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BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF Even with supportive friends and family, coming out as gay can be challenging.

And coming to terms with her own identity was a real struggle for one Central Alberta teen.

Even though she is now comfortable in her own skin, many teens she knows in her small Central Albertan community face the same struggle and don’t have the same supports she does. “It took me forever before I actually told anyone,� she said. “I was in denial forever.�

Her real name and the town she lives in are being withheld, as well as the name of her mother.

S i n c e a b o u t FIRST SCHOOL-BASED Grade 7, at GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANCE 12 years old, WAS IN RED DEER A2 she started to question whether she was gay or straight.

Now, in Grade 11 and 16-years-old, she is thankful for the support she received when she came out. “Her and her girlfriend were best friends so a lot of people’s response is ‘Oh you guys are just really close,’ � said her mother. “We got a lot of ‘it’s a phase.’ �

That mindframe was something she struggled with before coming out. She honestly felt her girlfriend was that good of a friend. But they officially dated six months before she came out.

But she didn’t initiate the conversation that led to her coming out to her parents. Her family sat her down and confronted her, saying they knew and they loved and supported her and her girlfriend. “It wasn’t a fight, this needed to be talked about so you guys can feel comfortable,� said her mother. “There was some worriedness on their part on how people would react to it.�

Even after the conversation, she said she was still really worried. “Coming out to my friends wasn’t that hard, but when they started to tell people I’d get weird looks in the hall,� she said. “Guys would make some disturbing comments.� “Boys can be a little perverted about the whole thing,� said her mother.

She responds to the comments by telling them, in a matter-of-fact way, that this is who she is and they shouldn’t be making those comments. “Most of the time they look blankly at me because they don’t expect me to say anything back and then they walk away,� she said, adding there’s the odd time where they just keep going with the disturbing comments.

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Charities hard at work in Christmas season

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF With only 10 days left until Christmas, local charities are in the homestretch of their busiest season of the year.

The Salvation Army has been hard at work at the kettles and getting the adopt-a-family program going; the Christmas Bureau has wrapped up its charity checkstops and is still hard at work at its toy and food hampers and the Red Deer and District Food has been hard at work on the Bank Stuffa-Bus, Canadian Pacific Holiday Train and putting on the Tom Jackson and the Huron Carole.

Last week the Christmas Bureau had 778 families come through and expected to surpass their anticipated 850 families for toys and a food hamper.

Families with kids get the two, while couples get the food hamper.

Applications to receive food and toys continue until Dec. 17. They are delivered on Dec. 22 and 23 this year. “Checkstops are down from last year, but it was extremely cold this year,� said Teresa Kutynec, Red Deer Christmas Bureau president, adding they raised about $15,000 this year, down from about $24,000 from last year. “There was lots going on that weekend, it was -26 C. There were lots of factors.�

One of those other fundraisers running that weekend was the Stuff-a-Bus

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Tracey Reed, left, and Iris Davison fill a gift hamper for a client at the Red Deer Christmas Bureau on Thursday. campaign at Parkland Mall. In total it raised $12,000 for each of the Christmas Bureau and the food bank.

Fred Scaife, Red Deer and District Food Bank executive director, said the holiday train raised about $1,300 from food and drink sales at the concert and Canadian Pacific donated $7,000 to the local food bank. On top of the cash the food bank received about 1,600 pounds

of food.

The problem for the food bank so far this Christmas has been the lack of cash donations.

Typically they rely on this time of year to get most of their funding for the next year.

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A2 RED DEER ADVOCATE Monday, Dec. 15, 2014 “It needs to be discussed because everyone pushes it away,” she said. “They fear that they’re going to get judged for thinking it’s OK. Even people who are straight worry they may lose friends for being a part of a gay-straight alliance.” mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

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SUPPORT: Not everyone is as lucky “It doesn’t bother me as much anymore.”

She has found support among her friends and her parents, but not everyone in her community is as lucky.

“I’m friends with a couple of guys and they still get taunted by other guys and they get a lot of ridicule in their relationship,” she said. “They brush it off, but I don’t think that should be part of their life coming to school and knowing they’re going to get bullied about things they can’t change.”

She’s been asked to help other teenagers in her community with advice on confronting their own sexuality.

She is part of a group working to develop a community-based gay-straight alliance, without a connection to a school, to offer support for youth.

The group is still in the early stages but she said it is much needed for the community.

“There’s nothing here at all,” she said. “It would be so people aren’t afraid to come out.

“Some people’s parents aren’t OK with it, some people’s teachers aren’t OK with it.”

Alberta Premier Jim Prentice has put bill 10 on hold until the New Year. The bill would allow school boards to reject the creation of gay-straight alliances in schools, but give students the power to petition Alberta Education to sanction an alliance. However, the legislation was unclear on where the groups would be allowed to meet, potentially pushing them out of the schools.

A study by the University of British Columbia in 2008 showed that the odds of teens having suicidal thoughts were reduced by half in schools that have such groups in place.

“There are a lot of people in our high school alone that are too scared to tell their parents and they don’t have anyone to talk to about it and they feel weird just coming up to me and saying ‘Is it OK that I’m not straight?’ ” she said.

Her mother agreed with the need for a support group not only for youth struggling with their own identity, but for the parents who still have to learn how to respond.

“A lot of families don’t know how or choose not to or they deny it,” said the mother. “Support groups would be huge for them, too.”

CHARITIES: Not the big stuff “At this point in December we should just about have our next year’s submitted budget paid for already,” said Scaife.

“The reality is it’s not the big stuff that brings in the bulk of our money. It’s the continued string of people walking through the front door with a cheque in their hands this time of year that brings in the $300,000-$400,000. It’s that continuous string that’s been intermittent instead.”

The 2015 budget is about $550,000, which just covers the cost of keeping the lights on, the food bank heated and the operation running. So far this year they have about $100,000.

Still in need of volunteers for the adopt-a-family program, the Salvation Army expects to have up to 180 families in need. Major Larry Bridger, said they need about 40 sponsors to match up with the families.

“We ask for $100 per child for toys and about $50 per person for food usually gift cards for a grocery store,” said Bridger. “We supplement it with gifts and things we have available. Families we don’t have sponsors for, we look after them through our funds.”

The kettle campaign only has a few days left, but they are well on their way to reaching their goal of $200,000. As of last week they had raised about $120,000 and the campaign will continue until Dec. 23.

On Christmas Day, the Salvation Army puts on its Christmas dinner as they have for many years. Dinner will be served from 12 to 1:30 p.m. at the church, 4837 54th St. Bridger said they expect to serve about 250 people this year.

“We haven’t run out of food yet.”

Over the weekend, Abacus Datagraphics put on their annual Christmas Dinner at the Gaetz Memorial United Church. Joanne Fleming Ruholl, dinner co-ordinator, had about 20 turkeys and about 18 hams ready for people. Last year they had 500 people come out and about 200 to-go containers handed out.

They expected similar numbers this year. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

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Red Deer Food Bank volunteer Larry Mazzie fills a hamper order for a client at the food bank on Thursday afternoon.

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First school-based gay-straight alliance in Alberta was in Red Deer

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF Gay-straight alliances are a hot topic throughout Alberta, but a Red Deer high school was the first in the province to permit one of these organizations to form.

It’s been 14 years since Alberta’s first schoolbased gay-straight alliance was formed at Lindsay Thurber Comprehensive High School.

Founding student member Rachel Evans and her old high school teacher Darren Lund recalled the early days of the group.

Evans and a friend approached Lund, now a professor at the University of Calgary, about starting the group in 2000. They decided the group would run under the STOP (Students and Teachers Opposing Prejudice) banner. STOP was started in 1987 and won several awards, including a 2001 award of distinction from the Canadian Race Relations Foundation.

“Our motivations were some kids were getting bullied because they were either openly gay or perceived to be gay,” said Evans. “We thought that those students needed some kind of official support.”

Evans and a friend pushed the subject. But Lund was hesitant at first to form the first gaystraight alliance in an Alberta school.

The two students wanted to talk with the principal at the time, Barry Litun. It was practice for students looking to start a club to give a presentation to staff.

“We wanted some official support because we felt it was a safety issue,” said Evans. “People needed to know their teachers supported them and students had somewhere to go if they were being bullied.”

Lund said the two students got up in front of more than 100 staff and laid bare their struggle and their belief in the importance of an alliance.

“They really insisted. It was really the courage of a couple of 16- and 17-year-olds who made it happen,” said Lund.

“These courageous kids got up in front of the staff and came out to them. They talked about their life growing up in Red Deer, what they fear when they come to school and how they wanted the staff to help make it a better school.”

The staff at Lindsay Thurber responded with a standing ovation.

“It wasn’t about a lifestyle choice, it wasn’t about morals or religious beliefs,” said Lund. “It was about how can we make our school and all schools safe for all kids.”

The safety that Lund and Evans talk about is the same argument being made about the proposed Alberta Bill 10.

The legislation would allow school boards to reject the creation of gay-straight alliances in schools, but give students the power to petition Alberta Education to sanction an alliance. However, the legislation was unclear on where the alliance would be allowed to meet, potentially pushing them out of the schools.

Premier Jim Prentice put the legislation on hold earlier in December, to further discussions on the issue. It will return to the legislature floor in the new year.

A study by the University of British Columbia in 2008 showed that the odds of teens having suicidal thoughts were reduced by half in schools that have such groups in place.

“We were looking for support from the teachers and the administration,” said Evans.

She tells a story of the first openly gay student she met in Red Deer. He was new to town and the reaction he got was very threatening.

“People really seemed to take an affront to that,” said Evans.

“They were freaking out. He was getting bugged a lot, he is a confident guy and handled it pretty well, but he experienced harassment and a general lack of understanding.”

He also got the common taunt: “If you’re going to be gay that’s fine, but why do you have to be in our face about it?”

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RDC’s first year Theatre Performance and Creation diploma students perform during a student showcase at the Welikoklad Event Centre Gallery on Saturday. Students entertained the crowd with a variety of different performances, from beat poetry and monologues to character mask and plays.

Calgary police say parents charged in death of child related to malnutrition

FIRST: Majority actually do support The first gay-straight alliance meeting had about 20 students.

“They didn’t really stick around, but I think it was more a show of solidarity,” said Evans.

“That was great for us, it showed the majority of students actually do support their queer peers and don’t think it’s a big deal or a moral abomination.”

The alliance met every week and would discuss issues or watch “PG queer movies,” which were few and far between at the time. A poster campaign was launched to raise awareness of gay issues in the school.

“The students ran the meeting and they really did it in a respectful and inclusive way, I think,” said Lund.

Ground rules were set at the beginning saying nobody was allowed to judge anybody, people who attended didn’t have to declare their identity, they were just there because they wanted to make the school a better place, and that it was a safe place to talk about how they could make the school a better place.

“It’s neat how far we have come in some ways, but still there is lots of resistance to creating safe schools for all kids,” said Lund.

The alliance became a place for some students at the school to feel safe, when so much of their lives didn’t feel that way.

“It’s probably one of the most important things our STOP group did over those 20 years,” said Lund. “Other kids who have come out to me afterwards, years and decades later, said they were so grateful for that group being there even though they never went to a single meeting.

“They felt at least the school was trying. That we were sincere about trying to be more equitable.” mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

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Calgary police say charges have been laid against the parents of a child whose death was related to malnutrition.

Police say John Clark, who was 14 months old, died a day after being taken to a Calgary hospital by his parents in November 2013.

Staff Sgt. Doug Andrus told a news conference on Saturday that the child’s family followed strict dietary restrictions based on their faith and nutritional beliefs.

Andrus said the child was suffering from a staph infection that was complicated by malnutrition, and as a result the infection was untreatable.

“There’s nothing to indicate the child had seen a doctor since birth,” Andrus said. “The child was not born in a hospital.”

Police say the boy’s parents were arrested on Friday after what they call a long and complex investigation.

Jennifer Clark, 38, and Jeromie Clark, 34, of Calgary, have both been charged with criminal negligence causing death and failure to provide the necessities of life.

They have a court appearance scheduled for Monday to face the allegations.

Andrus wouldn’t go into details when asked for specifics about the family’s faith or dietary restrictions, noting he hoped the information would come out in the court process. He said the home appeared normal.

“We believe that the biological parents took steps to conceal the condition of the infant from the family members. And it was only on the advice of family members that the infant was taken to the hospital,” Andrus said.

Andrus said police began investigating as soon as the boy was brought to the hospital. He explained the investigation involved four different experts in the fields of pediatrics, infectious diseases, neurology, and dermatology.

He said that normally, the staph infection that the boy suffered from can be treated with antibiotics, if treated early.

“In spite of any beliefs, parents and guardians are required to provide the necessaries of life. That includes care, medical attention, food and shelter. And if not, the consequences can be severe and parents and guardians can be held accountable for their actions,” Andrus said.

“Fortunately these types of deaths and investigations are rare.”

Investigators say an autopsy and other tests determined that John Clark’s death was related to malnutrition.

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RED DEER — A highway crash in Alberta has claimed the lives of more foreign workers from the Philippines.

RCMP say one woman and two men died when the Ford Mustang they were in lost control on Highway 11 between Red Deer and Rocky Mountain House on Saturday and collided with a five-ton truck heading the other way.

The driver survived but remains in critical condition.

Police say all four people in the car were Filipinos, and were on their way back to Rocky Mountain House after attending language training in Red Deer.

Last month, four temporary foreign workers from the Philippines died when their vehicle hit a patch of ice and collided with a semi south of Edmonton.

Investigators say they believe driver inexperience may have been a factor in the most recent incident.

They say the Mustang entered the ditch and then overcorrected before hitting the truck.

Police say they are working with the employers of the dead workers to contact their families overseas.

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COMMENT

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The winds of change INDUSTRY CONTINUES TO EVOLVE TO OFFER SAFE, EFFICIENT, AFFORDABLE WIND POWER There’s no free ride when it comes to generating energy. Even the cleanest sources have environmental consequences.

Materials for all power-generating facilities have to be obtained and transported, and infrastructure must be built, maintained and eventually decommissioned.

Wind turbines take up space and can harm DAVID wildlife. Hydro SUZUKI floods agricultural land and alters water cycles.

That’s why conservation is the best way to reduce energy-consumption impacts. Reductions in energy use and investment in energy-efficiency technologies are so significant that the International Energy Agency refers to conservation as the “first fuel.”

No matter how good we get at conserving, though, we’ll always need energy, so we must find ways to employ the least damaging technologies and reduce negative effects. We know the world’s preferred, and currently cheapest, method to generate power —

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burning fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas — is the most destructive, causing pollution, global warming and massive environmental damage during extraction, transport, refining and use. And supplies are becoming more difficult to obtain and will eventually run out.

In contrast, wind power doesn’t create pollution or global warming emissions, is affordable and will never run out. Improvements to power-generation capacity, efficiency and affordability will continue to boost its importance in the energy mix. But we must ensure turbines are installed in locations and using methods that reduce negative impacts on humans and wildlife.

Thanks to ongoing research and testing, wind power has come a long way in a relatively short time. Wildlife behaviour studies, along with technological improvements, have significantly reduced harm to birds and bats, and better siting has reduced impacts on other wildlife and habitat. Wind power generation is far safer for wildlife than burning fossil fuels.

But what about wind power’s effects on humans, a key argument used by opponents? Turbines, especially older ones, can be noisy, and some people find them unsightly — although I prefer the sight of wind farms to smokestacks and smog. Many problems can be addressed by locating quieter turbines far enough from human habita-

tion to reduce impacts.

As for health effects, a recent comprehensive Health Canada study confirms previous research: Although people report being annoyed by wind turbines, there’s no measurable association between wind turbine noise and sleep disturbance and disorders, illnesses and chronic health conditions, or stress and quality-of-life issues.

A 2013 Australian report concluded people living near wind installations where anti-wind campaigns were active were more likely to report health problems, suggesting some issues may be psychological.

Health Canada says more research may be needed and we shouldn’t downplay the annoyance factor. Again, improvements in technology and proper siting will help overcome many problems. And there’s no doubt that fossil fuel development and use — from bitumen mining, deep-sea drilling, mountaintop removal and fracking to wasteful burning in single-user vehicles — are far more annoying and damaging to human health than wind power and other renewable-energy technologies.

Wind energy is also becoming more affordable and reliable. Denmark gets 34 per cent of its electricity from wind and Spain 21 per cent, making wind their largest electricity source. Portugal gets more than 20 per cent, Ireland 16 and Germany nine per cent. All have much higher population densities than

Canada. Overall, wind power contributes about four per cent to worldwide electricity generation.

Improvements in grid and storage technologies also mean wind and other renewable technologies are increasingly feasible and desirable, especially as costs continue to drop. Investing in wind and other renewable energy is also good for jobs and the economy and can create greater stability in energy pricing than relying on volatile fossil fuel markets.

Total global investment in wind energy in 2012 was more than $80 billion, creating 670,000 jobs. According to a Blue Green Canada report, investing the $1.3 billion the oil industry gets in annual federal taxpayer subsidies in renewable energy and conservation could create 18,000 to 20,000 jobs, compared to fewer than 3,000 in oil and gas. And we can’t ignore the many related cost impacts of fossil fuel development, from health care to infrastructure.

To reduce global greenhouse gas emissions at a pace and scale that experts agree is necessary to avoid increasing catastrophic effects of global warming, we need a mix of renewable energy. Wind power will play a large role.

Scientist, author and broadcaster David Suzuki wrote this column with Ian Hanington. Learn more at www.davidsuzuki.org.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Caribou program a fiasco The Advocate’s article on the Smokey River caribou fiasco recently was very timely. I commented in it and would like to expand upon it. The program has all the appearance of either science gone mad or being corrupted by industry and government.

The herd is in decline, there is no doubt about it and the question that must be asked is: why? Instead of actually investigating and identifying the problems, the government chose to use data from other herds in different areas and ecosystems and extrapolated it onto the tiny isolated herd at Smokey river.

This was a deadly mistake and has wasted nine years of recovery time for the caribou and inflicted needless death on countless animals and birds and produced a possible increase of one and a half calves per year. Blindly blaming wolves for the decline has allowed industry to continue clear-cutting and drilling and has pacified the public at a cost of well over $1 million. Now the caribou have no uncompromised habitat left.

During this nine years, they have shot and poisoned at least 1,000 wolves and countless non-targets, no one knows because all the victims are never found. Once strychnine is in an ecosystem, it is out of control and cannot be traced accurately. Both black and grizzly bears are rumoured to have died after snow melt, as I predicted would happen.

Does government know? They can’t even agree on a figure to publicize among themselves.

Many wolves can escape from helicopter gunning wounded and die later. Non-target birds and animals and wolves also escape immediate strychnine poisoning and are not found, but as an indicator, 91 poisoned ravens have been verified. Then there are the 200-plus moose and elk shot from a helicopter to use as bait. One set of figures indicated two moose were shot for every wolf poisoned ... that’s efficiency.

Why are the caribou declining if wolves are not to blame? I would guess it’s caused by a combination of things but likely because they have no habitat left intact by industry and also there are other predators involved.

Bears are notorious for preying on ungulate calves. There shouldn’t be many wolves around during calving after being poisoned and shot all winter and the predation rate on adult females is about the same now as nine years ago.

Accurate numbers are hard to come up with because the sample size is so small, but one thing is certain: doing the same thing over and over for nine years and getting basically nothing for results tells me it’s not working. When you don’t even know the cause of death of a single calf in nine years, it’s no wonder your program is a total bust and you better get back to basics.

Not to worry though, we are now headed into another “save the caribou” merry-go-round with government and industry plotting on how to continue clear-cutting and drilling and at the same time save the caribou and pacify the public. Who will be the fall guy this time?

The frightening part is this nonsense may BS its way along supported by industry and government and set a precedence for other herds of caribou in Alberta and across Canada. We, the caribou and countless other species will all lose — big time — just as we are now.

Dwight Rodtka Rocky Mountain House

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Suzuki’s position lacks merit

Wildrose AGM failed democracy

There really is no pleasing the David Suzuki Foundation.

Over the years, Canada’s pesticide regulatory system has become more protective of human health and the environment, more transparent and more inclusive of non-governmental organizations.

Meanwhile, the plant science industry continues to invest in research to develop tools that help farmers protect the crops they grow from insect, diseases and weeds and grow safe, affordable food. As a result, today’s crop protection products are applied at ever-decreasing rates, are more targeted than ever before and have never been safer for people or the environment.

The plant science industry understands that agriculture’s long-term sustainability depends on maintaining biodiversity within natural ecosystems and agricultural landscapes. And thanks in part to our technologies, Canadian agriculture has never been more sustainable than it is today.

It is mind-boggling to read that a foundation that claims to advocate for a sustainable future is suggesting that we go back to agricultural practices from decades ago when soil erosion was an epidemic, yields were only a fraction of what they are today and bee populations were actually much less robust than they are today. The truth of the matter is that activist groups like this aren’t looking for solutions, they’re looking for public profile — as evidenced by the “Donate” button that is always prominent.

While we work with all stakeholders, including the Canadian Honey Council, to identify solutionfocused approaches to ensure a sustainable future for agriculture and beekeeping, activist groups such as these are entrenched in unworkable positions and don’t seem to care if they jeopardize the progress that’s being collaboratively made.

Pierre Petelle Vice-president of chemistry CropLife Canada

It concerns me that media reports of the Rimbey/ Rocky Mountain House/Sundre Wildrose constituency annual general meeting (Oct. 15) paint a false picture of what actually occurred that night.

It was certainly a remarkable AGM by any standard with the tone set when the only properly nominated candidates’ names failed to appear on the ballot paper. Perhaps unsurprisingly, this caused consternation to many of the members in attendance and instigated some vigorous debate.

When it became clear to the officials running the meeting that their opinions on the legality of this action were in the minority, they tried, and failed, to pass a motion to adjourn the meeting so simply got up and left.

The majority who remained did what we had gone to do — legitimately elect our constituency party officials. In the days following the AGM, the officials and the party would claim that the meeting and some of the attendees were unruly, prompting the early adjournment. It was clear to the majority who remained that the decision to adjourn was precipitated by the realization that their blatant attempt at election rigging was not going to be approved by the party members.

The Wildrose party executive subsequently initiated an inquiry into the events of Oct. 15 but this proved to be a kangaroo court as they only interviewed and took input from one side. Obviously the inquiry’s decision was made before reviewing any evidence.

The events of that night and the intervening weeks have further weakened the shaky democracy that exists in this province.

By their actions, the Wildrose party has shown itself to be just another “top down” dictatorship.

The small flicker of hope that a true grassroots, member driven party could be established in Alberta has been extinguished.

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In 2015, she intends to be elected on purpose. Freeman, 25, is one of a halfdozen MPs who were barely in their 20s in 2011 when a surge of support for the NDP in Quebec saw them become MPs, despite never having set foot in their ridings during the campaign.

Questions swirled about whether this rookie class would last even a single sitting. Not only did they prevail, but so far all but two have committed to running for re-election in 2015.

“When we first got elected, nobody really expected young people to be able to do the job,” Freeman said in an interview.

“So that very much motivated me to prove that wrong — and I think we have.”

Only 19 when he was elected, NDP MP Pierre-Luc Dusseault had the distinction of becoming the youngest person ever voted into the House of Commons. He didn’t say much for the first little while, but slowly found his voice.

Before the election, Dusseault planned to work at a golf course. He now chairs a committee overseeing the entire operations of government.

“You have such big responsibility and if you want to succeed you have to work, work hard, work every day,” Dusseault said.

“It’s a different life than others who are my age, who are 23, still in university.”

It’s not just Freeman and Dusseault going into 2015 a little wiser. All of Parliament has been forced into growing up a little. Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau suspended MPs Massimo Pacetti and Scott Andrews from caucus last month amid explosive allegations of “serious personal misconduct” involving two of their NDP counterparts.

Creating a better political climate for women is one of the reasons Freeman says she wants to run again.

“This place isn’t built for women,” Freeman said. Ironically — and unbeknownst to her — a male colleague from another party could be seen taking note of her physique as he passed behind her while she spoke.

“It has been one of my motivating factors for seeking re-election and encouraging other women to run, because I think that’s how we’re going to change it over time.”

Though whispers of impropriety have coursed through the halls of power in Ottawa for decades, the suspension forced Parliament to confront it publicly for the first time and examine how ill-equipped it is to deal with the interpersonal realities of a modern workplace.

A harassment prevention policy was imple-

mented just this past week.

Parliament also learned it was not immune from security threats.

Cpl. Nathan Cirillo was shot dead Oct. 22 as he stood sentry at the National War Memorial, moments before gunman Michael Zehaf Bibeau stormed the Centre Block, where he died in a fearsome gun battle with security forces. The two incidents are neither alike nor related, but there is a lesson in both, said Liberal deputy leader Ralph Goodale.

“Don’t take your values, your security, or your rights and privileges for granted. They are very precious things and you need to behave accordingly in order to safeguard them,” Goodale said.

Ever since the shooting, members of the NDP stare at a bullet hole in their caucus door as a reminder.

“Of course it affects us personally,” said the NDP’s Nathan Cullen.

“The effort we’ve been making is to not affect us in the way that we make laws, that we keep our emotions where they are and our intelligence as forward as we can.”

The Conservatives have introduced legislation in recent years designed to address domestic terrorism, though opponents point out no existing law stopped Zehaf Bibeau. That’s why the attacks of Oct. 22 will usher in another, as-yet-unspecified bill sometime next year, the government has said. But what most are more keenly awaiting is the next budget, expected to clearly set the stage for the October 2015 campaign. A suite of financial measures aimed at plumping up the pocketbooks of families will come into effect next year as the government begins to spend the budget surplus.

Much has already been spoken for, with about $1.6 billion left in the kitty for the upcoming federal budget.

“Canadians expect their government to focus on maintaining Canada’s relative economic strength,” said government House leader Peter Van Loan.

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Ontario woman found guilty in attack on her parents NEWMARKET, Ont. — A Torontoarea jury has found Jennifer Pan guilty of orchestrating a phoney home invasion that killed her mother and seriously injured her father.

Pan, 28, and three co-accused are convicted of first-degree murder and attempted murder in the attack that killed her mother, 53-year-old Bieh Ha Pan, and left her father, 60-year-old Hann Pan, with a critical head wound.

Lenford Crawford, David Mylvaganam and Pan’s on-again, off-again boyfriend Daniel Wong were charged along with Pan in the Nov. 8, 2010 slaying at Pan’s Markham, Ont. home.

Pan dropped her head and looked down in silence as the verdict was read.

Paul Cooper, Pan’s lawyer, said his client was “devastated” by the verdict and was planning to appeal.

“She’s absolutely in shock,” Cooper told reporters outside the courthouse after the verdict was handed down.

“For her it’s been exhausting, for everybody involved, it’s been a long, long trial.”

Prosecutors alleged Pan hatched the plan after her parents forced her to choose between them and Wong, her

high-school sweetheart turned drug dealer.

The ultimatum came after the Pans discovered their daughter had been lying to them for nearly a decade, forging report cards and diplomas and telling them she shared an apartment with a friend when in fact she was living with Wong.

Forced to return home and give up her relationship with the man she loved, Pan first tried to have her father killed, she admitted during trial. But she gave up that plan when the man she hired took off with her money, she said.

Months later, as the rift between her and her parents grew, she came up with another scheme. By then, she and Wong had broken up, but she still reached out to him for help, court heard. The Crown said she asked her ex-boyfriend to find people who could kill her parents, freeing her from their control and allowing her to live off her generous inheritance. The cost of the hit: $10,000 or $5,000 per parent, prosecutors said.

The arrangements were made through calls and text messages on various phones, including what the Crown called Pan’s “secret murder phone,” which she hid from her parents, they argued.

But Pan testified she hired someone she knew only as Homeboy to kill her, not her parents, and called off the deal days before the incident as her family life began to improve. She even agreed to pay a $8,500 cancellation fee, and was gathering the money the day of the attack, she said. In his closing arguments, Pan’s lawyer told the court the killing was the result of a robbery gone wrong, and that his client wasn’t a murderer, but a victim of crime.

Wong and Crawford’s lawyers said their clients weren’t at the house that night, and argued there was insufficient evidence to prove they were part of a murder plot.

Wong’s lawyer, Laurence Cohen, also said his client intended to launch an appeal.

“He’s got a brave face, he’s upset and disappointed and obviously shocked but he also knows he believes in the system and he’s going to appeal this and hope for the best,” Cohen said after the verdict was delivered.“ Mylvaganam admitted he was at the home, but said he didn’t go inside, nor did he shoot anyone.

A first degree murder conviction carries an automatic life sentence with no chance of parole for 25 years.

A fifth co-accused, Eric Carty, is now to be tried separately after his lawyer fell ill during the 10-month trial.

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Ankle bracelet program extended to March

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF Red Deer’s program to monitor domestic violence offenders with GPS ankle bracelets has been extended until the end of March.

But Alberta’s grim economic outlook has likely put the program at risk beyond spring, said Ian Wheeliker, executive director of Central Alberta Women’s Emergency Shelter.

Wheeliker said the government will have to make some tough decisions.

“For sure I think with the current fiscal realities, programs like the GPS pilot are in jeopardy. There’s no question about it. Any of these small pilots and small programs are definitely in jeopardy,” Wheeliker said.

But when government faces economic struggles, so do Albertans, including domestic abusers, he said.

“Economic stress, unemployment, is a high-risk factor for spousal homicide. When these guys lose their jobs — look out — that’s a high-risk factor.”

The GPS pilot program was to come to an end on Dec. 31, but Wheeliker said he found out recently that it could continue until the end of March with surplus funding accumulated when it wasn’t running at full capacity and when it was temporarily shut down in the spring.

The three-year, $450,000 project officially ended in March 2013. Since then, funding was extended twice.

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guilty and have probation orders.

Ankle monitors, equipped with a built-in cellphone and radio frequency, are tracked constantly.

They alert police if offenders go near or into an area they are not allowed, like a victim’s house or workplace, disobey court-ordered curfews, and if monitors are damaged in an effort to take them off.

Currently, seven offenders are being tracked in Red Deer.

Wheeliker said the compliance rate by offenders has been good.

“The program is not just the GPS monitoring.

They’re actively working with their probation officer. We fast track these guys into addictions counselling, domestic violence treatment — the whole nine yards. So it’s the whole package that they’re getting that contributes to the compliance.”

He said a report on the program, as well as similar pilots running in Calgary and Edmonton, is in the province’s hands and they are also gathering more information. He said the small-scale pilots have shown promise, but it’s hard to build a very strong case in support of larger programs with small-scale data.

Meanwhile, corrections departments in British Columbia are looking at GPS monitors and the federal government wants to track 300 offenders on parole.

“The technology continues to develop and the programs continue to develop. For me, it’s not a question of if we’re going to see this as a part of community corrections in the future, it’s when.”

Wheeliker said expanding programs slowly would be a good next step in Red Deer, Edmonton and Cal-

gary, where they now have experience with the technology and with monitoring offenders.

If it’s not viable to hold offenders accountable with GPS tracking, then the province has to keep families safe with more second-stage housing for victims of domestic violence.

“If we can’t monitor these offenders, and we know they don’t very often end up in jail, then I really think we’ve got to seriously look at the development of high-risk, second-stage apartments where we can keep our families safe for a longer period of time because it’s the ongoing stalking and harassment that present the risk.

“Without the GPS, we’re not that good at stopping the constant breach of conditions and the constant drive-bys. But if we can have safe, secure housing that has 24-hour staff, we can keep these families safe. That’s more of a long-term, sustainable-type of program so that might be a good alternative until the government has a chance to really decide whether they will go full-scale with electronic monitoring program.”

For four years, the 10-suite facility Julietta’s Place, operated by Central Alberta Women’s Outreach, has provided abused women and their children with a safe place to live as they rebuild their lives in Red Deer.

It’s the only housing of its kind in Central Alberta.

Wheeliker said the outreach and the women’s emergency shelter have put together a joint proposal for more such housing.

“We absolutely need 35 units right now.” szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

NATURE SAVVY SATURDAY

BY MARY-ANN BARR ADVOCATE STAFF Olds College students will soon have access to an Internet-based program to help them stay mentally healthy.

BreathingRoom is an eight-module program that students will be able to access at any time online.

In 2013, Olds College students took part in a National College Health Assessment that revealed about 14 per cent of Olds students seriously considered suicide and four per cent actually attempted suicide.

As well, 56 per cent of Olds College students felt hopeless, 93 per cent felt overwhelmed, 65 per cent felt very lonely, 70 per cent felt very sad, 43 per cent felt so depressed that is was difficult to function, 52 per cent felt overwhelming anxiety, and 74 per cent of students did not seek the help of a professional.

About 10 per cent of Olds College students took the survey, said Karla Petersen, senior development officer at Olds College. The results for Olds College are quite similar to the national average, she said.

Petersen worked with the college’s mental health team and wrote the proposal to seek funding for BreathingRoom. The Royal Bank of Canada Foundation donated $10,000 to the college for the online program. Olds College is an iPad-based school and the funds will cover the cost of the app for one year.

“With this BreathingRoom what’s really great is not only does it help the students who are having a really hard time, it helps students who are also thriving at school because it starts to teach them how to build more resilience into their life. And it helps them know that a hard time or a bad test score or any of that stuff really isn’t the end of the world,” said Petersen.

Olds College students will be able to access the BreathingRoom program in the next month or so, she said.

Those who have completed the program have described higher energy levels, increased motivation, reduced feelings of anxiety, guilt and frustration.

“It also helps teach students kind of what a normal level of feeling anxious is, what a normal range of some of these things is and maybe what’s going beyond normal, and gives them that knowledge to go and speak to someone and seek out counselling,” Petersen.

Olds College is only the second post-secondary institution in Canada to offer the program.

Mount Royal University in Calgary began to offer it a year ago.

The RBC Foundation money was presented to Olds College by Jean Reichenbach, branch manager of RBC in Olds, last week. barr@reddeeradvocate.com

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Hosted by the MS Society of Central Alberta, the fundraising event will give people the opportunity to taste whiskies from around the world and talk with distillery representatives.

Local music and tasty cuisine will round out the event at the Red Deer Golf and Country Club. Doors open at 6 p.m.

Money raised will go towards community services for those affected by multiple sclerosis, and fund research dedicated to finding a cure for the debilitating disease.

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Canada has one of the highest rates of MS in the world and it is the most common neurological disease affecting young adults in this country.

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Heather Craig pets what was once a live snowy owl during Nature Savvy Saturdays at the Kerry Wood Nature Centre. Red Deerians could look through the centre, and meet the three tiger salamanders that live there.

Wildrose Party consistency association board resigns FORMER MEMBERS SAY PARTY IS ‘GOING DOWN THE TUBES’ RIMBEY-ROCKY MOUNTAIN HOUSE-SUNDRE they don’t need any help from us. We feel it’s kind of a lost cause,” he said. “It’s like beating a dead horse.

You can see that the party looks like it’s going down the tubes. So why are we fooling around?”

Erickson said he and other supporters of Anglin The members of a contested constituency associawill continue to tion board in Wildrose back him.

Party’s Rimbey-Rocky ‘THE WILDROSE ARE DIGGING THEIR “We are going to Mountain House-Suntry to get Joe electdre have resigned.

OWN HOLE SO FAST THEY DON’T NEED ed one way or the Edwin Erickson, ANY HELP FROM US.’ other. We certainly who was elected condon’t plan on dropstituency president —EDWIN ERICKSON ping our support during a fractious anFORMER CONSTITUENCY PRESIDENT for Joe.” nual general meeting Paul McLaughin October, said he lin, vice-president of communications for the recogand 14 other board members are calling it quits.

They were elected after the party’s candidate in nized constituency association, suggested the resigthe next provincial election, Jason Nixon, and his nations change little.

“That group wasn’t recognized by the executive supporters walked out of the annual general meeting committee of the party so they really had no legal at a Rocky Mountain House hotel on Oct. 15.

The gathering became heated when supporters jurisdiction anyway.

“It was kind of wasting everyone’s time, I guess. So of the party’s MLA Joe Anglin insisted on voting for at least we got some closure.” their own slate of board candidates.

He dismissed suggestions the party was on the Wildrose Party officials sided with the original board and ordered a new annual general meeting. way down.

As Wildrose candidate, Nixon is continuing to An independent review found party rules had not been followed and the new board was not duly elect- work to represent residents in the riding, and responded to suggestions in a recent Edmonton Journal ed.

Erickson contends the party broke its constitution series on health care that Rimbey Hospital should by refusing to follow its own rules on how to handle be closed.

“There’s been a ton of local advocacy,” he said. such disputes.

McLaughlin said the party’s message of fiscal In the meantime, Anglin quit the party and now conservatism, among other issues, are increasingly sits as an independent.

Now, Erickson and other board members are resonating with voters. He said Nixon gets plenty of shows of support when meeting with residents. washing their hands of the party. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com “The Wildrose are digging their own hole so fast

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Gas prices to boost holiday sales: analysts THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Savings at the pump may allow many Canadians to shell out more for gifts this holiday season and boost sales for retailers, analysts say, particularly as a weaker loonie prompts fewer shoppers to venture south of the border.

Oil prices have fallen well over 40 per cent since the summer, leading to a major sell-off of energy stocks, but it has also translated into savings for motorists filling their tanks.

And that’s likely to spur lower- to middle-income Canadians to splurge more on Christmas gifts said Mark Satov, president and founder of Satov Consulting.

Weakness in the loonie also means fewer Canadians will go across the border to do their holiday shopping, Satov added.

“When you do a price parity comparison and you go and see what that jacket is selling for in Buffalo, it’s getting more and more expensive as the Canadian dollar drops,” he said.

While all Canadian retailers are likely to benefit from Canadians having more disposable income in their pockets, RBC analyst Irene Nattel says convenience stores are “on the front lines of this new spending opportunity,” especially those attached to gas stations.

“Savings at the pump are likely to drive the purchase of small indulgences in the short-term,” Nattel said in a note to clients.

Steve Tennant, the vice-president and general manager of Hasty Market, said lower gasoline prices will motivate Canadians to do more driving.

“If there is an increase in people driving, that means more frequent stops at the gas station,” Tennant said.

Some of the money saved at the pump will likely go to paying down debt, said Tennant, but not all of it.

“Hopefully we can sell a few more lottery tickets because there’s more disposable income in everybody’s pocket,” he said.

Lower gasoline prices will also reduce the fuel surcharges that retailers pay to have goods shipped

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The Phoenix-based pet store retailer says the investors have agreed to pay $83 per share in cash to the company. That’s a 39 per cent increase from its closing price July 2 before the company announced it was looking to sell. The price is also a 7 per cent increase from PetSmart’s closing price Friday.

In addition to BC Partners, the buyers include StepStone and Canadian pension manager La Caisse.

The sale requires approval from PetSmart shareholders. LongView Asset Management says it will vote in favour of the deal. That fund owns 9 per cent of PetSmart and had been pressuring the company to sell since the summer.

Deal gives U.S.-based company sole ownership of N.S. coal mine DONKIN, N.S. — Cape Breton’s Donkin coal mine is now entirely owned by the U.S.-based Cline Group LLC, following a deal announced Friday.

Morien Resources Corp., (TSX:MOX) which owned a 25 per cent interest in the mine, announced it has sold that stake to Cline for $5.5 million and a production royalty on sales from the Donkin project.

Cline’s Halifax-based subsidiary Kameron Collieries ULC has also agreed to pay Morien a gross royalty of 2 per cent on the first 500,000 tonnes of coal sales per calendar quarter and 4 per cent on any tonnage thereafter from the Donkin Project.

The transaction is subject to approval from Morien shareholders and from the TSX Venture Exchange. Morien intends to schedule a special meeting of shareholders in February 2015 to obtain the required approval for the agreement.

Cline recently bought the remaining 75 per cent majority stake from Glencore Xstrata PLC, giving it complete control of the mine.

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A busy Eaton Centre crowded with shoppers is pictured in Toronto, Ont., on Nov. 28, 2014. to their stores, said Tennant.

Alex Scholten, president of the Canadian Convenience Stores Association, said gas stations are also likely to see fewer incidents of customers driving off without paying.

“When the price of gasoline goes down, customers don’t feel the pinch as much, and as a result our experience has always been that the incidence of those drive-offs goes down significantly.”

But retailers could end up suffering if low oil prices persist for a long time and leave the economy

battered, Satov noted.

“What you could see is further downward pressure on the stock market, and on the economy in general, because we’re so resource based, which would lead to lower consumer confidence, which would lead to lower retail spending,” Satov said.

“So short term, for Christmas, I think we’re probably fine and maybe even positive. Longer term, depending on what happens, I think you could see an economic downturn to some degree, and retail never does well in economic downturns.”

Keystone on the agenda during continental talks pipeline’s route.

Meanwhile, President Barack Obama has expressed reticence about the project, arguing it would OTTAWA — The falling price of oil and what to do mainly benefit Canada and could have negative efabout it, the Keystone XL pipeline, and Mexico’s ma- fects for climate change.

But there is another wrinkle to the pipeline isjor oil and gas shake-up will be on the table as North sue that Rickford will also be addressing during the American energy ministers meet Monday.

Natural Resources Minister Greg Rickford is set talks.

The Mexican government is loosening its moto meet with his counterparts Ernest Moniz and Pedro Joaquin Coldwell from the U.S. and Mexico nopoly over the energy sector, and opening it to exploration and development by private industry. It respectively in Washington, D.C. kicked-off bidding The rapidly falling exploration in price of gas, exacer‘SECRETARY MONIZ AND I HAVE SOME KEY on 14 locations on the bated by the OrganiGulf of Mexico last THINGS TO BUILD ON AND ENJOIN OUR zation of Petroleum Exporting Countries’ MEXICAN COUNTERPARTS FOR THAT NORTH week.

Some analysts, (OPEC) decision last AMERICAN ENERGY MARKET INTEGRATION i n c l u d i n g t h e month not to cut InstiMiddle-Eastern oil THAT I THINK WE ALL SEEK TO STRIVE FOR North-South tute, have said the production, will overAS MATTER OF SECURITY AND FOR THE changes will bring shadow the talks. both opportunity Already, there has ECONOMIC BENEFITS.’ and possible chalbeen buzz around the idea of a North Amer—GREG RICKFORD, NATURAL RESOURCES MINISTER lenges to the Canadian government. ican-style energy carOn the positive tel to counter OPECalthough that has not be explicitly raised by any of side, a more open Mexican market will mean a dethe players who refer instead to a “strategic dialogue mand for Canadian energy expertise in that country.

Toronto-based Pacific Rubiales recently signed a on energy co-operation.”

“This is a massive, fully integrated market in most memorandum of understanding with Mexico’s PErespects, certainly with gas and electricity,” Rick- MEX to look at exploration possibilities, particularly offshore. ford told CTV’s Question Period Sunday.

But on the flip side, more oil and gas development “Secretary Moniz and I have some key things to build on and enjoin our Mexican counterparts for by the most southerly NAFTA partner could mean that North American energy market integration that more competition for the key American market - posI think we all seek to strive for as matter of security sibly making projects like Keystone even less attractive. and for the economic benefits.”

“Renewed interest in energy from its southern One of Rickford’s stated priorities is to emphasize that Keystone should go ahead, based on a U.S. State neighbour could thus shift the US’s focus away from Department decision assessment from early this considering the shipping of Canadian heavy crude year. The pipeline has been tied up in the Nebraska through the Keystone XL proposed pipeline,” the Supreme Court, which is set to rule any day now on North-South Institute wrote in a January policy whether the legislature has the right to approve the brief.

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Canadian families winning tax breaks Over the last few months the federal government has announced a series of tax breaks and credits that will put more money into the pockets of Canadian families with children.

The measures, which still require parliamentary approval, include family tax cuts through income splitting, child care expenses and universal child care benefits that are expected to help about four million families and provide an after-tax benefit of $1,140 a year per family.

“All families with chilTALBOT dren under 18 years of age will see a bump in their cash BOGGS flow when these measures take effect,” said Aurele Courcelles, director of tax and estate planning with Investors Group.” That’s good news, but the question then becomes what is the best way to use these funds. What are some of the options families should consider?”

The biggest break came in the form of income splitting. The family tax cut allows a higher-income spouse to transfer up to $50,000 of income to a spouse in a lower income tax bracket for a non-refundable credit of up to $2,000 for couples with children under the age of 18.

The universal child care benefit (UCCB) will jump to $160 a month for each child under the age of six,

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up from $100, and introduce a new benefit of $60 a month ($720 a year) for children between six and 17.

This replaces the old child tax credit, which amounted to $338 per child in 2014, resulting in a net benefit to all families.

Families who use child care will get an increased allowable tax deduction. The maximum deduction per child will increase to $8,000 from $7,000 per child under the age of seven, to $5,000 from $4,000 for each child aged seven to 16, and rise to $11,000 from $10,000 for children who are eligible for the disability tax credit.

The government also has announced that it is doubling to $1,000 from the previous $500 the maximum of expenses allowed under the children’s fitness tax credit, and making it refundable, for registering children in eligible physical activity programs. The credit is worth 15 per cent, meaning a parent could get back up to $150 ($1,000 x 15 per cent).

Income splitting and the fitness tax credit will become effective this year and the UCCB and child care measures next year.

“Income splitting is a positive measure which reduces the current inequity faced by parents earning different levels of income,” Courcelles said. “The key is what families decide to do with that extra income — do they save it, make it part of their financial plan or spend it on a vacation?”

Courcelles suggests families consider setting aside the extra cash and make it part of their overall financial plan through savings and other purposes, such as the purchase of life or disability insurance, to top up registered retirement savings plan or tax

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free savings account contributions, or invest in a registered education savings plan for their children’s future education.

The cost to attend university or college is rising.

A four-year university degree currently can cost upwards of $60,000 for tuition, books, room and board and spending money. For children born this year, the cost could reach $140,000 by the time they’re at the age for a post-secondary education.

Up to $50,000 can be contributed into an RESP plan for each child who is enrolled in qualified educational programs, such as a trade school, college or university. There is no annual contribution limit and the government will add a grant of up to $7,200.

Income and capital gains can be generated within an RESP through investment in a variety of options, such as stocks, bonds, mutual funds and guaranteed investment certificates, and grow tax-free until the children named in the plan are ready to pay for their post-secondary education. They only pay income tax on the gains earned by the plan and the grants as they are withdrawn, which usually is low because the income of most post-secondary students is very limited.

“Even if it’s small, the extra cash can be put to good use,” Courcelles said. “Over time, it’s amazing how it can grow and become part of a financial plan.”

Talbot Boggs is a Toronto-based business communications professional who has worked with national news organizations, magazines and corporations in the finance, retail, manufacturing and other industrial sectors.

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THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — The Toronto stock market is expected to advance modestly during 2015 but with much less reliance on the energy sector after oil and gas companies sold off in a yearend rout amid tumbling oil prices.

Analysts say the lift will come from two of this year’s best-performing sectors — consumer and industrial stocks — that will benefit from an improving U.S. economy, lower oil prices and a Canadian currency that has been buffeted by falling commodity prices.

“Lower oil prices end up being a massive fiscal boost and it’s going to benefit consumers and transportation companies, railways, airlines, things like that,” said Paul Vaillancourt, executive vice-president of private wealth at Fiera Capital in Calgary, noting that a weaker Canadian dollar benefits industrials, lumber, and housing.

The TSX had been up almost 15 per cent year to date at mid-summer, but was on course to end 2014 barely in positive territory. At mid-December, the index was up a slight 150 points or 1.15 per cent for the year.

U.S. markets had a far better year with the Dow up 800 points or five per cent and the S&P 500 ahead nine per cent, even as the Federal Reserve wrapped up its massive program of buying bonds and mortgage-backed securities that kept long-term interest rates low.

Expectations are the Bank of Canada will move to hike rates next year after the Fed starts to increase rates for the first time since the 2008 financial collapse. But the central bank may decide to wait even longer depending on the damage caused to Canadian economic growth by tumbling oil prices.

Performance on the Toronto market varied greatly during 2014.

The TSX energy sector, which makes up about 23 per cent of the TSX, skidded almost 30 per cent for the year, reflecting a drop of over 40 per cent drop in crude prices since mid-summer as the global economic outlook darkened amid a oversupply and a decision by the organization of oil producing countries to leave production levels unchanged.

Expectations for the sector are muted this year as analysts believe oil prices still have a lot of room to fall.

“Lots of supply, weak demand, that’s a recipe for falling commodity prices,” said John Stephenson, president and CEO of Stephenson and Co. “And the places that have typically consumed it, such as the U.S., are clearly moving forward in terms of their production.”

Another major pillar, the base metals sector, fell about 20 per cent and will continue to be pressured by a weak global economy and in particular, a slowdown in the Chinese economy.

But the consumer staples sector, which includes the big grocery and food companies such as Metro (TSX:MRU) and George Weston (TSX:WN), jumped 35 per cent on the expectation families will have more disposable income to spend now that gasoline prices have dropped.

“So we’re seeing that reflected in consumer stocks where they have outperformed the market, certainly the energy stocks, and reflecting an environment where people are selling oil stocks, out of energy and into anything else,” said Colum McKinley, Canadian equities manager at CIBC Asset Management.

“And so buying consumer stocks is part of that process, also reflecting the benefit that consumers will have from lower gasoline prices.”

The industrials group ended the year ahead by almost 10 per cent, dragged down by railroad stocks that fell heavily on worries that the amount of crude being shipped by rail will be reduced. But airline stocks benefited from lower fuel costs.

A decline in oil prices and the loonie are expected to further benefit the market’s consumer discretionary component, which jumped 23 per cent. The sector includes retail giants, such as Canadian Tire (TSX:CTC.A), and auto parts companies, such as Magna International (TSX:MG), that are also enjoying the benefits of surging vehicle sales in the U.S. Financials, the biggest TSX presence with a 35 per cent weighting, are also expected to be positive after the sector gained five per cent this year. Their performance could still be crimped in 2015 year by worries about how lower oil prices will affect the Canadian economy, but Brian Belski, chief investment strategist at BMO Capital Markets, believes they still belong in investors’ portfolios.

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Experts say fish farming in tanks - or closed containment systems — nearly eliminates fish manure runoff and waste through use of water recirculating and treatment systems. It also eliminates the chance of spreading disease or genetic mutation to wild populations. And such tank systems can be placed almost anywhere — from Minnesota to Florida — because temperature and water quality can be controlled in an indoor environment.

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Despite the tough rhetoric, the conference ended Sunday with a compromise based on a groundbreaking U.S.China deal on emissions targets last month.

The Lima decision noted the principle in the 1992 U.N. climate change convention that countries have “common but differentiated responsibilities” to tackle climate change. But like the U.S.-China deal, it added that this should be seen “in light of different national circumstances,” suggesting countries’ responsibilities change over time as they develop.

“It sounds like a tiny thing, but it’s very important,” said Nathaniel Keohane, vice-president of the Environmental Defence Fund.

“I think we’re starting to see the plates move.”

How to interpret what it means in practice is going to be critical over the next year as countries firm up their emissions targets for the Paris agreement.

LIMA, Peru — A last-minute deal that salvaged UN climate talks from collapse early Sunday sends a signal the rich-poor divide that long held up progress can be overcome with a year to go before a landmark pact is supposed to be adopted in Paris.

Still, it remains to be seen whether governments can come up with a new formula for how countries in different stages of development should contribute in a way that keeps global warming from reaching dangerous levels.

“This issue will be contentious and it will need to be worked through all the way to Paris,” U.S. climate envoy Todd Stern said after the marathon talks in Lima finished, more than 30 hours behind schedule.

The UN talks were still far away from reaching any agreement on reducing emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases to a level that scientists say would keep global warming in check. But the Paris agreement would be the first to call on all countries to control their emissions.

The U.S. and other developed nations say that means tearing down the firewall in negotiations that compels only rich countries to rein in emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.

Though it was agreed in 2011 that goals set in Paris would be “applicable to all,” many developing countries worry they will be required to take on emissions controls that stymie their economic growth. In Lima they angrily rejected a draft Pike Wheaton Chevrolet is seeking text that made no mention of different responJourneyman Bodymen sibilities and capabilities for one of the busiest body shops in Central Alberta. to fight global warming.

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A judge tossed out the request in September 2013, calling Michael’s court filing borderline frivolous.

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1964 — MPs vote 163-78 to adopt design for a new national flag of Canada at 2 a.m.,

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Exodus: Gods and Kings rules supreme BEATS OUT HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY FOR TOP SPOT AT BOX OFFICE LOS ANGELES — After three weeks of box office dominance, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 1 ceded its reign to Exodus: Gods and Kings. The biblical epic easily ruled the weekend with a $24.5 million debut, according to box office tracker Rentrak’s Sunday estimates.

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 1, down 40 per cent from last weekend, came in a distant second, earning $13.2 million.

With an expensive $140 million production budget, Exodus: Gods and Kings met expectations in its first weekend. But it failed to live up to the precedent set by some recent biblically-themed films, including Noah which opened to $43.7 million in March.

“I think Hollywood is learning that putting epic, biblical stories on the big screen comes at a pretty heavy price. It’s not easy to do this,” Rentrak’s senior media analyst Paul Dergarabedian said.

Fox’s domestic distribution chief Chris Aronson said he is happy about the performance of his studio’s film.

“We’re feeling great,” Aronson said. “We came in right where our expectations were.”

According to the studio, opening weekend crowds for the film were divided fairly evenly down gender lines, but they skewed older with 65 per cent over the age of 25.

“It’s a very diverse audience,” said Aronson, noting that 20 per cent were African American and 18 per cent Hispanic. “It’s a movie for everyone.”

Also new in theatres, Top Five, from writer, director and star Chris Rock, opened strongly. The Paramount-distributed comedy took in an estimated $7.2 million from only 979 locations to take the fourthplace spot right behind Penguins of Madagascar.

“It’s exactly what we needed to get this movie up and running,” said Megan Colligan, Paramount’s president of worldwide distribution. “It gives us the right rhythm to keep building and building. I think it’s going to benefit from great word of mouth.”

Top Five will expand each weekend before hitting 2,000 screens by Jan. 1.

Despite the fact that nearly all expectations were met for this weekend’s new openers, it paled in comparison to last year, which saw the opening of the second Hobbit film. Also, the overall box office is still down over five per cent for the year, and the deficit is only growing.

“We’re running out of racetrack,” Dergarabedian said. “We’re not going to have a record-breaking year.”

But there is a silver lining, he said.

“For me, the hot spots are in the indie world,” said Dergarabedian, noting the impressive fivescreen, $300,000 debut for Paul Thomas Anderson’s Inherent Vice, and the stunning growth of awardsfriendly films like The Imitation Game, Birdman and Wild, which expanded to 116 screens and cracked the top 10 with $1.6 million.

Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theatres, according to Rentrak.

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This image released by 20th Century Fox shows Christian Bale in a scene from Exodus: Gods and Kings.

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4. Top Five, $7.2 million.

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The producers said in a statement Saturday that they are concerned that third parties who received the screenplay might seek to publish it — and warned the material is subject to copyright protection around the world.

The producers promised to “take all necessary steps to protect their rights against the persons who stole the screenplay, and against anyone who makes infringing uses of it or attempts to take commercial advantage of confidential property it knows to be stolen.”

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BANJARNEGARA, Indonesia - Rescuers pulled more bodies from the debris Sunday after heavy rain in central Indonesia loosened soil and collapsed a hill, setting off a landslide that killed at least 32 villagers and left 76 others missing under piles of mud.

About 2,000 rescuers, including soldiers, police and volunteers, were digging through the mud and the wreckage of crumpled homes, getting some relief from clear weather following days of heavy rain.

Excavators, meanwhile, shoved aside earth and the remains of decimated wooden homes.

Residents of Jemblung village in Central Java province’s Banjarnegara district said they heard a roaring sound followed by the raining down of red soil that buried more than 100 houses late Friday.

“The landslide looked like it was spinning down,” said one resident, Subroto, who like many Indonesians uses only one name.

“I managed to rescue a pregnant woman, but could not save the other man.”

He said one side of the hill collapsed, then another. “In five minutes, there were three (major landslides) and they swept away everything,” Subroto said.

By late afternoon Sunday, 32 bodies had been pulled from the debris, while hopes faded that the 76 people still missing would be found alive, said

Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, the spokesman for Indonesia’s Disaster Mitigation Agency.

Many roads and bridges were destroyed, hampering rescue efforts, Nugroho said.

Indonesian President Joko Widodo arrived at the scene Sunday. He pledged to relocate the hundreds of people left homeless by the disaster, and assured that the government would help provide aid for those who were injured. Eleven injured villagers were hospitalized.

Many people in Jemblung village said they were aware that the earth on the 150-meter (yard) hill that flanked their remote farming village may not hold.

After hearing a deep rumbling sound just after dusk Friday, some fled to safer ground.

But others were either at home or at the local mosque when the mud, rocks and trees tumbled onto their village.

Wawan Wahyuni, a 20-year-old farmer, said he watched helplessly as his grandfather and dozens of his neighbours disappeared beneath mud more than 6 metres (20 feet) deep in some spots.

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Wahyuni himself was buried up to his chest until survivors rescued him seven hours later.

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MOSCOW - Russia’s Defence Ministry on Sunday denied Swedish claims that for the second time this year a Russian military aircraft had nearly collided with a passenger jet over Sweden, insisting that the two planes were never less than 70 kilometres (42 miles) apart.

Scandinavian Airlines, which was operating the commercial flight, also said the incident had been blown out of proportion and that no danger had been posed to Friday’s flight from Copenhagen to Poznan, Poland.

Swedish military officials raised the alarm on Saturday by announcing that the Russian intelligence plane, which had turned off its transponders to avoid commercial radar, had come dangerously close to colliding with the passenger jet.

“This is serious. This is inappropriate. This is outright dangerous when you turn off the transponder,” Swedish Defence Minister Peter Hultqvist said on Swedish radio.

Russia responded on Sunday by insisting that its military aircraft had been operating in compliance with rules governing international airspace and flying at a safe distance from routes used by civilian flights.

“There were no prerequisites for an air accident,” Russian Defence Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov said in a statement carried by Russian news agencies. SAS also said the Russian aircraft had maintained a safe distance.

“This has been blown out of all proportion, completely,” SAS spokesman Knut Morten Johansen said. “It wasn’t even an incident.” He said there was no breach “because the safety distance between aircraft hadn’t been exceeded.”

Sweden’s air force chief, Maj. Gen. Micael Byden, said Saturday that the incident in international air space looked “pretty serious” and the commercial flight was immediately ordered to change course, but he said it was not as serious as in March when a Russian plane flying without transponders came within 100 metres (300 feet) of another SAS plane that had taken off from Copenhagen.

Russia has increased its military presence in the Baltic Sea area as tensions with the West have risen over the conflict in Ukraine. NATO also has air patrols over the Baltic Sea and rotates NATO military units in and out of member countries in the region.

Konashenkov said the number of flights by NATO warplanes along Russia’s borders has tripled in recent months, and a NATO reconnaissance plane was flying between the Russian aircraft and the passenger jet on Friday. NATO aircraft also fly in international air space with their transponders switched off, he said.

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Rebels split road trip

Photo by Matthew Gourlie/ Moose Jaw Times-Herald

Red Deer Rebels goalie Rylan Toth makes a pad save to deny Jaimen Yakubowski of the Moose Jaw Warriors while getting checked by Preston Kopeck in WHL action Saturday night at Mosaic Place in Moose Jaw.

GET WIN AND LOSS ON QUICK ROAD TRIP EAST; PULL OFF BIG TRADE SUNDAY

BY ADVOCATE STAFF Wheat Kings 4 Rebels 0 BRANDON — The Red Deer Rebels played with energy but were firing blanks before 2,904 fans Sunday afternoon at Westman Place.

The visitors directed 23 shots at Wheat Kings netminder Jordan Papirny without once finding the back of the net. The hosts, meanwhile, managed 22 shots at Rebels goaltender Rylan Toth and got the only goal they needed midway through the first period — a power-play tally from John Quenneville — in a 4-0 Western Hockey League victory.

“We had some chances, but overall we just didn’t create enough offence,” said Rebels GM/head coach Brent Sutter, whose team prevailed 4-1 at Moose Jaw the night before.

“We worked and competed today, it was just one of those days,” said Sutter.

“You get in here at 4 in the morning and you’re playing 12 hours later. And they (Wheat Kings) are sitting here waiting for you.

“We played hard and competed, we just made a couple of mistakes that cost us and we needed a couple of saves at certain times. That’s just the way it is some days.”

Reid Duke followed Quenneville’s game-opening goal with an early second-period tally and Tim McGauley connected 42 seconds apart late in the third period. McGauley’s second goal was a short-handed tally.

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Rebels land blue-chip defenceman in swap with Blades Red Deer Rebels GM/head coach Brent Sutter paid a steep price but is confident he landed a blue-chip defenceman Sunday.

“He’s a player we’ve had our eyes on for well over a year now, and yet we knew there would be a price,” said Sutter, after sending forward Mason McCarty and first- and second-round draft picks to the Saskatoon Blades in exchange for defenceman Nelson Nogier and forward Austin Adamson, both 18.

“Those are the stakes in poker.

It takes a first-round and a secondround pick to get a player like that.”

The Blades will get the first-round pick in 2016 and the second rounder in 2015.

Nogier is a six-foot-three, 203-pound Saskatoon native who was in his third season with the Blades. He has played in 128 WHL games, scoring two goals and collecting 18 points while recording 75 minutes in penalties.

Selected by the Winnipeg Jets in the fourth round of June’s NHL entry draft, Nogier should be a top-four pairing rearguard with the Rebels.

“He’s just a real solid, two-way guy.

He’s a very good hockey player,” said Sutter.

Adamson, a five-foot-11, 198-pound winger, hails from Vancouver and this season — his second in the league — has produced three goals and five

points in 31 games.

“With Adamson we’re getting close to a six-foot, 200-pound player who is a good skater,” said Sutter. “We’re hoping he’ll be a good role player for us, someone who can play on the third and fourth lines. They are both good kids and we’re excited about bringing them on board.”

McCarty, a five-foot-10, 176-pound winger, appeared in only nine games with the Rebels this season, collecting two assists in the process. The 17-year-old approached Sutter with a trade request two weeks ago.

“Carts asked me if I could find him a place in the league where he can be an every-day, every-game type of player,” said the Rebels boss. “He could see the (forward) depth we have on our team.

“I told him he just needed to be patient and I’d work through it and see if I could find something that made sense for both himself and ourselves.”

Blades GM/head coach Bob Woods told Daniel Nugent-Bowman of the Saskatoon StarPhoenix that the Rebels offer was too good to pass up.

“This was an opportunity for us as an organization to really improve our future,” said Woods. “When you get picks like that you can really find some pretty good players.

“In the situation you’re in, if you get those types of opportunities, you have to take them. I wouldn’t pick Nelson as my guy to move, but you’re not going to get those types of offers for anybody else.”

The Blades have struggled mightily this season while posting a mere

seven wins, including just two in their last 20 games.

“It’s been a tough year,” said Nogier, in conversation with NugentBowman. “It’s been frustrating and disappointing.

“As much as it’s hard to leave, I wish the Saskatoon Blades organization nothing but the best as they get through this rebuild process. I’m excited for my new journey ahead.”

Nogier said he never saw the trade coming, but he’s welcoming the opportunity to compete in a second Memorial Cup tournament. Nogier was 16 when the Blades hosted the Memorial Cup in 2013 and will be 19 when the Rebels host in 2016.

“It’s going to be a good opportunity,” he said. “Definitely having that experience as a young guy, I got to see how the 19-year-olds and 20-year-olds handled it when they were playing.

I’m going to try to use what I learned.

Hopefully things go as planned.”

The addition of Nogier will give the Rebels 10 defencemen once Nick Charif comes off the injury list this week or next.

“It does give us some flexibility moving forward, after the freeze comes off,” said Sutter, hinting that one or more of the rearguards will be dealt before the Jan. 10 trade deadline. “The bottom line with this trade is we waned to improve our back end . . . our top four to five defencemen.

That was our focus.”

The WHL trade freeze went into effect at midnight Sunday and will be lifted at midnight on Boxing Day. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

Flames finish road trip with loss to Blackhawks

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Blackhawks 2 Flames 1 CHICAGO - The Chicago Blackhawks found a higher gear in the third period, and Brandon Saad helped finish off the Calgary Flames.Saad scored with 7:03 left, and the Blackhawks beat the Flames 2-1 on Sunday night for their 12th victory in the last 14 games.

After motoring past Calgary defenceman Mark Giordano, Saad took a centring pass from captain Jonathan Toews and lifted a shot past Jonas Hiller’s glove.

“That one felt good,” Saad said. “It’s a great play.”

“When you’re used to winning and you know how to win, you come ready to play in the third.”

Toews also set up Patrick Sharp’s power-play goal as the surging Blackhawks dealt the Flames their fifth straight loss. Chicago had won eight in a row before Saturday night’s 3-2 loss at the New York Islanders.

The Blackhawks stepped up their play in the final period, dominating for chunks of time and outshooting the Flames 10-5. Hiller had to be sharp to keep it close, making several tough saves.

“I thought we were OK for 40 (minutes), and then went to another level in the third,” Chicago coach Joel Quenneville said. “It was a big win for us.”

“We played the right way for most of the night and got rewarded in the end.”

The rush that led to Saad’s seventh goal started when Calgary’s Johnny Gaudreau fell and lost the puck at the Flames’ blue line. Chicago defence-

man Niklas Hjalmarsson fed Toews, who powered down right wing before finding Saad.

“Johnny got a bad edge on his skate.

It’s not a matter that he turned the puck over being careless or anything,” Flames coach Bob Hartley said. “It was an accident.

“Right now it seems that whenever we need a break, it’s not there. We showed up to work ... but no rewards to show for it.”

Jiri Hudler had his team-leading 12th goal for Calgary, which has scored just eight times during its slide.

Sharp’s goal was his first since returning Tuesday from a knee injury that sidelined him for 14 games. Sharp, who led Chicago with 34 goals last season, has four this year - all on the power play.

Chicago’s Antti Raanta made 23 saves while subbing for Corey Crawford, who is out with a foot injury.

Rookie Scott Darling had started the Blackhawks’ last four games.

Before the game, Quenneville said he expected Crawford to return next weekend. Raanta and Darling have filled in quite nicely since Crawford was hurt while leaving a concert two weeks ago.

Hiller finished with 26 saves.

“He gave us a chance to win, made some unbelievable saves at the right time,” Hartley said. “But we’re not scoring much right now, so we’re not helping our cause.”Neither team had many chances in the scoreless first period.

Hiller made a sprawling pad save on Andrew Shaw’s rebound attempt 6:15 in. Gaudreau danced down the Chicago slot with a series of nifty moves with

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Chicago Blackhawks center Andrew Shaw battles for the puck against Calgary Flames defenseman Raphael Diaz as Flames goalie Jonas Hiller looks on during an NHL game in Chicago, Sunday. The Flames lost the game, 2-1.

7:59 left, but was stopped by Raanta.

Hudler opened the scoring at 4:27 of the second when he trailed in late on a rush and was left open. Hudler took Gaudreau’s cross-ice feed and whistled it past Raanta’s glove.

Sharp’s goal at 8:43 - just nine seconds into a power play - came off a fast passing series with Kane and Toews.

From below the goal line, Toews dished across the slot to Sharp, who sprinted into the left circle and ripped

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NOTES: Chicago D Tim Erixon, acquired from Columbus earlier on Sunday for F Jeremy Morin, played on the left side of a defensive pair with Michal Rozsival. ... Chicago also reassigned D Klas Dahlbeck to Rockford of the AHL on Sunday. ... Calgary D Corey Potter, recalled from AHL Adirondack on Saturday, was a healthy scratch, as was former Blackhawks F Brandon Bollig.

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Oilers shut out at home by Rangers

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Rangers 2 Oilers 0 EDMONTON - Henrik Lundqvist didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to do much for his fifth shutout of the season.

Lundqvist only needed to make 16 saves as the Rangers won their third game in a row, defeating the Edmonton Oilers 2-0 on Sunday. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was not a very tough game for me, but they had a few chances here and there,â&#x20AC;? Lundqvist said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We were patient. We felt like they were playing not to make any mistakes and were staying back. They were waiting for us to make mistakes so that they could counter. But we did a good job of playing a smart hockey game. We just stuck with the game plan and let our chances come to us. I thought we were the better team the whole game, but at the same time it was still a one-goal game for most of it.â&#x20AC;?

Dan Girardi and Carl Hagelin scored for the Rangers (14-10-4), who have picked up victories in five of their past seven games.

The Rangers played on back-to-back nights with Lundqvist getting the start in both.

The Swedish netminder said he was eager to get back into the net so soon after Saturdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 5-1 win over the Canucks in Vancouver. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It feels the last couple weeks I havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t played much, so I was happy when they told me I was going in again,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I am used to getting into a mental flow where you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to work to get focused, but when you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t play as much you have to work a little harder at that.â&#x20AC;?

Rick Nash picked up an assist on the game winner, running his point streak to a career-high 10 games- the longest active point streak in the NHL this season. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been one of our most consistent performers on both ends of the rink,â&#x20AC;? said Rangers head coach Alain Vigneault. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In this league you have to be able to score, but you also have to be able to defend and he has done a really good job in both ends of the ice for us.â&#x20AC;?

The Oilers (7-19-5), who have lost four in a row and 15 of their past 16 games overall, sit in last place in the NHL. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When you put only 16 shots on net, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tough to win and it showed tonight,â&#x20AC;? said Oilers forward Ryan Nugent-Hopkins.

Edmonton head coach Dallas Eakins said the Rangers put up a bit of a brick wall. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was a tough night it seemed to get anything going,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was one of those, it looked like a

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New York Rangersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Rick Nash and Edmonton Oilersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; David Perron battle for the puck during first period NHL action in Edmonton, on Sunday. game where youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re watching paint dry. Both teams were being fairly responsible. The Rangers a few years ago took on that mentality of shot blocking where nothing was ever going to get through. It seemed like they were able to block a ton of shots and we werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t able to get them through.â&#x20AC;?

The Rangers went up 1-0 with four minutes left to play in the opening period as a Girardi pass through the crease hit the skate of Oiler Mark Arcobello and went straight into the net past Edmonton starter Ben Scrivens.

It was the 21st time in 31 games the Oilers allowed the first goal of the game.

The Rangers had seven first-period shots to Edmontonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s five. New York had the bulk of the Grade A chances in the second period, but Scrivens was solid to keep his team in it. He was lucky once when Mats Zuccarello shot a puck over the net, but also came

across the crease to make a huge pad save on a Ryan McDonagh rebound late in the period.

Despite a limited amount of action around his net, Lundqvist did make a point-blank save on Oilers defender Jeff Petry with four minutes to play in the middle frame to keep his team ahead.

The shots favoured the Rangers by a 15-10 margin after 40 minutes.

Lundqvist bailed out his defenders with another big save in close on Taylor Hall with six-and-a-half minutes remaining in the third period.

Edmonton pulled Scrivens in the late stages, but it worked against them as Hagelin scored an emptynet goal.

Both teams return to action on Tuesday as the Rangers travel to Calgary to face the Flames and the Oilers begin a two-game road swing against the Arizona Coyotes.

Canadian cowboys end season with solid showing at NFR

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thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be my motivation for next year. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll go home and work a little harder, and start again next year.â&#x20AC;?

Flundra made a late season charge to even earn the right to be in Las Vegas, qualifying with a cheque in won on his last horse in Hanna. He did manage to move himself up from that 15th spot in the world standings to 12th, and was still grateful for the chance to ride for the past ten days. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The whole NFR experience is pretty awesome.

The rodeoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like nothing else in the world. Every experience, you come, you learn, you grow from it. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m just ready to start over, and get back here again next year.â&#x20AC;?

Flundraâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s season also included the $100,000 bonus from the Calgary Stampede, and he and his trick-riding wife Niki are expecting their second child in less than two weeks, so it will go down as a memorable year for the family.

There were plenty of repeat World Champions on the roster this year. Kaycee Feild of Utah won his fourth straight bareback title, as well as the average, while Texan Tuf Cooper claimed his third buckle in

the tie-down roping event. Californian Luke Branquinho notched his fifth world championship in the steer wrestling, with repeat winners Clay Tryan and Jade Corkill in the team roping. The amazing Trevor Brazile moved his record gold buckle collection to 21, as he earned his 12th all-around honor, finishing the year with $494,369.

For the first time, the barrel racing title went to the always colorful Fallon Taylor of Texas, but fourtime Canadian barrel racing titlist Lisa Lockhart of South Dakota won the average. The youth factor was also evident as Spencer, the youngest of the four saddle bronc riding Wright brothers of Utah, won his first world buckle in that event. And 20-year-old Sage Kimzey became just the second bull rider ever to win the world in his rookie year. The Oklahoma cowboy also took the average, and the truck as the Ram Top Gun winner for the highest money earner of any event at the NFR. A record attendance of 177,565 fans took in the action at the Thomas and Mack Arena this year.

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Christmas for a trio of Canadian cowboys will be a little easier, thanks to ten days spent in Las Vegas. Not many people can leave that city with cash in hand, but Dustin Flundra, Curtis Cassidy and Jake Vold managed to earn some bonus bucks, as they put the finishing touches on their 2014 pro rodeo season.

Canadian bareback riding champion Vold finds himself almost $75,000 to the good afDIANNE ter his work at the National FINSTAD Finals Rodeo. The Ponokaraised contestant wrapped things up on a high note, by placing in a tie for third place Saturday night, with an aggressive 85 point ride on a horse by the name of Good Time Charlie. That gave him another $8071 for the final go-round, and it was also enough to bump him up in the rich paying average. His total of 812.5 points on the ten rides was fourth best overall, which was worth an additional $22,987. Vold came into Las Vegas in 11th spot in the world standings, and finished in sixth. He doubled his season earnings, and marked down $142,774 as the year-end tally. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I had a blast here,â&#x20AC;? remarked the 27-year-old, as he was asked to review his first NFR. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My highlight of the week? After this tenth round, just going home with a big cheque, I guess,â&#x20AC;? he chuckled. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I just made sure I kept such a positive attitude, and had a lot of fun. I sure enjoyed Vegas.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Some guys said it can be a long ten days, or it can be an awesome ten days. I was bound and determined that no matter what happened, I was going to have an awesome ten days. It definitely worked out.â&#x20AC;?

As disappointing as it was for Vold to miss out on the NFR experience in the past due to injuries, it now appears the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;seasoningâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; he gained on the rodeo trail leading up to his Vegas debut was worthwhile.

Vold was not dazzled by all the lights and pressure, but instead came ready to do his job. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a little older, so probably donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t party as much as I used to,â&#x20AC;? he admitted. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You just slow down a bit, and I guess I kind of know how to slow down a bit on some horses too. But Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve still got that all or nothing attitude most times. Yea, definitely having experience coming here sure has helped me.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t believe itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s over. My bodyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ready for it to be done, I can tell you that. But it flew by, for sure.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one of the years Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been waiting to have money-wise. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sure nice. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m looking forward to quite a few more,â&#x20AC;? grinned Vold.

Steer wrestler Curtis Cassidy had an up and down week in his fifth NFR appearance. He got to experience the victory lap and collect a go-round buckle twice, although one of those times he split the honor with another bulldogger. With just three placings, Cassidy picked up $43,981 in Las Vegas, which in any other place, at any other time of the year, would be cause for dancing in the streets. But given what â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;couldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve beenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, and the fact he broke out and missed his last steer Saturday, the Donalda cowboy had some mixed emotions when the event was all over. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m kind of disappointed I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t win more and it didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t go better,â&#x20AC;? admitted Cassidy, Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s reigning High Point Champion. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But I rode a new horse Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d never rode here before, or not even much up to this point. He was a little hit and miss for me, but there were a couple of nights where it worked out really good. The horse has got a lot of speed, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just a matter of him needing a little more experience. I need a little more experience on him, just to get on the same page. But heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s got a lot of potential. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m looking forward to next year, because I think heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to be pretty darn good.â&#x20AC;?

When the dust cleared, Cassidy had moved up one notch, from 11th to 10th in the world standings, to cap off a $101,430 season. Four-time Canadian saddle bronc champion Dustin Flundra made his third trip to Las Vegas, riding away with $28,810 after placing in four rounds, and finishing 8th in the average. But he was flagged for missing his horse out and given no score Saturday, which wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the way he wanted to wrap up his 2014 season. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Things didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t work out, and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m disappointed in myself a bit right now,â&#x20AC;? confessed Flundra. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I had a horse that was probably a chance in the round and unfortunately for me, I had a little bauble at the start. You canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t afford to make mistakes like that.

Mistakes like that cost you a lot of money. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not making excuses. I shouldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve spurred him out, but

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CENTRAL DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL Medicine Hat 33 23 8 1 1 Calgary 33 19 11 1 2 Red Deer 34 18 12 3 1 Edmonton 33 15 13 3 2 Kootenay 34 17 17 0 0 Lethbridge 31 6 20 3 2

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GA 83 98 111 97 127 125

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WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF Kelowna 34 26 5 3 0 147 Victoria 35 17 16 2 0 111 Prince George 33 17 16 0 0 103 Kamloops 36 13 18 3 2 109 Vancouver 33 15 18 0 0 103

GA 82 119 131 131 109

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sticking) 14:30, Dixon RD (roughing) 17:44, Shmyr Bra (slashing) 17:44.

Shots on goal Red Deer 6 8 9 - 23 Brandon 5 9 8 4 Goal - Red Deer: Toth (L, 17-9-3); Brandon: Papirny (W, 21-6-2).

Power plays (goal-chances) - Red Deer: 0-6; Brandon: 1-5.

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GP 31 36 31 33 32

U.S. DIVISION W L OTLSOL 19 8 3 1 19 14 0 3 16 12 3 0 17 15 0 1 13 15 2 2

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WHL EASTERN CONFERENCE EAST DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF Brandon 34 24 7 2 1 155 Regina 31 19 11 1 0 114 Swift Current 34 16 14 0 4 105 Moose Jaw 33 15 15 2 1 100 Prince Albert 34 15 18 1 0 100 Saskatoon 34 7 24 2 1 89

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Saturday’s results Red Deer 4 Moose Jaw 1 Regina 5 Saskatoon 4 Calgary 5 Kamloops 3 Kootenay 6 Edmonton 3 Medicine Hat 7 Prince Albert 4 Vancouver 4 Victoria 0 Spokane 3 Prince George 2 Everett 4 Tri-City 2 Portland 2 Seattle 1 Sunday’s results Brandon 4 Red Deer 0 Calgary 4 Kelowna 1 Kamloops 4 Lethbridge 2 Portland 4 Tri-City 3

Wednesday’s games Lethbridge at Regina, 6 p.m.

Moose Jaw at Prince Albert, 6 p.m.

Saskatoon at Swift Current, 6 p.m.

Kamloops at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.

Kelowna at Red Deer, 7 p.m.

Edmonton at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Spokane at Prince George, 8 p.m.

Victoria at Everett, 8:05 p.m.

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Pts 52 51 49 49 47 46 44 42 42 40 39 38 38 38 38 37 37 36 36 35 35 35 35 35 34 34 34 33 33 33 33 33 32 31 31 30 30 30

Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts 29 19 6 4 42 30 20 10 0 40 29 14 10 5 33 28 14 10 4 32 29 11 13 5 27 31 11 15 5 27 29 12 15 2 26 29 8 18 3 19

GF GA 94 69 96 87 85 79 84 77 79 87 72 91 71 95 61 83

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts Chicago 31 21 9 1 43 St. Louis 30 20 8 2 42 Nashville 29 19 8 2 40 Winnipeg 31 15 10 6 36 Minnesota 28 16 11 1 33 Dallas 29 11 13 5 27 Colorado 30 10 13 7 27

GF GA 95 61 89 70 78 57 73 74 81 70 85 103 78 98

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Saturday’s summary Rebels 4, Warriors 1 First Period 1. Red Deer, Nell 7 (McCarty, Grman) 5:40.

2. Red Deer, Sheen 6 (Sandhu, Dixon) 12:40.

3. Red Deer, Cote 7 (Doetzel) 19:42.

Penalties - Shynkaruk MJ (tripping) 7:02, White MJ (hooking) 16:55.

Second Period No Scoring.

Penalties - Feser RD (roughing) 16:28, Eberle MJ (roughing) 16:28, Eberle MJ (cross-checking) 16:28, Doetzel RD (high-sticking) 19:39.

Third Period 4. Moose Jaw, Perillat 4 (Yakubowski, White) :50 (pp).

5. Red Deer, Polei 14 (unassisted) 18:15 (-EN).

Penalties - None.

Shots on goal Red Deer 9 7 5 - 21 Moose Jaw 5 6 11 - 22 Goal - Rylan Toth (W, 17-8-3-1), Zach Sawchenko (L, 9-8-1-0) Power plays (goal-chances) - Red Deer: 0-3; Moose Jaw: 1-1.

Sunday’s summary Wheat Kings 4, Rebels 0 First Period 1. Brandon, Quenneville 11 (Quenneville, Provorov) 10:15 (pp).

Penalties - Taraschuk Bra (tripping) 6:29, Sheen RD (slashing) 9:45, Mahura RD (holding) 11:22, Cote RD (delay of game) 13:12, Provorov Bra (highsticking) 13:35, Patrick Bra (hooking) 14:51.

Second Period 2. Brandon, Duke 10 (Quenneville, Quenneville) 1:31.

Penalties - Sheen RD (cross-checking) 4:00, Waltz Bra (roughing) 4:00, Coulter Bra (elbowing) 6:40, Maxwell RD (slashing) 12:42, Grman RD (holding) 16:23.

Third Period 3. Brandon, McGauley 19 (unassisted) 14:01.

4. Brandon, McGauley 20 (unassisted) 14:43 (shorthanded-SH).

Penalties - Duke Bra (high-sticking) 0:26, Pawlenchuk RD (roughing) 6:25, Sheen RD (10-minute misconduct) 6:25, Waltz Bra (roughing) 6:25, Cote RD (hooking) 10:33, Provorov Bra (unsportsmanlike cnd.) 10:33, Quenneville Bra (high-

Today

Sunday’s summaries G 10 32 23 11 18 16 17 20 17 21 17 20 16 14 8 13 10 21 19 16 13 10 10 10 17 13 12 17 15 14 8 6 7 15 10 14 8 7

Nick Merkley, Kel Rourke Chartier, Kel Cole Sanford, MH Trevor Cox, MH Jack Rodewald, MJ Cole Ully, Kam Brayden Point, MJ Tim McGauley, Bra Chase De Leo, Por Oliver Bjorkstrand, Por Jaedon Descheneau, Koo Austin Carroll, Vic Coda Gordon, SC Nikita Scherbak, Eve Joe Hicketts, Vic Jayce Hawryluk, Bra Parker Bowles, TC Tyson Baillie, Kel Adam Tambellini, CAL Adam Helewka, Spo Luke Philp, Koo Jansen Harkins, PG Matt Needham, Kam Ivan Provorov, Bra Chase Witala, PG Colby Cave, SC Dryden Hunt, Reg Jake Debrusk, SC Connor Rankin, CAL Connor Gay, Reg Madison Bowey, Kel Nicolas Petan, Por Peter Quenneville, Bra Chase Lang, CAL Travis Sanheim, CAL Beau McCue, TC Ivan Nikolishin, Eve Brett Cote, RD

National Hockey League EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Tampa Bay 31 19 9 3 41 105 82 Detroit 31 17 7 7 41 92 79 Montreal 31 19 10 2 40 83 79 Toronto 30 18 9 3 39 103 85 Florida 28 12 8 8 32 64 74 Boston 30 15 13 2 32 76 78 Ottawa 29 12 12 5 29 76 81 Buffalo 30 12 16 2 26 56 91

Tuesday’s games Lethbridge at Moose Jaw, 6 p.m.

Regina at Brandon, 6 p.m.

Kelowna at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Kamloops at Kootenay, 7 p.m.

Spokane at Prince George, 8 p.m.

Everett at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

Victoria at Seattle, 8:05 p.m.

Carolina at Montreal, 5:30 p.m.

Columbus at Detroit, 5:30 p.m.

Washington at Florida, 5:30 p.m.

Los Angeles at St. Louis, 6 p.m.

Boston at Nashville, 6 p.m.

Buffalo at Winnipeg, 6 p.m.

Minnesota at Chicago, 6:30 p.m.

N.Y. Rangers at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Edmonton at Arizona, 7 p.m.

Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Anaheim 32 21 6 5 47 95 83 Vancouver 30 18 10 2 38 89 86 San Jose 32 17 11 4 38 90 82 Los Angeles 31 15 10 6 36 82 73 Calgary 32 17 13 2 36 95 85 Arizona 30 10 16 4 24 70 99 Edmonton 31 7 19 5 19 65 104 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Saturday’s Games Ottawa 3, Boston 2, SO Columbus 4, Pittsburgh 3, SO Minnesota 4, Arizona 3, SO Philadelphia 5, Carolina 1 Buffalo 4, Florida 3, OT Toronto 4, Detroit 1 N.Y. Islanders 3, Chicago 2 Washington 4, Tampa Bay 2 Anaheim 4, Winnipeg 1 Dallas 4, New Jersey 3 St. Louis 3, Colorado 2, OT N.Y. Rangers 5, Vancouver 1 San Jose 2, Nashville 0 Sunday’s Games Toronto 4, Los Angeles 3, SO Chicago 2, Calgary 1 N.Y. Rangers 2, Edmonton 0 Monday’s Games Ottawa at Buffalo, 5 p.m.

New Jersey at N.Y. Islanders, 5 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Pittsburgh, 5 p.m.

Tuesday’s Games Tampa Bay at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

Anaheim at Toronto, 5:30 p.m.

Blackhawks 2, Flames 1 First Period No Scoring.

Penalties - Hossa Chi (tripping) 7:58.

Second Period 1. Calgary, Hudler 12 (Gaudreau, Brodie) 4:27.

2. Chicago, Sharp 4 (Toews, Kane) 8:43 (pp).

Penalties - Wideman Cgy (holding) 8:34, Bickell Chi (interference) 13:57.

Third Period 3. Chicago, Saad 7 (Toews, Hjalmarsson) 12:57.

Penalties - Oduya Chi (hooking) 4:16, Russell Cgy (tripping) 14:44.

Shots on goal Calgary 9 10 5 - 24 Chicago 7 11 10 - 28 Goal - Calgary: Hiller (L, 9-9-1); Chicago: Raanta (W, 4-2-0).

Power plays (goal-chances) - Calgary: 0-3; Chicago: 1-2.

Rangers 2, Oilers 0 First Period 1. NY Rangers, Girardi 2 (Nash, Zuccarello) 16:04.

Penalties - Fast NYR (hooking) 5:36.

Second Period No Scoring.

Penalties - Kreider NYR (hooking) 0:20.

Third Period 2. NY Rangers, Hagelin 6 (Moore) 19:38 (en).

Penalties - Nugent-Hopkins Edm (hooking) 15:02.

Shots on goal NY Rangers 7 8 7 - 22 Edmonton 5 5 6 - 16 Goal - NY Rangers: Lundqvist (W, 12-7-3); Edmonton: Scrivens (L, 5-11-3).

Power plays (goal-chances) - NY Rangers: 0-1; Edmonton: 0-2.

Maple Leafs 4, Kings 3 (SO) First Period 1. Toronto, Santorelli 6 (Winnik, Holzer) 14:00.

2. Toronto, Franson 5 (Kadri, Santorelli) 19:30 Penalties - Richards LA (slashing) 0:57, Smith Tor (tripping) 8:46, Phaneuf Tor (hooking) 16:03.

Second Period 3. Los Angeles, Williams 8 (Clifford, Martinez) 16:02.

4. Los Angeles, King 3 (Regehr, Martinez) 19:46 Penalties - Robidas Tor (unsportsmanlike conduct) 4:55, Toffoli LA (unsportsmanlike conduct) 4:55.

Third Period 5. Los Angeles, Gaborik 5 (Williams, Stoll) 1:02.

6. Toronto, van Riemsdyk 13 (Franson, Kessel) 8:49 (pp).

Penalties - Lewis LA (high-sticking) 8:41, Muzzin LA (hooking) 14:55.

Overtime No Scoring.

Penalties - None.

Shootout - Toronto wins 1-0 Los Angeles : Gaborik miss, Brown miss, Kopitar miss.

Toronto : Lupul goal, Bozak miss, Santorelli miss.

Shots on goal Los Angeles 11 11 11 3 - 36 Toronto 8 6 16 1 - 31 Goal - Los Angeles: Quick (LO, 12-7-5); Toronto: Reimer (W, 6-3-0).

Power plays (goal-chances) - Los Angeles: 0-2; Toronto: 1-3.

NHL Scoring Leaders Tyler Seguin, Dal Jakub Voracek, Pha Evgeni Malkin, Pgh Sidney Crosby, Pgh Steven Stamkos, TB Claude Giroux, Pha Ryan Getzlaf, Ana Vladimir Tarasenko, StL Rick Nash, NYR Phil Kessel, Tor Tyler Johnson, TB Mark Giordano, Cgy Nicklas Backstrom, Wash Filip Forsberg, Nash Patrick Kane, Chi Jiri Hudler, Cgy Joe Thornton, SJ Joe Pavelski, SJ Nick Foligno, Clb Logan Couture, SJ John Tavares, NYI Ryan Johansen, Clb Patrick Marleau, SJ Kyle Okposo, NYI Nikita Kucherov, TB Jamie Benn, Dal Daniel Sedin, Vcr Henrik Sedin, Vcr Henrik Zetterberg, Det Kevin Shattenkirk, StL Alex Ovechkin, Wash James van Riemsdyk, Tor Patric Hornqvist, Pgh Tyler Bozak, Tor Mike Ribeiro, Nash Jori Lehtera, StL Brock Nelson, NYI Ryan Kesler, Ana Jaden Schwartz, StL Brent Burns, SJ

G 23 11 15 9 17 8 10 17 18 15 9 8 8 12 14 11 8 15 14 12 12 9 7 7 11 8 7 6 5 4 14 12 11 11 8 7 13 10 10 9

A 15 26 21 26 17 26 23 15 12 15 21 22 22 17 14 17 20 12 13 15 15 18 20 20 15 18 19 20 21 22 11 13 14 14 17 18 11 14 14 15

Pts 38 37 36 35 34 34 33 32 30 30 30 30 30 29 28 28 28 27 27 27 27 27 27 27 26 26 26 26 26 26 25 25 25 25 25 25 24 24 24 24

● JV basketball: Lacombe at Hunting Hills, Wetaskiwin at Innisfail, Lindsay Thurber at Ponoka, Camrose at Rocky Mountain House; girls at 6 p.m, boys to follow. ● Women’s basketball: Hoosier Daddy vs. Funk, Big Ballers vs. Shooting Stars, 7:15 and 8:30 p.m., Lindsay Thurber; Xpress vs. Rampage, Spartans vs. Storm, 7:15 and 8:30 p.m., Central Alberta Christian; Triple Threat vs. TBC, 7:15 p.m., Lindsay Thurber new.

Tuesday

● Senior high basketball: Sylvan Lake at Lindsay Thurber, Wetaskiwin at Notre Dame, Stettler at Hunting Hills, Rocky Mountain House at Lacombe, Ponoka at Camrose; girls at 6 p.m., boys to follow. ● Men’s basketball: Vikings vs. All Sports Cresting Lacombe, Rusty Chuckers vs. Sheraton Red Deer, 7:15 and 8:30 p.m., Lindsay Thurber. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Ponoka at Stettler, 8:15 p.m.

● Chinook senior hockey: Fort Saskatchewan at Innisfail, 8:30 p.m.

Saturday

● Major bantam hockey: Spruce Grove at Red Deer White, 11:30 a.m., Arena. ● Peewee AA hockey: Okotoks at Red Deer TBS, 12:30 p.m., Collicutt Centre; Bow Valley at Olds, 1 p.m.; Okotoks Black at Lacombe, 1:45 p.m. ● Bantam AA hockey: Red Deer Ramada at Olds, 3:30 p.m. ● Junior women’s hockey: Calgary Warriors at Central Alberta, 4:15 p.m., Penhold Regional Multiplex. ● Major bantam girls hockey: Southeast at Red Deer, 4:30 p.m., Kinsmen B. ● Minor midget AAA hockey: Lethbridge at Red Deer Northstar, 4:45 p.m., Arena. ● Midget AA hockey: Foothills at Sylvan Lake, 4:45 p.m., Innisfail. ● Major midget girls hockey: St. Albert at Red Deer, 5 p.m., Collicutt Centre. ● AJHL: Fort McMurray at Olds, 7 p.m. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Blackfalds at Red Deer, 8 p.m., Arena. ● Chinook senior hockey: Okotoks at Innisfail, 8:30 p.m.

Wednesday

● JV basketball: Ponoka at Notre Dame, Stettler at Lacombe, Innisfail at Sylvan Lake; girls at 6 p.m., boys to follow. ● WHL: Kelowna at Red Deer, 7 p.m., Centrium.

Thursday

● Men’s basketball: Silver Spurs vs.

Kingsmen, Bulldog Scrap Metal vs.

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

Friday

● Peewee AA hockey: Medicine Hat Black at Lacombe, 6 p.m. ● Mixed martial arts: Havoc Fighting Championship 7, first bout at 7:30 p.m., Sheraton Red Deer. ● AJHL: Fort McMurray at Olds, 7 p.m.

Minor midget AAA hockey: Calgary Canucks at Red Deer Northstar, 8 p.m., Arena. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Stettler at Three Hills, 8 p.m., Trochu.

Sunday

● Peewee AA hockey: Medicine Hat Black at Red Deer Parkland, 11:30 a.m., Kinsmen A; Okotoks Green at Olds, 12:15 p.m.; Okotoks Black at Sylvan Lake, 2:30 p.m., Innisfail. ● Major midget girls hockey: Rocky Mountain at Red Deer, 12:45 p.m., Collicutt Centre. ● Junior women’s hockey: Calgary Titans at Central Alberta, 1:30 p.m., Penhold Regional Multiplex. ● Chinook senior hockey: Okotoks at Bentley, 2 p,m. ● Bantam AA hockey: Olds at Red Deer Steel Kings, 2 p.m., Kinsmen A; Airdrie at Sylvan Lake, 4:45 p.m., Innisfail. ● Minor midget AAA hockey: Lethbridge at Red Deer Aero Equipment, 2:45 p.m., Arena. ● Major bantam hockey: Lethbridge at Red Deer White, 2:45 p.m, site TBA. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Ponoka at Blackfalds, 3:30 p.m. ● Midget AA hockey: Bow Valley at Red Deer Indy Graphics, 5:30 p.m., Arena.

Basketball National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB Toronto 18 6 .750 Brooklyn 10 12 .455 7 Boston 7 14 .333 9 1/2 New York 5 21 .192 14 Philadelphia 2 21 .087 15 1/2 Southeast Division W L Pct 17 6 .739 16 7 .696 11 13 .458 10 16 .385 6 17 .261

Washington Atlanta Miami Orlando Charlotte

GB 1 6 1/2 8 1/2 11

Central Division W L Pct 15 8 .652 13 9 .591 12 12 .500 7 17 .292 5 19 .208

GB 1 1/2 3 1/2 8 1/2 10 1/2

WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct Memphis 19 4 .826 Houston 18 5 .783 San Antonio 17 7 .708 Dallas 17 8 .680 New Orleans 11 12 .478

GB 1 2 1/2 3 8

Northwest Division W L Pct 18 6 .750 11 13 .458 10 14 .417 6 18 .250 5 18 .217

GB 7 8 12 12 1/2

Chicago Cleveland Milwaukee Indiana Detroit

Portland Oklahoma City Denver Utah Minnesota

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

W 21 16 12 11 8

L 2 7 13 13 16

Pct .913 .696 .480 .458 .333

GB 5 10 10 1/2 13 1/2

Saturday’s Games Golden State 105, Dallas 98 Orlando 100, Atlanta 99 Portland 95, Indiana 85 Brooklyn 114, Charlotte 87 Milwaukee 111, L.A. Clippers 106 Memphis 120, Philadelphia 115, OT Houston 108, Denver 96 Detroit 95, Sacramento 90 Sunday’s Games Golden State 128, New Orleans 122, OT Washington 93, Utah 84 Chicago 93, Miami 75 Oklahoma City 112, Phoenix 88 L.A. Lakers 100, Minnesota 94 Toronto 95, New York 90, OT San Antonio 99, Denver 91 Monday’s Games Boston at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at Indiana, 5 p.m.

Charlotte at Cleveland, 5 p.m.

Chicago at Atlanta, 5:30 p.m.

Orlando at Toronto, 5:30 p.m.

Milwaukee at Phoenix, 7 p.m.

San Antonio at Portland, 8 p.m.

Detroit at L.A. Clippers, 8:30 p.m.

Tuesday’s Games Minnesota at Washington, 5 p.m.

Miami at Brooklyn, 5:30 p.m.

Utah at New Orleans, 6 p.m.

Golden State at Memphis, 6 p.m.

Dallas at New York, 6 p.m.

Oklahoma City at Sacramento, 8:30 p.m.

Pacific Division

Football National Football League AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct y-New England 11 3 0 .786 Buffalo 8 6 0 .571 Miami 7 7 0 .500 N.Y. Jets 3 11 0 .214 South W L T Pct y-Indianapolis 10 4 0 .714 Houston 7 7 0 .500 Tennessee 2 12 0 .143 Jacksonville 2 12 0 .143 North W L T Pct Cincinnati 9 4 1 .679 Pittsburgh 9 5 0 .643 Baltimore 9 5 0 .643 Cleveland 7 7 0 .500 West W L T Pct y-Denver 11 3 0 .786 Kansas City 8 6 0 .571 San Diego 8 6 0 .571 Oakland 2 12 0 .143

PF 442 302 327 230

PA 280 254 301 360

PF 424 324 231 211

PA 317 277 390 376

PF 311 389 376 276

PA 289 339 267 300

PF 407 322 303 213

PA 303 254 294 381

NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF

PA

Dallas Philadelphia N.Y. Giants Washington

10 9 5 3

Carolina New Orleans Atlanta Tampa Bay

W 5 5 5 2

Detroit Green Bay Minnesota Chicago

W 10 10 6 5

W x-Arizona 11 Seattle 10 San Francisco 7 St. Louis 6 x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division

4 0 5 0 9 0 11 0 South L T 8 1 8 0 9 0 12 0 North L T 4 0 4 0 8 0 8 0 West L T 3 0 4 0 7 0 8 0

Thursday’s Game Arizona 12, St. Louis 6 Sunday’s Games Kansas City 31, Oakland 13

STORY FROM PAGE B1

REBELS: Power play, hasn’t been very good The Wheat Kings were one-for-five on the power play, while the Rebels were zero-for-six with a man advantage.

“Our power play hasn’t been very good the last couple of games,” said Sutter, whose club was zero-for-three in Saturday’s victory at Moose Jaw. “We have to get it back going. We need it to be producing for us.”

Rebels 4 Warriors 1 The Rebels scored a pair of first-period goals and never looked back in front of 3,389 fans at Mosaic Place Saturday.

“We had a real good start to our game, a good first period,” said Sutter, in reference to unanswered goals from Meyer Nell and Riley Sheen.

Defenceman Brett Cote upped the count to 3-0 with a goal in the final minute of the second period. Warriors rearguard Dustin Perillat notched a power-play marker 50 seconds into the third period to give the hosts some hope, but Rebels forward Evan Polei scored into an empty net with 1:45 remaining to seal the deal.

“We got off our game a bit in the second period but then we got back to playing like we

.714 .643 .357 .214

381 416 317 257

328 347 339 370

Pct .393 .385 .357 .143

PF 288 333 348 254

PA 358 359 369 367

Pct .714 .714 .429 .385

PF 281 436 277 281

PA 238 325 297 378

Pct .786 .714 .500 .429

PF 287 339 251 291

PA 244 242 285 297

Pittsburgh 27, Atlanta 20 N.Y. Giants 24, Washington 13 New England 41, Miami 13 Indianapolis 17, Houston 10 Baltimore 20, Jacksonville 12 Buffalo 21, Green Bay 13 Carolina 19, Tampa Bay 17 Cincinnati 30, Cleveland 0 Denver 22, San Diego 10 N.Y. Jets 16, Tennessee 11 Seattle 17, San Francisco 7 Detroit 16, Minnesota 14 Dallas 38, Philadelphia 27 Monday’s Game New Orleans at Chicago, 6:30 p.m.

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

Saturday, Dec. 20 Philadelphia at Washington, 2:30 p.m.

San Diego at San Francisco, 6:25 p.m.

NFL Odds (Odds provided by Western Canada Lottery; favourites in capital letters) Spread O/U Monday NEW ORLEANS at Chicago 2.5 53.5

can in the third and didn’t give up much,” said Sutter.

Toth made 21 saves while posting his 17th victory of the season. Moose Jaw netminder Zach Sawchenko turned aside 17 shots.

Warriors head coach Tim Hunter wasn’t impressed with his team’s work ethic.

“We didn’t have enough guys who were willing to compete and work hard,” Hunter told Matthew Gourlie of the Moose Jaw Times Herald. “Talk all you want about Xs and Os, but it boils down to that purely in this game — compete and work.”

Hunter knew the Rebels would be toting their lunch buckets. “(Red Deer) is the second team I’ve seen this year that works hard and competes hard every shift. It’s really funny, they’re the second team where their coach is also their manager and owner, that does that,” Hunter said in reference to the Rebels and Kelly McCrimmon’s Brandon Wheat Kings. “I told them ‘I’m not the manager or the owner, I’m just the coach. You guys compete and work hard for each other — not for me. If you do that to start the game we’ll be fine.’”

The .500 road trip allowed the Rebels to move five points up on the fourth-place Edmonton Oil Kings in the Central Division. Red Deer trails the second-place Calgary Hitmen by a single point.

The Rebels host the Kelowna Rockets Wednesday in their final game prior to the Christmas break. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

Soccer English Premier League GP W D L GF 16 12 3 1 36 16 11 3 2 33 16 9 4 3 29 16 8 4 4 27 16 8 2 6 25 16 7 5 4 28 16 7 3 6 20 16 6 5 5 18 16 6 4 6 21 16 6 3 7 19 16 5 4 7 18 16 5 4 7 10 15 4 6 5 24 16 4 5 7 15 16 2 10 4 14 16 3 6 7 19 16 3 6 7 11 15 4 2 9 16 16 2 7 7 15 16 2 4 10 15

Chelsea Man. City Man. United West Ham Southampton Arsenal Tottenham Newcastle Swansea Liverpool Stoke Aston Villa Everton West Brom Sunderland Crystal Palace Burnley QPR Hull City Leicester City

GA 13 14 17 19 13 19 22 22 19 22 21 20 23 20 24 24 24 27 23 27

Pts 39 36 31 28 26 26 24 23 22 21 19 19 18 17 16 15 15 14 13 10

Saturday, Dec. 13 Burnley 1, Southampton 0 Chelsea 2, Hull City 0 Crystal Palace 1, Stoke 1

Leicester City 0, Manchester City 1 Sunderland 1, West Ham 1 West Brom 1, Aston Villa 0 Arsenal 4, Newcastle 1 Sunday, Dec. 14 Manchester United 3, Liverpool 0 Swansea 1, Tottenham 2 Monday, Dec. 15 Everton vs. Queens Park Rangers, 2000 GMT Saturday, Dec. 20 Manchester City vs. Crystal Palace, 1245 GMT Aston Villa vs. Manchester United, 1500 GMT Hull City vs. Swansea, 1500 GMT Queens Park Rangers vs. West Brom, 1500 GMT Southampton vs. Everton, 1500 GMT Tottenham vs. Burnley, 1500 GMT West Ham vs. Leicester City, 1500 GMT Sunday, Dec. 21 Newcastle vs. Sunderland, 1330 GMT Liverpool vs. Arsenal, 1600 GMT Monday, Dec. 22 Stoke vs. Chelsea, 2000 GMT

Transactions Saturday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL American League MINNESOTA TWINS - Agreed to terms with RHP Ervin Santana on a four-year contract.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association NBA - Fined L.A. Clippers F Matt Barnes $25,000 for kicking a water bottle into the stands and directing profane language during Friday’s game.

MIAMI HEAT - Assigned G Shabazz Napier and C Hassan Whiteside to Sioux Falls (NBADL).

FOOTBALL National Football League CLEVELAND BROWNS - Released PK Billy Cundiff. Signed PK Garrett Hartley.

DENVER BRONCOS - Placed RB Montee Ball and S Quinton Carter on injured reserve. Activated L B Danny Trevathan from injured reserve. Signed TE Dominique Jones from the practice squad. ENGLEWOOD, Colo. - The Denver Broncos on Saturday activated linebacker Danny Trevathan from injured reserve and promoted tight end Dominique Jones to the 53-man roster, it was announced.

Also on Saturday, the Broncos placed running back Montee Ball and safety Quinton Carter on injured reserve.

GREEN BAY PACKERS - Placed LB Jamari Lattimore on injured reserve. Signed S Chris Banjo from the practice squad.

HOUSTON TEXANS - Placed DE Tim Jamison on injured reserve. Signed DE Keith Browner from the practice squad.

OAKLAND RAIDERS - Placed S Larry Asante on injured reserve. Signed S Ras-I Dowling and LB Bojay Filimoeatu from the practice squad.

TENNESSEE TITANS - Placed OT Michael Oher on injured reserve. Signed DB Khalid Wooten from the practice squad.

HOCKEY National Hockey League DALLAS STARS - Recalled D Jamie Oleksiak from Texas (AHL).

NEW YORK ISLANDERS - Loaned F Cory Conacher to Bridgeport (AHL).

VANCOUVER CANUCKS - Assigned D Jeremie Blain from Utica (AHL) to Kalamazoo (ECHL).

American Hockey League OKLAHOMA CITY BARONS - Returned F Greger Hanson to Allen (ECHL).

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

WORCESTER SHARKS - Recalled D Nick Jones from Indy (ECHL).

ECHL ECHL - Suspended Utah F Danick Paquette two games.

BAKERSFIELD CONDORS - Signed Fs Sean Menton and Ryan Watson.

BRAMPTON BEAST - Signed F Andy Bathgate.

TULSA OILERS - Released F Ty Bilcke.

Sunday’s Sports Transactions FOOTBALL National Football League BALTIMORE RAVENS - Placed OT Jah Reid on injured reserve. Signed RB Fitzgerald Toussaint from the practice squad.

DALLAS COWBOYS - Signed DE Kenneth Boatright from the practice squad.

KANSAS CITY CHIEFS - Released OT Curtis Feigt from the practice squad. Signed G Jarrod Pughsley to the practice squad.

SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS - Placed NT Glenn Dorsey and LB NaVorro Bowman on injured reserve.

Signed DB Marcus Cromartie and G Andrew Tiller from the practice squad.

HOCKEY National Hockey League CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS - Traded F Jeremy Morin to Columbus for D Tim Erixon. Reassigned D Klas Dahlbeck to Rockford (AHL).

DALLAS STARS - Reassigned G Jussi Rynnas to Texas (AHL). Recalled G Anders Lindback from Texas.

OTTAWA SENATORS - Recalled F Jean-Gabriel Pageau from Binghamton (AHL).

American Hockey League ADIRONDACK PHANTOMS - Returned F Tyler Spurgeon to Ontario (ECHL).

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

UTICA COMETS - Assigned F Mitch Holmberg to Elmira (ECHL).

B4 RED DEER ADVOCATE Monday, Dec. 15, 2014

Bryant helps Cowboys clip Eagles

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Cowboys 38 Eagles 27 PHILADELPHIA - Dez Bryant went nose-to-nose with Malcolm Jenkins in warmups and torched Bradley Fletcher three times during the game Bryant caught a career-best three touchdown catches from Tony Romo and the Dallas Cowboys rallied to beat the Philadelphia Eagles 38-27 on Sunday night after wasting a 21-0 lead.

DeMarco Murray had a pair of TD runs to help the Cowboys (10-4) move ahead of the Eagles (9-5) into first place in the NFC East. The Eagles dominated the Cowboys in a 33-10 road win on Thanksgiving, but Dallas takes control of the division with two weeks left.

“Just came out poised. I was focused,” Bryant said. “We knew that this game was going to be big. We’re not really out trying to prove nothing to nobody. We’re trying to stay together, play together and understand from here on out it’s big games. We’ve got to stay together. We’ve got to block everybody else out. We can’t be in to all of that.”

The NFC-leading Arizona Cardinals (11-3) clinched a playoff berth because the game didn’t end in a tie.

The Cowboys took a 21-0 lead early in the second quarter before Philadelphia rallied behind Mark Sanchez.

Chris Polk had TD runs of 1 and 5 yards and Darren Sproles ran in from the 1 to give the Eagles a 24-21 lead late in third quarter. But Romo and the Cowboys answered quickly with two touchdowns in a span of 2:51.

Murray scored on a 2-yard run to cap a 78-yard drive. After J.J. Wilcox intercepted Sanchez’s pass, the Cowboys started the fourth quarter at the Eagles 42. Romo then hit Bryant in stride for a 25-yard scoring pass.

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Dallas Cowboys’ Dez Bryant pulls in a touchdown against Philadelphia Eagles’ Bradley Fletcher during the second half of an NFL game, Sunday, in Philadelphia.

Bryant couldn’t wait for this game after being held to 73 yards on four catches in the first meeting. After that game, he called Philadelphia’s secondary “cheap” and he had a heated exchange with Jenkins before the game.

Bryant came back twice after Jenkins walked away and it wasn’t known why they argued.

Bryant finished with six receptions for 114 yards. He beat Fletcher on each of the TDs. “Having a guy like Dez makes it easy to throw to spots that he can go get it,”

Romo said. “Just lucky to have him.”

Romo threw for 265 yards and Murray ran for 81 on 31 carries.

Sanchez had 252 yards passing and two interceptions. LeSean McCoy was held to 64 yards rushing.

Sanchez completed a 72-yard catchand-run pass to Jeremy Maclin on third-and-12 to the Cowboys 1 before Polk ran in to get the Eagles to 21-17.

Vinny Curry then sacked Romo and forced a fumble that was recovered by Fletcher Cox at the Cowboys 14. Sproles scored to give Philadelphia a brief

24-21 lead.

The Eagles had won 10 straight regular-season games at home before losing to Seattle and Dallas for their first consecutive losses since Weeks 7 and 8 in 2013.

After Romo threw a 26-yard TD pass to Bryant early in the second quarter, the Cowboys had outscored the Eagles 21-0 and outgained them 167-0. Curry sacked Romo on third down two plays before the TD pass, but a holding call on Cary Williams kept the drive going.

The Cowboys recovered what ended up being an onside kick to start the game. A short kickoff bounced between deep returner Josh Huff and short man Brad Smith at the 15 and was recovered by C.J. Spillman at the Eagles 18.

After Romo connected with Terrance Williams on an 8-yard pass on third-and-6, Murray ran in from the 1 to make it 7-0.

“We can’t turn the football over and expect to win games,” Eagles coach Chip Kelly said. “We’re not coaching it and we’re not doing the right things.”

The Eagles went three-and-out on their first possession, but Donnie Jones pinned the Cowboys back to the 12 with a 68-yard punt.

Romo then led the Cowboys 88 yards on 16 plays. He completed three thirddown passes to Jason Witten to extend the drive and tossed a 4-yard fade to Bryant over Fletcher to put Dallas up 14-0.

The start was the opposite of the first meeting when the Eagles steamrolled the Cowboys on their way to a convincing win. The Cowboys bounced back from that loss with a win at Chicago last Thursday night and had three extra days to prepare for the rematch.

The Eagles beat the Cowboys last year in a winner-take-division game at Dallas in Week 17. Romo missed that game after having back surgery.

Manziel rudely welcomed in first NFL start NFL ROUNDUP

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Bengals 30 Browns 0 CLEVELAND - Johnny Manziel spent his first NFL start being chased and taunted by Cincinnati defenders as the Bengals rudely welcomed the hyped rookie quarterback to the league with a 30-0 demolition of the Cleveland Browns on Sunday.

Manziel failed to live up to the overwhelming buildup surrounding his debut as the AFC North-leading Bengals (9-4-1) built a 20-point halftime lead and rolled to their fourth straight road win.

Bengals rookie Jeremy Hill rushed for 148 yards and two touchdowns, backing up his postgame trash talk of the Browns following a loss to them last month.

Manziel, promoted over the slumping Brian Hoyer to spark the Browns (7-7), finished 10 of 18 for 80 yards and two interceptions. He was sacked three times, under pressure all afternoon and had Bengals players imitating his signature “money-rubbing” gesture more than once.

The Bengals got their first shutout since Dec. 21, 2008 in Cleveland.

Patriots 41, Dolphins 13 FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) - New England clinched the AFC East title for the sixth straight season as Tom Brady threw two touchdown passes in a big third quarter.

Leading 14-13 at halftime, the Patriots scored on four consecutive series while piling up 24 points, the most in any third period in team history.

New England (11-3) can secure home-field advantage throughout the AFC playoffs by beating the New York Jets and Buffalo Bills. Miami (7-7) saw its slim post-season hopes dwindle further.

The Dolphins cut the lead to one point at halftime on Ryan Tannehill’s 32-yard touchdown pass to Mike Wallace.

Broncos 22, Chargers 10 SAN DIEGO (AP) - Peyton Manning played through a thigh injury and flu-like symptoms and Connor Barth kicked five field goals to lead Denver to a fourth straight AFC West title.

Manning came out of the game late in the second quarter. He apparently hurt his thigh while blocking linebacker Donald Butler on a run by C.J. Anderson.

He returned for the start of the third quarter and on Denver’s second possession threw a 28-yard touchdown pass to Demaryius Thomas to give the Broncos a 16-3 lead.

The Broncos (11-3) won their fourth straight game.

Denver’s 12th straight division road win tied San Francisco’s NFL record set from 1987-90.

The Chargers (8-6) entered the game as the AFC’s No. 6 seed and saw their wild-card chances diminished. They’ve lost two straight.

Colts 17, Texans 10 INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Andrew Luck threw two touchdown passes and the Colts won their second straight AFC South title.

Indianapolis (10-4) has won four straight.

It sure wasn’t easy. Luck was 18 of 34 with 187 yards and one interception on the same day Reggie Wayne passed Peyton Manning for the most games and wins in franchise history. Wayne has played in 209 games, winning 142.

Houston (7-7) lost starting quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick with a left leg

injury in the second quarter. Rookie Tom Savage replaced Fitzpatrick and was ineffective, going 10 of 19 for 127 yards.

The Texans took a 7-0 lead on Kendrick Lewis’ 27-yard interception return. Luck tied it with a 26-yard pass to Hakeem Nicks. Luck hooked up with Dwayne Allen on a 3-yard pass to make it 14-7 before halftime. Indy sealed it with a late field goal.

Seahawks 17, 49ers 7 SEATTLE (AP) - Marshawn Lynch rushed for 91 yards and a touchdown, Russell Wilson threw a touchdown pass to rookie Paul Richardson, and the Seahawks knocked archrival San Francisco from playoff contention.

The defending Super Bowl champions remained in contention for a division title and No. 1 seed in the NFC. After a sluggish, sloppy first half, Seattle (10-4) awoke in the final 30 minutes behind the running of Lynch and a defence that shut out the 49ers, holding them to 67 yards. Colin Kaepernick was sacked six times and the 49ers didn’t run a play past the Seattle 38 in the second half.

Lynch scored on a 4-yard run late in the third quarter and the Seahawks took advantage of a short field on their next drive, capped by Wilson’s strike to Richardson.

The loss and Detroit’s win eliminated San Francisco (7-7) from contention.

Lions 16, Vikings 14 DETROIT (AP) - Matt Prater’s 33-yard field goal with 3:38 remaining lifted Detroit into a tie for first place in the NFC North.

The Lions (10-4) are now even atop the division with Green Bay, which lost to Buffalo earlier in the day, but Detroit didn’t have an easy time, spotting the Vikings (6-8) a 14-0 lead before a pair of second-quarter interceptions helped the Lions start their rally.

Even at the end, Detroit had to sweat out a 68-yard field goal attempt

by Minnesota’s Blair Walsh on the game’s final play. The kick was short.

Bills 31, Packers 13 ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) - Bacarri Rambo intercepted two Aaron Rodgers passes and Marcus Thigpen scored on a 75-yard punt return.

Defensive end Mario Williams also forced Rodgers to fumble, which led to running back Eddie Lacy being tackled in the end zone for a safety with 1:51 left. Dan Carpenter hit all three field goal attempts, including a 51-yarder in the second half to help keep Buffalo (86) in the AFC playoff picture.

The Bills were also have their first eight-win season since going 9-7 in 2004.

The Packers (10-4) had a five-game win streak snapped, blowing an opportunity to get closer to their sixth consecutive playoff berth.

Rodgers finished 17 of 42 for 185 yards, and two interceptions.

Steelers 27, Falcons 20 ATLANTA (AP) - Ben Roethlisberger threw for 360 yards and William Gay returned an interception for a touchdown as the Steelers (9-5) remained a half-game behind Cincinnati in the AFC North with their second straight win.

The Falcons (5-9) ensured themselves of a losing season and slipped out of first place in the NFC South.

Pittsburgh led 13-0 after Gay picked off Matt Ryan’s pass over the middle on the first play of the second quarter, returning it 52 yards. The Steelers extended the lead to 27-13 with Le’Veon Bell’s 1-yard run in the opening minute of the fourth period.

The Falcons made a game of it, pulling within a touchdown on Ryan’s 4-yard pass to Roddy White. But the

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Washington Redskins running back Alfred Morris is tackled by New York Giants defensive end Damontre Moore (98) and defensive end Kerry Wynn (72) during an NFL game, Sunday, in East Rutherford, N.J. Steelers clinched the victory with their final possession, converting twice on third down to run out the clock.

Ravens 20, Jaguars 12 BALTIMORE (AP) - The Ravens sacked rookie Blake Bortles eight times and returned a blocked punt for a touchdown.

Baltimore (9-5) gained only 31 yards rushing through three quarters and scored just once with its offence on the field. But the defence was solid, and special teams helped the Ravens stay in the thick of the AFC playoff chase.

Terrell Suggs was credited with 2 ½ sacks and rookie Timmy Jernigan, starting for the suspended Haloti Ngata, had two.

Jacksonville (2-12) tried just about everything in its bid to pull off an upset, including an onside kick and a fake punt. Both worked, but it wasn’t enough to earn the Jaguars their first win on the road.

Panthers 19, Buccaneers 17 CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - Derek Anderson threw for 277 yards and a touchdown, Graham Gano kicked four field goals and the Panthers improved their chances in the NFC South playoff race.

The win, coupled with Atlanta’s loss to Pittsburgh, left the Panthers a halfgame behind New Orleans in the division. Carolina (5-8-1) can move into first place if the Saints lose to Chicago on Monday night.

Anderson was 25 of 40 and improved to 2-0 as a starter in place of Cam Newton, sidelined while recovering from a car accident Tuesday that left him with two fractures in his lower back.

Greg Olsen tied a career high with 10 catches for 110 yards, and rookie Kelvin Benjamin had eight grabs for 104 yards.

Josh McCown threw a touchdown pass and ran for another for the Bucs (2-11).

Chiefs 31, Raiders 13 KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - Alex Smith threw for 297 yards and two scores, while Kansas City shut down Derek Carr and the Oakland offence.

Knile Davis had touchdowns running and receiving, and De’Anthony Thomas returned a punt 81 yards for another score as the Chiefs (8-6) got even for a 24-20 loss to Oakland (2-12) last month.

The Chiefs led 10-6 early in the third quarter before scoring three touchdowns in 4 minutes, 42 seconds. The

last was a 70-yard throw from Smith to Davis, who had taken over the majority of running back duties after Jamaal Charles took a shot to the head.

Charles passed concussion testing and returned briefly to the game.

Carr finished 27 of 56 for 222 yards, throwing a TD pass in the final minute.

The Raiders’ rookie also was sacked four times and fumbled a snap that led to a Kansas City touchdown.

Giants 24, Redskins 13 EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) Eli Manning threw three touchdown passes to rookie Odell Beckham Jr. and the Giants took advantage of an overturned touchdown at the end of the half.

Manning and Beckham combined 12 times for 143 yards, with touchdown passes covering 10, 35 and 6 yards. The win was the second straight for the Giants (5-9) after seven consecutive losses.

The Redskins (3-11) blew a touchdown and command of the game on a fumble by Robert Griffin III as time expired at the end of the first half. Griffin scrambled for an apparent 8-yard touchdown for a 17-7 lead, diving over the pylon, then running on to the field and spiking the ball with emphasis.

A video review by referee Jeff Triplette determined that Griffin lost control of the ball diving over the pylon and the play was ruled a touchback.

The call incensed veteran Redskins receiver Santana Moss so much that he bumped an official while arguing and was ejected. Instead of a 10-point lead, the Redskins led 10-7.

Jets 16, Titans 11 NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Chris Ivory scored on a 1-yard touchdown run with 3:09 left in a game marked by a brawl between teams playing only for pride, with the loser hoping for better draft position.

The Jets (3-11) got their first road win this season in the first NFL game to end with a 16-11 score. They also snapped a three-game skid.

Geno Smith threw for 179 yards and a TD. He also was apparently hit by Titans defensive tackle Jurrell Casey, starting a brawl in the third quarter.

Casey was flagged, but not ejected.

The Titans (2-12) now have lost eight straight and 11 of 12 in their worst skid since 1994 when home was in Houston. They got the ball twice late, and reached the Jets 9 after three laterals on the final play came up short.

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B5 Wranglers look for title sweep

BY JOSH ALDRICH ADVOCATE STAFF

Wranglers 5 Generals 3 BLACKFALDS — At 21-0-2 the Blackfalds Wranglers are almost perfect this Heritage Jr. B Hockey League season.

The ‘almost’ part, however, is what keeps driving the coaching staff.

The good and the bad was on display during their 5-3 win over the Cochrane Generals (14-5-3) on Sunday afternoon in Blackfalds.

“There’s a lot of areas we can still clean up, that’s the scary part,” said Wranglers coach Sean Neumeier, noting their defensive play in particular. “To say we’ve went out and played a 60 minute game yet is a stretch too. We haven’t peaked yet.”

Bryce Marshall, Jesse Fletcher, Bryce Boguski, Robin Carlson and Jordy Potter all scored for Red Deer while Thomas Isaman made 16 saves for the win.

Cochrane replied with goals from Colby Chartier, Austin Keller and Chad Harrison while Garrett Iverson let in four goals on 18 shots before getting replaced at 6:10 of the second period by McKenzie Chalmers, who allowed one goal on 24 shots the rest of the way.

The Wranglers built a 3-0 lead and took a 3-1 lead into the second period. 6:10 into the frame they made 4-1 but the Generals fought their way back into the game, scoring at 10:58 to cut the lead to two goals.

Harrison made the score 4-3 at 4:31 of the third period, but Potter re-gained the Wranglers’ lead at 9:03. Cochrane appeared to score again 21 seconds later, but the goal was waved off on a slashing penalty by the Wranglers’ Bryce Marshall, the referee ruling Blackfalds had played the puck before the Generals could pop the rebound home.

Cochrane never really came

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Blackfalds Wranglers defenceman Jordan Jakubow is hit by Cochrane Generals defenceman Austin Keller as he takes a shot at the Blackfalds Multiplex on Sunday, in Heritage Jr. B Hockey League action. Blackfalds won 5-3. close again.

It was their season in a microcosm, they managed to outscore their mistakes.

“We have to hold ourselves to a higher standard if we’re going to have the success we’ve been having,” said Neumeier. “There’s moments where it looks like they take it a little easy but we’ve got to try an control it the best we can.”

Scoring is not an issue at all for the Wranglers.

They are led by Carlson, 20, who has a league-high 61 points (27 goals, 34 assists) in

23 games, but their next four leading scorers are also in the HJHL’s top 10 — Garrett Glasman (21-29-50) is fourth, Wally Samson (22-21-43) is sixth, Trent Hermary (19-20-39) is ninth and defenceman Bryce Marshall (9-28-37) is 10th.

“Last year we had two lines that did the goal scoring, this year we’ve had more of a contribution from all four lines and our forecheck has been unbelievable, we just hem them in and get shot after shot,” said Carlson, the team’s captain.

They are nine deep on the blue-line, meaning they will have some decisions to make with the Jan. 10 trade deadline looms. But that could be a good thing, encouraging better play in their own end, not just by their defencemen but by the entire group.

The goaltending tandem of Isaman and Kyle Baumgardner has managed to cover up for a lot of mistakes this season.

Heading into Sunday’s game, Isaman (10-0-2) had the league’s bet goals against av-

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erage (2.30) and it’s best save percentage (0.929), but Baumgardner has been no slouch, sitting No. 3 in the HJHL with a 2.60 G.A.A. and sixth in save percentage, 0.916.

“We have two really good goalies that bail us out nightly,” said Neumeier. “There are games like against Mountain View, where we easily could have been down 5-2 but end up winning 6-1, it was two full periods before we got our crap together and if we don’t have (goaltending) it’s a different story.”

Driving them this year was last season’s success and ultimately their short comings.

The won their division, but lost the best-of-five league final to the Okotoks Bisons 3-2.

Blackfalds went on to win provincials, but then settled for bronze at the Keystone Cup, the Western Canadian Championship, in Abbotsford.

The goal this year is to win all three titles.

“We have the experience, we know what we’ve got to do,” said Carlson. “The big thing we’ve got to do now is work on our D-zone and work our way out, that’s how we played so well last year, we just shut them down and then took it to them in the other zone. “(Bronze) is not acceptable this year ... We feel like we should have been in that final game. We want to be there this year.” ● The Wranglers beat the Three Hills Thrashers 13-5 in Trochu on Saturday, getting two goals and three assists from Glasman and two goals and an assist from Samson and Andrew McLennan.

Jakubow, Hermary, Marshall, Boguski, Carlson and Jesse Fischer each scored once for Blackfalds while Baumgardner made 38 saves for the win.

Michael Stoetzel led the Thrashers (14-11-1) with two goals while Cody Keith, Spencer Fournier and Luke Scheunert each scored once. jaldrich@reddeeradvocate. com

Maclise on new mission with Generals

He is hoping MRU will be a better fit when he can finally get into a game with them for the 2015-16 season.

“I didn’t get much of an opportunity to play, which happens sometimes, but the main reason I decided to come back was for the school, Mount Royal has a great business program, it has a good rep,” said Maclise. “I’m happy being

closer to home and I’m glad I made this decision.”

Considering Maclise’s minor hockey and junior career, it’s a curious situation to for him to be in.

After scoring 39 points (2217-39) in 31 games with the Red Deer Bantam AAA Chiefs, he was drafted in the ninth round of the 2007 WHL bantam draft by the Edmonton Oil Kings.

He played the next two seasons with the Red Deer Optimist Chiefs where he was one of their top offensive players, combining for 63 points (34-2963) in 67 games.

In 2009, he made his debut with the Oil Kings, but as a young offensive talent coming in, he fell flat, scoring 14 points in (6-8-14) in 64 games.

Frustrated with his spot on the team, he left the organization after his rookie season and joined the Brooks Bandits in the Alberta Junior Hockey League.

“I was maybe a little bit immature at 17, and had a bad year and was pretty set on going down to junior A,” he said.

“If I stayed, maybe I could have had some great years in Edmonton and went on to play pro, but who knows? I can’t complain with what happened ... no regrets.”

While in Brooks he helped transform the club into a national power, winning the league championship in 2012 and 2013. In 2013, he led the Bandits to a RBC Cup Championship where he was named tournament MVP with nine points (6-3-9) in six games and was also named Canadian Junior Hockey League player of the year. In three seasons in Brooks he scored a franchise record 216 points (85-131-216) in 171 regular season games and another 40 points (18-2240) in 41 playoff games.

Normally these are marks that would have NCAA schools fighting for his commitment — as is the goal with most junior A players. But he burned his NCAA eligibility the minute he pulled on an Oil Kings sweater.

His best option was to go the CIS route, and the Varsity Reds — one of the top programs in Eastern Canada — brought him in.

However, he is now back in Alberta, not exactly sure where his hockey future lies.

He is concentrating on his schooling at MRU and practicing with the team during the week before joining the Generals for weekend games.

Still, there is the possibility that the door is not shut on a pro hockey career. He has been at two NHL camps the last two years and it is not uncommon for CIS players to at least go on to the American Hockey League level with the odd player making it to the NHL. “I try to work as hard on the ice as I do in the classroom” he said. “I’m keeping my options. Definitely when I’m done playing CIS, I’m going to keep my options open as far as hockey goes and if something catches my eye, no doubt I’ll take it.”

Tobler believes that opportunity will come, describing him as a poor man’s Brandon Sutter, his training partner during the summer.

“When you see them sideby-side, it’s just uncanny,” he said. “They have a very similar skill set and both really good hockey players.”

This year, however, he is focused on the Generals and a national championship.

their guests 46-24.

Later in the day, the host Red Deer Earo Equipment Chiefs were buried 6-1 by the Calgary Stampeders, their lone goal coming off the stick of Brenden Davidson. Shae Herbert and Riley Katchuk combined to make 34 saves for Aero, outshot 40-22.

Midget AA Josh Bussard, Lane Sim and Keagan Kingwell scored for the Red Deer Indy Graphics Chiefs in a 3-2 win over the host Calgary Blazers Sunday.

Goaltender Justin Ander-

son kept his undefeated season alive with a 30-save performance.

Major bantam Luke Bast and Kaden Davidson scored and Duncan Hughes made 21 saves for the Red Deer Rebels White in a 2-2 draw with the visiting Airdrie Xtreme Sunday.

On Saturday, Justin Verveda turned aside 28 saves in a losing cause as the Rebels White were 5-0 losers to the host Rockyview Raiders.

The Red Deer Rebels Black, with Wyatt Argent making 57

saves, dropped a 6-2 decision to the host Calgary Royals Sunday. Deegan Mofford and Hayden Clayton scored for the visitors.

The Rebels Black fell 6-3 to visiting Camrose Saturday, getting goals from Tristen Hato, Elijah Johanson and Tanner Scott and a 39-save outing from Steven Arthur.

Major bantam girls Chantelle Sandquist made 26 saves in a losing cause Sunday as the Red Deer Sutter Fund Chiefs fell 3-0 to the visiting Rocky Mountain Raiders.

BY JOSH ALDRICH ADVOCATE STAFF The odyssey of Cam Maclise has landed the Lacombe hockey player with the Bentley Generals for the season.

Senior hockey is a strange landing spot at 22 for one of the best junior A hockey players in the country over the last decade.

But for one year at least, the Chinook Hockey League team will be his home.

“A lot of these guys have played some good hockey in the past,” said Maclise. “They may be older and maybe don’t skate as five times a week like I do, but they’re good players, they’re smart, and it’s been a lot of fun.”

Maclise was faced with a year without hockey after transferring to the Mount Royal University Cougars after one season with the University of New Brunswick Varsity Reds due to Canadian Interuniversity Sport regulations.

Generals general manager Jeff Mcinnis caught wind of this and offered Maclise an opportunity to play close to home.

He has fit in perfectly as an injection of youth and offensive skill on their top line.

“He’s a battler and he wants it,” said Generals head coach Ryan Tobler. “He loves to compete and he’s a gamebreaker type player. We’re very fortunate to have a player of that calibre playing on this team.”

Maclise has taken full advantage of his opportunity and has scored 18 points (11 goals, seven assists) in 10 games. His scoring rate of 1.8 points per game are second in the league to Curtis Billsten from the

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Bentley Generals centreman Cam Maclise looks for a rebound against the Innisfail Eagles during Chinook Senior Hockey League action in Lacombe on Wednesday.

Okotoks Drillers who has 28 points (16-12-28) in 13 games.

Scoring has almost never been an issue for the six-footthree-and-a-half, 205-pound centreman, except for his one season in Fredericton, N.B. It was a case of the hockey player and the school not being a good fit for one another, and in 28 games he scored nine points (1-8-9).

MINOR HOCKEY ROUNDUP Midget AAA Affiliate player Jeremy Klessens fired two goals for the Red Deer Optimist Chiefs in a 5-3 win over the visiting Leduc Oil Kings Sunday.

Parker Smyth, Chase Olsen and Andrew Kartusch also scored for the winners, while Cole Sears and Branden Bilodeau combined to make 21 saves.

The Chiefs outshot their guests 49-24.

Minor midget AAA Jeremy Klessens scored once and added three assists Saturday to lead the Red Deer Northstar Chiefs to a 6-1 win over the visiting Airdrie/Cochrane Avalanche.

Tyrell McCubbing contributed a goal and two helpers for the winners, who got additional goals from Owen Cummerford and Justin Paarup and a 21-save outing from Justin Travis. The Chiefs outshot

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Cougars fall short of medal in host tournament The host Cougars dropped a 94-83 decision to Edmonton St. Joseph’s in the bronze-medal game of the Notre Dame Cougar Classic senior high boys tournament Saturday.

Tournament all-star Ken Villaluz scored 21 points and added seven assists for the Cougars.

Earlier in the two-day tournament, Notre Dame got 20 points from Villaluz in an 89-29 romp over Cold Lake and 17 from Villaluz in a 69-67 loss to Calgary Crescent Heights.

The Rocky Mountain House West Central Rebels lost the consolation final 62-45 to Cold Lake. Cody Bott led the Rebels with 19 points.

The Rebels, with Erik Weckeser netting 14 points in a losing cause, also fell 80-41 to St. Joseph’s, and defeated Sherwood Park Archbishop Jordan 6763 in overtime as Brandon Cole led the way with 17 points.

In an all-Calgary championship game, the Bishop Grandin Ghosts held on for a 76-72 overtime conquest of the Crescent Heights Cowboys. ● The Lindsay Thurber senior girls Raiders were 52-40 losers to Raymond

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Holy Redeemer Raider Kn Bahut checks Notre Dame Cougar Kenneth Villaluz as he drives to the basket during basketball action at Ecole Notre Dame in Red Deer Friday afternoon.

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BRIEFS Visiting Japanese university team sweep Queens Hokusho University from Japan took both best-of-three matches from the Red Deer College Queens women’s volleyball team on the weekend.

Hokusho won 2-0 (25-11, 25-21) at

Olds College on Saturday and then 2-0 (25-18, 25-21) on Sunday at HJ Cody High School in Sylvan Lake, where they played a third set also won by the Japanese 25-17.

The game in Sylvan Lake was also a homecoming for freshman Olivia Barnes and sophomore Alex Donaghy.

“They were prepared to play well and I thought they did a good job for us, they were our two stand outs for sure,” said RDC head coach Talbot Walton.

The two teams play again today in Thorsby and then on Tuesday at 5 p.m. at Red Deer College.

Vipers drop decision to visiting Mountainview Colts Kale Lapointe scored twice in a losing cause as the Red Deer Vipers fell 9-6 to the visiting Mountainview Colts in Heritage Junior Hockey League action Saturday.

Dustin Spearing, Nick Glackin, Mitch Morrison and Mathew Thiesen accounted for the other Red Deer goals. Tyson Schmidt scored twice for the visitors, who directed 38 shots at Vipers netminders Rylan Bardick and Lane Congdon.

Colts netminder Thomas Della Siega made 36 saves for the visitors, who led 3-1 after one period and were up 8-2 heading into the final frame.

In other weekend Heritage League games:

Kalena Soehn of the Red Deer Thunder Country Trampoline and Gymnastics Club qualified for the 2015 Canada Winter Games during a weekend competition in Red Deer.

Soehn placed second in the trampoline event to earn her spot on the Alberta women’s team for the Canada Winter Games in February.

Meanwhile, Logan Chaput of the Thunder Country Club placed third

They’re on pace to do just that, sitting at a perfect 14-0-0 in league play.

“It’s nice when you’re winning that many games, the main thing is to stick to it,” said Maclise. “We’re looking at the Allan Cup in April, that’s not going to be easy to win, we know that. Our goal is to come every night and keep good habits.” ● The Generals swept their weekend action, beating the Rosetown Redwings 4-2 in exhibition action in Eck-

● The Stettler Wildcats coughed up four first-period goals en route to a 7-2 loss to the host Coaldale Copperheads.

Dylan Houston potted both Stettler goals. Simon Thieleman made 41 saves for the Lightning, who dressed only 13 skaters, while Coaldale netminder Dillan Kelly blocked 19 shots. ● The Three Hills Thrashers opened up a 5-0 lead and cruised to an 8-2 home-ice win over the Ponoka Stampeders.

Connor Ablett paced the Thrashers with two goals. Luke Scheunert, Wes Howery, Tyler Newsham, Braden Fenton, Michael Stoetzel and Patrick Fougere also tallied for the winners, with Nate Higgins and Austin Ancion replying for the visitors.

Greg Pols made 37 saves for Three Hills. Zane Steeves and Eli Falls combined to stop 34 shots for Ponoka.

ville on Saturday and 2-1 over the Fort Saskatchewan Chiefs in Fort. Saskatchewan on Sunday.

In Saturday’s win, Cody Esposito, Keenan Desmet, Kyle Sheen and Jade Galbraith scored once each while Travis Yonkman made 32 saves for the win.

In Sunday’s win over Fort Saskatchewan, Galbraith and Sheen scored and Dustin Butler made 28 saves. Brant Middelton broke the shutout with 40 seconds left in the game while David Tetrault stopped 32 shots in the loss. jaldrich@reddeeradvocate.com

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Kingsmen pillage Henry’s Eavestroughing The Kingsmen, with James Waldo netting 25 points, rolled over Henry’s Eavestroughing 109-52 in Central Alberta Senior Men’s Basketball Association play Sunday.

Jose Vizcarra added 19 points for the winners.

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and was named as an alternate to the Alberta men’s team. Zach Blakely finished fourth.

Soehn qualifies for Canada Winter Games

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in Saturday’s bronze-medal game of the Lethbridge Catholic Central Snow Classic basketball tournament.

Reece McGuire scored 11 points for the Raiders, who got an additional 10 from Kelsey Lalor.

The Raiders opened the tournament with a 58-50 loss to Catholic Central, getting 12 points from Lalor and 11 from Lizzy Morneault. Thurber then defeated Sherwood Park Archbishop Jordan 77-41 as Lalor dropped in 17 points, Kiera Fujimoto netted 13 and Nikki Thomas and Molly Rumohr each scored eight. ● The host Lightning lost to Calgary Centennial in the girls final of the Hunting Hills JV basketball tournament during the weekend.

The Lightning reached the championship match with a 58-56 semifinal win over Airdrie Bert Church. The Notre Dame Cougars finished fourth following a 70-53 loss to Bert Church and the Lindsay Thurber Raiders placed seventh thanks to a 59-34 victory over Edmonton St. Francis Xavier.

On the boys side, Notre Dame defeated Hunting Hills 82-49 in the seventh-place game and Lindsay Thurber settled for sixth following a 68-58 loss to Bert Church. Rimbey took on Edmonton Strathcona in the third-place game and fell 68-63.

The Olds Grizzlys capped a perfect Alberta Junior Hockey League weekend Saturday, getting a 55-save performance from Jesse Gordichuk in a 5-2 win over the host Camrose Kodiaks.

Jade McMullen led the Grizzlys with three goals, while Ty Mappin and Kyle Moore also connected for the visitors in front of 1,115 fans at the Edgeworth Centre. Jody Sick and Nelson Gadoury scored for Camrose, which trailed 2-0 after one period and 3-1 after 40 minutes.

Kodiaks netminder Patrick Gore made 18 saves.

On Friday, the Grizzlys traveled to Okotoks and came away with a 4-1 vic-

tory over the Oilers.

McMullen and Austin Kernahan scored power-play goals for Olds, which led 2-0 and 3-0 by periods. Cale Brown and Colton Sheen had the other Grizzlys markers, while Trey deGraaf tallied for the Oilers before 509 fans at Pason Centennial Arena.

Gordichuk turned aside 28 shots as the winning goaltender. Nic Renyard made 35 saves for Okotoks.

The Grizzlys are in Calgary Wednesday to take on the Canucks, then host the Fort McMurray Oil Barons and Lloydminster Bobcats Friday and Saturday.

Kobe Bryant passes Michael Jordan for 3rd on NBA’s career scoring list

I really appreciate the opportunity to still be out there playing and performing and doing what I do.”

Now only Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Karl Malone have scored more points than Bryant.

“I congratulate Kobe on reaching this milestone,” Jordan, the owner of the Charlotte Hornets, said in a statement.

“He’s obviously a great player, with a strong work ethic and has an equally strong passion for the game of basketball. I’ve enjoyed watching his game evolve over the years, and I look forward to seeing what he accomplishes next.”

Bryant didn’t break a record Sunday night. Abdul-Jabbar is still more than 6,000 points ahead of him and in no danger of being caught.

But moving past Jordan was cause for celebration.

MINNEAPOLIS - Kobe Bryant has reached rarefied air.

The Los Angeles Lakers star passed Michael Jordan for third on the NBA’s career scoring list Sunday night in a 100-94 victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves.

Bryant entered the game needing nine points to pass the icon with whom he is often compared.

He got the mark with two free throws with 5:24 to play in the second quarter.

“I’m just honoured to be here, man, to still be playing,” Bryant said. “I appreciate being able to play this long.

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Raptors 95 Knicks 90 (OT) NEW YORK - Too many fouls. Way too many turnovers - nine alone from their star point guard.

So what if Kyle Lowry and the Toronto Raptors weren’t perfect? Come overtime, they went from flawed to nearly flawless.

“We had so many mistakes on both sides, even defensively,” coach Dwane Casey said.

“But it was one of those games, if you’re serious about winning, you find a way to get it done and our guys did it.”

Lowry had 21 points and 11 assists, controlling the overtime period and leading the Raptors to a 95-90 victory over the New York Knicks on Sunday night.

Lowry had nine turnovers and missed a jumper that would’ve won it to end regulation, but then had two baskets and an assist in overtime, accounting for more points than the Knicks managed as a team.

Terrence Ross added a season-high 22 points for the Raptors, who maintained the best record in the Eastern Conference at 18-6.

“It took overtime but I thought everyone stepped it up tonight,” Lowry said.

Carmelo Anthony had 34 points and nine rebounds for the Knicks, who played without injured guards Iman Shumpert and J.R. Smith.

Anthony missed all three shots in overtime, when the Knicks went 1 of 8.

“They applied a little bit more pressure than they had throughout the course of the game and kind of got us playing a little bit faster than we wanted to play,” Anthony said.

Tim Hardaway Jr. got the start and scored 18 points, but missed eight of his final 10 shots and finished 4 of 15.

The Knicks, who ended a 10-game losing streak with a victory at Boston on Friday, fell to 5-21.

Ross gave the Raptors an 86-84 lead on a short jumper with 2:39 remaining in regulation and the teams then went scoreless across the next 2 minutes before the Knicks finally tied it on Anthony’s drive with 28 seconds to go.

Lowry missed a short jumper before the buzzer but Toronto then held the Knicks without a basket in overtime until Hardaway’s meaningless layup with 5.2 seconds left.

Patrick Patterson’s 3-pointer opened the scoring in OT and put Toronto ahead for good. Lowry later made a pair of jumpers before feeding Amir Johnson for a basket that made it 95-88 with 1:05 left.

Shumpert is expected to miss at least three weeks with a dislocated left shoulder. Smith is day to day with a small partial tear of the plantar fascia in his left foot.

Coach Derek Fisher said Smith would start, but the former Sixth Man of the Year was ruled out after warming up.

TIP-INS Raptors: Toronto improved to 10-0 when holding teams below 100 points. ... Jonas Valanciunas finished with eight points and 10 rebounds, ending his streak of double-doubles at three games, which tied a career high. The last Toronto player with four in a row was Chris Bosh late in the 2009-10 season.

Knicks: Smith said that the training staff had given him a whole new sole for his sneaker to make his heel more comfortable. ... With Jose Calderon and Quincy Acy, the Knicks’ starting lineup had two former Raptors. Andrea Bargnani, Toronto’s former No. 1 overall pick who was dealt to the Knicks in the summer of 2013, still hasn’t played this season because of hamstring and calf injuries.

COACH DEROZAN While All-Star DeMar DeRozan is out with a torn groin tendon, he’s spending extra time around his coaches. Casey said DeRozan has joined some coaches’ meetings, where he

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Toronto Raptors’ Kyle Lowry, right, looks past New York Knicks’ Jose Calderon during the first half of the NBA game, Sunday, in New York. hears not only strategies, but criticisms of his teammates. Any worry that DeRozan will report what he hears back to them?

“I hope not, and if he does, I’m telling the truth,” Casey said. “So I’m not telling him anything I wouldn’t tell them to their face.”

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averaging 21 points and better than 10 assists in December, and with the Raptors atop their conference, will have a strong case to be back here in February for the All-Star game. “It would be one of them individual goals that you can check off, but I am not worried about right now,” he said. “I am just worried about this team to keep getting wins.”

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Bigras, fellow defenceman Travis Sanheim and forwards Nick Baptiste, Morgan Klimchuk and Remi Elie were released Sunday evening after a selection camp that included two exhibition games against local university all-stars. Canada’s roster stands at 25 players with main camp set to open Monday in St. Catharines, Ont. The message from Benoit Groulx and his coaching staff to those players and the one they seemed to receive through the tough news was that this is a deep, difficult group to crack.

“We think that the players that we decided to keep are in our plans and I thought also there was a separation between those guys and the players we kept,” Groulx said. “That’s the reason why we decided to let them go.”

Bigras was the biggest surprise because he played all seven games in last year’s tournament and as a returning player figured to have a spot. Instead, the 19-year-old Colorado Avalanche prospect will go back to the Ontario Hockey League’s Owen Sound Attack.

“Obviously not the outcome I was looking for,” said Bigras, who’s from Elmvale, Ont. “Can’t dwell on it right now.”

Groulx was an assistant coach last year in Malmo, Sweden, and understood it was “devastating” to Bigras to get cut this year. But it was his judgement that the eight defencemen Canada kept - Darnell Nurse, Josh Morrissey, Madison Bowey, Joe Hicketts, Shea Theodore, Haydn Fleury, Samuel Morin and Dillon Heatherington - were “ahead” of Bigras.

“It’s not about (what we didn’t see) from him,” Groulx said. “I think it’s about the other defencemen we have. We think that the eight guys we decided to keep are just better than him right now.”

Better than Sanheim, too. The raw Philadelphia Flyers first-round pick goes back to the Calgary Hitmen of the Western Hockey League hoping he can do better in this spot a year from now. “(Coaches told me) just that I’m 18 years old and I’ve got a lot to look forward to,” the Elkhorn, Man., native said. “Next year they hope I come in and make a difference and make this hockey team.”

Up front, forward depth was responsible for Baptiste, Klimchuk and Elie getting let go. Beyond just the likes of Connor McDavid, Sam Reinhart, Max Domi, Anthony Duclair and Nic Petan, there’s the possibility Canada gets Bo Horvat from the Vancouver Canucks and/or Curtis Lazar from the Ottawa Senators.

Baptiste, a 2013 pick of the Buffalo Sabres, will go back to playing for the McDavid-less Erie Otters of the OHL. Among those cut, he appeared to take it the best.

“It’s such a good competition here,” said Baptiste, a native of Ottawa. “Just proud to be one of the top 30 in Canada, move forward, go back to Erie and hopefully go on a (Memorial) Cup run.”

Coaches told Klimchuk, a Calgary Flames prospect who plays for Regina of the WHL, that he played well in camp and to keep his chin up.

“There’s a lot of positives to take out of things like this,” said Klimchuk, who’s from Calgary. “Obviously when you leave early, it’s pretty upsetting, pretty frustrating, but I got a chance to come to this camp and play with the best players in the country.”

Like Klimchuk, Elie was told the depth up front was responsible for him going back to the Belleville Bulls of the OHL. The Dallas Stars prospect had a noticeable turnover that led to a scoring chance against in one of the exhibition games over the weekend.

With these five cuts, Canada’s roster has begun to take shape. At least three more must be made before the tournament roster is finalized on Christmas Day, though there could be more if Horvat or Lazar joins.

“Right now that’s a first step,” Groulx said. “We want to see how this team is doing together, how they fit together, and when we’re going to be comfortable at letting go other guys, we’ll do it. There’s no rush for us in our mind.”

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YORKTON, Sask. - Scotland’s Eve Muirhead defeated Ottawa’s Rachel Homan 5-3 in the Canadian Open women’s curling final on Sunday.

Muirhead went 6-1 through round-robin play and the knockout phase - including two upset victories over Sochi gold medallist Jennifer Jones of Winnipeg - to win the first Canadian Open women’s championship.

“To come out with a victory against a team as good as Rachel Homan’s, it feels fantastic,” said Muirhead. “We’re just looking to keep building with every performance. We’re never satisfied, so we always want to get better and better because we know all of the teams are still chasing us.”

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Homan and her rink of Emma Miskew, Joanne Courtney and Lisa Weagle, counted one in the third end to cut Muirhead’s lead in half. That, however, was as close as she would make it as both sides traded singles right through to the eighth and final end.

Earlier in the day, Brad Gushue of St. John’s, N.L., scored two in the final end to beat Saskatoon’s Steve Laycock 6-5 in the men’s final.

It was the second Grand Slam of Curling title this season for Gushue, Mark Nichols, Brett Gallant and Geoff Walker.

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This position is an on call position. Employees are responsible for taking trips during the period they have designated themselves available to do so. Transportation is done in Hallcon company vehicles. Vehicles are extensively & consistently maintained ensuring optimal safety for drivers and clients. Drivers must possess valid Class 1, 2, or 4 license, with clean driver abstract. Assisted licensing upgrade to achieve a class 4 is available. Pay is based at a rate of $16.00. Earning potential is based on your availability, as our operation runs on a 24/7 on call basis. Both full time and part time employees are welcome. Semiretired, retired, full time, part time employees are welcome. Forward resumes & current driver abstract: Shane Flack asmabnorth@gmail.com.

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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

ACADEMIC Express CENTRAL AB based trucking company requires

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• • • • • DRIVERS for furniture moving company, class 5 • required (5 tons), local & • long distance. Competitive • • wages. Apply in person.

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WINTER START GED Preparation Would you like to take the GED in your community?

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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. Celebrate your life with a Classified ANNOUNCEMENT

SHOPPERS HOME HEALTH CARE Canada’s largest home health care supplier has an exciting opportunity for a SERVICE COORDINATOR Plans organize coordinate the sales and repairs of equipment.

Knows the importance of offering Superior customer service.

Service technician experience is an asset.

Computer literacy.

Excellent time management skills.

Strong verbal and written communication skills.

Establish relationships and be liaison with funding agencies.

Send resumes by fax to 403-342-4516 Attn: Robert or email Rhogan@ Shoppershomehealthcare.ca

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PLAY STATION 1 with 12 games, $80. 403-782-3847

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X-BOX, 5 games, $50; WII, 7 games, $120.

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Would make a great Christmas gift.

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403-346-0674 LEATHER chest w/ variety of collectible vinyl LP’s, exc. $500 obo; oak 4 poster bed, exc. shape $275; white tile kitchen table, seats 10 $275 obo; over stuffed loveseat, like new, beige, $275 obo, all baking supplies, white little girls bed and dresser, $125 (bedding, all new,) extra; 2 Oreck air purifiers, exc. shape, $100/ea.

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Advocate Opportunities

Medical Office Assistant / Unit Clerk

MORRISROE AREA:

Adult Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the RED DEER ADVOCATE

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

With only 64 papers, approximately: $350.00/mo.

For More Information, Please call Prodie 403-314-4301 ADULT Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the

RED DEER ADVOCATE

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

Gov’t of Alberta Funding F/T Permanent Truck may be available.

Driver Required for Rocky Fast Express (1790810 AB 403-340-1930 Ltd.) in Red Deer, AB www.academicexpress.ca Straight truck: 4600kg+w/2 axles and van DAIRY equipment supplier Need class 5 DL + 2 yrs looking for exp. $25 per hr/ with GENERAL LABORERS OPEN availability & WELDERS Duties: pick up/deliver Competitive wages and freight, pre-trip truck benefits package. E-mail inspection, communication resume: info@prolineinc.ca with customers. Physically demanding position. Time management skills required. Apply at: 8004 Edgar Industrial Green, Red Deer, T4P3S2 Call: 403.845.2230 Fax: 587.997.7719 DRIVER REQ’D FOR DELIVERY OF NEW F/T TRUCK drivers req’d.

APPLS. IN RED DEER Minimum Class 5 with air AREA. and clean abstract. Exp. MAPLE LEAF MOVING preferred. In person to Key Call 403-347-8826 or fax Towing 4083-78 St. Cres. resume to: 403-314-1457.

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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

CARRIERS REQUIRED To deliver the

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

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

Johnstone Crossing Jenner Cres. & Judd Cl.

CARRIERS REQUIRED To deliver the CENTRAL AB LIFE 1 day a week in: INNISFAIL Penhold Olds Sylvan Lake

ADULT Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the

The Rocky Mountain Regional Solid Waste Authority Is now taking applications for a position for:

NORMANDEAU

FULL TIME CLASS 1 & 3 DRIVER

Nash St. & Neville Close ALSO Northy Ave.

Monday through Saturday.

Delivery to be done before 6:30 am.

Reliable vehicle needed.

The ideal candidate will have the following qualifications: • Experience operating Front Loader Trucks an asset.

• Experience with operating skid steer units and other equipment.

• Excellent time management proficiency.

• A good mechanical skill in a variety of maintenance tasks is a significant asset.

Please submit a complete resume with references to:

We thank in advance all interested applicants for applying and advise that only those candidates considered for an interview will be contacted. This competition will remain open until a suitable candidate is found.

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DO YOU: - Want extra income - Know the city well - Possess a clean, valid drivers license - Have a friendly attitude - Enjoy customer service - Want part-time work (12 to 22 hrs/week) As part of our service team, you will be dispatched in response to service concerns to deliver newspapers and flyers to customers or carriers.

A delivery vehicle provided by company!

Work 3 to 4 shifts a week.

Hours of shifts are morning shifts of Monday through Friday 5:00 AM to 9:00 AM. Saturday starting at 7 AM. Wednesday to Friday Shifts starting at 1 PM. *All Shifts based on 4 hours and likely to run longer.

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

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

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

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

Brown Close/Barrett Drive Baile Close INGLEWOOD AREA Illingworth Close Ingram Close Iverson Close Isbister Close MORRISROE AREA Vista Village SUNNYBROOK AREA Savoy Cres./Sydney Close Stirling Close Sherwood Cres

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

LANCASTER AREA Lampard Cres Lancaster Drive Long Close Lougheed Close Lyons Close

Dixon Cres. $100.20/mo.

Dunning Cres, Cl., and Depalme St. plus 3 blocks of Douglas Ave. $136.24/mo.

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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

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8 PLACE Christmas dish set $40; love seat, good cond, $60 403-343-6218

1 bdrm. adult building, N/S. No pets.

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Not yet cut, Perfect tree for Rooms small space. $40. obo For Rent 403-227-2976 AVAIL Immed: 1 lrg fully RHINSTONE necklace and furn bedroom for rent earrings to match from the 1950’s, A1 cond. $75; large includes gas frpl - $300 dd $600/mth. Working or fruit bowl grape design $10.

Student male only Call approx. 30 peacock feath403-396-2468 ers $1/ea. 403-346-2231 WESTERN books: 70 FULLY Furn. BDRM. $500 rent/sd 403-342-4604 paperbacks, $50; 7 new hardcover, $5 each; 7 new paperbacks $3 each. Mobile 403-309-1737 Lot

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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.

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HOME CARE & CRITTER SITTER Peace of mind while you’re away! 403-302-2557

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Spec Mobiles. 3 Bdrm., 2 bath. As Low as $75,000.

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2 BALINESE KITTENS 1 SNOWSHOE SIAMESE 3 BURMAN $25/ea. 403-887-3649

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PB Shih Tzu 10 wks. old, serious inquiries only, 403-347-7472

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CLEVELAND TA2 Irons, 3 PW & SW, steel shafts, new grips. $150.

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LARGE round straw bales. $20 loaded. Can Supply Trucking. 403-340-9111

DOWNTOWN AREA $697./mo PARKVALE AREA $484./mo.

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Starchoice receiver, Mike 403-350-1620 Panasonic PV 8400 4 403-986-6889 head VHS, 5 remotes, GLENDALE reno’d 2 bdrm. cable hookups, a steal at apartments, avail. immed, $25; 3 round battery clocks rent $875 403-596-6000 9 1/2” quartz $3/ea, LARGE, 1 & 2 BDRM. clothes dryer rack, SUITES. 25+, adults only adjustable arms 21 1/2” across 43” high $12; swivel n/s, no pets 403-346-7111 wall mount lamp, beige $7; NEWLY RENOVATED 1 & 5 sets of metal book ends, 2 bedroom suites available beige and tan $6/set, 2 in central location. Heat & Rubbermaid rough neck water included. Cat friendly. storage totes, stacking 86 Bell Street, Red Deer 53L, (24x16x12.5) $6/ea, leasing@rentmidwest.com Sterilite storage tote 1(888) 679-8031 20 1/2x14x12 $5 403-314-2026

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WESTPARK & WESTLAKE

The CLASS 1 & 3 DRIVER we are looking for is reliable; safety orientated, self-motivated, and must enjoy working with the public. This position is responsible for hauling refuse/ recyclables to the regional landfill from a variety of locations, and operating equipment. Applicants MUST have a valid Alberta driver’s license (Class 1).

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RENO’D near downtown core, $1600./mo. no pets, kids or smoking, no exceptions. Great yard.

639-471-1600 SYLVAN LAKE: fully furnished, inclds dishes, bedding, 50” tv, utils.

Avail. Now! $1200.

403-880-0210.

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SEIBEL PROPERTY

www.seibelprperty.com Ph: 403-304-7576 or 403-347-7545 6 locations in Red Deer ~ Halman Heights ~ Riverfront Estates

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~ 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.

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

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2 Bdrm. 4-plex, 4 appls., $1125. incl. sewer, water & garbage. D.D. $650, Avail. Jan. 1 403-304-5337

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

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3 bdrm., 1-1/2 bath, $1175. rent, s.d. $650, incl water sewer and garbage. Avail.

Jan 1st. 403-304-5337

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FLOWER Art & Gifts Store Sylvan Lake. 587-377-2023

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BUILDERS. Duplex and single family lots for sale.

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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

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RED’S AUTO. Free Scrap Vehicle & Metal Removal.

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B10 RED DEER ADVOCATE Monday, Dec. 15, 2014

Stats model doesn’t bode well for Maple Leafs’ playoff hopes At this time of year team records can be deceiving. Every year some teams get off to fast starts but then collapse, and others start slow but work their way into a playoff position by season’s end.

Last year saw the Phoenix (now Arizona) Coyotes come storming out of the gate to get 34 points in their first 25 games — tied for the 7th-best start in the league — only to end up out of the playoffs with 89 points. In the other direction, Columbus and Philadelphia started last year with 21 and 24 points, respectively, and worked their way up to 93 and 94 points, and resulting playoff berths. So what happened?

One of the biggest contributions of the current analytics movement has been to emphasize that teams can go on hot runs over relatively large stretches while being largely outplayed, but that such success is generally not sustainable for a full season. Conversely, teams can have prolonged stretches where the points don’t come, even though they’ve generally been the better team. But chances are that before long, the points will start to come for those clubs.

This isn’t to say that a team’s record after 25 games doesn’t matter; far from it. But models that include both points and possession measures do significantly better in explaining who made the playoffs and who didn’t. Specifically, a model with both points and Score Adjusted Corsi fits the data much better than models with just one variable, and better than any of the models with two variables that were looked at. For those not familiar with Score Adjusted Corsi, it is a possession metric that reflects the fact that teams generally do better in terms of possession when they’re trailing (or worse when they’re ahead) — a phenomenon called “score effects.” (see IJay’s Nov. 14 column for more on that point). Thus, some

teams’ possession metrics look better than they really are simply because they play from behind a lot, while others look worse because they have the lead a lot.

From the model using both points and Score Adjusted Corsi, we found that on average, each additional point a team has at the 25-game mark increased their chance of making the playoffs by about 7.2 percentage points; each percentage point increase in their Score Adjusted Corsi increased their chance of making the playoffs by 8.1 percentage points.

So what does that mean for this year’s teams? We can generate probabilities for each team of making the post-season this year based on data from past seasons. Keep in mind that, as mentioned above, the model only accounts for 42 per cent of the information that one would ideally like to have, and so should be taken with a grain of salt. For example, it doesn’t account for teams that have above-average shooting or goaltending. Unfortunately, it does not even account for the recent change in playoff format, with divisions and wild cards.

However, it does give insight as to who are likely candidates for collapses and who might yet climb up the standings. According to the model, the team most likely to collapse is Calgary, with its chance of making the playoffs being only 34.6 per cent, even though

Canada’s Charles Hamelin races to gold in short-track World Cup SPEEDSKATING

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS SHANGHAI — Charles Hamelin raced to gold in the men’s 1,000 metres at a short-track speedskating World Cup, to top a six-medal performance Sunday

by Canada’s team.

Marianne St-Gelais won bronze in the women’s 1,000 metres, while William Preudhomme and Kasandra Bradette won bronze in the men’s and women’s 500 metres, respectively. Both the men’s and women’s relay teams also won bronze.

Hamelin, from Sainte-Julie, Que., captured his first gold of the season, a day after winning silver in the 1,500 metres.

“I was able to skate smartly, to overtake effectively and in the right moments, and I had the energy to attack until the end,” Hamelin said. “Everything went very well.”

St-Gelais, from Saint-Felicien, Que., won her second medal of the weekend after finishing second in Saturday’s 500.

“I made the mistake of getting back in the third spot after overtaking and I was fourth for a great part of the race, but I said to myself that I was going to

prepare something for the end,” said St-Gelais. “On the last turn, I did start to overtake on the inside — there were some hands, some arms and lot of things — but I was finally able to pull up to third place.”

Bradette, from Saint-Felicien, and Toronto’s Preudhomme both earned their first career individual World Cup medal.

“I was tense because I was up against three Chinese skaters. I knew I had to have a good start and I did, and I ended up third, but the two Chinese skaters in front of me were zig-zagging in the straights to prevent me from overtaking”, explained Bradette.

“I’m happy with third place, but I still have to improve some things.”

Preudhomme was competing in first-ever World Cup, after being called up to replace an injured Sasha Alexander Fathoullin.

“It was a really long day, but I’m really happy with how things went,” said Preudhomme. “After not doing so well in the 500 on Friday, I knew I had to redeem myself. The final was a fast race, but I hung with it and ended up third.”

Samuel Girard of Ferland-et-Boilleau, QC, Charles and Francois Hamelin, and Patrick Duffy of Oakville, Ont., raced to bronze in the men’s 5,000 relay.

St-Gelais, Bradette, Kim Boutin of Sherbrooke, Que., and Joanie Gervais, of Saguenay, Que., were third in the women’s relay.

it had 32 points after 25 games, good for sixth-best in the West and third in its division. In the East, Tampa Bay, Montreal and Detroit were sitting in the divisionally guaranteed playoff positions after 25 games, while Boston, Toronto and Florida were all tied with 29 points.

Only two of those teams could make the playoffs as a wild card, however, as either the Rangers or the Capitals would get the nod by virtue of being third in the Metropolitan. According to the model, Toronto would be the odds-on favourite to be on the outside looking in (again), while Washington would be favoured to get that third divisional spot.

With just over a third of the season left to play, things can (and almost certainly will) change between now and the end of the season - but already there are some indications that all is not as the standings suggest. We’ll check back at the midseason point to see how things are progressing.

Data was taken from www.puckon.net. For more on the predictive properties of the various statistics, as well as the method used to generate these probabilities, go to http://www.depthockeyanalytics.com.

The Department of Hockey Analytics employs advanced statistical methods and innovative approaches to better understand the game of hockey. Its three founders are Ian Cooper, a lawyer, former player agent and Wharton Business School graduate; Phil Curry, a professor of economics at the University of Waterloo; and IJay Palansky, a litigator in Washington, D.C., former high-stakes professional poker player and Harvard Law School graduate.

Canada’s Crawford gets career best finish in Austria

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS HOCHFILZEN, Austria — Canada’s Rosanna Crawford finished a career-best fifth in a biathlon World Cup event Sunday.

Kaisa Makarainen of Finland dominated the women’s pursuit for her third straight World Cup win, finishing in 30 minutes 44.8 seconds.

Russia’s Ekaterina Glazyrina was second at 31:19.2, while Anais Bescond of France won the bronze (31:31.3).

Crawford, a two-time Olympian from Canmore, and sister to Olympic cross-country skiing gold medallist Chandra, missed just one shot in her first of four rounds of shooting to narrowly miss the podium, finishing in 31:38.2.

“Today was a great day. Good, quick shooting really helped me today,” said Crawford, whose previous best was an eighth-place finish.

Crawford started well back of the leaders in 34th — based on Friday’s sprint race — and so had huge ground to make up on the field.

“It was too bad that Friday’s skiing wasn’t that good, because I had a lot of work to do today. I felt much better than in the sprint, but hitting 10 for 10 yesterday in (Saturday’s) relay really gave me confidence going into today’s race,” said Crawford.

Man United beats Liverpool to add to rival’s woes, earns sixth straight win EURO SOCCER ROUNDUP

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Manchester United’s resurgence continued in the English Premier League as the Red Devils beat archrival Liverpool for a sixth consecutive league win on Sunday, while Juventus has its lead cut to one point in Serie A. In Spain, Villarreal ended Atletico Madrid’s streak of 27 straight home games without a loss and defending champion Paris Saint-Germain lost its first game in the French league.

Here is a look at the leading action in European football: ENGLAND Manchester United’s unlikely title challenge in the Premier League gained further momentum with a 3-0 win over Liverpool, plunging last season’s runner-up into more disarray.

Goals by Wayne Rooney, Juan Mata and Robin van Persie sealed a sixth straight win for United, which has recovered from a disappointing start to the campaign to climb to third place and within eight points of leader Chelsea.

The scoreline was harsh on Liverpool, which was repeatedly denied by United goalkeeper David de Gea, but exposed the team’s inefficiency up front and underlined the change in fortunes of England’s two biggest clubs.

Eliminated from the Champions League on Tuesday, Liverpool dropped to 10th place in the Premier League after Tottenham’s 2-1 win at Swansea in Sunday’s other game.

Christian Eriksen drove in an 89thminute winner for Spurs, who are seventh.

ITALY Patrice Evra scored his first goal in Serie A but Juventus was held 1-1 at home by Champions League hopeful Sampdoria.

Radja Nainggolan scored as secondplace Roma won 1-0 at 10-man Genoa to bounce back from its Champions League elimination and set up a title fight with three-time defending champion Juve in the second half of the season.

“We took advantage of the chance to pull within one point that we didn’t take advantage of last time,” Roma coach Rudi Garcia said, referring to a wasted opportunity last weekend.

“We’ve learned well.”

Evra put Juventus ahead with a header before Sampdoria substitute Manolo Gabbiadini equalized by shooting inside the far post for his sixth goal of the season.

Also Sunday, AC Milan beat Napoli 2-0 at the San Siro with goals from Jeremy Menez and Giacomo Bonaventura, ending Napoli’s 11-match unbeaten streak FRANCE Still unbeaten at the start of the week, Paris Saint-Germain was handed a second consecutive loss in the space of five days as the French champions lost 1-0 at relegation-threatened Guingamp following their 3-1 defeat against Barcelona in the Champions League.

Jeremy Pied headed home the winner and goalkeeper Jonas Lossl denied Zlatan Ibrahimovic with a decisive save in the closing stages. But leader Marseille did not take advantage of PSG’s setback as Marcelo Bielsa’s team also lost 1-0 at Monaco. Bernardo Silva scored the winner, preventing Marseille from extending its lead at the top of the standings to four points.

SPAIN Villarreal striker Luciano Vietto scored late to grab a 1-0 over Atletico Madrid, using a quick change of foot to shed Diego Godin before firing the winner past goalkeeper Miguel Moya with six minutes to play.

The defending champions hadn’t lost in the league at its Vicente Calde-

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Manchester United’s Wayne Rooney, left, fights for the ball against Liverpool’s Philippe Coutinho during the English Premier League soccer match between Manchester United and Liverpool at Old Trafford Stadium, Manchester, England, Sunday. ron Stadium since May 12, 2013, a 2-1 defeat to Barcelona.

Atletico’s loss left it seven points adrift of leader Real Madrid and three behind Barcelona.

Real Sociedad drew 1-1 with Athletic Bilbao under steady rain at Anoeta Stadium in coach David Moyes’ first Basque Country derby.

GERMANY Bayer Leverkusen and Borussia

Moenchengladbach drew 1-1 in the Bundesliga, while promoted Paderborn held second-place Wolfsburg by the same score on Sunday.

Leverkusen midfielder Hakan Calhanoglu opened the scoring in the early game with an effort inside the far corner. But the home side failed to hold on to the lead and was made to pay six minutes before the break when Roel Brouwers equalized after a corner.

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Oregon QB Mariota wins the Heisman BECOMES DUCKS’ FIRST WINNER

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Marcus Mariota wrote it all down, every word of his Heisman Trophy acceptance speech. It was a good thing, too, because getting through it might have been tougher than sprinting away from a linebacker or tossing a touchdown pass for Oregon’s understated star.

The junior quarterback became the Ducks’ first Heisman winner going away Saturday night, capping a threeyear climb to college football’s most prestigious individual award.

“I’m humbled to be standing here today,” Mariota said moments after he was announced as the winner.

Mariota isn’t a bigger talker, but he steadily worked through his speech, thanking his teammates, teachers, friends and his home state of Hawaii.

He finally hit a snag when it came time to thank his mother and father. He needed to take two deep breaths and still he got choked up.

“I had to give thanks to so many people because where I am today, it’s all do to all those people,” Mariota said later.

“It’s hard not to get emotional. It’s been a long journey. My emotions got the best of me.”

A pinpoint passer with wide-receiver speed, Mariota came into this season as the favourite to win the 80th Heisman and delivered a performance that turned the presentation ceremony at a theatre in Times Square into a foregone conclusion.

Mariota had twice as many points (2,534) as second-place finisher Melvin Gordon (1,250), the record-breaking running back from Wisconsin. The other finalist, Alabama receiver Amari Cooper, was third.

Mariota received the second-highest percentage of possible points (90.92) in Heisman history, behind only Ohio State quarterback Troy Smith, who had 91.63 in 2006. Southern California tailback Reggie Bush received 91.77 per cent of possible points in 2005, but his victory was later vacated for violating NCAA rules.

Mariota, the first Hawaii native to win the Heisman, has accounted for a Pac-12-record 53 touchdowns (38 passing, 14 rushing and one receiving) while directing the Ducks’ warp-speed spread offence.

Carbon monoxide leak at Wisconsin ice rink sickens at least 81 people

“In Hawaii, if one person is successful, the entire state is successful,” he said, draped in leis at his news conference.

It will be a matchup of Heismanwinning quarterbacks in the College Football Playoff’s Rose Bowl semifinal Jan. 1 with Mariota and the Ducks facing Florida State and Jameis Winston.

“I’m just looking forward to getting back on the field and playing again,’ Mariota said. ”We do have a team goal.“ In an era when so many Heisman winners seemingly come from out of nowhere — the last two were the first freshmen winners — Mariota’s rise was slow and steady.

Three of the last four Heisman winners were in their first seasons as starters, including Cam Newton, who won the award in his only season at Auburn after transferring from a junior college. Before Newton, three straight sophomores won the award (Tim Tebow of Florida, Sam Bradford of Oklahoma and Mark Ingram of Alabama). Tebow was the first sophomore winner.

Like Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel and Winston, the previous two winners, Mariota started as a redshirt freshman. It quickly established himself as a star, but unlike Johnny Football and Famous Jameis, Mariota wasn’t the face of college football in his first season.

In his second season he put up numbers that rivaled those of Heisman finalist quarterbacks Winston, Manziel, AJ McCarron and Jordan Lynch, but when it came time to vote for the Heisman, Mariota was forgotten.

He didn’t even finish in the top 10 in 2013.

This season Mariota would not be ignored.

He leads the nation in passer rating (186.2), is fifth in total offence (342.5 yards per game) and has led the Ducks to a Pac-12 title with a chance to play for their first national championship.

Of course, patience and poise have defined Mariota’s career. He didn’t start for his high school team until he was a senior — then led Saint Louis in Honolulu to a state title.

A quiet leader with a nice-guy reputation, Mariota brought no off-field baggage to this Heisman ceremony. After a season beset by off-field troubles, including a school hearing into sexual assault allegations, Winston wasn’t a

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LAKE DELTON, Wis. — Authorities on Sunday blamed an ice resurfacing machine for a suspected carbon monoxide leak that sent dozens of people to hospitals after a junior hockey game at a Wisconsin rink.

At least 81 people were treated for symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning after the leak was discovered Saturday at Poppy Waterman Ice Rink in Lake Delton.

Delton Fire Chief Darren Jorgenson told the Star Tribune of Minneapolis the carbon monoxide was coming from one of the rink’s two propane-fueled resurfacing machines. Jorgenson said the machine “wasn’t fully combusting the propane,” and the ventilation system was unable to offset the problem.

The employee operating the machine thought it was functioning properly, Jorgenson said. Both machines, which the fire chief said passed inspections just before the hockey season began this fall, will be inspected Monday.

While the rink is not required by law to have a carbon monoxide detector in the building, Jorgenson said, “any space that people occupy where there is a fuel-burning appliance, it’s great to have as many (CO detectors) as possible.”

Players reported having headaches, dizziness and nausea after a game between the Dells Ducks and the Rochester, Minnesota, Ice Hawks, the Delton Fire Department said. One player fainted, the department said.

Only one person was known to still be receiving treatment Sunday. One Ducks player was getting oxygen therapy at a hyperbaric chamber in Milwaukee, the Minnesota Junior Hockey League said.

Rochester coach Nick Fatis and at least one other Ice Hawks player will receive further treatment at Mayo Clinic, the league said.

Fatis told the Star Tribune that the symptoms started showing up among his players Friday night during a game against the Ducks at the same rink.

Leading up to Saturday’s game, players were complaining of headaches, said Fatis, who thought it was cold or flu “but didn’t really pick up on” carbon monoxide poisoning. Once Saturday’s game began, players had trouble breathing and several failed to finish the game, he said.

“I feel like this was a very avoidable situation,” Fatis said.

finalist this time around. He finished sixth.

Oregon’s only Heisman finalists before Mariota were quarterback Joey Harrington in 2001 and running back LaMichael James in 2010.

“If you have your punch list of things as a program, the most iconic individual award would be the Heisman Trophy. But like Marcus said, I know

he’d trade all that to win as a team,” Oregon coach Mark Helfrich said.

For Harrington, Oregon, with Nike’s help, put up a billboard in Times Square to promote their Heisman candidate.

Oregon didn’t need a billboard to get the word out about Mariota. His play provided all the publicity he needed

Dos Santos unanimously outpoints Miocic in Arizona UFC

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Oregon quarterback Marcus Mariota kisses the Heisman Trophy while posing for photographers after being awarded the Heisman Trophy, Saturday, in New York.

PHOENIX — In his first fight in 14 months, Junior dos Santos did just enough to unanimously outpoint Stipe Miocic.

Yes, his hands were swift. Yes, they were accurate. No, they weren’t devastating.

The former UFC heavyweight champion received winning scores of 48-47, 49-46, 49-46 from the judges Saturday night at US Airways Center in the first UFC event in Arizona.

Dos Santos (17-3) was a 5-to-1 favourite, but Miocic (12-2) made it difficult on the Brazilian for five back-and-forth rounds. In the end, dos Santos’ consistency in landing straight right hands and left hooks looked to make the difference.

Miocic, a part-time firefighter from Cleveland, clearly thought it was a closer fight, immediately leaving the cage upon hearing the decision.

“Miocic is a great, great opponent,” dos Santos said. “Man, that was a tough fight. It’s good to come back. It makes me feel how tough it is in order to be

the No. 1 in the world.”

Another shot at the UFC heavyweight title belt that dos Santos wants may be in the offing, whether it’s against champion Cain Velasquez, who dos Santos has lost to twice, or interim champ Fabricio Werdum, who dos Santos knocked out six years ago.

UFC President Dana White, though, wasn’t too convinced.

“I don’t know where exactly this puts him (in the heavyweight division),” White said about dos Santos. “I thought that he won the fight, but let me tell you what, he slowed down a lot. He took some big shots tonight. His eyes start to swell up, his cheeks starts to swell up and that was early in the fight. If that was a three-round fight, Stipe wins the fight.”

Dos Santos was able to thwart Miocic’s repeated takedown attempts for most of the bout. Miocic found success with lunging left hooks that landed as dos Santos tried to back away.

“He was trying to take me down all the time, that was a surprise to me,” dos Santos said. “Normally he doesn’t do that. He has really good boxing skills. And you can see that with my face.”

Miocic seemed to be getting stronger as the fight wore on, landing straight rights that deformed dos San-

tos’ cheekbones.

Dos Santos did drop Miocic to the canvas in the third round with a short left that caught Miocic coming in close to finish a combination.

The fifth round was a summary of the entire fight, an action-packing round that left the fighters’ faces bruised and bloody and the crowd wanting more.

Saturday’s heavyweight-dominated main card didn’t disappoint those looking for first-round finishes.

It started with Matt Mitrione’s TKO of Gabriel Gonzaga 1:49 into the fight.

It was Mitrione’s third straight firstround knockout win. Then Alistair Overeem (38-14, 1 no contest) took care of Stefan Struve (29-7) at 4:13 via TKO (punches) in the battle between Dutch giants.

Other notables: 2008 U.S. Olympic freestyle wrestling gold medallist Henry Cejudo (7-0), a Phoenix native, won his UFC debut with a dominant unanimous decision victory over Dustin Kimura (12-3) of Honolulu in a bantamweight bout on the preliminary card.

Lightweight fighter Jamie Varner (2111-1, 2 no contests), also a Phoenix native, retired in the octagon after losing to underdog Drew Dober (15-6) of Omaha, Nebraska, by submission (rear naked choke) 1:52 into the first round.

Champions League enters knockout stage SOCCER

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS GENEVA — With the group stage over, the Champions League enters the next phase when the last-16 knockout draw is made on Monday.

The past four winners - Real Madrid, Bayern Munich, Chelsea, and Barcelona - all won their group, with only Barcelona pushed hard in the process.

Borussia Dortmund and Porto, last season’s runner-up Atletico Madrid and surprise club Monaco are also seeded as group winners.

Juventus is the only former champion among unseeded group runners-up, which all host first-leg matches Feb. 17-18 and 24-25. Return matches are March 10-11 and 17-18.

The others are: Arsenal, advancing for a 15th straight year, Manchester City, Paris Saint-Germain, Basel, Bayer Leverkusen, Schalke and Shakhtar Donetsk.

Clubs cannot face an opponent from their own country or qualifying group.

Defending European champion Madrid was perhaps most impressive in the group stage with a perfect record, contributing six of the club’s current

Spanish record streak of 20 straight wins.

Madrid advanced with two matches to spare and its 11-point lead over runner-up Basel was a competition record.

Cristiano Ronaldo, who scored a Champions League-record 17 goals last season, has five so far, allowing Lionel Messi to build a 75-72 lead in their ongoing duel for the all-time competition scoring record.

In a season of heavy scoring and lopsided wins, even Messi’s eight goals for Barcelona does not top the standings.

Shakhtar forward Luiz Adriano has nine — matching Ronaldo’s groupstage record last season — with eight scored against BATE Borisov of Belarus. The Ukraine champion’s 7-0 and 5-0 routs of BATE were among 15 matches in the group stage won by at least four goals. There were just 16 such wins in the past two group phases combined.

Also, half the teams in Monday’s draw racked up double-figure goal difference in the groups.

Monaco bucked that trend, scoring only four in six matches after letting star Colombian forwards James Rodriguez and Radamel Falcao leave in the summer. A pairing with Monaco would send Arsenal coach Arsene Wenger back to where he made his reputation in the 1980s. It would also be rare good Champions League fortune for Arsenal, who recently exited the last-16

stage against Barcelona and Bayern.

Dortmund is the most unpredictable seed with the 2013 runner-up shining in the Champions League while spending much of the season near the bottom of the Bundesliga.

PSG, which was runner-up in Barcelona’s group, could be the toughest unseeded option, though English champion Manchester City has momentum from its unlikely turnaround sparked

by Sergio Aguero’s hat trick to defeat Bayern last month.

Ten of the 16 teams come from three nations - Spain, England and Germany - and only one is from eastern Europe.

However, Shakhtar plays closer to the west than it would choose. Donetsk is the centre of conflict with pro-Russian separatists, so Shakhtar plays “home” matches in Lviv, near Ukraine’s western border with Poland.

The final is played June 6 at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin.

Seeded teams: Atletico Madrid (Spain), Real Madrid (Spain), Monaco (France), Borussia Dortmund (Germany), Bayern Munich (Germany), Barcelona (Spain), Chelsea (England), Porto (Portugal).

Unseeded teams: Juventus (Italy), Basel (Switzerland), Bayer Leverkusen (Germany), Arsenal (England), Manchester City (England), Paris SaintGermain (France), Schalke (Germany), Shakhtar Donetsk (Ukraine).

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Your father is unlikely to Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like she has drifted stay outside very long in cold away from me. She used to weather, and even if he did, MITCHELL love seeing me tap dance, it wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t solve the problem, & SUGAR and now she rarely does. because the smoke clings to What should I do about his hair and clothes when he her? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Gotta Dance returns inside. Some people Dear Dance: You can be recommend electronic cigapatient and hope she comes around. rettes, not because they reduce cancer There could be many reasons why risk, but because they appear to lessen your mother suddenly doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to the impact of third-hand smoke. encourage you to dance, and it might Dear Annie: I read the letter from help to ask her directly. But as long as â&#x20AC;&#x153;Traveling Man,â&#x20AC;? whose retired husshe is willing to let you continue, and band has developed a phobia when it you enjoy it, we hope you will keep it comes to car travel. up. Not every activity turns into a caI was widowed when I met my twicereer, nor should it. Dancing, whether married husband 14 years ago. I had you are talented or not, keeps you in fully intended to live independently, good physical condition and is fun to but we fell in love, tossed caution to do. the wind and got married. We are still Dear Annie: My dad has smoked for crazy in love. And we enjoy our own the past 40 years. He used to smoke in company. the house, but after I had issues with On our honeymoon, he went deepbronchitis as a baby, he started go- sea fishing, and I chose to go kayaking. ing outside. The problem is, when he I am 58 and have never been happier. comes in after having a cigarette, he Everyone advised me not to rush into still reeks of smoke. He stinks up the a relationship, especially since he had house, and when he pets the family cat, custody of two teenagers. It wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t easy she smells like smoke, too. In addition, at times, but I am so grateful that the he smokes in his truck, so that often kids are a big part of my life. has a smoky odor, too.

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health will have to be addressed again today.

There will be some tense moments that will make you feel like youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re right where you started. Use your wise insight, it will serve Monday, Dec. 15 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: you well.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The day will Adam Brody, 35; Don Johnson, 65; Stuart bring up some older issues that you have Townsend, 42 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Today will mark already dealt with, just to test that you have the 6th of the Uranus square Pluto transits. gained wisdom from the experiences. You This is a powerful bunch of energy. Fun- will also notice that your intuition is quite high damentally, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about the changing of out- today, so do adjust that energy today. Go with dated structures. It can be seen as individuals the flow and release the past now.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The day will be standing up to the governments, reclaiming wonderful, if others are affectiontheir autonomy and making LARISA MAIRA ate. If you do not see eye to eye changes. The world will hear with them, there could be some OZOLINS both sides: one side will praise issues coming up. The ongoing peace; the other, will be forcechanges you have dealt with will be ful and brutal. brought up again to reach a final HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If toresolution. You are wise enough to day is your birthday, this year will be the year to speak your truth. I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t stress this enough. handle it now.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): When it If you feel like you kind of know it, then seek wise counsel. It will be a great year to in- comes to issues within your country, you are crease your finances through some form of definitely standing your ground. This will dicreative expression or a project youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been rectly relate to how you feel you are of service working on. Your dreams and aspirations to others within your community. You are well will succeed through the help of friends and aware of the structures needing changes to be implemented. groups you are part of.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Today, ARIES (March 21-April 19): Yes, there your voice in this world will be highlighted. have been ongoing changes for you on a public level and within your career. Today The ongoing changes have helped you to will be no different. Now it is just a matter of finally develop enough self-worth to recognize getting out of your own way. Trust that your your own true creative talents. You should wishes are fully coming true for you. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll at- be expressing your true voice today or taking steps to express it soon. tract what you need at the right moment.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): There TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Today will be a great day for you! There will be some have been many changes with your family stresses, but you should have learnt how to and for you personally for a while. Yes, it has deal with them appropriately by now. If you been stressful, considering you just donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t personally havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t, then your spouse should know what you are going to be thrown next. be right on top of the issues helping you Today will be the day when something unexpected will be thrown, stand your ground! through. Open your mind to new possibilities.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): One must GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You have had some issues with letting go of the past and master their weaknesses in order to master moving towards your ultimate dreams. You their strengths. This is very true for you now. have the ability today to break down a wall or You have that authoritative voice to share two. You are now ready to step forward in the with others. Stand your ground today, if chaldirection of your dreams and wishes. Stand lenged with a new perspective. Let go of the past now. your ground in the face of adversity.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): As humanCANCER (June 21-July 22): Okay, so it will be a stressful day if not handled appropri- ity has gone through some massive changes, ately. You will have two options: walk away this includes your friends, you have easily let from the issue or stressfully working things go of some of your personal values which out. I would choose the latter. You have dealt were not in line with humanity. Times are with this before and now you have the wis- changing now, let go of fears and stand up for yourself! dom of this experience behind you.

Larisa Maira Ozolins is an internationally LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The ongoing changes that have been implemented syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her colthroughout your daily life, work, and with umn appears daily in the Advocate.

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