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Deferred maintenance awaits cash RED DEER HOSPITAL HAS 31 PROJECTS COSTING $20.3MILLION IN NEED OF FUNDING

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF Recent reports paint a disturbing picture of poorly maintained Alberta hospitals, political interference and a future, possibly, with fewer rural hospitals.

According to the Edmonton Journal’s hospital series, Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre had the fifth highest deferred maintenance costs in the province as of 2013-14 with $23.8 million. Foothills Medical Centre in Calgary was the highest with $80.9 million.

Information the Advocate received in an email from AHS Central Zone showed the Red Deer hospital had $20.3 million in deferred maintenance and most of the 31 projects were awaiting funding ap-

proval in the next three to five years.

Those projects include $6.3 million to replace cabinetry, $2 million to replace air handling units, $2.2 million to replace exhaust fans, and $1 million to upgrade monitoring of heating boilers.

AHS says since 2010, about $3.7 million has been or is being spent on the repairs and upgrades, including outpatient renovations, patient meal assembly, staff alert system installation, and replacement of boiler water treatment system. Another $9.7 million will go towards building two dedicated operating rooms on the maternity ward for scheduled caesarean sections and emergency obstetrical procedures.

Despite calls since Dec. 3, no one was available from AHS Central Zone to speak to the deferred maintenance list for the Red Deer hospital or other hospitals in the zone.

Brenda Corney, chairperson of the Red Deer Chapter of Friends of Medicare, said Central Albertans deserve transparency when it comes to their public system.

“It’s the culture of secrecy. The less you tell, the less (the public) has to complain about or know,” Corney said.

And the province has the responsibility to properly maintain hospitals. People expect their taxes to go towards services for the greater good of the population, like public health care, she said.

“It just makes sense to maintain it. We don’t want to end up like Misericordia Community Hospital (in Edmonton) where the maintenance has been prolonged for so long that how it functions is a problem,” Corney said.

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Wanted man turns himself in to police

FURRY FRIENDS GETTING FIXED

VICTIM IN SEX ASSAULT AND ROBBERY VERY HELPFUL IN INVESTIGATION

BY BRENDA KOSSOWAN ADVOCATE STAFF

Photo by ASHLI BARRETT/Advocate Staff

Tasha Willshaw helps prepare a little grey kitten, Picatso, to be neutered at the Clearview Dog and Cat Hospital on Saturday morning for the Red Deer and District SPCA. Doctors and staff at the hospital donated their time to perform seven spays and eight neuters to get kittens and cats ready for adoption and a future home in time for the holidays.

A man suspected of abducting, robbing and sexually assaulting a Gasoline Alley hotel worker is being held in custody after surrendering to police in Edmonton late Friday night.

Blackfalds RCMP issued a province-wide alert on Wednesday morning after learning that a 20-year-old woman had been forced from her vehicle at knifepoint at 12:20 a.m., just after finishing her shift.

Police allege that he pushed her into the passenger seat of her SUV, and then got behind the wheel and drove first to Westerner Park and then to a CIBC bank at the south side of Red Deer.

Investigators allege that the woman was then forced to withdraw cash from the bank’s automated teller and was driven afterward into the countryside near Penhold, where she was sexually assaulted. She was dropped off later at a convenience store in the Inglewood subdivision of Red Deer and the suspect is alleged to have driven away in her vehicle.

The SUV was recovered at 8:20 a.m. from a construction site in Gasoline Alley.

A composite drawing of the attacker was released on that day. Police announced on Friday that they had identified a suspect and released a photograph of Justin Chase Mueller, 28, along with information that he may have headed for Edmonton.

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Purported extremist video calls for attacks on Canadians

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO - A U.S.-based company that monitors trends within the global jihadist movement says Islamic State has released a video calling for lone-wolf attacks on Canadian targets.

SITE Intelligence Group posted the six minute, 13 second video on its website on Sunday and it has been distributed on Twitter and jihadi forums.

On the video a man, who says he is a Canadian

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The Canadian government deployed fighter jets and support personnel to the region earlier this year to join other countries conducting air strikes to support Iraqi ground forces battling Islamic state militants.

Major break in 2012 murder leads to arrest A man who lived in the home of a Calgary woman missing for over two years has been charged in connection with her death after police say they found human remains.

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Couture-Rouleau killed one soldier - warrant officer Patrice Vincent - and injured another when he ran them down with a car in St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Que., in October.

Standing in the ruins of an unidentified area, Abu Anwar warns Canadians that their country being part of the U.S.-led coalition fighting Islamic State will bring revenge attacks upon them.

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Shoppers bid farewell to Safeway PARKLAND MALL SAFEWAY ONE OF 50 CLOSING ACROSS THE COUNTRY have assumed. It had occupied a highly visible and therefore highly desirable piece of real estate that will be attractive to other retailers. Hachey said he does not yet know who will occupy the space, but it definitely will not be another supermarket.

People who shop for groceries tend not to go elsewhere in the mall because they don’t like to drag carts full of groceries aroud and they don’t like to leave their bags in the car. Food that should stay cools heats up when the weather gets warm and food that should stay at room temperature freezes solid when it’s cold outside, said Hachey.

Looking at the growth in Red Deer over the past 45 years, he points out that there was a time when people in rural areas around Red Deer had fewer options for buying groceries.

Now, there are three supermarkets in Sylvan Lake alone as well as three others in the immediate area of the mall.

The next tenant or tenants will be the type of retailer that will attract people to cross shop throughout the mall, said Hachey.

Betty Kellsey, public affairs manager for Safeway and Sobeys stores in Alberta, said the impact on staff has been minimal because workers were given months of notice.

A number of people from the mall store have found other jobs, while some have moved to the Port O’ Call store, she said.

Empire had previously closed the pharmacy in the Parkland Mall and moved its prescription business downtown, creating an increase in traffic there, said McLaren.

The company anticipates a similar increase in traffic for the rest of the store, with the result that it will need more staff.

Some people downtown have been bumped from their positions by senior staff from the mall, while a number of junior, part-time staff were laid off.

BY BRENDA KOSSOWAN ADVOCATE STAFF An eerie silence falls over the handful of staff and shoppers who remain for the final hours of a decades-old supermarket’s reign over Red Deer’s north hill.

Floors have been cleared of displays, shelves are mostly emptied and what’s left in the produce department has been marked down by 25 per cent.

Someone has used a wax pencil to scrawl a goodbye note on one of the doors. A handful of staff have a quiet chat, standing on a bare section of floor that once held displays of deli and bakery treats.

Six o’clock rolls around and it’s all over. The Safeway store in Red Deer’s Parkland Mall closed for good on Saturday, a casualty of its failure to meet the performance standards of its new owner, Empire Company Ltd. Empire, which also owns Sobeys, had acquired Canada Safeway in 2013 and announced six months ago that it would close 50 of its lowest-performing Safeway and Sobeys stores.

That closure would include the Parkland Mall Safeway, which looks across the street at its closest competitor, the Sobeys in Village Mall.

Saturday’s final hours were a bittersweet finale for Parkland Mall Safeway and for the people who worked there, Red Deer glass artist David Laing said after packing up his groceries and putting his shopping cart away for the last time.

“I understand the nature of corporate North America. Businesses open and close,” said Laing.

“I’m sad. I’ve been coming here for probably 10 years, so I know all the staff. They’ve got the same batch of mixed emotions. They perfectly understand the nature of corporate North America, this kind of stuff happens.

I think, probably, some of them are probably really bitter. It’s human nature.”

Laing said he lives nearby and has

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David Laing, a longtime shopper at the Parkland Mall Safeway, leaves the grocery store for the last time on Saturday morning. It officially closed at 6 p.m. on Saturday. stayed loyal to the store because of the relationships he developed with the staff and because the store offered stability and consistency. He knew the people and he knew where to find things if he was in a rush.

Now, he’s looking forward to seeing some of his friends from the Parkland Mall store working in their new positions at the Port O’Call Safeway in downtown Red Deer.

John and Mary Wenger, who started using the Parkland Mall store when they moved to Red Deer in 1973, said they will also switch their loyalties to the Port O’ Call store.

Mary Wenger said the most important aspect for her is the sales — she likes to get things for half price.

She had shopped for groceries once

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AHS: Castor, Rimbey hospitals recommended for closure Castor and Rimbey hospitals were among nine under utilized Alberta hospitals recommended for closure in the Journal’s health series published last week.

Joe Anglin, MLA for Rimbey-Rocky Mountain House-Sundre, firmly rejected the idea of closing Rimbey hospital.

“Closing is just not a solution to this problem. It’s just not. That is not what the public wants and is not necessarily a cost savings or efficient,” said Anglin, who sits as an independent MLA since leaving the Wildrose Party earlier this year.

AHS Central Zone says Rimbey Hospital and Care Centre requires deferred maintenance that will cost $2.1 million, while the Journal pegged it at $3.4 million.

Anglin said maintenance problems at Rimbey hospital have been created over years and fixing it will take time, and requires public consultation.

The hospital serves as a powerful economic driver in the community and rural hospitals provide care comparable to large urban hospitals, he said.

“There are lots of options out there to reduce costs and make better efficient use of our facilities,” Anglin said.

The Journal also suggested political interference had pushed some lower priority maintenance proj-

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a week at the Parkland Mall store, her preferred location because she found it brighter and cleaner than its counterpart downtown.

Canada Safeway has been a part of the Parkland Mall since it was first opened in the fall of 1970. The original store was in roughly the same spot, but was blocked from view somewhat by a Beaver Lumber store at the southwest corner of the mall. The lumber store was later torn down and the Safeway store was expanded, giving it plenty of parking space and a commanding view of Gaetz Avenue from the top of the embankment behind the Riverside light industrial park.

Mall manager Dan Hachey said on Friday that losing Safeway is not as tragic for the mall as some people may

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Michael Dawe, a Liberal candidate in Red Deer in the last provincial election and a former hospital board member, said “It strongly suggests that allocation in health care spending has major political considerations, not just objective and based on patient need, and what’s the most efficient.”

Dawe served as a trustee and chairman of Red Deer Regional Hospital board from 1983 to 1995 and was on David Thompson Health Region board from 2001 to 2008, prior to the creation of Alberta Health Services and the elimination of regional health boards.

He said the list of deferred maintenance projects for local hospitals looked a lot like the ones he saw while on the boards. Many have to do with common maintenance issues — heating and ventilation systems, plumbing, electrical, skylights, nurse call systems, parking lot paving.

“The really urgent issues have always been dealt with. The question is are there lesser issues that were let slide for budget reasons that cumulatively over the years have become big expensive issues,” Dawe said.

Pat Stier, infrastructure critic for the Wildrose, said his party would make a priority list of maintenance issues and stick to it instead of the Conservatives’ habit of changing the way facilities and projects are rated.

“It seems to be like a cork on the water floating all over the place. It could be anywhere on the water the next time a storm blows through,” Stier said.

“Here we are several years later with a bunch of these deferred maintenance problems like you see in Red Deer, and they’re no closer to getting at them than they were several years ago, it would seem.”

And the Wildrose would “absolutely not” close rural hospitals, he said.

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ARREST: Man charged with kidnapping, sex assault Blackfalds RCMP reported early on Saturday that Mueller phoned the Edmonton Police Service at 9:30 p.m. on Friday, indicating that he wished to turn himself in. He was arrested without incident and transported to Blackfalds, said Cpl. Barry Larocque, a media officer for the Blackfalds RCMP. “A lot of people did a lot of good work and we had some luck built into it,” Larocque said of the investigation on Saturday.

“The young lady herself was awesome in terms of providing us what we needed to move forward with our investigation.”

She suffered no physical injuries, but will have some emotional pain for a long period of time, he said.

The hotel worker’s name is withheld under Criminal Code provisions protecting the identities of sexual assault victims.

Mueller is charged with armed sexual assault, armed robbery, kidnapping, uttering threats and theft of goods worth more than $5,000.

He was to make an initial appearance before a justice of the peace on Saturday, with his first appearance in provincial court to be scheduled afterward. bkossowan@reddeeradvocate.com

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Major Workers hurt in refinery break explosion want accountability in 2012 murder leads to arrest

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS REGINA - Kimberly Janvier says the sounds from a construction site are all it takes to trigger intense memories of that day.

The 36-year-old scaffolder was working at an oil refinery in Regina when a pipe burst and her life changed forever.

“There was this big boom, and I remember cringing,” Janvier says. “I looked up and there was this big fireball coming down at me.”

One of the memories she can’t escape, she says, is watching her hard hat roll away.

Severe burns on her hands, face, neck and ears confined her to hospital for six days. She needed another three months of outpatient treatment in her home city of Edmonton. She was left with nerve damage in one leg.

Janvier is one of several workers injured that day who are collectively suing Consumers Co-operative Refineries Ltd., as well as associated companies that were involved in the plant’s refurbishment. She says the group is frustrated with the drawn-out legal process.

An investigation found that the explosion, which injured 52 people in all, was caused by a ruptured pipe thinned by corrosion.

The group’s lawyer filed a statement of claim in April that alleges negligence put workers at risk. The statement says there were known safety concerns before the explosion, including possible gas leaks, lack of alarms and an inadequate emergency medical plan.

None of the allegations has been proven in court and Co-op spokesman Brad DeLorey says he can’t comment because it’s an ongoing legal matter.

A statement of defence has yet to be filed.

Fourteen months after the explosion, Janvier returned to work as a scaffolder, but she says she can no longer work at oil and gas refineries because of the trauma she suffered. Even when she knows nothing is running through the pipes, “little things” trigger memories of the explosion.

“Noises will trigger,” she says, crying.

Janvier moved from Edmonton to Kamloops, B.C., in an attempt to escape the memories that haunt her on a daily basis.

“I moved out of Edmonton because

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there were plants everywhere. I had to get away from it.”

Since 2011, there have been four fires at the Regina refinery, including an explosion last Christmas Eve. Last week, an investigation report was released that revealed another ruptured pipe caused that blast.

Irene Rombaut, another plaintiff in the lawsuit from the 2011 blast, says she was rattled when she heard about the Christmas Eve explosion.

“I would like to see changes,” she says. “I still have family and friends who work at the Co-op.”

Like Janvier, Rombaut, 53, was also working as a scaffolder when the blast happened.

She suffered severe burns on her face, ears, neck, back and arms, as well as on the inside of her mouth and throat.

She says her injuries and long recovery traumatized her four children, who are also plaintiffs in the case and allege that they suffered emotional distress.

When Rombaut flips through photos on her phone, she pauses at one taken a month before the explosion.

“I think I’ll keep that one forever,” she says with a laugh. She likes the image of herself, free from the scars she

lives with now.

Rombaut spent 21 days in hospital - time split between the intensive care unit and the burn unit.

She remembers co-workers screaming at her to run when the explosion occurred.

“My lungs were burning,” she says.

“I remember the pain a lot. I remember praying.

“They said I was screaming. I don’t remember screaming.”

Tavengwa Runyowa, who is representing the workers, says an adjudication process set to resume in the new year through the Workers’ Compensation Board is to determine whether the lawsuit can move forward.

Saskatchewan law is based on a “no-fault” system, whereby workers aren’t allowed to sue their employers for workplace injuries.

“But this system was never meant to ... protect employers who show a callous, continuous and shocking disregard to workers safety,” Runyowa wrote in an email.

Peter Federko, CEO of the Workers’ Compensation Board, says he can’t speak about the case specifically.

The no-fault approach aims to ensure workers can get access to benefits without going through the courts.

CALGARY - A man who lived in the home of a Calgary woman missing for over two years has been charged in connection with her death after police say they found human remains inside the residence.

Lisa Michelle Mitchell, 31, was last seen alive at the home in October 2012.

Police say her family reported her missing the following month to RCMP in Turner Valley, southwest of Calgary, when they became concerned that they hadn’t heard from her for an unusual amount of time.

Investigators say they got a search warrant for the Calgary home on Friday, where the 38-year-old suspect and two young children Lisa Michelle were still living.

Mitchell Allan Shyback faces charges of second degree murder and indignity to a body and will appear in court on Monday to face the allegations.

The children, who police say are 5 and 7, were not home at the time of the arrest.

“They are being taken care of at this time, but obviously they are going to need some additional resources later on,” said Sgt. John Hebert with the missing persons unit.

Forensics investigators remained at the scene on Saturday. An autopsy has been scheduled for Monday.

RCMP turned the investigation over to Calgary police in January 2013.

Hebert said Mitchell’s mother has been notified.

“I think she took the news with a measure of grace considering what the news was,” Hebert said.

The UFCW has taken issue with the process, however, because people from the mall were tightly restricted in terms of the jobs they could take downtown.

For example, someone who was a cashier in the mall was not allowed to take the coffee counter downtown, even though it was a less pay and few-

er hours, because she was not deemed qualified for what is essentially an entry-level position, said McLaren.

The union has launched a grievance on behalf of workers who were not allowed to move into jobs as per the let-

ter of their contract, she said.

Store staff were advised by their managers not to speak with news media, said Kellsey. That has been a longstanding policy with Safeway, she said. bkossowan@reddeeradvocate.com

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Kimberly Janvier and Irene Rombaut are shown in undated handout photos in a hospital.

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However, neither Kellsey nor Theresa McLaren, secretary-treasurer of the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 401, could say exactly how many people lost their jobs.

McLaren said on Friday that Kellsey was accurate in stating that the impact was minimal in terms of the number of people who ended up being laid off.

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Bringing nature to cities Canada’s newest “national park” is a vibrant patchwork of green space meandering through dynamic downtown neighbourhoods in one of Canada’s densest metropolises, along the former path of a creek buried more than 100 years.

It’s a welcoming space for birds and bees that’s nurturing a new generation of city-builders.

And it may spread to your city. Let me explain.

A u t h o r s Douglas Tallamy and RichDAVID ard Louv origiSUZUKI nally proposed the Homegrown National Park idea. They advocated stitching together a diverse tapestry of green spaces to create a living corridor for butterflies, birds and bees. Ultimately, this connected pollinator pathway would become a natural space to rival traditional national parks.

The David Suzuki Foundation launched the Toronto Homegrown National Park Project in 2013, starting with the former path of Garrison Creek in the downtown west end. Two-doz-

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en local residents were recruited as Homegrown Park Rangers, trained in community organizing and connected with local environmental and citybuilding organizations.

The rangers discussed common desires to make their neighbourhoods and the city more green and livable.

They were also given evidence that, as Harvard School of Public Health says, “even small amounts of daily contact with nature can help us think more clearly, reduce our stress, and improve our physical health.”

Then they returned to their home turfs with a simple mission: to make awesome things happen where they live, work and play, with the ultimate goal of co-creating a green corridor through the heart of the city.

These newly minted community leaders connected with local groups and agencies, participated in community events, made new partnerships and created opportunities for plantings in parks, yards, schools and laneways.

Over the past two years, the Park Rangers have added thousands of wildflowers and native plants, often in surprising nooks and crannies and in unexpected ways — a network of flowerfilled canoes in schoolyards and parks, and patches of pavement transformed into butterfly gardens.

Together, through more than 30 initiatives, they’ve begun to bring more nature to the city and create the foun-

dation for even more striking transformations. The project has cultivated a reputation for bringing residents out to celebrate the wonder of nature nearby, with fun events combining art, music, food and drink with the project’s ambitious ecological goals.

What’s most exciting is the potential for communities across the country to adopt this place-based activism.

Canada’s cities are facing increasing challenges, from rapidly growing populations and aging infrastructure to economic downturns and uncertainty. They also represent remarkable landscapes of opportunity for green interventions — from rooftops and schoolyards to trails and laneways.

Vancouver’s Country Laneway project and Montreal’s Green Laneways demonstrate the rich transformative possibilities lying dormant in the hundreds of residential and commercial laneways found in most cities. Colossal crisscrossing hydro and railway corridors can be reimagined as recreational and naturalized spaces, such as Toronto’s proposed Green Line and ambitious 80-kilometre Pan Am Path.

Projects like the U.K.-based River of Flowers and Seattle’s Pollinator Pathway have shown the power of making space for birds and bees in a city.

You need look no further than a Google Map to see vast seas of rooftops awaiting urban greening. While green-roof technology is just begin-

ning in Canada, innovative companies like Montreal’s Lufa Farms are demonstrating that roofs can not only be greened, but can also provide healthy, local food.

A key strategy in connecting green spaces is utilizing the areas in between. Neglected bits of streetscape and “meanwhile” spaces sitting empty, waiting for the next highrise or commercial development, can become temporary pollinator patches, community gardens providing local food, or space for quiet sanctuary, movie screenings and community dinners. They bring neighbours together. In short, they make communities more livable.

Will Canada’s network of Homegrown National Parks ever rival our actual national parks? Not likely. But we must harness and amplify this homegrown local creativity to enhance urban ecologies and make our communities more livable and resilient.

Smart urban innovations should be scaled up, shared and continuously adapted, supported by smart public policy and investment.

Here’s to the many local organizers, innovators and park rangers who are making our cities greener. Please keep bringing nature home, one fun, green intervention at a time!

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

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Renewing the call for a ward system A plebiscite on the issue of a ward system in Red Deer was included in the municipal vote in October 2013. It was defeated at a ratio of two to one in favour of the current system.

One major catalyst, and for many the greatest reason, for advocating for the ward system was the perceived obscene amount of money being spent downtown. With the defeat in 2013, it was thought that the issue would remain dormant until the municipal election in 2021, when another plebiscite could be held.

News articles about demolishing and building a new pool, building a concert hall, expensive road and utility work, pedestrian bridge and another water feature in Riverlands has created an accelerated timeline for another plebiscite, or an outright call for the ward system.

People remember the extreme overbudget costs of the Sorensen Station. The overbudget costs of the Ross Street patio. The extensive overbudget costs of relocating the public yard. The costs of servicing the unfinished Riverlands, the roads, the utilities, and other preparatory work were higher than anyone originally thought. The costs in just a few years totaled over $250 million, and the Riverlands is just a dirt parking lot for heavy equipment, and there are still demands for more.

There is a budget of $21.6 million for a new arena, but I think there is another budget for demolishing the old arena, so you can reasonably guess that $45 million could be the final costs.

There is a call for a new aquatic centre in the city centre with a 2013 budget of $75 million, plus or minus 20 per cent, and if it was built now it would $84 million plus or minus 20 per cent or $100 million.

But it will not be built this year, it will be built later.

Again the demolition budget is separate and the upgrades are extra. It would not be unreasonable to expect the costs to reach $150 million when completed.

Many would argue that instead of demolishing a perfectly good pool just to build a bigger pool, why not use the construction of an aquatic centre as a catalyst for development, somewhat like how the Collicutt Centre helped expedite the development of Red Deer’s southeast quadrant?

Building the aquatic centre in the northwest, perhaps north of Hwy 11A around Hazlett Lake, would encourage growth and development that could compete with Blackfalds.

Red Deer’s downtown is also advocating for a concert hall, separate from the college. The cost has been said to be in the $90 million to $100 million range. Again remembering previous builds, we could be talking over $120 million for our very own Grand Ole Opry.

We are talking about in excess of $300 million in total new downtown spending, but add in upgrades like green roofs, and upgraded amenities, windows, exterior cladding and we are talking about $400 million to $500 million before the political entities get involved.

The next municipal election is three years away, and this council has time to prove themselves to be fiscally responsible, but if not, do not be surprised if a grassroots movement takes shape demanding the creation of a ward system.

If 10 per cent of the people sign a petition demanding a ward system before 2017 (and not, as in 2013, only asked for a plebiscite), then it would most likely be incumbent of this council to proceed in that direction. Many hope that under a ward system, councillors may be more willing to listen, may actually understand the issues affecting home owners

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Tired of waiting for cancer care A tumour was suspected in chest X-ray I had in mid-September 2012.

I went to Calgary for PET scan in November 2012 and saw a doctor in Calgary shortly after scan.

He confirmed that it was cancer and gave me six months to a year.

I’m not sure of the date, but shortly after I tried to see a cancer specialist at the Red Deer cancer clinic.

I was told that the doctor in Calgary had not given them any information so they would not see me.

As time went by, I had a CT scan every six months with little change. I had another scan in July 2014 and decided I wanted to find out what was going on in the lung.

Finally the cancer clinic in Red Deer called and ordered another scan in October and said there was no change from the one in July.

Then this story really begins.

I was given a 7 a.m. appointment on Nov. 13 for a biopsy. I arrived early, an IV needle was put in, then I laid on a bed until about 8:45. At that time I was wheeled on the bed to the X-ray department.

About 20 minutes later, a very nice doctor came out and said they could not do the biopsy then because someone screwed up. Apparently the tumor

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was encapsulated and there was a good chance the lung would collapse.

To me this was a reasonable delay. So after almost four hours, I went home to wait for new time.

Well, the new date was Nov. 27, to be admitted before 11 a.m. with an expected time for procedures at 2 p.m.

Again I waited around, but no IV needle was installed at this time. Finally at about 2:15 p.m., a very nice nurse informed me that they had over-booked.

She also informed me that I was on the list for the next day.

At this point I said no, gave up and went home.

Now I am sure that whomever did the over-booking would be the first to complain if they were going on a trip and the airline bumped them to a flight some time later.

I am 83-years-old and my wife doesn’t drive.

And at -30, it is to hard on my lungs to go out in the cold only to be told go home and try it again.

I would have not been perturbed if an emergency had bumped me. This can be expected any time and is not a problem to me.

I am now, after all this time, going to let thing come as they will.

It is not worth the frustration or hassle that takes place today.

And most important to me is live for today as tomorrow never comes.

I will continue to live as the song says, “What ever will be will be.”

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You can’t spend the money or process the applications if you don’t have the staff, said Valeriote, who accuses Harper of misleading Canadians by saying the cuts were administrative in nature.

“It is indefensible,” he said.

“Internal services, the backroom position of which the prime minister spoke on Wednesday when he said they’re in the backroom, the cuts were minor in nature. So, let’s make no mistake and let’s be very clear: He lied.”

The Union of Veterans Affairs Employees confirmed the job loss numbers, but noted that there is a knockon effect when disability claims are delayed, which can also contribute to lapsed funding. Other benefits, such as health care and re-establishment to civilian life, don’t kick in until a disability is approved.

There was $33 million in underspending on that area in the last budget year.

In 2013-14, the department did overspend on financial benefits for the mostly seriously wounded, including $7.9 million in the permanent impairment allowance, which has been the subject of criticism from the veterans ombudsman.

Despite blowing that portion of their allocation, Veterans Affairs underspent its budget by $133 million in 2013-14, the performance reports show.

The union has revealed that it filed formal notice on Nov. 18, demanding the government suspend further cuts until an independent third party can analyze the impact the staff reductions have had on services.

“We want an independent body to determine whether Veterans Affairs is capable of carrying out its mandate,” said Carl Gannon, the union’s president.

The union, a division of the Public Service Alliance of Canada, is currently in the midst of contract talks with the federal Treasury Board.

Fantino faced multiple calls to step down last week, but Valeriote said he expects the Conservative strategy is to run out the clock on Parliament’s latest sitting and hope the anger blows over during the Christmas holidays.

OTTAWA - Some of the biggest job cuts at Veterans Affairs in recent years have been in the disability awards branch - the division targeted in a recent auditor general’s report for taking too long to decide on the benefit claims of ex-soldiers.

Departmental performance reports stretching back to 2009 show that roughly 897 positions have been eliminated across Veterans Affairs, with 33 per cent coming out of the section that administers pensions and awards.

Those same records show the health and rehabilitation branches also took a sizable hit - roughly 372 positions during the same time frame.

Commemorations, the division that celebrates past wars and maintains memorials, was reduced by 17.2 per cent, while internal services - Prime Minister Stephen Harper described it last week as “backroom administration” - lost 71 positions, just 10.1 per cent.

“We have taken resources out of backroom administration from bureaucracy. We have put it into services,” Harper said Wednesday during question period. “There are more benefits and more money for veterans than ever before, and more points of service.

That is called good administration, good government, and it is good service for the veterans of this country.”

As late as Friday, the Harper government was continuing to insist the reductions, part of an overall effort to eliminate the federal deficit, were not coming at the expense of ex-soldiers.

“We make no apologies for reducing bureaucratic expenses at Veterans Affairs Canada,” said Conservative MP Parm Gill, the parliamentary secretary to the minister, Julian Fantino.

“The opposition wants to increase government bureaucracy. We are increasing front line support for Canada’s veterans. We recently announced eight new front line mental health clinics for Canadian veterans. While the NDP defends the unions, along with the Liberals, we are defending Canada’s veterans.”

The majority of the staff cuts in the disability and death compensation branch took place between 2010 and 2013.

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He used to rail against any attempt to limit the amount of money outside advocacy groups could spend during campaigns.

And he used to strenuously object to any attempts to compel those groups to disclose from whom they got their money or how they spent it.

That was, of course, before he became prime minister.

Now, Harper heads a party that accuses labour unions of trying to “bully and influence our elections from the outside” and routinely uses the spectre of dastardly union politicking to drum up donations the Conservatives say are urgently needed to ensure victory in next year’s election. And he heads a government bent on forcing unions to disclose the salaries of their employees and just how they spend the money they collect from members’ dues.

Former Liberal cabinet minister Don Boudria stops just short of calling it hypocrisy.

“I think this is a case of that was then and this is now,” says Boudria, who was named in a court challenge launched by private citizen Stephen Harper in 2000 against the then-Liberal government’s so-called “gag law” limiting spending by outside third parties during election campaigns.

“The ironies are all over the place.”

And there’s one more irony: since taking power in 2006, Harper has not lifted a finger to repeal the gag law he once fought all the way to the Supreme Court.

“There’s been a lot of things that have disappointed me and disillusioned me about Stephen Harper as prime minister and that’s one of the big ones for me,” says Gerry Nicholls, Harper’s former sidekick at the National Citizens Coalition.

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After two lower court victories, Harper eventually lost the legal battle in the Supreme Court. But when he was running to become leader of the Conservative party in 2004, he signed a pledge to repeal the gag law should he ever become prime minister.

Nine years in power later, three of them at the helm of a majority, and the gag law seems confined to the dustbins of Harper’s mind. Third parties are still prohibited from spending more than a total of $150,000 on advertising during a general election, including no more than $3,000 in any single riding. They must also report details of their advertising expenses to Elections Canada and disclose the donors whose money made the ads possible.

“What philosophically has changed between Stephen Harper in 2014 and Stephen Harper in 2000, when we were going after these laws? I’d really like to know,” says Nicholls.

Nicholls surmises Harper’s retreat may be a function of the fact that it would be a hard sell politically to scrap or loosen restrictions on spending during elections. People tend to favour the notion of getting filthy lucre out of the business of politics, notwithstanding the libertarian argument that Harper and the NCC used to make about the free marketplace of ideas and how no amount of money could ever convince people to vote for a bad idea. More significantly, Nicholls believes Harper has discovered it’s in his political self-interest to stifle his own ideological opponents.

“People are all in favour of free speech as long as they agree with the speech. All too often, if they don’t like the groups which are speaking out then suddenly, ‘Yeah, we’ve got to pass a law to stop them.”’

It’s no secret the Harper regime doesn’t like unions, a number of which have vowed all-out warfare to bring down the Tories.

Although unions are already prohibited from donating to political parties or candidates and are severely restricted, as third parties, in what they can spend on advertising during campaigns, it seems Harper wants to ratchet the restrictions up a notch.

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changes to the way prostitution is regulated in Canada follow the Supreme Court decision last year that found the old laws violated the rights of prostitutes.

The new rules criminalize the purchase of sex as well as things like advertising or other forms of communication related to its sale, while providing some legal immunity for sex workers themselves.

A spokeswoman for Justice Minister Peter MacKay defended the new law, saying it helps protect sex workers by letting them hire bodyguards or work from a regular indoor location.

“Police, communities, and women’s groups have welcomed our approach.

Canada is not alone in proposing laws that view prostitution as exploitation,” Jennifer Gearey said in an email.

As the sex-law shift took effect Saturday, more than 60 organizations and agencies from across the country made a call for its non-enforcement and repeal.

The head of one of those groups said she was “heartened” by Wynne’s statement, but called on the premier to do more by seeking a court reference on its constitutional status and refusing to enforce the law.

TORONTO - Ontario’s premier has entered the debate over Canada’s new prostitution law a day after it took effect, adding her voice to a growing number of groups concerned for sex workers’ safety and adding tension to her relationship with the Harper government.

Kathleen Wynne issued a statement Sunday saying she has a “grave concern” that the new rules dealing with the world’s oldest profession won’t be any better than the old system when it comes to protecting prostitutes from harm.

“I am not an expert, and I am not a lawyer, but as premier of this province, I am concerned that this legislation (now the law of the land) will not make sex workers safer,” the statement reads.

Wynne said she has asked the province’s attorney general to advise her on the legislation’s “constitutional validity” in light of the Supreme Court of Canada ruling quashing the old law, and for “options” in case its Charter compatibility is questioned, but stopped short of saying the province wouldn’t follow the new rules.

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The endangered orca, known as J-32, was reported floating in the water near Courtenay on Thursday. The area is located on the eastern side of Vancouver Island more than 200 kilometres northwest of Victoria.

Officials with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans moved the carcass to a boat launch Friday evening, where it was set to undergo a post-mortem examination on Saturday.

By morning, several teeth were damaged or removed, said Paul Cottrell, the Pacific marine mammals co-ordinator for the Department of Fisheries and Oceans.

“Her jaw and teeth were in great shape and solid,” Cottrell said in an interview Sunday. “It looks like they broke off a couple, and there were a number that were sawed off, and those were cut off right to the gum.”

Cottrell said fisheries officers are following up on a number of leads.

He said the department doesn’t know what motivated the theft, such as

whether it might be linked to the sale or trade of endangered species.

The federal Species At Risk act makes it illegal to possess part of an endangered or threatened animal.

The law carries a range of sentences depending on whether the perpetrator is a corporation, non-profit group or a private citizen. For individuals, the maximum penalty is a fine of $250,000, up to five years in prison or both, though maximum sentences are rarely imposed.

“It’s just a senseless, illegal act,” said Cottrell. “We take this kind of thing seriously. We don’t want endangered species parts being traded or sold.”

Biologists who have been examining the whale have yet to determine a cause of death.The necropsy revealed the whale was pregnant with a fullterm fetus. Marcie Callewaert of the Victoria Marine Science Association, a fledging group that she hopes to turn into a non-profit soon, said she went to the area to see the whale on Saturday.

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“I set eyes on her on the beach about the same time a lady told me that her teeth had been cut the night before, so that was two blows at once,” said Callewaert, a Grade 6 teacher.

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BY ADVOCATE STAFF Rebels 4 Hurricanes 2 LETHBRIDGE — The Red Deer Rebels were in cruise control in the late stages of Saturday’s WHL clash with the Lethbridge Hurricanes when suddenly they slipped into neutral.

“We made a couple of mistakes in the last eight minutes and allowed them to get back into the game,” said Rebels GM/head coach Brent Sutter, in reference to Hurricanes goals by Taylor Cooper at 12:04 of the third period and Zane Jones’ short-handed tally five minutes later that cut the Rebels’ lead to 3-2.

Brooks Maxwell sealed the deal for the visitors with an empty-net goal in the final minute, dashing the ‘Canes’ comeback hopes in front of 4,078 fans at the Enmax Centre.

“We just needed to tighten up,” Rebels forward Riley Sheen, acquired from Lethbridge last week, told Dylan

Purcell of the Lethbridge Herald, referring to the ‘Canes’ late surge.

“On the second goal Jonesy did a great job. He was able to get the puck from behind the net and we were a little lax. We had the power play and we had a chance to seal it. But we were unable to and they made it a game.

They’re never going to give up and we just have to know on our bench that we have to stay tight and that’s just what I was trying to remind the guys.”

Despite a slow start over the first few minutes, the Rebels outshot their hosts 19-8 in the first period and 37-19 overall.

“After about the first four to five minutes of the game we got going,” said Sutter. “For the first two periods we certainly had some grade-A scoring opportunities and we didn’t capitalize on some of them. That being said, I thought we played a pretty darn good road game.”

Wyatt Johnson and Evan Polei potted power-play goals to stake the Rebels to a 2-0 advantage after one period and Johnson added his second of the night and 15th of the season six minutes into the second frame.

Hurricanes rookie netminder Stuart Skinner stood tall all evening and finished with 33 saves. Rebels goaltender Rylan Toth stopped 17 shots.

“He (Skinner) played really well and Tother was really good too, especially in the first period,” said Sutter. “They (‘Canes) got some quality scoring chances and he (Toth) played real well.”

The win temporarily lifted the Rebels into second place in the Central Division, although the Calgary Hitmen regained that spot by a single point with an 8-3 victory Sunday over the visiting Moose Jaw Warriors.

Red Deer returns to action Thursday at the Enmax Centrium against the Kamloops Blazers, then heads east for games at Moose Jaw and Brandon next weekend. The Rebels host the Kelowna Rockets Dec. 17 in their final game prior to Christmas.

“We have four games left before the Christmas break and we want to be playing well going into it,” said Sutter.

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Oilers snap skid EDGE SHARKS FOR FIRST WIN IN 12 GAMES

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Oilers 2 Sharks 1 EDMONTON - The Edmonton Oilers were able to halt more than one kind of losing streak on Sunday.

David Perron scored the game winner midway through the third period as the Oilers avoided a 12th straight defeat, getting past the San Jose Sharks 2-1.

Nail Yakupov also scored for the Oilers (7-15-5), who won at home for the first time in nine contests to dodge tying a team record for consecutive home losses.

Edmonton also captured just its first win against a fellow Western Conference opponent this season - improving to 1-12-4 in that category.

“We can finally put away the thing about not having one against the West,” Perron said. “That’s a good thing. There is one way to win and we did that tonight.”

Oilers head coach Dallas Eakins said changing the conversation on several of their sorry streaks at once was massive.

“Getting rid of that is huge,” he said.

“Whatever you want to call it, getting the monkey off your back, an elephant, a large gorilla… it feels good for everybody. Most importantly, for our players and our fans. I thought we played a fairly similar game to our last one in Winnipeg. We have points in four of our last five games. I thought we played a real mature, smart game. It was a real solid effort.”

Oilers goalie Ben Scrivens said his team caught a bit of a break from the schedule-maker, but also stepped up their own game.

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San Jose Sharks’ Joe Thornton (19) is stopped by Edmonton Oilers goalie Ben Scrivens (30) during third period NHL action in Edmonton, on Sunday. The Oilers won the game 2-1. group and we got them on the second night of a back-to-back, which was fortunate for us and helped us out,” he said. “But at the end of the day, we executed pretty well. That has to be our expectation now, of how we have to play. We made a couple of mistakes, but they weren’t as often or as egregious as they have been in the past.”

Tye McGinn scored in response for the Sharks (14-11-4), who had a fourgame winning streak halted.

Sharks head coach Todd McLellan said his team wasn’t about to blame the loss on playing three games in four nights.

“If you go there, it begins to sound like we’re using excuses,” he said.

“Teams play that in the league all the time. They (Oilers) happened to be sitting since Wednesday and they were fresh, they took advantage of it.

“I still think that good teams can find ways - and we almost did.”

There was no scoring in a relatively sedate first period, the lone highlight from which was a crushing hit by Sharks forward Tommy Wingels on Oil-

ers rookie Tyler Pitlick.

Edmonton was the better team in the opening frame, putting 11 shots on Sharks goalie Alex Stalock, while San Jose only had two shots on Scrivens.

The Oilers broke the deadlock eight minutes into the second period on a power-play goal. Sharks defender Justin Braun lost his footing and landed on Stalock’s back as he was out of the crease trying to corral a puck, allowing Jordan Eberle to send the puck in front to Yakupov, who scored just his fourth of the season on the wide-open net.

San Jose tied the game two minutes later as Patrick Marleau out-hustled the Oiler defence to negate an icing call before making a nifty no-look backhand pass to an undefended McGinn, who beat Scrivens with a quick onetimer for his first of the season.

The Oilers caught a break just past the midway point of the third period to take a 2-1 lead. After sustained pressure in the Sharks’ zone, Perron through a puck towards the net that deflected off of San Jose defender

Brenden Dillon and past a surprised Stalock. It was Perron’s fourth goal of the season.

“It’s funny, when you play the right way you get the bounces,” he said. “We have to work for our bounces and it feels like the last few games we have done that. It was good to get rewarded.”

Dillon was stunned that the puck went in on the play.

“A puck like that, that is going wide, I’m pretty much just trying to get out of the way,” he said.

“It hits me perfectly and it goes in.

It hit me in the stomach, I think. I just couldn’t believe it.”

San Jose poured it on late, but the Oilers clamped down and Scrivens stood tall, ending up with 20 saves on the night.

The Oilers and Sharks play a rematch in San Jose on Tuesday.

“We’re not going to have a parade over this,” Eakins said. “We have to get right back to business and play this same team, which is an extremely hard team to play against.”

Vold starts strong at National Finals Rodeo You could say everything is going about his results so far in Las Vegas. “I just ‘Jim Dandy’ for Jake Vold in his was telling everyone that I came here debut appearance at the National Fi- to have a good time and some fun, and nals Rodeo in Las Vegas. just try to win lots of money.”

The Ponoka raised bareback rider While everyone comes to the NFR was matched up with a horse by that with a gold buckle that says World very name Sunday night at the Thomas Champion in sight, in the bareback and Mack arena, and for riding it’s a tall task to catch the fourth straight night, Utah’s Kaycee Feild. He’s won he cashed in at the $6.3 the championship the last million slot machine. three years running, and had With the ten day season a $45,000 cushion over the rest playoffs not even at the of the crew coming in. Then halfway point, Vold has he won the opening round. But already earned nearly Vold admits that takes some $22,000. Just as signifipressure off for his own perforcant is the fact his placmance. Just going for the cash ing in every round puts every round was a philosophy him tied for third in the that worked for the 27-yearrich average race. old all year, and there was no Fresh off claiming point in changing it now.

DIANNE his first Canadian bareFor a newbie at the NFR, FINSTAD back title in November Vold has been riding like a vetin Edmonton, Vold was eran, and that’s an advantage excited about finally behis experience at the game ing able to try his skills brings. Although, he does adon the world stage. He’d mit nothing can quite prepare been in the hunt for an NFR appear- you for that very first night. ance before in his four year pro career, “I knew it would be something but always had his plans derailed by different, and it was pretty wild,” injury. This season, he dominated his he chuckled. “Just the opening cerevent in Canada, and was inside the emonies and the atmosphere. But after top ten of the world standings pretty that, I kind of settled in.” much all year long.

With the fast pace of the rodeo per“I’m tickled pink,” confirmed Vold, formance, Vold doesn’t get to join his

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fellow Canadians Dustin Flundra and Curtis Cassidy in the traditional horseback contestant ride into the arena that kicks off each evening because he’s already preparing to get on his bucking horse.

Getting his Finals off to the right start was a big help too, thanks to a horse named Miss Dunny.

“I knew that horse and it was one I’d been wanting to get on. I figured I could get along with her. To get a good (opening) ride under my belt felt fantastic, and really got my week rolling.”

The score of 81.5 on that ride stood up for fifth place, and a $4900 opening deposit in his NFR account. In the second round, he split second with an 83 on Empty Pockets, for a healthy $11,442. In the ‘eliminator’ pen Saturday night, Vold got by Momentum Shifter with a 78 mark, splitting fifth place for another $3984. Then Sunday’s ride on Jim Dandy resulted in a share of sixth spot, for $1532.

“I don’t know many of these horses. Coming in, I’d probably only seen about a third of them. But that’s been part of my ‘nothing to lose’ attitude.

Sometimes you can get caught up with who has the better horses, and who doesn’t. I’ve just been trying to win first every time. I’ve been calm and cool, and having fun.”

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a place where ‘fun’ can be found in abundance, and there are plenty of distractions during NFR week. So it’s been key for Vold to keep that in balance too, because he is still ‘at work’.

“I’ve been going to the sauna in the morning, and then coming back for lunch, having a nap and then it’s pretty much go time. I’ve been sticking to that schedule. Later in the week, we’ll probably try to take in some shows.”

Vold is surrounded by plenty of family and friends this week, and that support is important to him, along with the many Ponoka and Canadian fans he sees at the various rodeo related events around town. He came to town with an open mind, no set numbers in mind about what he wanted to ride out with in his saddle bags.

“I didn’t think about that at all.

When things are meant to be, they are.

I’ve been around the game long enough to know it’s a roller coaster. So when you’re hot, you’re hot, and just let it keep on rolling. If you come with an open ended hand, sometimes it can be surprising what you can get out of it.”

“It’s awesome. Every night I roll in here and get excited. It makes just appreciate what you do, and l love doing it.”

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Vonn gets swagger back at Lake Louise THE CANADIAN PRESS LAKE LOUISE, Alta. - Lindsey Vonn left Lake Louise with both confidence and the belief she can ski faster.

After winning her first downhill in almost two years, the U.S. ski star was second behind winner Lara Gut of Switzerland in Sunday’s World Cup super-G. World Cup overall leader Tina Maze of Slovenia was third and Larisa Yurkiw of Owen Sound, Ont., was 20th.

With two knee surgeries in as many years, this was the second straight season Vonn launched her comeback at the Lake Louise World Cup. This return looks more promising than a year ago.

“It meant a lot to have worked so hard for so long and to finally be back in a position where I’m contending every race,” Vonn said Sunday. “That’s more than I could have hoped for.”

Vonn’s downhill victory Saturday was her first since Jan. 26, 2013. She tore two ligaments and broke a bone in her right leg a month later while racing super-G at the world alpine ski championships.

More ligament damage sustained prior to her arrival in Lake Louise last year limited her to just four starts. Another surgery in January sidelined her again.

With a career 60 World Cup victories, Vonn is two away from matching the women’s record of 62 held by Annemarie Moser-Proell of Austria.

The four-time overall World Cup champion and first American woman to win Olympic downhill gold in 2010

will return to Colorado to catch up with speed training she missed this fall. Vonn didn’t get back on snow until Oct. 1.

“I have a lot of speed races left in the season, so now I have the confidence I need,” Vonn said. “Hopefully by the next race, I’ll be guns-a-blazing and ready to really put down some good super-G runs.”

Vonn finished just under four-tenths of a second back of Gut, who claimed her second super-G win in as many years at Lake Louise.

Gut didn’t make the top-10 in downhill races Friday or Saturday, but set a blistering pace Sunday in a time of one minute 18.46 seconds.

“Downhill is something that is complicated for me in Lake Louise. It’s always a fight,” Gut said. “Super-G is way more fun for me. I would love if we raced two super-G and just one downhill here, but it’s not going to happen.”

After winning the first downhill of the season Friday, Maze looked unhappy with 10th the next day. The reigning Olympic champion in downhill and giant slalom was smiling again after the super-G. “That was quite a shock yesterday,” Maze acknowledged. “I had a lot of adrenalin in my blood.”

“I still have something to do in super-G, but I’m really happy with my skiing. Coming here in Lake Louise, I had a big wish to win here once and it happened.”

Maze and Vonn are deadlocked atop the overall downhill standings.

The prize purse in each of the three women’s races in Lake Louise was C$118,000 with $35,000 going to each

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Linsey Vonn of the U.S.A. races down the hill during the women’s World Cup Super-G ski race in Lake Louise, Sunday. winner.

Yurkiw posted a career-best fourth in Saturday’s downhill to add to the excitement at the finish line around Vonn’s victory.

The top 30 skiers in each race earn World Cup points, so Canada’s lone female downhiller is ranked 11th after opening weekend.

“It’s such a great base, foundation, for the season,” Yurkiw said. “It’s more than we hoped for. I’m taking a lot out of this weekend.”

Slalom and giant slalom special-

ist Marie-Michele Gagnon of LacEtchemin, Que., missed a gate in Sunday’s super-G. The technical races are her specialty, but Gagnon races some speed events in order to compete in the combined event.

Valerie Grenier of Mont-Tremblant, Que., was 32nd in her World Cup debut.

Gagnon heads this week to Are, Sweden, for a giant slalom Friday and a slalom Saturday. The next World Cup women’s downhill is scheduled for Dec. 20-21 in Val-d’Isere, France.

Stats show Oilers better team than Flames NHL teams have finally bought into hockey analytics, so why is it most of the media appears oblivious?

In one recent example, Sportsnet ran an article on Nov. 20 headlined “Flames and Oilers Heading In Opposite Directions.” The headline is the one thing we can agree on.

Calgary and Edmonton are indeed two teams heading in opposite directions, but it’s not the directions the author and most other people think.

The writer contrasted Calgary’s surprising 12-6-2 start at the time with Edmonton’s disappointing 6-11-2, and marvelled at the Flames’ “character” and “courage,” and delicately declaring that “Calgary has more guts than a killing floor.”

The writer said that 20 games into its “rebuild,” Calgary has accomplished more than Edmonton has in five years.

Tune in to the talk shows, and it’s tough to find anyone who isn’t on the Flames’ bandwagon. On the day the article ran, Sportsnet’s power rankings had Calgary eighth and TSN had them 10th. Both had Edmonton at No. 28.

So my question is this: Is the media so set in its reliance on almost mystical explanations for things that many are ignoring the most basic numbers that matter?

Obviously wins and losses are important. But if journalists are going to proclaim the resounding success of one team’s “rebuild” and dismal fail-

ure of another’s, they should consider that just 20 games into a season, wins and losses are a seriously unreliable measuring stick. Fortunately, analytics gives us much better metrics for gauging performance.

And what’s going on is that, despite its uncanny ability to give up prime scoring chances with disturbing regularity, Edmonton is a better team than Calgary.

Don’t get me wrong - nobody’s going to confuse the Oilers with a good team, and they probably make more glaring errors than any NHL team that isn’t on the shores of Lake Ontario. But if you gave them average goaltending, they’d be almost respectable. As of the date of the Sportsnet article the Oilers’ Corsi For % of 50.4 was almost seven points higher than Calgary’s (43.7), which ranked third worst overall. Calgary had a shot attempt differential of -205; Edmonton’s was +59. While shot metrics alone never tell the whole sto-

ry, there’s no universe where a team with a CF% of 43.7% through 20 games has been better than a team with a CF% of 50.4%.

But the Flames aren’t even the 2014 Oilers, let alone the 1983 edition. Still, through 20 games, Calgary somehow managed to put up the very best 5v5 shooting percentage in the league, at 10.6%.

Finally, speaking specifically to each team’s rebuild, Edmonton’s CF% is 2.7% higher than last season’s, whereas Calgary’s is 2.6% lower. Somebody needs to explain to me where all those “guts” and “courage” and “character” are reflected in those numbers.

Much like the Leafs’ early success

last season, Calgary’s start this year is smoke and mirrors.

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McEwen, Sweeting take titles at curling’s Canada Cup

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CAMROSE, Alta. - The wins just keep adding up for Mike McEwen.

A day after needing an extra end to beat Glenn Howard of Penetanguishene, Ont. in the semifinals, the Winnipeg native broke out to a big lead early and never trailed en route to defeating Olympic Gold medallist Brad Jacobs 8-3 in Sunday’s men’s final of the Canada Cup. The win was the sixth in seven events this season for the McEwen foursome.

INNISFAIL EAGLES Justin Cox fired a pair of goals to lead the Innisfail Eagles to a 6-1 thumping of the visiting Stony Plain Eagles in Chinook Hockey league action Friday.

Mark Bomersback, Chad Ziegler, Pete Vandermeer and Ashton Reinboldt also tallied for the hosts, while

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NFR: Earned money Vold’s fellow Canucks have both earned money at the NFR. Cassidy, who’s competing in the steer wrestling, finished in fourth place with a time of four seconds flat in Saturday night’s action. That gave the Donalda cowboy $7969. Flundra, of Pincher Creek, won third in the second round, with an 81 on Special Time, for $11,340.

Notes: Texan Trevor Brazile has been adding to his legendary status.

He’s already won enough to make his quest for a record 12th All Around title untouchable, giving him his 21st gold buckle. He’s also still very much in the

“It feels like an explosion of wins the last few months,” he said. “It’s beyond our expectations. We knew we could be the best team in the world but we had to find a new level.”

After making a relatively simple tap back to score two in the first end, the McEwen crew of third B.J. Neufeld, second Matt Wozniak and lead Denni Neufeld stole three in the second for a 5-0 lead.

Jacobs and his rink of third Ryan Fry, second E.J. Harnden and lead Ryan Harnden tacked on two in the third but McEwen responded with a pick up of two in the fourth end to make it 7-2.

Brendan Baumgartner picked up three assists.

Travis Ziegler made 32 saves for Innisfail, which led 2-0 and 5-0 by periods. Wade Waters and Sheldon Baerg combined to stop 30 shots for the visiting Eagles, who dressed ony 13 skaters and whose lone goal was scored by Burke Gallimore.

Innisfail travels to Lacombe Wednesday to take on the Bentley Generals at 8 p.m. hunt for a potential triple crown, with a chance at the tie-down roping and team roping buckles yet.

Barrel racer Fallon Taylor, known for her very colorful style of dress, has not disappointed in that department.

But she also turned heads when she substituted a riding helmet for her cowboy hat in the third performance, to show young barrel racers that safety can be ‘cool’. The Texas cowgirl is having a stellar NFR, and is now number one in the world race.

Bareback rider Steven Peebles of Oregon, who was second in the world coming in, had his NFR end prematurely. He suffered a compression fracture in his spine Saturday night, when his horse reared back into the chute gate.

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“That was a gift,” McEwen said of the steal and the 5-0 advantage. “That’s not going to happen against a team like that very often, it might not happen again for years. It just shows that being off just a little bit, whether it’s a few extra feet of weight or a few inches of line can dramatically swing a game.”

“We came out sloppy,” a dejected Jacobs said of the first end. “They got two corners on us. It looked real good from that point on if you were McEwen. They got up to a 5-0 lead and that was pretty much game over.”

The McEwen foursome wasn’t missing much, shooting a combined 89 per cent, and even when they did give Jacobs chance in the seventh to get back in the game, the Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. native couldn’t capitalize. Needing just a hit and stick for two, Jacobs got the hit but his shooter rolled out, scoring one and the teams shook hands one end later.

Earlier in the day, Edmonton’s Val

Sweeting scored a deuce in the ninth end and earned a steal in the 10th to win the women’s final with a 6-3 victory over Ottawa’s Rachel Homan.

It was a small measure of revenge for Sweeting, who lost to Homan in the final of the Tournament of Hearts last February.

“A great team game, probably our strongest game all week, start to finish and from lead to skip,” said Sweeting after high-fiving part of the large crowd of supporters from her hometown of Vegreville.

Homan’s last-rock takeout attempt in Sunday’s ninth end hung wide and failed to remove Sweeting’s shot rock from the rings, allowing the Edmonton skip to calmly draw for a go-ahead deuce to break a 3-3 tie.

“I thought it would curl there, the inturn close to the line and it just never came up,” Homan said of her shot.

“It just kind of tracked halfway down the sheet and never came up.”

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Patriots take spark out of Chargers

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Patriots 23 Chargers 14 SAN DIEGO - Tom Brady jogged off the field, pumping his right fist toward the throng of New England fans in a corner of Qualcomm Stadium.

A week in San Diego turned out quite well for the California native and the rest of the Patriots.

Brady threw a 69-yard touchdown pass to Julian Edelman midway through the fourth quarter, and New England beat the San Diego Chargers 23-14 for its eighth win in nine games.

The Patriots (10-3) clinched their 12th straight 10-win season for the second-longest such streak in NFL history.

They spent the week in San Diego following a loss at Green Bay in order to cut down on late-season travel.

New England went ahead 16-14 on Stephen Gostkowski’s 38-yard field goal with 10:34 left.

After forcing the Chargers to punt, the Patriots started on their 31. Brady faked a handoff and hit Edelman on a slant at about the 45. He broke two tackles and was gone.

“Jules made a great play. I fired it to him, he made a great catch and run,” Brady said. “We needed that play. We were struggling. We needed a great play.”

Brady completed 28 of 44 passes for 317 yards and two touchdowns with one

interception. Edelman caught eight passes for 141 yards.

San Diego (8-5) was shut out in the second half.

“Our defence was unbelievable,” Brady said. “They kept us in it all night. That was a defensive win right there. I love the way those guys played on defence.”

The game had several momentum swings.

After Stephen Gostkowski kicked his second 22-yard field goal of the first half, Brandon Bolden blocked a punt by Mike Scifres to give New England the ball on the San Diego 28. Scifres hurt his left shoulder on the play and was carted off the field.

Four plays into the drive, Rob Gronkowski caught a 14-yard touchdown pass from Brady to pull the Patriots to 14-13.

Gronkowski became the first tight end in NFL history with four seasons of 10 or more scoring receptions.

The Chargers scored twice in 2 minutes, 33 seconds in the second quarter.

Safety Darrell Stuckey returned a fumble 53 yards for a touchdown and Malcom Floyd made a diving catch of a 15-yard touchdown pass from Philip Rivers.

Safety Jahleel Addae forced Brandon LaFell to fumble after a reception and Stuckey picked it up and ran it in.

Manti Te’o leaped to make his first career interception just before halftime, preserving the Chargers’ 14-13

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San Diego Chargers punter Mike Scifres is hit as he punts by New England Patriots’ Brandon Bolden during the first half in an NFL game Sunday, in San Diego.

Rivers completed 20 of 33 passes for only 189 yards.

Patriots owner Robert Kraft took a helicopter to the game after watching his New England Revolution lose the MLS Cup to the LA Galaxy in Carson.

lead.

With the Patriots looking to go ahead, Brady tried to hit Gronkowski on second-and-10 from the Chargers 18.

But Te’o, the second-year linebacker from Notre Dame, picked off the under-thrown pass at the 4.

Expansion talk at board of governors meeting

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Expansion chatter is on the docket for the NHL’s board of governors meeting. Just don’t expect much more than that.

“There won’t be any vote,” commissioner Gary Bettman said last month during Hockey Hall of Fame weekend.

“All I’ll do is continue to report on the levels of interest that are being expressed.”

There have been reports aplenty about the NHL going to Las Vegas, Seattle and Quebec City and adding a second team in Toronto. At every turn, Bettman has downplayed the speculation.

What’s true is that the climate is ripe to expand, something the league hasn’t done since 2000 when the Columbus Blue Jackets and Minnesota Wild became the 29th and 30th teams.

But having growing revenues isn’t the only qualification.

Bettman said there’s a checklist of factors that includes labour peace (check), Canadian and U.S. TV contracts (check) and a focus on expanding. Right now the league is worried about other issues, such as sealing the deal on the World Cup of Hockey.

“There are lots of other things we’re doing to continue to grow the game,” Bettman said. “There’s no effort crying out for immediate expansion.”

Deputy commissioner Bill Daly recently toured the construction site of a 20,000-seat arena on the Las Vegas strip that’s set to open in 2016, according to the Star-Tribune in Minneapolis. Though he and Bettman have been careful not to bring up individual markets so as not to get fans’ hopes up, when asked Daly called Las Vegas a “unique” market.

“It’s high-level tourism in the market, it also has pretty strong local demographics, too,” Daly said. “But how and whether that market could embrace and support a professional sports franchise, I think that’s one of the things that’s going to be difficult for anybody to really kind of make a judgment on.”

Lawler claims Hendricks’ title by split decision at UFC 181

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champ appeared to coast to the finish of the final two rounds, perhaps swaying the judges in Lawler’s favour.

“I just didn’t fight,” Hendricks said.

“Look at the fourth and fifth round. I didn’t come out and fight like I normally do. I didn’t stay light on my feet like I should have.”

Two judges scored the bout for Lawler, 49-46 and 48-47, while the third favoured Hendricks, 48-47. The Associated Press scored it 48-47 for Lawler.

While Hendricks’ injury sidelined him through the summer, Lawler stayed hard at work with impressive victories over Jake Ellenberger and Matt Brown, earning his rematch.

Lawler was once best known for failing to reach the heights suggested by his talent, losing five of eight fights in the Strikeforce promotion before rejoining the UFC in early 2013. The former prodigy has realized his potential on MMA’s biggest stage, becoming the first former Strikeforce fighter to win a UFC title with six wins in his last seven bouts.

The fighters seem headed to a third bout, but Canadian No. 2 contender Rory MacDonald has been promised the next welterweight title shot.

“I thought it was a great fight, I scored it Robbie three rounds to two,” said MacDonald, who is from Kelowna, B.C., and trains out of Montreal.

“I’m very excited to fight him next, I’ll be very focused and I’ll be ready. I’ve been hearing that the fight will be in Canada and that’d be great if it was. I’d love it if it were in British Columbia, but I’d be happy with anywhere.”

But the message to any market waiting for an NHL team is that the wait will have to continue. Whenever the board approves expansion, it’ll take two to three years from that point for it to happen - and that’s not imminent.

Relocation isn’t, either, despite small crowds at Florida Panthers games garnering some negative attention. Vincent Viola bought the team more than a year ago, and Bettman said the team had good ownership.

The status of next year’s salary cap is always a topic at the board of governors meeting as owners get a very early estimate of what the 2014-15 upper limit will be. Despite the Rogers Canadian TV deal, the cap is not expected to rise too much beyond $70 million or so.

“The cap has always gone up for the most part, it’s just a matter of degree,” Chicago Blackhawks general manager Stan Bowman said recently. “We’re certainly expecting the cap to go up.

The magnitude of that will be dependent on a number of factors. You have to plan for that.”

One of those factors is a weak Canadian dollar, which is worth just 87 cents U.S. The NHL converts every-

thing to U.S. dollars as a way to protect against fluctuations, something Bettman will no doubt explain at the meeting, but the revenue generated in Canada is still lower by comparison.

There’s some concern among general managers about the salary cap, especially those who run teams that get to spend up to it. Teams like the Boston Bruins, who were already squeezed this year as their players get better deals, could further feel the pinch if the cap doesn’t see a nice increase.

One thing seems to be clear: this isn’t getting worse.

“I don’t think the cap’s going to go down,” Columbus Blue Jackets GM Jarmo Kekalainen said. “That’s just my opinion. I don’t think we’re going to have any issues next year at least on that.”

There don’t seem to be many burning issues for the board of governors to iron out. As usual the department of player safety will provide a status update.

This will be the first time Stephane Quintal is giving that presentation since taking over as vice-president of player safety.

MINOR HOCKEY ROUNDUP Minor midget AAA Brad Hellofs notched the lone goal for the Red Deer Aero Equipment Chiefs in a 5-1 loss to the visiting Rockyview Raiders Saturday.

Shae Herbert made 33 saves for the Chiefs, who were outshot 38-27.

In another Saturday contest, the visiting Calgary Rangers doubled the Red Deer Northstar Chiefs 6-3.

Tyrell McCubbing, Zach Kungle and Dylan Scheunert supplied the Northstar goals, while Canon Whitbread made 36 saves. The Rangers outshot their hosts 42-38.

Major midget girls Abagael Theissen notched two goals and Breanna Martin scored once and added three assists as the Red Deer Sutter Fund Chiefs tamed the Southeast Tigers 8-1 Sunday to sweep a weekend set.

Also scoring for the winners were Erika Marshall, Kaitlin Linnell, Mad-

LAS VEGAS - When Robbie Lawler got a second shot at the UFC welterweight title, he was determined to finish with a flourish.

Deep in the 25th minute against Johny Hendricks, Lawler unleashed wild flurries of strikes. He kept pursuing the champion even after the bell.

A few minutes later, Lawler celebrated his remarkable mid-career resurgence with a belt around his waist.

Lawler won the 170-pound title at UFC 181 on Saturday night, claiming a split decision over Hendricks in their rematch.

“I thought I needed to get in his face,” Lawler said. “That’s how we fight in the UFC. That’s how we fight championship fights.”

Anthony Pettis also stopped Gilbert Melendez with a guillotine choke 1:53 into the second round to defend his UFC lightweight title at the Mandalay Bay Events Center.

The 32-year-old Lawler (25-10) earned his decision with a dogged fiveround effort against Hendricks (16-3), who won the vacant belt by unanimous decision in their first bout in March.

Lawler faded late in that fight, while Hendricks finished strong. In the rematch, Lawler turned it around.

“My coaches just wanted me to go out there and finish strong and do what I do in the gym, and I was able to do that,” Lawler said. “It means a lot to me because of all the people around me. That isn’t just me out there. There was a lot of time and effort from the people around me to get where I am today, and this is their victory too.”

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On Saturday, the Chiefs got thirdperiod goals from Linnell and Bast, who also scored in the first period, in a 3-2 win over the Tigers. Red Deer netminder Bailey Knapp stopped 14 shots for the win.

Midget A Nicholas Scott notched two goals for Red Deer Can Pro in a 5-5 draw with the visiting Wainwright Bisons. Kody Kapalka, Payton LaGrange and Tristen Gunn also tallied for the hosts, who got a 45-save outing from Bryn Flanagan.

Major bantam girls Kaley Mueller scored twice and Taylor Swanby also tallied for the Red Deer Sutter Fund Chiefs in a 4-3 loss to the visiting Edmonton Lightning.

Mandi Fitzsimons made 18 saves in a losing cause.

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BY JOSH ALDRICH ADVOCATE STAFF Flames 5 Chiefs 2 Head coach Brandin Cote has preached patience and process all season with the Red Deer Optimist Chiefs (510-5), but he is starting to run out of games.

Two days after waxing one of the best teams in the Alberta Midget Hockey League, they fell on their face in a 5-2 loss to the Calgary Flames (8-7-6) on Sunday afternoon at the Red Deer Arena.

“We have some people in that room that need to do some soul searching and we’ve got to figure it out because we’re running out of time,” said Cote, clearly frustrated. “I still believe in this team ... but the reality is, we’ve got 14 games left and we need to catch some teams ... we need to start winning some games and having some urgency in the games that really matter.”

Jackson Riddall, Adam Scoville, Cale Makar, Andy Fitzpatrick and Markus Boguslavsky scored for Calgary while Matt Huber made 24 saves for the win.

Ryley Smith and Brad Makofka replied for Red Deer while Cole Sears allowed four goals on 19 shots before getting lifted for Branden Bilodeau, who stopped 20 of the 21 shots he faces over the final 36 minutes.

The game started out well enough for the home team as Smith opened the scoring 5:37 into the game, but the lead did

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Red Deer Optimist Chiefs forward Quenten Greenwood is checked by Calgary Flames defenceman Cale Makar during AMHL action at the Red Deer Arena on Sunday. Calgary won 5-2. not last long.

Riddall scored at 7:21 and then Scoville made it 2-1 Calgary at 11:20.

The Flames scored twice more early in the second period to stretch the lead to 4-1 and then added one more at 9:04.

Cote went into the second intermission not the happiest of coaches and the Chiefs responded with a solid third period. Makofka scored a power-play goal at 13:09 to make the score a little more respectable. But the hole was too deep to dig all the way out of.

“We challenged them in the intermission, obviously, the third period was good but at the same time there’s not many positives we can take out of this,” said Cote. “Yeah the effort was good in the third period, but then why can’t you do that the whole game? That’s

Generals get payback against Kings in exhibition test

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR Generals 4 Kings 0 PENHOLD — The Bentley Generals are a proud bunch with long memories.

The Chinook Hockey League powerhouse Generals came out on the short end of an exhibition meeting with the RDC Kings one year ago at the Penhold Regional Multiplex.

The teams met again Saturday, same place, and this time the senior squad emerged with a 4-0 win.

“They handed it to us last year at this time. We had that in the back of our minds and we came with a better all-around effort tonight, for sure,” said Generals head coach Ryan Tobler. “I don’t think we took them for granted last year, we just didn’t know what to expect.”

Thanks to the addition of some youth and speed, this Bentley team is a superior version to the 2013-14 edition.

The Generals have dominated the Chinook League this season with 13 victories and no defeats, and were clearly the more polished crew Saturday despite a roster that included just 14 skaters — five defencemen and nine forwards.

The Kings, meanwhile, skated stride for stride with their older rivals and managed just one less shot — 30 — on goal.

“They’re young guys who work hard. They don’t stop, they come all night at you,” said Tobler.

Two of the new players on the 2014-15 Generals provided the scoring as Cam Maclise and Josh Smith each tallied twice.

“We added some younger legs this year. Sure, you rely on a little experience, but we had that experience last year and sometimes it doesn’t matter,” said Tobler. “The biggest difference with us this year is the speed and youth we’ve injected into the lineup. That’s made a big difference for us.”

The Generals got the only goal they needed Saturday when Smith beat Kings netminder Kraymer Barnstable with a rising slapshot from the left faceoff circle in the final minute of the opening period.

Maclise made it 2-0 at 2:14 of the second stanza, converting a feed from Jade Galbraith while breaking to the net, and Smith potted his second of the night just under two minutes later, his quick shot from the left circle finding the top of the net.

Maclise, a red-shirt at the University of Calgary, rounded out the scoring at 13:18 of the final frame.

“They’re a smart team, they move the puck well and we got chasing it a bit tonight,” said Kings head coach Trevor Keeper. “I thought we’d be able to put some pressure on them and wear them down a bit in the third, but they move the puck so well and they’re opportunistic.

“When they get chances they have enough talent to get some quality scoring chances.”

JUNIOR B HOCKEY The Red Deer Vipers struck for three unanswered second-period goals Saturday en route to a 6-2 Heritage Junior Hockey League win over the visiting Strathmore Wheatland Kings.

Cole deGraaf turned in a four-point night for the Vipers with three goals and an assist. Adam Ferguson chipped in with a goal and two helpers and Jonathan Finnigan and Justin Van Tetering also scored for the winners.

Rylan Bardick and Klay Munro combined to make 27 saves in the Red Deer net. The Vipers directed 45 shots at Kings netminder Liam Banks.

On Friday, the Vipers fell 8-7 to the host Cochrane Generals, getting four goals from deGraaf, two from Kale Lapointe and a single courtesy of Mathew Thiessen.

Lane Congdon blocked 17 shots as the losing goalie. The Generals duo of Garrett Iverson and McKenzie Chalmers made 21 saves.

In other Heritage League weekend games: ● The Blackfalds Wranglers were outshot 57-45 in a 4-3 loss to the host Airdrie Thunder Friday. The Wranglers got two goals from Robin Carlson and one from Trent Hermary, while losing netminder Thomas Isaman made 54 stops. ● The Stettler Lightning were two-time losers, falling 6-2 at home to the Okotoks Bisons Saturday, 24 hours after dropping a 6-3 decision to the visiting Coaldale Copperheads.

Scott Ternes and Logan Davidson tallied for

Indeed, the Generals had some excellent opportunities among their 16 third-period shots, but Barnstable came up with a handful of spectacular saves to keep his club at least somewhat in the game.

Barnstable finished with 27 saves, while the Bentley goaltending duo of starter Dustin Butler and Travis Yonkman, who took over in the second period, combined to stop 30 shots.

“They have a lot of skill out there. Look at their younger guys like Cam Maclise and Torrie Dyck . . . those are elitelevel players,” said Keeper.

“We just wanted our guys to compete and play hard against them.”

The Kings return to Alberta Colleges play Jan. 9 against visiting Concordia.

The Generals, meanwhile, host the Innisfail Eagles in a Chinook League game Wednesday at 8 p.m. in Lacombe, then take on the Rosetown, Sask., Red Wings in an exhibition encounter Sunday at Eckville. ● Maclise scored twice and picked up an assist as the Generals downed the visiting Fort Saskatchewan Chiefs in Chinook League play Friday.

Dyck had a goal and two helpers for the winners, who got additional markers from Giffen Nyren, Don Morrison and Smith. Butler turned aside 23 shots for the Generals.

Brett Rock, Warren Toews and Brett Holmberg scored for the Chiefs, who got a 26-save outing from David Tetrault. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate. com

the Lightning in Saturday’s setback. Outshot 49-31, the hosts got a 43-stop outing from Jordan McCallum.

Davidson, Adam Ternes and Jake Schwarzenberger scored for the Lightning in the loss to Coaldale, which held a 41-22 advantage in shots.

Simon Thieleman made 35 saves in the Stettler net. ● The Three Hills Thrashers also suffered a pair of home-ice setbacks — 5-2 to the Medicine Hat Cubs and 3-2 in a shootout to the Banff Bears.

Joey Ramswell and Patrick Fougere staked the Thrashers to a 2-0 first-period lead Saturday against the Cubs, who then netted five unanswered goals. Greg Pols made 36 saves for Three Hills, outshot 40-35.

On Friday, Three Hills forward Conner Ablett scored a late goal to force a scoreless overtime and then a shootout. Dru Hickie had the other Thrashers marker.

Brady Hoover made 28 saves for the Thrashers, who held a 35-30 advantage in shots. The Thrashers rebounded with a 5-2 win Sunday at Strathmore, getting three goals from Ablett and singles off the sticks of Spencer Fournier and Austin Smyth. Hoover made 28 saves for the visitors, who held a 38-30 edge in shots. ● The Ponoka Stampeders battled back from a 3-0 deficit but surrendered an overtime goal in a 5-4 loss to visiting Banff Sunday.

Scoring for the Stamps were Kwyn Hiebert, Brendan Scott, Travis Woodford and Chandler Knibb, while Zane Steeves turned aside 34 shots.

the million dollar question.”

The Chiefs were coming off a 6-3 win over the Calgary Buffaloes on Friday at the Arena. The Buffaloes (11-5-4) are one point of first place in the Chrysler South Division, but hold two games in hand over the Calgary Royals (11-6-5).

It was a performance Cote was hoping they could build off of, but instead they laid an egg.

“We don’t have enough guys committed to working on a consistent basis,” he said.

“The tough part for me is that’s what the message is all the time. It’s not like they’re not getting the message or the message isn’t getting to them, it’s what they’re doing with the message.”

They have 14 games left in their AMHL season, including four before the Christmas break. The Chiefs are currently in seventh place in the division, three points behind the Calgary Northstars (6-10-6) for the final playoff spot.

This weekend they host the Knights of Columbus Pats (314-2) out of Edmonton on Friday at 8 p.m. and the Leduc Oil Kings (8-9-4) on Sunday at 3 p.m.

“We can go into Christmas on a high note and be right in the mix, but we’ve got to figure some things out in terms of the effort we’re going to bring on a consistent basis,” said Cote.

“We can’t afford to have one really good game and then have a stinker like we did tonight.” jaldrich@reddeeradvocate. com

BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT

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Glennika Kubaron of the Notre Dame Cougars fends off Brook Bilton of the Innisfail Cyclones during senior high school basketball action Saturday at the Notre Dame High School gym. The Cougars defeated the Cyclones 68-34 and finished 2-0 in their threeteam mini-tournament.

RDC BASKETBALL

BY ADVOCATE STAFF The Red Deer College Kings men’s basketball team (10-2) finished off their first semester in style, sweeping the Briercrest Clippers (1-11) in Carponport, Sask., on the weekend.

In Thursday’s game, the Kings pulled away late to win 85-72 in a back-and-forth match. Tyler Wise scored 30 points and grabbed 11 rebounds and four steals. JP LeBlanc added 16 points on six of 10 shooting.

On Friday, the Kings started slow but opened up a 19-point lead. Briercrest clawed back into the game, however they could not complete the come back as RDC held on to win 79-70.

Mike Zurakowski had a game-high 25 points for RDC while Benny Bankazo recorded a double-double with 14 points, 12 rebounds, five assists and five steals.

Despite sitting at the top of the ACAC South Division, head coach Clay Pottinger was a little disappointed with the overall performance.

“We wanted to finish the semester in first place, and we accomplished that,” he said in an email. “But our performance was not as solid as I had hoped at this point.

We will take some time off before addressing the issues we saw this weekend.” ● The RDC Queens (2-10) finally broke through with their first two wins of the season, beating the Clippers (0-12) 72-59 on Thursday and then 76-65 on Friday.

Aneca Fretts led the Queens with 19 points, 13 rebounds and five blocks while Dedra Janvier had 14 points and Morgan Dool and Kennedy Burgess both had 12 points.

On Friday, Burgess led the way with 22 points while Cassidy Hollingsworth had 13 points.

SCOREBOARD Hockey Pt 46 37 34 30 29 17

CENTRAL DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA 30 21 7 1 1 113 74 31 17 11 1 2 124 94 31 16 11 3 1 111 104 31 14 12 3 2 95 90 31 15 16 0 0 94 118 29 6 19 3 1 67 117

Pt 44 37 36 33 30 16

WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Kelowna 31 24 4 3 0 138 73 Victoria 32 16 14 2 0 107 109 Prince George 30 15 15 0 0 94 124 Kamloops 32 12 15 3 2 99 114 Vancouver 30 12 18 0 0 90 106

Pt 51 34 30 29 24

Everett Portland Tri-City Spokane Seattle

GP 28 33 29 29 30

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

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WHL EASTERN CONFERENCE EAST DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Brandon 31 22 7 2 0 143 103 Regina 29 18 10 1 0 105 78 Swift Current 32 15 13 0 4 97 102 Prince Albert 30 15 15 0 0 94 99 Moose Jaw 30 13 14 2 1 91 105 Saskatoon 31 7 21 2 1 82 144

Medicine Hat Calgary Red Deer Edmonton Kootenay Lethbridge

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GF GA 95 78 113 116 81 77 76 82 80 82

Lethbridge 8 6 5 - 19 Goal - Red Deer: Toth (W, 15-8-3); Lethbridge: Skinner (L, 5-9-0).

Power plays (goal-chances) - Red Deer: 2-5; Lethbridge: 0-2.

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Sunday’s Games Anaheim 4, Winnipeg 3, OT Detroit 3, Carolina 1 Ottawa 4, Vancouver 3, OT Edmonton 2, San Jose 1

● Women’s basketball: Hoosier Daddy vs. Rampage, Young Guns vs. Storm, 7:15 and 8:30 p.m., Lindsay Thurber; Triple Threat vs. Shooting Stars, Funk vs.

TBC, 7:15 and 8:30 p.m., Central Alberta Christian; Big Ballers vs. Spartans, 7:15 p.m., Lindsay Thurber new.

WHL Scoring Leaders Rourke Chartier, Kel Nick Merkley, Kel Jack Rodewald, MJ Brayden Point, MJ Cole Ully, Kam Trevor Cox, MH Cole Sanford, MH Oliver Bjorkstrand, Por Chase De Leo, Por Austin Carroll, Vic Joe Hicketts, Vic Nikita Scherbak, Eve Jaedon Descheneau, Koo Tim McGauley, Bra Jayce Hawryluk, Bra Coda Gordon, SC Tyson Baillie, Kel Adam Tambellini, CAL Colby Cave, SC Matt Needham, Kam Jansen Harkins, PG Madison Bowey, Kel Nicolas Petan, Por

Pt 38 37 32 31 30

Saturday’s results Brandon 6 Swift Current 4 Moose Jaw 7 Edmonton 4 Red Deer 4 Lethbridge 2 Vancouver 3 Saskatoon 2 (SO) Prince George 6 Kamloops 3 Portland 5 Everett 3 Kelowna 1 Prince Albert 0 Medicine Hat 5 Seattle 3 Kootenay 3 Spokane 2

Tuesday’s games Medicine Hat at Kootenay, 7 p.m.

Saskatoon at Prince George, 8 p.m.

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

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

Wednesday’s games Brandon at Moose Jaw, 6 p.m.

Regina at Swift Current, 6 p.m.

Kamloops at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Kelowna at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.

Prince Albert at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

Saturday’s summary Rebels 4, Hurricanes 2 First Period 1. Red Deer, Johnson 14 (Cote, Fleury) 6:38 (pp).

2. Red Deer, Polei 13 (Sheen, Toth) 15:10 (pp).

Penalties - Johnson RD (roughing) 4:22, Jensen Let (roughing) 4:22, Walters Let (interference) 4:45, Nielsen Let (slashing) 13:57, Amson Let (delay of game) 15:48.

Second Period 3. Red Deer, Johnson 15 (unassisted) 5:57.

Penalties - Pawlenchuk RD (charging) 9:36, Nielsen Let (holding) 10:43, Grman RD (fighting) 15:50, Kitt Let (fighting) 15:50.

Third Period 4. Lethbridge, Cooper 8 (Wong) 12:04.

5. Lethbridge, Jones 13 (Wong) 17:16 (shorthanded-SH).

6. Red Deer, Maxwell 9 (unassisted) 19:23 (-EN).

Penalties - De Wit RD (slashing) 7:50, Feser RD (interference) 16:18, Folk Let (interference) 16:18, Jensen Let (roughing) 16:18.

Shots on goal Red Deer 19 10 8 - 37

A 19 41 26 26 29 34 22 19 23 18 30 23 20 20 23 19 15 16 20 23 24 25 27

Pts 51 51 43 43 42 42 41 40 39 38 38 37 36 36 36 35 34 33 33 33 33 33 33

National Hockey League EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts Tampa Bay 28 18 7 3 39 Detroit 28 17 6 5 39 Montreal 29 17 10 2 36 Toronto 26 14 9 3 31 Boston 28 15 12 1 31 Florida 25 11 7 7 29 Ottawa 27 11 11 5 27 Buffalo 27 9 16 2 20

GF GA 98 72 88 70 74 76 89 79 72 72 56 64 70 74 47 85

Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts 26 18 6 2 38 27 19 8 0 38 26 12 10 4 28 25 11 10 4 26 27 10 13 4 24 26 9 13 4 22 26 9 15 2 20 26 8 15 3 19

GF GA 85 60 86 74 74 71 73 73 64 79 68 82 61 88 58 74

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts Chicago 27 18 8 1 37 Nashville 26 17 7 2 36 St. Louis 27 17 8 2 36 Winnipeg 28 14 9 5 33 Minnesota 25 14 10 1 29 Dallas 27 10 12 5 25 Colorado 27 9 12 6 24

GF GA 85 53 70 54 76 63 64 64 71 61 79 95 72 89

Pittsburgh N.Y. Islanders Washington N.Y. Rangers New Jersey Philadelphia Columbus Carolina

Sunday’s results Calgary 8 Moose Jaw 3 Portland 4 Medicine Hat 1 Tri-City 5 Kootenay 4 Seattle 4 Spokane 1

G 32 10 17 17 13 8 19 21 16 20 8 14 16 16 13 16 19 17 13 10 9 8 6

Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Anaheim 29 18 6 5 41 85 79 Vancouver 28 18 8 2 38 87 78 Calgary 28 17 9 2 36 89 72 Los Angeles 27 14 8 5 33 72 59 San Jose 29 14 11 4 32 81 79 Arizona 28 10 15 3 23 66 90 Edmonton 27 7 15 5 19 60 91 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Saturday’s Games Pittsburgh 3, Ottawa 2 St. Louis 6, N.Y. Islanders 4 Philadelphia 2, Los Angeles 1 Toronto 5, Vancouver 2 Detroit 3, N.Y. Rangers 2 Columbus 3, Tampa Bay 1 Florida 3, Buffalo 2 Washington 4, New Jersey 1 Chicago 3, Nashville 1 Dallas 4, Montreal 1 Boston 5, Arizona 2 San Jose 3, Calgary 2

Monday’s Games Pittsburgh at N.Y. Rangers, 5 p.m.

New Jersey at Carolina, 5 p.m.

Florida at St. Louis, 6 p.m.

Tuesday’s Games Chicago at New Jersey, 5 p.m.

Philadelphia at Columbus, 5 p.m.

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

Calgary at Toronto, 5:30 p.m.

Vancouver at Montreal, 5:30 p.m.

Washington at Tampa Bay, 5:30 p.m.

N.Y. Islanders at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

Winnipeg at Dallas, 6:30 p.m.

Nashville at Colorado, 7 p.m.

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

Tuesday

Saturday’s summary Sharks 3, Flames 2 First Period 1. Calgary, Giordano 7 (Jones, Glencross) 17:32.

Penalties - None.

Second Period 2. San Jose, Braun 1 (Wingels) :33.

3. San Jose, Couture 11 (Scott, Braun) 2:34.

4. Calgary, Gaudreau 5 (Hudler, Stajan) 17:49.

Penalties - Burns SJ (interference) 9:11, Giordano Cgy (hooking) 15:19.

Third Period 5. San Jose, Marleau 7 (Couture, Wingels) 9:18.

Penalties - Dillon SJ (interference) 3:26, Brodie Cgy (holding) 14:55, Stajan Cgy (hooking) 15:26, Braun SJ (tripping) 18:41.

Shots on goal San Jose 8 8 14 - 30 Calgary 12 9 14 - 35 Goal - San Jose: Niemi (W, 11-7-3); Calgary: Ramo (L, 8-3-1).

Power plays (goal-chances) - San Jose: 0-3; Calgary: 0-3.

Sunday’s summary Oilers 2, Sharks 1 First Period No Scoring.

Penalties - Mueller SJ (delay of game) 14:42.

Second Period 1. Edmonton, Yakupov 4 (Eberle, Petry) 7:45 (pp).

2. San Jose, McGinn 1 (Marleau, Burns) 9:51.

Penalties - Sheppard SJ (fighting) 6:18, Aulie Edm (fighting) 6:18, Sheppard SJ (roughing) 6:18, Aulie Edm (boarding) 6:18, Dillon SJ (holding) 7:36.

Third Period 3. Edmonton, Perron 4 (Purcell, Fayne) 10:26.

Penalties - Gordon Edm (high-sticking) 0:21, Pinizzotto Edm (roughing) 5:30.

Shots on goal by San Jose 2 9 10 21 Edmonton 11 7 6 24 Goal - San Jose: Stalock (L, 2-3-1); Edmonton: Scrivens (W, 5-9-3).

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

NHL Scoring Leaders G 21 9 9 16 14 17 8 8 7 17 13 12 11 8 11 11 9

Tyler Seguin, Dal Sidney Crosby, Pgh Jakub Voracek, Pha Steven Stamkos, TB Evgeni Malkin, Pgh Vladimir Tarasenko, StL Claude Giroux, Pha Tyler Johnson, TB Mark Giordano, Cgy Rick Nash, NYR Phil Kessel, Tor Patrick Kane, Chi Jiri Hudler, Cgy Ryan Getzlaf, Ana Patric Hornqvist, Pgh Filip Forsberg, Nash Ryan Johansen, Clb

A 14 25 24 16 18 12 21 20 21 10 14 14 15 18 14 14 16

Pts 35 34 33 32 32 29 29 28 28 27 27 26 26 26 25 25 25

Football National Football League AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF New England 10 3 0 .769 401 Miami 7 6 0 .538 314 Buffalo 7 6 0 .538 281 N.Y. Jets 2 11 0 .154 214 South W L T Pct PF Indianapolis 9 4 0 .692 407 Houston 7 6 0 .538 314 Tennessee 2 11 0 .154 220 Jacksonville 2 11 0 .154 199 North W L T Pct PF Cincinnati 8 4 1 .654 281 Pittsburgh 8 5 0 .615 362 Baltimore 8 5 0 .615 356 Cleveland 7 6 0 .538 276 West W L T Pct PF Denver 10 3 0 .769 293 San Diego 8 5 0 .615 293 Kansas City 7 6 0 .538 291

Oakland PA 267 260 241 349 PA 307 260 374 356 PA 289 319 255 270 PA 385 272 241

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NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct Philadelphia 9 4 0 .692 Dallas 9 4 0 .692 N.Y. Giants 4 9 0 .308 Washington 3 10 0 .231 South W L T Pct Atlanta 5 7 0 .417 New Orleans 5 8 0 .385 Carolina 4 8 1 .346 Tampa Bay 2 11 0 .154 North W L T Pct Green Bay 9 3 0 .750 Detroit 9 4 0 .692 Minnesota 6 7 0 .462 Chicago 5 8 0 .385 West W L T Pct Arizona 10 3 0 .769 Seattle 9 4 0 .692 San Francisco 7 6 0 .538

200

350

PF 389 343 293 244

PA 309 301 326 346

PF 291 333 269 237

PA 299 359 341 348

PF 380 265 263 281

PA 267 224 281 378

PF 275 322 244

PA 238 235 268

St. Louis

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Thursday’s Game Dallas 41, Chicago 28 Sunday’s Games N.Y. Giants 36, Tennessee 7 Carolina 41, New Orleans 10 Minnesota 30, N.Y. Jets 24, OT Pittsburgh 42, Cincinnati 21 St. Louis 24, Washington 0 Baltimore 28, Miami 13 Indianapolis 25, Cleveland 24 Detroit 34, Tampa Bay 17 Houston 27, Jacksonville 13 Denver 24, Buffalo 17 Arizona 17, Kansas City 14 Oakland 24, San Francisco 13 Seattle 24, Philadelphia 14 New England 23, San Diego 14

The Central Alberta U14AA and U16AA Sting squads each recorded a win and a loss during the weekend.

The U14AA Sting dominated the Zone 5 U14AA team 7-2 Saturday at Edmonton, getting three goals from Kianna Doyle and singles from Colby Wagar, Ashlin Caine, Hanna Gill and Julie Wagner.

On Sunday, Doyle, Carly Cherniak and Megan Grubb scored in a 6-3 loss to the visiting St. Albert U16A team.

Meanwhile, the U16AA Sting fell 105 to the host St. Albert U16AA squad Saturday, with Sydney Cherniak netting three goals and Kailyn Smalley and McKenna Causey also connecting. The Sting rebounded for a 10-4 home-ice win over the Edmonton U19A team Sunday, getting a 21-save outing from netminder Sally Buzzing and five goals from Causey, two from each of Smalley and Cherniak and one from Holly Daniel. ● The Central Alberta U19AA Sting downed the visiting St. Albert Mission 4-2 Sunday. Scoring for the winners were defenceman Bryn Lunn, with two goals, Brenna Parent and Shae-Lynn Baxter, while winning netminder Grace Romansky made 31 saves.

The Central Alberta AA Association Ice Breaker tournament will be played Friday to Sunday at Lacombe.

Wednesday ● JV basketball: Sylvan Lake at Stettler, Notre Dame at Lacombe, Hunting Hills at Innisfail, Ponoka at Wetaskiwin; girls at 6 p.m., boys to follow. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Stettler at Ponoka, 7:45 p.m. ● Chinook senior hockey: Innisfail at Bentley, 8 p.m., Lacombe.

Thursday ● Senior high basketball: Hunting Hills at Ponoka; girls at 6 p.m., boys to follow. ● WHL: Kamloops at Red Deer, 7 p.m., Centrium. ● Men’s basketball: Orangemen vs.

Monstars, Bulldog Scrap Metal vs. Silver Spurs, 7:15 and 8:30 p.m., Lindsay Thurber.

Friday ● Midget AAA hockey: Edmonton K of C at Red Deer, 8 p.m., Arena. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Blackfalds at Three Hills, 8 p.m. ● Midget AA hockey: Bow Valley at Olds, 7:30 p.m.; Lacombe at Red Deer Elks, 8:30 p.m., Collicutt Centre.

Saturday ● Minor midget AAA hockey: Airdrie/

National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct Toronto 15 5 .750 Brooklyn 8 10 .444 Boston 7 11 .389 New York 4 18 .182 Philadelphia 2 18 .100

Sunday’s Sports Transactions HOCKEY National Hockey League ARIZONA COYOTES - Assigned D Andrew Campbell to Portland (AHL).

CAROLINA HURRICANES - Recalled F Chris Terry from Charlotte (AHL).

MONTREAL CANADIENS - Assigned F Drayson Bowman to Hamilton (AHL).

NEW JERSEY DEVILS - Assigned F Damien Brunner to Albany (AHL). Recalled D Peter Harrold from Albany.

WASHINGTON CAPITALS - Reassigned F Liam O’Brien to Hershey (AHL).

American Hockey League AHL - Suspended Adirondack LW Bryce Van Brabant one game for a kneeing incident in a Dec. 5 game vs. Texas.

GB 4 1/2 6 8 1/2

Central Division W L Pct 11 7 .611 12 8 .600 11 11 .500 7 13 .350 3 18 .143

GB 2 5 9 1/2

WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct Houston 16 4 .800 Memphis 16 4 .800 San Antonio 15 5 .750 Dallas 16 6 .727 New Orleans 9 10 .474

GB 1 1 6 1/2

Northwest Division W L Pct 16 4 .800 9 11 .450 7 13 .350 5 15 .250 4 15 .211

GB 7 9 11 11 1/2

Pacific Division W L Pct 17 2 .895

GB -

Portland Denver Oklahoma City Utah Minnesota

Saturday’s Sports Transactions FOOTBALL National Football League BALTIMORE RAVENS - Signed TE Phillip Supernaw from the practice squad.

DENVER BRONCOS - Signed PK Brandon McManus to the practice squad.

MINNESOTA VIKINGS - Placed RB Jerick McKinnon on injured reserve. Signed DE Justin Trattou from the practice squad and S Ahmad Dixon to the practice squad.

OAKLAND RAIDERS - Placed S Jonathan Dowling on injured reserve. Signed TE Scott Simonson from the practice squad.

WASHINGTON REDSKINS - Placed CB Chase Minnifield on injured reserve. Released WR Aldrick Robinson. Signed LB

Golden State Gabe Miller and DB Kenny Okoro from the practice squad.

HOCKEY National Hockey League ANAHEIM DUCKS - Reassigned D Mat Clark to Norfolk (AHL). Recalled F Rickard Rakell from Norfolk.

COLORADO AVALANCHE - Assigned F Garrett Meurs from Lake Erie (AHL) to Fort Wayne (ECHL).

NASHVILLE PREDATORS - Recalled D Jonathan Diaby from Cincinnati (ECHL) to Milwaukee (AHL).

NEW YORK RANGERS - Reassigned F Josh Nicholls from Hartford (AHL) to Greenville (ECHL).

WASHINGTON CAPITALS - Assigned F Caleb Herbert from Hershey (AHL) to South Carolina (ECHL).

American Hockey League AHL - Suspended Binghamton LW Darren Kramer one game.

HARTFORD WOLF PACK - Recalled F Shawn O’Donnell from Greenville (ECHL).

ECHL ECHL - Suspended Quad City F Paxton Leroux six games, Quad City F Antti Pusa three games, Rapid City F Jesse Schultz two games and Colorado coach Chris Stewart one game and fined the Rapid City Rush and Quad City Mallards undisclosed amounts for their actions during Friday’s games.

What’s Remarkable About Red Deer?

GB 6 7 12 13

Southeast Division W L Pct 13 6 .684 13 6 .684 9 11 .450 9 14 .391 5 15 .250

Atlanta Washington Miami Orlando Charlotte

Monday’s Game Atlanta at Green Bay, 6:30 p.m.

Thursday, Dec. 11 Arizona at St. Louis, 6:25 p.m.

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

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

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

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Transactions

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

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

(The Drive). ● Midget AA hockey: Calgary Blackhawks at Red Deer Elks, 7:15 p.m., Collicutt Centre; Calgary Rangers at Olds, 7:30 p.m.; Calgary Stampeders at Sylvan Lake, 8:15 p.m. ● Heritage junior B jockey: Mountainview at Red Deer, 8 p.m., Arena; Ponoka at Three Hills, 8 p.m., Trochu.

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Saturday’s Games Philadelphia 108, Detroit 101, OT Golden State 112, Chicago 102 Houston 100, Phoenix 95 San Antonio 123, Minnesota 101 Orlando 105, Sacramento 96 L.A. Clippers 120, New Orleans 100 Sunday’s Games Boston 101, Washington 93 Atlanta 96, Denver 84 Memphis 103, Miami 87 Oklahoma City 96, Detroit 94 Dallas 125, Milwaukee 102 Portland 103, New York 99 New Orleans 104, L.A. Lakers 87 Monday’s Games Boston at Washington, 5 p.m.

Atlanta at Indiana, 5 p.m.

Denver at Toronto, 5:30 p.m.

Cleveland at Brooklyn, 5:30 p.m.

Golden State at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

Utah at Sacramento, 8 p.m.

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

Tuesday’s Games Toronto at Cleveland, 5 p.m.

Portland at Detroit, 5:30 p.m.

New York at New Orleans, 6 p.m.

Milwaukee at Oklahoma City, 6 p.m.

Dallas at Memphis, 6 p.m.

Miami at Phoenix, 7 p.m.

San Antonio at Utah, 7 p.m.

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

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Golf Hero World Challenge Sunday At Isleworth Golf and Country Club Windermere, Fla. Purse: $3.5 million Yardage: 7,354; Par: 72 Final Jordan Spieth, $1,000,000 66-67-63-66-262 Henrik Stenson, $400,000 67-68-68-69-272 Keegan Bradley, $212,500 72-66-65-70-273 Patrick Reed, $212,500 73-63-69-68-273 Jason Day, $150,000 71-67-70-66-274 Rickie Fowler, $142,500 67-70-72-68-277 Justin Rose, $142,500 72-64-70-71-277 Zach Johnson, $126,667 67-71-72-69-279 Matt Kuchar, $126,667 69-70-70-70-279 Billy Horschel, $126,667 73-72-67-67-279 Graeme McDowell, $112,500 68-73-68-71-280 Bubba Watson, $112,500 69-68-72-71-280 Hideki Matsuyama, $109,000 68-73-71-69-281 Steve Stricker, $108,000 67-73-74-69-283 Jimmy Walker, $107,000 68-69-75-72-284 Chris Kirk, $106,000 70-68-74-73-285 Hunter Mahan, $102,500 71-71-71-75-288 Tiger Woods, $102,500 77-70-69-72-288 European PGA-Nedbank Challenge

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L.A. Galaxy win fifth MLS title Yeah, probably,” Donovan said. “But this feels right to me. It’s always better to retire than get cut, and that’s what I’m doing.”

Despite an outstanding second half and several extra-time chances, New England lost the MLS Cup for the fifth time - including three times to the Galaxy on extra-time goals. Keane followed in the footsteps of Carlos Ruiz, who beat the Revs in 2002, and Guillermo Ramirez, who did it in 2005.

After a scoreless first half, Zardes another Southern California product - erased his late-season slump when he settled a cross from Stefan Ishizaki in the box and slotted it past Shuttleworth.

But after the Galaxy missed numerous chances to add to their lead, New England equalized when substitute Patrick Mullins got past Leonardo and Omar Gonzalez on a frantic run before chipping back to Tierney, who beat Jaime Penedo and silenced the crowd.

Teal Bunbury pinged a chip shot off Penedo’s crossbar in the 85th minute, missing a trophy-winning goal by inches.

Penedo made a difficult stop on a shot by Mullins in the first extra-time period. New England pressed after Keane’s goal, but Penedo made another huge save on Mullins before the final whistle.

The Galaxy reached the final by knocking off Supporters’ Shield-winning Seattle in the Western Conference finals on the strength of a single away goal.

New England had lost just once in its previous 16 games, its tremendous late-season surge with newcomer Jermaine Jones capped by a victory over New York Red Bulls in the East final, ending the MLS career of Thierry Henry.

The Galaxy haven’t lost at home since their season opener.

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Galaxy 2 Revolution 1 (ET) CARSON, Calif. - Landon Donovan grabbed Robbie Keane in a triumphant midfield hug right before Donovan’s girlfriend leaped into his arms.

Moments later, Donovan and Keane raised the silver trophy together amid fireworks and a confetti blizzard.

Throughout his remarkable soccer career, Donovan always did know how to finish.

One last time, he did it as a champion.

Keane scored on a breakaway in the 111th minute, and Donovan retired with his record sixth MLS title when the LA Galaxy beat the New England Revolution 2-1 on Sunday in the MLS Cup. Gyasi Zardes scored in the 52nd minute as the Galaxy won their record fifth league title in the final game for Donovan, the MLS career scoring leader and most accomplished player in U.S. history.

“I’m in a little bit of a daze,” Donovan said, still champagne-soaked after the celebration of the Galaxy’s third league title in four years. “There’s a lot going on. A lot of obvious excitement. There’s sadness. Uncertainty.

Just pure joy for this team and what we did. It just feels strange, but I’m so proud what this team accomplished this year.”

Donovan, Keane and the Galaxy have celebrated three times on their home field, the first two with David Beckham. Retiring with his skills largely still formidable, Donovan followed in Beckham’s footsteps by leaving on top, wrapping his 14-year MLS career with six titles, including two with San Jose.

“He’s done it all,” said coach Bruce Arena, who won his record fifth MLS

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Los Angeles Galaxy’s Landon Donovan, center, hoists the trophy as he and teammates celebrate after winning the MLS Cup championship soccer match against the New England Revolution Sunday, in Carson, Calif. title. “He’s got very little left to give.

I’m so happy he’s made this decision.

He’s able to go out a winner.”

But not without drama.

After Chris Tierney scored the tying goal in the 79th minute for New England, both teams had golden opportunities in extra time - including a tantalizingly close free kick for Donovan, who sailed it over the bar.

But Keane capped his MVP season in the second period of extra time when Marcelo Sarvas lobbed a long pass to the Irish striker, who was nearly unmarked. He gathered it and beat Bobby Shuttleworth with the same poise he showed throughout his 19-goal regular season, celebrating with his

usual cartwheel and finger guns.

“We weren’t going into the game thinking about (Donovan),” Keane said. “(But) if we won a championship for him, no one deserves to go out on a high as much as he does. It’s a great honour to play with him.”

The 32-year-old Donovan announced his retirement in August, saying he had lost passion for soccer and hungered to find his identity outside the sport.

The Southern California native took a slow postgame tour of the StubHub Center field, a Galaxy scarf draped around his neck, waving at a sellout crowd loudly chanting “One more year!”

“Could I play longer physically?

Spieth gets another big win against elite field at Isleworth

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WINDERMERE, Fla. - Jordan Spieth had been down this road before.

Three years ago at Isleworth, he was making the turn in the final round when he looked over at the scoreboard on the 18th fairway that showed he had a big lead. So it was eerie when he caught himself doing the same thing Sunday during the final round of the Hero World Challenge.

But there was one big difference.

Back then, Spieth was a freshman at Texas and won by eight shots in the Isleworth Collegiate Invitational for his first college title.

This time, he beat an elite field that included tournament host Tiger Woods, six major champions and 16 of the top 30 players in the world.

And he beat them even worse.

Spieth capped off a big finish to his

second season as a pro when he closed with a 6-under 66 and set two tournament records to win by 10 shots over Henrik Stenson. Staked to a seven-shot lead in the final round, he opened with three birdies in four holes and turned the final three hours into a peaceful walk along the lakes and palatial homes of Isleworth.

“It was the most fun I ever had playing nine holes of golf,” Spieth said.

Spieth had an 11-shot lead after nine holes, ripped a drive over the corner of the bunker and then glanced at the lone leaderboard. And then he made another birdie. He coasted from there and even with a careless double bogey on the back nine, he finished at 26-under 262 to break the tournament record of 266 set by Woods in 2007 and Davis Love III in 2000, both at Sherwood Country Club in California.

The 10-shot victory was the largest margin of the year in golf, and broke the tournament record of seven shots that Woods had in 2007.

“Whether my emotions showed it or not I’m not sure, but inside we were

Ottawa’s Blondin wins silver for Canada at Berlin meet

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

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BERLIN - Canada’s Ivanie Blondin second slowest start in the A group, won the silver medal in the women’s showed me that I have a level of physimass start event at a speedskating cal and mental strength that I didn’t World Cup meet on Sunday. even know I had. I don’t say this often, The Ottawa skater has won a medal but I surprised myself today.” in the event at all three World Cup Calgary’s Gilmore Junio was 14th. stops this season, winning gold in JaOlympic champion Lee Sang-hwa pan and bronze in South Korea before of South Korea clinched the women’s Sunday’s silver-medal performance. race in 37.96 and has won five of six Blondin currently sits fifth in the sprints this season. Heather Richardoverall women’s standings. son of the United States was second in Irene Schouten won the mass start 38.07 and Nao Kodaira of Japan third. in a time of eight minutes 32.82 seconds, followed closely by Blondin at 8:32.94 and Ye Jin Jun of South Korea at 8:33.37.

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really very pleased with the year and how it came to a close,” Spieth said.

“This caps off the best golfing year that I’ve ever had.”

Spieth had set a goal of two wins, and that looked out of reach when he began the last leg of a long journey.

He finished one shot out of a playoff in Japan, won the Australian Open by six shots and then turned in another dominant performance.

“The kid is playing great,” said Keegan Bradley, who had a 70 to tie for third with Patrick Reed (68). “You have to look at his past three events. He almost won them all. He’s a great player.

I wouldn’t look more into it other than he dominated this week.”

Woods, in his first tournament in four months while recovering from back injuries, stubbed two more chips on the 13th hole for a triple bogey and closed with a 72. He tied for last place in the 18-man field with Hunter Mahan, 26 shots out of the lead.

Woods noted that Spieth closed with a 63 in Australia and flew some 9,000 miles to get to Isleworth.

“He’s playing some pretty special golf right now,” Woods said.

Spieth completes his second full year as a pro by moving into the top 10 in the world ranking at No. 9. The Hero World Challenge is not an official PGA Tour event, so the $1 million prize does not count toward the money list.

He had never had such a big lead going into the final round, and it’s tempting to try to protect it. Instead, Spieth set tiny goals and came out swinging.

One of those goals was to stretch his lead to 10 shots, and he got there with a hybrid on the par-5 seventh to the left edge of the green that trickled onto the putting surface. Bradley two-putted for birdie to get within eight shots, and then Spieth poured in his putt to go up by 10.

Stenson played with Spieth on Saturday, and knew what to expect.

“He was in pretty much full control of every part of his game,” Stenson said. Stenson closed with a 69 to entrench himself a little deeper at No. 2 in the world behind Rory McIlroy, who did not play this week.

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New mosaic one more step towards goal

BY BRENDA KOSSOWAN ADVOCATE STAFF He’s got a barn and a piece of land in Nova Scotia that cost as much as the printer in his garage — the place he calls home when he’s not on the road.

“This thing, you put the paper in and it does it all for you.”

Having a giant-size printer of his own, capable of creating weatherproof mosaics up to 1.5 meters wide, gives Canadian Mosaic artist Tim Van Horn, 45, the ability to create massive pieces for display, like the scene on the side of his garage on a narrow street near the centre of Red Deer.

The new mosaic, which Van Horn calls his Christmas gift to Red Deer, is just one more step toward his goal of shooting 54,000 portraits, and then merging them into a massive portrait of Canada, from east to west and north to south.

That’s 37,000 down and 17,000 to go.

“What I’m trying to do is create a portfolio of pictures that captures everything. I look at humanity. I look at life. In order to do that accurately, you need an insurmountable amount of pictures,” says Van Horn.

His idea originates with the development under former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau of Canada’s identity as a multi-cultural nation — a mosaic as opposed to the melting pot in the United States.

“We’ve never had a visual that goes with that. If we had, it’s outdated,” says Van Horn.

“This is like a fresh look at Canada.

We’ve never had a massive portrait

done of the country. We’ve never had anything done on the people that documents who we are.”

He plans to continue crisscrossing the country and shooting portraits for eight months of the year in 2015 and again in 2016.

The collection will then be amalgamated into an interactive road show to be built around a decommissioned school bus.

Van Horn plans to launch the completed project, including a photo book that chronicles his journeys, from Ottawa on July 1, 2017, when Canada celebrates its 150th birthday.

Yes, it gets tedious. Money is sometimes tight. Personal relationships suffer. But quitting is not an option.

“That would break me,” says Van Horn, who is now settled back into his garage after months on the road.

His style has evolved, as has the mode of transport he uses. Where Van Horn’s earlier portraits were focused on heads and shoulders, he now places more of his subjects in the frame, including their hands, to give a more complete picture. If he encounters a family or a couple, he shoots them together.

Van Horn is now on his third vehicle, a used motorhome that he finds more comfortable and more professional in appearance than its “hippy” predecessors.

He places trust in the universe to keep him going, weathering lonely nights, mechanical repairs, stiff joints and the odd encounter with cranky citizens, funding his venture through sponsorships. Each $20 buys one kilometre on a journey of many thousands

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Red Deer Photographer Tim Van Horn with a recent mosaic mounted on his garage in Red Deer. This project contains 14,000 portraits of Canadians. of kilometres spent crisscrossing the country.

Van Horn says he could sell his Red Deer house if necessary. It’s rented out right now, because that makes good sense when he’s on the road most of the year.

While sponsors have provided some income, the universe has come forth in other ways as well, he says.

He was commissioned earlier this year to create a big piece of art for

Home energy audit: finding new ways to be more efficient Editors note: This is part of a series the Advocate is doing on the City of Red Deer’s environmental programs and initiatives for the future. We have asked the Stange family to conduct an environmental audit and will report on the results of that audit in two weeks.

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Payton Kletke barrels down Michener hill on a snow saucer Saturday afternoon. She was just one of about 20 Red Deerians enjoying the warmer weather by sledding and tobagganning down one of the city’s more popular hills.

Clubhouse open for winter season The River Bend Clubhouse will be open for the season starting today.

Skiers and outdoor enthusiasts are invited to warm up and use the washrooms.

The park gates are open from 9 a.m.

to 9 p.m. daily starting today but will be closed Christmas and New Year’s Day. Starting on Jan. 2, the clubhouse will be open daily from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Hours may be adjusted if a function is booked at the clubhouse.

For specific clubhouse operating hours for December, call 403-343-8311 or search River Bend Clubhouse on www.reddeer.ca.

a new recreation centre in Fort McMurray. The income from that project was enough to cover his costs for nine months.

“The universe says, don’t worry about the money. We’ve got that covered for you. Just go do this,” says Van Horn.

“Somewhere deep in there is your purpose, and you have to find that, or else you’re wandering aimlessly.” bkossowan@reddeeradvocate.com

A Westlake family of four is hoping to become a deeper shade of green as they monitor the energy usage in their home for two weeks.

Jennifer Stange says while her family — including husband Grant and daughters Eve, 11, and Claire, 13 — is environmentally conscious, there’s likely some room for improvement.

The Stanges moved into their home on Wishart Street about eight years ago, six months after the house was built.

Stange said they did not have a say in the building techniques and materials used so they have always wondered if they could do more to save energy.

In an effort to make their home more energy efficient, the Stanges will undertake a home energy audit over the next two weeks. The home audit kits are available through the Red Deer Public Library and Red Deer College.

In the kit is a Kill-A-Watt electricity usage monitor that measures the

electricity used by various electronic devices. A mini infrared thermometer checks the temperature of surfaces, which helps identify places in the home that would benefit from increased weatherproofing and insulation.

A wireless energy monitor gives real-time information on energy consumption and cost for the entire household.

“It will be very interesting to see how much we use and if we could get that number down,” said Stange. “As I said, we try to be aware of those things anyway but it doesn’t hurt to have that awareness.”

Their most recent electricity bill indicated the family consumed 604 kilowatt hours at a cost of $105 on the monthly bill.

Stange said their usage is likely typical for a family of four. They installed energy efficient lighting in the most frequently used areas in their home, and they are careful to turn off lights and appliances when not in use.

Stange said they are interested in using the infrared thermometer to pinpoint drafts in the house.

“I have always been curious about that here because there are some rooms that are definitely cooler than other rooms,” she said. “So I would be curious to know where those spots are and how we could improve those.” crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

Man avoids spike belt, hits the ditch

BY ADVOCATE STAFF Three different Central Alberta RCMP detachments chased after and arrested a Red Deer man.

The 31-year-old suspect was reported to have been attempting to steal a snowmobile when he pointed a hand gun at the vehicle’s owner. The suspect then fled the scene in a different vehicle.

Sylvan Lake RCMP were first called to the Friday afternoon break and enter and attempted robbery.

The snowmobile’s owner followed the suspect at a safe distance and directed police officers to the area where the suspect was.

Police responded to the area of Rainy Creek Road near Hwy 20, where it was reported the suspect was fleeing east. Police picked up the vehicle in Bentley where two occupants fled from the vehicle on foot.

Officers chased after the suspects on foot in the town. Unfortunately, one of the suspects was able to return to the vehicle and take off from the area.

Police initiated a pursuit eastbound on Hwy 12 outside of Bentley.

During the chase, police said the suspect attempted to ram the lead police vehicle by backing up at a high rate of speed towards the vehicle. This proved unsuccessful.

The pursuit continued east on Hwy 12 where a spike belt was placed.

The suspect attempted to avoid the belt, but ended up getting stuck in the snowy ditch.

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Rimbey, Sylvan Lake and Blackfalds RCMP chased after a vehicle Friday driven by a man they believed to have attempted to steal a snowmobile and pointed a handgun at the snowmobile’s owner.

Christopher Stephen Wales, 31, was then arrested. Police said they found a small semi-automatic weapon in the vehicle, within easy reach of the driver.

Wales has been charged with point-

ing a firearm, possession of a weapon for the purpose of committing an offence, theft over $5,000, flight from police, dangerous operation of a motor vehicle, assault, assault with a weapon, break and enter, possession of stolen

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property over $5,000 and possession of a controlled substance.

Wales has been remanded into custody and will make his first court appearance Tuesday in Red Deer provincial court.

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Seven countries impose restrictions AVIAN INFLUENZA HITS B.C. POULTRY FARMS

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS VANCOUVER - Seven countries have imposed trade restrictions on Canadian poultry as a fifth farm in British Columbia’s Fraser Valley was put under quarantine for avian influenza, officials said Saturday.

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency said that more than 140,000 turkeys and chickens from the affected farms will be euthanized.

The agency said the fifth farm near Abbotsford was quarantined after

higher than normal turkey deaths were reported by a farmer Friday.

B.C. chief veterinary officer Dr. Jane Pritchard says 60,000 turkeys are in the fifth farm.

Avian influenza was first detected a week ago on a broiler-breeder chicken farm in Chilliwack which housed 7,000 chickens. About 1,000 of the chickens died from avian influenza. Officials say no people have fallen ill.

The B.C. outbreak has led at least seven countries -the United States, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, China, South Africa and Mexico - to ban poul-

try products from B.C. or all of Canada.

Canada’s chief veterinary officer, Dr. Harpreet Kochhar said birds from the first farms where avian influenza was detected have already been euthanized.

Kochhar said the source of the infection is not yet known, although he added that it’s possible that wild or migratory birds could have infected the farms. He said the focus is on containing the infection’s spread.

Pritchard said there had been movement of birds between some of the infected farms.

In 2004, health officials ordered 17 million chickens, turkeys and other domestic birds slaughtered to contain an outbreak of avian influenza at 42 poultry farms in B.C.’s Fraser Valley, costing the poultry industry hundreds of millions of dollars.

Avian influenza poses little risk to people who are consuming poultry meat if it is handled and cooked properly.

In rare cases, the virus can be transmitted to people who have had close contact with the birds, health officials said.

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Slumping oil prices threaten Canada’s top banks

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO - Oil prices that reached a five-year low on Friday are starting to take a bite out of profits at TD Bank (TSX:TD) and raising concerns for the rest of the country’s top lenders.

Canada’s biggest banks earn up to 20 per cent of their revenues through providing investment and corporate banking services, with oil and gas companies an important part of that client base.

But with oil prices slipping - they have tumbled roughly 35 per cent to under $70 a barrel from their mid-summer highs due to a strong U.S. dollar, low demand and a glut of global supply - TD Bank says it will have to look beyond the oilpatch to make up its investment banking revenue.

“With the current activity going on in oil pricing, it certainly is impacting activity levels in the business,” Bob Dorrance, the head of TD’s wholesale banking division, told investors during a conference call earlier this week after the bank reported its fourth quarter results.

“Things have slowed down.”

Scotiabank was the last of Canada’s five big banks to report its quarterly earnings this week, wrapping up a series of conference calls that were peppered with talk about falling oil prices.

The energy sector, a major weight on the Toronto Stock Exchange, has taken a beating on the markets and taken other stocks, including those with indirect exposure to companies that produce crude, down with it. While all of the country’s top lenders reported substantial profits during the quarter, Canaccord Genuity analyst Gabriel Deschaine noted that lacklustre performance on the stock markets caused many of the banks to report weaker than expected revenues from their brokerage businesses.

Scotia Capital analyst Sumit Malhotra says roughly 30 per cent of the underwriting fees - fees from administering new issues on the stock markets - earned

by Canada’s six top banks this year came from the energy sector.

A drop in commodity prices could make resource companies less likely to make a public offering on the market, said Malhotra, pointing to Teine Energy as an example. The Canadian oil and gas producer had been planning an initial public offering but a Bloomberg News report in October said the company delayed the debut due to the decline in oil prices.

“While we do not want to be too alarmist in this regard, it should be clear that the capital markets operations of the banks have played a key role in driving revenue and earnings growth for the Canadian banking sector in 2014, and any sustained period of weakness in the energy sector would be detrimental to activity levels going forward,” Malhotra wrote in a note to clients.

The plummeting oil prices have also caused some concerns about whether oilpatch companies will default on their loans and create financial burdens for the banks.

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In this Monday, Oct. 6, 2014 photo, job seekers fill out forms before being interviewed during a job fair at Fontainebleau Miami Beach in Miami Beach, Fla. The recovery of the U.S. job market has reached a new milestone on its road to full health: For the first time since the Great Recession ended 5 years ago, Americans unemployed are now as likely to be hired as to stop looking for a job.

U.S. job market reaches turning point UNEMPLOYED AS LIKELY TO FIND WORK AS TO QUIT LOOKING

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON - Look past the booming November job gain of 321,000 reported Friday - the best figure in three years in the strongest year for U.S. hiring since 1999.

The job market has reached a new milestone on its road to full health: For the first time since the Great Recession ended 5 ½ years ago, America’s unemployed are now as likely to be hired as to stop looking for a job.

It means that employers have grown confident enough to fill more job vacancies. And it means the unemployed are now less likely to succumb to frustration.

The hiring surge owes much to solid consumer spending - on items like cars, electronics and restaurant meals. That, in turn, has given businesses the means to step up investment in machinery, computers and facilities. Thanks to such spending, the economy grew at a 4.3 per cent annual pace from April through September - the healthiest six-month spurt since 2003. Employers have responded by adding a robust average of 241,000 jobs a month this year.

For each month, the government estimates the proportion of the unemployed who found work and the proportion who stopped looking. In November, 23 per cent of people who were out of work the previous month found jobs, and the same percentage gave up looking. (The figures are three-month averages, intended to smooth out volatility.)

That was the highest percentage of the unem-

ployed to find work in any month since the recession officially ended in June 2009. A year ago, fewer than 19 per cent of the unemployed were finding jobs.

The increase marks the first such sustained improvement since the recession ended. This year’s acceleration in hiring has been potent enough to finally soak up a significant proportion of the jobless. During the first four years of the recovery, businesses had hired at a rate that was merely enough to keep up with population growth.

The brightening picture has been a relief for people like Kersten Higgins, who had begun job hunting in July after graduating from law school. She didn’t get a single interview until November, when she got four.

Two of the interviews produced offers. She’s accepted a position at Mutual of Omaha, where she will help ensure that its insurance policies comply with federal rules. Higgins, 26, who lives in Omaha, Nebraska, starts Monday.

“I feel great,” Higgins said. “This definitely fits into the category of jobs I hoped to get coming out of law school.”

At the same time, the government’s jobs figures illustrate how much improvement is still needed.

Before the recession began in 2007, the unemployed were more likely to find work than to stop looking in every month dating to when record-keeping began in 1990.

Since the recession ended, that’s been true for only three months out of 65.

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Pension options for small business owners and entrepreneurs Small business owners and entrepreneurs often are so busy running and building their businesses that they fail to concentrate on longer term priorities, such as retirement.

There are a number of tax-advantaged savings options such as pooled registered pension plans (PRPPs), tax free savings accounts (TFSAs), group and individual retirement savings plans (RSPs), insured retirement plans (IRPs) and individual pension plans (IPPs) that can help entrepreneurs plan for the time when they exit their businesses.

Many entrepreneurs and small business owners are taking advantage of IPPs to catch up on and supplement their retirement savings.

An IPP is a defined benefit registered pension plan that is established for the benefit of a single employee. The primary candidates for IPPs are small business owners, company executives and incorporated professionals who are over 40 and have annual incomes of more than $100,000.

The most significant benefit of an IPP is the allowable contribution limit, which generally is higher than the limits available for RRSPs and allows the plan beneficiary to accumulate a larger pool of capital for retirement.

The allowable contribution limits depend on the individual’s age, income and length of service with the company. Unlike a group pension plan, an IPP can be tailored to suit the needs of the individual beneficiary. To qualify for an IPP the beneficiary must be employed by a company that is incorpo-

rated.

IPPs have a number of economic and other advantages.

Contributions can be made based on past employment service dating back to 1991, when IPPs were established.

IPPs are protected against claims made against the company by creditors, ensuring the safety of the assets. Also, money borrowed to make contributions is tax deductible to the company and contribuTALBOT tions can be made to make BOGGS up any investment losses that might occur in the IPP. Unlike an RRSP, however, funds in an IPP in most provinces in Canada are locked in and can’t be accessed until retirement. And it’s not possible to split retirement income by making a contribution to a spousal plan, as you can do with a spousal RRSP. IPPs can be set up through many financial institutions but they have financial disclosure requirements and require an actuarial valuation when they are set up, and every three years after that.

An insured retirement plan (IRP) is another strategy that may be an ideal solution for individuals who have maximized their RRSP, TFSA and RSP

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contributions, have a need for life insurance protection and are looking for a financial planning strategy that can provide a tax-efficient way to save for their retirement.

This strategy may not be suitable for everyone, however, as it involves leveraging to access the cash value of a permanent life insurance policy. As well, it’s important to have a long-enough time horizon to accumulate a sufficient cash value in the policy to generate the required income. Future changes to the Income Tax Act could potentially impact the practicality of this strategy.

IPPs and IRPs are more complicated and sophisticated than many other strategies and financial professionals suggest you talk to an adviser or tax accountant to see if they make sense for you and your personal situation.

“Taken together, all these plans provide good opportunities for entrepreneurs and others to save for their retirement,” said Chris Buttigieg, senior manager of wealth planning strategy with BMO Financial Group. “Canada has done a good job in this regard but the savings rate of Canadians is nowhere near what it was 20 or 30 years ago and the trick now is to use these plans and motivate people to save more for their retirement.”

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 economic toll of Ferguson unrest HOUSING STATS SHOW INCREASE IN TIME TO SELL A HOUSE AND A DROP IN AVERAGE HOUSE PRICE

The economic toll of the unrest in Ferguson, Mo. might not be apparent for some time - but some early data indicates an effect on real estate in the area.

Statistics culled from home sales in the municipality over the last six months point to a shift since mid-August, when protests and riots followed the police shooting of an unarmed teenager.

Is it a statistical blip? Or is it the proverbial coal-mine canary - an early hint of the type of long-term economic turmoil that afflicted other American communities, following race-related riots?

It’s way too early to draw sweeping conclusions, said the organization that compiled the numbers.

“We may not know for years what the true influence of this (unrest) was,” said Beth Braznell, president of the St. Louis Association of Realtors.

“I think it would make a great PhD dissertation someday.”

Here’s what the numbers do say.

The association provided The Canadian Press with spreadsheets of housing sales for the suburb of Ferguson compared to St. Louis County as a whole, for the six-month period ending Dec. 1, for both 2013 and 2014.

There’s some bad news: • A 77-per-cent increase in the number of days it took to sell a house these last three months, compared to the previous three months. The change can’t simply be ascribed to seasonal changes, as there was no such pattern last year.

• A drop of 34 per cent in the average price of houses sold in November, compared with the previous month.

According to the preliminary data for November, the 11 houses sold averaged US$36,514 compared with $55,337 for 15 houses sold the previous month.

• A decline of up to 32 per cent in the number of home sales the last three months from the same period last year. The final figures for November are still being compiled, but so far the data show 37 sales over the threemonth period this year, a notable decline from 55 sales in the same period in 2013.

And some better news: • In terms of total number of sales, they’re only marginally lower this year compared with 2013. There were 97 homes sold last year in Ferguson, in the June-through-November period.

This year, there were at least 88 - and there could still be more when the final figures for November are completed in a few days.

• When dealing with small numbers like this, statistical freaks are to be expected. Last year, for example, there was one month where the average sale price was inexplicably low - at $33,874 in August 2013.

Given the small sample size, Braznell says the statistics could be skewed by a few foreclosures or by a single investor snapping up a handful of cheap properties.

She has, however, heard the jitters.

She said some would-be sellers have held back listings; some frightened investors have delayed commercial transactions; and some people with a house on the market have suspended showings, because they don’t want to let in strangers.

She also sees that ugly number from November on the average sale price but will wait to draw any conclusions about what it means.

“There could be panic-selling going on. It could be that there are a lot of people dumping their houses and wanting to move. In one sense this does worry me, because it indicates that there might be a loss of wealth in the community,” Braznell said.

“But I can’t say that that’s going on - because, again, it could just be that there were a number of foreclosures at the same time. It could be that someone bought four $11,000 (properties, and drove down the average).”

About two-dozen businesses were burned down or ransacked in the area late last month, after a grand jury ruled out charges against police officer Darren Wilson in the shooting of Michael Brown.

While the attention of the world’s media singled out Ferguson, many of the damaged businesses were on West Florissant Avenue in the next-door suburb of Dellwood.

The initial wave of damage has given way to bigger, less destructive protests across the country following the non-indictment in the videotaped death of Eric Garner in New York City.

The damage has paled in comparison to riots of the 1960s - like those that followed the 1968 murder of Martin Luther King Jr. and left a dozen people dead, hundreds more injured, and hundreds of businesses torched in Washington, D.C., alone.

The aftereffects of those riots could be felt for decades, with charred or abandoned lots blighting the city landscape. The devastation in Detroit from a riot the previous year was even worse, and more longlasting.

In St. Louis, on the other hand, a real-estate agent who works in Ferguson says she’s already getting calls again. Lisa Dickerson said it had been quiet - with the Thanksgiving break, and the cold weather, on top of everything else’s that’s going on.

“But this week, starting on Monday, I received three calls, from three different investors,” she said a few days ago. “They’re thinking that property values are going to go up once they’ve rebuilt the properties that have been burned down and damaged.”

If that happens, says the sales agent, the neighbourhood will look newer and better.

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BANKS: Sustained low oil prices will strain loans The big banks say they are regularly performing stress tests on their loan portfolios to see how they will fare in a continued low oil price environment.

So far they say there is no cause for concern, even if oil drops down to $60 a barrel and stays that way for up to two years.

“With oil prices, it’s always about how long it goes on for,” RBC’s chief risk officer Mark Hughes told investors during the bank’s fourth quarter conference call on Wednesday.

Nonetheless, chief risk officers at all of the big banks say they are keeping tabs on the situation.

“If oil prices remain depressed, there will be some strain on some of these loans,” BMO’s chief risk officer Surjit Rajpal told investors during a conference call about the bank’s fourth quarter results Tuesday.

Malhotra notes that oil and gas related loans make up only about six per cent of the banks’ combined business loan portfolios, and only two per cent of their entire combined loan book.

“Though an extended period of weakness in energy prices would clearly impact credit quality trends, in our view the size of the portfolio is not large enough to materially weigh on either credit or growth trends,” Malhotra said.

However, there is another way that slumping oil prices could reduce the quality of the banks’ loan books.

“I’m looking more at what this means at the guys working the oil fields,” said Morningstar equity analyst Dan Werner. “Are they going to be out of a job because rigs are going to be shutting down? It doesn’t sound like it at this point because I think the base cost of extraction is below where the price is.”

But if plunging prices leave workers unemployed, that may leave them unable to make their mortgage payments, said Werner. That, in turn, would hurt the banks.

“Right now the evidence doesn’t seem to be there in terms of wells being shut down yet,” said Werner.

“So we’ll see.”

JOBS: Frustrated job seekers just giving up One sour note amid the improving outlook for the unemployed: The jobless are likelier now than before the recession to land only part-time work.

Though the economy has regained all the jobs lost to the recession, there are still nearly 2 million fewer people with full-time work.

Falling crude prices stay in focus on Toronto stock market

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO - Oil prices will remain in focus this week as investors consider whether Canada’s main stock market could suffer the fallout of a further decline.

Toronto’s S&P/TSX composite index dropped another 1.8 per cent last week, closing at 14,473 on Friday, as the price of crude settled at a five-year low.

The January crude contract ended the week at US$65.84 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange.

“My sense is the markets are continuing to digest what oil prices mean for various equity markets and various currencies,” said David Wolf, a portfolio manager at Fidelity Investments.

“We’ve seen a pretty saw-toothed pattern on the TSX.” Exactly how detrimental lower crude prices could be to Canada is still in question, as economists weigh both the positive and negative aspects of an industry that’s a large part of the economy.

Crude prices have tumbled about 38 per cent since mid-summer on lower demand and a glut of supply, due in large measure to greatly increased production in the U.S. Midwest.

Last week, a stronger U.S. dollar and the impact of Saudi Arabia reducing its January prices to U.S. and Asian customers last week further added to the weakness.

“Oil production is four times more important to Canada than the U.S. economy,” wrote Bank of Montreal chief economist Doug Porter in a note.

“We continue to believe that the rally in the (U.S.) dollar is in its early

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Algeria’s oil company to maintain investment plan despite plummeting prices ALGIERS, Algeria - Algerian state oil company Sonatrach won’t cut back spending on its next five-year plan despite the precipitous decline of oil prices, it’s director announced Sunday.

Said Sahnoun, Sonatrach CEO, said that the next five year plan budgets $90 billion to improve production even as oil prices hit five-year lows of around $65 a barrel.

In other cases, the jobs the formerly unemployed have now pay less than those they had before.

One reason the unemployment rate declined early in the recovery was that hundreds of thousands of people grew frustrated with their job hunts and stopped looking. Once people stop looking for a job, they’re no longer counted as unemployed. At that point, the unemployment rate can fall even if hiring is weak. But now, the number of such dropouts has plateaued.

The figures that show the unemployed are now as likely to get a job as to stop seeking one mean that fewer will end up jobless for prolonged periods.

Research has shown that the longer people are unemployed, the more reluctant employers are to hire them.

“This is one of the most important indicators, because if this rate doesn’t pick up, then long-term unemployment persists,” said Aysegul Sahin, vicepresident for research at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

Companies are advertising the most jobs in nearly 14 years. And more Americans are quitting their jobs for better opportunities. That provides openings for others.

Employers hired just over 5 million people in September, the most in nearly seven years. That figure reflects total hiring. By contrast, November’s 321,000

days, as the greenback often acts like an ocean liner - once it changes direction it tends to move one way for years, and it has turned for the good.”

Meanwhile, U.S. retail sales, due Friday, are expected to rise 0.3 per cent for November as lower gas prices affect overall figures, even as shoppers flooded into stores on Black Friday.

An RBC Capital Markets report suggests that falling gasoline prices are having a “non-trivial positive impact” on consumers, giving them an extra $36 billion in spending power during the fourth quarter compared to a year earlier. Traders will also be focused on the eurozone where last week European Central Bank president Mario Draghi hinted that the central bank is ready to back a big monetary stimulus early next year.

“People may be starting to overdo it a little bit on the pessimism,” said Wolf, who is a former adviser to the Bank of Canada.

“The ECB has already taken a number of measures which take quite a bit of time... to work their way through the system and through the economy.”

In September, the ECB announced plans to buy covered bonds and other assets for two years to help stimulate the eurozone economy.

Wolf said those efforts have already started to show.

“You can already see the effect of those measures, with a pretty sharp drop in the euro over the past several months as well as significant decreases in term interest rates pretty much across the eurozone,” he said.

“That’s not going to help the economy immediately but it will over time provide some boost.”

The plan includes developing oil and gas fields, improving transportation of products and investment in petrochemical and refining capacity.

Sonatrach’s exports provide Algeria with 98 per cent of its hard currency and the aging fields have seen declining production.

The company’s production has dropped form 232 million tons equivalent of oil in 2008 to 194.5 in 2012.

Strict investment laws have also kept away foreign money and knowhow to make new discoveries.

Sahnoun also announced that the Algeria should begin commercial exploitation of its shale gas by 2022 with an expected production of 20 billion cubic meters.

After China and Argentina, Algeria has the largest reserves of shale gas and it decided this year to begin exploiting it.

job gain is a net figure: Total hiring minus layoffs, quits and retirements.

Early in the recovery, each month’s net job gain was driven more by fewer layoffs than by more hiring. That helped explain why the unemployed had such trouble finding work.

Landing a job remains much easier for those who have been unemployed only briefly. For those out of work for six months or less, 31 per cent found jobs in October. For those unemployed for more than six months, the rate was just 14 per cent.

“The long-term unemployed are still being left behind,” said Claire McKenna, a policy analyst at the National Employment Law Project.

But there are signs of hope even for the long-term unemployed. Their prospects of finding a job over the course of a year are nearing pre-recession levels, according to research by the New York Fed. Marcia Hauler of Atlanta began a job last month after eight months of searching. She took a position as an account executive with Concur Technologies, which manages businesses’ expenses.

Her job search was a frustrating one: She had numerous interviews, including six with one company that ended up not hiring her.

But “toward the end of the summer, it seems like there were more jobs available,” she said. “My story has a happy ending.”

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Mother Mother Finding shelter from the hustle and concert shapes up ‘just lovely’ bustle of Christmas

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF A beautiful and peaceful antidote to the busy clamour of the holiday season was delivered Saturday night by the Red Deer Symphony Orchestra.

The Seasonal Strings concert at the Red Deer College Arts Centre was planned as a respite from the “bombardment” of Christmas music, said the RDSO’s music director Claude Lapalme.

“At this time we are assaulted with music. And those are two words I don’t like to see together,” he added.

This year, Lapalme thought he’d try a more low-key approach to planning the holiday concert — and it was welcomed by a full-house crowd, made up (I suspect) of many other people who’d spent much of Saturday immersed in the commercial side of the season.

Bring on the peace, I mused. We’re more than ready for a little tranquility.

And you couldn’t get much lovelier, or more restful, than Antonio Vivaldi’s Concerto in E major “Il riposo — per il Natale,” a baroque melody played on muted instruments.

A reduced orchestra of only RDSO strings musicians performed this intimate concerto that started with first violinist Naomi Delafield playing a wavering solo. The second movement was almost like a slow dance, with its trilling, intricate melody picking up steam before eventually finding its way back to peaceful.

This one was an audience favourite.

Next up were six short movements from German composer Johann Christoph Pez’s Pastoral Christmas Concerto.

Pez wrote music in the lilting French style, said Lapalme — with Italian flourishes, since there are pipe-like sounds representing the shepherds who visit Baby Jesus in the nativity.

The RDSO strings musicians used long bow strokes to create a measured melody that became more vigorous in the second movement — although not energetic enough to make any musician break a sweat.

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— CLAUDE LAPALME RED DEER SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA MUSIC DIRECTOR

Something pretty zen was in the air The third movement was stately Friday night.

Or as Mother Mother frontman Ryan and, again, calm. But this baroque concerto became quicker and more joyous Guldemond put it: “Tonight’s got the before swinging back to restive. In the right stuff . . .You never can tell how latter movements, Delafield carried on the voodoo’s going to shape up, but it’s an interesting melodic duet with fel- taking shape just lovely . . . ” With such mantra-like pronouncelow violinist Diane Lane, and the two were accompanied by Janet Kuschak ments, the lanky singer/guitarist cast a karmic spell on about 550 fans of his on cello.

The melody line soared, ending on a Vancouver-based band at Red Deer’s Memorial Centre. And it happy note. was a mojo-packed evening The second half of the all around. concert start with selecYou know you’re not at tions from Louis-Claude just any rock show when a Daquin’s Le livre d’orgue. fervid fan yells out, “I apThis (third) baroque work preciate your music!” — was originally written for then looks slightly abashed organ, a hugely popular inat his own forwardness. strument in the 17th cenAnd Guldemond can tury (“today it’s a bit difmakes such grand, sweepferent, cache for organists ing, guru-like statements as has somehow withered,” “Breathe the air of life!” noted Lapalme). It was latand “It’s important in life er adapted for a strings orto be loud and to be in the chestra.

LANA moment.”

While the Daquin piece MICHELIN But Mother Mother is worked well enough for the such a talented band it audience, some poor strings proved it’s possible to be musicians had to perpetuboth existentialist and liveally play one note to mimic ly. the organ’s drone. While The quintet created a rare musical the cellos, violins and bass traded off between providing the endless dron- alchemy with killer harmonies and offing sound and variations on a sprightly kilter rhythms at Friday’s concert. And melody, the musicians’ one-note duty an enthusiastic group of mostly college-age fans leapt up to groove to newseemed immensely ponderous.

I could have done without the drone wave-ish tunes that echoed Depeche entirely if it meant not having to feel Mode, The B-52s and Metric without losing Mother Mother’s unique, upbeat sorry for anyone.

The energy level on stage went up brand.

Interesting song lyrics kept the several notches with the entry of the Red Deer Youth and Community Or- group’s devotees listening raptly as chestra, which doubled the number of they bopped along.

“How did I ever get so freaky?” strings musicians to about 50. asked the tune Reaper Man (from Mother Mother’s latest album, A Very Good Bad Thing). I Go Hungry hungered after Please see SYMPHONY on Page C5

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the truth, and Get Out The Way contained the line: “There’s something in the way/Oh, it’s just me and my brain.”

Higher and baser instincts were often contrasted in the tunes — a running theme for songwriter Guldemond, who seems fascinated by the perverse, conflicted aspects of human nature.

The concert opened with his silhouetted form standing up on the drum platform during Have It Out. In Body of Years, the multifaceted singer was framed by the group’s two singing keyboard players at either end of the stage — his sister Molly and Jasmin Parkin.

Chasing It Down served up some staccato vocals and jazzy harmonies.

Infinitesimal, which spotlighted Molly Guldemond and Parkin briefly dancing like go-go girls, emphasized how trivial we are in the scheme of things, while Wrecking Ball, with a child-like melody interspersed with loud outbursts, was about letting it all out.

The band launched into the atmospheric Ghosting, before embarking on a three-song marathon of Let’s Fall in Love, merging with O My Heart, and A Very Good Bad Thing, with its tinkly keyboard closer.

My favourite song of the evening, Monkey Tree, was sung by Ryan and the two women in a charming falsetto.

It was followed by Parkin crooning the lead on the seductive Video Games.

This one included some hallucinogenic guitar riffs and an intense, experimental bass line by bassist Jeremy Page, who sported a pointy beard Rasputin would have envied.

The song ended in a cacophony of crashing cymbals, courtesy of the group’s crack drummer, Ali Siadat.

Hay Loft, Bit By Bit and the group’s biggest hit, The Stand, wrapped up the concert before an acoustic version of Dirty Town and an electric rendering of Simply Simple Song were delivered as an encore.

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Beyonce, Pharrell lead with six Grammy nominations

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK - The year’s brightest newcomer, Sam Smith; the most nominated female in Grammy history, Beyonce; and mega-producer Pharrell led the Grammy Award nominations, with six nominations apiece.

Smith’s “In the Lonely Hour,” Beyonce’s surprise self-titled release and Pharrell’s “G I R L” will compete for the coveted album of the year, along with Beck’s “Morning Phase” and Ed Sheeran’s “X,” the most streamed album on Spotify this year.

The Recording Academy announced its nominees for the 57th annual show throughout the day on Friday.

Pharrell earned a whopping three nominations for the top prize thanks to his production work on Beyonce and Sheeran’s albums, which means the hit-maker only has a chance to walk away with four awards when the Gram-

mys are presented on Feb. 8.

Smith is up for key honours such as best new artist and song and record of the year for his hit “Stay With Me.” He performed at KIIS FM’s annual Jingle Ball on Friday night at the Staples Center in Los Angeles following the nominations, calling it “unbelievable.”

“The Grammys is, when they say something - that your song is good or your album is good - it means that they’re saying that your album is a timeless piece of work, which I’m trying to do, and what I tried to do with my record. And to be in that category is amazing,” Smith said in an interview with The Associated Press.

“I can’t - to see my name next to Beyonce’s is just very weird for me.”

Beyonce, surprisingly, was not up for song or record of the year. Her nominations include best urban contemporary album as well as R&B song and R&B performance for “Drunk in Love” featuring Jay Z.

For song and record of the year, Smith’s “Stay With Me” will battle Taylor Swift’s “Shake It Off,” Sia’s “Chandelier” and Meghan Trainor’s “All About That Bass,” the viral hit that launched the buzzed songwriter’s own singing career.

“I want to cry again. I keep tearing up all day,” Trainor said when thinking of herself as a “Grammy-nominated” singer in an interview. “It’s crazy.

It’s amazing,” Iggy Azalea’s “Fancy” is nominated for record of the year, while Hozier’s “Take Me to Church” is up for song of the year, a songwriter’s award.

Azalea, the Australian newcomer, earned four nominations, including best rap album for “The New Classic,” best pop duo/group performance for “Fancy” with Charli XCX and best new artist, pitting her and Smith against pop-rock trio HAIM, English band Bastille and country singer Brandy Clark.

Sia, who is also Australian and earned four nominations, had a breakthrough this year with “Chandelier” after writing songs for other singers, from Rihanna to Beyonce to Katy Perry.

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GRAMMY: Swift gets three nominations in ‘the best year of her life’ Beck, Jack White, Usher, Drake, Jay Z, composer Gordon Goodwin and mastering engineer Tom Coyne also earned four nominations each. Eric Church and Miranda Lambert, both nominated in all four country categories, will compete for best country album, along with Clark, Dierks Bentley and Lee Ann Womack.

Swift, who earned three nominations, called 2014 the best year of her life. The singer, whose album “1989” will be eligible for awards at the next Grammys, turns 25 next week.

“It’s kind of like an amazing thing you guys have done for me over the past year because as a nice early birthday present this song today just got nominated for three Grammys,” she said onstage before performing “Shake It Off” at Jingle Ball.

Other Grammy nominees, from Azalea to Pharrell to Sheeran also performed at the concert Friday night.

Smith, who said he had lunch with Sheeran on Friday, is also nominated for best pop solo performance and pop vocal album for his debut, “In the Lonely Hour,” one of the year’s top-selling albums.

The big-voiced singer will battle Sheeran, Miley Cyrus, Ariana Grande, Perry and Coldplay in the latter category.

Pharrell’s “Happy” and John Legend’s “All of Me,” tunes that peaked at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 this year, were technically released before Grammy eligibility, so the singers submitted live renditions of the songs so they could be considered for awards.

The songs didn’t earn nominations in the top awards, but the hits will compete with “Stay With Me,” ”Shake It Off“ and ”All About That Bass“ for best pop solo performance.

Pharrell, who won four Grammys earlier this year, is also nominated for best music video for “Happy” and best urban contemporary album for “G I R L,” where he will battle Beyonce’s album. The pop queen is also nominated for best surround sound album for “Beyonce” and music film for her “On the Run” tour with Jay Z. Beyonce has won 17 Grammys and earned 53 nominations.

U2’s “Songs of Innocence,” originally released for free to iTunes users, is up for best rock album against Beck. Other nominees include Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, Ryan Adams and the Black Keys.

Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett’s duets album, “Cheek to Cheek,” is nominated for best traditional pop vocal album, where it will compete with Barbra Streisand’s duets album as well as efforts from Annie Lennox, Johnny Mathis and Barry Manilow.

The soundtrack for “Frozen,” the year’s top-selling album, earned three nominations in the music for visual media category, including best compilation soundtrack, score soundtrack and song for “Let It Go.” The late Joan Rivers earned a nomination for best spoken word album for “Diary of a Mad Diva.”

Swift, Sheeran, Eminem, Chris Brown, the Black Keys, Coldplay and Roseanne Cash were among the acts nominated for three awards.

The Grammy Awards will air live Feb. 8 from the Staples Center in Los Angeles.

VOODOO: Opener USS ‘effusive’ and ‘mega-watt kinetic’

Serena can’t see the forest for the trees DEPRESSION-ERA POTBOILER STARRING BRADLEY COOPER AND JENNIFER LAWRENCE FEELS LIKE A CALCULATED HOLLYWOOD REUNION Serena Two stars (out of four) Rated: 14A You couldn’t normally accuse Susanne Bier of stunt-casting.

Yet that’s exactly what the otherwise estimable Danish auteur seems to be doing with Serena, a Depression-era potboiler starring Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence that never manages to get past the feeling of a calculated Hollywood reunion.

It’s the third Cooper/Lawrence pairing in as many years, and by far the least felicitous one, forsaking the winning comedy of earlier films Silver Linings Playbook and American Hustle for a lumbering drama of rapacious timber barons.

In fairness to Bier, she made Serena in-between those other two movies, so she can’t really be accused of aiming for a box-office hat trick. But editing problems and other delays kept Serena on the shelf for more than a year, and you can bet it wouldn’t be getting a theatrical release now if not for the presence of Cooper and Lawrence.

“I think we should be married,” Cooper’s impulsive George Pemberton tells Lawrence’s sultry Serena Shaw, after the two meet-cute while passing each other on horseback during his Colorado vacation.

In short order, they’re hitched and bound for Waynesville, N.C., the foggy Appalachian mountain backwater where George’s woodsmen are busy turning forests into cash, something the lumber baron badly needs.

He figures he’s found the gal of his dreams, one who is not only gorgeous and sexy but also “mad for trees,” as an associate observes.

Serena is equally smitten with George, although you have to take that on faith because the usual Cooper/Lawrence chemistry is curiously lacking here.

She’s a curious mix of fashion victim and protofeminist, riding a white steed into the logging camp while sporting screen-siren blond curls, silk blouse and jodhpurs, in order to lecture the lumberjacks on how best to handle wood.

There’s no shortage of risible symbols in the script

by Christopher Kyle (Alexander, K: 19: The Widowmaker), adapting from Ron Rash’s 2008 bestselling novel, reviews for which first compared the title character to Shakespeare’s ruthless Lady Macbeth.

Serena imports an eagle for her pet, a personal bird of prey she says she needs for dealing with pesky rattlesnakes — or perhaps she’s plotting murder most fowl? For his part, George aims to add another feline to his stable, by bagging an elusive panther than has been haunting his domain.

And while these two are busy living la tree-da loca (groan), trouble is brewing in Waynesville, thanks to a suspicious and environmentally minded sheriff (Toby Jones) and two problematic relationships of George’s that predate his hasty marriage to Serena.

One is his right-hand-man Buchanan (David Dencik), whose attire hints at the closet he may be inhabiting and who clearly doesn’t cotton to Serena.

The other is Rachel (Ana Ularu), an old flame whom George callously left both penniless and pregnant — and soon Serena is knocked up, too.

Serena, no stranger to trouble in her past life, isn’t going to take these challenges lying down. On the contrary, she’s more predatory than her pet eagle. She has in her corner a nutter Appalachian woodsman named Galloway (Rhys Ifans, the only guy having fun in the film), who considers it his holy mission to safeguard Serena.

Blood runs hot and also freely, as happens in Bier’s films, although in such superior earlier efforts as Brothers and the Oscar-winning In a Better World, the violence made for impactful appreciation of the human condition.

The message is as diffuse this time as the mist that shrouds Waynesville, which cameraman Morten Soborg shoots in a way that inadvertently serves as visual commentary on the film itself: bland, unsteady and lacking in definition.

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“Enjoy, enjoy, enjoy your lives! Don’t think too much about it, just enjoy,” said Ryan, who possibly summarized the secret to happiness right there.

If his advice doesn’t do the trick, seeing the next buoyant Mother Mother concert will certainly help.

The evening’s opening band was the effusive and mega-watt kinetic USS, from Toronto. These guys absolutely have to be experienced live.

There’s turntable-ist Jason “Human Kebab” Parsons, who wore a tiger-patterned tuxedo/hoodie, cartwheeled across the stage, and stood on his head while clapping his feet in the air behind his synthesizer.

There’s vocalist/guitarist Ashley Buchholz, who played like a grunge musician and sang catchy toetappers such as Yin Yang, Freakquency and This is the Best.

Along with drummer Matt Murphy, USS is an inimitable act that deserves whatever attention Parsons, the group’s self-described hype man, is flagging down. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

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These talented 12-year-old to adult musicians, under the direction of Louise Stuppard, the RDSO’s second violinist, created a wonderful, auditoriumfilling sound while performing mostly Christmas music with the symphony orchestra.

Tranquility was again the theme to pieces, such as the gorgeous O Magnum Mysterium by U.S. composer Morten Lauridsen. This choral work, performed sans choir, gave the audience a chance to appreciate the power of the music unadorned by voices. It was so emotional and moving it gave me the shivers.

Another show-stopper was the traditional O Come, O Come Emmanuel. This soulful melody really showed the aural splendour of 50 string musicians playing together.

One unseasonal work, Reverie by James Corigliano, was also performed, but fit the requirements of being quiet and contemplative. Otherwise, two livelier works were also on the bill — Deck The Halls, which was played with a drum kit and still managed to sound laid-back, and Percy Faith’s charming Brazilian Sleigh Bells, which featured jingly percussion.

This piece prompted Lapalme to muse about which rainforest animal could be substituted for reindeer. “Maybe you could (attach a sleigh) to those giant spiders . . . who ever wrote this would have to be fanciful . . . ” The collaborative concert between the RDSO and the Red Deer Youth and Community Orchestra ended with a well-deserved standing ovation. It was a wonderful time-out from all the bluster and business of the season.

“My wish is that you not only find joy, but find peace,” said Lapalme.

The RDSO certainly gave us a push in the right direction with its splendid, relaxed Seasonal Strings concert. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

LIFESTYLE HOROSCOPE Monday, Dec. 8 fully have accepted as your truth CELEBRITIES BORN ON just yet. Deeper truth to be reTHIS DATE: Nicki Minaj, 32; Kim vealed today!

Basinger, 61; Teri Hatcher, 50 LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Yes, THOUGHT OF THE DAY: To- you are motivated to help others day there will be a lot of com- out and show you care for them munications. Some of what is re- but the energy today is just askvealed will be surprising, but do ing for a misunderstanding. Your not jump to any conclusions. You wishes are going to be fulfilled, will feel like you have to express no doubt, but for today just hold yourself, so do that. Just be open back and allow others to share to another’s point of view today. their feelings and perspectives Jupiter will start to station and with you. then retrograde today. Do not do SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You unlawful things and try to justify will be communicating a lot toit to yourself. It will not work out. day. Perhaps, there is something HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today that has occurred on a global is your birthday, this year will level or within your government prove to be a year when past is- that just doesn’t sit well with you. sues will no longer be a prob- Be careful not to step outside the lem. There is so much that can law, thinking you know best. It be accomplished by simply un- will not work out that way. derstanding that letting go is the SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. best option for you now. This 21): There will be much comyear you should watch out for munication today. Your ruling overindulgence and planet stationing to trying to negate the go retrograde indilaw by justifying that cates you will need it is fair to have such a little backing. Prothings. Enjoy this year, found emotion to be much will be done. understood today: ARIES (March don’t do anything 21-April 19): Dear Aroutside the law. You ies, you will be shardeserve what you’ve ing your perspectives worked hard for and left, right and centre. that is it.

That’s wonderful, but CAPRICORN do listen to others (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): I more intently today, am just going to say especially conversait. Whatever you LARISA MAIRA tions on subjects you have going on in are passionate about. your mind today, let OZOLINS Do remember — there it go. Nothing anynothing more passionone else did should ate than being compasmake you feel infesionate! rior, unless you alTAURUS (April 20low them to make May 20): There will be a lot of you feel that way. Don’t jump to deeper conversations going on any unnecessary conclusions, esbetween you and your significant pecially when dealing with famrelationships, business partners, ily. those at work, or your spouse toAQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): day. Their perspective on your Others in your life might become current circumstances will be a more self-centred during this Julittle nerve racking for you. Lis- piter retrograde period. This is ten to your family now. not to say in a bad way, but perGEMINI (May 21-June 20): So, haps after some time of shining today you will be speaking with the spotlight on you, now it is everyone and you will be around their turn. You’ll have fun commany individuals. There will be municating and doing just that some stress going on today, so do today — Enjoy! try to patiently sort through all PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): the issues of the day. Listen to Your ruling planet, Jupiter, will others more than you speak now, station to go retrograde. On the it will help you out immensely, plus, it will be mean that you CANCER (June 21-July 22): will find deeper fulfilment withThere have been some changes in your everyday life, work, and with others in your life as of late. health, if you do not overindulge.

Today will instigate perhaps a On the flip side, you might take deeper look at their truth, but the law into your own hands, be don’t jump to conclusions and do careful with that. not think you have unique valLarisa Maira Ozolins is an inues. They also have the same, ternationally syndicated astrologer but perhaps they are working for and columnist. Her column apthe relationship too. pears daily in the Advocate.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You might want to drive faster, speed up at stop signs, or simply just think that you know best now. Try to rein that in a little as most individuals will be feeling the same way.

But, you will be the one they pick on as this is happening in your first house. It will be easily seen!

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22): There will be a lot of discussions with your family today that you might not agree with entirely. Do try to see their point of view, as truly they are simply reflecting back to you what you might not

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Nephew worried about paranoid uncle Joe Dear Annie: My 88-year-old uncle is menAfter several months, James proposed tally ill. He is paranoid and suffers from and said he would hop on the next flight to extreme anxiety. He has refused mental help be with me. I told him I was married (no chilfor years. His three grown children also have dren) and my husband had been diagnosed indications of mental illness. with leukemia. After that I stopped writing It is difficult to be around “Uncle Joe� him. because he rants about nonsense and claims James is now in his mid-80s, and I am 70. that everyone is doing something evil to him. My husband passed away a year ago. Deep He writes books that make no sense, but ex- down, I still have feelings for James. He was pects everyone to read them. my first love. Should I contact him? Send Now that the holidays are approaching, him my husband’s obituary? How do I know my aunt (his sister) thinks Uncle Joe should whether his children will accept me in his be invited to all the family celebrations. But, life? – Still in Love Annie, he ruins it for everybody. If you don’t Dear Still: There’s no reason not to contact listen and agree with him, he becomes quite James, but be prepared: He may have rethreatening. married or passed away since your last corI think it is rather bossy and respondence. Write him a letter controlling of my aunt to expect or phone him and let him know my uncle to be included in every you’d like to reestablish contact family event. What can I do? – if he is still interested. Don’t worLove My Uncle, But ry about his children’s reaction.

Dear Friend: Please don’t osYou can deal with that later. tracize Uncle Joe from family Dear Annie: It is very sad to gatherings because he is diffiread story after story of daughcult. Try to understand that he is ters-in-law who shun their hussick and cannot help the way he bands’ mothers. I realize there behaves. Yes, he should be getare many mother/daughter-in-law ting professional help and should relationships that are wonderful, probably be on medication, but but too often we only hear about like many mentally ill people, he the bad ones. doesn’t believe he needs either I would give anything to have a MITCHELL and cannot recognize the toll his mother-in-law with whom to shop, & SUGAR behavior takes on the rest of you. go to the movies, cook and bake His sister loves him and wants together and have family gatherto include him at these famings. Someone I could ask for adily events. Unless he is physically vice and, lastly, one I could love threatening, we are asking you and cherish. to be tolerant of Uncle Joe and kind to your Unfortunately, my mother-in-law lives six aunt. These family gatherings don’t happen hours away and has very significant dementhat often. It doesn’t diminish you to nod po- tia. Thank God my husband’s sister is caring litely in agreement with whatever Uncle Joe for her. But I would take her in a second. She says and then turn your attention elsewhere. is an amazing lady. I wish some of these inPlease try. secure daughters-in-law would realize what Dear Annie: “James� and I were madly in they are missing out on. After all, this is the love when I was 17 and he was 31. After eight woman who raised the man they fell in love years, we agreed to go our separate ways. He with. So, obviously, Mom did something right. later married and has four children. – Teresa About 10 years ago, James sent me a letAnnie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell ter and enclosed his wife’s obituary. She had and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann passed away the previous year.

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Police called to Wisconsin home where youngsters called 911 for Santa MAYVILLE, Wis. - Two young brothers from southeastern Wisconsin are likely hoping they haven’t landed on Santa’s naughty list after police showed up at their doorstep.

The boys, ages 3 and 6, thought the best way to get in touch with the North Pole was by phone.

And for youngsters of that age, their Christmas lists could be considered an emergency.

So, the brothers used their Dad’s cellphone to place a 911 call, hoping to be connected with the North Pole and the big guy himself.

The Beaver Dam Daily Citizen says that brought police to their Mayville home where officers gave the boys some advice. If you want to talk to Santa, do it in person.

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REPRESENTATIVES to place location (Stettler). travel 6630 71 St. Bay 7 Please Submit Resume’s • General Office duties etc. join our team. We offer an Red Deer. 403-347-8841 attractive compensation, Attention Human benefits & bonus program. F/T TRUCK drivers req’d.

Resources REQUIREMENTS Sales experience is not Email: payroll@ 5 years minimum in the oil Minimum Class 5 with air necessary but an industrial and clean abstract. Exp. bearspawpet.com and gas industry, background is a defi nite Fax: (403) 258-3197 3 years in a Recruiting/ preferred. In person to Key Mail: Suite 5309, 333 96th Human Resources Admin asset. Please forward your Towing 4083-78 St. Cres. resume to Ave NE Calgary, Alberta T3R 1H1 position Highly organized, Red Deer. human.resources.depart1 detail orientated, capable @gmail.com of multitasking Proficient in Caregivers/ Microsoft Office; including Classifieds...costs so little Restaurant/ Aides word, excel and Outlook Hotel LOCAL SERVICE CO. Saves you so much!

Motivated and have the in Red Deer REQ’S EXP. Live in Nanny needed for 7 ability to maintain strict VACUUM TRUCK and 1 1/2 year old must be confidentiality as well as a OPERATOR able to commute from WHAT’S HAPPENING professional attitude Able Trades sylvan lake to Red deer Must have Class 3 licence to be on call, work some w/air & all oilfield tickets.

CLASSIFICATIONS 403-505-9935 CLASSIFICATIONS evenings and weekends Fax resume w/drivers 700-920 abstract to 403-886-4475 Able to work independently 50-70 LOOKING for live-in careand as part of a team; giver for a school age boy. encourage excellence $10.20 hourly fees, room through positive Coming Caregivers/ and board. e-mail resume contributions to bautista_annielee@ Events Aides yahoo.com Please submit cover letter F/T LIVE IN caregiver posiEAST 40TH PUB and resume to: Start your career!

NOW HIRING tion, private household, resumes@ SPECIALS See Help Wanted Well Testing Personnel C & C COATINGS in $11/hr., in Innisfail, highnewcartcontracting.com Meatball Monday Experienced Supervisors Innisfail is seeking F/T school diploma and or fax to (403) 729-2396 Rib Night & Operators P/T F. caregiver wanted experienced Sandblaster. criminal check req’d, child Attn. HR. Tuesday & Saturday’s On site blasting, various care and household duties for F quad. Must be reliable Must have valid applicable No phone calls Please.

Wing Night Wednesday tickets. Email: lstouffer@ and have own vehicle. equipment, trucks and trailcaregiverposition6@gmail.com Shrimp Night Thursday testalta.com 403-505-7846 ers. 75% new construction.

Looking for a place Competitive wages and FIRST AID, CPR, BLS to live? benefits. Fax resume to: HCP QUALITY COURSES Take a tour through the 403-227-1165 or email AT AFFORDABLE PRICE CLASSIFIEDS bslager@telus.net CERTIFIED INSTRUCTORS J A & HEART AND Restaurant/ STROKE. CALLSAUD saudm01@hotmail.com Hotel 403 307 7444

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Over 2,000,000 hours St. John Ambulance volunteers provide Canadians with more than 2 million hours of community service each year.

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Truckers/ Drivers

860

HALLCON is seeking qualified drivers to transport rail crews throughout Red Deer area.

Drivers are ideally based out of RED DEER. No overnight stays required.

This position is an on call position. Employees are responsible for taking trips during the period they have designated themselves available to do so. Transportation is done in Hallcon company vehicles. Vehicles are extensively & consistently maintained ensuring optimal safety for drivers and clients. Drivers must possess valid Class 1, 2, or 4 license, with clean driver abstract. Assisted licensing upgrade to achieve a class 4 is available. Pay is based at a rate of $16.00. Earning potential is based on your availability, as our operation runs on a 24/7 on call basis. Both full time and part time employees are welcome. Semiretired, retired, full time, part time employees are welcome. Forward resumes & current driver abstract: Shane Flack asmabnorth@gmail.com.

MCL Waste Systems & Environmental is looking for 3 Drivers to work in our Highway Division. If you have valid Class 1 license and 2 years driving experience with a clean abstract and have proven success dealing with customers, then we want to talk to you! Walking floor experience is preferred but will train the right candidate! This position is located in Red Deer County at the Horn Hill Waste Transfer Facility.

Competitive wages!

Excellent benefit program after completion of probationary period.

Apply with us today at jmaga@cerfcorp.com or fax your resume to 780-485-2645 SHREDDING/recycling Company req’s driver 20 - 25 hrs/wk. class 3 licence, no criminal record. Incld’s some warehouse duties.

May be suitable for semi-retired. email : papercuts.ltd@gmail.com or fax to 403-342-0544 Looking for a new pet?

Check out Classifieds to find the purrfect pet.

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$$$ EARN $$$ $$ EXTRA MONEY $$

Seeking mature individuals with car or small truck that are available during the day to deliver the new YP/Telus phonebooks into Red Deer. This is door to door delivery, no selling involved, can start immed.

All payments made by cheque 1-800-661-1910 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 TOO MUCH STUFF? Let Classifieds help you sell it.

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GASOLINE ALLEY LOCATION

LOST ladies silver ring w/pink stones in Parkland Mall 403-986-2108 You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!

Personals

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COCAINE ANONYMOUS 403-396-8298 Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY

If your paper is wet, torn or missed, call our Circulation Dept. and we’ll gladly replace your paper.

314-4300

KFC requires

DELIVERY DRIVERS

Daytime, Evening, FT & PT Shifts Available

Apply by: Fax: (403) 341-3820 or in person at Downtown KFC 4834-53 St., Red Deer

• Very Competitive Wages • Advancement Opportunities With medical Benefits • Paid training • Paid Breaks

Apply in person or send resume to: Email:kfcjobsrd@yahoo.ca or Fax: (403) 341-3820

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ACADEMIC Express

LOGS

Semi loads of pine, spruce, tamarack, poplar.

Price depends on location.

Lil Mule Logging 403-318-4346

ADULT EDUCATION AND TRAINING

WINTER START GED Preparation Would you like to take the GED in your community?

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Red Deer Rocky Mtn. House Rimbey Caroline Castor Sylvan Lake Innisfail Stettler Ponoka Lacombe

TOP WAGES, BENEFITS. EXP’D. DRIVERS & SWAMPERS REQUIRED. MAPLE LEAF MOVING Call 403-347-8826 or fax resume to: 403-314-1457.

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Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY

Esthetician Wanted Full Time Permanent Min.of 2 yrs experience,certification required. Duties:Clean, shape,polish nails,related services. Wage:15.00$/hr.

K Club Salon&Spa Keliani United Corp. 155 Leva Ave Red Deer,AB T4e0a5 403598-3073 info@kclub.ca Celebrate your life with a Classified ANNOUNCEMENT

SALES ASSOCIATE REQUIRED: Side Street Fashion is looking for an outgoing individual on a part-time basis. Retail experience an asset, but not necessary. Submit resume to 3310 50 Ave (located in the Sheraton Hotel) or sidestreet@ sidestreetfashion.com Central Alberta’s Largest Car Lot in Classifieds

Children's Items

1580

LITTLE TYKES castle, 4 1/2 ft high, $100; wooden play kitchen set, 5 ft. long, $75. 403-227-5306

EquipmentHeavy

1630

TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, office, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.

Firewood

1660

AFFORDABLE

Homestead Firewood

Spruce & Pine -Split. Firepits avail. 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472 FIREWOOD, birch, spruce & pine. North of Costco 403-346-7178, 392-7754 Now Offering Hotter, Cleaner BC Birch. All Types. P.U. / Delivery. Lyle 403-783-2275

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Household Appliances

880

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KENMORE washer and Maytag dryer, large capacity, both $75 403-782-7439

Household Furnishings

stuff

Gov’t of Alberta Funding may be available.

403-340-1930 www.academicexpress.ca

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Firewood

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2 END TABLES 28” x 28” Solid wood, opening doors in front. $10 each; colonial style wooden rocker w/cushions $25 403-782-7439 NIGHT Tables, (2) Oak, 1 drawer & 2 doors with glass top to protect from scratches. $70 ea.

403-352-8811

Household Furnishings

1720

WANTED

Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514

Misc. for Sale

1760

DUVET COVER, Navy, King sz., like new $30.

403-346-2070 GARBAGE compactor $100 obo call 403-728-3485

SNOWBLOWER, Poulan, 30”, 291cc, elec. start, used about 8 hrs. Purchased 2013. 403-347-1637

Advocate Opportunities

Please apply with resume to: qmacaulay@reddeeradvocate.com or call 403-314-4302 and speak with Grant.

With only 64 papers, approximately: $350.00/mo.

For More Information, Please call Prodie 403-314-4301 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 & LACOMBE EXPRESS 1 day a week in: LACOMBE BLACKFALDS

To deliver the CENTRAL AB LIFE 1 day a week in:

Classes Starting Soon!

INNISFAIL Penhold Olds Sylvan Lake

Medical Office Assistant / Unit Clerk

Please call Debbie for details 403-314-4307

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

ADULT Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the

RED DEER ADVOCATE Monday through Saturday.

Delivery to be done before 6:30 am.

Reliable vehicle needed.

Advocate Opportunities 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

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DOWNTOWN AREA $697./mo PARKVALE AREA $484./mo.

DEERPARK AREA Dixon Cres, Donnelly Cres, Duston St. area $482.00/mo.

Deschner Close, Dubois Cres., Doherty Close, Duston St. and area. $327.00/mo.

Dempsey St., Dodge Ave, Donlevy Ave area $327.00/mo.

Dowler St., Daniel Cres. Dawe Cl., Dunham Close and area $412.00/mo.

For More information, please call Jamie 403-314-4306

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.

VANIER AREA

GRANDVIEW AREA

Vickers Close Vincent Close Viscount Drive Call Prodie @ 403- 314-4301 for more info **********************

TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 403-314-4300

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AGRICULTURAL

CLASSIFICATIONS 2000-2290

Grain, Feed Hay

2190

LARGE round straw bales. $20 loaded. Can Supply Trucking. 403-340-9111

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FOR RENT • 3000-3200 WANTED • 3250-3390

Houses/ Duplexes

ACROSS from park, 3 bdrm. 4-plex, 1 1/2 bath, 4 appls. Rent $1175/mo. d.d. $650. Avail. Jan. 1st 403-304-5337 Start your career!

See Help Wanted

4400 Block of 41A Ave., 4000 Block of 46 + 47 St. Area.

For More Information Call Jamie at the Red Deer Advocate 403-314-4306

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LARGE, 1 & 2 BDRM. SUITES. 25+, adults only n/s, no pets 403-346-7111 NEWLY RENOVATED 1 & 2 bedroom suites available in central location. Heat & water included. Cat friendly.

86 Bell Street, Red Deer leasing@rentmidwest.com 1(888) 679-8031

Realtors & Services

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FLOWER Art & Gifts Store Sylvan Lake. 587-377-2023

Lots For Sale

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BUILDERS. Duplex and single family lots for sale.

Terms available 10% down and start to build. Located in Lacombe. Buy direct from developer 403-396-1094 PERMIT ready duplex lots Lacombe 403-348-1262

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Houses For Sale

THE NORDIC

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Roommates Wanted

QUIET home for working M/F, utils. wifi incl. N/S, $475/mo. 403-506-1907

3190

Mobile Lot

PADS $450/mo.

Brand new park in Lacombe.

Spec Mobiles. 3 Bdrm., 2 bath. As Low as $75,000.

Down payment $4000. Call at anytime. 403-588-8820

CLASSIFICATIONS 5000-5300

Cars

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1550 sq. ft. bi-level w/dbl. att. garage $499,900 403-588-2550 MOVING TO LODGE, House and entire contents.

Low maint., close to senior citizens’ bus route. Avail.

Immed. 4611 44 ST. Monte Keith 43-314-9759

Condos/ Townhouses

4040

OPEN HOUSE SAT. & SUN. 1-5 639 OAK ST. Springbrook 403-588-2550

Wreckers

5190

RED’S AUTO. Free Scrap Vehicle & Metal Removal.

AMVIC APPROVED. We travel. May pay cash for vehicle. 403-396-7519

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Automotive

5240

$crap Vehicle Disposal $ervice 403-302-1848 You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!

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services CLASSIFICATIONS 1000-1430 To Advertise Your Business or Service Here

Call Classifieds 403-309-3300 classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com

Accounting

1010

INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp. with oilfield service companies, other small businesses and individuals RW Smith, 346-9351 Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds

Contractors

1100

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BRIDGER CONST. LTD. We do it all! 403-302-8550 ~ Kitson Close ~ Kyte & Kelloway Cres.

DALE’S Home Reno’s ~ Holmes St. Free estimates for all your S.D. $1000 reno needs. 403-506-4301 Rent $1245 to $1445 RMD RENOVATIONS 3 bdrm. townhouses, 1.5 bath, 4 & 5 appls., blinds, Bsmt’s, flooring, decks, etc.

Call Roger 403-348-1060 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

4000-4190

Businesses For Sale

BMW, 39,000 kms., AWD, grey, 6 cyl. auto., A/C, 4 BDRM. 2 1/2 bath, 5 heated leather, keyless appls, garage $1695 mo. ignition. Mint! 403-346-5718 403-782-7156 or 357-7465 1 bdrm. adult building, 2001 Chev Malibu, 4 dr.

FREE Weekly list of N/S. No pets.

134,000 kms. 403-352-6995 properties for sale w/details, 403-596-2444 prices, address, owner’s 1999 BUICK Regal, 4 dr., UNIQUE 1 bdrm. + small phone #, etc. 342-7355 grey leather. 403-352-6995 room for den, downtown, Help-U-Sell of Red Deer $825/mo., d.d. $825, no www.homesreddeer.com Auto pets, n/s, 403-346-0824

Hpman.ca

www.seibelprperty.com Ph: 403-304-7576 or 403-347-7545 6 locations in Red Deer ~ Halman Heights ~ Riverfront Estates

CLASSIFICATIONS

INNISFAIL deluxe 2 bdrm., incl. water, $860 avail. Jan. 403-348-6594

$1425/month. This home has lots of space for a great price. 5 appl., large deck and fenced yard.

Avail. Jan.1. Call Lucie at 403-396-9554

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GLENDALE reno’d 2 bdrm. apartments, avail. immed, rent $875 403-596-6000

3 BDRM. DUPLEX IN CLEARVIEW

SYLVAN LAKE: fully furnished, inclds dishes, bedding, 50” tv, utils.

Avail. Now! $1200.

403-880-0210.

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SEIBEL PROPERTY

CARRIERS REQUIRED

ENROLL TODAY!

2965 Bremner Avenue, Red Deer

1860

Condos/ Townhouses

900

Employment Training

BEAUTIFUL kittens, (3), tan tabby F, silver spotted tabby w/orange cheeks, black calico F, unique face markings, free to good home 403-782-3130

3050

4 Plexes/ 6 Plexes

2 BDRM. Avail. Jan. 1 Vanier Woods, 6 appls. $1500 403-341-5005 www.RentBoard.ca

Please call Rick for details 403-314-4303

We thank all applicants for their interest; however only selected candidates will be contacted.

2 KITTENS black/white to give away. GONE

MORRISROE AREA:

Adult Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the RED DEER ADVOCATE

For more information or to apply call Joanne at the Red Deer Advocate 403-314-4308

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.

2 BALINESE KITTENS 1 SNOWSHOE SIAMESE 3 BURMAN $25/ea. 403-887-3649

HEADBOARD, for queen Sporting bed, 60” wide, $35; Goods 3 Clean wool accent matching 3x5 oval carpets, SKIS, 205 Mega Sport $35. for all 3; David Winter Tyrolia, and boots Sz. 10, Collector’s houses in Memo Salomon. original boxes, $25/ea; $40. ea. or both for $70.

Upright Hoover Dirt Finder 403-346-2070 Vacuum Cleaner, self propelled, allergen Travel filtration, $50.

403-352-8811 Packages

WESTPARK & WESTLAKE 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)

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Cats

Escorts

1165

KAYLA 392-0891 *BUSTY* INDEPENDENT w/own car Tired of Standing?

Find something to sit on in Classifieds

Handyman Services

1200

Misc.

Services

1290

5* JUNK REMOVAL

ATT’N: Are you looking for help on small jobs around the house or renovate your bathroom, painting or flooring, or cutting small trees?

Call James 403-341-0617

GARAGE DOOR SERVICE. Save 50%. All yard & bobcat services, junk/tree/snow removal. 403-358-1614

Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much!

SNOW blowing, junk/metal p/u, odd jobs 403-885-5333

Massage Therapy

1280

Property clean up 340-8666

Moving & Storage

1300

MOVING? Boxes? Appls.

BODY BALANCING, New removal. 403-986-1315 Location. 403-352-8269 CHINESE massage therapy. Direct bill. Gift card.

403-986-1691 4606-48 Ave

FANTASY SPA

International ladies Elite Retreat, finest in VIP treatment. 10-2am Private back entry.

403-341-4445 ********** MASSAGE ABOVE ALL WALK-INS WELCOME 4709 Gaetz Ave. 346-1161

Painters/ Decorators

1310

JG PAINTING, 25 yrs. exp.

Free Est. 403-872-8888

Seniors’ Services

1372

HELPING HANDS

Home Supports for Seniors.

Est 1999. Cooking, cleaning, companionship. At home or facility. Call 403-346-7777 for information.

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MONDAY, DEC. 8, 2014

Philippine typhoon weakens but kills 3

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LEGAZPI, Philippines - Typhoon Hagupit knocked out power, left at least three people dead and sent nearly 900,000 into shelters before it weakened Sunday, sparing the central Philippines the type of massive devastation that a monster storm brought to the region last year.

Shallow floods, damaged shanties and ripped off store signs and tin roofs were a common sight across the region, but there was no major destruction after Hagupit slammed into Eastern Samar and other island provinces. It was packing maximum sustained winds of 140 kilometres (87 miles) per hour and gusts of 170 kph (106 mph) on Sunday, considerably weaker from its peak power but still a potentially deadly storm, according to forecasters.

The typhoon, which made landfall in Eastern Samar late Saturday, was moving slowly, dumping heavy rain that could possibly trigger landslides and flash floods.

Traumatized by the death and destruction from Typhoon Haiyan last year, nearly 900,000 people fled to about 1,000 emergency shelters and safer grounds.

The government, backed by the 120,000-strong military, had launched massive preparations to attain a zero-casualty target.

Rhea Estuna, a 29-year-old mother of one, fled Thursday to an evacuation centre in Tacloban - the city hardest-hit by Haiyan - and waited in fear as Hagupit’s wind and rain lashed the school where she and her family sought refuge. When she peered outside Sunday, she said she saw a starkly different aftermath than the one she witnessed after Haiyan struck in November 2013.

“There were no bodies scattered on the road, no big mounds of debris,” Estuna told The Associated Press by cellphone. “Thanks to God this typhoon wasn’t as violent.”

Haiyan’s tsunami-like storm surges and killer winds left thousands of people dead and levelled entire villages, most of them in and around Tacloban.

Nearly a dozen countries, led by the United States and the European Union, have pledged to help in case of a catastrophe from Hagupit (pronounced HA’-goo-pit), disaster-response agency chief Alexander Pama said.

The EU commissioner for humanitarian aid, Christos Stylianides, said a team of experts would be deployed to help assess the damage and needed response.

“The Philippines are not alone as they brace up for a possible hardship,” Stylianides said, adding that the European Commission was “hoping that the impact will be less powerful than a year ago, when Typhoon Haiyan left a devastating imprint on the country.”

Two people, including a baby girl, died of hypothermia in central Iloilo province Saturday at the height of the typhoon, Pama said at a news conference. Another person died after being hit by a falling tree in the eastern town of Dolores, where the typhoon first made landfall, according to Interior Secretary Mar Roxas.

Two women were injured when the tricycle taxi they were riding was struck by a falling tree in cen-

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

A man holds on to a pole as strong winds blow brought by Typhoon Hagupit in Legazpi, Albay province, eastern Philippines on Sunday. Typhoon Hagupit slammed into the central Philippines’ east coast late Saturday, knocking out power and toppling trees in a region where 650,000 people have fled to safety, still haunted by the massive death and destruction wrought by a monster storm last year. tral Negros Oriental province.

Displaced villagers were asked to return home from emergency shelters in provinces where the danger posed by the typhoon had waned, including Albay, where more than half a million people were advised to leave evacuation sites.

Nearly 12,000 villagers, however, will remain in government shelters in Albay because their homes lie near a restive volcano.

Like many others in Albay, southeast of Manila, Marline Conde has lived a tough life dodging typhoons like Hagupit and seasonal eruptions of Mayon, the country’s most active volcano.

The 50-year-old mother of six did not have to be moved to an emergency shelter ahead of Hagupit she was already encamped in one with her family since October, when Mayon turned restive.

“We have been evacuating for a long time because of Mayon, then typhoons,” Conde said. “We have not gone home since then. The typhoon caught us here.”

While officials expressed relief that the typhoon had not caused major damage, they were quick to

warn that Hagupit - Filipino for “smash” or “lash” - was still on course to barrel across three major central Philippine islands before starting to blow away Tuesday into the South China Sea. Several typhoon-lashed eastern villages isolated by downed telephone and power lines were out of contact, Welfare Secretary Dinky Soliman said.

“It’s too early to tell,” Philippine Red Cross Secretary-General Gwendolyn Pang said. “Let’s cross our fingers that it will stay that way. It’s too close to Christmas.”

Army troops deployed to supermarkets and major roads in provinces in the typhoon’s path to prevent looting and chaos and clear debris, all of which slowed the government’s response to Haiyan last year.

Unlike major storms in past years, many people readily left high-risk communities ahead of Hagupit, Soliman said.

“Haiyan was the best teacher of all,” Soliman said. “People did not need much convincing to move to safety. In fact, many of them volunteered to go.”

First ID of missing Mexican students remains confirmed The case of the 43 missing has ignited indignation across Mexico and abroad over the fact that the students disappeared at the hands of a corrupt local government and that federal authorities took 10 days to intervene.

Tens of thousands have taken to the streets, some calling for President Enrique Pena Nieto to resign.

The case has come to signify an engrained abuse of authority and corruption.

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EL PERICON, Mexico - A steady stream of neighbours, friends and classmates stepped into the halflight of Ezequiel Mora’s two-room adobe home Sunday to offer their condolences for the death of his son Alexander, the first of 43 missing college students to be confirmed dead.

In grey slacks, a navy blue shirt and leather sandals, Mora received his visitors with red, sleepless eyes, accepting their words with a slight nod and a lingering degree of disbelief.

Alexander Mora Venancio, 19, the second-youngest of eight siblings, had dreamed of becoming a physical education teacher, an ambitious goal for a kid from this tiny agricultural community deep in the mountains of the Costa Chica region of Guerrero state.

“They took my son’s dream,” the 63-year-old Mora said.

Attorney General Jesus Murillo Karam confirmed Sunday that the son had been identified from charred remains found several weeks ago near a garbage dump in Cocula, Guerrero. The DNA was matched from material extracted from a bone fragment and analyzed by forensics experts at a laboratory in Innsbruck, Austria.

“He was a classmate who was very strong, very persevering in whatever he had as a goal,” student leader Omar Garcia said of Mora. “It’s a big loss.”

The attorney general said 80 people have been arrested so far, including 44 police officers from the cities of Iguala and Cocula and former Iguala Mayor Jose Luis Abarca, who is under investigation for ordering the Sept. 26 attacks.

The case also forced the governor of Guerrero to resign.

The identification confirmed what Murillo Karam told parents in November: that the students rounded up in a conflict with police had been killed and incinerated by the local drug gang, Guerreros Unidos. Horror, hope - and the lack of positively identified remains - led parents to discount the story, saying they would keep searching and expected to find their children alive.

In El Pericon, people say drug gangs ran the area until two years ago, killing, kidnapping and 8010 Edgar extorting at will. That changed when the people rose up and organized their own security forces, fed up with the ineffectual

government police.

Mora said his son was not one to hang out in the streets. He devoted himself above all to soccer, and his yellow jersey lay at the centre of an altar of candles and flowers in Mora’s home.

Coming from a municipality where, according to government figures, some 80 per cent live in poverty, Alexander wanted to be a teacher to earn a living that could make life easier for his younger sister and his father. His mother died nearly five years ago.

The elder Mora was at the Rural Normal School in Ayotzinapa on Friday, when lawyers representing the families called him aside and took him into a room with representatives of a team of foreign forensic experts who have been working to identify remains.

“I don’t know if there were two bones, one bone,” Mora said. They told him they would return the identified remains in two weeks.

Mora plans to take a week to mourn his son at home with family and friends, but then he said he will rejoin the movement demanding justice for his son and the other 42.

“The government is not here for the people who fight,” he said. “They don’t want to hear us speak out.”

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1882 — Cree/Saulteaux leader Mistahimaskwa (Big Bear) finally signs Treaty No. 6

six years after the rest of his tribe. Ineligible for government rations, and with the buffalo gone, his 114 remaining followers were starving and living in cloth and stick tents. He later tries to create an Indian territory in the North West through adjacent reserves.

1879 — McLean Gang kills John Ussher, a Kamloops policeman who was arresting them for horse theft, and James Kelly, a sheep herder. They are later trapped in a cabin near Douglas Lake. Allan, Charlie and Archie McLean and Alex Hare are brought to trial and executed in a group hanging in 1881.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO - A new study suggests obesity can shave years off lives and before it does - dramatically increase the time obese people spend dealing with two major chronic conditions.

The research, by scientists from Montreal’s McGill University, suggests extreme obesity can shorten a life by more than eight years and rob the person of 19 years of healthy life - in other words, time spent without diabetes and-or heart disease.

The work is published in the journal Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology and was funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.

Lead author Dr. Steven Grover says the biggest impact is seen on people who are obese early in life.

The toll is quite a bit more modest on people who become overweight or obese in their 60s or 70s.

Other studies have estimated what obesity does to life expectancy, but Grover says this study is the first to estimate the loss of healthy life resulting from obesity.

The research is what’s known as a modelling study. It uses formulas to calculate the effect of being overweight, obese and extremely obese on length of life and healthy life years lost.

People who have a body mass index (BMI) of 25 to 30 are considered overweight. Those 30 to 35 are considered obese and extremely obese means having a BMI of more than 35.

Grover and his colleagues used data on nearly 4,000 participants in U.S. National Health and Nutrition Examination surveys conducted from 2003 to 2010.

They drew on measurements related to obesity, blood pressure, glucose concentrations, lipid concentrations, and other risk factors to calculate an

individual’s risks of developing diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

As they only focused on those two chronic conditions, the model results might be conservative, acknowledges Grover, a clinical epidemiologist and general internist at McGill University Health Centre. But he says the decision was deliberate.

They focused on conditions known to be influenced by obesity where the risk could be changed with weight loss or behaviour modification. And while it is known that being obese raises the risk of developing some forms of cancer, there is no evidence that losing excess weight lowers that cancer risk, he says.

The data pointed to obesity in younger life as being more dangerous than obesity that develops late in life.

“The earlier in life that you’re overweight, the bigger the impact is going to be, as you’d imagine,” says Grover.

“If you’re going to live obese for 60

years, there’s a big difference between that and gaining weight in your 70s.”

Because the study is a modelling exercise, the authors are not reporting on their observations of individual patients. Therefore the model cannot predict what would happen to a person who was obese in his or her 20s, but who lost the weight later and kept it off.

According to the model, very obese women and men aged 60 to 79 lose less than a year on life expectancy, but spend either 7.3 years more (women) or four years more (men) dealing with cardiovascular disease and-or diabetes when compared to people with a healthy BMI. But in the 20- to 39-year-old age group, life expectancy is reduced by an estimated 8.4 years and six years for men and women respectively. And the corresponding reduction in years of healthy life for very obese people in this age group hovers around 19 years.

Republicans want to More Ontario children, give schools a break youth being treated from healthier meals for concussions, WASHINGTON - House Republicans are making a final push this month to give schools a temporary break from healthier school meal standards.

The school meal rules, phased in since 2012 and championed by first lady Michelle Obama, require more fruits, vegetables and whole grains in the lunch line. The standards also limit sodium, sugar and fat.

Some school nutrition directors have lobbied for a break, saying the rules have proven to be costly and restrictive. House Republicans have said they are an overreach, and have pushed a one-year waiver that would allow schools to opt out of the standards if they lost money on meal programs over a six-month period.

The waiver language stalled this summer after the first lady lobbied aggressively against it and the White House issued a veto threat. The food and farm spending bill that contained the provision was pulled from the House floor, a move House Republicans attributed to scheduling issues.

But the waiver has new life this month as lawmakers are expected to pass a catchall spending bill to keep government programs running. Republican Rep. Robert Aderholt of Alabama, the chairman of the House subcommittee that oversees the school meal spending, has been pushing to include the waiver in the wide-ranging bill.

Senate Agriculture Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., and Republican Sen. John Hoeven of North Dakota both said Thursday that there are ongoing negotiations between the House and the Senate over the waiver.

A Senate bill approved by a spending committee in May did not include the waiver, but called for further study on sodium and whole grains requirements.

At the time, Hoeven said there was not enough support for the House’s one-year waiver in the Senate, even though he was supportive of it himself. But he said this week that could change as lawmakers negotiate the massive year-end spending bill.

“All of these things are part of a negotiation,” Hoeven said. “I think we’ll get something, but we’ll have to see where it ends up.”

On Friday, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., listed “lowering standards for school lunches for our children” as one of a few “very destructive riders” that would be unacceptable to Democrats in the spending bill.

White House nutrition policy adviser Sam Kass said the White House is “deeply engaged” on the school meals policy, which has become one of the first lady’s signature issues. He said the policy is a top priority for the administration.

This summer, Mrs. Obama said she would fight “until the bitter end” to make sure kids have good nutrition in schools.

While many schools have implemented the new standards successfully, others have said it’s not working for them. The schools pushing for changes say limits on sodium and requirements for more whole grains are particularly challenging, while some school officials say kids are throwing away fruits and vegetables they are required to take.

The changes have been pushed by the School Nutrition Association, a group that counts both school nutrition directors and the food companies that produce many of the school foods among its members. The group said this week that a survey it conducted of more than 1,100 school lunch operators showed that more than half predict program expenses will exceed revenue this year.

Advocates for the healthier meal standards say the changes will take time. They predict there will be fewer problems as kids get used to the new foods and the food industry creates more tasty products that follow the standards, like whole grain pastas and tortillas that are now required to be served.

As schools have complained, USDA has shown some flexibility in tweaking the standards. In 2012, just a few months after the first rules went into effect, the department scrapped maximums on proteins and grains after students complained they were hungry.

And USDA said earlier this year that schools can put off for two years a requirement that all pastas in schools be whole-grain rich, or more than half whole grain, if they can demonstrate that they have had “significant challenges” in preparing the pasta.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO - A study has found that the number of children and youth treated for concussions in both emergency departments and doctors’ offices in Ontario has risen significantly.

Between 2003 and 2011, almost 89,000 pediatric concussions were treated in either an emergency department or a physician’s office. The rate of concussions jumped to 754 from 466 per 100,000 for boys, and to 440 from 208 per 100,000 for girls.

Researchers at Toronto’s York University and the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, or ICES, found that falls and hockey and skating injuries were the leading causes of concussion in kids aged three to 18.

The study published Friday in the journal Paediatrics and Child Health also showed that, over time, more children were being evaluated for concussion in doctors’ offices than in the ER.

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Study co-author Dr. Astrid Guttmann of ICES says prevention initiatives to help reduce the incidence of concussion are warranted, particularly in sports and recreation programs.

Guttmann says sports-related concussions can be minimized by such preventive actions as reducing body checking in hockey or wearing a helmet while cycling.

“By examining all of the pediatric concussions evaluated in multiple facilities, we were able to minimize the issue of under-reporting and obtain a more accurate number of concussions treated in Ontario,” added lead author Alison Macpherson, a professor at York’s School of Kinesiology and Health Science.

She said future studies could try to differentiate between the true incidence of concussion and an increase in those seeking medical evaluation due to increased awareness of the brain injury and its possible health consequences.

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Can democracy thrive in Arab world?

FOUR YEARS ON, IT’S MORE OF AN ARAB WINTER THAN A SPRING

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS You can blow out a candle, but you can’t blow out a fire, Once the flames begin to catch, the wind will blow it higher.

- “Biko,” Peter Gabriel

Most of the world has seen a growth in inequality in recent decades, and the educated and wealthy keep their distance from the masses in different ways almost everywhere. But in the Arab world it has long been rather extreme, and the past three years have made it worse. The Egyptian revolution enjoyed very broad support from the largely secular elites, except for people who had economic ties to the regime. Free and fair elections were the focus, much like in Eastern Europe two decades before.

But the early elections of the Arab Spring tended to elevate political Islamists, who were the only force that effectively organized politically under the authoritarian regimes. The Muslim Brotherhood won a succession of parliamentary, presidential and constitutional votes in Egypt - to the horror of most of the elites - before the military threw its leaders into jail. By now, educated Egyptians tend to have developed more complex ideas about democracy that sound like ways to keep it at bay: The people are not quite ready, as perhaps a third are illiterate; Western ideas of extreme freedom of speech are dangerous here for now; a steady building of the institutions of a civil society must come first, even if decades are required to do it right.

The subtext: If the masses will elect Islamists, then democracy can wait.

JIHADIS ARE NO JOKE The jihadis who want to export Islam by force through the region and the world were a threat before, but the past four years took it to a new level. Libya’s conflict sent heavy weapons scattering across the Mideast and war in Syria generated a new jihadi cause. Then came the banning of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt - and the support that move received in the Gulf, except for in Qatar. The Brotherhood denies any connection to terrorism but some supporters have likely given up on the ballot box. So jihadis are at war with secular governments and moderate Muslims everywhere. It is not just the Islamic State group, imposing an extremist form of Islam in parts of Syria and Iraq; it’s also the Nusra Front and other Syrian factions with radical ideologies. Jihadis terrorize much of Libya and in Egypt’s Sinai are in rebellion. They fight the government and the Americans in Yemen. So brutal are these radicals - massacring opponents, enslaving women, and beheading captives - that they are widely seen as a greater threat than anything as tame as a corrupt and authoritarian military regime.

MONARCHIES SURVIVED Every one of the countries whose leader was top-

pled - Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Yemen - had been run by authoritarian civilians backed by military power. So is Syria, where war rages still. The monarchies, from Morocco to Jordan and Saudi Arabia and the neighbouring United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Qatar and Kuwait, were barely touched. In Bahrain Sunni rulers did have to stamp out an attempted rebellion by majority Shiites. But in the booming Emirates, life went on for a minority of privileged citizens and an army of Westerners living fantastically well for the most part. The others, Asian itinerants mostly, went on building their towers and cleaning their streets, largely unseen and rarely heard.

“You really can buy your way out of an uprising,” said Ayham Kamel, director of Middle East and North Africa with the Eurasia group in London, speaking of the Gulf monarchies.

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Sunni part of Syria and Iraq, that aspect would have some support among the population.

NO PALESTINE SPRING The Arab revolts did not spread to Palestine, but they are having a big effect. Events in Iraq and Syria make it seem not unreasonable that the Islamic State group could attack Jordan and in the future also make inroads in a Palestinian state composed almost entirely of Sunni Muslims. Palestinians tend to dismiss such fears. But Israelis listen when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu argues it would be folly, at such a time of chaos, to pull out of territory that sits on the cusp of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. So the occupation grinds on, and with it continues the Jewish settlement of the West Bank and east Jerusalem, each day bringing the sides closer to a single binational entity whose component pieces can no longer be ripped apart. That would be the end of the Jewish state - perhaps the most ironic potential outcome of the events sparked by a Tunisian street vendor on Dec. 17, 2010.

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This undated file image posted on a militant website on Jan. 4, 2014 shows Shakir Waheib, a senior member of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), now called the Islamic State group, left, next to a burning police vehicle in Iraq’s Anbar Province. Hundreds of thousands have died, most in a ferocious and seemingly unwinnable Syrian civil war that also displaced millions and threatens to destabilize Lebanon and Jordan.

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It began with a spark, four years ago: An itinerant fruit seller, despairing of life in authoritarian Tunisia, set himself on fire and burned to death. It provoked a revolution, and the flames caught swiftly across a region that had known little but despotism since the day colonial rulers went home.

The world celebrated the “Arab Spring” as evidence that the people of the Middle East, like those everywhere, yearn to be free. But time has not been kind to the optimists.

After some hiccups, Tunisia is the one bright light today, with a free presidential election planned later this month. But across the Middle East, bloodshed, chaos and dashed dreams were far more often the result.

Hundreds of thousands have died, most in a ferocious and seemingly unwinnable Syrian civil war that has displaced millions, spilled over into Iraq, and threatens to destabilize other neighbouring countries. Libya is an ungovernable and dangerous mess. And Islamic radicals have seized the discourse to a great extent; a US-led coalition fights them now, in Syria and Iraq.

“We can expect democratic transitions to be messy, chaotic and sometimes bloody, but this is worse than even the worst expectations,” said Shadi Hamid, a Mideast expert at the Brookings Institution. The biggest and most unfortunate lesson people learned, he said, is that peaceful protest does not necessarily lead to a peaceful way forward or toward democratic transition.

Increasingly, people in the region are asking whether democracy is even a good idea in the Arab world. The question seems unfit for polite society, but it was already on the table in January 2011, as a panel of Arab finance figures considered events back home from the comfort of the World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland, its members clearly none too pleased.

One recommended strong but “benevolent” leaders for the region. Another said democracy was alien to a region where patriarchal traditions dominate. A third said the public needs education lest it simply vote along tribal lines. Others saw radical Islamists swiftly bamboozling the masses.

Among the mostly Western audience, there was a palpable sense that these were the well-fed, predictably disinterested in sharing the pie.

Within days, a cheering world community was riveted to screens as Egypt’s long-submissive people thronged to Cairo’s Tahrir Square, braving bullets and refusing to leave until veteran ruler Hosni Mubarak stepped down.

The military forced him out in the end. But in the narrative of revolution, it was articulate young activists like Google executive Wael Ghonim who got the credit. They are not much to be seen these days in Egypt.

Instead of the liberals, an Islamist party won four elections. It badly misruled and was overthrown by the military and banned, its leaders now in jail and being handed death sentences en masse that are not likely to be carried out. Many hundreds have been killed in the suppression of street protests. Military chief Abdel Fattah el-Sissi was elected president almost without challenge, but domestic criticism is muted now and liberal activists sit in jail. Angry jihadis blow things up and kill what soldiers they can catch.

Bringing things nearly full circle, a court last weekend acquitted Mubarak - who has been in detention since stepping down - of corruption and dropped charges of complicity in the deaths of hundreds during the revolt. It went over quietly; the people, most of all, are yearning to be free of turmoil, and to have enough to eat. It seems likely that Mubarak, 86, will soon walk free.

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