILY NEWSPAPER Published at 2950 Bremner Avenue, Red Deer, Alberta, T4R 1M9

by The Red Deer Advocate Ltd. Canadian Publications Agreement #336602 Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulation Fred Gorman Publisher John Stewart Managing editor Richard Smalley Advertising director

bey has a number of other hospitals close by ...” is certainly a matter of opinion. In our opinion, 48 km is not “close” and certainly doesn’t seem very close to anyone in an emergency situation, we’re sure. ● Political affiliation — The article lists the fact that Rimbey “went Wildrose last election” as a “complicating factor.” Political affiliation, we believe, is not relevant to a discussion about rural hospital utilization.

We believe this article falls well short of what can be considered good investigative journalism.

Rick Pankiw Mayor, Town of Rimbey

Will Dreeshen stand up for transparency and accountability?

Local member of Parliament Earl Dreeshen couldn’t have been clearer when he said that “our record on transparency and accountability speaks for itself.”

Soon he will have a chance to show how he is putting that sentiment into practice as your representative when he votes on the Transparency Act. This bill was introduced by Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau to raise the bar on openness and accountability by making government information open by default. It is a good faith effort to work across the aisle and achieve results for Canadians.

The Transparency Act would modernize our Access to Information system, which is stuck in the 1980s. It would make all government data public by default and available in modern formats. It would empower an independent office to order that information to be disclosed. It would eliminate extra fees for information requests.

Scott Williamson Pre-press supervisor

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‘Purposeful, mindful, ultra-organized’ CROWN ASKS JURY TO FIND LUKA ROCCO MAGNOTTA GUILTY IN SLAYING OF JUN LIN

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — In killing Jun Lin, Luka Rocco Magnotta kept a promise made several months earlier to take the life of a human being, the Crown prosecutor said in his closing statement Thursday.

Louis Bouthillier asked jurors at Magnotta’s first-degree murder trial to convict Magnotta of first-degree murder and four other charges in the slaying and dismemberment of Lin in May 2012.

Magnotta, 32, has pleaded not guilty and while he admits to the slaying, he is seeking to be found not criminally responsible by way of mental disorder.

Experts testified on his behalf that Magnotta is schizophrenic and was psychotic and out of touch with reality the night of the slaying.

The prosecutor reiterated his belief the crime was planned and deliberate as he took the jury through the evidence and argued Magnotta’s actions demonstrate he was of sound mind before, during and after Lin’s slaying. “The judge will tell you it was the defence’s burden to convince you that Mr. Magnotta was mentally ill ... I submit to you the defence fails on that,�

Bouthillier told the jury during his day-long final submission. “What remains is evidence, both pre-and-post offence, showing someone, Mr. Magnotta, who is purposeful, mindful, ultra-organized and ultimately responsible for his actions,�

Bouthillier said. “One would not expect someone afflicted with a disease of the mind that renders him incapable of knowing what they have committed is wrong, to act the way Mr. Magnotta did in the hours, days and weeks following his crimes.�

Bouthillier said an email Magnotta sent to a British newspaper in December 2011 foreshadowed the killing of a human within six months.

He said the ominous email was followed by a rehearsal involving an unidentified man who appeared at the beginning of the video that eventually showed Lin being dismembered.

The mystery man would leave Magnotta’s apartment groggy but unharmed on May 19, 2012.

Less than a week later, Lin, 33, would be the final subject of the dismemberment snuff film published on the Internet with the title One Lunatic, One Ice Pick.

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Luka Rocco Magnotta is pictured in Berlin in a court photo. “He (Lin) just might have been the perfect victim for Mr. Magnotta,�

Bouthillier said, referring to the fact the victim had no family in Canada.

Magnotta’s actions were inconsistent with someone who was out of touch with reality and he was not observed doing strange things or talking to himself, the prosecutor told the jury.

After the crimes, Magnotta fled the country, attempted to conceal evidence and his own identity from authorities.

Over the first 48 hours following Lin’s slaying, Magnotta emptied the contents of his apartment, including instruments used to kill and dismember the victim.

The jury heard that the accused dismembered Lin’s body — taking care to triple-bag body parts and mail others — bought a plane ticket for Paris and even found time to order a pizza.

“During those 48 odd hours, Mr. Magnotta is very busy, a very, very busy man,� Bouthillier said.

A suitcase containing Lin’s torso that triggered the police investigation was found slashed, spray-painted and locked, perhaps in an attempt to conceal it, the Crown suggested. “Why would someone do this who doesn’t know right from wrong?�

Bouthillier asked.

After arriving in Paris, Magnotta switched hotels and began using a different name.

His laptop seized in Berlin indicated he had read a story about Lin’s torso being discovered. He quickly fled to Berlin that same day, emptying his bank accounts. The following day,

he deleted images and music used in Lin’s dismemberment video posted to the Internet. “This man looks like he’s on a mission,� Bouthillier added at one point.

He said a marked change in Magnotta’s behaviour came only while incarcerated at a prison hospital in Germany, one week after his arrest on June 4, 2012.

Bouthillier told the jury that no one who met with Magnotta shortly before and following the crimes said he showed any signs of schizophrenia or psychosis. Bouthillier said authorities believe Magnotta was malingering at the prison - faking his symptoms in the face of serious criminal charges.

He told the jury to give little weight to defence expert reports which he said failed to challenge Magnotta on important questions about the crimes and instead relied on the accused’s own version.

Magnotta maintained his right to silence and did not testify at the trial.

He also refused to meet with the prosecution’s expert. “Why is it, do you think?� Bouthillier asked the jury.

He also pointed to numerous parallels between the case and the film “Basic Instinct,� which he said served as an inspiration for the accused.

Magnotta, the Crown said, might never have been caught had it not been for various events, including: � A curious janitor wanting to have a closer look at a suitcase containing Lin’s torso that was bound for the garbage dump. � Surveillance cameras at a pharmacy capturing images of Magnotta as he mailed boxes containing Lin’s body parts. The boxes didn’t have the accused’s name on them. � A Toronto lawyer sending a fax to police that led to them finding Lin’s head. “If not for those three events, there probably would have been no case against Mr. Magnotta,� Bouthillier said. “People who commit first-degree murders or other crimes get caught when and if they make mistakes or if the police get lucky, or a combination of both,� he said. “This is what happened here.�

The case adjourned until Monday morning as Justice Guy Cournoyer said he needs more time to prepare his final charge to the jury.

A dozen jurors from the 14 who listened to the evidence will be chosen to deliberate.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — A divided Supreme Court of Canada ruled Thursday that police can conduct a limited search of suspect’s cellphone without getting a search warrant, regardless of password protection — but they must follow strict rules.

The precedent-setting ruling, reached by a narrow 4-3 margin, found that the search must be directly related to the circumstances of a person’s arrest and that investigators must keep detailed records of the search.

In a dissenting opinion, the three opposing justices said the police should be required to obtain a search warrant in all cases, except rare instances where there is a danger to the public, police or the evidence itself.

It is the first Supreme Court ruling on cellphone privacy, a 21st-century issue that has already spawned a series of divergent lower court decisions.

But Thursday’s ruling failed to satisfy privacy advocates who say it doesn’t do enough to protect people from invasive searches of a personal device that already holds a wealth of personal information.

The high court dismissed the appeal of the 2009 armed robbery conviction of Kevin Fearon, who argued that po-

lice violated his charter rights when they searched his cellphone without a warrant after he’d robbed a Toronto jewelry kiosk.

The court agreed that the police had in fact breached Fearon’s rights, but said the evidence against him on his cellphone should not be excluded.

“The police simply did something that they believed on reasonable grounds to be lawful and were proven wrong, after the fact, by developments in the jurisprudence,” Justice Thomas Cromwell wrote for the majority.

“That is an honest mistake, reasonably made, not state misconduct that requires exclusion of evidence.”

Cromwell said the court was trying to strike a balance between the demands of effective law enforcement and the public’s right to be free of unreasonable searches and seizures under Section 8 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

“In my view, we can achieve that balance with a rule that permits searches of cellphones incident to arrest, provided that the search — both what is searched and how it is searched — is strictly incidental to the arrest and that the police keep detailed notes of what has been searched and why.”

Fearon’s phone had no password protection, but the justices said wheth-

er or not a cellphone is locked makes no difference to a user’s expectation of privacy.

The ruling laid out detailed criteria to guide police.

The arrest must be lawful, and the search must be “truly incidental to the arrest” and based on a purpose consistent with “valid law enforcement,” meaning the protection of the police, accused or the public.

Such purposes would include preserving evidence and discovering new evidence, “including locating additional suspects, in situations in which the investigation will be stymied or significantly hampered absent the ability to promptly search the cellphone incident to arrest.”

Moreover, the ruling said a phone can subjected to a warrantless search if the “nature and the extent of the search are tailored to the purpose of the search” if police “take detailed notes of what they examined on the device and how it was searched.”

Fearon’s lawyer Sam Goldstein said it was a “good day” for enhanced privacy rights in Canada because of the added requirements imposed on police.

“It’s step forward in recognition of the importance of digital privacy rights, but perhaps not the complete step that concerned Canadians would

like.”

But the ruling failed to satisfy some privacy rights advocates.

Raji Mangat, a lawyer with the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association, said the decision was a disappointment because the court failed to strike the right balance between privacy rights and law enforcement.

She said forcing police to get a search warrant “would not be an onerous requirement.”

“This type of technology is fundamentally different from other types of place searches, like searching a briefcase or searching a filing cabinet.”

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled earlier this year that a search warrant is mandatory for all police searches of cellphones, said David Christopher, spokesman for the group OpenMedia. ca.

“Cellphone searches can be even more revealing than a police officer coming into somebody’s home and searching through their personal effects, which has long required a warrant.”

That lack of proper note-taking was the one flaw the high court identified in Fearon’s arrest, but it said that wasn’t enough to exclude the evidence that was gathered from his phone.

Federal challenge to Omar Khadr’s youth status moving ahead

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — A decision by the Supreme Court of Canada to hear the federal government’s challenge of Omar Khadr’s youth status stunned his lawyers on Thursday, although not much would have changed for him if the decision had gone the other way.

Khadr, whose eyesight is said to be failing, had already agreed to remain in a federal prison even though Alberta’s top court had ruled unanimously he should be deemed a young offender and moved to a provincial facility.

Nevertheless, the high court decision took his lawyers by surprise.

“I’m stunned,” Nate Whitling, one of Khadr’s lawyers, said from Edmonton

minutes after the high court said it would hear the case.

“We’re of the view there’s no merit whatsoever to the government’s position.”

Khadr’s lawyers had previously decided a penitentiary affords him better program opportunities than he would get in the provincial system.

However, the bigger issue is that he remains classified as a mediumsecurity inmate, a security rating that compromises his chances for parole.

Although eligible for full parole since last July, Khadr has previously waived a hearing given the concern he would be turned down and would have to wait at least two more years for another try. However, he is currently slated to attend a hearing in June.

Now in his 12th year in custody, Khadr is serving out a plea-bargained eight-year sentence handed down by a widely discredited U.S. military commission in October 2010 after he pleaded guilty to five war crimes, including murder.

Although he was 15 years old when the offences occurred in Afghanistan in July 2002 — numerous legal experts say that makes him a youth under international law - the military commission made no distinction between juveniles and adults.

The Toronto-born Khadr was re-

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Moreau was the driving force behind recently adopted pension-reform legislation that has angered municipal employees and sparked widespread protest.

The 45-year-old man was arrested in nearby Terrebonne on Monday after a woman filed a complaint with the local police force.

Montreal police spokesman JeanPierre Brabant confirmed Thursday the officer is an employee of the force.

Terrebonne police Capt. Sylvain Theoret said in an interview authorities met the woman, 40, and then questioned three others, including two minors. “Following those meetings and after taking statements, we proceeded to arrest the suspect,� Theoret said. “Since that time, the suspect has been detained in Saint-Jerome.�

Extending life of CF-18s to 2025 to cost about $400 million: independent report OTTAWA — A long-awaited market analysis into which fighter jet could replace the CF-18s tells the Harper government it can postpone a decision and keep flying the current fleet until 2025, but it will cost roughly $400 million.

The report by a panel of indepen-

dent experts, part of a package of documents put before the federal cabinet last summer, warns that the aging jets should not be flown much past that date because that would pose an unacceptable, costly risk.

All of the research was done to help the Harper government decide whether to continue with the oft-maligned F-35 stealth fighter program, or hold an open competition. “No decision has been made on the purchase of replacements for the CF-18s,� Public Works Minister Diane Finley told the Commons prior to the release of both the panel report and an annual assessment of the cost of the F-35.

Earlier this year, Defence Minister Rob Nicholson’s office announced the CF-18s would get life extension upgrades to keep them flying for another 11 years, but his department released no details on cost or risks.

The panel’s analysis, which looked at four different fighter jets, found each is equally capable of meeting Canada’s future needs, although both the Harper government and the air force have insisted for years that the F-35 was the only choice to replace the CF-18s.

There is a caveat in the review, however, which suggests the suitability depends on the kind of missions the government expects the planes to perform.

Teacher under investigation over Facebook comments about aboriginals WINNIPEG — A high school teacher in Manitoba has been placed on leave and is being investigated over social media comments that one aboriginal leader called hurtful and racist.

Kevin Hart, who filed a complaint with the school, said Thursday that a Facebook page under the name of Brad Badiuk, a technology teacher at Kelvin High School in Winnipeg, contained statements that said aboriginals are looking for free money from nonaboriginals.

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The Facebook posts also said abBoth have maintained their innocence originals should work for their money, as do fellow teachers and the principal said Hart, who added some comments at the Jakarta International School. were directed specifically at Derek Nepinak, head of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs. “The ... comments were very hurtful to my community and the grand chief of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs, and they were racist as well,� said SURREY, B.C. — The mother of Hart, who works with Nepinak at the an eight-year-old girl found dead in assembly.

Surrey, B.C., has been charged with “I was very hurt and a little angered murder. that one of the educators of our chilThe Integrated Homicide Investigadren ... could hold these views.� tion Team says the body of Teagan BatThe Facebook page had been destone was discovered in the trunk of a leted Thursday and attempts to reach vehicle in South Surrey on Wednesday.

Badiuk were not successful.

Staff Sgt. Jennifer Pound says The Winnipeg School Division 41-year-old Lisa Batstone is accused of would not name Badiuk, but said a second-degree murder. veteran teacher was being investigated Batstone was due to appear in a and could face disciplinary measures Surrey court on Thursday. if found to have crossed a line.

Pound says Batstone has no other children.

The cause of the little girl’s death hasn’t been confirmed and an autopsy will be conducted.

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JAKARTA, Indonesia — The prosecution in the case of a Canadian teacher facing allegations he sexually abused a kindergarten student at an international school in Indonesia has been in court to oppose a call by the defence for the case to be dismissed.

The brother of teacher Neil Bantleman of Burlington, Ont., says the prosecutor presented briefs Thursday in opposition to what is known as an application for exception.

Reports say an application for exception seeks a ruling from the court that a case should be thrown out.

Guy Bantleman said in an email to The Canadian Press that the court is to make a decision Tuesday on the matter.

He also said the British ambassador came to the courthouse to meet his brother to assure him he has the “support of the British Embassy in Jakarta and that they are monitoring the case closely.�

Neil Bantleman and teaching assistant Ferdinant Tjiong, who have been in custody since July, are being tried

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Ebola vaccine trial halted

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Swiss researchers have temporarily halted a clinical trial of a Canadian-made Ebola vaccine after seeing an unexpected side-effect in a few people who received the serum.

Four of 59 people vaccinated so far in the Genevabased trial reported pain in the joints of their extremities — fingers and toes — between 10 and 15 days after receiving the shot, researcher Dr. Angela Huttner said in an interview.

While the symptoms were mild, the team wanted to take some time to see what is going on before injecting additional volunteers, Huttner said.

“The reason we want to hold just for a few weeks is because this wasn’t expected. The other sites aren’t seeing this. We just want to know what’s going on before we do any more injections,” she said.

Several other trials are underway of this vaccine, designed by scientists at Canada’s National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg and donated to the World Health Organization by the Canadian government.

It is also currently being tested at the U.S. National Institutes of Health, the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, in Bethesda, Md., and at Dalhousie University in Halifax.

The licence for the vaccine was recently acquired by pharmaceutical giant Merck from NewLink Genetics, a small Iowa-based biotech company that had been developing the vaccine.

In some clinical trials volunteers receive either an active drug of vaccine or a placebo. But Huttner said it is known that all four reporting joint pain in this trial received vaccine.

Three received the lower of two doses being tested in Geneva; the dose received by the fourth is not known because that person is in a “blinded” part of the trial, where researchers will only learn after they analyze the trial’s results which dose he or she received.

The trial is schedule to resume on Jan. 5, the University Hospitals of Geneva — where the research is taking place — said in a press release.

Huttner said none of the four who experienced the side-effect has serious illness.

“I can tell you they are all doing really well. These are people who are working. They’re functioning just fine. These are very minor finding,” she said.

“In fact, in almost all of the cases they came for their scheduled visits. They didn’t call us urgently.

These were things that we picked up.”

Huttner, who is an infectious diseases specialist, said people can experience joint pain after having a viral infection and after receiving some vaccines.

It is commonly seen in women who are vaccinated against rubella, she said.

She said the team thinks this side-effect is likely an acceptable one, but wants to see how common it is and how severe it might be. A number of the people who have received the vaccine in this trial are not yet at day 15 after their vaccination.

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A woman receives a dose of the investigational NIAID/GSK Ebola vaccine at the NIH Clinical Center in Bethesda, Md. on Sept. 2, 2014.

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The blasts occurred as store owners were shutting their shops and Muslims were preparing for evening prayers.

Witnesses said one blast went off at an outdoor food stand and the other at the nearby entrance to Terminus market in the centre of the city. They spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals.

Soldiers and police were ferrying the wounded to hospitals.

In May, twin car bombs in Jos’ Terminus marketplace killed at least 130 people.

Those attacks were blamed on Islamic extremists from the Boko Haram group and were seen as an attempt to ignite fighting between Muslims and Christians. Jos is in Nigeria’s Middle Belt, where the mainly Muslim north and predominantly Christian south meet and violence between the two groups occurs often.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for Thursday’s attack but it bore all the signs of Boko Haram.

In northern Kano, Nigeria’s second largest city, police commissioner Aderenle Shinaba told reporters they safely detonated a bomb hidden in a handbag. The bag had been planted Thursday in a supermarket favoured by foreigners.

Separately, police in Kano arrested a teenage girl wearing a jacket primed with explosives, according to an officer who spoke on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to give information to reporters.

Several bombs in recent months have been detonated by female suicide bombers, raising fears that Boko Haram is using some of the hundreds of kidnapped girls and young women for its attacks.

Twin bomb blasts killed at least 102 people at the main mosque in Kano on Nov. 29, when gunmen also shot at people trying to escape.

At least 75 people have been killed in bomb blasts by female suicide bombers in recent weeks in Maiduguri, the northeastern capital of Borno state that is the birthplace of Boko Haram.

The extremist group has taken over several towns and villages along the northeast border with Cameroon, where it has declared an Islamic caliphate.

Thousands of people have died and 1.2 million have been forced from their homes in the 5-year-old insurgency.

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CIA chief defends interrogations

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — CIA Director John Brennan defended his agency Thursday from accusations in a Senate report that it used inhumane interrogation techniques against terrorist suspects with no security benefits to the U.S. But he stopped short of claiming that the tough methods saved thousands of American lives.

Brennan conceded that it is impossible to know whether the detainees provided crucial information because of the “enhanced interrogation techniques.�

He said the cause-and-effect relationship is “unknown and unknowable.�

He conceded unauthorized and in some cases abhorrent methods were used against captives, but asserted the CIA “did a lot of things right� in a time when there were “no easy answers.�

Brennan opened a rare news conference by recounting the horrors of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, his agency’s determination to prevent another such assault and the fact that CIA officers were the first to fight and early to die in the Afghanistan war.

His remarks were part of a campaign by the CIA and several of its past leaders to discredit a five-year Senate investigation into the CIA’s harrowing interrogation practices after 9-11, concerned that the historical record may define them as torturers instead of patriots and expose them to legal action around the world.

The Senate intelligence committee’s report doesn’t urge prosecution for wrongdoing, and the Justice Department has no interest in reopening a criminal probe. But the threat to former interrogators and their superiors was underlined as a U.N. special investigator demanded those responsible for “systematic crimes� be brought to justice, and human rights groups pushed for the arrest of key CIA and Bush administration figures if they travel overseas.

Current and former CIA officials pushed back Wednesday, determined to paint the Senate report as a political stunt by Senate Democrats tarnishing a

program that saved American lives. It is a “one-sided study marred by errors of fact and interpretation essentially a poorly done and partisan attack on the agency that has done the most to protect America,� former CIA directors George Tenet, Porter Goss and Michael Hayden wrote in a Wall Street Journal opinion piece.

Hayden was singled out by Senate investigators for what they said was a string of misleading or outright false statements he gave in 2007 about the importance of the CIA’s brutal treatment of detainees in thwarting terrorist attacks. He described the focus on him as “ironic on so many levels� as any wrongdoing predated his arrival at the CIA. “They were far too interested in yelling at me,� Hayden said in an email to The Associated Press.

The intelligence committee’s 500-page release concluded that the CIA inflicted suffering on al-Qaida prisoners beyond its legal authority and that none of the agency’s “enhanced interrogations� provided critical, life-saving intelligence. It cited the CIA’s own records, documenting in detail how waterboarding and lesser-known techniques such as “rectal feeding� were actually employed.

The CIA is now in the uncomfortable position of defending itself publicly, given its basic mission to protect the country secretly. Its 136-page rebuttal suggests Senate Democrats searched through millions of documents to pull out only the evidence backing up predetermined conclusions. “That’s like doing a crossword puzzle on Tuesday with Wednesday’s answer’s key,� the CIA said in an emailed statement.

Challenging one of the report’s most explosive arguments — that harsh interrogation techniques didn’t lead to Osama bin Laden — the CIA pointed to questioning of Ammar al-Baluchi, who revealed how an al-Qaida operative relayed messages to and from bin Laden after he departed Afghanistan. Before then, the CIA said, it only knew that courier Abu Ahmad al-Kuwaiti interacted with bin Laden in 2001 when the al-Qaida leader was accessible to many of his followers. Al-Kuwaiti eventually led the U.S. to bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan.

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Music, movies and other forms of entertainment The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, were banned during the Taliban rule in Afghanistan saying the performance underway was immoral. when the militant group practiced an extreme verIronically, the subject of the musical play was the sion of Islam. aftermath of a bombing.

One eyewitness said that the bomber walked into It was the first attack on a foreign target in the the cultural centre’s amphitheatre as she was leavAfghan capital in more than a week and came after ing and detonated his explosives inside the building. a series of insurgent bombings in the past month tar“A lot of my friends are in there and I don’t know geted foreigners, killing a British embassy security what has happened to them,� said Khadija. and three members of a South African family.

Acting interior minister, Mohammad Ayoub Salangi said the person killed was German, while police chief Gen. Abdul Rahman Rahimi identified the victim as a man, without giving more details.

The attack took place inside the auditorium of the French Cultural Centre, which is on the grounds of a high school known as Lycee Estaqlal, run under contract by the French government.

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier condemned the “cowardly attack� but did not confirm that a German was killed.

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Palestinian, Israeli pathologists disagree on cause of death of Palestinian Cabinet member RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territory — Israeli and Palestinian pathologists disagreed Thursday on whether a blow to the body or a bad heart was the main cause of death of a Palestinian Cabinet minister who collapsed shortly after scuffling with Israeli troops during a West Bank protest.

Palestinian doctors said Ziad Abu Ain died from a blow, not natural causes. Israeli doctors said the 55-year-old died from a blockage of the coronary artery due to arterial bleeding that could have been caused by stress.

Abu Ain’s death, along with the Palestinian autopsy findings, could further inflame tensions between Israel and the Palestinians.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has said Abu Ain was the victim of a crime and of a “barbaric act” and decreed three days of mourning.

Abu Ain’s funeral procession began at Abbas’ Ramallah headquarters Thursday. Several thousand mourners, including Abbas, gathered in the walled compound and said prayers over the minister’s coffin, draped in a Palestinian flag. From there, the procession headed toward a nearby cemetery, with some in the crowd shooting in the air.

Anticipating Palestinian protests over Abu Ain’s death, the Israeli military sent troop reinforcements to the West Bank. Earlier Thursday, several dozen Palestinian stone throwers clashed with Israeli troops in the West Bank city of Hebron.

Abu Ain died Wednesday, shortly after a West Bank confrontation between Palestinian protesters and Israeli soldiers that included pushing and shoving. At one point, a member of Israel’s paramilitary

Three students accused of stealing fraternity’s live chicken, eating it BURLINGTON, Vt. — University of Vermont Police say three students are accused of stealing a chicken from a Burlington fraternity house, killing it and eating it at a dormitory.

The Chittenden County prosecutor says he has declined to prosecute the students and all three cases have been referred to a reparative justice board.

Police said they received a report of trespassing and larceny on Sunday at a private residence where members of the Alpha Gamma Rho fraternity live.

The president of the fraternity, which is for those interested in agriculture or food industries, said they have decided not to pursue charges.

Police say they don’t know the motive for the theft.

White House swings behind $1.1T spending bill after tea party revolt almost sinks it WASHINGTON — House Republican leaders narrowly quelled a revolt among their conservatives Thursday, then worked to overcome Democratic opposition to legislation to provide $1.1 trillion in U.S. government spending and chart a new course for selected, highly shaky pension plans.

The White House said President Barack Obama would sign the measure, triggering a rare public rebuke from Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, who said she was disappointed.

“It is a compromise and it does fulfil some of the many of the top-line priorities that the president himself has long identified,” said White House press secretary Josh Earnest. He also said Obama did object to other portions of the 1,764-page spending and pension measure.

RED DEER ADVOCATE Friday, Dec. 12, 2014 A11 The developments coincided with the approach of a midnight expiration of existing federal funding, but there was no threat of a government shutdown or even evidence of the attendant brinkmanship so pervasive in recent years.

Reporter killed in car accident while covering clashes in southern Syria BEIRUT — A reporter for Al-Jazeera’s Arabic website died in a car accident in southern Syria while covering clashes between rebels and government troops, the network said Thursday.

The Qatar-based broadcaster said Mahran Deiri died Wednesday evening as he drove with the lights of his car turned off to avoid government fire near the contested village of Sheikh Maskeen in the southern Daraa province.

Deiri died immediately after his car rammed into a Syrian opposition vehicle, Al-Jazeera said.

Ahmad al-Masalmeh, an activist based in the southern province of Daraa, said Deiri was killed in a car accident as he tried to avoid army gunfire.

He was the fourth reporter to die in the past three days.

On Monday, activists said a government rocket attack killed three staffers working for Orient TV, an opposition-linked channel, near the contested village of Sheikh Maskeen.

The three, a cameraman and two reporters, were driving out of the village, where they had been covering clashes between government troops and opposition fighters, when the rocket slammed into their car, said the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

At least 75 journalists have been killed covering the conflict that has lasted for more than three years, according to research by the Committee to Protect Journalists. The vast majority were local journalists like al-Deeri and the Orient TV crew, CPJ said.

Authorities in Damascus restrict access to independent foreign media while local reporters work under heavy restrictions.

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BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR Rebels 6 Blazers 2 If the last two home-ice games are any indication, Conner Bleackley has rediscovered his scoring touch.

The Red Deer Rebels captain turned in a second consecutive two-goal home-ice performance Thursday in a 6-2 WHL win over the Kamloops Blazers in front of a recorded gathering of 4,367 at the Enmax Centrium.

“I don’t know where it was, but I just told myself that I have to shoot a lot more with a guy like (Riley) Sheen on my line,” said Bleackley, who potted 29 goals last season and was then drafted by Colorado in the first round of June’s NHL entry draft, and ran this season’s total to 12 with Thursday’s output.

“He (Sheen) makes some plays that not many guys in this league can make, so I just have to get open and when he does get me the puck just shoot it. It’s worked out pretty good so far.”

The Rebels led 4-2 after two periods, then turned up the heat in the final frame, getting a power-play tally from Bleackley and an evenstrength marker courtesy of Tyler Sandhu.

Bleackley pretty much sealed the deal when he beat Blazers netminder Cole Kehler with a high wrist shot from the faceoff circle, and Sandhu notched his ninth of the season when he converted a nifty drop pass from Brooks Maxwell with just 1:17 remaining.

“We certainly played with the pace we wanted to in the third,” said Rebels GM/head coach Brent Sutter. “We did a really good job of not giving up a whole lot and keeping pucks behind their back end in their zone. We got some quality scoring opportunities and capitalized on a couple of

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Red Deer Rebel Adam Musil controls the puck as Kamloops Blazer Deven Sideroff shadows deep in the Blazers end of the ice during second period action at the Centrium on Thursday. them.”

The Rebels started fast, with Brett Cote firing a point shot past a screened Kehler a mere 16 seconds into the contest. Bleackley followed with his first of the evening eight minutes later, taking a behindthe-net feed from Sandhu and stepping into a snapshot.

The Blazers countered when Collin Shirley scored on a second rebound, but Adam Musil restored Red Deer’s two-goal lead before the pe-

riod ended, lifting a bouncing puck past Kehler with Blazers defenceman Ryan Rehill in the penalty box.

“Our first period was really good, especially with our start,” said Sutter.

“We really wanted to have a good start here tonight.

They’re a team that played last night (a 4-1 loss at Edmonton) and we hadn’t played since Saturday.”

Each team scored once in the middle frame, with Blaz-

ers’ top scorer Cole Ully connecting during a power play with a shot to the blocker side that Rebels netminder Rylan Toth never saw, and Grayson Pawlenchuk replying for the Rebels directly off a faceoff in the Kamloops end.

“We kind of played a little bit sloppy in the second but I liked our response in the third period,” said Bleackley.

“We didn’t really give them anything and we capitalized on a power-play opportunity

to get an insurance goal and then kind of shut it down from there.”

Added Sutter: “In the second we kind of took our foot off the pedal and then we got some momentum back near the end of the period and got going in the third. It was a great team effort. Everyone gave us what they had and we got some timely goals.”

The two power-play goals gave the Rebels a respectable 26 on the season. Red Deer was two-for-six with a man advantage and two-for-three on their penalty kill, the league’s second-best.

“I think our (power play) breakout was good tonight and once we got into the zone we moved the puck pretty well,” said Bleackley. “I still think we need to shoot more but it’s been going pretty well for us.”

The Rebels were minus the services of veteran defenceman Haydn Fleury, who is attending the Canadian national junior team selection camp in Toronto, but overall the back end didn’t miss a beat.

“Everyone stepped up and did a great job,” said Sutter.

“We just have to keep the game simple, especially in our zone, and make plays stick to stick. If they’re not there, let’s get pucks out and get them 150 to 160 feet away from our net and get into a neutral-zone game instead of playing in our zone.

“For the most part I thought we did a pretty good job of that.” ● Rebels forward Presten Kopeck picked up three assists, while Sheen and Maxwell each contributed a pair of helpers . . . Toth was solid in the Rebels net, turning aside 30 shots. Kehler made 21 saves but had the tougher looks . . .

The Rebels head out on a twogame road trip this morning.

Red Deer is in Moose Jaw Saturday and then face the Wheat Kings Sunday in Brandon. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate. com

Red Deer’s Smith breaking Bobsled pilot records in the pool Kaillie Humphries wins Lou Marsh Trophy

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Catalina Swim Club member Rebecca Smith works on her back stroke at the Michener Centre pool Wednesday. Smith is just back from posting a Canadian age group record in the 50 metre freestyle event at a Ontario Junior International competition in Toronto.

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Kaillie Humphries didn’t have much time to celebrate.

Moments after learning she had won the 2014 Lou Marsh Trophy as Canada’s top athlete, the 29-year-old bobsled pilot was off to the track for her final practice session ahead of this weekend’s season-opening World Cup race.

“Trying to be focused on both of these runs today was probably one of my biggest challenges I’ve had so far this year,” Humphries said Thursday from Lake Placid, N.Y. “It’s such an amazing honour and I’m so, so excited to be amongst sport royalty.”

The first bobsledder to win the Lou Marsh Trophy, Humphries became the first female in her sport to win back-to-back Olympic gold when she captured her second title in Sochi.

Humphries also carried Canada’s flag along with brakeman Heather Moyse into the closing ceremonies in Russia.

“Most of the time you see hockey or football, you see a lot of the top sports (win the award),” said Humphries, who also won her second World Cup title in 2014. “So to be the one to represent a not-aspopular sport is a pretty big honour.”

Women’s tennis player Eugenie Bouchard, men’s tennis player Milos Raonic, Los Angeles Kings defenceman Drew Doughty and lacrosse star Johnny Powless were the other finalists. Calgary Stampeders running back Jon Cornish won the award last year.

Along with her two Olympic gold medals, Humphries has captured 28 World Cup medals and seven world championship medals.

Despite that long list of accomplishments, Humphries

BY JOSH ALDRICH ADVOCATE STAFF said she was surprised to win the trophy that is named after a former Toronto Star sports editor and awarded annually to Canada’s top athlete as selected by representatives of country’s leading news organizations.

“When you hear the list of athletes that have won it previously you’ve got (Sidney) Crosby, you’ve got (Wayne) Gretzky, you’ve got Donovan Bailey the list goes on and on,” said Humphries. “When I think of myself as an athlete sometimes it’s hard to put myself in the same category as the athletes I’ve grown up watching or knowing about.

“It’s shocking for me.”

Humphries, who grew up as a competitive skier, but switched sports after breaking a leg in two separate accidents, continues to push the boundaries of bobsledding.

She will pilot a Canadian four-man team in what would have been the men’s competition on the World Cup circuit this season. She has long lobbied for the chance to race against men, and the International Bobsled and Skeleton Federation decided this year to make the four-man event gender neutral.

Humphries piloted a crew of herself and three male athletes in five races this season to qualify for the World Cup circuit.

Rebecca Smith is only 14 years old, but she’s already one of the fastest swimmers in Canada.

At the Ontario Junior International in Toronto on the weekend, the Red Deer Catalina Swim Club member claimed her second Canadian age group record, this time in the 50-metre freestyle at 25.40 seconds, beating the previous mark by 0.12 seconds. Two years ago she set the 200-metre backstroke time for 12-yearolds, a mark that still stands.

“It felt really good, I just exploded off those blocks,” she said. “There’s no secret to the 50, you just got to sprint with all you got and keep your head down for the last 10 metres.”

The national-best time was just the beginning of her success in Toronto, also setting Alberta records in the 50-, 100- and 200-metre freestyle, the 200-metre backstroke and twice lowered the provincial time in the 100-metre fly.

She came back to Red Deer with gold in the 50-metre fly and silver in the 100- and 200-metre fly, beating not just Canada’s best young swimmers but some of the top international swimmers as well.

She has come a long way in seven years of guidance under head coach Mandi Smith — no relation.

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“It’s pretty exciting, it’s Canadian national history,” said Mandi Smith. “We’re from a little pool, we don’t get the big pool and the big support that other cities get — Red Deer does the best they can for us but we don’t have the things that the big cities have. So to be able to compete at the national level is pretty exciting.”

The five-foot-nine Rebecca Smith is a well-rounded athlete who also runs cross-country and plays basketball with the Lindsay Thurber Raiders. Participating in multiple sports has helped sculpt her into a top swimmer — her favourite sport.

“It’s the feeling of going fast in the water, it’s way different than any other sport, it’s pretty cool,” she said.

Smith wasn’t the only Catalina swimmer setting records in Toronto at the new Pan-Am pool. Josh Young, 14, who won nine gold medals at the Canadian Age Group Championship in Winnipeg this summer, set a provincial record in the 100-metre breast stroke and twice in the 200-metre breast stroke and added an additional club record in the 50-metre free. Kristen Trepanier, 15, also had a club record in the 200-metre butterfly.

Rebecca Smith said they were able to feed off of each other’s success in the pool.

“We all push each other, if some one does super good that encourages us to do better and

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push us on,” she said.

The Catalina swim club has helped send a number of swimmers on to the Canadian Interuniversity Sport level, like Halle Loyek at Dalhousie University and Brianna Bailey at Simon Fraser University, among others and it is also where former national team member Joel Greenshields got his start.

It is a goal Rebecca Smith should be able to shoot for long term.

“We do have a really rich swimming history,” said Mandi Smith. “There’s some really fast swimmers that come out of Red Deer. We just want to make sure we can help them and support them to whatever the next level is.”

In the short term, however, the world juniors in Singapore are in her sites for August with trials in Toronto in April. In March she will be moving up a division to the U-16s, so she will be one of the youngest in her age group.

“That 25.40 puts her really close to some of the big girls and the goal ultimately is to make that team in 2016,” said Mandi Smith. “If we can squeeze in on the relay and if not we’ll be shooting for our own event.”

This weekend the Catalinas are sending 35 kids to Edmonton at the JP Fiset Invitational. jaldrich@reddeeradvocate. com

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Getting a taste of the action

THE ICE THIS WEEK IN REBELS HISTORY The expansion Chilliwack Bruins rolled into Red Deer on Dec. 12 of 2006 Brett and got two Sutter goals from future Los Angeles Kings forward Oscar Moller in a 6-5 overtime victory over the Rebels. “I don’t think we took them for granted.

We knew they were going to come out and work hard and I just didn’t think we came prepared to play 60 minutes,” said Rebels captain Brett Sutter. “Right from the drop of the puck they outworked us and did the simple things. They beat us at our own game.”

Dustin Moore recorded a hat trick in a losing cause and the Rebels got additional goals from Jordan Knackstedt and Kirill Starkov. Red Deer was without the services of team-leading scorer Martin Hanzal — now with the Arizona Coyotes — who was in the Czech Republic preparing to play in the world junior championship.

WHO’S HOT Brandon Wheat Kings C Tim McGauley is riding a nine-game points streak with 16 points Tim (9g,7a) dating McGauley back to Nov. 21.

The 19-year-old from Wilcox, Sask., has scored 17 goals and collected 37 points in 32 games this season.

WHO’S NOT Last season, Portland Winterhawks C Keegan Iverson enjoyed a fine WHL sophomore Keegan season with 22 Iverson goals and 42 points in 67 games. Iverson, a six-foot-one, 220-pound 18-year-old native of St. Louis Park, Minn., has seen his production fall off sharply through the first 31 games this season with only four goals — just one even-strength — and 11 points to his credit. He was selected by the New York Rangers in the third round of the 2014 NHL entry draft.

HE SAID IT Thank u to all the fans that welcomed my family to Lethbridge 2 yrs ago & supported the tm. Wish Drake #hurricanes Berehowsky much luck.

— Drake Berehowsky, via twitter, following his Tuesday firing as head coach of the Lethbridge Hurricanes.

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR He wasn’t there for a long time, but he had a good time.

Lacombe’s Josh Smith resurrected his major junior career when he joined the Portland Winterhawks in the fall, but as a 20-year-old he fell victim to the numbers game, the ‘Hawks deciding that the five-foot-nine, 191-pound defenceman didn’t fit the bill as one of three overage players allowed on their Western Hockey League roster.

Instead of rejoining the Okotoks Oilers of the Alberta Junior League, with whom he finished the 2013-14 season, Smith decided to suit up with the Chinook Hockey League powerhouse Bentley Generals, the top senior AAA organization in Western Canada.

“I had a great experience when I was in Portland at the start of this season. They treated me like gold, it’s like a pro team there,” said Smith, who collected one assist and racked up 34 minutes in penalties with the ‘Hawks before being released eight games into the season.

“Even being here (with the Generals), it’s pro class. It’s absolutely wonderful here and I couldn’t ask for anything more.”

After a standout season with the major bantam Red Deer Rebels Black, Smith was selected by the Prince George Cougars in the first round — 19th overall — of the 2009 WHL bantam draft. He appeared in 10 games with the Cougars as a 15-year-old, and played 44 games as an official WHL rookie the following season.

However, he split the 201112 season between the Cougars and the AJHL Camrose Kodiaks, starting a trend of bouncing back and forth between the junior A and major junior ranks.

Smith played eight games with Prince George last season and also skated with the Kodiaks and Oilers.

He got his last — and likely final — WHL shot when he was approached by a Winterhawks scout just prior to the start of the club’s training camp in late August. But he was deemed as the odd man out as a 20-yearold and was released in early October.

“I guess that saying ‘growing up kind of sucks’ is the right saying,” said Smith. “It was a good run while I was in Portland and I’m glad I got to finish my junior career playing on a

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Bentley Generals Josh Smith looks for the puck against the Innisfail Eagles during Chinook Senior Hockey League action in Lacombe on Wednesday. Smith had his final shot to play in the WHL come to and abrupt end when he was released earlier this year.

WHL team like that. There’s a lot of pride in that organization and I was glad to be part of it for the short time that I was.

But this is where I am now and this is my focus . . . I kind of get to start my life now.”

Despite being shifted back and forth between the WHL and AJHL, Smith never lost faith in his belief that he was a legiti-

mate major junior player and his goal was always to return to the top level.

“When I went to Camrose when I was 17, my main goal was to eventually get back (to the WHL) and not just get back but be an impact with a WHL team,” he said.

“I think I got to be part of that early this season in Port-

land, it just didn’t work out that I was that key player for them.

“But there are no hurt feelings and I’m happy here.”

Smith is a good skater with a heavy shot and enjoys playing the fast-paced, physical brand of hockey that was evident in the Generals’ 2-0 Chinook League win over the Innisfail Eagles Wednesday at Lacombe and is the norm for the Chinook League.

But while he’s currently working in the family oilfield business and enjoying his time with the Generals, he hasn’t completely ruled out the possibility of joining a junior A team prior to the eligibility deadline of Jan. 10.

“I believe I’m on a (AJHL) suspended list right now that still allows me to play here,” he said.

“I have been contacted by scouts asking if I’d be willing to go other junior A teams, but it would be hard to leave a team like this with the record that these guys have and how well they treat you here. It would be a tough decision.”

Another option for Smith would be joining a college team, either for the second half of this season or next fall.

“I have received a couple of school offers, but in that sense, for me, I don’t know if school and hockey would be the greatest mix,” he said. “I like to concentrate on one thing at a time and here I’m able to balance work and hockey at the same time.”

If he does decide to attend college at some point, enrolling at RDC and playing with the Kings would be a possibility.

“I have talked to (Kings coach Trevor) Keeper a couple of times and I have a couple of friends on that team,” said Smith.

“They have a good team and there’s a couple of courses (at RDC) that I would like to take.

It’s definitely something to think about.”

For now, Smith will continue to patrol the blueline for the Generals, who are glad to have him in their lineup.

“He’s a good kid who has come in and been a pleasant surprise,” said head coach Ryan Tobler. “He’s a gamer, and just to see the look on his face . . . he loves being at the rink.

“To get a guy like that in here at this level is pretty special and we’re expecting big things from him moving forward.” gmeachem@reddeeradvocate. com

Raiders move Morrissey before expected Would they or wouldn’t they? the Prince Albert Daily Herald, Turns out they would, and in reference to moving Morristhey did. sey. “He’s a dynamic player and The question was in regards those guys are hard to replace.” to the Prince Albert Raiders While Morrissey, currently and their star defenceman, Josh attending the Canadian junior Morrissey, and whether the club national team selection camp would deal the taland a lock to play ented 19-year-old bein the world junior fore the WHL trade championship for a deadline of Jan. 10. second straight year, Some might say the is by far the biggest Raiders jumped the name in the transacgun Thursday when tion, Campese is conthey shipped Morrisfident the 19-yearsey to the Kelowna old Lees will be a Rockets, arguing that welcome presence the club might have on the Raiders bluegotten a bigger haul line and Glover will had they waited until add size and offence just near the deadup front. The sixGREG line. foot-two, 180-pound MEACHEM As it was, the Glover has recorded Raiders did OK in 16 points — includthe trade — which aling six goals — in 19 so sent forward Gage games this season Quinney, 19, to the Rockets — and is regarded as a promising that brought in offensive de- up-and-comer. fenceman Jesse Lees, forward “We just felt that it was reAustin Glover and two bantam ally important to add for us two draft picks — a second-rounder components in Lees and Glover in 2016 and a third-round selec- that will be with us for at least tion in 2017. another year or possibly more,” Still, bidding adieu to prob- Campese said. ably the WHL’s best rearguard “When you look at the total had to hurt. man games between Morrisey “It’s never easy,” Raid- and Quinney as compared to the ers general manager Bruno two guys over the next couple Campese told Brett Smith of years, you start to add up all the

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man games. (The difference is) very significant.”

Morrissey, drafted 13th overall by the Winnipeg Jets in 2013, will team with Madison Bowey — also at the national team selection camp and a solid bet to wear the maple leaf at this year’s world juniors in Toronto and Montreal — to give the Rockets the best one-two, power-play quarterback punch in the WHL. “We are getting arguably the best defenceman in the WHL in Josh Morrissey,” Rockets president and GM Bruce Hamilton told Doyle Potenteau of the Kelowna Daily Courier. “He’s been playing very well for Prince Albert and he made a strong point in Winnipeg’s training camp this year. I think we’ve done something very good for our hockey club. We’ve lost a couple of really good players in the deal, but I just thought we needed to add something to our young defence.” ● The president of the Lethbridge Hurricanes board of directors is confident Peter Anholt is the right man to guide the struggling, last-place team through the remainder of the current season, at least.

“Pete’s our solution right now, he’s the right guy right now,” Paisley said Dylan Pur-

cell of the Lethbridge Herald and other media members during a press conference Wednesday regarding the appointment of Anholt as the club’s GM/head coach.

“We did a lot of research on this and we’ve had a lot of discussion. As you can imagine, there’s a lot of opinion with a 15-member board and this wasn’t a light decision. When you’re working with people’s livelihoods and changing people’s path, these aren’t things we take lightly so we did spend numerous hours working toward this decision that we feel comfortable with as a board.

“It’s the right decision for the Hurricanes organization.”

Anholt, a former Rebels head coach and assistant (to Terry Simpson and Brent Sutter from 1998 to 2000), was hired by the ‘Canes in June as an assistant to general manager Brad Robson and replaces both Robson and former bench boss Drake Berehowsky, both fired this week.

Under Robson and Berehowsky, the Hurricanes won a league-low 12 games last winter and were 6-19-3-1 at the time of the firings. Bryan Maxwell and Mike Craig will continue in their roles as assistant coaches. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate. com

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Flames get sliced up by Sabres

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Sabres 4 Flames 3 BUFFALO, N.Y. — The Buffalo Sabres don’t care what the stats say, as long as they keep getting two points.

Buffalo was outshot 45-19 on Thursday night, but Matt Moulson scored twice and Jhonas Enroth made 42 saves to lead the Sabres to a 4-3 win over the Calgary Flames.

“It wasn’t one of our better games,” Sabres head coach Ted Nolan said.

“It’s pretty special because we weren’t in the game but we still believed that we could come back.”

The surprising Sabres are 8-3 since starting the season 3-13-2, and the players think they know why their fortunes are turning around.

“I think heart,” Ennis said.

“We’re playing for each other and I think Jhonas deserves a lot of the credit.”

Enroth made a bevy of saves to keep Buffalo in the game, including a point blank elbow save on Curtis Glencross with 6 seconds to play.

“I had a lot of shots against me and felt pretty good all game,” Enroth said.

“It’s three goals but it’s not that bad, I thought.”

Zemgus Girgensons and Marcus Foligno also scored for the Sabres, while Tyler Ennis had three assists.

Moulson’s second goal of the game, on a pass from Ennis with 7:29 to go, broke the 3-all tie and gave the Sabres their second straight win.

Mark Giordano, Sean Monahan and David Jones scored for Calgary, losers of three in a row.

The Sabres have won four straight at home, and are 4-4 against the Pacific Division.

“Our team confidence is in a good place,” said Tyler Myers. “I think we’re doing the right things, we’re trying to do the right things ... I think that confidence will grow even more.”

Monahan scored on a rebound at 3:14 of the third to give the Flames a 3-2 lead. Girgensons then tied it when he took a pass through the crease from Ennis and shot into an open net at 7:59.

After a tepid start to the game, Girgensons faked Karri Ramo down to the ice before the Flames’ goalie recovered to stop the centre’s wrap around attempt.

And Paul Byron split two Sabres defencemen to earn a breakaway, but Enroth grabbed the high backhand shot and held it for a whistle.

The scoreless first period gave way to a four-goal second.

Ennis stripped the puck from TJ Brodie in the corner and found Moulson streaking to the net. Moulson wristed the puck over Ramo’s left shoulder to make it 1-0 at the 5:54 mark.

“We worked hard,” Ennis said.

“Their defence got up in the play and I think we capitalized on a couple of turnovers and got it in and worked it.”

With Foligno already in the penalty box for slashing, a delay of game penalty to Nicolas Deslauriers gave Calgary a two-man advantage and the Flames instantly capitalized with Giordano’s slap shot goal to tie the score with 8:29 to go in the period.

“We shot ourselves in the foot tonight,” Giordano said. “I thought we played a good game but the times we did break down were easy goals for them.”

Stafford made a highlight-reel play to restore Buffalo’s lead. Using a body fake to lose Derek Engelland in the corner, Stafford skated around the net before sending a no-look pass through the crease to Foligno, who finished his chance with 5:19 remaining.

Foligno was denied a second goal by video review with 3:43 left when it was ruled he deflected Nikita Zadorov’s shot from above the legal height.

Calgary took advantage of the disallowed goal when Jones stick-checked Josh Gorges in front of Enroth and flipped the puck past the Sabres goaltender to even the score with 2:54 to go.

Now the Flames aren’t panicking despite being tasked with putting an end to season-worst losing streak.

“We’ve got to cut it off now though,” Giordano said. “We’ve got to find a way to get points next game, get the win, and move on from there.”

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Buffalo Sabres center Zemgus Girgensons looks for a rebound from Calgary Flames goaltender Karri Ramo during the first period of an NHL game Thursday, in Buffalo, N.Y. NOTES: The line of Girgensons, Moulson and Ennis accounted for seven points for the Sabres. ... Enroth was playing in his 100th career game. ...

Buffalo C Cody Hodgson was a healthy

Connor McDavid is hopeful he can play in an exhibition game before world juniors

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Star forward Connor McDavid’s cast is off, he has clearance for non-contact drills and is confident he’ll be ready to play in the upcoming world junior hockey championship.

Now it’s just a matter of seeing how things go at the Canadian team’s pretournament camp.

McDavid hasn’t played in a game since breaking a bone in his right hand on Nov. 12. The Erie Otters forward has been skating regularly but his cast wasn’t removed until this week.

The junior phenom will be examined by doctors on a regular basis and the team says they’re taking things day by day. But the goal is to get McDavid into at least one exhibition game before the tournament opener on Dec. 26.

“I can take full slapshots and all Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS that, so the hand feels good,” McDavid said Thursday afternoon at a down- Team Canada players watch a drill during selection camp in preparation for the town hotel. upcoming IIHF World Junior Championships in Toronto on Thursday.

“The wrist is not too stiff at all. So it should be all good.” ki Oceanic, Nic Petan of the Portland They’re all talented. They have skills, Thirty players have been invited Winterhawks and Sam Reinhart of the they have size, they have speed, they to camp and 22 players will make the Kootenay Ice. can shoot and pass the puck. But it’s final team.

There could still be a few late ad- also about their attitude. What they The 17-year-old McDavid, who has ditions to the camp roster. NHL clubs can bring.

51 points in 18 games this season, is have until the Dec. 19 roster freeze to “Can they block shots? Can they an early favourite to be selected first decide whether they will loan players forecheck hard? Can they track hard? overall in the 2015 NHL Entry Draft. to the team.

Can they make the big plays when it His presence would provide a big Tampa Bay Lightning forward Jona- matters the most? To me that’s the difboost to a squad that hasn’t won gold than Drouin won’t be joining the squad ference between a good CHL player in five years. but there is a chance Curtis Lazar of - because there are a lot of good CHL McDavid was sporting a yellow no- the Ottawa Senators and Bo Horvat of players - but we’ve got to have, on this contact jersey during a 75-minute eve- the Vancouver Canucks could still be team, world-class players. ning practice at MasterCard Centre. He added.

“Guys that can adapt their game and was flying down the ice during drills The players will practise again Fri- elevate their play. This is what we’re but his puck-handling skills were a day before taking on the CIS Toronto looking for.” little rusty.

Selects over the weekend.

Canada will play group stage games “I felt good, obviously a couple hic“We have a good positive attitude,” in Montreal and knockout games in cups there with the puck,” he said. “I Fucale said.

Toronto. The tournament runs through thought I was shooting it fine and I got “We had a good first practice. It’s Jan. 5. better as the practice went on.” starting well.”

Head coach Benoit Groulx said it After the first few days in Toronto, would be nice to get McDavid into an the team will head down the highway exhibition game, but it’s most impor- for next week’s pre-competition camp tant to have him ready for the tourna- in St. Catharines, Ont. ment.

“We have the best of the best here,” “We will follow what the doctor Groulx said. says and how he reacts to shooting “The best 30 players in the country. the puck and passing the puck,” he said. “But right now there’s no rush. We’re happy to have him here and we’ll see how it plays out.”

McDavid was on last year’s team that finished fourth in Malmo, Sweden.

Canada’s first game at this General Description year’s event will be played Grand fir is enjoyed at Montreal’s Bell Centre for its strong woodsy against Slovakia.

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BRIEFS Notre Dame takes on Edson Holy Redeemer to open Cougar Classic Host Notre Dame will take on Edson Holy Redeemer in the Cougar Classic senior high boys basketball tournament today at 2:30 p.m.

The tournament, which starts at 11 a.m., also includes Sherwood Park Archbishop Jordan, Calgary Bishop Grandin, Edmonton St. Joseph’s, Cold Lake, Rocky Mountain House West Central and St. Albert Bellerose.

Other games Friday are set for 11 a.m., 12:45, 2:30, 4:15, 6 and 7:45 p.m.

The tournament resumes Saturday at 11:30 a.m. and concludes with the championship final at 6:30 p.m.

Cougars sweep Rams in Junior Varsity basketball action The Notre Dame Cougars swept the Lacombe Rams to open their junior varsity high school basketball season on Wednesday in Lacombe.

The Notre Dame boys’ topped Lacombe 74-44, led by Jeb Marijiboc who had 15 points and was a perfect 9-for-9 from the free throw line.

In the girls’ game, the Cougars beat the Rams 66-29 led by Krisha Hernaez with 15 points and six steals.

The boys’ and girls’ Notre Dame teams will be at the Hunting Hills Lightning Junior Varsity Tournament this weekend, both playing their first game at 4:45 p.m. on Friday.

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SCOREBOARD Hockey Anaheim 2, Edmonton 1 Pt 47 37 36 31 30 17

CENTRAL DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Medicine Hat 31 22 7 1 1 117 75 Red Deer 32 17 11 3 1 117 106 Calgary 31 17 11 1 2 124 94 Edmonton 32 15 12 3 2 99 91 Kootenay 32 15 17 0 0 95 122 Lethbridge 30 6 19 3 2 70 121

Pt 46 38 37 35 30 17

WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Kelowna 32 25 4 3 0 142 76 Victoria 33 17 14 2 0 108 109 Prince George 31 16 15 0 0 98 127 Kamloops 34 12 17 3 2 102 124 Vancouver 31 13 18 0 0 93 106

Pt 53 36 32 29 26

GP 29 33 30 29 30

U.S. DIVISION W L OTLSOL 18 7 3 1 17 13 0 3 16 13 0 1 14 12 3 0 13 13 2 2

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WHL EASTERN CONFERENCE EAST DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Brandon 32 22 7 2 1 147 108 Regina 30 18 11 1 0 109 84 Swift Current 33 16 13 0 4 103 106 Moose Jaw 31 14 14 2 1 96 109 Prince Albert 32 15 17 0 0 94 103 Saskatoon 32 7 22 2 1 85 148

Everett Portland Tri-City Spokane Seattle

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GF GA 99 81 113 116 84 81 76 82 80 82

Pt 40 37 33 31 30

Wednesday’s results Moose Jaw 5 Brandon 4 (SO) Swift Current 6 Regina 4 Edmonton 4 Kamloops 1 Kelowna 4 Lethbridge 3 (SO) Vancouver 3 Prince Albert 0 Thursday’s results Red Deer 6 Kamloops 2 Friday’s games 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.

Saturday’s games Red Deer at Moose Jaw, 6 p.m.

Regina at Saskatoon, 6:05 p.m.

Kamloops at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Edmonton at Kootenay, 7 p.m.

Prince Albert at Medicine Hat, 7:30 p.m.

Victoria at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

Prince George at Spokane, 8:05 p.m.

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

Portland at Seattle, 8:05 p.m.

Sunday’s games Red Deer at Brandon, 3 p.m.

Kelowna at Calgary, 4 p.m.

Kamloops at Lethbridge, 4 p.m.

Portland at Tri-City, 6:05 p.m.

Thursday’s summary Rebels 6, Blazers 2 First Period 1. Red Deer, Cote 6 (Kopeck, Maxwell) :16.

2. Red Deer, Bleackley 11 (Sheen, Sandhu) 8:15.

3. Kamloops, Shirley 8 (McVeigh, Connolly) 8:52.

4. Red Deer, Musil 9 (Cote, Nell) 11:07 (pp).

Penalties - Dixon RD (tripping) 5:35, Rehill Kam (holding opp. stick) 10:19, McVeigh Kam (roughing) 13:02, McVeigh Kam (roughing) 13:02, McVeigh Kam (10-minute misconduct) 13:02.

Second Period 5. Kamloops, Ully 14 (Fora, Connolly) 3:40 (pp).

6. Red Deer, Pawlenchuk 8 (unassisted) 7:49.

Penalties - Mahura RD (slashing) 1:51, Rehill Kam (cross-checking) 8:52, Polei RD (interference) 9:07, Maier Kam (boarding) 10:28, Bench (too many men) 14:00.

Third Period 7. Red Deer, Bleackley 12 (Sheen, Kopeck) 8:53 (pp).

8. Red Deer, Sandhu 9 (Kopeck, Maxwell) 18:43.

Penalties - Rehill Kam (tripping) 7:12.

Shots on goal Kamloops 7 14 11 - 32 Red Deer 10 6 11 - 27 Goal - Kamloops: Kehler (L, 3-8-2); Red Deer: Toth (W, 16-8-3).

Power plays (goal-chances) - Kamloops: 1-3; Red Deer: 2-6.

National Hockey League EASTERN CONFERENCE GP W L OT Pts Tampa Bay 30 19 8 3 41 Pittsburgh 27 18 6 3 39 Detroit 29 17 6 6 40 N.Y. Islanders 29 19 10 0 38 Montreal 30 18 10 2 38 Washington 28 13 10 5 31 Toronto 28 16 9 3 35 Boston 29 15 13 1 31 Florida 26 11 8 7 29 N.Y. Rangers 26 12 10 4 28 Ottawa 28 11 12 5 27 New Jersey 30 11 14 5 27 Philadelphia 28 10 13 5 25 Columbus 28 11 15 2 24 Buffalo 29 11 16 2 24 Carolina 28 8 17 3 19

GF GA 103 78 88 64 89 72 93 85 77 77 81 77 95 81 74 75 58 68 77 76 73 79 69 87 74 86 67 92 52 88 60 78

WESTERN CONFERENCE GP W L OT Pts GF GA Anaheim 30 19 6 5 43 87 80 Chicago 29 20 8 1 41 91 57 Nashville 28 19 7 2 40 78 55 Vancouver 29 18 9 2 38 88 81 St. Louis 29 19 8 2 40 86 68 Calgary 30 17 11 2 36 93 80 Winnipeg 30 15 9 6 36 72 70 Los Angeles 29 15 9 5 35 77 63 San Jose 30 15 11 4 34 86 81 Minnesota 26 15 10 1 31 76 65 Colorado 29 10 13 6 26 76 95 Dallas 28 10 13 5 25 81 100 Arizona 29 10 16 3 23 67 95 Edmonton 29 7 17 5 19 63 98 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Wednesday’s Games Toronto 2, Detroit 1, SO

Thursday’s Games Colorado 4, Winnipeg 3, SO Chicago 3, Boston 2 Buffalo 4, Calgary 3 Philadelphia 4, New Jersey 1 Columbus 3, Washington 2, OT Los Angeles 5, Ottawa 3 Tampa Bay 2, Carolina 1 St. Louis 6, N.Y. Islanders 3 Nashville 5, Arizona 1 Minnesota at San Jose, late Friday’s Games Calgary at Pittsburgh, 5 p.m.

Los Angeles at Montreal, 5:30 p.m.

Florida at Detroit, 5:30 p.m.

Anaheim at Edmonton, 7:30 p.m.

Saturday’s Games Ottawa at Boston, 11 a.m.

Carolina at Philadelphia, 11 a.m.

Florida at Buffalo, 5 p.m.

Detroit at Toronto, 5 p.m.

Chicago at N.Y. Islanders, 5 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Washington, 5 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Columbus, 5 p.m.

Anaheim at Winnipeg, 5 p.m.

Minnesota at Arizona, 6 p.m.

New Jersey at Dallas, 6:30 p.m.

St. Louis at Colorado, 8 p.m.

N.Y. Rangers at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

Nashville at San Jose, 8:30 p.m.

Thursday’s summaries Sabres 4, Flames 3 First Period No Scoring.

Penalties - Gorges Buf (hooking) 7:20, Giordano Cgy (interference) 11:57.

Second Period 1. Buffalo, Moulson 5 (Ennis) 5:34.

2. Calgary, Giordano 8 (Wideman, Hudler) 11:31 (pp).

3. Buffalo, Foligno 3 (Stafford, Deslauriers) 14:41.

4. Calgary, Jones 5 (Glencross, Jooris) 17:06.

Penalties - Brodie Cgy (hooking) 1:51, Ennis Buf (slashing) 2:31, Bollig Cgy (fighting) 9:59, Stewart Buf (fighting) 9:59, Foligno Buf (slashing) 11:01, Deslauriers Buf (delay of game) 11:13.

Third Period 5. Calgary, Monahan 11 (Colborne) 3:14.

6. Buffalo, Girgensons 9 (Ennis, Gorges) 7:59.

7. Buffalo, Moulson 6 (Ennis, Girgensons) 12:31.

Penalties - None.

Shots on goal Calgary 11 16 18 - 45 Buffalo 6 6 7 - 19 Goal - Calgary: Ramo (L, 8-4-1); Buffalo: Enroth (W, 8-10-1).

Power plays (goal-chances) - Calgary: 1-4; Buffalo: 0-2.

Predators 5, Coyotes 1 First Period 1. Arizona, Vermette 7 (Boedker, Yandle) 4:11 (pp).

2. Nashville, Fisher 1 (Weber, Forsberg) 6:57 (pp).

3. Nashville, Neal 11 (Fisher, Josi) 11:06.

4. Nashville, Ellis 3 (Neal, Ribeiro) 18:30.

Penalties - Weber Nash (holding) 3:40, EkmanLarsson Ari (holding) 4:58, Vermette Ari (interference) 9:06.

Second Period No Scoring.

Penalties - Volchenkov Nash (holding) 18:53.

Third Period 5. Nashville, Jarnkrok 2 (Bourque, Forsberg) 2:43.

6. Nashville, Jokinen 2 (Wilson, Weber) 7:20.

Penalties - Ellis Nash (hooking) 10:28, Hanzal Ari (holding) 14:16, Stone Ari (roughing) 14:44, Vitale Ari (high-sticking) 17:09.

Shots on goal Nashville 14 9 15 - 38 Arizona 8 12 12 - 32 Goal - Nashville: Rinne (W, 19-5-1); Arizona: Smith (L, 5-14-2).

Power plays (goal-chances) - Nashville: 1-5; Arizona: 1-3.

Avalanche 4, Jets 3 (SO) First Period No Scoring.

Penalties - Byfuglien Wpg (tripping) 2:55, Pavelec Wpg (tripping) 9:30, Briere Col (holding) 12:54, Holden Col (hooking) 19:34.

Second Period 1. Winnipeg, Ladd 11 (Scheifele, Frolik) 1:21 (pp).

2. Colorado, Duchene 10 (Hejda, Tanguay) 3:55.

3. Winnipeg, Postma 2 (Scheifele, Lowry) 14:40 (pp).

Penalties - Ladd Wpg (fighting) 11:16, Landeskog Col (fighting) 11:16, McLeod Col (boarding) 13:08, Tanguay Col (high-sticking) 19:25.

Third Period 4. Winnipeg, Scheifele 4 (Perreault, Frolik) 4:32.

5. Colorado, Iginla 7 (Tanguay, Duchene) 12:55.

6. Colorado, O’Reilly 5 (Landeskog, Redmond) 17:18.

Penalties - Pardy Wpg (stick holding) 6:57, Postma Wpg (high-sticking) 9:43.

Overtime No Scoring.

Penalties - None.

Shootout - Colorado wins 2-0 Winnipeg : Perreault miss, Wheeler miss.

Colorado : MacKinnon goal, Duchene goal.

Shots on goal Winnipeg 8 16 5 4 - 33 Colorado 10 4 7 5 - 26 Goal - Winnipeg: Pavelec (LO, 9-8-4); Colorado: Pickard (W, 4-5-0).

Power plays (goal-chances) - Winnipeg: 2-4; Colorado: 0-4.

Blues 6, Islanders 3 First Period 1. St. Louis, Steen 6 (Shattenkirk, Tarasenko) 5:58 (pp).

2. St. Louis, Jackman 1 (Steen, Lapierre) 14:18.

Penalties - Strait NYI (interference) 5:15, Boulton NYI (unsportsmanlike conduct) 10:42, Reaves StL (unsportsmanlike conduct) 10:42, Lehtera StL (hooking) 11:04, Butler StL (high-sticking) 15:26.

Second Period 3. NY Islanders, Tavares 12 (Okposo) 16:03.

4. NY Islanders, Grabovski 5 (Nielsen) 19:54.

Penalties - Ott StL (slashing) 9:12.

Third Period 5. St. Louis, Steen 7 (Oshie, Jackman) 4:32.

6. St. Louis, Oshie 4 (Berglund, Pietrangelo) 15:47.

7. St. Louis, Stastny 7 (Backes, Oshie) 17:48 (pp).

8. NY Islanders, Okposo 6 (Donovan) 18:16.

9. St. Louis, Schwartz 10 (Shattenkirk, Lehtera) 18:56 (en).

Penalties - Clutterbuck NYI (slashing) 16:37, Lapi-

erre StL (roughing) 19:39, Clutterbuck NYI (roughing) 19:39.

Shots on goal NY Islanders 8 14 6 - 28 St. Louis 9 8 16 - 33 Goal - NY Islanders: Halak (L, 14-6-0); St. Louis: Allen (W, 9-3-1).

Power plays (goal-chances) - NY Islanders: 0-3; St. Louis: 2-2.

Kings 5, Senators 3 First Period No Scoring.

Penalties - Martinez LA (tripping) 1:17, Karlsson Ott (slashing) 9:39.

Second Period 1. Los Angeles, Greene 2 (Carter) 1:47.

2. Los Angeles, Williams 7 (Muzzin, Doughty) 9:17.

3. Ottawa, Ryan 6 (Gryba, Cowen) 14:08.

Penalties - King LA (fighting) 3:01, Cowen Ott (fighting) 3:01, Cowen Ott (Illegal Check to Head Minor) 3:01, Greene LA (tripping) 11:46.

Third Period 4. Ottawa, Stone 6 (Legwand) 1:44 (sh).

5. Los Angeles, Kopitar 6 (Doughty, Muzzin) 2:20 (pp).

6. Los Angeles, Lewis 4 (Toffoli, Muzzin) 4:02.

7. Ottawa, Cowen 2 (Turris) 18:39.

8. Los Angeles, Pearson 11 (Richards, Quick) 19:03 (en).

Penalties - Condra Ott (tripping) 1:24, Cowen Ott (slashing) 9:33.

Shots on goal Los Angeles 5 15 16 - 36 Ottawa 14 11 10 - 35 Goal - Los Angeles: Quick (W, 12-7-4); Ottawa: Anderson (L, 6-8-4).

Power plays (goal-chances) - Los Angeles: 1-4; Ottawa: 0-2.

Lightning 2, Hurricanes 1 First Period No Scoring.

Penalties - Gleason Car (high-sticking) 6:12, Morrow TB (interference) 6:12, Filppula TB (hooking) 8:24, Garrison TB (cross-checking) 13:16.

Second Period No Scoring.

Penalties - Sustr TB (hooking) 0:32, Jordan Car (holding) 13:41.

Third Period 1. Tampa Bay, Kucherov 10 (Stralman, Nabokov) 6:35 (pp).

2. Carolina, Faulk 5 (Nash, Sekera) 12:03.

3. Tampa Bay, Kucherov 11 (Killorn, Carle) 19:29.

Penalties - Nash Car (tripping) 5:17, Gudas TB (delay of game) 15:59.

Shots on goal Carolina 10 11 9 - 30 Tampa Bay 11 11 5 - 27 Goal - Carolina: Ward (L, 8-11-1); Tampa Bay: Nabokov (W, 3-3-1).

Power plays (goal-chances) - Carolina: 0-4; Tampa Bay: 1-2.

Blue Jackets 3, Capitals 2 (OT) First Period 1. Washington, Fehr 5 (Carlson, Kuznetsov) 3:19 (pp).

2. Columbus, Foligno 12 (Gibbons, Wisniewski) 15:36.

Penalties - Dubinsky Clb (holding) 1:13, Clb Bench (too many men) 2:07, Tropp Clb (goaltender interference) 4:27, Ovechkin Wash (goaltender interference) 19:57.

Second Period No Scoring.

Penalties - Schmidt Wash (holding) 3:36, Boll Clb (cross-checking) 8:37, Chimera Wash (crosschecking) 8:37, Wisniewski Clb (slashing) 12:13, Wisniewski Clb (roughing) 12:13.

Third Period 3. Washington, Brouwer 8 (Niskanen, Alzner) 9:20.

4. Columbus, Connauton 2 (Wisniewski, Atkinson) 10:59.

Penalties - Hartnell Clb (high-sticking) 14:23.

Overtime 5. Columbus, Foligno 13 (Johnson, Johansen) 4:41 (pp).

Penalties - Chimera Wash (interference) 3:03.

Shots on goal Columbus 6 4 10 3 - 23 Washington 13 15 10 3 - 41 Goal - Columbus: Bobrovsky (W, 10-8-1); Washington: Holtby (LO, 11-7-4).

Power plays (goal-chances) - Columbus: 1-3; Washington: 1-6.

Blackhawks 3, Bruins 2 First Period 1. Chicago, Dahlbeck 1 (Smith, Kruger) 9:10.

2. Chicago, Smith 3 (Carcillo, Kruger) 18:43.

Penalties - Chara Bos (hooking) 11:32, Rozsival Chi (holding) 14:04.

Second Period 3. Chicago, Kane 13 (Versteeg) 13:19.

4. Boston, Smith 7 (Marchand, Bergeron) 18:37.

Penalties - Bos Bench (too many men) 7:57, Chara Bos (delay of game) 8:50, Seidenberg Bos (boarding) 10:04, Toews Chi (hooking) 10:53.

Third Period 5. Boston, Krug 5 (Lucic) 12:17.

Penalties - Kelly Bos (fighting) 12:17, Shaw Chi (fighting) 12:17, Krug Bos (roughing) 12:17, Dahlbeck Chi (roughing) 12:17.

Shots on goal Chicago 12 7 2 - 21 Boston 14 10 10 - 34 Goal - Chicago: Darling (W, 5-1-0); Boston: Rask (L, 12-9-1).

Power plays (goal-chances) - Chicago: 0-4; Boston: 0-2.

Flyers 4, Devils 1 First Period 1. Philadelphia, Couturier 6 (Read) 6:12 (sh).

2. Philadelphia, Read 3 (Couturier, Schultz) 13:37.

Penalties - NJ Bench (too many men) 3:04, Voracek Pha (hooking) 5:28, Havlat NJ (tripping) 18:33.

Second Period 3. New Jersey, Havlat 3 (Gomez, Severson) 13:02 (pp).

Penalties - Sislo NJ (holding) 10:05, Schultz Pha (tripping) 12:47, Ruutu NJ (tripping) 16:20.

Third Period 4. Philadelphia, Simmonds 12 (Streit, Giroux) 15:44 (pp).

5. Philadelphia, Voracek 10 (Giroux, Streit) 17:30 (en).

Penalties - Cammalleri NJ (tripping) 15:05.

Shots on goal New Jersey 5 6 7 - 18 Philadelphia 10 12 14 - 36 Goal - New Jersey: Schneider (L, 11-13-3); Philadelphia: Emery (W, 5-4-1).

Power plays (goal-chances) - New Jersey: 1-2; Philadelphia: 1-5.

Transactions Thursday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL Major League Baseball OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONER - Suspended minor league C Rodney Daal 100 games, without pay, following a third positive test for a drug of abuse in violation of the Minor League Drug Prevention and Treatment Program.

American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES - Acquired RHP Jason Garcia from Houston for a player to be named or cash.

BOSTON RED SOX - Acquired RHP Rick Porcello from Detroit for OF Yoenis Cespedes, RHP Alex Wilson, and LHP Gabe Speier.

CHICAGO WHITE SOX - Acquired LHP Dan Jennings from Miami for RHP Andre Rienzo.

DETROIT TIGERS - Acquired RHP Alfredo Simon from Cincinnati for INF Eugenio Suarez and RHP Jonathon Crawford.

LOS ANGELES ANGELS - Acquired INF Josh Rutledge from Colorado for RHP Jairo Diaz. Acquired LHP Andrew Heaney from the L.A. Dodgers for INF Howie Kendrick.

TEXAS RANGERS - Agreed to terms with RHP Anthony Bass, OF Antoan Richardson, and RHP Ross Wolf on minor league contracts.

National League COLORADO ROCKIES - Acquired RHP Austin House and cash from Oakland for INF Mark Canha.

LOS ANGELES DODGERS - Designated C Ryan Lavarnway for assignment.

MIAMI MARLINS - Acquired 2B Dee Gordon, RHP Dan Haren and INF Miguel Rojas from the L.A. Dodgers for LHP Andrew Heaney and RHP Chris Hatcher, INF Enrique Hernandez and C Austin Barnes. Acquired RHP Mat Latos from Cincinnati for RHP Anthony DeSclafani and C Chad Wallach.

NEW YORK METS - Agreed to terms with LHP Scott Rice on a minor league contract.

Frontier League NORMAL CORNBELTERS - Signed SS Patrick

McKenna to a contract extension.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association ATLANTA HAWKS - Named Nzinga Shaw chief diversity and inclusion officer.

PHILADELPHIA 76ERS - Acquired F Andrei Kirilenko, a 2020 second-round draft pick, G Jorge Gutierrez and cash and from Brooklyn for F Brandon Davies. Acquired the right to swap Cleveland’s 2018 second-round draft pick, which Philadelphia acquired during the off-season, with Brooklyn’s 2018 second-round draft pick. Waived G Malcom Lee. FOOTBALL National Football League CHICAGO BEARS - Signed RB Montell Owens.

Placed LB D.J. Williams on the injured reserve list.

CINCINNATI BENGALS - Signed DT Kwame Geathers to the practice squad.

SEATTLE SEAHAWKS - Released LB Allen Bradford. Signed DE David King from the Cincinnati practice squad.

WASHINGTON REDSKINS - Placed T Morgan Moses on the injured reserve list. Signed RB Chris Thompson from the practice squad and T Edawn Coughman to the practice squad.

Canadian Football League TORONTO ARGONAUTS - Signed DB Shane Herbert to a contract extension through 2016. Signed WR Diontae Spencer.

HOCKEY National Hockey League NHL- Suspended Dallas F Ryan Garbutt for three games, without pay, for slew-footing Winnipeg D Dustin Byfuglien during a game in Dallas on Dec. 9.

ANAHEIM DUCKS - Activated G Jason LaBarbera from injured reserve. Assigned F Dany Heatley to Norfolk (AHL) on a long-term injury conditioning loan. Assigned D Josh Manson to Norfolk. Assigned G Igor Bobkov to Utah (ECHL).

CALGARY FLAMES - Activated F Joe Colborne form injured reserve. Assigned F Michael Ferland to

LeBron James misses Cavs’ game because of sore left knee OKLAHOMA CITY - LeBron James sat out the Cleveland Cavaliers’ game at Oklahoma City because of a sore left knee.

Cleveland coach David Blatt announced the decision Thursday night during his pregame media session. He said James started to have issues following Cleveland’s victory over Toronto on Tuesday night.

“After the last game, he felt some soreness

Adirondack (AHL).

DALLAS STARS - Recalled F Travis Morin from Texas (AHL). Assigned D Jamie Oleksiak to Texas.

DETROIT RED WINGS - Recalled D Xavier Ouellet from Grand Rapids (AHL) and D Scott Czarnowczan from Toledo (ECHL).

FLORIDA PANTHERS - Recalled D Shane O’Brien from San Antonio (AHL).

WASHINGTON CAPITALS - Assigned LW Aaron Volpatti to Hershey (AHL) on a long-term injury/illness exception conditioning loan.

American Hockey League ECHL ELMIRA JACKALS - Loaned F Taylor Stefishen to Texas (AHL).

BAKERSFIELD CONDORS - Announced Oklahoma City (AHL) assigned D Ben Lindemulder to the team.

SOUTH CAROLINA STINGRAYS - Announced Fs Nathan Walker and Caleb Herbert have been assigned to the team from Hershey (AHL).

SOCCER CONCACAF - Named Sonia Denoncourt director of refereeing.

Major League Soccer MLS - Suspended D.C. United F Fabian Espindola for six games and fined him an undisclosed amount for his post-match actions after a game against New York on Nov. 8.

COLUMBUS CREW SC - Signed MF Kristinn Steindorsson. Named Clark Beacom vice-president of sales and marketing), Arica Kress senior director of marketing and communications, Will Bennett senior brand director, Tim Miller director of communications, Ryan Schwepfinger communications manager and Dan Lolli director of stadium operations and merchandise.

NEW YORK RED BULLS - Signed MF Sean Davis.

Loaned G Ryan Meara to New York City FC for the 2015 season for acquiring MF Sal Zizzo from New York City FC permanently.

in the back of his knee,” Blatt said. “Nothing major. He got up this morning and didn’t feel particularly good, so we decided to hold him out.”

James has averaged 24.9 points, 9.0 assists and 4.9 rebounds during Cleveland’s eightgame winning streak, helping the Cavaliers climb to the top of the Central Division. He entered the day fourth in the NBA in scoring at 24.8 points per game and second in minutes at 38 a game.

James has played in all 20 of Cleveland’s previous games this season. Blatt said it’s a day-to-day situation.

Today

● Senior high basketball: Notre Dame Cougar Classic boys tournament. ● Midget AAA hockey: Edmonton K of C at Red Deer, 8 p.m., Arena. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Blackfalds at Three Hills, 8 p.m. ● Midget AA hockey: Bow Valley at Olds, 7:30 p.m.; Lacombe at Red Deer Elks, 8:30 p.m., Collicutt Centre.

Saturday

● Senior high basketball: Notre Dame Cougar Classic boys tournament. ● Minor midget AAA hockey: Airdrie/ Cochrane at Red Deer Northstar, 11:30 a.m, Arena; Calgary Stampeders at Red Deer Aero Equipment, 4:45 p.m., Arena. ● Peewee AA hockey: Airdrie at Red Deer Parkland, 12:30 p.m., Collicutt Centre; Taber at Olds, 2:15 p.m. ● Major bantam hockey: Camrose at Red Deer Black, 2 p.m., Arena. ● Junior women’s hockey: Fort Saskatchewan at Central Alberta, 4:15 p.m., Penhold Regional Multiplex. ● Bantam AA hockey: Bow Valley at Olds, 4:45 p.m.; Lethbridge at Sylvan Lake, 5:30 p.m., Eckville. ● WHL: Red Deer at Moose Jaw, 6 p.m.

(The Drive). ● Exhibition senior hockey: Rosetown, Sask., at Bentley, 7 p.m., Eckville. ● Midget AA hockey: Calgary Blackhawks at Red Deer Elks, 7:15 p.m., Collicutt Centre; Calgary Rangers at Olds,

7:30 p.m.; Calgary Stampeders at Sylvan Lake, 8:15 p.m. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Mountainview at Red Deer, 8 p.m., Arena; Ponoka at Three Hills, 8 p.m., Trochu.

Sunday

● Major bantam hockey: Airdrie at Red Deer White, noon, Arena. ● Major bantam girls hockey: Rocky Mountain at Red Deer, 12:45 p.m., Kinsmen B. ● Peewee AA hockey: Taber at Red Deer TBS, 12:45 p.m., Collicutt Centre; Airdrie at Sylvan Lake, 2:30 p.m., Bentley. ● Bantam AA hockey: Lethbridge at Red Deer Steel Kings, 2 p.m., Kinsmen A; Cranbrook at Olds, 2:45 p.m. ● Midget AAA hockey: Leduc at Red Deer, 3 p.m., Arena. ● WHL: Red Deer at Brandon, 3 p.m. (The Drive). ● Heritage junior B hockey: Cochrane at Blackfalds, 3:30 p.m. ● Men’s basketball: Grandview vs.

Orangemen, Carstar vs. Monstars, Johns Manville vs. Triple A Batteries, 4:15 p.m.; Wells Furniture vs. NWS, Kingsmen vs.

Henry’s Eavestroughing, Driven vs. All Sports Cresting Lacombe, 5:30 p.m.,; all games at Lindsay Thurber. ● Minor midget AAA hockey: Airdrie/ Cochrane at Red Deer Aero Equipment, 5:30 p.m., Arena. ● Midget AA hockey: Sylvan Lake at Olds, 5:30 p.m.

Basketball National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB Toronto 16 6 .727 Brooklyn 8 12 .400 7 Boston 7 13 .350 8 New York 4 20 .167 13 Philadelphia 2 19 .095 13 1/2 Southeast Division W L Pct 15 6 .714 15 6 .714 10 12 .455 9 15 .375 6 15 .286

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L.A. Clippers at Washington, 5 p.m.

Orlando at Atlanta, 5:30 p.m.

Indiana at Toronto, 5:30 p.m.

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

Philadelphia at Brooklyn, 5:30 p.m.

Cleveland at New Orleans, 6 p.m.

Charlotte at Memphis, 6 p.m.

Oklahoma City at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

Detroit at Phoenix, 7 p.m.

Miami at Utah, 7 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at San Antonio, 7:30 p.m.

Saturday’s Games Golden State at Dallas, noon Atlanta at Orlando, 5 p.m.

Portland at Indiana, 5 p.m.

Brooklyn at Charlotte, 5 p.m.

L.A. Clippers at Milwaukee, 5:30 p.m.

Memphis at Philadelphia, 5:30 p.m.

Denver at Houston, 6 p.m.

Detroit at Sacramento, 8 p.m.

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Hoosier Daddy 66 Rampage 45 HD — POG: Danielle Clifford. Ramp — POG: Shelby Hauck.

Shooting Stars 43 Triple Threat 43 SS — Julie Cavanaugh 23; POG: Coreen Esau. TT: Ingrid Luymes 12; POG: Chanelle Stayer.

Funk 62 Royals 27 Funk — Kaitlin Rose 15; POG Rose. Royals — POG: Simone Dale.

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Triple A Batteries 74 Alken Basin 47 TAB — Jesse Liske 19, Vernon Johnson 18; POG: Johnson. AB — Wyatt Saari 16, Kolt Bell 7; POG: Saari.

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Pittsburgh at Atlanta, 11 a.m.

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

Miami at New England, 11 a.m.

Houston at Indianapolis, 11 a.m.

Jacksonville at Baltimore, 11 a.m.

Green Bay at Buffalo, 11 a.m.

Tampa Bay at Carolina, 11 a.m.

Cincinnati at Cleveland, 11 a.m.

Denver at San Diego, 2:05 p.m.

N.Y. Jets at Tennessee, 2:05 p.m.

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

Minnesota at Detroit, 2:25 p.m.

Dallas at Philadelphia, 6:30 p.m.

Monday’s Game New Orleans at Chicago, 6:30 p.m.

Thursday, Dec. 18 Tennessee at Jacksonville, 6:25 p.m.

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Curling Canadian Open YORKTON, Sask. - Results Thursday from the Canadian Open, an event on the Grand Slam of Curling, from Dec. 9-14: MEN Thursday’s results Brad Gushue 6 Glenn Howard 3 Kevin Koe 7 Brendan Bottcher 3 Reid Carruthers 6 Jeff Stoughton 5 (extra end) Jim Cotter 8 Sven Michel 3 John Epping 8 John Morris 4 Mike McEwen 7 Brad Gushue 3 Brad Jacobs 12 Reid Carruthers 7 Jim Cotter 7 Niklas Edin 6 Steve Laycock 6 Glenn Howard 4 Wednesday’s results Brendan Bottcher 8 Brad Jacobs 3 Kevin Koe 7 Reid Carruthers 6 John Morris 7 Jeff Stoughton 3 Mike McEwen 7 Adam Casey 6 Glenn Howard 6 Sven Michel 3 Brad Gushue 7 Jim Cotter 6 Brendan Bottcher 7 John Epping 1 Kevin Koe 5 John Morris 4 (extra end) Mike McEwen 8 Steve Laycock 3 Brad Jacobs 5 David Murdoch 3 Niklas Edin 7 Adam Casey 6 Friday’s games David Murdoch vs. Jeff Stoughton, 7 a.m.

Adam Casey vs. Sven Michel, 7 a.m.

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WOMEN Thursday’s results Heather Nedohin 7 Jennifer Jones 6 Rachel Homan 8 Julie Hastings 1 Jill Thurston 10 Nina Roth 6 Amber Holland 7 Sherry Middaugh 3 Val Sweeting 5 Heather Nedohin 3 Rachel Homan 8 Kristy McDonald 7 Chelsea Carey 7 Jill Thurston 2 Binia Feltscher 5 Amber Holland 4 Jennifer Jones 10 Silvana Tirinzoni 8 (extra end) Eve Muirhead 6 Julie Hastings 4 Wednesday’s results Jennifer Jones 6 Nina Roth 4 Heather Nedohin 7 Jill Thurston 6 Val Sweeting 7 Allison Flaxey 6 Rachel Homan 9 Amber Holland 2 Julie Hastings 5 Sherry Middaugh 2 Val Sweeting 6 Silvana Tirinzoni 4 (extra end) Kristy McDonald 7 Eve Muirhead 2 Chelsea Carey 7 Allison Flaxey 6 Binia Feltscher 8 Chantelle Eberle 4 Friday’s games Nina Roth vs. Allison Flaxey, 7 a.m.

Sherry Middaugh vs. Chantelle Eberle, 7 a.m.

Chelsea Carey vs. Kristy McDonald, 10 a.m.

Binia Feltscher vs. Heather Nedohin, 10 a.m.

Jill Thurston vs. Amber Holland, 10 a.m.

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Trades dominate MLB winter meetings SAN DIEGO — Baseball’s winter meetings ended with an old-style spurt of swaps, with All-Stars switching teams at a rapid pace and executives scrambling to fill roster voids.

Alfredo Simon, Dee Gordon, Yoenis Cespedes, Miguel Montero, Jeff Samardzija, Brandon Moss, Dan Haren and Howie Kendrick were among the All-Stars dealt by the time teams headed home Thursday, and Matt Kemp and Jimmy Rollins were on the verge of switching clubs.

The Los Angeles and Chicago teams were the epicenter of change, along with the Miami Marlins.

Twelve trades involving 44 players were made over the four days, according to Major League Baseball, up from five swaps last year and three in 2012.

There hadn’t been this many trades at a winter meetings since 2006.

“People are motivated,” Seattle general manager Jack Zduriencik said.

With major league revenues in the $9 billion range, increased sharing and changes to rules for the amateur draft, more clubs have money to spend and large-market teams are more constrained.

The four organizations chasing San Francisco in the NL West all changed their top baseball front-office official since last year’s gathering: Tony La Russa took over at the Diamondbacks, Andrew Friedman with the Dodgers, A. J. Preller with the Padres and Jeff Bridich with the Rockies. Matt Silverman replaced Friedman with the Rays.

“People have been very, very aggressive,” Detroit general manager Dave Dombrowski said.

“Action starts more quickly, so when you get here I think you’re prepared to move.

“Secondly, a lot of free agents started to sign. I think a lot of clubs were open-minded. There’s been some change of regimes that have also contributed to that.”

McEwen downs Gushue to earn playoff berth at Canadian Open

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS YORKTON, Sask. — Mike McEwen of Winnipeg earned a playoff spot in the Grand Slam of Curling Canadian Open with a 7-3 win over Brad Gushue of St. John’s N.L., on Thursday.

McEwen got out to an early 4-0 lead after two ends, stealing three in the first and one in the second. He added two more points in the fifth and a single in the seventh.

Gushue scored two points in the third to cut his early deficit in half and added a single in the sixth end.

Calgary’s Kevin Koe became the first skip to qualify for a playoff berth after defeating Brendan Bottcher of Edmonton, 7-3 in the late morning draw.

In the evening B side matches, Brad Jacobs of Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., scored four points each in the third and seventh ends en route to a 12-7 victory over Winnipeg’s Reid Carruthers, Saskatoon’s Steve Laycock came from behind to beat Glenn Howard of Penetanguishene, Ont., 6-4, and Jim Cotter of Kelowna/Vernon, B.C., scored two in the final end to edge Sweden’s Niklas Edin 7-6.

Earlier in the day, Ottawa’s Rachel Homan and Edmonton’s Val Sweeting both earned playoff spots. Homan edged Winnipeg’s Kristy McDonald 8-7 while Sweeting took a 5-3 win over Edmonton’s Heather Nedohin.

Eve Muirhead of Scotland scored three in the seventh end to beat Julie Hastings of Thornhill, Ont., 6-4 in the women’s B Bracket.

In the afternoon B bracket, Winnipeg’s Jennifer Jones needed an extra end to defeat Switzerland’s Silvana Tirinzoni 9-8, Edmonton’s Chelsea Carey downed Jill Thurston of Winnipeg, 7-2, and Switzerland’s Binia Feltscher came away with a 5-4 win over Regina’s Amber Holland.

LaRoche earlier in the off-season.

Other teams in the Central were adding, too. Minnesota and right-hander Ervin Santana worked to finalize a $55 million, four-year agreement, and AL champion Kansas City had a $17 million, two-year deal in place with Kendrys Morales. He figures to take over at designated hitter from Billy Butler, who left as a free agent and agreed to a $30 million, three-year deal with Oakland.

St. Louis made a deal for free-agent power hitter Mark Reynolds.

Jocketty attributed much of the action to new team bosses.

“I think they wanted to be active and try to do things quickly,” he said.

certainly,” Red Sox general manager Ben Cherington said.

“As expected, it picked up after Lester.”

The Cubs also have a $20 million, two-year deal with right-hander Jason Hammel.

And they acquired an All-Star catcher in Montero from Arizona as they try to bring a World Series title to the North Side for the first time since 1908.

On the South Side, the White Sox struck a $46 million, four-year deal with closer David Robertson and boosted their rotation by getting Samardzija from Oakland after adding reliever Zach Duke and first baseman Adam

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A $155 million, six-year agreement between left-hander Jon Lester and the Cubs late Tuesday night seemed to break a market logjam.

In deals announced just before midnight Wednesday, the Dodgers acquired Kendrick from the Angels to play second and worked to obtain Rollins from Philadelphia in a remake of their middle infield.

They dealt Gordon, Haren - who is mulling retirement - infielder Miguel Rojas and a player to be named or cash to the Marlins as part of a seven-player trade for left-hander Andrew Heaney, right-hander Chris Hatcher, infielder Kike Hernandez and catcher Austin Barnes.

The Dodgers then sent Heaney, considered one of baseball’s top pitching prospects, to the Angels for Kendrick.

And as dawn broke, the Dodgers had a deal in place to send Kemp and catcher Tim Federowicz down Interstate 5 to San Diego for catcher Yasmani Grandal and two pitchers. The trade was pending physical exams and approval by the commissioner’s office of the $32 million the Dodgers will send the Padres to help offset the $107 million remaining in the final five years of Kemp’s deal.

And the Dodgers also worked to complete a $48 million, four-year agreement with pitcher Brandon McCarthy.

The Marlins, meanwhile, got pitcher Mat Latos from Cincinnati.

Detroit made a pair of trades, sending pitcher Rick Porcello to Boston for Cespedes and two minor leaguers, and then replenishing its rotation with Simon, obtained from Cincinnati for two minor leaguers.

Reds GM Walt Jocketty made that deal in a hotel hallway - Dombrowski’s room was right near his.

Boston also worked to finalize a trade with Arizona for pitcher Wade Miley and a free-agent deal with pitcher Justin Masterson.

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Cards beat Rams to move closer to playoffs

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Cardinals 12 Rams 6 ST. LOUIS — Bruce Arians was sick and tired of talk about the St. Louis Rams’ consecutive shutouts.

The Arizona Cardinals, their coach boasted, were much better on that side of the ball.

With the exception of rookie Aaron Donald’s sack that injured quarterback Drew Stanton’s right knee, “They were not near our quarterback,” Arians said after a 12-6 victory Thursday night moved the Cardinals closer to clinching a playoff spot. “Everybody talking all that stuff about how great their defence is, they saw a good defence tonight. It was in red and white.”

For the second straight meeting against St. Louis, the Cardinals (11-3) lost a quarterback.

“I’m glad we don’t have to play the Rams anymore,” wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald said.

They won both times, thanks to a defence that surrendered only 20 points.

Chandler Catanzaro kicked four field goals and Larry Foote had a sack and fumble recovery.

Arians said Stanton had a previous knee injury so will need an MRI exam to determine the extent of the damage.

“We’ll take it very slowly with him and see how it goes,” Arians said.

The Rams (6-8) were held to Greg Zuerlein’s two short field goals and had five threeand-out series in the third quarter. Catanzaro’s 23-yard field goal early in the second

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quarter ended nine quarters of shutout defence by St. Louis, which beat Washington and Oakland by a combined 76-0 the previous two weeks.

The Rams were eliminated from playoff contention.

“We got outplayed and we got outcoached and we just put a bad display out there,” tight end Jared Cook said. “It’s pretty self-explanatory.”

Ryan Lindley was ineffective in his first appearance since 2012 in relief of Stanton, who injured his right knee on the sack in the third quarter, but it didn’t matter.

The Cardinals lost Carson Palmer to a season-ending knee injury during their 3114 home victory over St. Louis last month.

Arians opted for Lindley over rookie Logan Thomas.

“It was not a time to put Logan out there,” Arians said.

“He’s going to be a good player someday, but he’s not ready for this yet. And Ryan was more than ready.”

Kerwynn Williams was the Cardinals’ offensive standout with 75 yards on 15 carries.

Stanton was 12 of 20 for 109 yards and Lindley was 4 of 10 for 30 yards.

The Cardinals entered tied for the top overall record in the NFC and will clinch a playoff spot if Sunday’s Dallas-Philadelphia game doesn’t end in a tie, or a Detroit loss combined with a Green Bay victory.

“My first time with 11 wins.

I’m happy,” cornerback Patrick Peterson said as he walked into the locker room.

Rams players had no apparent protests relating to unrest in nearby Ferguson. Two deed imminent, it appears to be news to the Detroit head coach.

An animated Babcock addressed reporters after the Red Wings’ practice Thursday, candidly shooting down a media report that surfaced last night suggesting he was about to re-sign with the Original Six NHL club.

“Guys, this is like a fantasy world,” Babcock said.

“I’m happy here. I like the general manager, they treat me good. I don’t know what else I can tell you.”

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St. Louis Rams quarterback Shaun Hill (14) is sacked by Arizona Cardinals’ Larry Foote (50) during the second half of an NFL football game Thursday, in St. Louis. weeks ago, five players did the “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” pose coming out of the tunnel during pre-game introductions, and last week players wrote “I Can’t Breathe!!!” on wrist bands and cleats.

Rams rookie Tre Mason’s fumble gave the Cardinals a short field that set up Catanzaro’s first field goal. Frostee Rucker punched the ball free and Foote recovered at the St.

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It was the first score given up by the Rams since Nov. 23, when San Diego scored the winning touchdown with just over 8 minutes left in a 27-24 victory.

Michael Floyd’ 49-yard reception set up Catanzaro’s 44-yard field goal that put the Cardinals up 6-3 midway through the second. Catanzaro made kicks of 51 yards and 46

yards in the second half Arizona committed five penalties on its first two possessions, twice wiping out big gains. Shaun Hill was 4 for 4 with completions of 21 yards to Benny Cunningham on a screen and Cory Harkey for 16 yards to set up Zuerlein’s 24-yard field goal in the first.

Zuerlein missed an extra-point kick and two field goals inside the 40 last week.

Babcock is in the last year of his current contract with the Red Wings, but he said he and general manager Ken Holland decided not to discuss contract negotiations during the season to prevent talks from becoming a distraction.

“As far as negotiation between Mike Babcock and Ken Holland, there is none,” he said. “Do we ride on the plane together? Yeah. Was I out with his wife and his daughter the other night? Yeah. I think I had a glass of red wine and he had Coors Light. There’s noth-

ing more to tell.

“I’m not hiding anything, I’m not making anything up, this is just reality. So let’s not do this again tomorrow.”

The Red Wings have made the playoffs for nine straight seasons under Babcock, winning the Stanley Cup in 2008.

They appear to be poised for another strong season. The Red Wings entered Thursday in first place in the Eastern Conference (17-6-6, 40 points).

Babcock said the Red Wings’ impressive record this year should not come as a sur-

prise.

“If you think I’m working harder this year because I’m in the last year of my contract, it makes no difference,” he said. “I grind, that’s what I do.

I’m a professional grinder, I love winning.”

Babcock shrugged when asked whether he was getting tired of answering reporters’ questions about his contract status.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CHICAGO — Derrick Rose had that twinkle in his triple Salchow. eyes, that same relentless confidence he had when They added a quad throw Salchow - Radford he won the NBA MVP award what seems like an BARCELONA, Spain — Canada’s Meagan Du- throws Duhamel four revolutions through the air eternity ago. hamel and Eric Radford are poised to capture their - to their long program this season. Russians Yuka The rhythm is coming back. The comfort level is first Grand Prix Final medal after winning the pairs Kavaguti and Alexander Smirnov are the only other growing. Rose is beginning to feel like himself again. skaters attempting the move this season. short program Thursday.

“You all are going to be surprised by the way that Julianne Seguin of Longueuil, Que., and Charles The two-time world championship bronze medalI am playing. Just give me a little minute,” he said lists earned their best-ever component mark - for Bilodeau of Trois-Pistoles, Que., lead after the pairs with a sly grin. “I know where I am going to be. I presentation - and will take a season’s best overall short program of the Junior Grand Prix Final. Four know how good I am, and I’m very confident with my score of 74.70 points into the long program. Duhamel Russian couples follow in the standings including craft and how good I am. Period.” pumped her fist after concluding their routine cho- Lina Fedorova and Maxim Miroshkin just 0.18 beRose showed more flashes of his All-Star form reographed to Ginette Reno’s “Un peu plus haut.” hind the leaders. during Chicago’s 105-80 victory over Brooklyn on “We couldn’t be happier with our performance,” “The component elements have always been conWednesday night. He scored seven straight points sidered our weaker side,” said Radford. “To finish said Bilodeau. “We executed all our elements and during an impressive stretch in the second quarter, ahead of the Russian pair who are extremely strong achieved level fours even on our twist for the first converting a three-point play before driving inside technically is a big step for us. We were really in the time. It gives us a lot of confidence for the free profor a layup and making nifty floater off a feed from moment tonight. Nothing could stop us.” gram.”

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Mackenzie Bent of Uxbridge, Ont., and Garrett Olympic silver medallists Ksenia Stolbova and FeRose finished with 23 points, going 8 for 15 from dor Klimov of Russia go into Saturday’s free program MacKeen of Oshawa, Ont., are fourth after the junior the field and 4 for 5 at the line. He also went 3 for 7 in second with 72.33, while Wenjing Sui and Cong short dance while Madeline Edwards of Port Moody, from 3-point range after struggling from beyond the Han of China are third, with 66.66.

B.C., and ZhaoKai Pang of Burnaby, B.C., are fifth. arc in the previous two games.

Duhamel, from Lively, Ont., and Radford, from “I thought he was more aggressive in general the Balmertown, Ont., are enjoying a standout season, whole night,” coach Tom Thibodeau said, “and that’s with victories in both their Grand Prix events - Skate what we need from him. He’s got to continue to do Canada International and NHK Trophy in Japan. that. I think the more aggressive, the better, the bet- Still, Duhamel said she was battling nerves Thurster it is for our team.” day.

Rose also played almost 24 minutes in his eighth “I didn’t know what to expect and I was hoping I consecutive start. Racked by injuries the past two would get into the zone. Once the music started and seasons, this is his longest run since he made 11 we were very together going into our first element I straight starts for Chicago from Feb. 20 to March 12, knew we were going to be alright,” she said.

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Solo was charged with two misdemeanour counts of the NBA season has been marked by starts and stops, with Rose and the Bulls opting for a cautious of fourth-degree domestic violence assault following route that has frustrated a fan base eager to see the an altercation with her half-sister and nephew at a party in June.

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Wagner letting others make his case SEATTLE SEAHAWKS STANDOUT LINEBACKER HAVING ANOTHER SOLID SEASON

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Washington Redskins quarterback Kirk Cousins is sacked by Seattle Seahawks middle linebacker Bobby Wagner during the second half of an NFL game in Landover, Md., Oct. 6, 2014. The Seahawks middle linebacker is receiving plenty of attention and praise from teammates and players from other teams. nitely appreciate it a lot, because it’s people recognizing you for your talents,” Wagner said of getting recognition from others.

“But to say I’m driven by that, I wouldn’t say that. I’d rather win like 30 Super Bowls.”

More than any other attribute, Wagner’s speed in recognizing plays is showing up more this season. His pure speed was one of the skills that made Wagner stand out when he was com-

Panthers QB Newton thankful to be alive after car accident UNSURE ABOUT RETURN THIS SEASON

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Cam Newton is not worried about when he’ll return to the football field - he said he’s just happy to be alive.

The Panthers quarterback returned to the team’s facility Thursday, two days after a two-car accident left him with two fractures in his lower back.

He did not practice and his playing status will be reevaluated next week.

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS “As far as when I’m coming back, This image made from video and who cares? I’m just thankful to have breath in my lungs,” Newton said as he provided by WSOC-TV channel 9 in stood behind a podium during a seven- Charlotte, shows the vehicle Carolina minute press conference.

Panthers Cam Newton was driving in Newton won’t play Sunday against Dec. 9, 2014, in Charlotte, N.C. Tampa Bay, Derek Anderson will start at quarterback. at a time,” Rivera said.

That’s fine with Newton, who feels The Panthers are half-game out of blessed to not have been injured worse first place in the NFC South despite a - or killed.

4-8-1 record after a 41-10 victory over “I’m on somebody’s fantasy (foot- New Orleans last Sunday. They could ball) league and I think it’s the man take over control of the division if they upstairs,” Newton said. beat the Bucs (2-11) and the Saints and Newton arrived at the stadium Falcons lose.

Thursday morning and attended some Anderson, who is 19-25 as an NFL team meetings, watched film and be- starter, said he’s excited for the opporgan rehabilitation with the training tunity to play in such a big game. staff. He said his back remains a little “Obviously the circumstances aren’t stiff, but otherwise feels great. ideal but I’ve had a good two days to Newton said he doesn’t think the try get on the same page with everyother driver saw him as he pulled out body,” Anderson said. into traffic onto the one-way street Anderson said the injury could where the quarterback was driving, bring the Panthers closer together about a block from the team’s stadium. as a team as the season winds down.

Newton said the other car clipped He said it’s one of the tightest locker the side of his slightly elevated 1998 rooms he’s been around in during his Dodge truck, causing him to spin and 10 seasons in the league and the show the truck to overturn. Newton said he of love and support for Newton was was conscious for the entire accident, noticeable. but isn’t sure how many times his ve“Guys genuinely care about his wellhicle flipped. being first and foremost,” Anderson He said the air bags did deploy in said. “And those things kind of bring his truck. guys together.”

“The one thing I remember is that I Tight end Greg Olsen said Newcouldn’t talk afterward because I was ton was in good spirits as he passed in such shock,” Newton said. “In my through the locker room. book one plus one always equals two.

“I think it’s good for him to get back And I’m looking at this truck and this around the guys and get in a normal accident and like, dude, one plus one routine,” Olsen said. “It’s good to see doesn’t equal two. I’m like, hey, some- guys him get back because it means body is supposed to be dead.” things are getting back to normal.”

Newton said he didn’t feel any immediate pain, but as his adrenaline started to wear off his lower back began to tighten.

Newton said he’s not sure how long he will be out of action.

He made the decision to come to the stadium to put other people’s minds at ease and doesn’t want to be a distraction.

“My presence not only helped others but it helped me,” Newton said.

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ing out of Utah State and made Seattle comfortable putting him in the starting lineup as a rookie. That speed his first season made up for what Wagner did not know yet about the NFL. At this point, Wagner has found the right mix between his pure speed and the quickness in recognizing what the offence is doing.

“I think my rookie year I was just out there, I just wanted to be out there and have fun. Maybe my sophomore

Day and Tringale shoot 55 in scramble to take Shootout lead

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NAPLES, Fla. — Jason Day and Cameron Tringale shot a 17-under 55 on Thursday in the first-round scramble to take a two-stroke lead in the Franklin Templeton Shootout.

“The abridged version is, I hit first and then let Jason loose,” Tringale said.

Day and Tringale tied the tournament scramble record set by tournament host Greg Norman and Nick Price in 1993 and matched by Peter Jacobsen and John Cook in 1998 and Norman and Steve Elkington in 2005.

“Scramble is one of those formats where you have to go at it and shoot lights out,” Day said. “It definitely helps when you have a partner who hits it down the middle all the time and putts great.”

They were 12 under on the last 12 holes at The Ritz-Carlton Golf Resort, making eagles on Nos. 13 and 14 and birdies on Nos. 9-12 and 15-18.

“It’s great to be able to read the putt together, really put our minds together, because he’s a great putter,” Day said.

“He always has been.”

Defending champions Matt Kuchar and Harris English opened with a 57.

They birdied 14 of their last 15 holes.

“To go 15 is great,” Kuchar said. “To go 17 is quite amazing.

All 12 teams were 11 under or better. The teams will play a modified alternate shot Friday and close with a better-ball round Saturday.

English thinks they separated themselves last year in the modified alternate shot.

“I feel like we can do the same thing as we did last year,” English said.

“Kooch is driving it great right now, so we’re going to kind of lean on that.”

Keegan Bradley-Camilo Villegas, Graeme McDowell-Gary Woodland and Ryan Palmer-Jimmy Walker shot 59.

Patrick Reed played two days after wife Justine suffered a grand mal seizure.

“We are really fortunate that she is OK and lucky that I was in the room with her to save her from drowning,” Reed said Reed, a late replacement for Chris Kirk, teamed with Brandt Snedeker to shoot 61. They were tied for 10th.

PGA Tour reduces volatility in FedEx Cup playoffs, eliminates 54-hole cut THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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win the $10 million bonus, and the top five only have to win the tournament to claim the FedEx Cup. Another change approved by its policy board this week was to eliminate the 54-hole cut during the playoffs.

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RENTON, Wash. — As is usually the case with Richard Sherman, the politicking on behalf of Seattle teammate Bobby Wagner came completely unscripted.

“Hopefully, this year will be the year that Bobby gets his Pro Bowl. Bobby Wagner, Pro Bowl, a lot of tackles,” Sherman said recently. “We’re going to get Bobby in the game this year.”

Between Sherman’s campaign strategy and the colorful description San Francisco running back Frank Gore used this week to describe Wagner’s skill, the Seahawks middle linebacker is receiving plenty of attention and praise.

It seems completely justified. After two solid seasons in the middle of Seattle’s defence, Wagner is playing at an elite level in his third year. If not for a painful toe injury suffered in Week 6 against Dallas that caused him to miss five games, Wagner would likely be in the discussion among defensive player of the year candidates.

Or as Gore said on a conference call this week, using some choice language, “That No. 54, Bobby, man, he’s ... fast as ... man.”

The impact Wagner was making on Seattle’s defence wasn’t fully recognized until he was sidelined after tearing the tendon that connects his big toe to the bottom of his foot. He suffered the injury in the first half of Seattle’s loss to Dallas, but returned to play in the second half.

It was the only game he’s played this season where Wagner did not lead or was tied for the team lead in tackles.

“I wouldn’t say it matters, but I defi-

year I was thinking a little too much because I wanted to be perfect, but I think everybody goes through that stretch,” Wagner said.

“Rookie year you get out there and want to make as many plays as possible, then second year you want to be perfect, and then you kind of find a combination between the two - making a lot of plays and trying to be as perfect as possible.”

Not surprisingly, Wagner’s return has coincided with Seattle’s stretch of stout defence that’s among the best the league has seen in recent seasons.

Wagner returned three weeks ago when Seattle beat Arizona at home 193 and limited the Cardinals to 204 total yards. Five days later on Thanksgiving night against San Francisco, Wagner had 10 tackles in the Seahawks’ 19-3 victory.

And last week in Philadelphia, the Seahawks held the Eagles to 139 total yards and just 18:04 time of possession in Seattle’s 24-14 win. Again, Wagner was at the top of the stat sheet with seven tackles.

Wagner’s return allowed Seattle to move K.J. Wright back to outside linebacker and, combined with the returns of safety Kam Chancellor and cornerback Byron Maxwell, finally put the Seahawks defence back in order.

“If there is anything that you should have witnessed here in the last month is that our team speed picked up,” Seattle coach Pete Carroll said.

“You can see us playing faster as we’re going and that’s in the continuity, that’s in the communication, that’s in the confidence from being together and being out there. We’re hoping it can happen again one more time this week.”

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Struve ready to fight again after setbacks UFC

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Stefan (Skyscraper) Struve has been to hell and back. Twice.

The seven-foot, 255-pound Dutch heavyweight was sidelined in 2013 when he was diagnosed with a rare heart condition. Finally cleared by doctors, he was scratched from UFC 175 in July when he blacked out in the dressing room on the eve of entering the cage.

After a change in medication, Struve (29-6) is back to face former Strikeforce champion Alistair Overeem (37-14 with one no contest) on a televised UFC Fight Night card Saturday in Phoenix.

He says the difference is night and day.

“It’s great to be back, enjoying fight week and just having a lot of fun,” Struve said in an interview. “Looking back at how I felt the last time, being on the medication I was on ... feeling horrible and just not happy at all.”

The main card at US Airways Center on Saturday features two other heavyweight bouts.

Former champion Junior Dos Santos, currently ranked second among heavyweight contenders, takes on No. 4 Stipe Miocic in the main event. Matt Mitrione, ranked 14th, meets No. 12 Gabriel Gonzaga.

Lightweight Nate Diaz, ranked 14th among 155-pound contenders, returns to action to face No. 3 Rafael Dos Anjos in the co-main event.

After suffering a broken jaw in a knockout loss to hard-hitting Mark Hunt in Japan in March 2013, Struve was diagnosed with a leaking aortic valve, as well an enlarged heart. It meant that his heart was only pumping 60 per cent of his blood into the aorta and then the rest of his body. The remaining 40 per cent was ending up back in the heart chamber.

Struve had been sick for six weeks before the Hunt bout and things didn’t get better afterwards. He couldn’t sleep and had no energy. Then one day at his parents’ house, he got dizzy standing up after working at the computer. He sat down and blacked out briefly.

A trip to hospital and subsequent barrage of tests eventually found the heart problem. But he says he underestimated the side effects of the medi-

cation.

“I didn’t think two little pills a day would do anything weird to me,” he said.

When his body began to act up backstage at UFC 175, the first thing Struve thought of was his heart - which only exacerbated the problem. He had also been dealing with the death of his father after a long illness.

It all made for a bad cocktail of emotions.

“My heart just went crazy,” he said.

“I lost control of my breathing. It was just a really really bad experience. All the negative things became a lot more negative because of the medication. I wasn’t able to control that.”

The aftermath was captured on UFC president Dana White’s video blog.

Struve is shown weeping in the bathroom as his opponent, Mitrione, tries to console him.

“Don’t worry,” Mitrione says as Struve repeatedly apologizes. “The ticker will get back to normal and we’ll get this rescheduled.”

Struve thought his career was over.

Fortunately answers were quick to come.

One of his trainers ran into someone at their hotel in Las Vegas who said he had experienced side effects from the same heart medication. Struve heard a similar story from someone else a few days later.

“I had something to grasp onto it,” he said.

His doctor put him on another drug, which seems to be doing the trick.

Struve says he will probably have to undergo surgery at some point but hopes to do it after his fighting career.

The 26-year-old Struve now just wants to get his focus back on fighting.

Prior to the loss to Hunt, he had reeled off wins over Miocic, Lavar Johnson, Dave Herman and Pat Barry.

These days Struve is looking for as many answers as he can find. He has been working with some “mental experts” to help deal with the stress of fighting for a living.

His height and reach are powerful weapons, as is his set of submission skills. He is also durable although he has suffered punishing knockouts losses at the hands of Junior Dos Santos, Roy (Big Country) Nelson, Travis Browne and Hunt.

At six foot four and 265 pounds, the 34-year-old Overeem is like a rhino in the cage. But he has lost three of his last four with opponents surviving ear-

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Stefan Struve is entering the octagon again after being sidelined in 2013 when he was diagnosed with a rare heart condition. Struve will face former Strikeforce champion Alistair Overeem on UFC Fight Night, Saturday in Phoenix. ly attacks to put the big man away.

“He’s not the same fighter he used to be a couple of years ago, in my opin-

ion,” Struve said. “I cannot wait to show that I’m just a couple of levels above him.”

Rios and Alvarado ready to slug it out for third time GOOD FRIENDS TO MEET FOR WBO INTERNATIONAL WELTERWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DENVER — Mike Alvarado burst out laughing when his upcoming opponent dropped to a knee and playfully proposed marriage.

Indeed, he’s been seeing a lot of Brandon “Bam Bam” Rios inside the ring lately.

That’s only because the bouts between these two good buddies have always been entertaining, with 3,003 punches thrown over 19 rounds spanning two fights. Both have a win and so they will settle the score on Jan. 24 in Broomfield, Colorado, with the vacant World Boxing Organization international welterweight championship up for grabs.

There’s also this: The winner will be on track for a lucrative payday down the road.

“It means a lot for both of us,” said Rios of Oxnard, California, who is 322-1 with 22 knockouts. “I’m making the best of everything I can do for this fight. I’m only 28 and I have a lot of gas

in my tank.”

Rios and Alvarado clowned around during a news conference at the Pepsi Center, more like buddies than bruisers about to brawl. They posed for pictures together, cracking up when someone suggested they strike a serious pose.

Later, on stage, Peter Nelson, the vice-president of programming for HBO Sports, said that a third fight is “like a third marriage - it may not be conclusive, but it sure feels like it should be.”

An idea struck Rios - drop to a knee in a faux proposal. A light-hearted moment between friends.

So, how do they punish each other for 12 rounds if they’re so friendly toward one another?

“If you see these guys fight, without even knowing them, you’d think they hated each other,” said Henry Delgado, the manager for Alvarado. “It’s because the will to win is strong in both of them.

“You can have all the plans and strategy you want, but when the bell rings it all goes out the window with these guys.”

Rios won the first meeting with Al-

varado on Oct. 13, 2012, when he staggered Alvarado with a right hand in the seventh round and then connected on a series of punches, leading the referee to stop the fight.

Five months later in the rematch, the action was nonstop as Alvarado danced and juked his way to a unanimous decision.

Since their last meeting, though, their paths have gotten lightly off course.

Rios lost a bout to Manny Pacquiao in Macau in November 2013, before beating Diego Chaves in August.

Meanwhile, Alvarado - who’s from Denver and goes by the nickname “Mile High” - has dropped his last two bouts, including one against Ruslan Provodnikov in October 2013 in front of a hometown crowd, losing the WBO junior welterweight world title in the process.

Then, Alvarado dropped a 12-round unanimous decision to Juan Manuel Marquez.

“I need to win this fight,” said the 34-year-old Alvarado, who is 34-3 with 23 KOs. “I definitely need to.

“I knew this trilogy was inevitable.

We could’ve been 50 years and this

trilogy would happen. I’m ready for it, man.”

These two fighters refuse to give an inch in the ring. They constantly remain on the offensive and don’t mind taking a few punches.

“These are two fighters of consummate guts and whenever they get in the ring it’s always promised to be actionpacked fireworks,” said Nelson, whose network will air the fight. “These two are born to fight each other.”

The fighters will make between $500,000 and $1 million for their work.

A bigger payout awaits the winner. Not that Rios is even looking at the situation quite like that.

“Who I want to face is Alvarado,” Rios said. “Before, I got too caught up in looking past my opponents and looking at the next guy. I got kicked in the (bottom) and brought down to earth. I remember what guy I’m fighting.”

He has the scars to show for it, pointing above his left eyebrow to where Alvarado caught him with a punch.

Alvarado has similar scars.

“The first two fights were epic fights,” Alvarado said. “It was destined for this fight to happen again. The score has to be settled.”

Steelers’ Bell not worried Las Vegas poker player’s about load, heavy comparisons arrest just the latest to some of best runners ever incident to garner NFL him attention

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LAS VEGAS — Professional poker player Dan Bilzerian is no stranger to the spotlight, but usually it’s for his hard-partying antics, not his card-playing acumen.

In April, for example, he threw a porn actress from a roof into a pool while she was naked during an adult magazine photo shoot. She broke her foot and threatened to sue him.

He wasn’t charged, but video of the incident and a sarcastic letter from Bilzerian’s lawyer to the actress’s attorney garnered heaps of attention.

The letter, signed by lawyer Tom Goldstein and posted online by celebrity news website TMZ, said the actress willingly signed up for the stunt.

Goldstein suggested she gather up all her belongings and prepare to give them to Bilzerian if she sued, because he would likely win.

“Then he will probably blow it up with a mortar in the desert,” Goldstein wrote.

Blowing things up in the desert is what may have landed Bilzerian in jail this week.

The 34-year-old dubbed the “King of Instagram” after amassing millions of followers was arrested Tuesday night

at Los Angeles International Airport on a Las Vegas warrant accusing him of possessing bomb-making materials.

Bilzerian was released Wednesday and is scheduled to appear in Las Vegas Justice Court on Jan. 9 to face two felony counts. If convicted, he could face up to 6 years in prison and a $5,000 fine for each count.

His lawyer, David Chesnoff, had no comment except to say Wednesday that Bilzerian and Jeremy Guymon, who is also charged with possessing explosive materials, were looking forward to their day in court.

Bilzerian’s popular Instagram account is consistently filled with photos of a playboy lifestyle: private jets, scantily clad women, piles of cash, guns, and Bilzerian shooting those guns in the desert.

The criminal complaint ties Bilzerian to an investigation of an explosion in a remote desert area near Vegas. The Bureau of Land Management called Las Vegas police detectives Nov. 4 after the agency discovered a field of debris from an explosion on BLM land near South Las Vegas Boulevard.

Las Vegas police spokeswoman Laura Meltzer said the investigation is ongoing and she couldn’t say what evidence linked Bilzerian to the blast.

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PITTSBURGH — Le’Veon Bell was 7 years old when Walter Payton died in 1999, but after three straight games with more than 200 yards from scrimmage the Pittsburgh Steelers running back is being compared to the Chicago Bears Hall-of-Famer.

Payton achieved that feat in 1977, and Bell became the second NFL player to total more than 200 scrimmage yards in three straight weeks after tallying 235 at Cincinnati Sunday.

“I’ve seen highlights of (Payton) and heard a lot about him, that he’s arguably the best running back ever,” Bell said. “So to be compared to him or even mentioned in the same category as him is just an honour and a blessing and real humbling for me. But it just makes me want to work that much harder.”

Bell ran for 185 yards and two touchdowns and added 50 yards receiving with another score in the Steelers’ win against the first-place Bengals. It was Bell’s fourth 100-yard rushing game of the season, which earned him AFC offensive player of the week honours.

“It’s the first one in my career, so it’s definitely an honour,” Bell said. “Obviously, I couldn’t have done it without

my teammates, especially the offensive line, the entire offence and the coaching staff.”

Bell leads the AFC with 1,231 yards rushing (5.1 yard per carry average) and five touchdowns and is second on the Steelers with 71 catches for 693 yards and three touchdowns. If Bell also surpasses 1,000 yards receiving, he will be just the third NFL back to have 1,000 yards each rushing and receiving besides Roger Craig and Marshall Faulk.

“All I care about is winning,” Bell said. “If that comes along with a rushing title, or whatever else, that’s all good for me. But the main thing is to make sure we win these last three games and get into the playoffs.”

Bell arguably is the Steelers’ most complete back since Franco Harris.

Barry Foster, Jerome Bettis and Willie Parker were strong runners, while John L. Williams was a solid passcatcher out of the backfield. Rashard Mendenhall could do a little of both, but none were as complete a back as Bell.

“The things he can do in all three phases of the game, to run, catch the ball and block are some of the most special things I’ve ever seen a running back do,” quarterback Ben Roethlisberger said. “(And) he’s grown fast. We feel that we can do anything with him.”

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McLaren signs Alonso for 2015 season WOKING, England — McLaren announced the return of Fernando Alonso and retained Jenson Button for the 2015 Formula One season on Thursday, giving the British team a lineup of former champions at the start of its restored partnership with Honda.

Danish driver Kevin Magnussen was dropped after one season and will be the team’s test and reserve driver.

Alonso’s departure from Ferrari after five seasons and return to his former team was widely expected. The Spanish driver, a two-time champion, had already been replaced at Ferrari by four-time champion Sebastian Vettel.

Alonso said McLaren’s reunion with the Honda engine — a combination that ruled F1 between 1988-92 — was a key factor in his decision.

“Let the legend return: That is our challenge,” Alonso said in a statement.

It was a straight choice between Button and Magnussen to be McLaren’s other driver, with the Briton retained after outscoring Magnussen 126-55 in the 2014 season.

Button, who won the driver’s title in 2009 with Brawn, heads into his sixth year with McLaren and 16th year in F1 — making him the most experienced

driver on the grid.

The 34-year-old Button was out of contract and the uncertainty over his future at McLaren had opened his eyes to other possibilities, with speculation he could join former F1 driver Mark Webber on the World Endurance Championship or drive in the Le Mans 24 Hours.

“I am very much looking forward to having a driver as fast and as experienced as Fernando as my teammate,” said Button, who was also runner-up to Vettel in 2011. “I am sure we will work extremely well together.”

McLaren was the final team to announce its driver lineup for 2015. It did not reveal the length of the contracts handed to Alonso and Button.

“Fernando and Jenson have started a combined total of precisely 500 grands prix between them — a mighty aggregate — and have won 47 of them,” said Ron Dennis, McLaren’s chairman and chief executive. “I can safely say, therefore, that we now have by an order of magnitude the best driver lineup of any current Formula 1 team.”

Alonso will look to revive his career after finishing sixth in last season’s drivers’ championship as Ferrari had its worst season in 21 years. He left McLaren at the end of 2007 after a breakdown in relations with Dennis, who was team principal at the time.

The BBC reported that Alonso’s deal is worth $40 million a year, which would make him the best-paid driver on the grid.

“I am joining this project with enormous enthusiasm and determination, knowing that it may require some time to achieve the results we are aiming

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BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF A huge housing and golf course development overlooking the Red Deer River near Joffre took another planning approval step at Lacombe County on Thursday.

Council gave first reading of bylaw to change zoning on 937 acres of land 10 km south of Joffre from agriculture to residential and recreational use. A public hearing has been set for Feb. 11 at 7 p.m. in council chambers, followed by second reading.

Deer River is proposed as a 521lot subdivision built on terraces overlooking the river and an 18-hole golf course. Lots will range in size from 0.3 to two acres.

The project is being developed by the Winnipeg-based Canadian Confer-

ence of Mennonite Brethren, which has owned the land for a number of years.

Ryan Vold, who helped develop Wolf Creek Golf Resort and its surrounding housing development, is working as a consultant on the Deer River project, which will be modelled along similar lines.

Vold said the next step will be preparing a detailed presentation for the public hearing.

The project is expected to be built in 11 phases. The golf course and the first 50 lots are in the first phase of what will be an upscale development.

“I’ve been talking to people and there’s definitely a lot of interest,” he said.

While some have questioned whether another golf course is needed, Vold said the golf course business has become a “lifestyle choice” with courses

serving as an amenity for new residential developments.

“We’re going to try to make it so it blends together and is financially viable and it can all go forward that way,” he said. “It’s a beautiful spot. I mean it’s a one-off spot right along the river. It’s got a lot of great advantages. It would be a beautiful place to live.”

Depending on the plan approval process, ground work could begin next year.

Councillors supported the project, although concerns were raised that an open house held on Oct. 21 at the Balmoral Community Hall fell short of residents’ expectations.

Several councillors got complaints that no formal presentation was made by the development group, which had representatives on hand to answer questions and point out features on placards.

Coun. Ken Wigmore suggested a second open house would go a long way to easing any local concerns. However, a motion to delay first reading a few minutes to consider whether a second open house should be held did not pass.

Coun. Brenda Knight noted that the county had not asked the developer to do a formal presentation as part of an open house.

“Quite honestly, he did what he was asked to do.”

Coun. Rod McDermand, whose division includes the Deer River site, said he had little opposition to the project.

“For the magnitude of this, I don’t think there was a lot of concern.”

Vold told council he intends to talk to any nearby residents who have concerns to explain plans for the development. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

School cooks up kitchen solution

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF

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Normandeau School Grade 4 students Madison Burke, left, and Mai Nguyen get up close with one of four heritage breed chickens that have made their home in a new coop outside the school. The chickens were donated to the school by Canadian Heritage Breeds and Peavey Mart is providing supplies for the coop and the birds. They are part of the school’s efforts to teach children where food comes from before it reaches the table. ect list.

The donation will help get the project underway. He estimated the entire project could cost as much as $60,000.

The school will now work with facilities staff at the district and continue its fundraising efforts.

Earlier this year, the school expanded its garden plot and introduced chickens and bees to its site to teach stu-

Wood fire boilers can still be installed Red Deer residents still have some time to install an outdoor wood fire boiler before the ban comes into effect.

Kim Fowler, director of planning, said residents may apply for a permit under a section in the Alberta Building Codes.

City council passed a resolution on Monday forbidding the outdoor appliances.

But the ban does not come into effect until an amendment is made to the Land Use Bylaw.

The Environmental Advisory Committee recommended the move over concerns around air quality in relation to suspended particulate matter.

According to the committee report, particulate matter refers to bits in the air, which come in a range of sizes, and are found in either solid particle or liquid form.

Many man-made and natural sources contribute to the particles or react once in the atmosphere to form particulate matter.

Wood smoke is one of the causes of particulate matter. Many groups, including the Canada Clean Air Alliance, have warned that wood smoke is a factor in causing or worsening of health conditions.

Currently there are no legally operated outdoor wood fire boilers within city limits.

dents first-hand where food comes from before it reaches the table.

Produce from the garden was harvested for a school-wide soup day in October.

The school is also struggling with its band program because of the shortage of instruments.

While other public schools have had years to put money aside for annual

instrument purchases, Normandeau doesn’t have any built-in budget for such purchases because of its move to a middle school. Students have access to a few instruments through Glendale School.

Music teacher Jane Bechthold hopes to raise an estimated $25,000 to buy all the instruments required. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

INNISFAIL BUDGET

Taxes up 2%, utility rates rising Innisfail town council has approved a two per cent tax rate increase for next year.

The town’s $20-million operating and $5.7-million capital budgets were passed at Monday’s council meeting.

“Keeping up with at least the costof-living increase is needed to sustain efficient services and growth,” says Mayor Brian Spiller in a statement.

Innisfail residents faced no municipal tax rate increase last year and saw bills go up an average of 1.5 per cent in 2013 and three per cent in 2012.

Next year’s increase, plus the

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change in house values, will add about $60 to the municipal tax bill of about $2,100 for a typical home assessed at $320,000.

Homeowners will also see monthly utility bills increase to $92.50 from $84, based on a typical sample. The bulk of the increase is connected with sewage costs, which will increase with the new regional sewer line.

To avoid hitting residents with a large bill increase in one year, sewer bill increases are being phased in over five years, with next year being the third year.

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Normandeau School principal Hans Huizing wants to take the school’s food programs out of the closet.

Huizing says the breakfast, farmto-table and other meal programs are being prepared in what he describes a “hallway closet” with a stove in it.

But a recent $25,000 donation from The Scott Group will allow the school to knock down a wall and expand the area so as many as three stoves can fit in the space.

The goal is to create a kitchen/lab area for the entire school.

“Most of the cooking is done on hotplates,” said Huizing. “It’s not a great situation.”

Huizing said the school is trying to focus on nutrition with its farm-to-table program but it is challenging because they do not have a real kitchen facility like other schools.

There are 440 students at the school, of which 60 are served from the breakfast program.

A few years ago, Normandeau became a kindergarten to Grade 8 school after years of operating as an elementary school.

Bruce Buruma, director of community relations for the Red Deer Public Schools, said the school does not have the same facilities, such as a home economics lab, seen in a typical middle school because it was built as a kindergarten to Grade 5 school.

Normandeau is not on the district’s three-to-five-year modernization proj-

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Crash closes Hwy 2A early Thursday; two people taken to hospital A section of Hwy 2A between Red Deer and Blackfalds was closed early Thursday morning after a crash in front of Precision Drilling.

Red Deer RCMP were called to the two-vehicle collision near Range Road 391 and Hwy 2A at about 1 a.m. On scene, they found a northbound truck and a southbound car had collided, sending the car into the ditch.

Red Deer Emergency Services also attended the scene and extracted the female driver from the car.

The male driver of the truck was able to exit his vehicle on his own.

Both drivers were taken to Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre with serious but non-life-threatening injuries.

Hwy 2A was closed for a some time early Thursday morning to allow for an RCMP collision analyst to investigate and for cleanup to take place.

Police said alcohol is not believed to be a factor in the collision.

AMA ‘human gift chain’ at Southpointe location today A “human gift chain” today will make Christmas a little brighter for those in need in Red Deer this Christmas.

The Alberta Motor Association will be filling its fleet of tow trucks with toys and food donations as part of its third annual provincewide Christmas collection campaign that has successfully reached its 2014 provincial goal of $100,000.

AMA employees, friends and family will form the human chain to help the jolly old elf fill up their decorated fleet vehicles with the donations that will go to local charities — the Christmas Bureau and the Red Deer Food Bank.

The event runs from 1:30 to 2 p.m. at the AMA Red Deer Centre at Southpointe Common, which is at 141 2004 50th Ave.

Blackfalds-area bottleneck to get roundabout Construction on a roundabout near Blackfalds could begin as early as next year.

Alberta Transportation Infrastructure Manager Russ Watts told Lacombe County council on Thursday that the tender documents for the project are nearing completion.

The roundabout is in Alberta Transportation’s three-year plan, which means construction is expected to begin within that time period. Start dates are assessed each year and the next year’s schedule won’t be firmed up until March, ahead of the provincial budget.

A two-lane roundabout is being built to ease a bottleneck at Hwys 2A and 597 on the southern edge of Blackfalds. The intersection sees a lot of traffic heading to nearby industrial areas, which has created backlogs.

It will be similar but larger to the one-lane roundabout built near Sylvan Lake a few years ago.

Construction would take a year.

Outdoor nativity scene, creche on display at church An outdoor nativity pageant also opens the door to the indoor creche, a collection of many nativity scenes, at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

The church, located at 8 Keast Way, will open its doors to the public to see the different nativity scenes, as well as the outdoor pageant, on Dec. 15, 16 and 17.

The outdoor pageants will go at 7, 7:30 and 8 p.m. nightly. Hot chocolate and cookies will also be provided, free of charge.

Court delayed for arson suspect who fails to show up Court proceedings against a man accused of torching a vehicle to hide evidence have been delayed because he failed to show up for court on Thursday.

Represented by defence counsel Dave Inglis, Logan Graham is one of three people charged in connection with a fatal hit and run and subsequent allegations that the suspect vehicle was later found burned and abandoned.

The investigation opened on May 20 after police were called to a scene on the highway west of Penhold, where Trystan Sorensen, 18, was struck and killed while walking along the side of the road with his longboard.

Vehicle owner Jessica Masyk is set to stand trial in February on charges of leaving the scene of a fatal collision, mischief and driving while unauthorized.

Police allege that Masyk originally claimed that her vehicle was stolen.

The vehicle’s burned-out remains were found in a field east of Innisfail a number of days after Sorensen’s death.

Charges of arson were laid against Graham and Steve Lagace, 29.

Lagace is serving a 26-month after pleading guilty to setting Masyk’s car on fire, along with a number of unrelated offences, including possessing stolen vehicles, possessing brass knuckles and being unlawfully at large.

Graham is charged with a single count of arson.

In Red Deer provincial court on Thursday, Inglis said he has been negotiating a plea agreement with Crown prosecutor Katey Clarey, but was unable to proceed because his client did not appear as scheduled.

Inglis stated that his client has been in Saskatchewan and his failure to show up for court may have been the result of a miscommunication.

With the prosecutor’s consent, Judge Darrell Riemer agreed to adjourn the matter for another week. Graham is due back in court next Thursday, Dec. 18.

Outdoor neighbourhood ice rinks next to Red Deer community activity centres may be open but the ice is in poor condition.

Skating is not advised because the mild weather is causing the ice to melt, which does not make for great skating.

The opening of outdoor rinks that are not next to activity centres have been delayed too because of the mild weather.

However, the skating rink at Bower Ponds, where the ice is reported to be in good condition, is open as of today.

As for other natural surfaces, Westlake Pond is in good condition.

The regular operating hours for the Bower Ponds Pavilion are weekdays from 4:30 to 9 p.m. and on weekends from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.

The hours will change during the Christmas holidays. The pavilion is closed on Christmas Day. For more information about Bower Ponds including holiday hours, call 403-347-9777.

Find out more about the city rinks at 403-342-8299 or visit www.reddeer. ca.

Kerry Wood meet the creature Parents, kids and families are invited down to the Kerry Wood Nature Centre for a chance to meet a critter.

The family oriented drop-in program is scheduled for Saturday from 1 to 3 p.m. at the centre, 6300 45th Ave. in Red Deer.

The event includes activities and a meet-and-greet with a live critter.

As for what type of critter it is, that’s a surprise.

Admission is by a suggested donation of $3 per person or $10 per family.

For more information, call 403346-2010.

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Riders Rush owner Sam Kiat and his son, Joshua, and a cable installer, Gary Garrett, work to install the new Riders’ Rush Cable Park in Blackfalds on Thursday. Kait hopes to have the park up and running by next weekend. Located in the All Star Park on the south side of Blackfalds, the park will give skiers and snowboarders the chance to practise their skills without going to the mountains or local ski and snowboarding areas. The cable runs for about 200 metres and will propel riders along the snow where they can ride over a number of jumps and rails along the way before being pulled back along the course in the opposite direction.

Hearing set for woman facing charges related to impaired driving

a preliminary hearing in provincial court to examine the evidence against his client. Preliminary hearings are optional and may be scheduled to weigh the strength of the Crown’s case before proceeding to trial. Machuik’s preliminary hearing is set for Aug. 6 in Red Deer provincial court.

A preliminary hearing is set for mid-summer to weigh evidence against a woman accused of injuring three others while impaired and driving dangerously.

Represented by defence counsel Kevin Sproule, Kelsey Jean Machuik, 25, has asked to be tried by judge alone in the Red Deer Court of Queen’s bench on charges laid following a collision in the area of 55th Street and 30th Avenue Check out the KOHLER touchless at in Red Deer on July 21.

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Airspray expands

BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR It started out as a way to keep staff busy during slow periods. But maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) work on other companies’ aircraft has become such a big part of Air Spray Airtankers’ operations that it’s resulted in the spin-off of a separate business — and plans for a new hangar at the Red Deer Airport.

Air Spray, which is known for its forest-fire-fighting services, is finalizing plans for about 100,000 square feet of new hangar space. That will double the Edmonton-based company’s facilities at the local airport.

Paul Lane, Air Spray’s vice-president and chief operating officer, said the expansion is expected to occur during 2015. Once complete, it will enhance

the company’s ability to work on its fleet and aircraft belonging to others, he said.

“It’s really the ability to have more space to work on more machines, and to do that work effectively.

Quite frankly, now we’re jamming everything into our hangar to get it done.”

Air Spray started performing MRO work on other planes during fire-fighting season, when its own aircraft were out in the field. But this infill business “has grown by leaps and bounds,” said Lane, and led to the creation of a new entity called Springbrook Aerospace.

“We get calls from all over Canada and in the United States as well,” he said, speculating that the low Canadian dollar could make Springbrook Aerospace even more attractive to out-of-country customers.

Ultimately, Air Spray’s payroll of about 70 aircraft mechanics could grow by another 30 or 40.

The new facilities will include a general aviation hub, where private aircraft like those used by cor-

porate executives can park, and their pilots can rest and do flight-planning.

Lane said there are a couple reasons his company is increasing its footprint at the Red Deer Airport, one of which is the City of Red Deer and Red Deer County’s recent decision to invest $3.5 million in capital expansion there.

“In the long run, I think the thing that would really take the business to the next level is having that investment in widening and lengthening the runway.”

He said the regional airport is also a more costeffective place to operate than is the case with larger aviation centres, like the Calgary and Edmonton international airports.

“We’re making the investment here in Red Deer, because I think we’ve developed a very good little aviation community out there at the airport.” hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

PETERS’ DRIVE-IN

FINANCE MINISTERS MEETING

Falling oil prices likely on agenda

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Provincial finance ministers are having their first face-to-face meeting with federal counterpart Joe Oliver this weekend and it’s expected they’ll discuss falling oil prices — but they’ll do so without the minister from Alberta.

A spokesman for Robin Campbell said he is so busy grappling with low prices that he can’t get away.

“Minister Campbell is not attending the meetings in Ottawa on Sunday and Monday,” said press secretary Kevin Zahara.

“He’s going to be back here ... working on budget.

(It’s) very concerning with the low price of oil, so he’s getting that work underway.”

Alberta will send a department official and will try to set up a one-on-one between Campbell and Oliver in the near future, Zahara said.

Revenue from oil has dominated debate in petropowered Alberta in recent days. In March, the province budgeted on an average price this year of US$95 a barrel, but recently revised that to US$75 a barrel.

Premier Jim Prentice has said a prolonged low will rob Alberta of billions of dollars it relies on to run day-to-day operations. He’s warned of belt-tightening and has not ruled out changes to corporate and personal income taxes.

On Thursday, the price of oil fell below US$60 for the first time since July 2009. Oil is down almost 45 per cent since reaching a high of US$107.26 for the year in late June.

Saskatchewan Finance Minister Ken Krawetz said he expects the ministers to discuss the plunging price, which threatens to erode public finances in all the oil-rich provinces as well as in Ottawa.

“We are concerned about the loss of revenue.

There’s no question about that,” Krawetz said.

“We’re also concerned that if indeed there is a prolonged decline, what will be the effect across the entire nation with regards to oil?”

In oil-producing Saskatchewan, Krawetz estimates provincial coffers will lose about $20 million for every $1 drop in the price.

Alberta estimates it loses about $215 million over a 12-month period for every loonie shaved off the price of oil.

“Those are things that we’re going to have to be aware of — if the federal government is looking at ensuring that there is support for a particular industry,” said Krawetz, who also serves as deputy premier.

He said the federal-provincial gathering begins with a dinner Sunday, followed by sessions Monday that are to include a presentation by Bank of Canada governor Stephen Poloz.

Krawetz said he was looking forward to hear any further insight Poloz may offer into global conditions affecting oil prices.

Krawetz predicted discussions are likely to dwell on the state of the world economy.

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Work is underway on the Peters’ Drive-In being developed on Leva Avenue in Gasoline Alley.

Expected to open in the spring, the restaurant will be the second location of the famed Calgary business that has operated for more than 50 years. The 5,175-square-foot building, which is being constructed by Premier Building Solutions, will feature a drive-through and inside seating.

Rainbow’s End Hay and Cattle becomes AWA-certified producer

BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR You’re unlikely to find Lawrence Hollings pulling a calf in sub-zero temperatures.

That’s because the Donalda-area farmer’s 50 black Angus cows produce their offspring between May and June — well after their counterparts at many other cow-calf operations, where calving is scheduled early to avoid conflicts with spring field work and to give the animals extra time to put on weight.

“Nature doesn’t have babies in January,” pointed out Hollings, who saw his share of frozen calf ears and other cold-weather problems before he modified his practices.

“This way, you virtually have no troubles.”

He also favours low-stress methods of handling his livestock, keeps them on pasture, avoids grain-based feeds and shuns chemicals like growth hormones.

Following such practices has earned Hollings Animal Welfare Approved Grassfed certification for his farm, Rainbow’s End Hay and Cattle.

“I just received it this fall,” he said. “I’d been working on it for a couple years.”

Only five farms in Alberta are Animal Welfare Approved (AWA) certified, with Rainbow’s End the

first in Central Alberta. It underwent an audit by the U.S.-based organization, and remains subject to annual inspections.

“It just kind of fit into what I wanted to do,” said Hollings, who uses compost and plow-down crops on his land rather than chemical fertilizers and other traditional inputs.

“A lot of what we’re doing in conventional farming, with all the chemicals and all the sprays, we’re hurting the micro-organisms.

“That’s what got me interested. I guess I understand that connection between soil and health.”

Grass-fed cattle do take longer to raise, with Hollings keeping his calves for 18 months before selling them to TK Ranch, another AWA-certified producer near Hanna. TK Ranch then finishes the calves for six to eight months on grass and forage. The price premium that grassfed beef attracts helps compensate for the extra time and effort.

Hollings said marketing directly to TK Ranch saves him sales commissions and provides greater price certainty.

He’s convinced grassfed meat is a growth industry with huge market potential.

“I believe it’s just starting.” hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

Multibillion-dollar lawsuit in the hands of judge

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

BIG TOBACCO

MONTREAL — A class-action lawsuit that targets three Canadian tobacco manufacturers for nearly $20 billion has ended after almost three years of testimony.

Closing arguments wrapped up in Montreal on Thursday, with Quebec Superior Court Justice Brian Riordan taking the case under deliberation.

While the trial began in March 2012, the legal proceedings actually date back to 1998.

The plaintiffs include an estimated one million Quebecers who argue the companies are liable because they knew they were putting out a harmful product and hid the health effects of tobacco.

The suit involves separate groups of plaintiffs some who became seriously ill from smoking and others who said they couldn’t quit.

The defendants are Imperial Tobacco Canada Ltd.; Rothmans, Benson & Hedges Inc.; and JTI-Macdonald. They argue the dangerous health effects of

tobacco have been common knowledge for decades and that there was no conspiracy to conceal anything.

Initially the lawsuit was valued at $27 billion and included 1.8 million Quebecers, but a 2013 ruling changed the definition of who could qualify.

Mario Bujold, director-general of a Quebec council on tobacco and health, called the case historic.

“The whole question of the responsibility of tobacco companies with regard to their products is at the heart of this case,” he said Thursday.

“If a court acknowledges the responsibility of the companies, it’s clear that moment will be a gamechanger.”

Bujold said that could eventually lead to changes at the social level or even in legislation.

Tobacco companies have denied publicly that smoking carried risks, he added.

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“As far back at the 1960s, they have done everything to prevent people from knowing the truth,” Bujold noted.

The trial heard from 76 witnesses, while some 27,000 documents were filed as exhibits, including many confidential company memos and studies that showed people didn’t know or understand the health risks relating to smoking.

The industry has argued people knew about the risks of smoking and that the products were sold legally and with federal government approval.

“People knew about the health risks associated with smoking for many decades and the federal government who licensed and enabled us to sell those products knew about those health risks for many decades,” Imperial Tobacco Canada spokesman Eric Gagnon said earlier this year when asked to sum up his firm’s arguments.

Lawyers for the firms did not speak to reporters on Thursday.

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OF LOCAL INTEREST Thursday’s stock prices supplied by RBC Dominion Securities of Red Deer. For information call 341-8883.

Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 108.42 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 45.01 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52.23 BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . 11.71 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.06 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 55.91 Cdn. National Railway . . 74.20 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 201.31 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 38.87 Capital Power Corp . . . . 25.33 Cervus Equipment Corp 19.10 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 46.01 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 55.38 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 23.68 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 38.59 General Motors Co. . . . . 32.19 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 20.09 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.48 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 40.70 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 29.66 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 41.64 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . 10.21 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 52.43

Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 18.05 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 13.15 Tim Hortons . . . . . . . . . . 99.45 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83.83 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 34.22

Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 125.18 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 13.99 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 16.56 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 59.80

Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 13.64 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 17.95 First Quantum Minerals . 16.93 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 22.33 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 8.99 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 3.52 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . 17.20 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 40.42 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.23 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 13.64 Energy Arc Resources . . . . . . . . 23.65 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 26.80 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 55.77 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.01 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 35.54 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 34.24 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . . 9.37 Canyon Services Group. . 7.52 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 20.80 CWC Well Services . . . 0.4050 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 14.48 Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 1.37

MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO - The Toronto stock market rebounded to a modest advance Thursday as investors picked over some stocks, mainly in the non-resource sectors, that were indiscriminately sold off in a string of huge declines this week that sent the TSX into correction territory.

The S&P/TSX composite index closed up 52.17 points at 13,905.12 after a 343-point plunge Wednesday that left the TSX down 12 per cent from its mid-summer highs. A drop of 10 per cent or more from recent

highs is considered a correction.

Energy stocks have been the biggest casualty of the rout on the TSX as oil prices have fallen about 40 per cent since summer. The sharp decline has been sparked by lower demand prospects and an overabundance of crude oil, thanks in large part to surging shale production in the U.S. and a refusal by OPEC to cut production to support prices.

But the sell-off has also involved non-resource sectors as investors try to gauge the extent of damage that could be caused to the Canadian economy by the

Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 89.20 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 38.23 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.36 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 21.92 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 47.70 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 2.90 Penn West Energy . . . . . . 2.53 Pinecrest Energy Inc. . . . 0.025 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 6.30 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 32.56 Talisman Energy . . . . . . . . 4.26 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.36 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 4.84 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 45.99 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 78.21 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 64.32 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99.94 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 30.78 Carfinco . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.19 Great West Life. . . . . . . . . 2.55 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 43.52 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 80.37 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 21.66 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 47.15 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.29 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 78.49 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 41.77 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52.50 sharp fall in oil prices. “(The U.S. and Canadian) economies seem to be chugging

along and, outside of the negativity on oil, there really doesn’t seem to be any other negative data prints,” said Kevin Headland, director of the portfolio advisory group at Manulife Asset Management.

“So the fact that other sectors have been selling off along with energy names really didn’t make much sense. And a low oil price can be positive for many, many other sectors, especially when you look at retail spending and input costs to manufacturing.”

Positive TSX sectors included industrials, ahead 0.65 per cent, telcos up 2.25 per cent and consumer discretionaries, which gained 1.3 per cent.

The Canadian dollar fell 0.36 of a cent to a 5 1/2 year low of 86.75 cents US. A solid U.S. retail sales report for November also helped push markets higher.

New York’s Dow Jones industrials gained 63.19 points to 17,596.34. The Nasdaq rose 24.13 points to 4,708.16 and the S&P 500 index was 9.19 points higher at 2,035.33.

U.S. retail sales perked up in November with the start of the holiday shopping season, rising 0.7 per cent, led by online buying and purchases of autos, clothing and electronics.

Crude oil prices closed at a fresh, five-year low under US$60 a barrel.

The January crude contract on the New York Mercantile Exchange fell 99 cents to US$59.95 a barrel, adding to a loss of almost $3 racked up Wednesday after OPEC cut its forecast for global demand for the cartel’s oil.

The much-battered energy sector retreated another 0.31 per cent and now is down about 30

per cent year to date in a selloff that has lumped high-quality, low-cost producers with companies that are more vulnerable to low oil prices because of higher debt and production costs.

Many energy companies have been reacting to sharply lower oil prices by cutting capital spending estimates. Cenovus Energy (TSX:CVE) joined that group Thursday as the company announced it was cutting 2015 capital spending to between $2.5 billion and $2.7 billion, down about 15 per cent from 2014 levels. Its shares slipped 30 cents to $20.80.

The gold sector shed 1.28 per cent with February bullion down $3.80 to US$1,225.60 an ounce.

The base metals sector fell 1.65 per cent even as March copper edged up three cents to US$2.92 a pound.

FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS Highlights at the close of Thursday at world financial market trading.

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index 13,905.12, up 52.17 points Dow - 17,596.34, up 63.19 points S&P 500 - 2,035.33, up 9.19 points Nasdaq - 4,708.16, up 24.13 points Currencies: Cdn - 86.75 cents US, down 0.36 of a cent Pound - C$1.8120, up 0.83 of a cent Euro - C$1.4281, down 0.05 of a cent Euro - US$1.2381, down 0.63

of a cent Oil futures: US$59.95 per barrel, down 99 cents (January contract) Gold futures: US$1,225.60 per oz., down $3.80 (February contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $20.556 oz., up 13 cents $660.88 kg., up $4.18 ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: Jan ‘15 $3.10 higher $435.00; March ‘15 $3.90 higher $430.40; May ‘15 $2.90 higher $430.70; July ‘15 $3.00 higher $431.80; Nov ‘15 $2.60 higher $428.80; Jan. ‘16 $2.60 higher $434.10; March ‘16 $2.60 higher $442.00; May ‘16 $2.60 higher $443.70; July ‘16 $2.60 higher $443.70; Nov. ‘16 $2.60 higher $443.70.

Barley (Western): Dec. ‘14 unchanged $174.00; March ‘15 unchanged $177.00; May ‘15 unchanged $179.00; July ‘15 unchanged $181.00; Oct. ‘15 unchanged $181.00; Dec. ‘15 unchanged $181.00; March ‘16 unchanged $181.00; May ‘16 unchanged $181.00; July ‘16 unchanged $181.00; Oct. ‘16 unchanged $181.00; Dec. ‘16 unchanged $181.00.

Thursday’s estimated volume of trade: 773,960 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 773,960.

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CALGARY — Cenovus Energy Inc. will live within its means next year, slowing down spending on longterm oilsands projects and holding off on growing its workforce.

“The recent volatility in world oil prices is creating a challenging environment in which to set plans for 2015,” CEO Brian Ferguson told analysts on a conference call Thursday.

“It is the kind of price environment that demands flexibility and financial resilience.”

Next year’s capital budget is expected to range between $2.5 billion and $2.7 billion, down 15 per cent from this year’s projected spending.

The bulk of the 2015 expenditures - $2.1 billion - is what Cenovus describes as “committed capital” for its flagship Christina Lake and Foster Creek oilsands projects, safety and maintenance and contractual obligations.

Cenovus expects to maintain its 26.6-cent quarterly dividend throughout 2015 and has set aside between $400 million and $600 million for “discretionary” capital.

Spending on projects that would deliver production growth in the long-term, such as Narrows Lake, Telephone Lake and Grand Rapids will take a back seat. Spending on Narrows Lake is projected to drop 64 per cent, while “emerging” oilsands projects are seeing a 46 per cent cut.

But even at reduced spending levels, Cenovus can add 80,000 barrels per day in production in 2016 and 2017 from expansions underway at its existing Foster Creek and Christina Lake operations.

Ferguson described the mood at Cenovus as “determined” rather than gloomy.

In fact, he sees some silver lining in the downturn as construction costs fall.

“I think this is one of those opportunities where we can really achieve some improvements around costs and productivity,” he said.

Cenovus had already been targeting between $400 million and $500 million in annual cost savings.

“It couldn’t surprise me if we’re able to exceed that, too, given the current low price environment,” Ferguson said.

For next year, Cenovus plans to hold its headcount level at about 5,000 — between employees and contractors — rather than make any additions.

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MADRID — In a decision that will reverberate around the globe, Google announced Thursday it will close Google News in Spain and block reports from Spanish publishers from more than 70 Google News international editions due to a new Spanish law requiring aggregators to pay to link content.

Google News in Spain will shut down on Dec. 16 - several weeks before a new Spanish intellectual property law takes effect Jan. 1 requiring news publishers to be paid.

That means people in Latin America, where Spanish news organizations have sought to boost their audiences, won’t see news from Spain via Google News in Mexico or elsewhere. Also set to disappear are reports in English from Spanish publishers like Madrid’s leading El Pais newspaper.

People who use Google’s standard search in Spain and anywhere else around the world will still be able to find articles on their own from Spanish publications, because the law applies only to aggregators and not to individuals who do their own searches outside of Google News.

The decision by Google Inc. is the first shutdown since Google News debuted in 2002.

Richard Gingras, head of Google News, said the decision was made

“with real sadness” because Google News is “a service that hundreds of millions of users love and trust, including many here in Spain.”

Spain’s AEDE association, which represents large news publishers, had lobbied for the law nicknamed the “Google Tax” and said that Spaniards and Spanish businesses will suffer as a result of Google’s decision.

AEDE said the full impact of the move that will make news produced

by Spanish media vanish globally will only become known after the shutdown but added that the law was needed to “effectively protect the rights of citizens and businesses.”

A spokesman for El Pais said the newspaper did not plan to comment on Google’s action and the publishers of three other large Spanish newspaper groups also declined to comment or did not respond to requests for comment.

Spain’s Culture Ministry characterized Google’s move as a legitimate business decision. The ministry also said the law doesn’t apply to individuals and will protect the intellectual property of publications that spend money to create content without hindering freedom of information.

The new law did not specify how much publishers would have to be paid

by Google or other aggregators, but the company said Spain’s law is much stricter than similar legislation enacted elsewhere because it mandates

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payments even if publishers don’t want them because they get traffic via Google News.

“This new legislation requires every Spanish publication to charge services like Google News for showing even the smallest snippet from their publications, whether they want to or not,” Gingras wrote in a blog. “As Google News itself makes no money (we do not show any advertising on the site) this new approach is simply not sustainable.”

Google News has long irked newspaper publishers and other content providers, who contend the service tramples on copyrights by creating a digital kiosk of headlines and story snippets gathered from other websites.

Most criticism has likened Google to a freeloader, but there have been attempts to force the company to change its ways through the courts.

Google maintains it obeys all copyright laws while sending more people to websites highlighted in its News ser-

vices. The company also allows publishers to prevent material from being displayed in Google News, an option few websites choose because the service is an important traffic source to sell ads.

Alejandro Tourino, a Madrid-based lawyer who specializes in media issues and has worked for The Associated Press on several legal cases, said Spanish news publishers may “have shot themselves out of the market. Time will tell.”

After Germany revised its copyright laws last year to allow — but not force — Google News to make royalty payments, Google required publishers there to give their consent for summarizing content. Most did.

Google last year agreed to help French news organizations increase their online advertising revenue and fund digital publishing innovations to settle a dispute over whether the company should pay for news content in its search results.

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We walk on it, get stuck in it, make pottery from it, and use it for drilling and sealing water, and oil and gas wells.

Most clay occurs naturally with abundant deposits world-

wide.

The actual composition of clay forms the general description of a huge array of various minerals combining into the hydrophilic, or water loving, form that most kids are familiar and love to play with.

The phyllosilicate minerals that compose clay contain trapped water, which gives them the properties of plasticity and malleability, allowing for use in many products.

Suffice it to say most are silicate based with particle size of two microns or less.

Backing up to 2011, researchers in collaboration with Michel Barsoum PhD, at Drexel University in Philadelphia, were working with a compound referred to as MXene (mexene), which is derived from “MAX phase materials.” MAXphase materials are “layered hexagonal nitride and carbide compounds” that are synthesized in the lab and their unique mechanical, chemical and electrical properties are used in high performance engines, and in products where fatigue resistance or rigidity at high temperatures is required.

It was in an effort to make MXene electrodes and possibly provide alternatives to the expensive lithium battery construction methods, by using an easy and uncomplicated process, that a new material was discovered.

Starting with a MAXphase titanium carbide material, they used hydrochloric acid to “etch out” the aluminum. To stop the reaction, the researcher used water to wash out the acid and instead of leaving a hard MXene type material, a hydroscopic, water-absorbing, clay-like material was found.

Testing its properties, it was found to have very interesting abilities in addition to the obvious malleable, workable, physical properties of clay.

Electrically, not surprising of course, it was 40% found to retain its conduc-

tive properties. However, it had the added advantage, with its plasticity and mouldability, of allowing for the inexpensive mass production of MXene electrodes.

Further investigation revealed that the new material’s capacitance — the ability to store charge — was three times higher than the previous MXenes capability. At 900 F/cm³, its capacitance was indeed higher than most materials. Currently the best carbonbased electrodes have a capacitance of only 300 F/cm³.

Testing has revealed that this new material has the ability to retain its ca-

pacitance properties even after 10,000 charge/discharge cycles.

If more water is added and the MXene clay is painted on a surface and allowed to dry, it still retains its electrical abilities.

This two-dimensional titanium carbide material can be moulded into any shape and still retain its abilities, which imparts some very interesting potential for use in batteries and supercapacitors.

Possible uses include electric vehicles, electronics, computers, watches and cellphones, or even more dramatically, energy storage for large wind,

wave, tidal or photovoltaic solar farms.

Innovation can come from anywhere, and sometimes the unintended result of a new experiment in which the intent was different from what the experiment yielded, can provide for very radical and novel materials as a result.

Lorne Oja is an energy consultant, power engineer and a partner in a company that installs solar panels, wind turbines and energy control products in Central Alberta. He built his first off-grid home in 2003. His column appears every second Friday in the Advocate. Contact him at: lorne@solartechnical.ca.

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Land Use Bylaw Amendment 3357Y-2014 3731 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 50 (Gaetz) Avenue Redistricting from DC(4) Direct Control District to C4 Commercial (Major Arterial) District City Council is considering amending the Land Use Bylaw to redistrict land located at 3731 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 50 (Gaetz) Avenue (Lot 7, Block 5, Plan 012 1322) from DC(4) Direct Control District No. 4 to C4 Commercial (Major Arterial) District. This will provide consistent zoning on a parcel that functions as a larger commercial development. The existing tele-theatre racetrack betting facility will be allowed as a permitted use. This also aligns with the Gaetz Avenue Vision that speaks to consistent districting along Gaetz Avenue â&#x20AC;&#x201C; where the primary district along this portion of Gaetz Avenue is the C4 District.

Municipal Planning Commission Decisions On December 3, 2014, the Municipal Planning Commission issued the following decisions for development permit applications: Discretionary Use Approvals: Garden Heights Hafso Developments Ltd. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; development of a twostorey assisted living facility with 12 units, to be located at 14 Greenway Street.

Timberstone Park Christenson Equities Ltd. - development of a threestorey assisted living facility with 122 units, to be located 42 Timberstone Way. Vanier Woods East Sorento Custom Homes â&#x20AC;&#x201C; development of a new secondary suite with two bedrooms, to be located within a new single family dwelling at 43 Veronica Close.

You may appeal discretionary approvals and denials to the Red Deer Subdivision & Development Appeal Board, Legislative Services, City Hall, prior to 4:30 p.m. on December 29, 2014. You may not appeal a Permitted Use unless it involves a relaxation, variation or misinterpretation of the Land Use Bylaw.

Appeal forms (outlining appeal fees) are available at Legislative Services. For further information, please phone 403-342-8132.

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CITY OF RED DEER CAPITAL PROJECTS Borrowing Bylaws Red Deer City Council proposes to pass the following bylaws to provide for debenture borrowing in the amount of $110,798,000 to finance development and construction of capital projects listed below. The public may inspect the proposed bylaws at Legislative Services 2nd Floor of City Hall during regular office hours.

BYLAW Number/Name Capital Project Borrowing Amount Bylaw 3521/2014 â&#x20AC;˘ River Bend Golf & $20,009,000 Recreation Area Canada Winter Facility enhancements Games Projects â&#x20AC;˘ Canyon Ski facility enhancements â&#x20AC;˘ Red Deer College Centre for Health, Wellness and Sport â&#x20AC;˘ Downtown Games Plaza â&#x20AC;˘ Great Chief Park facility improvements Bylaw 3522/2014 â&#x20AC;˘ Red Deer Arena $31,068,000 Reconstruction Building Projects â&#x20AC;˘ North Red Deer Regional Community Centre Construction â&#x20AC;˘ RCMP Downtown 2nd Floor Development Bylaw 3523/2014 â&#x20AC;˘ Taylor Drive Linkage $16,183,000 â&#x20AC;˘ South East Sector Road Transportation Improvement Improvements Projects Bylaw 3524/2014 â&#x20AC;˘ West QEII Business $23,037,000 Park (NE25) Phase 3 Road Offsite â&#x20AC;˘ Development of 20 Projects Avenue Berm Bylaw 3525/2014 â&#x20AC;˘ EHN (NW26) $3,570,000 Northlands Drive Storm Offsite Trunks Project Projects â&#x20AC;˘ Queens Business Park (NE35) Pond I3 Project Bylaw 3526/2014 Station â&#x20AC;˘ Station 3 Relocation $8,800,000 â&#x20AC;˘ Station 4 Relocation Relocation Projects Bylaw 3528/2014 â&#x20AC;˘ Purchase of an $1,816,000 Enterprise Content Information Management System Management â&#x20AC;˘ Implementation of digital preservation systems Bylaw 3529/2014 â&#x20AC;˘ Stabilization of the $6,0315,000 toe of the Red Deer Riverview Park River upstream of Bank Stabilization the Riverview Park Neighborhood

The electors may submit a separate petition with respect to each advertised bylaw calling for a vote of the electors to determine whether the proposed bylaw should be passed. The petition must meet the formal requirements of Sections 221-226 of the Municipal Government Act and be filed with the Manager, Legislative Services within 15 days after the last date the proposed bylaws are advertised.

The last date of advertisement for these bylaws is December 12, 2014. Any petition will be public information. This Bylaw will be considered by Red Deer City Council at the Monday, January 19, 2015 Council Meeting. If you have any questions regarding the petition process or the use of the petition please contact the Manager, Legislative Services at 403-342-8132.

Land Use Bylaw Amendment 3357/X-2014 Omnibus Amendments City Council is considering amending the Land Use Bylaw to improve and streamline the development permit application process, eliminate redundant and difficult to monitor Land Use Bylaw procedures, reword sections to follow current internal procedures and practices as well as minor changes to provide improved consistency to the bylaw. Some of the changes include: 1. Delete reference to â&#x20AC;&#x153;Parkland Community Planning Servicesâ&#x20AC;? in the introduction section 2. Delete reference to Municipal Planning Commission in Section 3.3(3)(i) and replace with Development Authority 3. Clarify â&#x20AC;&#x153;assisted living facilityâ&#x20AC;? as a discretionary use in the R2 Residential (Medium Density) and R3 Residential (Multiple Family) Districts.

4. Move Temporary Building Permit regulations from Residential District Regulations to a new section in General Regulations applicable to All Districts and rename the section to â&#x20AC;&#x153;Temporary Buildingsâ&#x20AC;? Reword Section 1(b)(vii) for clarity of regulation 5. Modify C1 Commercial (City Centre) District maximum building height.

6. Add â&#x20AC;&#x153;accessory building, subject to Section 3.5â&#x20AC;? as a discretionary use to the A1 Future Urban Development District.

The proposed bylaw may be inspected at Legislative Services, 2nd Floor City Hall during regular office hours or for more details, contact City of Red Deer Planning Services at 403-406-8700.

City Council will hear from any person claiming to be affected by the proposed bylaw at the Public Hearing on Monday, January 5, 2015 at 6:00 p.m. in Council Chambers, 2nd Floor of City Hall. If you want your letter included in the Council agenda you must submit it to the Manager, Legislative Services by Monday, December 29, 2014.You may also submit your letter at the Public Hearing, or you can simply tell Council your views at the Public Hearing. Councilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Procedure Bylaw indicates that each presentation is limited to 10 minutes. Any submission will be public information. If you have any questions regarding the use of this information please contact the Manager, Legislative Services at 403-342-8132.

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The proposed bylaw may be inspected at Legislative Services, 2nd Floor City Hall during regular of½ce hours or for more details, contact City of Red Deer Planning Services at 403-406-8700.

City Council will hear from any person claiming to be affected by the proposed bylaw at the Public Hearing on Monday, January 5, 2015 at 6:00 p.m. in Council Chambers, 2nd Floor of City Hall.

If you want your letter included in the Council agenda you must submit it to the Manager, Legislative Services by Monday, December 29, 2014. You may also submit your letter at the Public Hearing, or you can simply tell Council your views at the Public Hearing. Councilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Procedure Bylaw indicates that each presentation is limited to 10 minutes. Any submission will be public information. If you have any questions regarding the use of this information please contact the Manager, Legislative Services at 403-342-8132.

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Development Officer Approvals In accordance with The City of Red Deer Neighbourhood Planning and Design Standards (2013), the properties known as legal land description NW1/4 Sec 26 TWP 38 RR 27 W4M located in the neighbourhood of Evergreen, have been identified for sale for the development of a community amenity site by Melcor Developments Ltd. These properties may be developed for temporary care, assisted living, adult day care, day care facility, or place of worship.

On December 9, 2014, the Development Officer issued approval for the following applications:

Details as to eligibility, conditions of sale, prices, etc. may be obtained from: Melcor Developments Ltd. 403-343-0817 If these sites are not purchased for the purpose listed above by October 31, 2015, they may be utilized for conventional residential development as shown in the Neighbourhood Area Structure Plan.

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Permitted Use Burnt Lake Industrial 1. Auto Body Services Red Deer Ltd. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a 371.61m2 industrial shop, to be located at 4 Burnt Basin Street.

2. Malpaso Homes â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a 0.48 metre relaxation to the minimum rear yard to a proposed deck, to be located at 12 Greenhouse Place.

3. Malpaso Homes â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a 0.49 metre relaxation to the minimum rear yard to a proposed deck, to be located at 14 Greenhouse Place.

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Land Use Bylaw Amendment 3357/AA-2014 Add Microbreweries as a Discretionary Use in Riverlands (DC 21) and Railyards (DC 28) Districts City Council is considering amending the Land Use Bylaw to define microbreweries and add them as a discretionary use in the Riverlands (Direct Control District 21) and Railyards (Direct Control District 28). The Land Use Bylaw currently provides for uses such as manufacturing and processing, retail, drinking establishments and restaurants in these areas â&#x20AC;&#x201C; allowing microbreweries as a use bridges these types of uses. The proposed definition for this use is as follows: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Microbrewery means a use where the small-scale production and packaging of alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages takes place and includes distribution, retail or wholesale, on or off the premises, and includes at least one of the following: tasting room where guests may sample alcoholic beverages without charge, Drinking Establishment, or Restaurant; the floor area devoted to the production and packaging shall be no more than 70% of the total floor area.â&#x20AC;? The total floor area of the brewery is limited to no more than 70% (about two thirds) as a way of ensuring that there is an equitable mix of uses and this does not become a large scale brewery.

The proposed bylaw may be inspected at Legislative Services, 2nd Floor City Hall during regular office hours or for more details, contact City of Red Deer Planning Services at 403-406-8700.

City Council will hear from any person claiming to be affected by the proposed bylaw at the Public Hearing on Monday, January 5, 2015 at 6:00 p.m. in Council Chambers, 2nd Floor of City Hall. If you want your letter included in the Council agenda you must submit it to the Manager, Legislative Services by Monday, December 29, 2014. You may also submit your letter at the Public Hearing, or you can simply tell Council your views at the Public Hearing. Councilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Procedure Bylaw indicates that each presentation is limited to 10 minutes. Any submission will be public information. If you have any questions regarding the use of this information please contact the Manager, Legislative Services at 403-342-8132.

4. Mason Martin Homes â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a 6.8m2 relaxation to the maximum site coverage to a proposed single family dwelling and attached garage, to be located at 105 Lalor Drive.

Oriole Park 5. Bemoco Land Surveying Ltd. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a 0.11 metre relaxation to the minimum side yard and a 0.56 metre relaxation to the distance from the doors to the lane, to an existing detached garage, located at 32 Orchard Green.

Queens Industrial 6. Shunda Consulting & Construction Management Ltd. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a 1672m2 industrial shop and office, to be located at 96 Quinn Avenue.

Timberstone 7. Laebon Developments Ltd. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a 1.55 metre relaxation to the minimum rear yard to the house, a 2.21 metre relaxation to the minimum rear yard to the deck and a 4.8m2 relaxation to the maximum site coverage, to a proposed single family dwelling, to be located at 30 Terra Close.

Discretionary Use Edgar Industrial 8. Enerflex Systems Ltd. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; an existing 178.37m2 temporary tent structure, until December 9, 2017, located at 8036 Edgar Industrial Green.

Glendale 9. D. Tucker â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a new secondary suite, with one bedroom and a separate entrance at the side, to be located within an existing single family dwelling at 5854-71 Street.

Laredo 10. Bella Rosa Developments Ltd. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a new secondary suite, with two bedrooms and a separate entrance at the rear, to be located within a new single family dwelling at 210 Lalor Drive.

You may appeal Discretionary approvals to the Red Deer Subdivision & Development Appeal Board, Legislative Services, City Hall, prior to 4:30 p.m. on December 29 , 2014. You may not appeal a Permitted Use unless it involves a relaxation, variation or misinterpretation of the Land Use Bylaw.

Appeal forms (outlining appeal fees) are available at Legislative Services. For further information, please phone 403-342-8190.

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HOROSCOPES Friday, Dec. 12 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Bob Barker, 91; Jennifer Connelly, 43; Bill Nighy, 65 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Today is an excellent day to make those long range plans and goals a reality.

You are more than able to organize and it will be a good day for mental and intellectual efforts. You might be feeling slightly down, but who wouldn’t be after yesterday’s excitement?

Get back into the swing of work, discipline yourself and all will go well today. Pleasant feelings will overflow!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today is your birthday, this year will prove LARISA MAIRA to be getting your vision and your OZOLINS higher goals working.

If you are taking studies, then this will prove to be very rewarding for you personally and it will help you out tremendously in the years to come.

If travelling, it will be exactly what you need to gain that fresh new perspective on life to pull you forward in an optimistic way.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): If ever there was a day to get your creative projects or implementing a new form of personal expression, today is that day. Also, if you started a relationship recently, today will be the day to set those intentions towards longer range goals between you both.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Family will play a big part in what your plans are going forward.

Today will be an excellent day to share in discussions of where you see yourself going. These could be business plans or plans with your significant relationship. Enjoy the love shared by them today.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You will be discussing plans with your significant relationships today, either business partners or your spouse.

You will most likely be seeing eye to eye when it comes to long range goals, but do clarify what needs to be completed now to get you where you want to be.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): You are striving to increase your finances through your daily work and whatever you are passionate about. This can happen if you use today’s energy to your advantage now. Organize yourself, communicate with those you encounter today, and set those long range goals!

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): If you are developing some creative project or perhaps even entertaining your children, today will be an excellent day.

If not, then still wonderful, but the day will have you take further steps to express yourself in the way you want to. Long range goals are ready to be implemented.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): There could be some misunderstandings going on with family today. So it is best to simply talk things out, everyone will win by doing so. You will be able to make great long range goals for yourself, like buying a home, if you properly organize your thoughts and plans now.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Those dreams that you have for yourself, start today to think up how you can get yourself to their completion.

You are truly living the dream right now, but perhaps there is a want to make this a long term journey for you. Discuss this with others now, their input is valuable.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Whatever you truly value today will no doubt get you recognition on a professional level.

You will most likely be able to express those needs to others with great gusto and will be able to set up proper goals to be implemented over the long haul today — Enjoy!

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Today is the day to get your higher ideals into action.

You will not only be able to express just what you truly want, but will be able to think up exactly how to get yourself there with greater speed. Dream big and implement those goals now to get you going forward.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You will realize that whatever has been troubling you on a subconscious level will be easily let go today. If not today, then you will start to understand how you can do just that now. Let go and embrace the future. Soon everything will be wonderful, enjoy today!

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Your dreams are coming true. You will be able to manifest those aspirations more readily now, so do take advantage of today’s energy.

You will be highly sensitive to others’ moods, so keep that in mind if you feel your energy shift. If you want, lift those individuals up!

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You will be very much in touch with others’ moods and feelings today.

Trust that you are now able to work with them to create the daily life and career you desire. If you are single, then there could be talks about changing that now. If not single, enjoy today’s spotlight!

Larisa Maira Ozolins is an internationally syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate.

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Counselling will help you, even if Marcus chooses not to go.

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Dear Annie: I’ve been living with “Marcus” for two years, and we’ve known each other for twice that long.

We are both in our late 40s. Soon after we moved in together, Marcus became seriously ill. We’ve been through five invasive surgeries, and there may be more.

The most serious illness seems to be under control, but now other debilitating health issues are popping up on the MITCHELL horizon, and I just don’t know & SUGAR what to do.

Part of me wants desperately to leave, yet I feel incredibly guilty for even thinking of it.

We don’t fight, and we have our good moments. I still am attracted to him, but there is absolutely no sex unless I initiate it — which I’ve stopped doing because he always has discomfort or pain.

We sometimes talk about it, and he says, “You didn’t sign up for this. Why are you still here?”

Marcus spoke to his doctor about the lack of desire, some of which may be attributed to painkillers, but they have no resolution.

I’ve lost weight, take good care of myself and dress nicely — still nothing. He says, “It’s not you, it’s me.”

I feel shallow for missing sex so much, but I honestly can’t imagine living the rest of my life without it. I suggested counselling, with or without me, but Marcus refused.

When he dismisses suggestions to work on us, I end up feeling more like a nurse than a lover. And the guilt is eating me up. What can I do? — Faith Dear Faith: Marcus has serious health issues, and that, plus medication, is undoubtedly what is causing his lack of desire.

It isn’t anything you are doing. And he, too, feels guilt, because his illness prevents you from having the relationship you envisioned.

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RIDLEY SCOTT SHOEHORNS A RELIGIOUS NARRATIVE INTO HIS ‘GLADIATOR’ TEMPLATE, CREATING A BIBLICAL DRAMA THAT FEELS EXCESSIVE IN EVERY WAY IMAGINABLE Exodus: Gods and Kings One star (out of four) Rated: PG-13

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God works in mysterious ways. And Ridley Scott has an explanation: the almighty is actually a petulant and vengeful child who has temper tantrums of epic proportions when he doesn’t get his way. At least, that’s how he’s portrayed in Exodus: Gods and Kings, Scott’s retelling of the Old Testament story of Moses.

That God is played by 11-year-old Isaac Andrews as a bratty and terrifying pre-teen is

but one absurd choice in this biblical action drama that feels excessive in every way imaginable, from running time (nearly 2 ½ hours) to melodramatic acting to the conspicuous amount of computer generation.

The story begins during Moses’s early adulthood, and Scott has managed to shoehorn the religious narrative into his Gladiator template. Just as in Scott’s 2000 Academy Award winner, the film jumps right into the action with a battle between the ruling state and some barbaric rebels. In place of Romans, however, in Exodus it’s the pharaoh’s army in Egypt and some insurgents. And as in the earlier movie, there’s tension between the protagonist and future despot. Moses, played by Christian Bale, has been raised alongside the next pharaoh, Ramses (Joel Edgerton). The future leader’s father, Seti (John Turturro), clearly favors Moses. According to the laws of Gladiator, this means that Seti will soon die.

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The Bob Dylan masterpiece you don’t need

BY GEOFF EDGERS ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES

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Six discs. 138 tracks. Forty-seven years of waiting.

The Basement Tapes Complete: The Bootleg Series Vol. 11 may be the most-hyped reissue release in years.

But I’ve got four reasons why this set, despite all that I believe in — the greatness of Bob Dylan, record porn in general — is unnecessary. I offer this knowing that my peers in the writing biz have spoken, teeing this up for every holiday gift guide.

1. Too Much, Too Sloppy. Some slam the 1975, double-record compilation that documented the muchmythologized 1967 sessions featuring Dylan and the Band for having too much overdubbing and too little Bob. (Eight tracks are Band only.) But that collection had something this doesn’t: it was curated. Those of us who love, say, gazing at Velasquez or reading Alice Munro don’t expect to see every rough stab that led to the final product, unless we’re doing a dissertation. That’s what’s wrong with The Basement Tapes Complete. Three deadly dull versions of Nothing Was Delivered? Give ‘em to the Smithsonian so scholars can study upon request. For actual listening, pick up a copy of the ’75 release.

2. The Joke’s On Us. Dylan certainly still has good records in him — 2012’s Tempest is proof — but he also spends too much time playing merry prankster (that Christmas album, Chronicles, Volume One, his cameo on Pawn Stars). Count the number of times on The Basement Tapes Complete that Dylan cracks up while singing. He is not laughing at Rick Danko’s Christmas sweater. He’s laughing at you, the consumer, slapping down $82.79 to hear a performance not even the player can get through with a straight face.

3. Bourbon Street. Track 21, Disc 4. Bob croaks “marvelous” and “play it pretty now, boys,” over a wounded trombone. Makes you almost miss Uriah Heep.

4. So Much Needs To Be Reissued. My only copy of Helen Carroll and the Satisfiers doing (Oh Why, Oh Why Did I Ever Leave) Wyoming should not be on a scratchy 78. Other material worthy of proper release: Neil Young’s Homegrown, the tracks Brian Wilson recorded with Andy Paley in the 1990s, and virtually everything in Prince’s archives. Truth is, if you love Bob Dylan, you’ve had all of this Basement Tapes material for years courtesy of the bootleggers. It’s hard to understand why we need to buy it again.

Count the number of times on The Basement Tapes Complete that Bob Dylan cracks up while singing. He is not laughing at Rick Danko’s Christmas sweater. He’s laughing at you, the consumer, slapping down $82.79 to hear a performance not even the player can get through with a straight face.

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A fresh take on a classic

DC’s Earth One format.

“We can use everything that has been established before, but we’re not subject to stick with it. If we like it, we keep it; if we don’t, we move on. There was no mandate to make everything [like] the regular DCU, so we had the freedom to do whatever,” Dodson said.

“It was cool. We didn’t want it to be exactly the same, and some [Titans] were completely different. But as a fan

of the characters myself, I still wanted it to be just enough of a hallmark there for those characters for the reader.”

With the latitude to build a new Titans universe however he wanted, Lemire says the hardest choice involved which Titans would make their debut in the first volume. He eventually decided on a roster of Cyborg, Beast Boy, Terra, Jericho, Raven and Starfire.

Notably missing are two big-name sidekicks: Robin the Boy Wonder and Kid Flash — two Titans with major superhero/Justice League connections (Batman/Flash). Lemire says it was difficult to leave such well-known Titans off the roster, but it worked best for the story, at least for the first volume.

“One of the big decisions I struggled with before I ever got to the writing stage was which characters to include and how to present them. You run into a problem if you use sidekick characters right away, like Robin or Kid Flash, in a . . . brand-new world to the readers. You also have to develop or introduce the adult counterparts as well,” Lemire explained. “Suddenly you’re dealing with not just introducing the Teen Titans, but you have to introduce the adult superheroes too, so they have context. That’s a huge problem, and suddenly the first volume becomes about the adult characters and not the kids.

“My decision early on was just to use the unique characters that Marv and George created that weren’t sidekicks, and that freed me from having to establish the adult superheroes in this world.”

Lemire spreads his Titans tale between outer space, the Ramah Navajo reservation in New Mexico (where readers first meet Raven) and Monument, Ore. (where the remaining Titans go to high school together). Unbeknownst to the soon-to-be Titans — while they deal with everything that comes with being in high school — is a mysterious connection they have with Starfire, as Raven shares an unexplained spiritual link with them from afar.

Lemire says his decision to make Raven a Native American had more to do with keeping his Earth One story somewhat grounded in reality — or as much as one can in a superhero tale.

Lemire says the cultural diversity of his Titans’ Earth One story (including Raven’s roots, interracial dating, gay adoptive parents and single mothers) is not because of any efforts to stand out, but because that was just a function of writing comics in the 21st century.

“There was no agenda to put those things in. It sort of grew out of each character,” Lemire said.

“I think it’s a reflection of where comics are at. The readership of comics is so much more diverse now then it was when I was reading Teen Titans back in the ’80s. I think the characters have to reflect that growing audience and the widening perspective that they bring.”

As for future volumes of the Earth One Titans with those aforementioned missing members? Lemire isn’t revealing much, but he does say that there are hints in the Titans’ first Earth One volume.

“There’s a big hint in the book at one point that’s about some other characters that we included,” said Lemire, adding: “It’s open to interpretation at this point as to who they may be.”

lems is its lack of character development. There are passing attempts at humanizing larger-than-life characters, as we see Ramses with his infant son and Moses saying sweet things to his wife. But there’s a much greater emphasis on battles and apocalyptic images than on personal stories. In place of meaningful dialogue, we get a lot of God’s retaliation: the bloody Nile (in this case due to vicious crocodiles), maggots, flies, people covered in boils and livestock spewing blood before falling dead to the ground.

That’s to say nothing of the storms with earth-swallowing tornadoes, hail and lightning. The scenes may have been inspired by the sensationalists at the Weather Channel.

In truth, Exodus has much more in common with The Day After Tomorrow and other examples of disaster porn than The Ten Commandments or The Passion of the Christ or even Noah from earlier this year.

Scott has received flak from reli-

gious groups for taking liberties with the source material, but he also has raised the hackles of laymen. Some questioned why the director cast white men in all the major roles in a movie about ancient Egypt, and he responded that big names are necessary in order to finance a movie. He also said he believed that the actors selected were the best people for the parts.

But they aren’t, and that’s true not just because of racial veracity. Regardless of his heavy eyeliner and gold finery, Turturro is not believable as a pharaoh even for a second. But no one

looks more out of place than Aaron Paul (of Breaking Bad) as a rebellious slave. Even under long hair and a big beard, he still looks like a dude from Idaho. And Edgerton, who has done some impressive acting work, has two volumes for delivering lines: either an incomprehensible growl originating in the back of his throat or an over-thetop yell.

It’s understandable that people were angry about the whitewashing of Egypt. But no aspiring actor of colour should think of this as an opportunity missed so much as a bullet dodged.

DESPITE AWE, LEMIRE COULDN’T PASS UP WRITING FOR HIS ‘GATEWAY’ COMIC CHARACTERS

TEEN TITANS

BY DAVID BETANCOURT ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES Teenagers. They’ll do, and say, the nuttiest things. Especially when they’re Titans.

DC Comics went with a youth movement, choosing the Teen Titans for the next installment of their Earth One graphic novels — a series that allows for fresh takes on classic characters, untethered as it is from past and current continuity.

Penning the new take on DC’s top teenagers is Jeff Lemire, with art by Terry Dodson (Wonder Woman, Harley Quinn). Fresh off ending his critically acclaimed run on Green Arrow, as well as concluding his exclusivity to DC Comics — he has upcoming projects with Valiant Comics (The Valiant) and Marvel Comics (Hawkeye) — Lemire says he couldn’t pass on the opportunity to write a Teen Titans story.

“These DC [Comics] characters are very special to me,” Lemire said.

“George Perez and Marv Wolfman’s Teen Titans were really my gateway into comics originally, back when I was quite young. I revered these characters, and had a strong affection for them to begin with.”

Lemire’s love for the characters caused him to be not only excited to write for the Titans, but also at least somewhat intimidated.

“When you have so much freedom, sometimes that can be even more difficult, because there’s so many different possibilities of how you can approach things. You have to make decisions,” Lemire said. “Whereas if you’re working in continuity, there’s all the parameters, and the history can help dictate where you are.

Dodson brought his own excitement to Teen Titans: Earth One — from the artist’s point of view. As opposed to Lemire’s fandom for the legendary Teen Titans run of Perez and Wolfman, Dodson had a different influence: the Teen Titans and Teen Titans Go! animated series.

The cartoon series “simplified the characters down to just to their core essence. That was actually the biggest Titans influence on me,” Dodson said.

“If you think about it, more people have seen Teen Titans Go! than have read the comic. You think about the millions of kids that have watched it everyday on TV, that’s a great way to connect with a lot of people outside of regular comics.”

Dodson, like Lemire, also enjoyed the creative freedom that came with

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And so it happens, after which Ramses discovers the truth about his surrogate brother: Moses is Hebrew, and therefore he’s exiled. Moses settles into banishment pretty well, marrying a nice lady and fathering a son.

He becomes a shepherd. But it doesn’t last. During a horrific mountaintop storm, he witnesses the burning bush and the angry god-child, and realizes he must save his kinsmen from slavery and deliver them to the promised land of Canaan.

Among the movie’s myriad prob-

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Birdman squawked loudest in the Golden Globes nominations, flying away with a leading seven nods including best picture in the comedy or musical category.

In nominations for the 72 annual Golden Globes announced Thursday morning by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, Boyhood and The Imitation Game trailed with five nods apiece. Those two films led a best drama category that also included Foxcatcher, Selma and The Theory of Everything.

In the best picture, comedy or musical, category, Birdman was joined by St. Vincent, Grand Budapest Hotel, Into the Woods and — in a surprise — the independent British film Pride.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s Birdman, or (The Unexpected Virtue or Ignorance), in which Michael Keaton plays a Hollywood star trying to mount a serious drama on Broadway, earned nods for Keaton and supporting players Edward Norton and Emma Stone, as well as for its direction, screenplay and score.

Richard Linklater’s long-in-the-making coming-ofage drama Boyhood, thus far the critical darling and the perceived front-runner of Hollywood’s awards season, added nominations for Linklater’s direction and script, and supporting actors Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette.

The Second World War code breaker drama The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch as mathematician Alan Turing, also went over well with the HFPA. In addition to its best picture nod, the Weinstein Co. release won nods for Cumberbatch as best actor, Keira Knightley for best supporting actress, Graham Moore for best screenplay and Alexandre Desplat for best score.

The other nominees for best actor in a drama were Steve Carell (Foxcatcher), David Oyelowo (Selma) and Jake Gyllenhaal (Nightcrawler) and Eddie Redmayne (The Theory of Everything).

“I’ve been a bit frantic,” said Redmayne, who plays Stephen Hawking in the film, on the phone from London. “I’m trying to finish all my Christmas Photo by ADVOCATE news services shopping in a day, and now I got this phone call. I’m Michael Keaton plays a Hollywood star trying to mount a serious drama on Broadway in Birdman, or (The about to have a few mulled wines to celebrate.”

Most of the awards season favourites were re- Unexpected Virtue or Ignorance). In addition to being nominated in the best picture in the comedy and warded with decent showings Thursday, though musical category, the film earned nods for Keaton and supporting players Edward Norton and Emma Stone, some hopefuls failed to break through. Most notably, Angelina Jolie’s Second World War drama Unbro- as well as for its direction, screenplay and score. ken yielded no nominations at all. Clint Eastwood’s honours from the New York Film Critics Circle and American Sniper, starring Bradley Cooper as Navy the Los Angeles Film Critics Association.

SEAL Chris Kyle, also went unnoticed. Christopher But support has also been strong for Birdman, Nolan’s sci-fi epic Interstellar landed only a nomination for Hans Zimmer’s score. nominations went to The Affair, Downton Abbey, Game which topped the Gotham Independent Awards.

In the best actress category, the young Quven- of Thrones, The Good Wife and House of Cards. The On Wednesday, the Screen Actors Guild — a strong zhane Wallis (Annie) joined a battery of veteran per- nominees for best TV comedy series are: Girls, Jane predictor of the Academy Awards since its memberformers in Julianne Moore (Maps to the Stars), Helen the Virgin, Orange is the New Black, Silicon Valley, and ships overlap a lot — nominated the ensemble casts of Birdman, Boyhood, The Imitation Game, The Theory Mirren (The Hundred-Foot Journey), Amy Adams (Big Transparent.

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REBNE Eilert April 9, 1927 - Dec. 6. 2014 Born in Duchess, AB, Eilert farmed near Brooks where he met Jessie, a nurse at the Brooks hospital. Following marriage and the arrival of their children, they moved to Lacombe in 1959 where they operated Tall Pine TV and Radio for 29 years. Tall Pine provided area residents with TV’s, including the first color sets, vinyl records, cassette tapes and satellite dishes, with technicians to repair those TV’s plus Eilert did house calls in the evenings. The store was also the scene of spontaneous jam sessions when a musician or two arrived. Eilert is survived by his wife of 63 years, Jessie, son Douglas (Nguyet) of Brussels, Belgium, granddaughter Chandra of Dublin, Ireland, and grandson Sydney at University in South Bend, Indiana; and by his daughter Donna Polutnik (Rick) and grandsons Ross of Vancouver and David of Red Deer. Eilert may be best known around Lacombe as the old time fiddler who shared his love of music and entertained with his gentle humor and funloving ways. He expanded his musical energies to the meticulous restoration of violins and re-hairing of bows, and, of course, the annual Lacombe Fiddler’s Jamboree. Eilert enjoyed the challenge of all kinds of repairs and of finding a better way to do something, which led to his nick name “Mr. Fix It”. An Eilert-built project took time, but was always well thought out and crafted with great pride. Eilert was a longtime member of the Lacombe Flying Club, Kozy Korner Seniors Centre, and the L.A. Vintage Machinery Club - a solid John Deere man! He enjoyed contributing his energy and expertise, be it mechanical, musical, sound systems, or whatever needed doing. No matter what Eilert was involved in, he loved a good conversation. He was both a storyteller and a good listener. His quick-witted humor always gave his listeners a laugh, and he said laughter made the day good! A service of remembrance will be held at St. Andrew’s United Church in Lacombe, AB on Saturday, December 13, 2014 at 2:00 p.m. If desired, donations in memory of Eilert may be made to the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Alberta, #202, 5913 - 50 Ave, Red Deer, AB T4N 4C4. Condolences can be sent to the family at eilert.1927@gmail.com

DE CASTRO Antonio Wilfredo Antonio Wilfredo of Red Deer passed away peacefully in his sleep at Extendicare December 7th, 2014 at the age of 62 years. He was born in Bangar LaUnion, Philippines, then moved to Canada in 1990. He is survived by his mother Amelia de Castro, siblings Evelyn de Castro, Madelyn Raguirdin (Rolly), Rose Capalaran (Rogel), Cecilia Calera (Juan), Josefa Naparan (Ven), and Rocky de Castro, as well as sistersin-law Nena and Luz de Castro and numerous nephews and nieces. Antonio was predeceased by his father Pedro de Castro and siblings Reynaldo de Castro, Leonard de Castro, and Natividad de Castro.

Very special thanks goes to Dr. Badenhors, Dr. Odendaal, and all the nurses and staff at the Red Deer Hospital, Unit 32 and Michener Extendicare. A Prayer Service will be held at Eventide Funeral Chapel, 4820-45 Street, Red Deer, on Monday, December 15, 2014 at 7:00 p.m. A Funeral Mass will take place at St. Mary’s Catholic Church, 6 McMillan Avenue, Red Deer, on Tuesday, December 16, 2014 at 11:00 a.m. Interment will follow at Alto Reste Cemetery. Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com.

Arrangements entrusted to EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL 4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer.

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DOUGLAS Rose Douglas passed away at home on December 7, 2014. Rose was born Feb 18, 1932 at Pine Lake AB. She attended Red Deer Composite High School and then the University of Alberta where she received her teacher’s training. Rose taught school at Little Red Deer, Cottonwood, Fairbank and Bellgrove schools. Rose and Smiley were married at Pine Lake on August 28, 1953 and later moved to the farm in the Howell’s Lake District. Rose was passionate about her family, gardening, art and her community. Rose was once the recipient of the County Garden Award. She loved painting and spent many hours as a member of the Innisfail Art Council. She was also active in compiling community history books with her colleagues at the ElnoraPine Lake History Book Association. Rose was also a key organizer of the Pine Lake Community Fair. Left to cherish Rose’s memory is her husband Smiley and their four children Smiley Jr. (Lynne), Paddy (Karin), Garry, and Bonny (Ken), 7 grandchildren and 9 great grandchildren.

She will also be lovingly remembered by her sister, Winnifred MacFadyen.

Rose was predeceased by her brother Ed Beckingsale and her sister Jean Jones. A private funeral service is being held with a Celebration of Rose’s life to follow early in 2015.

Memorial donations may be made to the Holy Trinity Anglican Church at Pine Lake or the Heart and Stroke Foundation. Heartland Funeral Services Ltd., Innisfail entrusted with arrangements.

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GREGORY Edward Hugh Gregory (Eddy) Born March 13, 1954 passed peacefully in his home November 25th 2014 at the age of 60. Survived By siblings Linda, Gerald, Debra, and children Tara, Jasmine, Edward, Rossanna, Cameron, Katherine, Stephen, Erin, and Kelly.

SONDROL, Johanna (Jo) 1940 - 2014 Mrs. Johanna Sondrol of Lacombe passed away peacefully at Lacombe Community Health Care Centre on Monday, December 8, 2014 at the age of 74. Jo was born June 12, 1940 on the farm near Cabri, Saskatchewan. She married Denis Sondrol on January 30, 1960. Jo was a dedicated wife, loving mother and wonderful grandmother.

She always enjoyed visits from her children and grandchildren and in the past few years she celebrated the joys of having greatgrandchildren. Jo will be lovingly remembered by her husband of fifty-four years, Denis; her children Larry Sondrol (Eileen) of Airdrie, Laura Lee Dick (Bob) of Lacombe, Melinda Wade (Eric) of Red Deer, Rhonda Sondrol (Frank) of London, Ontario and Monique Robitaille of Lacombe; her grandchildren Lacy Fouston (Andrew), Justin Sondrol (Kenzie), Tyson Doonan, Patti Dick, Brittany Dick (Frazer), Brandon Dick (Kayla), Meagan Wade (Nathan), Tea Bos and Allan Zulerons and greatgrandchildren Embur, Ollie, Gracie, Braxton and Lily. She will also be sadly missed by her sister Marcia Cunningham (Ed) of Regina, brother Mick Bos (Darlene) of Cabri, sister in-law Lynn Bos of Cabri and all of her nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her mother Wilhelmina Hoogeveen, her father William Bos, her brother Bill Bos Jr. and stepfather Wilbur Hoogeveen.

Relatives and friends are invited to a celebration of Jo’s life at Wilson’s Funeral Chapel, 6120 Highway 2A Lacombe on Monday, December 15, 2014 at 1:00 pm. In lieu of flowers, donations to the Alberta Lung Association, PO Box 4700 STN South, Edmonton, AB. T6E 9Z6 or the Cabri, Saskatchewan Cemetery or your charity of choice are appreciated. Expressions of sympathy may be made by visiting www.wilsonsfuneralchapel.ca WILSON’S FUNERAL CHAPEL & CREMATORIUM, of Lacombe and Rimbey in charge of the arrangements.

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WOWK Doris Doris Wowk, beloved wife, mother and grandmother passed away peacefully surrounded by her loved ones on Saturday, December 6, 2014 at the age of 88 years. Doris (nee Hutzul) was born November 25, 1926 at Theodore, Saskatchewan to parents Peter and Lena Hutzul. She was the youngest of three children and had a brother Steve and sister Phelia.

Doris will live on in our hearts as a generous and devoted wife, mother, grandmother and friend. She always took care of others before herself.

She loved to make delicious meals and baking for her family and also loved music and dancing. She had a very fun loving spirit and laughter was a common occurrence when Doris was around. Her generosity and fun loving spirit attracted many good friends. She was cherished by her family and many wonderful memories will live on with us. Doris is survived by her devoted husband and soul-mate, Morris Wowk, daughter Sherolyn Dandurand (Paul Kjaer), son-in-law Frank Kosa, daughter-in-law Cheryl Wowk (Mark Waters), grandchildren; Elise Dandurand, Ryan Dandurand (Heather Byun), Andrea Kosa (Dale Goehring), Brennen Wowk (Megan Maclurr), Logan Wowk and great-granddaughters; Cali and Lainey Kosa Goehring and Ella Dandurand. She was predeceased by her beloved children; Valerie Kosa and Gary Wowk, and granddaughter Elan Kosa. A Celebration of Doris’ Life will be held at Eventide Funeral Chapel, 4820-45 Street, Red Deer, on Friday, December 19, 2014 at 2:00 p.m. The family would like to thank all the health care workers at Bethany Care Center for their diligent and compassionate care.

The family also thanks extended family and friends for their love and support over the years. Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com.

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HALLET Bill (Wayne William) 1955 - 2014 It is with great sadness and heavy hearts that we announce the sudden passing of our brother, Bill at Red Deer, Alberta on Monday, December 8, 2014 at the age of 59 years. Bill was predeceased by his mother, “Mac” Hallet in 1984 and his father, Ed Hallet in 2007. Bill will be lovingly remembered by his brother, Terry (Debbie) Hallet of Calgary, five sisters, Joanne (Elton) Kelln of Sherwood Park, Louise (Donald) Lee of Peace River, Carol (Rick) Severson and Laura (Graham) Moore of Red Deer, and Valerie Hallet (Barry Singua) of Edmonton.

He will also be sadly missed by his sixteen nieces and nephews, as well as numerous great nieces and nephews. A Celebration of Bill’s Life will be held at Parkland Funeral Home and Crematorium, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer, Alberta on Monday, December 15, 2014 at 11:00 a.m.

Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com.

Arrangements in care of Maryann Hansen, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer.

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KLANKE 1934 - 2014 Sybren Klanke of Red Deer, Alberta went to be with his Lord and Savior on December 9th, 2014 at the age of 80 years. Born in the Netherlands in 1958, Sybren immigrated to Canada in 1959, and spent most of his life in Red Deer. He will be remembered for his commitment to his family, his dedication to his various jobs, his artistic creativity, his love of God and nature, and his helpfulness to others. Sybren will be lovingly remembered by his wife and best friend, Gerda (nee Houweling); his adoring children Jola (Steve), Jacqueline (Richard), Ann (Robert), Bruce (Lita) and by his 13 grandchildren and 9 great grandchildren. He is also survived by two brothers, Bert and Theo, and two sisters, Elly and Tine, as well as other extended family who are living in the Netherlands.

Special thanks to the wonderful staff and caregivers of Red Deer Regional Hospital, Clearwater Centre in Rocky Mountain House, and Villa Marie Covenant Care. A Memorial Service will be held at the CrossRoads Church, located at the SW Corner of 32 Street and Highway 2, Red Deer, Alberta on Monday, December 15, 2014 at 1:00 p.m.. Those attending the service are requested to use the north east Chapel entrance. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be directed to Central Alberta Pregnancy Care Centre, 4610 - 48 Ave, Red Deer, AB T4N 3S9. Condolences to Sybren’s family may be emailed to meaningfulmemorials @yahoo.ca.

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NICHOLSON Eileen 1922 - 2014 The family of Eileen Nicholson of Red Deer sadly announce her passing on Tuesday, December 9, 2014 at the age of 92 years.

Eileen was a loving mother, grandmother and great grandmother who will be greatly missed. She is survived by her son, Ken (Loretta Colleen) of Sherwood Park, her daughter, Fay Giffen of Red Deer, seven grandchildren and eleven great grandchildren. She was predeceased by her youngest son, Allan Nicholson. Eileen requested that there be a family graveside service only.

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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

to implement, manage & enhance our existing safety program. Fax resume and references to 403-343-1248 or email admin@shunda.ca.

Celebrate your life with a Classified ANNOUNCEMENT

Truckers/ Drivers

Start your career!

See Help Wanted

860

CENTRAL AB based trucking company requires

Owner Operators & Contract Drivers

in AB. Home the odd night.

Weekends off. Late model tractor pref. 403-586-4558 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

Daytime, Evening, FT & PT Shifts Available Apply by: Fax: (403) 341-3820 or in person at Downtown KFC 4834-53 St., Red Deer

Ph: 780-468-3232 or 403-290-0866

Misc.

Help

880

$$$ EARN $$$ $$ EXTRA MONEY $$

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

WINTER START GED Preparation

PONOKA Publication date: WEDNESDAY DEC. 24 Deadline is: Wed. Dec. 17 @ 5 p.m.

Publication date: WEDNESDAY DEC. 31 Deadline is: Mon. Dec. 22 @ 5 p.m.

Would you like to take the GED in your community?

• • • • • • • • • •

Red Deer Rocky Mtn. House Rimbey Caroline Castor Sylvan Lake Innisfail Stettler Ponoka Lacombe Gov’t of Alberta Funding may be available.

403-340-1930 www.academicexpress.ca

DAIRY equipment supplier looking for GENERAL LABORERS & WELDERS Competitive wages and benefits package. E-mail resume: info@prolineinc.ca

RIMBEY Publication date; TUESDAY DEC. 23 Wed. Dec. 17 @5 p.m.

Publication date: TUESDAY DEC. 30 Deadline is: Mon. Dec. 22 @ 5 p.m.

STETTLER & WEEKENDER

Publication date: WED. DEC. 24 FRI. DEC. 26 Deadline is: Wed. Dec. 17 @ 5 p.m.

Publication date: WED. DEC. 31 FRI. JAN. 2 Deadline is: Fri. Dec. 19 @ 5 p.m.

classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com wegotads.ca

Revenue between $24,000 - $120,000 Initial cash required as low as $6,000 In Business for over 20 years *Guaranteed Cleaning Contracts Incl. *Training Incl. *Ongoing Office Support

ADULT EDUCATION AND TRAINING

CENTRAL AB LIFE Publication date: THURSDAY DEC. 25 Deadline is: Fri. Dec. 19 @ 5 p.m.

Publication Date: THURSDAY JAN. 1 Deadline is: Wed. Dec. 24 @ 11:00 a.m.

Have a safe & happy holiday CLASSIFIEDS 403-309-3300

START YOUR OWN COMMERCIAL CLEANING BUSINESS

ACADEMIC Express

RED DEER ADVOCATE Publication dates: FRIDAY DEC. 26 SATURDAY DEC. 27 MONDAY DEC. 29 Deadline is: Wed. Dec. 24 at 11:00 a.m.

Castor Publication Date: THUR. DEC. 25 Deadline: Wed. Dec. 17 @ 5 p.m.

NO PAPER JAN. 1

870

Seeking mature individuals with car or small truck 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

OFFICE & PHONES CLOSED AT NOON WED. DEC. 24 CLOSED CHRISTMAS DAY CLOSED BOXING DAY

Bashaw Publication date: WED. DEC. 24 Deadline is: Thur. Dec. 18 @ Noon NO PAPER ON DEC. 31

Business Opportunities

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.

CLASSIFIEDS CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY Hours & Deadlines

SYLVAN LAKE NEWS & ECKVILLE ECHO Publication date: THURSDAY DEC. 25 Deadline is: Tues. Dec. 16 @ 4 p.m.

Publication date: THURSDAY JAN. 1 Deadline is: Mon. Dec. 22 @ 5 p.m.

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

Looking for a new pet?

Check out Classifieds to find the purrfect pet.

489417L12-A2

Deep are the memories precious they stay.

No passing of time can take them away.

Quietly today her memory we treasure, missing her always, forgetting her never.

Your loving family.

www.rdpsd.ab.ca

requires a

Safety Coordinator

DELIVERY DRIVERS

PAYROLL AND BENEFITS SPECIALIST For more information visit our website

SHUNDA CONSTRUCTION

489418L12-A2

ST. GERMAIN

In loving memory of Ida December 12, 1998

Tell Everyone with a Classified Announcement

CELEBRATIONS HAPPEN EVERY DAY IN CLASSIFIEDS

860

HALLCON is seeking qualified drivers to transport rail crews throughout Red Deer area.

Drivers are ideally based out of RED DEER. No overnight stays required.

This position is an on call position. Employees are responsible for taking trips during the period they have designated themselves available to do so. Transportation is done in Hallcon company vehicles. Vehicles are extensively & consistently maintained ensuring optimal safety for drivers and clients. Drivers must possess valid Class 1, 2, or 4 license, with clean driver abstract. Assisted licensing upgrade to achieve a class 4 is available. Pay is based at a rate of $16.00. Earning potential is based on your availability, as our operation runs on a 24/7 on call basis. Both full time and part time employees are welcome. Semiretired, retired, full time, part time employees are welcome. Forward resumes & current driver abstract: Shane Flack asmabnorth@gmail.com.

KFC requires

489077L12

In Memoriam

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

Truckers/ Drivers

820

Invites applications for the position of:

Just had a baby boy?

850

Trades

437627L20

Restaurant/ Hotel

Trades

DRIVER REQ’D FOR DELIVERY OF NEW APPLS. IN RED DEER AREA. MAPLE LEAF MOVING Call 403-347-8826 or fax resume to: 403-314-1457.

850

Requires a Red Seal

Journeyman Heavy Duty Mechanic Our Fleet: • Kenworth, Freightliner, Peterbilt and GMC • Wabash & Advance trailers Your duties are: • Maintaining fleet vehicles (not tanks or plumbing) • Perform A & B services • Tracking shop inventory (fluids, filters etc) • Recording repair information on work orders We offer: • Very competitive wages, flexible hours, extensive health & dental plan

Please send your resume to Dean@haulinacid.com or call 403-391-8004

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Obituaries

800

Oilfield

464178K3

announcements

RED DEER ADVOCATE Friday, Dec. 12, 2014 D5

D6 RED DEER ADVOCATE Friday, Dec. 12, 2014

Hiring for busy season.

Holiday-break work sched. available for students.

Flexible PT and FT sched. with $17.25 guaranteed base pay, cust. sales/service, no experience necessary, we will train, conditions apply. Visit www.work4students.ca/rda or call 403-755-6711 to secure a position. Start dates for Nov/Dec. Start your career!

See Help Wanted

UFA/BAR W

has an opening for:

WAREHOUSE SHIPPER/RECEIVER The successful candidate will have warehouse experience, preferably with electrical and mechanical background as well as forklift exp. Strong computer skills is an asset.

Please fax resumes to 403-347-9301 or email: administration @barwpetroleum.com

Employment Training

900

SAFETY

TRAINING CENTRE OILFIELD TICKETS

Industries #1 Choice!

“Low Cost” Quality Training

403.341.4544

24 Hours Toll Free 1.888.533.4544

R H2S Alive (ENFORM) R First Aid/CPR R Confined Space R WHMIS & TDG R Ground Disturbance R (ENFORM) D&C B.O.P. R D&C (LEL) #204, 7819 - 50 Ave. (across from Totem) (across from Rona North)

wegot

stuff

Electronics

1605

1500-1990

1660

FIREWOOD, Spruce & Pine. North of Costco 403-346-7178, 392-7754

1630

TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, office, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.

Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds

For More Information, Please call Prodie 403-314-4301 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.

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

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

CARRIERS REQUIRED

900

Employment Training

To deliver the

CENTRAL AB LIFE & LACOMBE EXPRESS

ENROLL TODAY!

1 day a week in:

Classes Starting Soon!

LACOMBE BLACKFALDS

Medical Office Assistant / Unit Clerk

Please call Rick for details 403-314-4303

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

CARRIERS REQUIRED To deliver the CENTRAL AB LIFE 1 day a week in: INNISFAIL Penhold Olds Sylvan Lake

2965 Bremner Avenue, Red Deer

www.academyoflearning.ab.ca

Advocate Opportunities

477399L16

Call Today (403) 347-6676

Please call Debbie for details 403-314-4307

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

ADULT Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the

Johnstone Crossing Jenner Cres. & Judd Cl.

RED DEER ADVOCATE

WESTPARK & WESTLAKE

Monday through Saturday.

Delivery to be done before 6:30 am.

Reliable vehicle needed.

NORMANDEAU

DOWNTOWN AREA $697./mo PARKVALE AREA $484./mo.

DEERPARK AREA Dixon Cres, Donnelly Cres, Duston St. area $482.00/mo.

Deschner Close, Dubois Cres., Doherty Close, Duston St. and area. $327.00/mo.

Dempsey St., Dodge Ave, Donlevy Ave area $327.00/mo.

Dowler St., Daniel Cres. Dawe Cl., Dunham Close and area $412.00/mo.

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

Nash St. & Neville Close ALSO Northy Ave. For more information or to apply call Joanne at the Red Deer Advocate 403-314-4308 CARRIERS NEEDED FOR FLYERS, FRIDAY FORWARD & EXPRESS

3 days per week, no weekends ROUTES IN:

ANDERS AREA Abbot Close/Allan St. Addinell Close/Allan St. Adamson Ave/Arthur Close Alwright Close Anderson Close Anquetel Close BOWER AREA Brown Close/Barrett Drive Baile Close

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Friday Forward ONLY 3 DAYS A WEEK in DOWNTOWN AREA South East Downtown and Parkvale area $212.28 mo.

DEER PARK AREA Dixon Cres. $100.20/mo.

Dunning Cres, Cl., and Depalme St. plus 3 blocks of Douglas Ave. $136.24/mo.

GRANDVIEW AREA 4400 Block of 41A Ave., 4000 Block of 46 + 47 St. Area.

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

1720

Household Furnishings

2190

rentals

WANTED

With only 64 papers, approximately: $350.00/mo.

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

TRAVEL ALBERTA Alberta offers SOMETHING for everyone.

Make your travel plans now.

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MORRISROE 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.

NEW LIZ AREN NY, 1 red croc. make-up bag. c/w 12 eyeshadows, 2 blush, 1 nail polish, 1 lip gloss. $195 value, asking $50.

Would make a great Christmas gift.

403-227-2976

1900

Travel Packages

2 DUSTY ROSE AGRICULTURAL upholstered arm chairs, 1 rocker, 1 recliner, CLASSIFICATIONS $60/ea. or both for $90.

2000-2290 Will deliver in town; ROASTER, electric, large aluminum, $20; Super GT Grain, Feed Now Offering Hotter, Cleaner snow racer, foot brakes & Hay steering wheel, exc. cond., BC Birch. All Types. P.U. / 6 wooden toboggan, Delivery. Lyle 403-783-2275 LARGE round straw bales. both for $75. $20 loaded. Can Supply 403-348-6449 You can sell your guitar Trucking. 403-340-9111 for a song...

MOVING TO LODGE, or put it in CLASSIFIEDS House and entire contents. and we’ll sell it for you!

Low maint., close to senior citizens’ bus route. Avail.

Immed. 4611 44 ST. Monte Keith 403-314-9759

Adult Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the RED DEER ADVOCATE

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)

1700

Health & Beauty

LOGS X-BOX, 5 games, $50; WII, Semi loads of pine, spruce, 7 games, $120. tamarack, poplar.

403-782-3847 Price depends on location.

Lil Mule Logging Equipment403-318-4346

Advocate Opportunities

CLASSIFICATIONS

Firewood

AFFORDABLE TWO baby dolls, rooted hair, blonde, eyes, few Homestead Firewood clothes, $20 for all; LEAP- Spruce & Pine -Split. Firepits STER 2 with 3 games, avail. 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472 good condition, $20.

403-314-9603 Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY

Heavy

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

880

Misc.

Help

1580

Children's Items

PLAY STATION 1 with 12 games, $80. 403-782-3847

278950A5

880

Misc.

Help

INGLEWOOD AREA

Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514

1730

Stereos TV's, VCRs

SONY 60 disc stereo, $100. 403-782-3847

1740

Hot Tubs & Accessories

BEACHCOMBER hot tub cover, blue, 80” x 87”, used 2 years indoors, excellent condition, $199 OBO, text: 403.505.7678

1760

Misc. for Sale

1 BOX of tv items, Shaw Direct Motorola receiver HD DSR 605 Dolby, Starchoice receiver, Panasonic PV 8400 4 head VHS, 5 remotes, cable hookups, a steal at $25; 3 round battery clocks 9 1/2” quartz $3/ea, clothes dryer rack, adjustable arms 21 1/2” across 43” high $12; swivel wall mount lamp, beige $7; 5 sets of metal book ends, beige and tan $6/set, 2 Rubbermaid rough neck storage totes, stacking 53L, (24x16x12.5) $6/ea, Sterilite storage tote 20 1/2x14x12 $5 403-314-2026 8 PLACE Christmas dish set $40; love seat, good cond, $60 403-343-6218 BLUE blanket, 96” x 90”; 5 toss cushions (2 light pink, 2 rose, 1 blue), $20 for all.

403-314-9603 CHRISTMAS Tree, Blue Spruce, 4’. LIVE in ground.

Not yet cut, Perfect tree for small space. $40. obo 403-227-2976 DUVET COVER, Navy, King sz., like new $30.

403-346-2070 RHINSTONE necklace and earrings to match from the 1950’s, A1 cond. $75; large fruit bowl grape design $10. approx. 30 peacock feathers $1/ea. 403-346-2231 SNOWBLOWER, Poulan, 30”, 291cc, elec. start, used about 8 hrs. Purchased 2013. ***SOLD*** WESTERN books: 70 paperbacks, $50; 7 new hardcover, $5 each; 7 new paperbacks $3 each.

403-309-1737

1810

Pets & Supplies

Vista Village SUNNYBROOK AREA Savoy Cres./Sydney Close Stirling Close Sherwood Cres LANCASTER AREA Lampard Cres Lancaster Drive Long Close Lougheed Close Lyons Close VANIER AREA Vickers Close Vincent Close Viscount Drive Call Prodie @ 403- 314-4301 for more info **********************

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

3020

Houses/ Duplexes

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

Hpman.ca 4 BDRM. 2 1/2 bath, 5 appls, garage $1695 mo.

403-782-7156 or 357-7465 SYLVAN LAKE: fully furnished, inclds dishes, bedding, 50” tv, utils.

Avail. Now! $1200.

403-880-0210.

Condos/ Townhouses

3030

ADULT 2 BDRM. spacious suites 3 appls., heat/water incld., Oriole Park.

Mike 403-350-1620 403-986-6889 LARGE, 1 & 2 BDRM. SUITES. 25+, adults only n/s, no pets 403-346-7111 NEWLY RENOVATED 1 & 2 bedroom suites available in central location. Heat & water included. Cat friendly.

86 Bell Street, Red Deer leasing@rentmidwest.com 1(888) 679-8031

THE NORDIC

1 bdrm. adult building, N/S. No pets.

403-596-2444

AVAIL Immed: 1 lrg fully furn bedroom for rent includes gas frpl - $300 dd $600/mth. Working or Student male only Call 403-396-2468 FULLY Furn. BDRM. $500 rent/sd 403-342-4604

3190

Mobile Lot

SOUTHWOOD PARK 3110-47TH Avenue, 2 & 3 bdrm. townhouses, generously sized, 1 1/2 baths, fenced yards, full bsmts. 403-347-7473, Sorry no pets. www.greatapartments.ca

4 Plexes/ 6 Plexes

3050

ORIOLE PARK

Gorgeous 2 storey 1700 sq. ft. 3 bdrm., 2 1/2 bath, master bath has a spa atmosphere 5 pc. ensuite, bonus room, indoor/outdoor fireplace, front porch, too many upgrades to mention. A must see! $399,500 incds. GST, legal fees, appls. pkg, and front sod entry. To view call Lloyd Fiddler 403-391-9294

FREE Weekly list of properties for sale w/details, prices, address, owner’s phone #, etc. 342-7355 Help-U-Sell of Red Deer www.homesreddeer.com

MOVE IN TODAY

1550 sq. ft. bi-level w/dbl. att. garage $499,900 403-588-2550

Condos/ Townhouses

4040

OPEN HOUSE SAT. & SUN. 1-5 639 OAK ST. Springbrook 403-588-2550

Businesses For Sale

4140 4160

Sale

Housesitting Wanted

3300

MATURE ADULT willing to house sit 403-506-7175.

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BUILDERS. Duplex and single family lots for sale.

Terms available 10% down and start to build. Located in Lacombe. Buy direct from developer 403-396-1094 PERMIT ready duplex lots Lacombe 403-348-1262

homes CLASSIFICATIONS 4000-4190

Realtors & Services

4010

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wheels CLASSIFICATIONS 5000-5300

5030

Cars

~ Westpark

~ Kitson Close ~ Kyte & Kelloway Cres. ~ Holmes St. S.D. $1000 Rent $1245 to $1445 3 bdrm. townhouses, 1.5 bath, 4 & 5 appls., blinds, lrg. balconies, no dogs.

N/S, no utils. incl.

Avail. immed. & Jan. 1 References required.

CHRISTMAS Special RISER HOMES No payments for 3 months!

PADS $450/mo.

Brand new park in Lacombe. FLOWER Art & Gifts Store Sylvan Lake. 587-377-2023 Spec Mobiles. 3 Bdrm., 2 bath. As Low as $75,000.

Down payment $4000. Call Lots For at anytime. 403-588-8820

SEIBEL PROPERTY

www.seibelprperty.com Ph: 403-304-7576 or 403-347-7545 6 locations in Red Deer ~ Halman Heights ~ Riverfront Estates

3090

Rooms For Rent

4020

Houses For Sale

BMW X5 39,000 kms., AWD, 6 cyl. auto., A/C, heated leather, keyless ignition. Mint! 403-346-5718

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

4020

Christmas Special LAST ONE! RISER HOMES NO PAYMENTS FOR 3 MONTHS!

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.

Suites Prices includes legal fees, GST, appliances, sod & tree.

GLENDALE reno’d 2 bdrm. apartments, avail. immed, Classifieds...costs so little rent $875 403-596-6000 Saves you so much!

3 bdrm., 1-1/2 bath, $1175. rent, s.d. $650, incl water sewer and garbage. Avail.

Jan 1st. 403-304-5337

3060

2005 MERCEDES C230 136,000 kms. exc. cond. loaded. $8900.

403-886-5696 2001 Chev Malibu, 4 dr.

134,000 kms. 403-352-6995 1999 BUICK Regal, 4 dr., grey leather. 403-352-6995 You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!

5190

Auto Wreckers

RED’S AUTO. Free Scrap Vehicle & Metal Removal.

AMVIC APPROVED. We travel. May pay cash for vehicle. 403-396-7519

2 AQUARIUMS/CRITTER CAGE - NO LEAKS. 20 gallon Hartz in box c/w hood light. $35.

5 Gallon, $15.

AQUARIUM GRAVEL - 10 lbs (new), white, $10.

OR all 3 for $50.

403-227-2976

1830 Daily

Cats

2 BALINESE KITTENS 1 SNOWSHOE SIAMESE 3 BURMAN $25/ea. 403-887-3649 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

1840

Dogs

PB Shih Tzu 10 wks. old, serious inquiries only, 403-347-7472

1860

Sporting Goods

The Red Deer Advocate Daily The publishes Red Deer Advocate advertisements from companies and corporations and associations from across Canada seeking personnel for long term placements.

SKIS, 205 Mega Sport Tyrolia, and boots Sz. 10, Memo Salomon. $40. ea. or both for $70.

403-346-2070

wegotservices CLASSIFICATIONS

Illingworth Close Ingram Close Iverson Close Isbister Close MORRISROE AREA

CLASSIFICATIONS

FOR RENT • 3000-3200 WANTED • 3250-3390

3060

Suites

1000-1430

To Advertise Your Business or Service Here

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

Accounting

1010

INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp. with oilfield service companies, other small businesses and individuals RW Smith, 346-9351 Central Alberta’s Largest Car Lot in Classifieds

Contractors

1100

BRIDGER CONST. LTD. We do it all! 403-302-8550 DALE’S Home Reno’s Free estimates for all your reno needs. 403-506-4301 RMD RENOVATIONS Bsmt’s, flooring, decks, etc.

Call Roger 403-348-1060

Escorts

1165

Massage Therapy

1280

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

VII MASSAGE #7,7464 Gaetz Ave. Pampering at its Massage BEST! Therapy 403-986-6686 2nd. location in CHINESE massage theraCalgary coming py. Direct bill. Gift card.

Dec. 1.

403-986-1691 4606-48 Ave www.viimassage.com

1280

FANTASY SPA

International ladies Elite Retreat, finest in VIP treatment. 10-2am Private back entry.

403-341-4445 ********** MASSAGE ABOVE ALL WALK-INS WELCOME 4709 Gaetz Ave. 346-1161

Misc.

Services

1290

5* JUNK REMOVAL

Property clean up 340-8666 GARAGE DOOR SERVICE. Save 50%. All yard & bobcat services, junk/tree/snow removal. 403-358-1614

Misc.

Services

1290

SNOW blowing, junk/metal p/u, odd jobs 403-885-5333

Painters/ Decorators

1310

JG PAINTING, 25 yrs. exp.

Free Est. 403-872-8888 Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds

Seniors’ Services

1372

HELPING HANDS

Home Supports for Seniors.

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

RED DEER ADVOCATE Friday, Dec. 12, 2014 D7

FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE

HI & LOIS

PEANUTS

BLONDIE

HAGAR

BETTY

PICKLES

GARFIELD

LUANN Dec. 12 1989 — CP Rail runs its first regular freight train through 14.5-km Mount MacDonald Tunnel near Revelstoke B.C., the longest rail tunnel in the Americas.

1968 — Harry Edwin Strom takes office as Social Credit premier of Alberta, succeeding Ernest C. Manning.

1901 — Guglielmo Marconi sends and receives first transatlantic radio message on

Signal Hill 3,200 km away across Atlantic from Poldhu, Cornwall. The first transatlantic wireless test signal is heard as the faint clicking of Morse code — of the letter ‘S’ repeated over and over. Four days later, Marconi will be officially notified by the Anglo-American Telegraph Company that it will take legal action against him unless he immediately ceases his wireless experiments and removes his equipment from Newfoundland.

1883 — Canadian Pacific Railway crews digging for water strike natural gas at Langevin, west of present-day Medicine Hat.

ARGYLE SWEATER

RUBES

TODAY IN HISTORY

TUNDRA

SUDOKU Complete the grid so that every row, every column and 3x3 box contains every digit from 1 through 9.

SHERMAN‛S LAGOON

Solution

BOOKS

D8

FRIDAY, DEC. 12, 2014

Punishment not best effort from MacIntyre Punishment

By Linden MacIntyre $32 Random House Linden MacIntyre is the author of a trilogy, which includes The Bishops Man, the book which won the Scotia Banks’s Giller Prize.

He is also a broadcast journalist and the co-host of The Fifth Estate on TV. We know he can write, but this book is not his best.

Tony Breau is a correcPEGGY tions officer at Kingston FREEMAN Penitentiary. The year is 2000. An inmate is murdered in a scuffle that gets out of hand, Guards watch the fight escalate, but have orders not to get involved.

The prison population is reduced by one bad guy and it seems that only Tony thinks it could have been handled differently.

He tells what he knows to the officials, and becomes unemployable in the prison system. Those he “reported” were demoted and he was no longer safe in the work setting.

In his capacity as a corrections officer, he has been counselling a young man from his home town of St. Ninian’s in Nova Scotia, named Dwayne Strickland.

Every small town has a Dwayne Strickland: young, good looking, cocky and clever. In minor trouble as a young man, and barely skirting the law as he grew

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up. Tony and his wife Anna, a lawyer, both believe the young man’s life can be turned around.

Back in St. Ninian’s, a young girl is found in the home of Strickland, dead of a drug overdose.

The girl was a good student, a promising youngster, and the town has had enough.

Following his “retirement” and a separation from his wife, Tony returns to the small house back in St. Ninian’s. He is reacquainted with many of his childhood friends, including his first love, Caddy; Neil McInnis, a bully from school days, and a whole host of good ol’ boys and girls who hang out at the Corner Store.

This is the time of the Gulf War and the capture of Hussein. The Corner Store is crowded with experts.

The young girl found at Dwayne’s house is the granddaughter of Caddy, which pulls Tony into attendance at court. The hearing finds that there is not enough evidence against Strickland to have him charged.

Some people in the town want to take the law into their own hands.

Everyone harbours secrets — Tony himself is dripping with integrity, but keeps getting dumped on.

I began to hope that Tony would just move away and leave them all to it.

This book rounds out over 400 pages, with lots of heavy thinking and heavier breathing. Some people can write sex scenes and some can’t (just saying).

Lots of alcohol and an unlikely trip to the confessional take us to the end.

There is a small dog named Birch Bark who serves as a fine companion to Tony. But, of course, he too meets a sticky end.

The whole story proves, apparently, that the constabulary and the courts are no better than the crooks. If you buy that, this is your book.

Peggy Freeman is a local freelance books reviewer.

A remarkable story of The Jazz Baroness As a child, she only heard whispers and minimum facts about her great-aunt Pannocia “Nica” Rothschild — the Baroness.

But as Hannah Rothschild grew up, she not only had the opportunity to meet her greataunt Nica (the first time being in an underground New KIRSTEN York jazz club) but she also LOWE produced radio programs and a documentary on Nica that premiered on BBC and HBO titled The Jazz Baroness after Nica’s death.

So why does Hannah go through all this and begin writing a biography on her great-aunt who she barely knew? A great-aunt who is looked down on by the Rothschild family and who, at a certain time, convinced Hannah to drop the project all together?

Because Nica’s story, according to Hannah is an “extraordinary, musical odyssey with melodrama: heiress and suffering artist, the butterfly and the blues, love and madness, and war and death.”

Hannah starts at the very beginning of the Roth-

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Based on an exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum, the book contains several essays and more than 100 luxurious illustrations that trace the history of heels from ancient Greece and Turkey to the modern streets of New York and Paris.

Greek actors used thick-soled cork shoes for greater visibility onstage, and during the Ottoman Empire women used a type of clog for slick bathhouse floors.

That supposedly inspired the chopine of 16th-century Venice, and one delicately embroidered pair from that era shown in the book could still attract attention at a party today.

The book is dominated by pictures of heels from the last 100 years, and designer Pierre Hardy notes a common theme there: “People love a high heel because it is not natural. It is a cultural object connected with seduction, power, and sexuality.”

A pair of Salvatore Ferragamo heels from 1938 is like a happy, colored layer cake for feet, while the Rapaport Brothers’ Satellite Jumping Shoes from 1955 has a pair of springs, presumably to launch the wearer even higher.

There are kinky red leather, thigh-high boots with heels from Paris in the 1920s and the untitled nude “Gaga Shoe” from 2012 that has tiny men clambering up the sides of the shoes.

The images are interspersed with interesting bits of history: According to legend, the men of Louis the XIV’s court used the talon rouge heel as a status symbol, and the trend began when a partying group of noblemen had the heels of their silk shoes stained red from bloody streets near slaughterhouses. But Napoleon and Josephine later frowned on the implied message of higher status from high heels and chose flat-bottom shoes for their official look.

Many of the modern examples are a mix of fashion, art and architecture.

Iris van Herpen’s “Beyond Wilderness” is constructed to look like a black mass of twisted roots, while Roger Vivier’s “Blue Feather Choc” is wildly elegant.

“Killer Heels” is bound to please any fashionista, but men who take a peek may also find the answer to an old question: The book definitively explains why women need so many shoes.

schild dynasty, dating back to the 1700s. It is amazing to read about the famous family and how they left their mark on European history.

Miriam, Liberty and Nica lived a life of royalty — with beautiful mansions, nannies, servants and, when of age, “coming out” balls (Winston Churchill being one of the guests). Yet, although the daughters seem to be living a life of riches and luxuries, behind closed doors it was quite a different story. The girls lived a very protected and, in their words, “boring” life. Their days were run by precise scheduling, and they barely left their home, as if being caged from the outside world.

Nica was the only one of the sisters to marry. She married a man named Jules and had two children with him, but the honeymoon stage only lasted for a couple months before Nica realized she had escaped her childhood cage and stepped foot into another cage.

Jules expected Nica to be the proper wife who entertained guests, accompanied her husband to events and to breed. But everything changed with the outbreak of the Second World War. While Jules was fighting in the Free French Army, Nica took his advice (or demands) and brought their children to America for safety.

Nica was not one to sit around and wait — leaving her children with family friends, she followed her husband and also enlisted in the Free French Army.

Later, whenever asked about her time during the

war, Nica would simply reply, “I fought from Brazzaville to Cairo, from Tunis to Turkey and even got to Germany to see the last days of the Reich.”

Afterwards, Nica and Jules had five children and moved around the globe, including Mexico, which excited Nica because she was closer to New York City and her comfort zone.

It was her friend Teddy Wilson who introduced her to the music of Thelonious Monk. As soon as Nica heard his music, she knew she had to meet him and that jazz music was now a focal point in her life.

When Nica finally met Monk, the two become inseparable. Nica soon became apart of Monk’s music family and personal family, which consisted of his wife Nellie, son Toot and daughter Barbra.

Another side of Nica developed upon moving to New York City: she continued to live a rich life, but with fast cars, and all-night jazz-style partying.

Through it all she was a Thelonious Monk addict, and she never left his side while helping to support his family and dealing with Monk’s drinking, mental problems and health issues until his death.

This is a remarkable story.

No doubt we all have questions about our families’ pasts, but Hannah Rothschild has done that rare thing and actually tracked down a riveting family story. Her efforts to unearth the truth are inspirational.

Kirsten Lowe is a local Red Deer College student and book reviewer.

Rape, referendum, climate change among topics of B.C. Non-Fiction finalists

One Hour In Paris (Freehand Books), by Guelph University professor Karyn L. Freedman, examines rape and sexual violence through the prism of the author’s experience.

James Raffan’s Circling the Midnight Sun: Culture and Change in the Invisible Arctic (Harper Collins) is a study of those most affected by climate change.

Rounding out the list is Alison Pick’s exploration of religion Between Gods: A Memoir (Doubleday Canada).

The short list was selected by a jury made up of Globe and Mail arts editor Jared Bland, journalist John Fraser and Anne Giardini, who is a writer and the Chancellor of Simon Fraser University.

The winner will be announced in February.

VANCOUVER — A first-person account of a rape, a look at the 1995 referendum and a study of climate change are among the finalists for the B.C. National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction, worth a whopping $40,000.

The Morning After: The 1995 Quebec Referendum and the Day That Almost Was (Knopf Canada), written by newspaper columnist Chantal Hebert with Jean Lapierre, looks at what might have happened had the “yes” side won.

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Researchers show how stem cells are reprogrammed The work builds on the 2006-2007 papers by Shinya Yamanaka, who showed that adult skin cells could be turned into embryonic-like, or pluripotent, stem cells through genetic manipulation, a discovery that garnered the Japanese scientist the Nobel Prize in 2012.

Nagy likened the roughly 21-day process to complete that transformation to a “black box,” so called because scientists did not know what went on within the cells as they morphed from one cell type into the other.

“It was just like a black box,” Nagy said Wednesday, following a briefing at the hospital. “You start with a skin cell, you arrive at a stem cell - but we had no idea what was happening inside the cell.”

Nagy’s team set about cataloguing the changes as they occurred by removing cells from culture dishes at set points during the three-week period, then analyzing such cellular material as DNA and proteins present at that moment.

The result is a database that will be available to scientists around the world, which the team hopes will spur new research to advance the field of stem cell-based regenerative medicine.

Co-author Ian Rogers, a scientist in

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — A Canadian-led international team of researchers has begun solving the mystery of just how a specialized cell taken from a person’s skin is reprogrammed into an embryonic-like stem cell, from which virtually any other cell type in the body can be generated.

The research is being touted as a breakthrough in regenerative medicine that will allow scientists to one day harness stem cells to treat or even cure a host of conditions, from blindness and Parkinson’s disease to diabetes and spinal cord injuries.

Besides creating the reprogramming roadmap, the scientists also identified a new type of stem cell, called an F-class stem cell due to its fuzzy appearance. Their work is detailed in five papers published Wednesday in the prestigious journals Nature and Nature Communications.

Dr. Andras Nagy, a senior scientist at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, led the team of 50 researchers from Canada, the Netherlands, South Korea and Australia, which spent four years analyzing and cataloguing the day-byday process that occurs in stem cell reprogramming.

Nagy’s lab, said the database will allow researchers to identify various properties of the developing stem cells, which could mean improving their ability to treat or cure disease.

“Should we, instead of waiting the full 21 days, should we start using the cells a week into the progression or two weeks into the progression? Do they have optimal therapeutic properties then? Do they gain some or do they lose some as it moves along?

“So depending on the therapy, so maybe for spinal cord injury treatments ... or diabetes ... you can look at this database and say, ‘OK, we are going to stop our cells in the progression at this stage,’ ” Rogers said. “So it allows for more personalized therapy.”

Nagy said the F-class stem cells his lab identified have unique properties that could open up new avenues for generating “designer” cells that may be safer and more efficient when used in future therapies. They differ from their more classical stem cell cousins in that they can be grown faster and more cheaply in bioreactors, he explained.

Dr. Jim Woodgett, director of the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute at Mount Sinai, said Nagy’s team has in effect created a rule book for tissue regeneration.

“This encyclopedic data set ... will worldwide help to power many more discoveries by hundreds of research labs working in this field and in the fields of cancer and fetal development and many other areas,” he said.

Calling it an extraordinary achievement, Ontario Health Minister Dr. Eric Hoskins hailed the research as a gamechanger that will open up new frontiers in scientific and medical knowledge around the globe.

“This research can and will and is leading to new medical treatments using a patient’s own cells,” he said.

“That kind of individualized treatment is something that physicians like me have only dreamed of in the past.”

Nagy said the next step is to further mine the database to understand more of what is happening during the cell-tostem cell transformation. He estimated the work so far represents only about 10 per cent of the knowledge that can be gleaned about the process.

The ultimate goal, of course, is to translate the basic science into therapies that will help patients, he said.

“In the end, we hope that this research and this knowledge is going to accelerate the process of using cellbased therapies for regenerative medicine. Then everybody’s going to benefit.”

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