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BY MARY-ANN BARR ADVOCATE STAFF

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Jayden Lohnes slides down the hill at Bower Ponds face-first on a crazy carpet Saturday morning. Families and children of all ages took to the hill and pond after the Christmas holiday to take in some fresh air, and break in new toys and gifts.

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The Foreign Affairs Department says there’s no indication there are any Canadians on SEARCH RESUMES board a missing FOR MISSING JET D3 Air Asia flight.

But a spokesperson says Canadian officials are working to confirm that with local authorities. The AirAsia jet had 162 people on board for a scheduled two-hour flight from western Indonesia to Singapore when it disappeared on Sunday.

Airline officials have said the majority of the people on the plane were Indonesian, but there were also three South Koreans, a Malaysian, a British national and his two-year-old Singaporean daughter, as well as a French captain. Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird and the Minister of State for Consular Affairs Lynne Yelich say they were extremely saddened to hear of the loss of the airplane.

In statement, they said the thoughts and prayers of Canada are with the friends and family of the missing. They also said that if people believe there are Canadian citizens on the plane, they should contact the government’s emergency watch and response centre.

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Not all choose to make resolutions

BY BRENDA KOSSOWAN ADVOCATE STAFF Family, politics, travel and making money are among the hopes and dreams of people looking forward to the new year that is now on our doorsteps.

And for a select few, New Year’s Eve is a night to get out and have some fun with no special meaning at all.

A group of young Israeli men who came to Red Deer to work said they celebrated their New Year in September, during Yom Kippur.

“What’s a New Year’s resolution?” said one of the young men, who is working in the Parkland Mall.

He was soon joined by another Israeli friend, Deni Elbus, who said his hopes and dreams are to make more money, find a wife and start raising a family. A third man, Peter Gor, explained that Israelis have no tradition of celebrating the New Year on Jan. 1.

“We make it on Kippur,” said Gor. “You fast, one day, you torture yourself. You don’t watch TV, you don’t use any electronics — everything stops.”

Yom Kippur — the holiest day of the year in Jewish tradition — is a time for cleansing and thinking of ways to become a better person, said Gor. Those who make those sorts of resolutions prefer not to break them, he said.

The more secular tradition behind the coming New Year’s celebrations means people feel less pressure to make a New Year’s resolution and are also less likely to stick with it.

Mall employee Bea Cockshott said she hasn’t really considered a New Year’s resolution for 2015, and doesn’t

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Trucker Barry Propp of Victoria entertains his granddaughter, Lily, while the rest of the family catches early-morning bargains at the Parkland Mall in Red Deer on Friday. believe she has kept many, if any, of the resolutions she has made in the past.

Cockshott said one of her chief concerns for 2015 revolves around the changes in Alberta’s political and economic strength, given the drop in oil prices and the shakedown in the legislature.

Best Buy staff member Brianna Kantor said she also has not yet decided on a resolution. She resolved in the past to quit smoking but the resolution didn’t really work out at all.

Kantor said she hopes that 2015 works out better than 2014, which she said was “kind of sucky.”

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She is looking forward to more shopping trips in 2015, including a visit to Nepal, where she will connect with artisans and agents who supply the handcrafted knitted goods that she sells in Red Deer.

Victoria-based truck driver Barry Propp said he hasn’t thought much about what 2015 will bring, but has already made up his mind about his New Year’s resolution.

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The kindness a young girl and her parents received when she suffered a catastrophic injury led her as an adult to her own special way of comforting others.

It was as ordinary a Canadian winter day as it could be — six-year-old Connie Bohnsack was on the ice during figure skating practice as her mom Sharon looked on.

Growing up in the Rocky Mountain town of Canmore, skating was part of Connie’s regular activities.

“I thought it would be really fun to do cartwheels on the ice, much to my mother’s warnings to knock it off. I kept doing it. A petulant six-year- old.

And I put the skate blade right through my face.”

Connie, now 38 and a 14-year resident of Red Deer, doesn’t know how it happened.

“Blood was gushing, just pouring out everywhere.”

A helpful man quickly grabbed her and put pressure on the wound, and she was taken to the local medical clinic and stitched up. The doctor put twice as many stitches in as necessary

to help prevent scarring.

Later that night she woke up her father, Reinhardt. Her face was really swollen. ”I wasn’t feeling that well. Something was horribly, horribly wrong, so they took me to the hospital and I was immediately transferred by ambulance to the Children’s Hospital (in Calgary) for surgery.”

As it turned out, she had broken the bones in the right side of her face and surgery was needed to remove them so her face could heal.

So began an extended stay in hospital for her and her mother.

As it turned out, in the early days of the Ronald McDonald House program in Calgary, her mother was able to stay by her side so she wouldn’t have to drive back and forth from Canmore.

Her mother was given a cot to sleep on, bathroom essentials and sandwiches, and a shower was available.

Connie doesn’t recall exactly how long she was hospitalized. “To me it felt like forever.”

Seven years ago she was reading a story about a man and his dog who visited patients in Rocky Mountain House Hospital.

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The back end of Bower Ponds was closed to skaters for part of Saturday so City of Red Deer workers could do maintenance on the ice.

EDMONTON — The founder of a group that helps child victims of sexual abuse says support has been pouring in from people who want to help a six-yearold girl who was badly beaten in Alberta.

Glori Meldrum of Little Warriors says it started when she and a friend dropped off some presents and a homemade quilt for the girl at the hospital on Christmas Day. The girl from the Paul First Nation had been unconscious since she was found in the woods on Dec. 20, but Meldrum says she opened her eyes that day and spoke.

Meldrum says she and her friend wanted to do more, and representatives from the community suggested the girl’s family could use gift cards for food and groceries.

Meldrum says it’s an hour’s drive from the community to the hospital in Edmonton, parking is expensive, and the family has other children.

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Milo Thompson visits with Rooster the therapy dog at the Ronald McDonald House in Red Deer. Rooster a Chow cross, is a St. John Ambulance therapy dog and visits Ronald McDonald House each Monday evening with his owner Connie Bohnsack.

“It’s very stringent rules for the kids.”

Rooster worked at a nursing home in Red Deer, as well as Bethany Care Centre, where he visited dementia patients.

When the day came that Rooster finally had his 300 hours in, Connie drove him to Lethbridge because that was the nearest place he could challenge the test at the time. She really wanted to get into Reading Tales program at Red Deer Public Library.

That program involves children who need help with reading being comforted by a therapy dog.

Rooster passed the test and the pair became involved in the library program.

And then came a special moment for Connie two years ago.

The new Ronald McDonald House Central Alberta in Red Deer had an opening for a therapy dog. St John Ambulance, which does the placements, asked her if she would be interested.

“I said, ‘Absolutely!’ If I can give them one ounce of what they gave my Mom, my Dad, I’ll pay it forever.

“We were welcomed there with open arms.”

Ronald McDonald House Central Alberta offers a low-cost place to stay, as well as support and comfort, for out-of-town families who have critically ill children receiving treatment at Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre. It opened in 2012 after extensive community fundraising helped make it a reality.

On their first day there, Connie said

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she and Rooster didn’t want to leave.

“Just the joy on the kids’ faces and the families. ...

They just pet the dog and have chit chat with me, it really just helps.”

Once a week, Connie and Rooster visit Ronald McDonald House. Her mom has gone to the house with her. “She loves it there.”

Rooster is eight now. “As long as he’s healthy and able to do it, we’ll keep doing it. We love being out in the community and helping people,” said Connie.

As it turns out, she just started working a full-time job at Ronald McDonald House. The position of family services co-ordinator came open and she got the job. She and Rooster will continue to do their volunteer work there as well.

As for skating, Connie doesn’t do much of it these days because she is too busy. But she did get back on skates as a kid.

Donald Jackson, the Canadian Olympic figure skater, came to Canmore as a guest skater in the local ice show. He was retired then, but before that Jackson had won four Canadian titles, and a bronze medal at the 1960 Winter Olympics.

Connie’s mom spoke with Jackson, telling him about her daughter’s injury and asking him how she could get her daughter back skating.

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“It brought me back to my childhood at the hospital where there were dogs for me to play with. They weren’t pet therapy dogs but there were people who brought their dogs ... to get my mind off of being sick.”

Connie had just adopted her dog, Rooster, when she read the story.

She had discovered Rooster at the Bow Valley SPCA in Canmore. “I wanted a friend, a buddy, little bit of protection, too.”

It turned out the chow-cross would be that and more.

Rooster got his name from a woman who loved John Wayne movies and the character he once played, Rooster Cogburn. When the dog held his tail over his back and the sun shone through it, it looked like a red rooster tail.

Connie noticed Rooster because he was so calm and quiet. He had been found at a ranch in the area and surrendered to the SPCA. “He was really, really shy. He didn’t know how to play.”

She spent some time with him that day, trying to teach him how to play with a toy. The animal shelter people told her that after she left he played himself out with the toy. He was estimated to be about 18 months old.

After reading the story about the man and his dog, Connie decided Rooster, a fast learner, was going to become a pet therapy pooch.

“He needs something to do. He’s really intelligent.

He needs a job,” she thought.

She soon had him at the St. John Ambulance therapy dog program in Red Deer for an evaluation.

Therapy dogs are used to help cheer up or comfort people who are lonely or sick. They and their human partners can visit places like hospitals, seniors homes and libraries. Started over 20 years ago, the St. John program now has over 3,000 therapy dog teams across Canada.

St. John runs the dog through a series of tests to see how it responds. These include things like being around wheelchairs, hearing loud noises, being crowded and so on.

“He failed miserably, We were devastated,” Connie said.

“They usually don’t give a second chance but for some reason they saw something in Rooster, they saw something in me.”

Six months later, once she learned how to control the puppy in Rooster, she took him back for another test.

“He aced it.”

Then began the long process that may or may not lead to the therapy dog being allowed to be around children.

The dog has to work 300 hours with adults before he is eligible to challenge the children’s test, said Connie. Those are all volunteer hours.

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Most rail cars and debris removed from creek where CP train derailed BANFF — Cleanup work continues this weekend on a train derailment in Alberta that sent a number of cars tumbling into a creek west of Banff.

Katrina Bluetchen with Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development says most of the rail cars from the CP train, as well as debris, have been removed from 40 Mile Creek.

Bluetchen says the focus now is on clearing the leaked material from the shore of the creek, which flows into the Bow River.

Fifteen cars on the train left the tracks early Friday morning carrying lentils and fly ash, an ingredient in concrete.

A spokesman with the Transportation Safety Board says neither are hazardous, but Bluetchen has noted there is concern the fly ash could alter the water’s pH or pile up as sediment.

The railway says in an email that it is working with Parks Canada and other environmental authorities to ensure the cleanup and any necessary remediation in the area is “timely and appropriate.”

“CP regrets any inconvenience to the citizens of Banff and visitors as the work is finished,” the email states.

The railway said it is repairing the track and bridge, and that it expected to reopen the section to traffic sometime overnight between Saturday and Sunday.

Bluetchen noted CP must produce daily reports and plans, as well as work with the province and Parks Canada to make sure it meets Alberta requirements.

She said provincial staff would likely be leaving the area on Sunday. Environment Canada, she said, was the lead agency on the case.

No one from Environment Canada could be reached for comment on Saturday.

The Transportation Safety Board is investigating the cause of the crash.

RCMP allege man they shot called police to report fake robbery VEGREVILLE — The probe into an RCMP shooting of a man on Christmas Day in Alberta has taken an unusual twist, with investigators alleging the suspect called police on himself to report a phoney bank robbery.

RCMP say the officers were called to the TD Bank on Thursday in Vegreville, where police say they were forced to shoot a man.

A provincial watchdog agency is investigating the shooting and said on Friday that a firearm recovered at the scene turned out to be a replica and the robbery report was false.

The agency said Mounties would continue to handle the investigation into the false report.

RCMP now say they’ve charged the 22-year-old man with possession of weapon dangerous to the public and public mischief. His injuries were not life-threatening and police say he will appear in court in Edmonton on Monday afternoon.

Const. Jason Curtis said the public mischief charge stems from the alleged fake robbery report.

“I can’t guess as to what his intention was,” Curtis said on Saturday when asked about the possible motive.

Police said the man, who they have not identified, is expected to be released from hospital soon but that he will remain a prisoner until his court appearance.

Curtis said he was not aware if the man was previously known to police.

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GIRL: Drop-off point The River Cree Casino near Edmonton has agreed to be a drop-off point for donations, and while Meldrum says she’s been trying to set up a bank account, she says it’s been difficult over the holidays.

“The reason that we’re doing it is we want the little girl, and the mom and the dad, and the family and the community to know how much they’re loved. Not only

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Alberta Health Services said the girl’s family is not authorizing the release of updates on her condition.

Meldrum, who is a survivor of sexual abuse, said the story really affected her.

“She’s so little — six years old. I have a six-year-old daughter. They’re so tiny.

And the fact that it was so vicious. No child should ever experience that,” Meldrum said.

Meldrum said she’s hoping to collect toys for children under 12 as presents for other kids in the girl’s community.

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“We’ve had an RCMP officer and a bunch of his friends that are firefighters put together a package for her, like an iPad and a whole bunch of other things.”

“We’ve had people send flowers from Ontario, we’ve had people call from Michigan. It’s been just wild.”

The aboriginal girl had been missing for almost two hours when family members found her outdoors on the reserve.

Various media reports have said she was found naked in the snow.

RCMP have arrested a 21-year-old man

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Patient’s not failing IN FACT, MOST OF WHAT AILS THE WORLD IS IMAGINARY — EXCEPT, OF COURSE, THAT WE WON’T STOP SMOKING, DESPITE GLOBAL WARMING WARNINGS The main purpose of year-end reviews, of course, is to hold the ads apart. But they can also serve as a kind of annual check-up on the political health — and also on the economic, demographic and even physical health — of the planet and its teeming human population.

So imagine that we are a panel of high-priced medicos reviewing the health status of our most important client, the human race.

The first thing to note is that the client is still piling on weight at an alarming rate — up from two billion units to seven billion in the past 75 years — but continues to thrive, for the most part. And most of the ailments that it GWYNNE worries about are mere hypoDYER chondria.

Take, for example, the widespread concern (at least in the media and among what Bob Fisk calls the “think-tank mountebanks”) that the emergence of the so-called Islamic State in the no man’s land between Iraq and Syria will lead to catastrophe. There will allegedly be a surge in terrorist attacks around the world, a Sunni-Shia religious war spanning the entire Middle East, or even a global religious war between Muslims and everybody else.

The Sunni fanatics and the Shia fanatics are far too busy trying to kill each other to have time to spare for attacking non-Muslims. (Besides, most Muslims don’t want to attack anybody; they just want to be left in peace.) Quite a lot of the slaughter in Iraq and Syria is driven by religion, but we are still a long way from a religious conflict that directly involves the really important states of the Middle East: Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Iran.

Even the anticipated surge in terrorist attacks outside the region is not likely to come to pass. The only strategic purpose for such attacks by any organized group of Islamist extremists is to gain support and recruits within their own region. If they can lure Western powers into killing lots of Muslims in their region, then their cause will prosper locally.

As it turns out, Islamic State has not even needed to carry out terrorist attacks in the West to achieve this goal. Videos of Western hostages being beheaded have been enough to get the bombing going again, and Western governments are no more troubled by the sheer pointlessness of the bombing than they were in the past. Both sides are playing for the home audience, and really don’t care much about the impact of their actions on the alleged enemy.

The whole “Islamic State” panic is a tempest in a fairly small teacup. The casualties are small, and the entire region matters little economically or strategically except to its own inhabitants. Even in the unlikely event that a Sunni-Shia religious war should engulf the whole of the Middle East, it would have no more effect on the rest of the planet than the European wars of religion four centuries ago had on the Middle East. That is to say, hardly any.

So in terms of the global system’s health, the rise of radical Islamism is not a life-threatening disease.

It’s a local infection that will probably have to run its course. If it really gets bad, some quarantine measures may be needed, but this is not ebola.

The ebola outbreak in Africa seems on the way to being contained, although it will probably remain as a low-level chronic problem in the three West African countries where it reached epidemic status: Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea. There is a small risk that ebola might take root in a densely populated country whose people travel widely, like Nigeria or, even worse, India, but so far, so good.

INSIGHT

The other great shock of 2014 was a war in Europe. The Ukrainian revolution of last February was a messy and complicated business, but it need not have ended in Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea and in a Russian-backed separatist war in Ukraine’s two easternmost provinces.

We owe that mainly to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s world-view as a former agent of the KGB, the Soviet secret police, which (as the old saying had it) thwarted 10 anti-Soviet plots for every one that actually existed.

The KGB was full of very clever people — indeed, it was the most intelligent and best informed part of the old Soviet regime, one of the world’s strongholds of institutionalized stupidity — but it was also a nest of paranoid fantasists. You may debate to your heart’s content whether this was a Russian cultural phenomenon or an extreme case of the disease that infects every great-power spy agency, but that’s why Putin reacted the way he did.

Western European governments are so divided and introspective that they could not come up with a credible plan to boil an egg, and they care very little about the parts of Eastern Europe beyond the European Union’s borders. The only section of the American population that sees President Obama’s administration as capable of hatching a plot is the extreme right, and they think he’s a foreign-born Communist plotting the overthrow of the United States.

Various Western politicians showed up in Kiev to cheer the protesters on, but these were just the usual suspects taking advantage of a good photo op. Their real intended audience, as usual, was back home.

As for NATO, it is another Cold War institution that has long outlived its purpose, but it no more wants to bring Ukraine into the fold than it longs to recruit Mongolia as a member. Too much trouble, and no profit whatever.

There was no Western plot, but Putin is driven by the belief that there was. He has taken Russia into a confrontation with the West that it cannot win, and the country’s economy is already crumbling under

the twin strains of coping with Western sanctions and the collapse of the oil price. He is finding it almost impossible to back away without losing face, but he has nothing to gain by continuing the conflict either. Risk of a new Cold War: minimal.

So far the patient’s health is looking pretty good.

There is the usual clutter of minor ailments — a mini-civil war here (Libya, South Sudan), civil rights protesters under attack there (Hong Kong, Missouri) — and there is a significant possibility that next year will bring another recession. That’s as inevitable as catching a cold once in a while. But there has been nothing really out of the ordinary this year, nothing that sets off alarm bells.

The only big worry the doctors have is the same one that has bothered them for the past 25 years: the patient simply won’t stop smoking. Their increasingly grave warnings are met with empty promises to cut back or quit entirely, but not right now, just some time far in the future. Maybe.

The news flows in endlessly, and some of it has significant impact on many people’s lives — a billion people’s lives when India elects a new prime minister or China gets an (unelected) new president, both of which happened this year. But truly fundamental change is much rarer than people think (and than the media encourage them to think). Now that the threat of large-scale nuclear war has died down, only one thing qualifies.

Climate change is the spectre at every feast, the unstoppable rot that undermines every positive development. The failure at Copenhagen in 2009 bleeds indistinguishably into the fudge at Durban in 2011 and on into the feeble compromise in Lima in 2014, which sets us up for the bigger disappointment of Paris in 2015. And even if by some miracle we get a useful agreement in Paris next year, nothing will actually be done until 2020.

The patient thinks there’s still plenty of time to quit. There isn’t.

Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

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EQUALIZATION’S IMPACT

Canada’s federal equalization program is motivated by good intentions. However, the program has unintended consequences, and creates perverse incentives that have allowed at least two “have-not” provinces to shun sensible economic opportunities — and the subsequent jobs, incomes and government tax revenues.

Two examples: the ongoing ban on hydraulic fracturing or “fracking” in Nova Scotia and the just-imposed fracking moratorium in New Brunswick.

Natural resource development is a proven aid to prosperity - something that lower oil prices (unless they stay low forever) will slow but not hinder. It is impossible to gauge exactly the economic benefits of natural gas development through fracking in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. However, research from a wide range of sources suggests that fracking may bring considerable economic gains to the region.

For instance, Nova Scotia’s Department of Energy notes that “Nova Scotia has ample onshore exploration and development opportunities.” But of course, that presumes companies are allowed to explore and develop those onshore resources. More concretely, Nova Scotia’s Independent Panel on Hydraulic Frac-

turing provided a “lower-medium case” scenario, which estimated that shale gas development could result in hundreds of millions of dollars in additional revenue each year, for decades.

In addition to increased revenue for governments, fracking would likely create thousands of high-paying jobs in both Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.

Look at Pennsylvania, with its shale gas boom in the Marcellus region and the 28,000 mostly highpaying jobs (up from 13,000 jobs in 2010) attributed to the shale gas sector. And the average salary? A cool $92,914, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry.

Meanwhile, back in the Maritimes, the governments of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick take a different tack due in part to the equalization program, which provides a budgetary “cushion” for poor policy decisions that thwart potential extra economic development.

The result of that cushion, that lollygagging approach to development, is less investment.

On a per worker basis,New Brunswick ($21,451) and Nova Scotia ($20,874) each attract less than half the investment of Newfoundland and Labrador

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Taking the political plunge, despite cynicism WHILE MANY CONSIDER POLITICS TO BE A CESS POOL, HUNDREDS STEP UP AS CANDIDATES

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rience, albeit for the Liberals in Vancouver South.

He’s a former Vancouver cop who worked in the organized crime and gangs unit, a much-decorated military veteran and first Canadian Sikh to command a regiment.

One of his medals was awarded for his work reducing the influence of the Taliban in Afghanistan.

That experience, combined with his police work, convinced him of the need to figure out the root causes of crime and extremism so that a focus can be put on prevention, particularly among kids.

It also persuaded him that Stephen Harper’s aversion to “committing sociology,” as the prime minister has dismissively referred to interest in root causes, is “not only simplistic nonsense, it’s dangerous.”

Whether or not one agrees with their views, it’s hard to deny the strong strain of idealism running through the 2015 crop of candidates.

“I think the drivers that made me want to be a family doctor are the same drivers that made me want to be a politician,” says the Liberals’ Philpott.

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OTTAWA — How many people would fight tooth and nail to get into a profession almost guaranteed to earn them a reputation as self-serving liars and cheats, if not outright crooks?

Lots, it turns out.

Hundreds of Canadians are fighting for the opportunity to dive into what the majority of their fellow citizens appear to consider a cess pool: politics.

Many are giving up successful careers to carry the flags of their preferred political parties in 338 ridings across the country in next year’s federal election.

Some fought long, hard nomination battles for the right to have their names on the ballot; hundreds more are still in the process of nomination contests.

And that’s the easy part. Once nominated, they’ll spend the next 10 months fending off attacks from their political rivals and slogging door to door in their ridings, where they’ll have to defend their choice of party and profession to cynical voters.

Do they need their heads examined?

Good question, laughs Jane Philpott, a family doctor who is running for the Liberals in the Toronto-area riding of Markham-Stouffville.

Polls suggest “family doctors are usually almost at the very top” of the most respected professions in Canada, she notes. So, “to go from that to being a politician as the least respected might make one think I’m crazy.”

A recent poll by The Gandalf Group for Ryerson University suggests only 13 per cent of Canadians trusted politicians to behave ethically, slightly ahead of lobbyists. By contrast, 78 per cent deemed doctors to be trustworthy.

The online survey of 1039 people painted a grim picture of how Canadians view politicians: self-serving individuals in politics for personal gain, who use taxpayers’ money to help their friends and who routinely lie, break promises and cheat on their expense claims.

Almost 30 per cent of respondents said politicians frequently take bribes.

And 63 per cent felt politics corrupts honest people.

The survey was conducted between Oct. 17 and 22; the polling industry’s professional body, the Marketing Research and Intelligence Association, says online surveys cannot be assigned a margin of error as they are not a random sample and therefore are not necessarily representative of the whole population.

Far from dissuading good people from running, cynicism about politics seems to be a motivating factor for some of the freshly-minted candidates interviewed recently by The Canadian Press.

“It’s quite frankly part of the reason why I decided to go into politics,” says Rachel Bendayan, a 34-year-old lawyer running for the Liberals in Montreal’s

Outremont, where she’s taking on the daunting task of trying to defeat NDP Leader Tom Mulcair.

“I would like to change that. I think we need to rebuild our confidence in our representatives at all levels of government. I think we need to give back some of the respect, esteem, importance to public service.”

Erin Weir, a labour economist running for the NDP in Regina-Lewvan, says “the onus is really on those of us who are seeking elected office to change that (cynical) perception and to demonstrate that these democratic institutions can actually serve good purposes.”

While Canadians profess cynicism and suspicion about politicians generally, some candidates have found they don’t seem to see individual politicians in the same light.

“Once I meet them face to face, they’re quite supportive. It’s quite encouraging,” says Tim Laidler, a 29-yearold military veteran running for the Conservatives in British Columbia’s Port Moody-Coquitlam.

As a social studies teacher, Janis Irwin, who is running for the NDP in the newly-created Edmonton-Griesbach riding, says it’s “a dagger through the heart” when constituents tell her they can’t be bothered to vote because all politicians are the same.

But like Laidler, she’s finding she can “counter that, at least at the local level, by proving that I am there for the right reasons.”

The reasons candidates offer for taking the plunge into politics would likely strike even the most cynical voters as “the right reasons:” giving back to the community, pursuing particular policy objectives, making life better for Canadians, making their city or town’s voice heard at the national level.

At 60, Richard Cannings is at an age when most are thinking about retirement or, at least, slowing down.

But the biologist, ecologist and bird expert is running for the NDP in B.C.’s South Okanagan-West Kootenay because he’s worried about the environment and what he sees as the Harper government’s muzzling of federal scientists.

“I would really like to play a role in turning that around,” he says.

Arif Virani, a 43-year-old lawyer, former United Nations war crimes prosecutor and human rights activist, arrived in Canada as an infant refugee when his parents fled the brutal regime of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin.

He’s running for the Liberals in Toronto’s Parkdale-High Park in part because he wants to “give back to the country” that took his family in.

For Laidler, his military experience in war-torn, poverty-stricken Afghanistan convinced him that economic prosperity is crucial to a country’s success. He chose to run for the Conservatives because of their economic track record and what he saw as their traditional support for the military.

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Regina woman helping to connect lost families THE CANADIAN PRESS REGINA — Lori Campbell’s most prized possession is a thick folder filled with paperwork.

“This is how I know who I am,” she says. “This is how I know how much I weighed when I was born, what my smile was like.”

Campbell has spent the last 23 years searching for her family.

The Regina-born Metis woman was put into foster care at 14-months-old and later adopted by a white family.

During her harrowing search for her biological mother, she learned that she had seven younger siblings. Five brothers and one sister were all placed in foster care or put up for adoption. Another sibling died at birth in 1995.

Campbell, 42, met her mother in Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 2001 and completed her search for her siblings in October when she tracked Lori Campbell and her mother Brenda down her last brother, Dwayne Lyons, Campbell are shown in a handout in Ontario. photo. Campbell has spent the last Social media helped connect the 23 years searching for her family. The two, when Campbell posted a photo on Facebook detailing her missing broth- Regina-born Metis woman was put into foster care at 14-months-old and er’s name and date of birth.

But the public search has had some later adopted by a white family unexpected consequences.

Since posting that photo in January, Campbell says she has communicated was two.”

Campbell remembers sitting in the with about 75 people who are looking for their birth families. With nowhere archives at a public school, flipping else to go, strangers have inundated through old yearbooks. She would scan Campbell with messages asking for strangers’ photos looking for her own help. She says she has a backlog of features.

Campbell would learn that her more than 100 people waiting for anmother became a prostitute at age 13 swers.

One man in Illinois knows he was and her father was a john. She also born to a 15-year-old Metis wom- learned that some of her siblings had an in Regina. Another says he was physical and cognitive disabilities.

Campbell’s mother has struggled 11-months-old when he was put into foster care. The list of people hoping with addictions and is coping with to piece together their childhoods with health issues including multiple scleminimal information seems endless, rosis.

Brenda Campbell, 57, says she never Campbell says.

“I have been constantly writing peo- thought she’d get to know her daughter. ple back,” she says.

“Everybody says she’s a miniature Much of the correspondence is with aboriginal people who were born in me,” she says, adding with a laugh, Regina but placed in foster care or “well, a younger me.”

Ron Duncan, a reverend in Brampadopted.

Aboriginal children are dispropor- ton, Ont., was instrumental in Lori tionately represented in the foster care Campbell’s search for Lyons.

Duncan says Lyons has had three system. The most recent numbers from Statistics Canada show that in 2011 al- different last names used for papermost half of all children under 15 in foster care were aboriginal. “(There are) all these people who don’t know CENTRAL ALBERTA who they are,” Campbell SEXUAL ASSAULT SUPPORT CENTRE says.

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Centre is looking for enthusiastic and caring “I remember always people to volunteer. Applicants must be I8 looking for someone who years of age and be able to provide a clean looked like me,” she says. criminal record check.

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work. He was also moved from Saskatchewan to Ontario, which made his records more complicated. It’s an example of how difficult it is to navigate the system, Duncan says.

“I discovered his experience was not unique and unfortunately, far from it,” he says.

Duncan believes connecting children with their aging parents is a matter of urgency. He adds that some children aren’t aware of their aboriginal status, which was the situation with Lyons.

“He was unable to access any of the benefits that come from that, particularly related to education,” says Duncan.

He adds that because foster care and adoption programs fall under provincial jurisdiction, it is often difficult to trace someone’s family across the country.

Robert Twigg, a psychotherapist based in Winnipeg, has worked in child welfare around the country.

“People need to know where they came from, what their ethnic, cultural, biological roots are, any kind of health concerns they should know about,” he says. “Whether it’s a passive or active thing, the system is set up to block that kind of thing.”

He adds that he’s not surprised to hear about the difficulties people face when navigating a system he calls “entrenched.”

He says during his career, he has seen records that are “pathetically lacking.”

“I wonder ... if you could even go back to those, would they even be helpful,” he says.

Campbell is slowly wading through the messages that multiply each day.

She says the latest one comes from a man who is searching for answers about his father and three siblings.

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Rebels 3 Oil Kings 2 Rebels 3 Oil Kings 1 All Taz Burman wanted for Christmas was a start in the Red Deer Rebels’ net.

On Sunday he got his wish in the second half of a homeand-home series with the Edmonton Oil Kings (16-16-3-2), and he stopped 28 of 29 shots to backstop the Rebels (2013-3-1) to a 3-1 win in front of 5,483 fans at the Centrium.

It was Burman’s first start since a 6-3 loss in Everett to the Silvertips on Nov. 5.

“It was tough not starting, it’s not what I wanted, but I knew I haven’t played the way I could so far this year, so it was really good to get in there, have a good start and feel good and get a win,” he said.

Rebels captain Conner Bleakley rallied his team with two third-period goals while Brooks Maxwell added an empty netter.

Andrew Koep scored Edmonton’s lone goal in the second period while Memorial Cup winning goalie Tristan Jarry stopped 26 shots in the loss.

The story was Burman, however. Though he was not called upon to make too many highlight-reel saves, he didn’t give up any weak goals or make any costly mistakes. The lone goal against was not his fault.

The Rebels failed to clear the puck, turning it over in the slot, and then Koep ripped it top corner at 10:43 of the second period.

Beyond that, he was solid, especially for a goalie who had only seen the ice once in the last month in relief, allowing three goals on 11 shots in a 9-5 loss to the Calgary Hitmen at the Centrium on Dec. 2.

“I’m usually a little bit nervous before a game, but noth-

ing too far out of control,” said Burman. “I’ve been having some good practices lately so we’re just trying to take that and move it into the game. I know what I’m capable of so there was no reason to get too worked up.”

The second year goalie carried a 1-3-0-0 record, a 4.19 goals against average and an .835 save percentage into Sunday’s game — those numbers improved to 3.59 G.A.A. and .862 save percentage with the win.

For a team that has leaned heavily on starting goalie Rylan Toth (17-10-3-1, 2.89 G.A.A., and .899 save percentage), if Burman can prove to be a reliable No. 2 netminder, it could be critical to their success this season.

“It’s exactly what we wanted from (Taz),” said Rebels general manager/head coach Brent Sutter. “There were no rebounds, I thought he was very under control, he was poised in net, he’s seeing the puck, he was obviously focused and ready to play.”

Toth got the win in Red Deer’s 3-2 win in Edmonton on Saturday, making 30 saves, while Wyatt Johnson scored twice and Bleakley once for the Rebels. Ben Carroll and Brett Pollock responded for Edmonton while Jarry made 26 stops.

It helped Burman’s bid for his first win since Nov. 1, that the Rebels were a different team in the final 20 minutes of game.

After a competitive first period, they went through the motions in the middle frame.

Sutter made a few key changes in the intermission and the Rebels came out and dominated the third period.

They were led by Bleakley, who was playing with a heavy heart after two friends were killed in a car accident in High River this past week —

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Red Deer Rebels goaltender Taz Burman makes a save as teammate Haydn Fleury protects against a rebound during a game against the Edmonton Oil Kings at the Centrium, Sunday. The Rebels beat the Oil Kings 3-1. he left immediately after the game to get home for at least one of the funerals.

“He’s our leader for a reason,” said Sutter.

“In the last month, he’s back to the Conner that we know and he can make things happen on the ice, he can dominate.”

The first Bleakley goal came off a missed shot 8:44 in

the third period. The puck was fished out from behind the net by Austin Adamson who shovelled it to Bleakley alone in the slot, and he beat Jarry over his glove for his 16th goal of the season.

Bleakley’s second goal was all about determination.

With time ticking down in regulation, Bleakley had the puck along the side boards to

the right of Jarry. Oil Kings defenceman Blake Orban had position on him, but Bleakley managed to spin away, cut to the net and find the top shelf in close once again, to give Red Deer the lead at 17:45.

Burman did the rest of the work in shutting down the Oil Kings.

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Gaudreau leads Flames to Canada looks for another Battle of Alberta win vengeance against struggling Finns

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

Flames 4 Oilers 1 CALGARY — When Johnny Gaudreau scores a goal on home ice, the Calgary Flames play Chuck Berry’s song Johnny B. Goode.

That song was heard twice Saturday night as the exciting Calgary rookie continued his strong play in recent weeks in which “good” would be an understatement.

Making it six goals in the last three games, Gaudreau scored his 11th and 12th goals to lead the Flames to a 4-1 victory over the Edmonton Oilers, extending the Oilers latest winless streak to nine games.

“I’m pretty excited about getting the chance to score some goals,” said Gaudreau, who won the Hobey Baker Award last year with Boston College. “They weren’t coming throughout the first 20, 30 games of the season. I was kind off to a slow start but it’s nice to see the puck going in the net.”

Saturday’s two goals comes on the heels of Gaudreau’s hat trick in Tuesday’s 4-3 comeback victory over the Los Angeles Kings.

“I think that might have been the quickest I’ve ever scored two goals,” said Gaudreau, who is second in rookie scoring with 29 points, five behind the leader, Nashville’s Filip Forsberg. “Our line is playing really well and the team is playing pretty well right now, too, so we have to keep it up.”

According to Elias, Gaudreau is the first Flames rookie since Joe Nieuwendyk in March 1988 to record consecutive multi-goal games.

“He’s so quick. He’s pouncing on those loose pucks with lots of speed. He’s capable of scoring any way,” said Flames coach Bob Hartley. “His chemistry with Jiri Hudler is phenomenal. Whether we play them with (Markus) Granlund or (Josh) Jooris, it seems they always find a way to get on the scoreboard for us, and that’s so important.”

Gaudreau’s goals came 16 seconds apart early in the first period as the Flames blew the game open with three goals in less than two minutes.

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Edmonton Oilers goalie Viktor Fasth lets in a goal from Calgary Flames’ Johnny Gaudreau during first period NHL action in Calgary, Saturday.

Up 1-0 on Joe Colborne’s first of the year at 7:08, Gaudreau made it 2-0 at 8:32 capitalizing on an Oilers turnover.

When Mark Arcobello’s pass through his own slot was mishandled by David Perron, Gaudreau pounced on the loose puck and quickly broke in alone on Edmonton goalie Viktor Fasth, beating him with a nifty move to his backhand.

Gaudreau’s second goal of the night, also on a breakaway, came on a perfect feed from TJ Brodie, who wired him a pass from behind the Flames net that hit on the tape at the Oilers blue-line. “(Brodie) sees the ice so well. When you see him back there behind the net it’s hard not to go flying up the ice because he definitely sees you,” Gaudreau said.

In alone on Fasth yet again, this time Gaudreau had the puck bobble off his stick but still trickle through the pads of Fasth.

“I’ve got to stop at least one of those to keep us in the game but I didn’t,” said Fasth, who was immediately pulled after that goal by coach Todd Nelson and replaced with Ben Scrivens.

Curtis Glencross also scored for Calgary (19-15-3), which has won consecutive games after ending an eight-game winless skid. The Flames are ninth in

the Western Conference, two points back of Los Angeles for the second wild-card spot.

Ryan Nugent-Hopkins had the lone goal for the Oilers (722-7), who are winless in their last nine (0-7-2).

“In this league, it’s so hard to come back from even just one or two goals so to spot them three is unfortunate,” said Nugent-Hopkins. “Especially on the road, the home team is buzzing, the crowd is going, it made it really tough for us to come back even though we tried pretty hard.”

Dating back to November 11, Edmonton has won just once in its last 21 games (1-146). Since taking over coaching duties when Dallas Eakins was fired, Nelson is 0-3-2.

“I thought our start wasn’t bad at all, and that stretch where we basically gave them three goals and didn’t make them earn it. They capitalized, which is a credit to them, but we can’t shoot ourselves in the foot like that,” Nelson said.

“The second period we started to get something going, start of the third I thought we came out strong, had some good offensive zone possession, we were creating some things. Then we took a couple penalties and it killed everything we were building upon.”

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WORLD JUNIORS

MONTREAL — Opening with a pair of one-sided wins was a confidence booster for Canada but now comes the first real test at the world junior championship: Finland.

Canada (2-0-0) enters Monday’s game at the Bell Centre on a high after shutout wins over Slovakia and Germany, but the defending champion Finns (0-1-1) are a sharp step up in competition.

“They’ve yet to win a game, so they’re going to be coming at us,” forward Curtis Lazar said Sunday. “It’ll probably be do or die for them.

“They really need to take a step in that direction, and we get the lucky draw of having to face them. We’ve got to try to weather the storm. They’ve got a great team all around and we have to be ready to play.”

It has not gone well so far for Finland, which opened with a gutsy performance in a 2-1 shootout loss to the United States but then went south with a surprise 2-1 defeat to Slovakia after wasting a string of scoring chances.

Many of the same Finnish players, including defence ace Julius Hinka, captain Artturi Lehkonen and goalie Juuse Saros were riding high at last year’s event in Malmo, Sweden, when they toppled Canada 5-1 in the semifinals before beating the Swedes to claim their first title since 1998.

They are sure to bring the same cautious, patience-testing game they always play to the rematch with Canada, which has seven players back from a year ago.

“They’ve got great goaltending too,” added Lazar, one of the returnees. “We’re going to have to get some good traffic in front of their goalie.

Their defence does a great job of moving the puck and they’ve got some crafty forwards as well. So they’re going to keep us on our toes, but if we play the way we can, we’ll be fine.”

Canada has more skill up front than last year’s squad. So far, the goaltending has been perfect and the defence has been solid but for some hairy

moments in the second period of Saturday’s 4-0 win when the entire team lost its edge for a spell against Germany.

Zach Fucale, who needed to make only 12 saves in the opening 8-0 rout of Slovakia, will be back in goal after Eric Comrie picked up a 17-save shutout against the Germans.

Fucale was in the net for last year’s loss to the Finns, who took the lead in the second period on a fluke goal by Joni Nikko after Honka shot the puck in along the boards and saw it take a funny hop in front of the vacated net. Finnish checking and counterattacking took over after that.

The loss guaranteed that Canada would go a fifth straight year without a gold medal.

“I wouldn’t say it’s fresh in my mind, but I remember what happened and I learned from it,” said Fucale. “It’ll certainly serve as a motivator for the game.”

Coach Benoit Groulx, an assistant to Brent Sutter last year, doesn’t want to dwell on what happened a year ago. He said both teams are different and this is a new tournament.

The Finns no longer have star forward Teuvo Teravainen, who had three points in the semifinal.

But they have slick forward Kaspari Kapanen, a firstround pick of the Pittsburgh Penguins who missed last year’s event with an injury.

Finland also has six-foot-three dynamo Jesse Puljujarvi, who may be their most dangerous forward even if he’s only 16.

“We want to play in the now,” said Groulx. “I know they have a good team, but we also have a good team. We expect a very good game.”

Canada’s advantages will be playing at home on an NHLsize rink and having a team brimming with confidence after two big wins.

Centre Nic Petan had six points in two games, while Robby Fabbri had four and Max Domi, Sam Reinhart, Connor McDavid and defenceman Madison Bowey each had three.

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“(Bleakley) comes up in the clutch, that’s what great players do and he’s a great player and he’s our leader and our captain,” said Burman.

“To have him come up big like that is unbelievable.”

Red Deer was without their newest addition, defenceman Colton Bobyk who was acquired, along with a fourth round draft pick in 2016, in a trade with the Spokane Chiefs on Saturday for blue-liner Nick Charif, a second round pick in 2015 and a sixth round pick in 2016.

He should be in the lineup on Tuesday when the Rebels host the Swift Current Broncos (18-15-0-4) at 7 p.m.

“I’m hoping we get him through a practice and see how that goes and how he feels,” said Sutter, noting Bobyk, a member of the Red Deer Optimist Chiefs Telus Cup championship team 2013, has been injured for much of the year.

“If not (Tuesday) then the game after. There’s no panic on him, but we’re excited about implementing him in our lineup, he’s going to help our defence that much more.”

NOTES — Red Deer was 0-for-4 on the power play while Edmonton was 0-for-2 ... Bleakley’s second goal was his 17th of the season, tying him for the team lead with Johnson, though Bleakley now has the team lead in points with 32 ... The Rebels were without forward Adam Musil who is day-to-day with a lower body injury, Mario Grman and Austin Schmoorkoff were also scratches. The Oil Kings were without Memorial Cup hero Edgars Kulda who is due back soon from a lower body injury as is fellow forward Cole Benson, while rookie Mads Eller is at the World Junior Hockey Championship playing for Denmark. jaldrich@reddeeradvocate.com

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Raptors 116 Nuggets 102 DENVER — Kyle Lowry had 30 points and 11 assists, and the Toronto Raptors beat the Denver Nuggets 116-102 on Sunday night.

Lou Williams had 31 points to help the Raptors, the top team in the Eastern Conference, get the season series sweep with Sunday’s win.

The Raptors have won seven of eight.

Ty Lawson led Denver with 28 points and Wilson Chandler had 20 points and 10 rebounds.

Kenneth Faried, who had 26 points and a career-best 25 rebounds in Friday’s win over Minnesota, had 17 points and 19 rebounds for the Nuggets, who have lost three of four.

Toronto, coming off a 12-point win over the Clippers in Los Angeles on Saturday, led by one when Williams hit two free throws and a 3-pointer to give the Raptors a 100-94 lead. After Nate Robinson missed a 3-pointer, Lowry sank two foul shots to push the lead to seven.

The lead grew to 109-98 on a three-point play by Lowry with 3:59 left. Denver never got closer than nine the rest of the way.

Faried’s layup midway through the third quarter gave Denver a 76-75 lead. Toronto went back up by four but a steal and layup and a jumper by Nate Robinson cut the Raptors’ lead to 88-87 heading into the fourth.

The Raptors took the lead late in the first quarter and stretched it to 13 with 2:50 remaining in the second quarter. Denver rallied to get to 56-54 on Faried’s put-back dunk with 37.4 seconds left in the

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Toronto Raptors guard Kyle Lowry, left, pursues a loose ball next to Denver Nuggets guard Nate Robinson during the fourth quarter of an NBA game Sunday, in Denver. The Raptors won 116-102. half, but Toronto scored the final four points to take a 60-54 lead into intermission.

TIP-INS Raptors: Guard Landry Fields missed his fourth straight game because of a concussion. Fields has passed two of the three tests to be able to return, coach Dwane Casey said. That test he takes is no joke. It is very complicated,“ Casey said. ”My understanding is he passed a couple parts of it. But there is another area that he still has to pass. And he has to do it under stress.“ ... Toronto is 13-0 when

holding teams under 100 points.

Nuggets: Forward Darrell Arthur played for the first time after sitting three games. He missed the first two because of a strained lower left leg and sat out the third because he hadn’t taken part in a full practice coming off the injury. ... Denver is 7-0 when holding teams to less than 40 per cent shooting.

UP NEXT Raptors: at Portland on Tuesday.

Nuggets: host L.A. Lakers on Tuesday

BATTLE: Hate them On the opening goal, Paul Byron’s centring pass caromed off a skate and on goal.

Fasth sprawled to get his pad on it but Colborne tucked in the rebound.

“To finally see it go across the line. I’ve had more than enough chances and seen goalies stop it or see it just sitting on the line. To see that one slide past was real nice,” said Colborne, who scored for the first time in 27 games.

Edmonton was the better team in the second period but couldn’t cut into the deficit until NugentHopkins scored on a deflection 4:23 into the third period.

“They’re the Oilers and we hate them so anytime you can take two points from them, it’s nice,” said Colborne.

Fasth ended up with three saves to fall to 2-9-2.

Scrivens stopped 20 of 21 in relief.

Jonas Hiller had 26 stops to improve to 11-10-2.

It was the first time in 16 starts that he has surrendered fewer than two goals.

Bouchard wins back-to-back Rosenfeld awards CP FEMALE ATHLETE OF THE YEAR

MONTREAL — If 2013 was the year that put Eugenie Bouchard in the spotlight, 2014 was the one that showed the tennis star is no flash in the pan.

The Westmount, Que., native had a phenomenal year on the WTA tour, rising from 32nd in the rankings to No. 5 at one point before ending it at an impressive No. 7.

Along the way, she won her first career title, reached the Wimbledon final - becoming the first Canadian to play in a Grand Slam final - and made it to the semifinals of the Australian and French Opens.

Bouchard, 20, also helped Canada reach the World Group stage at the Fed Cup for the first time, won her first WTA title and in November was named the most improved player on the women’s tour.

Those exploits have earned Bouchard the Bobbie Rosenfeld Award for the second year in a row.

The honour is awarded to the Canadian Press female athlete of the year and is named after the Olympic champion and all-round sportswoman who was voted Canada’s top female athlete for the first half of the 20th century.

Bouchard won in a landslide.

She finished with 74 votes from sports editors and broadcasters across Canada, outstripping freestyle skier Justine Dufour-Lapointe, bobsledder Kaillie Humphries and Canadian hockey goaltender Shannon Szabados, who all received two votes.

Bouchard is the first woman to win the award in consecutive years since speedskater Cindy Klassen in 2005 and 2006.

“We are very, very proud of Genie,” Kelly Murumets, president and CEO of Tennis Canada, told The Canadian Press. “She is a fierce competitor and an amazing Canadian ambassador.

“How exciting. She’s still only 20 years old. I’m sure she feels incredibly honoured. Certainly, on behalf of her, we are very honoured that you have recognized her two years in a row. And the best is yet to come.

“She is on the trajectory to be a No. 1 competitor in the world.”

The year began with Bouchard reaching the semifinals of the Australian Open, where she fell to Li Na. She won the WTA event in Nuremberg in May and then made it to the last four at Roland-Garros where she was beaten by eventual winner Maria Sharapova.

The best was yet to come as she went on a thrilling run at Wimbledon before being taken apart 6-3, 6-0 in the final by Petra Kvitova.

She made the WTA finals in Singapore, where she was eliminated in the round-robin stage, and ended the year with US$3.22 million in prize money.

“Eugenie Bouchard became a world superstar in 2014 with her extraordinary performances in the Grand Slam tournaments,” said Jean-Pascal Beaupre, managing editor at Journal Metro.

“Few Canadian athletes can boast of achieving celebrity all over the world so quickly.”

Jean Dion of Montreal Le Devoir called Bouchard’s rise “breathtaking.”

“A three-time Grand Slam semifinalist is quite the achievement with all the competition out there in women’s tennis,” said Dion. “And to think she’s only 20 years old.”

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“No Canadian woman has ever had a year like Bouchard’s and the scary thing is she hasn’t even peaked yet,” he said. “She’s replaced Christine Sinclair as our country’s most looked-up to female athlete.”

Bouchard ended the year by sign-

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Fellow tennis player Milos Raonic was voted The Canadian Press male athlete of the year on Friday for his second straight win. Canada’s team of the year will be revealed Monday.

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Steelers clinch AFC North by beating Bengals

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Steelers 27, Bengals 17 PITTSBURGH — The Pittsburgh Steelers are back on top of the AFC North.

Antonio Brown returned a punt 71 yards for a touchdown and added a clinching 63-yard scoring grab with 2:50 to go in the Steelers’ 27-17 victory over the Cincinnati Bengals on Sunday night.

Pittsburgh (11-5) earned its first division title since 2010 by sweeping the season series from the Bengals (10-5-1). The Steelers are the No. 3 seed in the AFC and will host Baltimore in the wild-card round Saturday night. The Bengals are the No. 5 seed and will play at AFC South champion Indianapolis on Sunday.Brown had 212 all-purpose yards, including the late dazzling catch and run to the end zone.

The victory came at a potentially high cost. Running back Le’Veon Bell left in the third quarter with a hyperextended right knee following a collision with Cincinnati safety Reggie Nelson.

Nelson hit Bell low at the end of a 19-yard reception and the second-year back - voted the club’s Most Valuable Player by his teammates last week - lay on the field for several minutes. He gingerly jogged to the sideline before being taken to the locker room to chants of “MVP! MVP!” Bell set a franchise record for total offence this season and has been one of the catalysts for Pittsburgh’s post-season return after a two-year absence.

The Steelers will host a playoff game for the first time since they won the North in 2010 on their way to an AFC championship. The franchise has retooled over the last three years, with Brown leading the way.

Cincinnati drew to 20-17 and was driving late in the fourth quarter when wide receiver A.J. Green was stripped by Pittsburgh’s Antwon Blake, who then fell on the ball. The Bengals’ third turnover ended up costing them any shot at a second straight division title.

Ben Roethlisberger, battling an illness that forced him to miss warmups, found Brown down the right sideline. Brown split two Cincinnati defenders then raced 63 yards for a score on his 129th reception of the season, the second-highest total in NFL history.

Roethlisberger finished 24 of 38 for 317 yards and two touchdowns to go with an interception.

Cincinnati’s Andy Dalton completed 27 of 38 for 244 yards with two touchdowns and two interceptions. Green, who torched the Steelers for a careerhigh 224 yards three weeks ago, was held to eight receptions for 82 yards. Both of Dalton’s picks were on overthrows to his favourite target.

Brown kick-started the Steelers early in the first

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Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Markus Wheaton (11) is hit by Cincinnati Bengals outside linebacker Vincent Rey (57) after making a catch during the second quarter of an NFL game, Sunday, in Pittsburgh. quarter, fielding a punt from Kevin Huber at the Pittsburgh 29 and raced to his right only to reverse back to his left, pushing teammate Shamarko Thomas into Huber’s way to clear a path to the end zone.

Cincinnati evened it in the first. Dalton overcame a poorly overthrown interception on Cincinnati’s second possession by converting a fourth-and-3 with a 14-yard pass to Brandon Tate then following it up with a nifty flip to Bernard after escaping the pass rush. Bernard leapt over two Steelers before reaching over the goal line.

Roethlisberger skipped his usual pregame warmup, not coming on to the field until the defence was being introduced just minutes before the kickoff while dealing with flu-like symptoms. He passed for

224 yards through three quarters but also turned it over twice, fumbling a botched snap and tossing an interception into double-coverage in the third quarter with Pittsburgh trying to extend its lead.

Roethlisberger was sharp for much of the first half despite the illness. A 26-yard throw to Bell set up Shaun Suisham’s field goal that tied it at 10 midway through the second quarter. Dalton threw high to Green, who tipped the ball into the hands of McCain. A lengthy return set the Steelers up at the Cincinnati 28. Two plays later, Bryant took a wide receiver screen and darted to the end zone for his eighth touchdown of the season.

The Steelers tacked on a field goal in the final minute of the half.

Ravens earn AFC’s final wild-card spot with win

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Baltimore Ravens are back in the playoffs, while the Seattle Seahawks will be playing at home in them.

Baltimore made the post-season in the first five years with John Harbaugh as coach and Joe Flacco at quarterback, winning the 2012 championship.

They failed to get in last season, but a 20-10 victory Sunday, combined with San Diego’s 19-7 loss at Kansas City, did the trick.

The Ravens (10-6, the same record they had in their Super Bowl season), earned a wild card and will be seeded sixth in the AFC. They will play at AFC North champion Pittsburgh, their staunch division rival, next Saturday night.

“Anything can happen when you get into the playoffs,” Flacco said. “I won’t be surprised if in three weeks from now we’re still sitting here playing.”

Defending Super Bowl champion Seattle earned the top seed in the NFC by beating St. Louis 20-6.

The Seahawks, winners of the NFC West, were 7-1

Swiss defenceman Baltisberger taken off ice on stretcher at world juniors

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Swiss defenceman Phil Baltisberger was taken off the ice on a stretcher Sunday after receiving a high hit in a game against Russia at the world junior hockey championship.

Swiss coach John Fust said after the game there was no immediate word on the Guelph Storm player other than he was moving.

He was taken to hospital to be checked.

But Swiss captain Yannick Rathgeb offered a more positive update.

“He can feel his legs, he’s all right,” said Rathgeb. “He can feel everything. He just didn’t have any power to get up and his neck really hurt.”

The Ontario Hockey League player was floored by an Anatoli Golyshev check that caught him unaware midway through the second period. Baltisberger lay on the ice before he was strapped on the stretcher and taken off the ice after a lengthy delay.

Golyshev was given a five-minute major interference penalty which carries an automatic game misconduct. Fust vs said there was confusion over the call, with no penalty given at first. Russian coach Valeri Bragin disputed the call, saying the hit was to the shoulder not the head. The Russians were leading 3-0 at the time and went on to win 7-0. The International Enmax Centrium Ice Hockey Federation anTickets at ticketmaster nounced that the incident 1.855.985.5000 will be reviewed.

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at home at the intimidating CenturyLink Field, and have a bye next week. They will play on Saturday, Jan. 10.

“Our main goal coming into the season was winning the division, but getting the No. 1 seed is just as big,” Seattle linebacker K.J. Wright said.

Green Bay won the NFC North by handling Detroit 30-20 and got the No. 2 seed in the conference and a bye. Both the Packers and Seahawks finished 12-4, with the tiebreaker Seattle’s opening victory against Green Bay. Detroit (11-5) will play at NFC East champ Dallas (12-4) in the wild-card round next Sunday. Green Bay’s first game will be the following Sunday.

“We prefer to play here. So, yeah, but this is playoff football now. Everything changes once we get going in two weeks. Playing at home doesn’t guarantee you anything and there are no guarantees, but this is definitely where we prefer to play,” coach Mike Mc-

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Carolina (7-8-1) became the second division champion with a losing record in NFL history. Its 34-3 rout at Atlanta earned the NFC South title.

The Panthers will host injury-ravaged Arizona (115), which fell to San Francisco 20-17 but got the other NFC wild card. That game is next Saturday.

“The beautiful thing - record doesn’t matter,” coach Ron Rivera said. “That’s the best part.”

AFC East champion New England (12-4) owns home-field advantage in the conference and will be off next weekend before resuming on Jan. 10. Denver (12-4), the West winner, also will have a bye after defeating Oakland, 47-14. The Broncos will play next on Jan. 11.

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SCOREBOARD Hockey GA 118 104 121 125 131 164

Pt 56 44 40 33 33 21

CENTRAL DIVISION GP W LOTLSOL GF Medicine Hat 36 25 9 1 1 146 Red Deer 37 20 13 3 1 130 Calgary 36 19 14 1 2 139 Kootenay 37 20 17 0 0 119 Edmonton 37 16 16 3 2 109 Lethbridge 35 9 21 3 2 93

GA 96 120 111 134 108 146

Pt 52 44 41 40 37 23

WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION GP W LOTLSOL GF Kelowna 37 29 5 3 0 161 Victoria 39 18 18 2 1 128 Prince George 37 18 19 0 0 111 Vancouver 36 16 19 1 0 107 Kamloops 39 13 21 3 2 116

GA 88 135 148 114 147

Pt 61 39 36 33 31

U.S. DIVISION GP W LOTLSOL GF GA Pt 35 21 10 3 1 115 97 46 35 20 12 3 0 102 95 43 38 19 16 0 3 128 132 41 35 18 16 0 1 97 96 37 35 16 15 2 2 93 97 36

Jayce Hawryluk, Bra Dryden Hunt, Reg Jansen Harkins, PG Adam Tambellini, CAL Jake Debrusk, SC Luke Philp, Koo Matt Needham, Kam Parker Bowles, TC Joe Hicketts, Vic Connor Gay, Reg Ivan Provorov, Bra

15 13 12 21 18 15 12 10 8 16 10

24 26 27 17 20 23 26 28 30 21 27

39 39 39 38 38 38 38 38 38 37 37

National Hockey League EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts Tampa Bay 37 22 11 4 48 Detroit 36 19 8 9 47 Montreal 35 22 11 2 46 Toronto 36 20 13 3 43 Florida 33 16 9 8 40 Boston 36 18 15 3 39 Ottawa 35 14 14 7 35 Buffalo 36 14 19 3 31

GF GA 119 97 103 89 95 84 122 108 79 86 93 97 92 97 73 118

Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts 35 22 8 5 49 35 23 11 1 47 33 19 10 4 42 35 18 11 6 42 35 14 15 6 34 34 15 16 3 33 37 12 18 7 31 35 10 21 4 24

GF GA 108 83 108 98 100 84 102 90 98 105 86 109 79 107 71 95

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

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Chicago 36 24 10 2 50 112 74 Nashville 34 23 9 2 48 99 71 St. Louis 35 21 11 3 45 103 90 Winnipeg 36 19 10 7 45 92 84 Minnesota 33 16 13 4 36 96 93 Dallas 34 15 14 5 35 99 116 Colorado 35 13 14 8 34 92 106

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

Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Anaheim 37 23 8 6 52 105 100 Los Angeles 36 18 11 7 43 100 89 San Jose 36 19 12 5 43 100 93 Vancouver 33 20 11 2 42 99 91 Calgary 37 19 15 3 41 108 99 Arizona 35 13 18 4 30 82 113 Edmonton 36 7 22 7 21 76 125 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Sunday’s results Saskatoon 5 Prince Albert 0 Victoria 4 Prince George 0 Seattle 3 Vancouver 2 Brandon 4 Moose Jaw 2 Kootenay 4 Calgary 3 Red Deer 3 Edmonton 1 Regina 6 Swift Current 1 Medicine Hat 8 Lethbridge 4 Spokane 4 Portland 3 Tri-City 3 Everett 2

Saturday’s Games Buffalo 4, N.Y. Islanders 3, SO Arizona 2, Anaheim 1, SO Detroit 3, Ottawa 2, OT Tampa Bay 2, Carolina 1 N.Y. Rangers 3, New Jersey 1 Columbus 6, Boston 2 Winnipeg 4, Minnesota 3, OT Washington 3, Pittsburgh 0 Dallas 4, St. Louis 3 Nashville 4, Philadelphia 1 Chicago 5, Colorado 2 Calgary 4, Edmonton 1 Los Angeles 3, San Jose 1

Tuesday’s games Prince Albert at Brandon, 6 p.m.

Regina at Saskatoon, 6:05 p.m.

Swift Current at Red Deer, 7 p.m.

Lethbridge at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Kootenay at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.

Kamloops at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

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

Everett at Seattle, 8:05 p.m.

Wednesday’s games Swift Current at Edmonton, 6 p.m.

Regina at Moose Jaw, 6 p.m.

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

Seattle at Portland, 9 p.m.

Ducks 2, Canucks 1 (OT) First Period No Scoring.

Penalties - Horvat Vcr (interference) 3:32, Bourque Ana (tripping) 3:37, Dorsett Vcr (fighting) 7:43, Maroon Ana (fighting) 7:43, Bieksa Vcr (hooking) 14:11.

Second Period 1. Vancouver, Weber 3 (Hansen, Burrows) 2:04.

Penalties - Weber Vcr (tripping) 2:22.

Third Period 2. Anaheim, Beauchemin 1 (Getzlaf) 6:52.

Penalties - Bonino Vcr (hooking) 0:57.

Overtime 3. Anaheim, Fowler 5 (Smith-Pelly, Getzlaf) 2:42.

Penalties - None.

Shots on goal Vancouver 8 4 2 0 - 14 Anaheim 7 10 12 3 - 32 Goal - Vancouver: Miller (LO, 18-7-1); Anaheim: Andersen (W, 20-5-5).

Power plays (goal-chances) - Vancouver: 0-1; Anaheim: 0-4.

World Junior Hockey Championship Group A GP W OTW OTL L GF GA Pts Canada 2 2 0 0 0 12 0 6 USA 2 1 0 0 0 8 1 5 Slovakia 2 1 0 0 1 2 9 3 Finland 2 0 0 0 1 2 4 1 Germany 2 0 0 0 2 0 10 0 Group B GP W OTW OTL L GF GA Pts Sweden 2 2 0 0 0 10 3 6 Russia 2 1 0 0 0 10 2 5 Switzerland 2 1 0 0 1 5 9 3 Denmark 2 0 0 0 1 3 8 1 Czech Republic 2 0 0 0 2 4 10 0 Three points awarded for a regulation win, two for an overtime/shootout win and one for an overtime/ shootout loss.

Sunday, December 28 Russia 7 Switzerland 0 Germany 0 USA 6 Monday, December 29 Denmark vs. Czech Republic, 11 a.m.

Slovakia vs. USA, 2 p.m.

Russia vs. Sweden, 3 p.m.

Canada vs. Finland, 6 p.m.

Monday’s Games Detroit at Boston, 5 p.m.

Pittsburgh at New Jersey, 5 p.m.

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

Montreal at Carolina, 5 p.m.

Buffalo at Ottawa, 5:30 p.m.

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

Colorado at St. Louis, 6 p.m.

Minnesota at Winnipeg, 6 p.m.

Nashville at Chicago, 6:30 p.m.

N.Y. Rangers at Dallas, 6:30 p.m.

Los Angeles at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Philadelphia at Arizona, 7 p.m.

Friday, January 2 Everett at Prince Albert, 6 p.m.

Moose Jaw at Regina, 6 p.m.

Lethbridge at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Kootenay at Red Deer, 7 p.m.

Kelowna at Kamloops, 8 p.m.

Spokane at Victoria, 8:05 p.m.

Prince George at Vancouver, 8:30 p.m.

Tri-City at Seattle, 8:35 p.m.

3. Florida, Hayes 10 (Bergenheim) 10:13.

4. Toronto, Polak 4 (Lupul, Gardiner) 14:16.

5. Toronto, van Riemsdyk 16 (Franson, Bozak) 17:30 (pp).

6. Toronto, Kadri 11 (Lupul, van Riemsdyk) 18:59.

Penalties - Huberdeau Fla (hooking) 15:38.

Third Period 7. Florida, Kulikov 1 (Jokinen) 2:45.

8. Florida, Mitchell 2 (Huberdeau) 10:09.

9. Florida, Boyes 6 (Kulikov, Jokinen) 16:45 (pp).

10. Florida, Upshall 5 (Kopecky, Mackenzie) 18:35 (en).

Penalties - Ekblad Fla (slashing) 3:12, Franson Tor (hooking) 15:19.

Shots on goal Toronto 3 10 4 - 17 Florida 13 16 6 - 35 Goal - Toronto: Reimer (L, 6-5-0); Florida: Luongo (W, 14-7-6).

Power plays (goal-chances) - Toronto: 1-4; Florida: 1-3.

Saturday, December 27 Sweden 5 Denmark 1 Slovakia 2 Finland 1 Switzerland 5 Czech Republic 2 Canada 4 Germany 0

Sunday’s Games Florida 6, Toronto 4 Anaheim 2, Vancouver 1, OT

Thursday, January 1 Brandon at Saskatoon, 3:05 p.m.

Tuesday, December 30 Denmark vs. Switzerland, 3 p.m.

Germany vs. Slovakia, 6 p.m.

Wednesday, December 31 Sweden vs. Switzerland, 11 a.m.

USA vs. Canada, 2 p.m.

Czech Republic vs. Russia, 3 p.m.

Finland vs. Germany, 6 p.m.

Sunday’s summary Rebels 3, Oil Kings 1 First Period No Scoring.

Penalties - Ralph Edm (roughing) 13:04, Nogier RD (slashing) 13:04, Sautner Edm (roughing) 19:12.

Second Period 1. Edmonton, Koep 10 (unassisted) 10:43.

Penalties - De Wit RD (checking to the head) 2:47, Robertson Edm (high-sticking) 15:19, Robertson Edm (high-sticking) 15:19, Orban Edm (tripping) 18:49.

Third Period 2. Red Deer, Bleackley 16 (Adamson, Nogier) 8:44.

3. Red Deer, Bleackley 17 (Sheen) 17:45.

4. Red Deer, Maxwell 10 (Cote, Bleackley) 19:56 (-EN).

Penalties - Johnson RD (boarding) 12:49, Baddock Edm (roughing) 13:16, Doetzel RD (roughing) 13:16.

Shots on goal Edmonton 11 9 9 - 29 Red Deer 12 7 10 - 29 Goal - Edmonton: Jarry (L, 11-14-2); Red Deer: Burman (W, 2-3-0).

Power plays (goal-chances) - Edmonton: 0-2; Red Deer: 0-4.

WHL Scoring Leaders Trevor Cox, MH Cole Sanford, MH Nick Merkley, Kel Rourke Chartier, Kel Cole Ully, Kam Jack Rodewald, MJ Austin Carroll, Vic Tim McGauley, Bra Jaedon Descheneau, Koo Nikita Scherbak, Eve Brayden Point, MJ Chase De Leo, Por Colby Cave, SC Tyson Baillie, Kel Oliver Bjorkstrand, Por Coda Gordon, SC Adam Helewka, Spo

G 14 29 10 34 17 18 24 23 19 17 17 17 18 24 21 17 17

A 48 29 46 19 32 30 21 22 25 27 27 25 23 16 19 23 22

Pts 62 58 56 53 49 48 45 45 44 44 44 42 41 40 40 40 39

Tuesday’s Games Montreal at Florida, 5:30 p.m.

St. Louis at Nashville, 6 p.m.

Los Angeles at Edmonton, 7:30 p.m.

Vancouver at San Jose, 8 p.m.

Geneve Ufa Helsinki

Saturday’s summary Flames 4, Oilers 1 First Period 1. Calgary, Colborne 1 (Byron, Glencross) 7:08.

2. Calgary, Gaudreau 11 (unassisted) 8:32.

3. Calgary, Gaudreau 12 (Hudler, Brodie) 8:48.

Penalties - Perron Edm (slashing) 11:24, Granlund Cgy (tripping) 13:57, Byron Cgy (tripping) 20:00.

Second Period No Scoring.

Penalties - Engelland Cgy (high-sticking) 5:36.

Third Period 4. Edmonton, Nugent-Hopkins 10 (Schultz, Ference) 4:23.

5. Calgary, Glencross 7 (Stajan, Giordano) 10:17.

Penalties - Petry Edm (slashing) 6:23, Wideman Cgy (roughing) 8:24, Monahan Cgy (roughing) 8:24, Ference Edm (roughing) 8:24, Hendricks Edm (roughing) 8:24, Hall Edm (unsportsmanlike conduct) 12:48, Cgy Bench (too many men) 18:59, Wideman Cgy (delay of game) 19:30.

Shots on goal Edmonton 7 13 7 - 27 Calgary 9 3 15 - 27 Goal - Edmonton: Fasth (L, 2-9-2); Calgary: Hiller (W, 11-10-2).

Power plays (goal-chances) - Edmonton: 0-5; Calgary: 0-3.

2014 Spengler Cup At Davos, Switzerland PRELIMINARY ROUND Group Torriani W OTW OTL L GF 2 0 0 0 6 1 0 0 1 6 0 0 0 2 4

GA 3 6 7

Pt 6 3 0

Group Cattini W OTW OTL L GF GA Pt Davos 2 0 0 0 3 1 6 Canada 1 0 0 1 4 3 3 Zagreb 0 0 0 2 1 4 0 Note: Three points for a regulation win, two for an overtime/shootout win, one for an overtime/shootout loss.

Friday’s results Davos (Switzerland) 2 Canada 1 Geneve-Servette (Switzerland) 3 Ufa (Russia) 2 Saturday’s results Canada 3 Zagreb (Croatia) 1 Ufa (Russia) 4 Helsinki (Finland) 3 Sunday’s results Geneve-Servette (Switzerland) 3 Helsinki (Finland) 1 Davos (Switzerland) 1 Zagreb (Croatia) 0 End of Preliminary Round Monday’s games Quarter-finals Ufa (Russia) vs. Zagreb (Croatia), 7 a.m.

Canada vs. Helsinki (Finland), 12:15 p.m.

Sunday’s summaries Panthers 6, Maple Leafs 4 First Period No Scoring.

Penalties - Trocheck Fla (holding) 3:33, Phaneuf Tor (slashing) 14:35, Phaneuf Tor (interference) 16:40, Upshall Fla (high-sticking) 19:12.

Second Period 1. Toronto, Panik 7 (Rielly, Clarkson) 6:39.

2. Florida, Huberdeau 4 (Campbell, Bjugstad) 8:24.

Tuesday, Dec. 30 Semifinals Davos (Switzerland) vs. Ufa-Zagreb winner, 7 a.m.

Geneve-Servette (Switzerland) vs.

Canada-Helsinki winner, 12:15 p.m.

Wednesday, Dec. 31 Championship Semifinal winners, 4 a.m.

Basketball National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB Toronto 24 7 .774 Brooklyn 13 16 .448 10 Boston 10 18 .357 12 1/2 New York 5 28 .152 20 Philadelphia 4 25 .138 19

Atlanta Washington Miami Orlando Charlotte

Chicago Cleveland Milwaukee Indiana Detroit

Memphis

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WHL EASTERN CONFERENCE EAST DIVISION GP W LOTLSOL GF Brandon 37 26 7 3 1 167 Regina 35 21 12 2 0 133 Swift Current 37 18 15 0 4 116 Prince Albert 37 16 20 1 0 108 Moose Jaw 37 15 19 2 1 107 Saskatoon 37 9 25 2 1 102

Everett Spokane Portland Tri-City Seattle

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Southeast Division W L Pct 22 8 .733 21 8 .724 14 17 .452 12 21 .364 10 21 .323

GB 1/2 8 1/2 11 1/2 12 1/2

Central Division W L Pct 21 9 .700 18 12 .600 15 16 .484 11 20 .355 7 23 .233

GB 3 6 1/2 10 1/2 14

WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct 22 8 .733

GB -

Houston Dallas San Antonio New Orleans

Portland Oklahoma City Denver Utah Minnesota

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

21 22 19 15

8 10 13 15

.724 .688 .594 .500

1/2 1 4 7

Northwest Division W L Pct 25 7 .781 15 17 .469 13 18 .419 10 20 .333 5 24 .172

GB 10 11 1/2 14 18 1/2

Pacific Division W L Pct 24 5 .828 20 11 .645 18 14 .563 13 17 .433 9 22 .290

GB 5 7 1/2 11 1/2 16

Saturday’s Games Toronto 110, L.A. Clippers 98 Washington 101, Boston 88 Orlando 102, Charlotte 94 Memphis 103, Miami 95 Chicago 107, New Orleans 100 Indiana 110, Brooklyn 85 Atlanta 90, Milwaukee 85 Utah 88, Philadelphia 71

Sacramento 135, New York 129, OT Golden State 110, Minnesota 97 Sunday’s Games Detroit 103, Cleveland 80 San Antonio 110, Houston 106 Dallas 112, Oklahoma City 107 Portland 101, New York 79 Toronto 116, Denver 102 Phoenix 116, L.A. Lakers 107 Monday’s Games Chicago at Indiana, 5 p.m.

Milwaukee at Charlotte, 5 p.m.

Orlando at Miami, 5:30 p.m.

Sacramento at Brooklyn, 5:30 p.m.

Washington at Houston, 6 p.m.

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

Tuesday’s Games Detroit at Orlando, 5 p.m.

Cleveland at Atlanta, 5:30 p.m.

Phoenix at New Orleans, 6 p.m.

Brooklyn at Chicago, 6 p.m.

San Antonio at Memphis, 6 p.m.

Washington at Dallas, 6:30 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at Denver, 7 p.m.

Minnesota at Utah, 7 p.m.

Toronto at Portland, 8 p.m.

Philadelphia at Golden State, 8:30 p.m.

Transactions Saturday’s Sports Transactions BASKETBALL National Basketball Association HOUSTON ROCKETS - Assigned C Clint Capela to Rio Grande Valley (NBADL).

FOOTBALL National Football League CLEVELAND BROWNS - Suspended WR Josh Gordon for violating a team rule. Waived LB Eric Martin and TE Ryan Taylor. Signed DL Jamie Meder, QB Connor Shaw and WR Phil Bates from the practice squad.

MINNESOTA VIKINGS - Signed LB Jos Kaddu.

Placed LB Anthony Barr on injured reserve.

NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS - Signed WR Josh Boyce from the practice squad. Placed DB Alfonzo Dennard on injured reserve. Signed DB Daxton Swanson to the practice squad. Released DL Cam Henderson from the practice squad.

NEW YORK JETS - Placed S Rontez Miles on the injured reserve list. Signed WR Quincy Enunwa from the practice squad.

HOCKEY National Hockey League COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS - Activated LW Scott Hartnell from injured reserve. Recalled G Anton Forsberg from Springfield (AHL). Assigned C Sean Collins to Springfield.

DALLAS STARS - Recalled D Cameron Gaunce from Texas (AHL).

DETROIT RED WINGS - Activated G Jimmy Howard from injured reserve. Assigned G Tom McCollum to Grand Rapids (AHL). Reassigned D Mattias Backman from Grand Rapids to Linkopings

HC (Sweden).

NEW JERSEY DEVILS - Named Adam Oates, Scott Stevens and Lou Lamoriello co-coaches. Recalled forward Tim Sestito from Albany (AHL). Activated F Dainius Zubrus from injured reserve. Placed C Patrik Elias and LW Martin Havlat on injured reserve, retroactive to Dec. 20.

American Hockey League CHARLOTTE CHECKERS - Signed F Gabriel Desjardins to a professional tryout contract. Recalled G Daniel Altshuller from Florida (ECHL).

HARTFORD WOLF PACK - Announced G Jason Missiaen was reassigned to the team from Greenville (ECHL).

SAN ANTONIO RAMPAGE - Recalled F Stephan Vigier from Cincinnati (ECHL).

SPRINGFIELD FALCONS - Recalled G Scott Munroe from Kalamazoo (ECHL).

ECHL ECHL - Suspended Stockton’s Tyler Shattock one game and fined him an undisclosed amount for his actions in a Dec. 26 game at Bakersfield. Fined Cincinnati’s Josh McFadden an undisclosed amount for his actions in a Dec. 26 game at Indy. Fined Colorado’s Teigan Zahn an undisclosed amount for his actions in a Dec. 26 game against Utah.

ELMIRA JACKALS - Announced F Justin Kea was reassigned to Rochester (AHL). Loaned F Brodie Reid and G Travis Fullerton to Rochester.

READING ROYALS - Announced G Connor Knapp and D Adam Comrie were recalled by Lehigh Valley (AHL). Placed F Ian Watters on the reserve list.

Activated F Andrew Johnston from the reserve list.

Signed G Matt DiGirolamo.

Sunday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL Frontier League FLORENCE FREEDOM - Signed RHP Matt Robertson.

WINDY CITY THUNDERBOLTS - Traded RHP Jessie Snodgrass to Gary (AA) for RHP Coleman Stephens. Traded RHP Coleman Stephens to Florence for 3B Jacob Tanis and a 2015 second-round draft pick.

HOCKEY National Hockey League ARIZONA COYOTES - Recalled F Tyler Gaudet from Portland (AHL).

CAROLINA HURRICANES - Reassigned F Brendan Woods to Charlotte (AHL).

COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS - Assigned G Anton Forsberg to Springfield (AHL).

DALLAS STARS - Reassigned D Cameron Gaunce to Texas (AHL).

NASHVILLE PREDATORS - Waived F Derek Roy. Assigned F Viktor Stalberg to Milwaukee (AHL).

WINNIPEG JETS - Recalled F Patrice Cormier from St. John’s (AHL).

American Hockey League AHL - Suspended San Antonio D Steven Kampfer for one game for receiving a match penalty in a Dec. 27 game against Oklahoma City.

ECHL ECHL - Suspended Florida’s Mitch Wahl pending a review and fined him an undisclosed amount for his actions in a Dec. 27 game at Orlando.

● WHL: Red Deer at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.

(The Drive). ● Heritage junior B hockey: Three Hills at Red Deer, 8 p.m., Arena; Mountainview at Ponoka, 8 p.m.

Tuesday

● WHL: Swift Current at Red Deer, 7 p.m., Centrium.

Friday

● WHL: Kootenay at Red Deer, 7 p.m., Centrium. ● Midget AA hockey: Red Deer Elks at Olds, 7:30 p.m.

Saturday

● Midget AA hockey: Bow Valley at Red Deer Indy Graphics, 11:30 a.m., Arena; Calgary Bruins at Red Deer Elks, 2 p.m., Arena. ● Peewee AA hockey: Bow Valley at Lacombe, 1:45 p.m.; Airdrie Red at Olds, 2:45 p.m. ● Junior women’s hockey: Medicine Hat at Central Alberta, 4:15 p.m., Penhold Regional Multiplex. ● Bantam AA hockey: Wheatland at Sylvan Lake, 5:45 p.m.

Sunday ● Major midget girls hockey: Edmonton at Red Deer, noon, Collicutt Centre. ● Major bantam hockey: Grande Prairie at Red Deer Black, noon, Arena. ● Junior women’s hockey: Lethbridge at Central Alberta, 1:30 p.m., Penhold Regional Multiplex. ● Peewee AA hockey: Wheatland at Lacombe, 2 p.m. ● Midget AA hockey: Lacombe at Sylvan Lake, 2:30 p.m., Bentley; Okotoks at Olds, 5:30 p.m. ● Minor midget AAA hockey: Calgary Bruins at Red Deer Northstar, 2:45 p.m., Arena. ● Bantam AA hockey: Badlands at Olds, 2:45 p.m.; Okotoks at Lacombe, 4:30 p.m.

Football National Football League AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct y-New England 12 4 0 .750 Buffalo 9 7 0 .563 Miami 8 8 0 .500 N.Y. Jets 4 12 0 .250 South W L T Pct y-Indianapolis 11 5 0 .688 Houston 9 7 0 .563 Jacksonville 3 13 0 .188 Tennessee 2 14 0 .125 North W L T Pct y-Pittsburgh 11 5 0 .688 x-Cincinnati 10 5 1 .656 x-Baltimore 10 6 0 .625 Cleveland 7 9 0 .438 West W L T Pct y-Denver 12 4 0 .750 Kansas City 9 7 0 .563 San Diego 9 7 0 .563 Oakland 3 13 0 .188 NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct y-Dallas 12 4 0 .750 Philadelphia 10 6 0 .625 N.Y. Giants 6 10 0 .375 Washington 4 12 0 .250 South W L T Pct y-Carolina 7 8 1 .469 New Orleans 7 9 0 .438 Atlanta 6 10 0 .375 Tampa Bay 2 14 0 .125 North W L T Pct y-Green Bay 12 4 0 .750 x-Detroit 11 5 0 .688 Minnesota 7 9 0 .438 Chicago 5 11 0 .313 West W L T Pct y-Seattle 12 4 0 .750 x-Arizona 11 5 0 .688 San Francisco 8 8 0 .500 St. Louis 6 10 0 .375 x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division

Sunday’s Games Indianapolis 27, Tennessee 10 Houston 23, Jacksonville 17 Kansas City 19, San Diego 7 Minnesota 13, Chicago 9 Baltimore 20, Cleveland 10 Dallas 44, Washington 17 N.Y. Jets 37, Miami 24 Buffalo 17, New England 9 Philadelphia 34, N.Y. Giants 26 New Orleans 23, Tampa Bay 20 San Francisco 20, Arizona 17 Seattle 20, St. Louis 6 Denver 47, Oakland 14 Green Bay 30, Detroit 20 Carolina 34, Atlanta 3 Pittsburgh 27, Cincinnati 17

PF 468 343 388 283

PA 313 289 373 401

PF 458 372 249 254

PA 369 307 412 438

PF 436 365 409 299

PA 368 344 302 337

PF 482 353 348 253

PA 354 281 348 452

Wild-card Playoffs Saturday, Jan. 3 Arizona at Carolina, 2:35 p.m.

Baltimore at Pittsburgh, 6:15 p.m.

Sunday, Jan. 4 Cincinnati at Indianapolis, 11:05 a.m.

Detroit at Dallas, 2:40 p.m.

PF 467 474 380 301

PA 352 400 400 438

PF 339 401 381 277

PA 374 424 417 410

Divisional Playoffs Saturday, Jan. 10 Baltimore, Indianapolis or Cincinnati at New England, 2:35 p.m.

Arizona, Detroit or Carolina at Seattle, 6:15 p.m.

Sunday, Jan. 11 Arizona, Dallas or Carolina at Green Bay, 11:05 a.m.

Indianapolis, Cincinnati or Pittsburgh at Denver, 2:40 p.m.

PF 486 321 325 319

PA 348 282 343 442

PF 394 310 306 324

PA 254 299 340 354

NFL Playoffs

Conference Championships Sunday, Jan. 18 NFC, 1:05 p.m.

AFC, 4:40 p.m.

Pro Bowl Sunday, Jan. 25 At Glendale, Ariz.

Team Irvin vs. Team Carter, 6 p.m.

Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 1 At Glendale, Ariz.

Soccer English Premier League GP W D L GF 19 14 4 1 41 19 13 4 2 41 19 10 6 3 33 19 10 3 6 32 19 9 6 4 34 19 9 4 6 30 19 9 4 6 24 18 8 4 6 23 19 7 5 7 22 18 7 4 7 22 19 7 4 8 21 19 5 6 8 29 19 5 6 8 11 19 3 11 5 16 19 5 3 11 21 19 4 5 10 18 19 3 7 9 18 19 3 7 9 20 19 3 7 9 14 19 3 4 12 17

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

Tottenham vs. Chelsea, 1730 GMT GA 14 17 19 15 23 23 24 19 28 24 23 31 22 27 34 28 26 30 29 31

Sunday, Dec. 28 Tottenham 0, Manchester United 0 Southampton 1, Chelsea 1 Aston Villa 0, Sunderland 0 Hull City 0, Leicester City 1 Manchester City 2, Burnley 2 Queens Park Rangers 0, Crystal Palace 0 Stoke 2, West Brom 0 West Ham 1, Arsenal 2 Newcastle 3, Everton 2 Monday, Dec. 29 Liverpool vs. Swansea, 2000 GMT Thursday, Jan. 1 Stoke vs. Manchester United, 1245 GMT Aston Villa vs. Crystal Palace, 1500 GMT Hull City vs. Everton, 1500 GMT Liverpool vs. Leicester City, 1500 GMT Manchester City vs. Sunderland, 1500 GMT Newcastle vs. Burnley, 1500 GMT Queens Park Rangers vs. Swansea, 1500 GMT Southampton vs. Arsenal, 1500 GMT West Ham vs. West Brom, 1500 GMT

Pts 46 43 36 33 33 31 31 28 26 25 25 21 21 20 18 17 16 16 16 13

England Championship GP W D L GF Bournemouth 24 14 6 4 54 Ipswich 23 12 8 3 38 Middlesbrough 24 12 7 5 38 Derby County 23 12 6 5 44 Watford 24 12 5 7 43 Brentford 24 12 4 8 40 Norwich City 24 10 7 7 44 Wolverhampton 24 10 7 7 28 Blackburn 24 9 8 7 35 Nott. Forest 24 7 10 7 33 Charlton Ath. 23 6 13 4 24 Cardiff 24 8 7 9 32 Sheffield Wed. 23 7 10 6 17 Birmingham 24 8 7 9 27 Bolton 24 8 5 11 26 Reading 24 8 5 11 30 Fulham 23 8 4 11 35 Huddersfield 24 7 7 10 31 Roth. United 24 5 11 8 21 Leeds 23 6 6 11 25 Millwall 24 5 8 11 24 Wigan Athletic 23 4 8 11 24 B & H Albion 23 3 11 9 24 Blackpool 24 2 8 14 18

GA 25 22 17 23 26 35 29 33 33 33 25 35 21 37 31 40 41 42 30 34 40 30 32 41

Pts 48 44 43 42 41 40 37 37 35 31 31 31 31 31 29 29 28 28 26 24 23 20 20 14

Sunday, Dec. 28 Nottingham Forest 1, Birmingham 3 Blackburn 0, Middlesbrough 0 Blackpool 1, Rotherham United 1 Cardiff 2, Watford 4 Huddersfield Town 2, Bolton 1 Millwall 0, Bournemouth 2 Reading 2, Norwich City 1 Wolverhampton Wanderers 2, Brentford 1 Monday, Dec. 29 Fulham vs. Brighton & Hove Albion, 2000 GMT Tuesday, Dec. 30 Derby County vs. Leeds, 1945 GMT Ipswich vs. Charlton Athletic, 1945 GMT Wigan Athletic vs. Sheffield Wednesday, 1945 GMT

Harbaugh, 49ers agree to part ways after 4 years

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Jim Harbaugh gathered his players and told them he is leaving, and they joined their voices for one final, familiar chant: “Who’s got it better than us? No-body!”

“The last, ‘Who’s got it better than us?’ I said it as loud as I could,” said wide receiver Michael Crabtree, who could soon follow the San Francisco coach’s departure.

Harbaugh will not fulfil the final season of his $25 million, five-year contract coaching the 49ers that he signed in January 2011, reaching a mutual agreement with the team to part ways. The announcement came after Sunday’s 20-17 win over the Arizona Cardinals and following a 8-8 season in which San Francisco had hoped to establish some momentum in new $1.3 billion Levi’s Stadium.

“It’s been the time of my life,” Harbaugh said. “Been a lot of great memories, great moments. ... It’s been a tremendous four years, it’s been a pleasure to work and serve for this organization. I feel great about what we accomplished.”

Harbaugh wouldn’t say whether he is indeed about to accept the job at alma mater, Michigan, except to offer vague hints and say he wouldn’t be around come Monday.

When asked specifically about taking over the Wolverines program, he said, “There will be announcements made concerning those things.”

Might he miss the NFL if he moves to Ann Arbor?

“Is the NFL going somewhere?” Harbaugh quipped.

The unraveling of 2014 began months ago, almost a year back, really. San Francisco lost in the NFC championship game last January at Seattle, then watched the rival Seahawks go on to win it all. Shortly after, CEO Jed York acknowledged the Cleveland Browns inquired about trading for Harbaugh.

The 49ers saw thousands of empty seats at most games this season. San Francisco was eliminated from playoff contention with a 17-7 loss at Seattle on Dec. 14, its second defeat to the rival Seahawks in an 18-day stretch.

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The stories to watch in 2015

Can players like Kyle Lowry and Amir Johnson get them back and move them beyond the first round?

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS 2015 will be a busy year in sports.

Here are 10 things to watch for in the coming year:

VIVA LAS VEGAS Las Vegas could be an NHL town soon, with an ownership group in place and a $350-million, 20,000-seat arena under construction.

And NHL commissioner Gary Bettman recently gave millionaire businessman Bill Foley the go-ahead to gauge interest in expanding to Sin City with a season-ticket drive.

While it’s good news for hockey fans in Nevada, it could mean the wait just got longer for other potential expansion cities like Quebec City and Seattle.

The ticket drive is expected to start early in the New Year so stay tuned.

PAN AM PARTY Toronto is gearing up to host the Pan American Games in July.

The Games were last held in Canada in 1999 when Winnipeg hosted.

Toronto residents have been cursing construction that has snarled downtown traffic for years leading up to the Games, which are expected to cost about $2.5 billion, including security, transportation and the athletes village.

But Canada is likely to shine in the medals table with many of the country’s top athletes expected to compete in the July 10-26 Games.

SWINGING FOR THE FENCES

FOOTBALL FEVER This summer, the FIFA Women’s World Cup will hit six Canadian cities: Vancouver, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Ottawa, Montreal and Moncton.

The Canadian women’s soccer team is ranked ninth in the world and their best finish so far at the World Cup was fourth in 2003. They also won bronze at the 2012 Olympics.

The tournament has had its share of controversy already with some elite players fighting the decision to play it on artificial turf.

HOMEGROWN TALENT Come one, come all.

More than 2,400 athletes from the ages of 12 to 35 will be taking part in the Canada Winter Games from Feb. 12 to March 1 in Prince George, B.C., making this a massive event for amateur athletes across the country and a great chance to spot some future stars.

Eugenie Bouchard, Sidney Crosby and Hayley Wickenheiser all competed for their province at past Canada Games.

LOVE THAT TENNIS Canadian tennis stars Eugenie Bouchard and Milos Raonic rose to new heights in 2014.

The spotlight will shine even brighter on them in 2015 as they try to live up to their success.

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Canadian Women’s soccer star Christine Sinclair takes part in a ceremony in Gatineau, Quebec, December 6, 2014 during a FIFA draw for team groupings that will competing at the Canada 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup Football.

Bouchard, a 20-year-old from Westmount, Que., jumped from 32nd to fifth in the WTA world rankings this year to become Canada’s highest-ranked singles player ever. She also made the Wimbledon final as well as the semifinals in the Australian Open and French Open.

Raonic, from Thornhill, Ont., soared as high as No. 6 in the rankings, along the way beating Roger Federer for the first time in Paris this fall and making the Wimbledon semfinals.

ON COURSE Watch for Abbotsford, B.C., golfer Nick Taylor on the PGA Tour in 2015.

In November, he came from four back to fire a final-round 66 at the PGA Tour’s Sanderson Farms Championship in Jackson, Miss., for his first PGA Tour win.

The first Canadian to win a Tour event since Stephen Ames in 2009, Taylor has earned his tour card through the 2016-17 season.

THE YEAR OF THE DRAFT Excitement is building for the 2015 NHL draft with a couple of possible franchise players up for grabs.

Forwards Connor McDavid and Jack Eichel have generated huge buzz leading up to their draft year.

The draft is being held June 26-27 at BB&T Center in Sunrise, Fla., home of the Panthers.

This is also the last best chance for teams that finish at or near the bottom of the standings to score big in the draft, since the lottery will be expanded in 2016 to give other teams a better shot at improving their picks.

RAPTORS RULE After a franchise-record 48 wins in 2013-14, Canada’s only NBA team jumped off to their best start ever in 2014-15.

Last season, fans got their hopes up as the Raptors won their second Atlantic Division title, after failing to make the playoffs five years running.

The Toronto Blue Jays have made a couple of significant moves this offseason, adding Canadian catcher Russell Martin and all-star third baseman Josh Donaldson.

General manager Alex Anthopoulos is hoping the additions will help propel his team into the playoffs for the first time since winning the World Series in 1993.

It’s not the first time Anthopoulos has shaken things up - he made a blockbuster traded with the Marlins before the 2013 season only to watch his team have yet another mediocre season.

But Martin and Donaldson are proven winners and could give the Jays the boost they need.

O CANADA Canada was woefully under-represented in the 2014 NHL playoffs with only the Montreal Canadiens qualifying for post-season play. While they did make Canada proud by advancing all the way to the Eastern Conference final, it was the first time since the 1973 post-season that Canada was so poorly represented.

This season is shaping up to be a different story with Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg, Calgary and Vancouver all in the playoff conversation.

April is still a ways off but there should be plenty of drama for Canadian fans to look forward to between now and then.

Sports quotables good for laughs in gloomy year

“Being from Oakland all I knew about him is he punched people. That’s my kind of person.”

— Seattle Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch, on Seahawks offensive line coach Tom Cable

Championships, to a fan after Westwood hit a tee shot that bounced into the woman’s sweater “Four years ago I was drunk on a couch and said I wanna go to the Olympics. Four years later I’m drunk on a couch at the Olympics.”

— Canadian bobsledder Tim Randall, after his events were done “Speaking of medals, the United States hockey team had no trouble getting through the airport metal detector.”

— David Letterman, after the Olympics

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“If you pay $7,500, you ought to be able to bring out a quesadilla.”

— Skier Bode Miller, after he was asked to surrender his lunch when he attended the Masters

“Torts told us they were starting their idiots over there, so we had to match that.”

— Vancouver Canucks winger Tom Sestito, after a game-opening brawl between the Canucks and Calgary in which both coaches started tough guys, Sestito included

“It’s just funny. I never do that. But unfortunately I’ve done it twice in the last little bit here.”

— Milan Lucic of the Boston Bruins, on spearing opponents in the groin twice in three weeks

“Our offices are closed today due to icy roads. Yes we recognize the irony that the Road Warriors Hockey team doesn’t want to brave icy roads.”

— Tweet from the Greenville Road Warriors, the New York Rangers’ ECHL affiliate

“I didn’t mean to. I thought you were Marchy.”

— Montreal Canadiens defenceman P.K. Subban on the ice to Boston’s Patrice Bergeron, teammate of pest Brad Marchand, after Bergeron asked why Subban punched him in the head

“Would you mind walking 250 yards further forward?”

— Billy Foster, the caddie for Lee Westwood at the World Match Play

“Don’t talk unless it makes you money.”

— Chicago Blackhawks defenceman Niklas Hjalmarsson, on what the doctor

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“The good thing is we haven’t had resources to pay attention to the advanced stats.”

— Arizona Coyotes general manager Don Maloney, on newly acquired Sam Gagner coming with some troubling advanced statistics

“Oh, I see. Because the Oilers stole Maple Leafs idea of never making the playoffs, Toronto steals Edmonton’s sweater toss. Real mature.”

— Rob Tychkowski of the Edmonton Sun

“I’ll kill Luis if he sends me again, but I’m ready to play tomorrow.”

— Hefty Toronto Blue Jays catcher Dioner Navarro, after being waved all the way around the bases by third base coach Luis Rivera before being thrown out at home “To be fair to Luis Suarez, I can’t resist an Italian sub either.”

— Jason Gilbert, an editor at Yahoo Tech, after Uruguay’s Luis Suarez bit reserve defender Giorgio Chiellini of Italy in the World Cup “Ball was higher than my boobs, and not my old boobs.”

— Natalie Punto, wife of Oakland Athletic infielder Nick Punto, after her husband was called out on strikes to end a 3-2 loss to Seattle “When he first came out, I thought he was an alien from Prometheus.”

— Los Angeles Clipper guard J.J. Redick, on the birth of his first child “The situation in the NFL is awful.

It’s gotten so bad that even the Redskins want to change the commissioner’s name.”

— David Letterman “A virgin.”

— Golfer Rory McIlroy, on what he

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Awful year, really. Whether you were a sports fan or just someone who enjoys reading the news, there was plenty to make you reach for the bottle, or the remote, or the power cord. We could all just live in the woods, right?

Except, the mosquitos. So, that won’t work.

But even in the bad times, it helps to laugh.

Otherwise, what is there?

So, here is an incomplete collection of the funniest sports quotes of the year.

See if it helps.

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Pan-Am Games to provide memorable moments

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

Games Debuts

TORONTO — A year before the curtain goes up on the 2016 Rio Olympics, Canada’s top summer athletes will be playing their hearts out on home soil.

Toronto is hosting the 2015 Pan American Games - a direct Olympic qualifying event for many athletes, and a rare chance to compete in front of a Canadian crowd for virtually all of them.

Canada is fielding its largest-ever Pan Am Games team of 700 athletes, and has set a goal of finishing second in the medals - behind perennial champion U.S. - with 160.

Some 6,600 athletes from 41 countries will compete in 36 Pan Am sports - including 28 Olympic sports - plus 15 Parapan Am sports.

Toronto beat out Lima, Peru and Bogota, Colombia, to host the Pan Ams, which run July 10-26. The Parapan Am Games are Aug. 7-14.

Here are five Pan Am storylines to watch:

The Road to Rio

When Canada’s men’s field hockey team edged Argentina in a suddendeath shootout at the 2007 Pan Ams in Rio, it clinched the Canadians a spot in the Beijing Games. It was one of the most memorable moments of Rio. “Any time an Olympic berth is on the line it’s super exciting,” said former Canadian field hockey captain Ken Pereira. “We didn’t play well throughout the tournament, all our games were close. But our best game was our finals versus Argentina. We were chasing and behind the whole game and tied it up with under three minutes.”

The Toronto Pan Ams will be an Olympic qualifier for 19 sports - either directly or indirectly - setting up some thrilling do-or-die moments. With direct qualifiers such as field hockey and men’s water polo, it’s as simple as: win and go to Rio. Among the direct qualifiers: men’s and women’s field hockey, men’s water polo, three-metre and 10-metre individual diving, all three equestrian events (dressage, eventing, jumping), handball, modern pentathlon, sailing (laser and laser radial), shooting (rifle, pistol and shot gun), table tennis and triathlon.

A year before speedy winger Magali Harvey - the 2014 IRB women’s player of the year - and her Canadian women’s rugby teammates make their Olympic debut in Rio, they’ll play in their firstever Pan Am tournament. The men’s game made its Pan Am debut in 2011, where Canada won gold.

Golf, canoe slalom, and women’s baseball will also make their Pan Am debuts in Toronto. The golf competition could provide a sneak peak of the Olympics. The sport was on the Olympic program in 1900 and 1904, and will finally make its Olympic return in 2016 in Rio.

Non-Olympic sports

When Stubby Clapp hit his basesloaded single in the 11th inning against the U.S. at the 1999 Pan Ams in Winnipeg, it put Canadian baseball on the map. Clapp became a household name.

Baseball is one of eight non-Olympic sports at the Toronto Pan Ams. This will be their biggest multi-sport experience, and a chance to show they deserve to be on the Olympic program.

“I think it changed a lot of guys’ careers,” Clapp said of the ‘99 Pan Ams. “That tournament was important for me because I was able to showcase my individual talents, but it was more important for us as a country and as a program that was up and coming, and for all the guys who worked so hard to give our country a good baseball program.”

The seven other non-Olympic sports are water-skiing, wakeboard, racquetball, squash, baseball, softball, karate and bowling.

Stars are Born

Perdita Felicien was just out of college when she won silver in the 100-metre hurdles at the 2003 Pan Ams in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

Jamaican Brigitte Foster-Hylton won the gold. Weeks later, Felicien would go on to win the world championships, and she and Foster-Hylton would go on to be two of the world’s best for the next decade.

“The Pan Am games was the arena I needed to grow my competitive instincts as an athlete,” Felicien said.

“It’s a world class competition that

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Baseball will be one of eight non-Olympic sports to be played at the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto. Team Canada’s left fielder Aaron Guiel (right) is shown watching as second baseman Stubby Clapp does a backflip following their 9-2 bronze medal win over Mexico at the Pan American baseball competition in Winnipeg, Aug. 2, 1999. builds champions, without it as a platform, I wouldn’t have gone on to enjoy 10 years as one of the world’s best hurdlers.”

The Controversy

There’s been criticism over the budget. It was originally announced at $1.4 billion - not including the $709 million cost of the athletes’ village - but is now expected to top $2.57 billion. Security costs were most recently in the news, with organizers estimating costs of $247.4 million, more than double the

original estimate of $121.9 million in Toronto’s bid for the Games.

There’s been staffing issues, including the firing of CEO Ian Troop a year ago.

Traffic will be a concern for what some are already calling the “Gridlock Games.” With plans to implement HOV lanes to ferry athletes and officials, residents and businesses have been warned to look for transportation options for next summer.

And the big question remains: Will Torontonians, with so many entertainment options, embrace the Games?

Murray, Bryant break Cowboys single-season records

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LANDOVER, Md. — DeMarco Murray broke the franchise single-season rushing record for the Dallas Cowboys, passing Emmitt Smith in the first quarter of Sunday’s 44-17 win over the Washington Redskins.

Murray set the mark with a 32-yard run that included a nice cutback, leaving safety Ryan Clark flat-footed at the line of scrimmage. Murray finished with 100 yards on 20 carries to end the season with 1,845 yards, bettering Smith’s tally of 1,773 yards in 1995.

“I couldn’t be happier for him,” Smith said. “He is very deserving of this recognition. ... I am proud of him because I know how hard it is to do what he did this year. I am also proud because I’ve watched him bounce back from some injury setbacks in his first few years. He’s worked through all that, and he deserves to have this record.”

Smith, the NFL’s career leading rusher, ran for 18,355 yards over a 15-year career, including 13 seasons with the Cowboys.

“Means a lot, means a lot from the best running back ever to play the

game,” Murray said. “He’s held a lot of records and a lot of them will never be touched, so I’m just definitely proud.”

Also in the first quarter, Dez Bryant caught scoring passes of 65 and 23 yards to break Terrell Owens’ fran-

chise record of 15 touchdown receptions, set in 2007.

“It feels good, but that’s not what I want,” Bryant said. “We work too hard man, for that opportunity to do something special.”

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The Ride Across Canada coming to Red Deer CHARITY RIDE TO RAISE AWARENESS TO THE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL CHALLENGES OF VETERANS

BY MARY-ANN BARR ADVOCATE STAFF Six years ago, Paul Nichols was in a small shop on Granville Island in Vancouver, buying his wife Terry a necklace when a life-changing moment — one that would bring a lot of tears — arrived.

A Canadian Forces veteran who served in the Balkans with the Calgary Highlanders, 2nd battalion Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, Nichols happened to have his regimental crest on his jacket.

The shopkeeper noticed the crest and began to tell him that she had lived in Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, during the siege that killed over 5,000 civilians.

The woman told Nichols that she and others had to live underground for two years in a parkade, and when they went out to get food and water, they had to make their way through sniper and artillery fire.

In the end, it was Canadian troops that got her out to safety, and she eventually found her way to Vancouver.

The shopkeeper suddenly began to thank Nichols, hugging him and crying. As he turned to look behind him, wondering what others might think of the commotion, Nichols could see that everyone else in the lineup was crying as well.

It was then he understood that the job Canadian soldiers did in the Balkans to try to bring stability to the former Yugoslavia was worthwhile.

“A lot of guys, they wonder,” he said.

“If our guys could know from someone telling them a story, then I don’t think we have to deal with the PTSD, because there is no question of whether their service is worthwhile or whether they made a difference.”

Nichols was involved in the Battle of Medak Pocket. Almost 900 Canadian soldiers serving in the UN mission were in the major battle with Croatian

forces. It’s been described as the forgotten battle.

And so, after that moment on Granville Island, an idea began to grow for the man who, after he left the army in 1996, would settle in Quesnel, B.C., eventually on a farm with horses. His wife is a therapeutic riding instructor.

“Horses are part of my personal journey.

“In order to get through to a horse, you can’t lie to them. ... They have a profound need for strong leadership and you gotta be there for them.

“They don’t respect bullies and they don’t respect anger. In order to address any kind of problems with your horse, you have to first look inside, look deep at yourself.”

Nichols, his wife and daughter will be coming through Red Deer in midMay on a cross-Canada ride that isn’t about him nearly as much as it is about raising awareness that there are soldier veterans who have stories to tell.

Communities for Veterans, a nonprofit charity, is organizing The Ride Across Canada (TRAC) . There is a Facebook page and in the new year a website will be launched.

“People love their troops but they don’t know who they are,” said Nichols.

Deployment is different than it once was, he said. In the past, people used to leave from home towns and come home together, with brothers and cousins and neighbours.

“Now we scatter all over the country. We come home in ones and twos.

“We’ve got a problem and the problem is we don’t know who our veterans are.

“It’s a difficult transition. You’re invisible. You’ve left the brotherhood.

You’ve left your support network.”

He left the army and moved back to small town B.C. in 1996, his wife’s hometown.

“Not only don’t people understand, they don’t believe you. Pretty soon you stop telling them.

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Paul Nichols, left front, aboard his mare Zoe. “This ride is not political at all. It’s just creating awareness in our communities.”

Nichols will leave Victoria with eight horses on April 11, and hopes to arrive in St. John’s, Nfld., in midOctober.

While Nichols did not suffer from PTSD, “I did have trouble transitioning and I think a lot of people do. It’s not uncommon.

“One of the first things that happens with PTSD is guys withdraw. It’s hard to keep track of them and we need our communities to do that.

“I think we did a poor job of acknowledging the service our troops have done.”

Along the ride, the Legion, riding clubs and other groups will be organizing community events.

Other veterans are acting as regional co-ordinators. In Alberta, it’s Rob Stratton from Rimbey.

Nichol’s wife will ride ahead and train the veterans for a half day to ride, then they will join him on the ride and go through their own communities, raising awareness.

“I think we’re going to hear a common theme. When you have 700 guys tell a common story over and over again, it’s going to create conversation and that’s what we want.” barr@reddeeradvocate.com

Diana Anderson a champion of local arts

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF When Diana Anderson calls herself a Red Deer arts supporter, she means it.

The petite, energetic woman with trademark spiky red hair can be seen at cultural events around the city, from the Red Deer Symphony Orchestra concerts to events on the Ross Street Patio.

As co-ordinator of the Red Deer Arts Council, Anderson is a special booster of the Kiwanis Gallery in the downtown branch of the Red Deer Public Library, which the council operates. She not only installs each show with her “team” of helpers, but attends every First Friday exhibit opening, where she shares her enthusiasm with the public.

Why do the arts matter? Anderson sees it as a quality of life issue.

“There’s so much liveliness and joy” that comes from looking at paintings, reading literature, and attending live music or theatre events, said Anderson.

“Can you imagine what a wasteland we would live in if we didn’t support local artists?”

Artisans and artists are essentially small business owners who contribute to the local economy. Yet their reality isn’t made too easy in Red Deer.

Anderson noted city council’s recent handling of a public proposal for a new performing arts centre. The facility was No. 4 on a residents’ wishlist for capital projects. The Red Deer Symphony Orchestra has also been lobbying for years for a new performing arts centre after regularly selling out the 576-seat Red Deer College Arts Centre.

But city council opted to put the proposal way, way onto the back burner — some 20 years in future.

Anderson doesn’t understand why, noting that many much smaller communities, including Medicine Hat with a population of 62,000, have their own municipal performance halls. Even Lacombe, a city of 12,000, is pursuing such a facility.

Red Deer, while declared Canada’s first-ever Culture Capital in 2003, actually values sports over arts and culture.

Consider that the City of Red Deer owns, operates and staffs numerous sports arenas and recreation centres, yet leaves arts facilities to non-profit groups — which is a heavy financial burden.

Anderson noted this caused the demise of a couple of local non-profits that had to turn facilities such as the Old Court House and Scott Block over to the private sector.

Where the City of Red Deer does step up is in supporting many arts groups through fee-for-service grants — and for this Anderson is grateful.

Her own devotion to the local arts and culture scene goes a long way back — much further than in 2010, when she began co-ordinating the newly formed

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Diana Anderson, co-ordinator of the Red Deer Arts Council in the Kiwanis Gallery at the downtown branch of the Red Deer Public Library. The current exhibit in the gallery is a Red Deer Arts Council Visual Arts juried exhibition.

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Anderson, 64, was born into a creative family in Calgary, with a mother who was a singer and dancer, a supportive father who worked in the air force, and grandparents who were painters and musicians.

In 1966, the clan relocated to Red Deer. Upon graduating from high school, Anderson worked briefly at Michener Centre, then put money she had been saving for a trip to Europe (aborted when her would-be travelling companion bailed) towards obtaining an art and design diploma from Red Deer College.

Through what she learned in this program, Anderson became fascinated by how relevant art is to society, often capturing or reflecting what’s going on in the world. She was spurred to earn an art history degree from the University of Alberta. Anderson was then quickly hired by the Red Deer and District Museum.

In 1978, she started what turned out to be her 30-year stint helping with displays, eventually working her way up to exhibits co-ordinator at the museum and Kerry Wood Nature Centre.

Anderson recalled a busy and fulfilling time. She worked on high-profile, international exhibits, including ones that featured photos of the late Queen Mother, Aboriginal art from Australia, and art and historic artifacts from a Scottish island (this one drew dignitaries from Scotland as well as Ottawa to Red Deer for the opening).

There were also many, many national shows, including painting and sculp-

ture exhibits, and a handmade wedding dress display that she prepared to tour across the country.

Anderson, who took an exhibits training course at the National Gallery of Canada, must have made a good impression on the Ottawa technicians who often came to Red Deer to help assemble travelling shows. In 1989, she was one of five technicians seconded from across the country to help prepare for the opening of the former Museum of Civilization (now Canadian Museum of History) in Ottawa.

When the “physicality” of the Red Deer museum job — moving and lifting of heavy artifacts — proved too much for her, Anderson sought a change and took on similar duties at the former commercial bilton contemporary art gallery, which later closed.

Since being hired as Red Deer Arts Council co-ordinator, Anderson has been championing local arts of all kinds — visual, literary, musical and performing.

The organization’s goal is to raise the profile of arts in the community.

The council also aims to increase networking, partnering and educational opportunities for artists.

Anderson, who has served on various boards, including Tourism Red Deer, the Alberta Museums Association, and Red Deer’s Art Walk Committee, sees an expanded role for the council in encouraging and supporting artists through scholarship programs.

The Red Deer Arts Council gives out two $500 Canada Centennial Scholarships, administers a municipal $500

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Princess Margaret Scholarship, and provides a $1,000 Emerging Artists Award.

A fundraiser, featuring live music from local band St. James’ Gate, will be held on Saturday, Jan. 31, at Festival Hall in Red Deer for the latter scholarship, which was born from legacy funds left in the community from when Red Deer hosted the Lieutenant Governor of Alberta’s Distinguished Artist Awards.

The 7 to 9 p.m. Art and Craft (Beer) benefit will also feature beer tasting, wine sales, and silent and live auctions of mostly artistic experiences, including free workshops on painting, needle felting, baking, jewelry making, raku ceramics, glassblowing, dancing and photography.

A house concert will be another auction item, as will sessions on meditation and composting.

“It will be exciting to get involved in the arts in this way,” said Anderson.

She believes Albertans actually have a great appreciation for arts and culture — only they take these for granted.

But if people stopped to think about how much poorer their lives would be without the music on their radios or iPods, without performances on TV, movies or the theatre, without artworks on walls or stories in books, Anderson said they would reconsider how much priority the arts should be given.

Tickets for the fundraiser are $50 from the Black Knight Ticket Centre ($350 for a table of eight). lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

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Mining sector braces for a tough year THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — Canada’s mining sector is bracing for another challenging year in 2015 as slower growth in China is expected to continue to dampen selling prices for many metals.

Iron ore suffered the biggest drop in the past year, losing nearly half its value to reach the lowest price in more than five years. Some expect the price could fall further — perhaps to US$60 per tonne -—on increased supply from Australia and Brazil by giants like Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton, outpaces demand.

Coal, silver, potash, copper and lead prices also weakened in the past year.

Not all metals and minerals suffered. Nickel was the big winner, with prices rising 17 per cent following Indonesia’s ban on exports. Other gainers were uranium, aluminum, zinc and diamonds.

Although mining is in a multi-year global slump, prices are significantly higher than they were a decade ago, said Pierre Gratton, president of the Mining Association of Canada.

“It’s a cyclical industry and we have to weather this,” he said in an interview.

Gratton said mining companies are very focused on reducing costs and will benefit from both the weakened Canadian dollar and dramatically lower energy prices.

“They’ve seen this a million times.

They will weather this and prepare for the next upswing and when (it) comes I think the general view is it is going to be pretty significant.”

China consumes almost half of the world’s base metals.

Even though its pace of growth has slipped, one of the world’s largest economy and other emerging countries, such as India, will need more metal to make consumer goods and build housing to accommodate a growing middle class, and the shift in population to urban from rural.

Just increasing the rate of car ownership will propel demand for iron, aluminum and other metals.

In the meantime, industry observers say mining companies are cautious about new investments until they get a better sense of when conditions will improve.

“We are seeing people looking further out and more optimistic in the 2016-2017 time frame,” said Jackie Przybylowski of Desjardins Capital Markets. “People are positioning themselves now, to take advantage of those longer term positive markets and just sort of hanging in there until then.”

BMO Capital Markets forecasts its commodities price index for metals and minerals will decrease nine per cent this year to its lowest level since 2009, but then increase about four per cent in 2015.

The bank expects precious metal

prices will face further downward pressure from the rising U.S. dollar.

Copper should decrease further but industrial metals like aluminum and zinc which rallied in 2014 should “consolidate” those gains in 2015.

Gold remains the top metal export in Canada even though its price has slipped from a 2011 peak of US$1,921 to about US$1,270 today, down about 10 per cent in the past year. Analysts expect the price will remain relatively stable over the next two years.

Copper prices have been falling, but global supply will slip after Zambia’s tax change to increase royalties prompted Barrick Gold Corp.

(TSX:ABX) to halt operations at its Lumwana copper and gold mine. Other global miners have cancelled projects in Africa’s second-largest copper producing country.

Meanwhile, the outlook for diamonds sparkles, prompting new investments in the Northwest Territories and Quebec.

Rio Tinto, which holds a 60 per cent stake in Diavik near Yellowknife, says it will spend US$350 million over four years to develop the mine, with production from the expansion expected to start in late 2018.

Stornoway Diamond Corp.

(TSX:SWY) plans to develop Quebec’s first diamond mine, a $1-billion project that will see production begin in 2017.

Royal Nickel (TSX:RNX) is also working on its Dumont nickel project,

U.S. food hubs link consumers with local food THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BURLINGTON, Vt. — Move over farmers’ markets. More than 300 food hubs around the country are also providing small farms another outlet to sell locally raised food to consumers.

There’s no one model for a food hub — it depends on the market, the location and what it is grown in that area.

Some collect food from farms and dole it out to customers in weekly deliveries. Other hubs help consumers, restaurants, colleges and institutions to source food online. But producers, consumers and experts all say food hubs have an important thing in common: it’s an efficient way to get locally raised food to those clamouring for it.

“We’ve seen in the last few years in particular as local and region food systems have grown and become not only larger but kind of more sophisticated that there has been a need for sort of the logistics of moving food from the field to the consumers. And food hubs kind of fill that space,” said Doug O’Brien, deputy undersecretary for rural development for the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The agency spent about $25 million from 2009-2013 supporting food hubs.

The number of food hubs has doubled over the last six years, and many are in urban areas, with the Northeast leading the way. Some operate as nonprofits, others are for-profit or producer-consumer co-operatives. Some are modeled after CSAs, or community supported agriculture, where consumers pay up front for food throughout the season. That’s how the Intervale Food Hub in Burlington, Vermont, works, with 30 farms, 15 specialty producers and 1,100 members who pick up their weekly bundles at various sites around the city. The venture started in 2008 with just 192 members and 24 farms. Legal secretary Betsy Bourbeau says the food hub’s deliveries to her place of work are more convenient than shopping at farmers’ markets and cuts down time at the store.

“I spend much less time looking at

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In this Dec. 16, 2014 photo, a weekly delivery of food produced by area farmers is packed at Intervale Food Hub in Burlington, Vt. Food hubs around the country are getting more fresh, locally produced food out to consumers and giving farmers another avenue for expanding their sales. grocery sales, clipping coupons, driving around town and finding parking.

I just bring home my food on Wednesday and figure out what to make,” said Bourbeau, 50, who gets produce, bread, cheese, eggs and specialty items for about $38.50 a week — less than she would spend at a farmers’ market.

For farmers, food hubs provide distribution, marketing and, in some cases, processing and storage.

Predicting what will sell at a farmers’ market is a challenge, according to Ray Tyler of Rosecreek Farms in Selmer, Tennessee. By getting involved with the Bring It Food Hub in Memphis, Tyler can plan ahead for the next growing season, when the hub plans to double its membership to 400.

“Basically instead of us spending all this time on marketing, we can now spend more time doing what we love to do and that is growing great food,” he said.

The emerging business model can be challenging, says Bring It Food Hub operations manager Alex Greene, because you have to cater to customers and be flexible with farmers, whose product is at the mercy of weather.

Food hub leaders need “a sense of the end product” and have to learn the logistics, plus “managing the website, the online credit card system and other technical matters,” Greene said.

To that end, the University of Vermont is starting in January what it says is the nation’s first Food Hub Management Certificate Program.

“Many food hubs are up-and-coming businesses with staff who need further training or experience,” Cynthia Belliveau, dean of Continuing and Distance Education, said in a news release. “High-quality staffing is one of the greatest challenges food hubs face, and it’s also a key contributing factor to their success.”

in northwestern Quebec, that it says will become one of Canada’s largest base metal mines.

“When the mining cycle turns - and it will turn — we have one of the few projects that can deliver a substantial amount of value to the market over the next few decades,” said CEO Mark Selby.

Not all areas of the country are doing so well. Quebec’s iron ore producing Labrador Trough, in the far north, is struggling as low prices have forced Cliffs Natural Resources to close its Bloom Lake mine and several exploration companies to slow their development plans.

ArcelorMittal, which invested $1.6 billion to increase its annual concentrate production capacity to 24 million tonnes, said lower prices is forcing “a structural change” for the iron ore industry to lower costs to offset the possibility of further drops.

The Labrador Trough also faces higher transportation costs to Asia, along with higher labour and energy costs than Australia’s iron region and Brazil.

“This context has forced us to accelerate our strategy and attain our real potential a lot quicker than predicted,” said Pierre Lapointe, vice-president at ArcelorMittal Mining Canada.

He said one way to “ease our pain” is to extend liquefied natural gas north, a move that would cut costs by two to five per cent.

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BRIEF German central bank chief argues cheap oil is stimulus for Europe BERLIN — The president of Germany’s central bank is questioning the need for the European Central Bank to embark on a new bond-buying program when the continent is being “gifted a stimulus program” by low oil prices.

The ECB is considering whether and how to offer more stimulus for the sluggish eurozone economy, perhaps in the form of large-scale purchases of government bonds — not a popular idea in Germany.

Bundesbank chief Jens Weidmann, a member of the ECB governing council, told Sunday’s Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung newspaper that German growth forecasts for next year don’t reflect the extent of the oil price fall — so growth could be better than expected. He said of possible bond purchases: “We are being gifted a stimulus program, so why top it with monetary policy?”

Japan’s prime minister unleashes billions in stimulus to fight recession TOKYO — Japan’s Cabinet on Saturday approved about 3.5 trillion yen ($29 billion) in fresh stimulus, including subsidies and job creation, to help pull the world’s third-largest economy out of recession.

The Cabinet endorsed the plan proposed by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe as it wrapped up work for 2014. It includes 420 billion yen ($3.5 billion) earmarked for helping stagnant regional economies. Abe took office for a third term on Wednesday and faces strong pressure to do something to restore growth after a sales tax hike in April put Japan back in recession.

Data released Friday showed inflation eased a bit in November as household spending dropped, hindering the effort to get the economy out of recession and back to sustainable growth.

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BOGGS the free use of property, Canadians did know, goods or services owned by for example, when to take the company or an allowa raise versus a vacation. ance.

When asked if an employer “Employers are looking for new offered a five per cent raise or another ways to keep employees engaged which week of vacation, 64 per cent knew that is leading to new kinds of benefits and taking a week’s vacation would mean incentives at work,” said Caroline they would pay less tax.

Battista, senior tax analyst with H&R However, only 38 per cent knew that

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a choice between a $2,000 raise and a $2,000 personal trip paid by your employer had the same tax implications, no matter which option was chosen.

Two thirds of employed Canadians can name at least one taxable employee benefit, such as Christmas bonuses, service awards worth more than $500, life insurance premiums paid by the employer and sales rewards or prizes.

However, knowledge about other taxable benefits did not rate so high, including a business trip that an employee adds personal days to, parking at the office (unless you use your car for employment purposes), and prizes won at company draws or raffles. Company cars and working from home can create some confusion in this regard.

If you use a company car as your primary vehicle, the personal mileage you accumulate is considered a taxable benefit. The company only covers the mileage you actually drive for work purposes and no one can claim their commute to and from work as an employment expense.

Only 28 per cent of employed Canadians knew that a company vehicle

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provided full time was a taxable benefit with personal mileage, standby charges and operating expenses included on your T4 slip. Thirty-two per cent said it was not taxable because the company claimed all the expenses.

Even if your employer requires you to work from home two days a week, you are only able to claim office expenses if the company provides you with a signed T2200 declaration of conditions of employment form.

“Your payroll department should be recording your taxable benefits when you receive them and withholding the appropriate amount of tax and CPP so there are no surprises at tax time, but in my experience this is not always the case,” Battista said. “It’s important to know what benefits are being taxed so you can understand all the numbers on your T4 when you file your tax return.”

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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NEW YORK — Can the U.S. hold everyone else above water? That is the question investors are asking as Wall Street heads into 2015.

A strong U.S. economy helped propel the stock market higher in 2014, continuing a bull market that is on pace to celebrate its sixth birthday in March. On more than one occasion, investors dumped stocks following geopolitical flare-ups and concerns about the global economy, only to jump back in when an economic report or results from a big company suggested the U.S. economy was still resilient.

This bull market may be slowing down, but it still has had a remarkable run. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index has more than tripled from its March 2009 low. Wall Street strategists, who typically are bullish on the U.S. stock market, expect the advance to continue into 2015.

Here are the major themes investors will need to watch: SOLID, NOT SPECTACULAR, AGAIN: 2014 has been a solid year for stocks, and Wall Street forecasters expect more of the same next year. The S&P 500 index is on track to return 14 per cent in 2014 including dividends, a healthy gain but well below the 2013 return of 32 per cent. Because the U.S. economy should continue to improve, stocks are likely to march higher in 2015, strategists say. On average, strategists see the S&P 500 up roughly 6 to 8 per cent, with most of the gains coming from large multinational companies that would benefit greatly from an improving U.S. economy. Although there are risks that U.S.-based companies might see international sales slow because of weakness in Europe and Asia, strategists believe U.S. growth will make up for that drag.

While U.S.-based companies do roughly half their sales outside the country, profits are still largely driven by the American economy.

The U.S. economy is expected to grow 3.1 per cent in 2015, accelerating from the 2.2 per cent growth it is expected to have this year.

This is a mature bull market, strategists say, so stock prices are relatively high and the possibility for volatility even higher. Investors are paying roughly $17.50 for every dollar of earnings companies in the S&P 500 generate, the most they’ve paid for stocks since 2010.

These high valuations could make investors more nervous about holding stocks if prices continue to climb. The

U.S interests in Cuba to become more important THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HAVANA — A halfcentury after Washington severed relations with Cuba, the United States’ seven-story mission looms over Havana’s seaside Malecon boulevard as the largest diplomatic outpost in the country.

Cuban guards stand at close intervals on the street outside, and islanders line up by the thousands each year for a shot at a coveted visa.

The gleaming U.S. Interests Section suddenly is poised to become an even more important presence in Cuba as the two countries negotiate the first phase of their historic detente — transforming the complex into a full embassy that would reflect the Obama administration’s hopes of new influence on the communist island.

Roberta Jacobson, assistant U.S. secretary of state for Western Hemisphere affairs, will be the highest known U.S. administration official to visit in decades when she comes next month for annual talks on migration that will now also focus on the details of re-establishing full diplomatic relations.

The discussions are expected to cover expanding staffing in the two countries’ interests sections and letting diplomats travel outside their respective capitals without having to ask permission.

Also part of the reopening of the embassy: symbolic measures such as raising the American flag on the Malecon.

“Opening an embassy is a symbolic gesture, but symbols are really important,” John Caulfield, who was Interests Section chief from 2011 to 2014, said by phone from Jacksonville, Florida, where he retired.

“This is a pretty powerful symbol by our

president that we want to have a more normal relationship with Cuba despite the fact that we have the obvious differences,” he added.

Cuba’s interests section is a stately manor in Washington’s Adams Morgan neighbourhood.

It, too, stands to become an embassy.

Diplomats say privately that Washington hopes to boost staffing in Havana, currently at about 50 Americans and 300 Cuban workers, as more American travellers and trade delegates are expected to come here under new rules to be set by the White House softening the U.S. trade embargo on Cuba.

An agreement could also ease or scrap rules that require U.S. diplomats to channel all requests through Cuba’s Foreign Ministry; the diplomats would be able to deal directly with at least some other branches of government.

The U.S. Interests Section has often been a flashpoint for conflict, and its decades of hybrid status reflect the dys-

functional relationship between the two deeply intertwined countries.

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In this June 18, 2014 file photo, specialist Peter Giacchi calls out prices during the IPO of Foresight Energy on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. A strong U.S. economy helped propel the stock market higher for a fifth-straight year in 2014. shake up the global financial system. Russia’s currency, the ruble, has slumped in recent months because investors are concerned that the government could default or that the country could slip into a recession. In 1998, Russia defaulted on its debt, in part because of plunging oil prices.

The big question for next year is whether the world is simply producing too much oil, or whether the global economy is not strong enough to consume it fast enough. Also, if prices keep falling, will oil producers start cutting back production, which in turn could provide some support for oil prices.

“I still believe what’s happening to oil is related to there being too much supply, but the sell-off is sending ripples through the market about global economic growth,” said Sonders of Charles Schwab.

OPPORTUNITY OVERSEAS? Europe’s economy was in recovery mode the first half of 2014 before being derailed by the Russia-Ukraine crisis.

The economic sanctions the European Union put on Russia for its invasion of Crimea impacted Germany’s economy, Europe’s largest, far more than originally anticipated. Since then, Europe has teetered on the brink of recession.

The Euro Stoxx 50 index, the European equivalent of the Dow Jones industrial average, is up only 1 per cent in 2014 versus the 12 per cent increase in the S&P 500. The European Central Bank has stepped in to help stimulate the region’s economy and is expected to ramp up its efforts early next year.

If the moves work, Europe will come off investors’ worry lists. Until then,

watch out.

If you’re willing to take a more risky view, some strategists say buying into Europe before it recovers could provide an excellent return.

“There are low expectations for Europe’s recovery, which means prices are low,” Koesterich said. In Europe, investors are paying roughly $14 for every dollar of European company earnings compared with the $17.50 investors are paying for every dollar of U.S. earnings. China and Japan are also concerns. The Chinese government is still in a multi-year effort to slow down the country’s rapidly growing economy, which has had mixed results. Japan, meanwhile, is trying to stimulate its stagnant economy through massive amounts of economic stimulus. While the stimulus helped briefly, the Japanese government had to raise taxes to cover the cost of the program, effectively negating what the officials were trying to do.

BONDS WILL HAVE A TOUGH YEAR ... OR WON’T: The biggest prediction of 2014 to fall flat on its face was that bonds would have a bad year in 2014. They didn’t; in fact, they went in the opposite direction. Instead of the 10-year U.S. Treasury note going from 2.97 per cent at the beginning of the year up to 3.5 per cent, as many predicted, the benchmark note was yielding 2.18 per cent as of Dec. 22. Many strategists readily admit they completely missed on their bond predictions. Many investors are doubling down on their bond yield forecasts for 2015, with some looking for the 10-year yield to reach 2.5 per cent to 2.75 per cent next year.

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stock market fell nearly 10 per cent in October, its first major sell-off since 2011.

“Expect more pullbacks or corrections,” says Liz Ann Sonders, chief market strategist for Charles Schwab.

SLOW RATE HIKES For several years, the Federal Reserve had been buying bonds to both keep interest rates low and boost stock prices. The program, known as quantitative easing, was designed to make bonds seem more expensive than stocks.

That program ended in October, but it doesn’t mean the nation’s central bank hasn’t stopped helping out investors. The Fed has kept its key interest rate near zero. Strategists believe the time has come for the Fed to start raising interest rates because the U.S. economy has improved enough to withstand higher borrowing costs. This phenomenon is going to have a huge impact on where the stock market goes in 2015.

“I see the Fed starting to raise interest rates in June, and it’s going to be a gradual increase,” said Russ Koesterich, global chief market strategist at Blackrock. “Investors are ready.”

Generally, strategists see interest rates going from zero to 1 per cent next year, in gradual increments of 0.25 percentage point each.

The Fed cut its benchmark shortterm interest rate to near zero at the height of the financial crisis in December 2008 to stimulate borrowing and lending and to help prevent the economy from collapsing. Stock investors have enjoyed those record-low rates ever since. Now that the U.S. economy has recovered, a near-zero interest rate makes little sense, investors say.

As interest rates rise, investments such as bonds will pay higher yields.

If bonds are earning more, stocks will have to work even harder to be more attractive. That could set up the stock market for some resistance.

MUCH ADO ABOUT OIL: The collapse of oil prices this year has become a huge topic of worry as well as a comfort for investors.

American consumers love that falling oil prices have driven the price of gasoline below $2.50 a gallon. Wall Street’s relationship with oil is far more complex, however. Oil revenues are critical for several large economies, including Russia. Banks loaned money and energy companies issued high-yield bonds to investors based on projected oil revenues. Energy companies are reliant on high crude prices to make money and to keep their stock prices high. Shares of energy companies in the S&P 500 are down 10 per cent this year. Many junk bonds are trading at distressed levels.

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The Ebola outbreak at one year DOCTORS REPORT HOPEFUL SIGNS, BETTER SURVIVAL IN SIERRA LEONE

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS One year into the world’s worst Ebola outbreak, doctors are reporting an encouraging sign: About 70 per cent of patients in a hard-hit area of Sierra Leone now survive.

The Ebola death rate has fallen even though there are no specific medicines or vaccines to fight the virus.

The outbreak began last December in the West African country of Guinea, but it wasn’t recognized until last spring. There have been nearly 20,000 cases and more than 7,500 deaths, mostly in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone, the World Health Organization estimates.

In a letter published online Wednesday by the New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Kathryn Jacobsen of George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, and other doctors tell of 581 patients taken to an Ebola treatment centre that opened near Sierra Leone’s capital, Freetown, in late September.

They were given antibiotics, malaria medicines, ibuprofen for pain and fever, intravenous nutrients, anti-nausea medicine and other supportive care.

About 31 per cent died, including 38 people who were dead when they arrived.

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and said “there’s been a world of difference” since his first visit several months ago.

“There’s been real momentum and real progress,” although there is still a long way to go to ending the outbreak, he said on a telephone briefing Monday. “The challenge is not to let up.”

In an editorial, the medical journal said the same.

“It is painfully clear that the world’s initial handling of this dangerous outbreak was far from optimal, but we

now appear to be making progress in the battle,” the editors write.

But they say big medical centres in the U.S. “have sat largely on the sidelines” and need to make it easier for their staffs to help fight Ebola in Africa.

There are no specific drugs or vaccines to fight Ebola, but some experimental ones are being readied for testing. Doctors also recently started using the blood of Ebola survivors to treat new cases in Africa.

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WASHINGTON - A Missouri firm is recalling its Happy Apple brand caramel apples because of the potential that they could be contaminated with listeria. The recall comes after at least three deaths and at least 29 illnesses in 10 states have been linked to an outbreak of the deadly bacteria.

Happy Apple Co. of Washington, Missouri, said in a statement Wednesday that one of the apple suppliers to its California facility reported that there may be a connection between the listeria outbreak and the apples it had supplied. The recall covers 31 states.

The Food and Drug Administration is continuing to advise consumers not to eat prepacked, commercially produced whole caramel apples.

The recalled Happy Apple caramel apples were sold in single pack, three packs, four packs and eight packs with a best use by date between Aug. 25 and Nov. 23. They were available for retail sale through grocery, discount and club stores in Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Washington and Wisconsin. Happy Apple said the recalled caramel apples were no longer available in stores.

The grocery chain Safeway pulled prepackaged caramel apples from its shelves after the family of an 81-year-old woman who died of listeria filed suit Monday.

She had bought several caramel apples from a Safeway supermarket in Felton, California, in October, the suit claimed.

The FDA says five deaths have been reported, with listeriosis contributing to three of the deaths.

ly, since Nov. 5, mortality was less than 24 per cent.

That is much lower than the 74 per cent death rate other doctors reported for 106 patients who were treated in the eastern Sierra Leone town of Kenema, in May and June, when some health workers were on strike and response to the outbreak was in crisis mode.

The new results are cause for “cautious optimism” that access to care may be improving survival, said one author of the earlier report, Tulane University’s Dr. Daniel Bausch. But they are not from a clinical trial or experiment, so the value of any specific treatment is not known, he said.

In some previous Ebola outbreaks, survival has improved as time goes on and cases are detected and treated sooner. The pace of this outbreak also has slowed, and there have been far fewer cases than health officials had predicted.

In September, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention gave a worst-case scenario estimate of as many as 1.4 million cases by mid-January without more help in the region.

Last month, the agency said that projection won’t happen.

The CDC’s director, Dr. Thomas Frieden, just returned from his second trip to Ebola-stricken countries,

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In this image Martin Freeman appears in a scene from the film, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies.

Hobbit leads busy Christmas box office

1. The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, $41.4 million 2. Unbroken, $31.7 million.

3. Into the Woods, $31 million.

4. Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb, $20.6 million.

5. Annie, $16.6 million.

6. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1, $10 million.

7. The Gambler, $9.3 million.

8. The Imitation Game, $7.9 million.

9 Exodus: Gods and Kings, $6.8 million.

10. Wild, $5.4 million.

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LOS ANGELES — Audiences had their pick of genres over the Christmas weekend, but despite a host of fresh arrivals, splashy holiday fare like Unbroken and Into the Woods proved no match for The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies.

The final installment in Peter Jackson’s trilogy marched to the top spot once again with an estimated $41.4 million take across the weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday.

Universal’s World War II epic Unbroken, took second place with $31.7 million from the weekend, bringing its domestic total to $47.3 million from its first four days in theatres.

“We’re all thrilled,” Nikki Rocco, Universal’s president of domestic distribution said of the Angelina Jolie-directed drama. “It’s a testament to how great this movie is. I’m so happy that America found out about it.”

Added Rentrak’s senior media analyst Paul Dergarabedian: “The story of Louis Zamperini really offered a nice alternative for moviegoers who weren’t looking for a fantasy world, a musical or a family film.”

Disney’s musical Into the Woods, boasting a star-packed cast and a PG rating, came in a close third with $31 million, and $46.1 million across the four days. It replaced Mamma Mia as the biggest opening for a screen adaptation of a Broadway musical ever.

“To be able to take (Stephen) Sondheim and (James) Lapine’s work and make it available to a mass audience?

It’s a great holiday gift in and of itself,” said Disney’s distribution Executive Vice-President Dave Hollis.

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pressive debuts, such as Tim Burton’s awards hopeful Big Eyes, could find an audience in the coming weeks.

“It’s just very, very crowded out there,” Dergarabedian said. “The audience wins, though. There is so much choice out there. If you can’t find a movie to your liking in this lineup, then you just don’t like movies.”

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

Final domestic figures will be released Monday.

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Sony’s The Interview, which was also available for rental and purchase online, ultimately took in $2.8 million from 331 theatres since its opening on Thursday, with $1.8 million of that coming from the weekend.

“I’m so grateful that the movie found its way into theatres, and I’m thrilled that people actually went out and saw it,” said writer, director and star Seth Rogen in a statement. Sony initially called off the release after major theatre chains dropped the comedy depicting the assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un due to threats from hackers. But with President Barack Obama, among others criticizing the decision, Sony officials changed their minds.

“We are very pleased with how it is doing both theatrically where we are seeing numerous sell-outs across the country, and online where it remains at the top of many charts” added Sony’s president of worldwide distribution Rory Bruer. Earnings from digital rentals were not made available.

Other weekend debuts include Paramount’s The Gambler, which took seventh place with $9.3 million, and The Weinstein Company’s Big Eyes, which earned only $2.97 million across the weekend from 1,307 screens and $4.4 million from the four-day period.

In limited release, Clint Eastwood’s fact-based Iraq war drama American Sniper also opened in four locations, taking in $610,000, while Ava DuVernay’s Martin Luther King Jr. drama Selma opened in 19 locations to $590,000 over the three-day weekend.

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HOROSCOPES Monday, Dec. 29 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Paris Berelc, 16; Ted Danson, 67; Mary Tyler Moore, 78 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Today you will feel the tension of the actions you took yesterday. I mean, what you did was for a good reason, right? Well, today your emotions will overwhelm your rational mind. All in all, it will be a pleasant transit but there will be sudden urges to do things differently now. You will feel warm and friendly with those around you, so make it a light hearted day — Enjoy!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today is your birthday, this year will see you making some drastic changes to your home life.

The more energy you put into building your finances and personal worth, the more of a payback you will receive.

There is greater opportunity for you to make money from home this year. Start that business. Others will take kindly to your entrepreneurial spirit. Take that chance now!

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Today is the day to deal with all feelings very openly and honestly. Yes, there will be some tension, but it can also indicate breakthroughs for you within your career and for you personally. Move towards your wishes and what brings a smile to your face today.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Do not take any sudden action today when it comes to your family and your peace of mind. Perhaps there is something that you have done in the past that will now come up again. Deal with your feelings as openly and as honestly as you can.

Keep calm and focused.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You will definitely want to get something off your chest today. Others in your life will be on the receiving end of your honesty, but it will need to come out.

Finally, you will be able to move forward and there will be more opportunities in front of you now.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Your focus will definitely be on the future of your career and the associations you currently have. Opportunity will knock today, but you will have to walk to the beat of your own drum. Don’t worry — just let go of old ways of thinking. Then you can fully step into the new.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Today will be great! You will attract others to you that will make you feel wonderful. Although there will still be some tension throughout your daily life, it shouldn’t be too stressful. You are simply required to be open and honest with others. That is the best you can do now.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept.

22): Try not to act out impulsively today. You will try to see another’s point of view, but your rational mind will be overwhelmed by your emotions now. Not a good day to take new actions. Simply communicate any issues out into the open and all will go well.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): There could be some tension for you today with family. Others will definitely be open and ready to lend a sympathetic ear and this will go far today.

It is a good day to encourage fun and initiate some pleasurable activities, especially later in the day.

Get out there!

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): There is a great opportunity for you to have an amazing day. Yet, there could be a little friction towards you walking your

own path forLARISA MAIRA ward. This is OZOLINS just because you will act out impulsively -values are at stake.

Think before you act. Others are just trying to help you out.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Today should be a very pleasant transit for you personally. However, you will feel the need to defend your point of view with others — from romantic partners to simply those you are socializing with. Do not let your emotions get the better of you today.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Today is the day to deal with all emotions in an open and honest manner. There will be a breakthrough for you, if you are open to accepting things the way they are and then actively looking to make improvements. You’ll attract the right people to you now.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Watch what you say and do today. There will be a sudden urge for you to act out what you have been thinking about on an internal level. For most, this transit will offer you the ability to speak your truth. Stand up for yourself, but just watch out for others’ reactions.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): The truth will set you free, but first your friends will piss you off. Well, I think that’s how the line goes? Today will have that vibe. They might act out and it will not align with your personal vision and wishes. Speak from the heart, understand your values, and hold back.

Larisa Maira Ozolins is an internationally syndicated astrologer and columnist.

SUN SIGNS

not to mention my own child, my husband and my parents. I can’t afford to spend that much on one child. I don’t want to be stuck in this position next year. What do I do?

—Cheap Aunt Dear Aunt: A wish list is not a command.

It is a suggestion. You do not have to pick anything from the list, nor do you need to spend the same amount elsewhere. Next Christmas, send your nieces and nephews what you can afford and what you wish to give them. You might even consider a gift card to their preferred online retailer so they can use it toward the purchase of one of their wish list items.

Dear Annie: My heart went out to “Grieving,” the grandmother whose toddler grandson died in an accidental drowning.

I am a lifeguard. We teach a program for kids ages 9 months to 3 years called “Float for Life.” This program helps children develop the reflex of keeping their heads above water. In some cases, they are even able to learn the elementary backstroke.

Please tell your readers to check at their local pools for options like this. It could save many young lives. — Omaha Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@comcast.net, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

Christmas Vacation fan creates new exit on New Jersey parkway CLARK, N.J. — At least one Christmas Vacation fan was driving on New Jersey’s Garden State Parkway Thursday.

Someone changed a sign for the highway’s exit for Clark and Westfield to read “Clark Griswold.”

Griswold is the father’s character played

by Chevy Chase in the Christmas cult classic.

State Police spokesman Sgt. Gregory Williams confirms photos of the sign posted on social media are real.

Williams says the taped-on Griswold sign at the highway’s exit 135 later was removed by the Turnpike Authority.

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BEARSPAW is a moderately sized oil and gas company operating primarily in the Stettler and Drumheller areas. We are currently accepting applications for a

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Field Service Mechanic Needed Gas Pro Compression Corp, located in Three Hills, AB, is a manufacturing & fabrication shop, which produces & services single well gas compressors ranging from 10 to 80HP. Currently we are looking to fill a position for Field Service Mechanic.

Successful candidate must possess strong work ethics. Experience with natural gas compression is an asset but not essential. Trade Certification is required and preference will be given to those having experience. Please fax resumes to 403-443-5288, apply in person at 227, 17th Ave N, Three Hills AB, or email to Peter.

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1693338 Alberta LTD o/a Custom T’s Hire Sales Supervisor - retail Location at Parkland Mall, 4747 67th St, Red Deer, Truckers/ AB T4N 6 F/Time, Perm, Shifts, Drivers Weekends Salary - $22.00 hourly Experience min. 2 years, good English.

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Fast Express (1790810 AB customer service, cash Ltd.) in Red Deer, AB handling, and supervisory Straight truck: 4600kg+w/2 related. wage $13.75 w/at axles and van least 1 year exp. email: Need class 5 DL + 2 yrs restuarantbusiness@ exp. $25 per hr/ with hotmail.ca OPEN availability Duties: pick up/deliver Classifieds freight, pre-trip truck Your place to SELL inspection, communication Your place to BUY with customers. Physically demanding position. Time DAIRY equipment supplier looking for management skills GENERAL LABORERS required. Apply at: 8004 & WELDERS Edgar Industrial Green, Competitive wages and Red Deer, T4P3S2 benefits package. E-mail Call: 403.845.2230 Fax: resume: info@prolineinc.ca 587.997.7719

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Jiffylube is currently looking for an installer to join our team. Benefits available. With the right experience the job would include a supervisory role.

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Bashaw Golf and Country Club in Central Alberta requires a GENERAL MANAGER

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The successful applicant must be self-managing, have strong organizational skills, customer service experience and be capable of managing the overall performance of all operations.

Golf experience is not necessary, but would be a considerable asset. The club is prepared to offer a competitive compensation package in accordance with previous experience and education. Please email your cover letter with resume to both bashawgolfclub@hotmail.ca and to the President of the Board djonespfd26@hotmail.com no later than Friday Jan. 2, 2015 To see more details about our club please visit our website at www. bashawgolf.com We thank everyone in advance for their interest in this opportunity. Please be aware that only the short listed candidates will be contacted for further consideration for this position.

Blue Grass Sod Farms Ltd. Box 11, site 2, RR1 Red Deer, AB Reqs Farm labourers for 2015 season (April -November) in Red Deer.

Duties include: sod farming and tree nursery.

Tree nursery will involve planting, pruning and digging trees. Will train/exp. An asset.

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MASSAGE ABOVE ALL JG PAINTING, 25 yrs. exp.

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5* JUNK REMOVAL

Property clean up 340-8666 GARAGE DOOR SERVICE. Save 50%. All yard & bobcat services, junk/tree/snow removal. 403-358-1614 SNOW blowing, junk/metal p/u, odd jobs 403-885-5333

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2009 TOYOTA Corolla, 124,000 km, 403-348-9778 2001 Chev Malibu, 4 dr.

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RED’S AUTO. Free Scrap Vehicle & Metal Removal.

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MONDAY, DEC. 29, 2014

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SURABAYA, Indonesia — The search for a missing AirAsia jet carrying 162 people that disappeared more than 24 hours ago on a flight from Indonesia to Singapore resumed with first light Monday.

First Admiral Sigit Setiayana, the Naval Aviation Center commander at the Surabaya air force base, said that 12 navy ships, five planes, three helicopters and a number of warships were talking part, along with ships and planes from Singapore and Malaysia.

Setiaya said visibility was good. “God willing, we can find it soon,” he told The Associated Press.

AirAsia Flight 8501 vanished in airspace thick with storm clouds on its way from Surabaya, Indonesia, to Singapore. Searchers had to fight against heavy rain on Sunday before work was suspended due to darkness.

The plane’s disappearance and suspected crash caps an astonishingly tragic year for air travel in Southeast Asia. The Malaysia-based carrier’s loss comes on top of the still-unexplained disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 in March and the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in July over Ukraine.

At the Surabaya airport, passengers’ relatives pored over the plane’s manifest, crying and embracing. Nias Adityas, a housewife from Surabaya, was overcome with grief when she found the name of her husband, Nanang Priowidodo, on the list.

The 43-year-old tour agent had been taking a family of four on a trip to Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia’s Lombok island, and had been happy to get the work.

“He just told me, ‘Praise God, this new year brings a lot of good fortune,”’ Adityas recalled, holding her grandson tight while weeping uncontrollably.

Nearly all the passengers and crew are Indonesians, who are frequent visitors to Singapore, particularly on holidays.

The Airbus A320 took off Sunday morning from Indonesia’s second-largest city and was about halfway to Singapore when it vanished from radar. The jet had been airborne for about 42 minutes.

There was no distress signal from the twin-engine, single-aisle plane, said Djoko Murjatmodjo, Indonesia’s acting director general of transportation.

The last communication between the cockpit and air traffic control was at 6:13 a.m. (23:13 GMT Saturday), when one of the pilots “asked to avoid clouds by turning left and going higher to 34,000 feet (10,360 metres),” Murjatmodjo said. The jet was last seen on radar at 6:16 a.m. and was gone a minute later, he told reporters.

Indonesia, Singapore and Malaysia launched a search-and-rescue operation near Belitung island in the Java Sea, the area where the airliner lost contact with the ground.

AirAsia group CEO Tony Fernandes flew to Surabaya and told a news conference that the focus for now should be on the search and the families rather than the cause of the incident.

“We have no idea at the moment what went wrong,” said Fernandes, a Malaysian businessman who founded the low-cost carrier in 2001. “Let’s not speculate at the moment.”

Malaysia-based AirAsia has a good safety record and had never lost a plane before.

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In this photo released by China’s Xinhua News Agency, Indonesian Transport Minister Ignasius Jonan, right, speaks at a press conference on AirAsia’s missing flight QZ8501 at Juanda International Airport in Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia, Sunda.. A massive sea search was underway for an AirAsia plane that disappeared Sunday while flying from Indonesia to Singapore through airspace possibly thick with dense storm clouds, strong winds and lightning, officials said “This is my worst nightmare,” Fernandes tweeted.

But Malaysia itself has already endured a catastrophic year, with 239 people still missing from Flight 370 and all 298 people aboard Flight 17 killed when it was shot down over rebel-held territory in Ukraine.

AirAsia said Flight 8501 was on its submitted flight plan but had requested a change due to weather.

Sunardi, a forecaster at Indonesia’s Meteorology and Geophysics Agency, said dense storm clouds were detected up to 13,400 metres in the area at the time.

“There could have been turbulence, lightning and vertical as well as horizontal strong winds within such clouds,” said Sunardi, who like many Indonesians uses only one name.

Airline pilots routinely fly around thunderstorms, said John Cox, a former accident investigator. Using on-board radar, flight crews can typically see a storm forming from more than 100 miles away.

In such cases, pilots have plenty of time to find a way around the storm cluster or look for gaps to fly through, he said.

“It’s not like you have to make an instantaneous decision,” Cox said. Storms can be hundreds of miles long, but “because a jet moves at 8 miles a minute, if you to go 100 miles out of your way, it’s not a problem.”

It was unclear based on comments from authorities what air traffic controllers saw on their screens

when the plane disappeared from radar, he noted.

Authorities have not said whether they lost only the secondary radar target, which is created by the plane’s transponder, or whether the primary radar target, which is created by energy reflected from the plane’s body, was lost as well, Cox said.

The plane had an Indonesian captain and a French co-pilot, five cabin crew members and 155 passengers, including 16 children and one infant, the airline said in a statement. Among the passengers were three South Koreans, a Malaysian, a British national and his 2-year-old Singaporean daughter. The rest were Indonesians.

AirAsia said the captain more than 20,000 flying hours, of which 6,100 were with AirAisa on the Airbus 320. The first officer had 2,275 flying hours.

At Surabaya airport, dozens of relatives sat in a room waiting for news, many of them talking on mobile phones and crying.

Dimas, who goes by one name, said his wife, 30-year-old Ratri Sri Andriani, had been on the flight to lead a group of 25 Indonesian tourists on a trip to Singapore and Malaysia. He was holding out hope that the plane had made an emergency landing.

“We can just pray and hope that all those aboard are safe,” said Dimas, who was surrounded by Ratri’s parents and friends at the airport crisis centre.

The missing aircraft was delivered to AirAsia in October 2008, and the plane had accumulated about 23,000 flight hours during some 13,600 flights, Airbus said in a statement.

1 dead, hundreds still stranded in Greek ferry disaster ATHENS, Greece — Italian and Greek military and coast guard rescue crews battled gale-force winds and massive waves Sunday as they struggled to rescue hundreds of people trapped on a burning ferry adrift between Italy and Albania. At least one person died and two were injured.

The Italian Navy said 190 of the 478 people on the ferry, sailing from the Greek port of Patras to Ancona in Italy, had been evacuated by late Sunday night.

Most were airlifted by helicopter to other merchant vessels sailing nearby.

“It will be a very difficult night. A night in which we hope we will be able to rescue all on board,” Greek Merchant Marine Minister Miltiadis Varvitsiotis said in Athens.

He said 10 merchant ships were in the area assisting rescue efforts, and that those who had already taken on dozens of passengers from the stricken ferry would remain in the area until the operation was over. Only then would it be determined where they would go, Varvitsiotis said.

The fire broke out before dawn Sunday on a car deck of the Italian-flagged Norman Atlantic, carrying 422 passengers and 56 crew members. Passengers huddled on the vessel’s upper decks, pelted by rain and hail, passengers told Greek media by phone.

Italy and Greece sent navy and coast guard vessels and helicopters to the extensive rescue operation, while nearby merchant ships lined up to form a barrier to protect the ferry from towering waves. As darkness fell, Italian Defence Minister Roberta Pinotti said rescue operations would continue through the night.

The Italian Coast Guard, which was co-ordinating the rescue operation, said those flames visible from the outside of the ship had been extinguished by about 8:30 pm (1930 GMT), about 16 hours after the blaze began. But the ferry was still enveloped in dense smoke, which the Coast Guard probably said was being fueled by some hotspots inside the ship.

Varvitsiotis described the efforts as “one of the most complex search and rescue operations we have dealt with in recent years.”

An Italian Air Force helicopter pilot said smoke was invading the helicopter cabin, making rescue even more challenging.

“With the wind, smoke entered into the helicopter cabin, acrid smoke,” Maj. Antonio Laneve told Italian state TV. Some of those they were trying to rescue were very frightened of being hoisted up by helicopter given the adverse weather, he said.

Nine of those evacuated were taken to the Italian town of Lecce, authorities said. Of those, three children and a pregnant woman were being treated for hypothermia in Lecce hospital. Dr. Raffaele Montinaro said the children were in “excellent” condition, and emergency room doctor, Antonio Palumbo, said the mother’s condition was also good.

The Italian Navy said the man who died and his injured wife were transported by helicopter to the southern Italian city of Brindisi. It was unclear how the death and injury occurred, but the Greek Coast Guard said the pair— both Greek passengers —were found in a lifeboat rescue chute.

The second injury was to a member of the Italian military involved in the rescue operation, Coast Guard Admiral Giovanni Pettorino said.

Pettorino told Italy’s Sky TG24 TV that two Italian tugs tried to attach themselves to the ferry in the evening, but were frustrated by the thick smoke.

Passengers described scenes of terror and chaos when the fire broke out as they slept in their cabins.

“They called first on women and children to be evacuated from the ship,” Vassiliki Tavrizelou, who was rescued along with her 2-year-old daughter, told The Associated Press.

“Ships could not approach us because of the rain and winds,” Tavrizelou said in a telephone interview from Lecce. “We were at least four hours on the deck, in the cold and rain.”

She recalled the ship alarm going off and seeing fire from her cabin. “Then we heard explosions,” she said. It was not immediately clear what the ex-

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Passenger Giorgos Stiliaras told Greek Mega TV that passengers were having trouble breathing with all the smoke. “We are outside, we are very cold, the ship is full of smoke,” he said by telephone. “The boat is still burning, the floors are boiling.” He recalled people being awakened by “the smell of burning plastic.”

The ship, run by a Greek ferry company, was packed with holidaymakers and truck drivers making the popular transport run between Greece and Italy.

Of those on board, 234 passengers and 34 crew are Greek, said Greek Merchant Marine spokesman Nikos Lagadianos.

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Denver-area shelters cite legal pot as reason for rise in homeless

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Chris Easterling talks with a reporter with The Associated Press about what he sees as the net benefits for many homeless people of legalized marijuana in Colorado, inside the Salvation Army shelter in Denver. Easterling was sick of relying on illegal drug dealers in Minneapolis when he needed marijuana to help ease the pain of his multiple sclerosis.

DENVER - Chris Easterling was sick of relying on drug dealers in Minneapolis when he needed marijuana to help ease the pain of multiple sclerosis. They were flaky, often leaving the homeless man without the drug when he needed relief the most.

So he moved to Denver, where legal pot dispensaries are plentiful and accessible.

Easterling is among a growing number of homeless people who have recently come to Colorado seeking its legal marijuana and who now remain in the state and occupy beds in shelters, service providers say.

While no state agency records how many homeless people were drawn by legal weed, officials at homeless centres say the influx they are seeing is straining their ability to meet the needs of the increasing population. “The older ones are coming for medical (marijuana), the younger ones are coming just because it’s legal,� said Brett Van Sickle, director of Denver’s Salvation Army Crossroads Shelter, which has more than doubled its staff to accommodate the increase.

The shelter did an informal survey of the roughly 500 new out-of-towners who stayed there between July and September and found as many as 30 per cent had relocated for pot, he said.

Shelters in some other parts of the state said they haven’t noticed the problem or haven’t surveyed their residents about it.

Colorado’s homeless population and its marijuana dispensaries are both concentrated in Denver, which could be why shelters say they are experiencing a more noticeable rise.

Other factors could be driving the rising homeless rates. Colorado’s economy is thriving, but the number of affordable homes and apartments is shrinking.

Julie Smith of Denver’s Road Home, a city plan that aims to end homelessness, said the city’s rising overall population could be a reason for an increase in the number of homeless people.

She said the agency has heard anecdotal reports about homeless people moving to the state for the marijuana, but officials don’t have any numbers to support that assertion.

The city is eager to see the results of a study by Metropolitan State University of Denver’s Criminal Justice and Criminology Department of issues related to legal marijuana, including any correlation between legal marijuana and rates of homelessness.

Assistant professor Rebecca Trammell said the researchers did interviews with shelter employees and volunteers after hearing anecdotes about the problem but have no preliminary findings.

Many of those staying in shelters come to Denver with big plans and find they can’t make ends meet, said Tom Luehrs, executive director of capital city’s Saint Francis Center.

The shelter has seen an increase from 730 people a day in 2013 to 780 people this year, and as many as 300 new faces a month. Not all of them are potsmokers, Luehrs said, but many have said they were drawn to the state because of legal marijuana.

Shelters in Washington state haven’t experienced a noticeable influx since that state’s legal recreational sales started in July. Capt. Dana Libby, Seattle Social Services director for the Salvation Army, said the economy is largely to blame for the high rates of homelessness there.

In Colorado, some out-of-town homeless people are seeking jobs in the marijuana industry but learn only after arriving that they lack the two-year residency requirement needed to work in a dispensary.

Others have felony records that make them ineligible, Van Sickle said.

Van Sickle’s shelter prohibits weed and other drugs.

Alamo set a shell of its former glory SET OF 1960 JOHN WAYNE EPIC ONCE A MAJOR TOURIST ATTRACTION BRACKETTVILLE, Texas - Time and Mother Nature are threatening to dismantle the Alamo. Not the original, but the replica 18th-century Spanish mission and Old West movie set John Wayne built for his Oscar-nominated 1960 movie and that for decades was a tourist mecca and film production site. “It’s not just something that represents history to a movie set - it is now history for sure,� says Rich Curilla, the one-man curator and custodian of the now-closed Alamo Village.

Alamo Village, a 400-acre plot of land about 120 miles west of San Antonio, was carved out of a large ranch in the late 1950s for Wayne’s directorial debut. Starring Richard Widmark as Jim Bowie and Wayne as Davy Crockett, “The Alamo� had an estimated $12 million budget, huge for its time.

The 4-foot-thick Alamo facade was modeled off a 1936 map of the historic building - drawn up for the Texas centennial that year - and set construction took nearly two years. Unlike the real Alamo, which is dwarfed by taller buildings in the heart of San Antonio, the view from Wayne’s Alamo offered a panorama of iconic Texas and Western images. “To Hollywood, a movie set is just a means to an end,� said Curilla, a film and Alamo historian who spent his summers in college during the late 1960s at the site and began working there full-time in 1988. “I think Wayne was cognizant of building a monument and not just a movie set.�

In its heyday, Wayne’s Alamo hosted Jimmy Stewart, Dean Martin, Raquel Welch and even Willie Nelson. It’s where

James Arness reprised his famous Matt Dillon role in a “Gunsmoke� TV movie.

In all, nearly 40 major film and TV productions, plus hundreds of commercials, documentaries and music videos were shot at Alamo Village. And musical shows, comedy skits and staged gunfights drew hundreds of tourists daily. “It was magical,� said Penny Loewen, who was 18 in 1979 when she arrived from tiny St. Francisville, Illinois. She stayed for three years, getting paid $350 a month to sing and perform six days a week, 11 hours a day. “We would do just about anything,� the 55-year-old retired Nashville songwriter who remained involved with movie productions for 20 years said. “That was the most fun I ever had in my life.�

Business at Alamo Village began to wane in the 1980s when traffic along the main east-west route through South Texas shifted north with completion of Interstate 10. It closed to the public after the last remaining owner died in 2009 and the property was divided among heirs.

The land now primarily is used for cattle grazing and hunting.

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Rich Curilla locks the doors to a replica of the Alamo, built for John Wayne’s 1960 movie The Alamo, in Brackettville, Texas. Wayne’s movie about the famous siege marked his debut as a director and had an estimated budget of $12 million, huge at that time.

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Retail offers not combinable with any CPA/GPC or Daily Rental incentives, the Commercial Upfit Program or the Commercial Fleet Incentive Program (CFIP). † Until January 2, 2015, receive $500/ $750/ $1,000/ $2,000/ $2,500/ $3,500/ $4,000/ $4,250/ $4,500/ $4,750/ $5,000/ $5,500/ $6,000/ $6,250/ $6,500/ $7,000/ $7,250/ $7,500/ $8,500/ $10,500 in Year End Clearout Cash (Delivery Allowances) with the purchase or lease of a new 2015 Fusion/ 2014 Focus (excluding S Manual) and 2015 Explorer, F-150 Regular Cab XL 4x2 (Value Leader)/ 2014 C-MAX and 2015 Taurus (excluding SE), Expedition, Transit Connect, E-Series Cutaway, Transit/ 2014 F-150 Regular Cab XL 4x2 (Value Leader) and 2015 F-350 to F-550 Chassis Cabs/ 2014 Focus S Manual, Edge and 2015 Fiesta S/ 2015 F-150 Regular Cab (excluding XL 4x2)/ 2014 Fiesta, F-350 to F-550 Chassis Cabs/ 2014 Mustang V6 Coupe, Taurus SE, Escape, Explorer/ 2015 F-150 SuperCab and SuperCrew/ 2014 Fusion/ 2014 Transit Connect (excluding electric)/ 2014 E-Series, F-150 Regular Cab (excluding XL 4x2), F-150 SuperCrew 4x4 XLT 300A/ 2014 Flex, F-150 SuperCrew 4x2 5.0L and 4x4/ 2014 Taurus (excluding SE)/ 2014 Mustang V6 Premium, F-150 SuperCab/ 2015 F-250 to F-450 (excluding Chassis Cabs) Gas engine/ 2014 Expedition/ 2014 Mustang GT/ 2014 F-250 to F-450 (excluding Chassis Cabs) Gas engine and 2015 F-250 to F-450 (excluding Chassis Cabs) Diesel engine/ 2014 F-250 to F-450 (excluding Chassis Cabs) Diesel Engine -- all stripped chassis, cutaway body, F-150 Raptor, Medium Truck, and Mustang GT500 models excluded. Year-End Cash is not combinable with CPA, GPC, CFIP, Daily Rental Allowance and A/X/Z/D/F-Plan programs. Delivery allowances are not combinable with any fleet consumer incentives.††Until January 2, 2015, lease a new 2015 Escape S FWD with 2.5L engine/2014 Focus S 4Dr Manual for up to 36/48 months and get 0% APR on approved credit (OAC) from Ford Credit. Not all buyers will qualify for the lowest APR payment. Lease a model with a value of $30,000 at 0% APR for up to 36/48 months with an optional buyout of $13,200/$10,800 and $0 down or equivalent trade in, monthly payment is $466.67/$400.00, total lease obligation is $16,800.12/$19.200.00, interest cost of leasing is $0 or 0%APR. Additional payments required for PPSA, registration, security deposit, NSF fees (where applicable), excess wear and tear, and late fees. Some conditions and mileage restrictions apply. Excess kilometrage charges are 12¢per km for Fiesta, Focus, C-Max, Fusion and Escape; 16¢per km for E-Series, Mustang, Taurus, Taurus-X, Edge, Flex, Explorer, F-Series, MKS, MKX, MKZ, MKT and Transit Connect; 20¢per km for Expedition and Navigator, plus applicable taxes. Excess kilometrage charges subject to change, see your local dealer for details. ***Until January 2, 2015, receive 0% APR purchase financing on new 2015 Escape for up to 36 months, 2014 Ford Edge models for up to 60 months, and 2014 Focus, C-MAX, F-150 (excluding Regular Cab XL 4x2 value leader and Raptor) and 2015 Fiesta and Fusion models for up to 72 months to qualified retail customers, on approved credit (OAC) from Ford Credit. Not all buyers will qualify for the lowest interest rate. Example: $25,000 purchase financed at 0% APR for 36/60/72 months, monthly payment is $694.44/ $416.66/ $347.22, cost of borrowing is $0 or APR of 0% and total to be repaid is $25,000. Down payment on purchase financing offers may be required based on approved credit from Ford Credit. *Purchase a new 2015 Fiesta S 4 Dr Manual/2015 Fiesta Titanium/2014 Focus ST/2014 Fusion SE/2014 Fusion Titanium/2015 Escape S FWD with 2.5L engine /2014 Escape Titanium for $13,739/$21,514/$31,664/$19,999/$35,699/$24,849/$37,449 after Year-End Cash of $2,500/$0/$750/$4,750/$4,750/$0/$0 is deducted. Taxes payable on full amount of purchase price after total Year-End Cash has been deducted. Offers include freight and air tax but exclude variable charges of license, fuel fill charge, insurance, dealer PDI (if applicable), registration, PPSA, administration fees and charges, any environmental charges or fees, and all applicable taxes. Manufacturer Rebates are not combinable with any fleet consumer incentives. **Until January 2, 2015, receive 0.99%/5.89%/2.99% annual percentage rate (APR) purchase financing on a new 2015 Fiesta S 4Dr Manual/ 2014 Fusion SE /2015 Escape S FWD with 2.5L engine for a up to 84/ 72/84 months to qualified retail customers, on approved credit (OAC) from Ford Credit. Not all buyers will qualify for the lowest interest rate. Example: 2015 Fiesta S 4 Dr Manual /2014 Fusion SE/2015 Escape S FWD with 2.5L engine for $13,739/$19,999/$24,849(after $0/$0/$0 down payment or equivalent trade-in, and $2,500/$4,750/$0 Year-End Cash deducted) purchase financed at 0.99%/5.89%/2.99% APR for 84/72/84.months, monthly payment is $169/$330/$328 (the sum of twelve (12) monthly payments divided by 26 periods gives payee a bi-weekly payment of $78/$152/151), interest cost of borrowing is $487.22/$3,790.07/$2,721.93 or APR of 0.99%/5.89%/2.99% and total to be repaid is $14,226.22/$23,789.07/$27,570.93. Down payment may be required based on approved credit from Ford Credit. All purchase finance offers include freight and air tax but exclude variable charges of license, fuel fill charge, insurance, dealer PDI (if applicable), registration, PPSA, administration fees and charges, any environmental charges or fees, and all applicable taxes. ▲Offer only valid from December 2, 2014 – January 2, 2015 (the “Offer Period”) to resident Canadians with an eligible Costco membership on or before November 30, 2014. Receive $750 towards the purchase or lease of a new 2014/2015 Ford Fiesta (excluding S), Focus (excluding S and BEV), C-MAX, and $1,000 towards all other Ford models (excluding GT500, GT350, 50th Anniversary Edition Mustang, Raptor, and Medium Truck) (each an “Eligible Vehicle”). Limit one (1) offer per each Eligible Vehicle purchase or lease, up to a maximum of two (2) separate Eligible Vehicle sales per Costco Membership Number. Offer is transferable to persons domiciled with an eligible Costco member. Applicable taxes calculated before CAD$1,000 offer is deducted. ® Registered trademark of Price Costco International, Inc. used under license. ††† Offer only valid from December 11, 2014 to January 2, 2015 (the “Program Period”) to Canadian resident customers. Receive $500 towards 2014/2015 Focus, Fiesta, or C-MAX, and $750 towards 2014 Mustang (excluding Shelby GT500) and F-150 (excluding Raptor), and 2014/2015 Fusion, Taurus, Edge, Flex, Explorer, Escape, Expedition, Transit Connect, E-Series, F250 – F-550 (excluding Chassis Cabs), and F-350 to F-550 Chassis Cab models - all stripped chassis, cutaway body, and Medium Truck models excluded (each an “Eligible Model”) with the purchase, lease, or factory order (during the Program Period) of an Eligible Model. Limit one (1) incentive redemption per Eligible Model sale.^^Based on 2007 - 2013 and YTD August 2014 R. L. Polk vehicle registrations data for Canada in the Large Premium Utility, Large Traditional Utility, Large Utility, Medium Premium Utility, Medium Utility, Small Premium Utility, and Small Utility segments.‡‡Claim based on analysis by Ford of Polk global new registration for CY2012 for a single nameplate which excludes rebadged vehicles, platform derivatives or other vehicle nameplate versions.©2014 Sirius Canada Inc. “SiriusXM”, the SiriusXM logo, channel names and logos are trademarks of SiriusXM Radio Inc. and are used under licence. ©2014 Ford Motor Company of Canada, Limited. All rights reserved.

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