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GDP poised to tumble WEAK OIL PRICES WILL SLOW RESIDENTIAL CONSTRUCTION, RETAIL ACTIVITY: ECONOMIST BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR ATB Financial is warning that weak oil and natural gas prices will result in economic pain for Alberta this year. But the province is still in relatively good shape

and a recession is unlikely. An economic outlook issued by the Crown-owned financial institution on Wednesday projected that Alberta’s GDP growth will tumble to 2.0 per cent this year, about half the 2014 rate. Unemployment is expected to climb to 5.4 per cent, as compared with 4.7 per cent last year, and a slower in-migration of people to the province will hamper residential construction and retail activity.

“The economic picture painted by our research certainly shows a slowdown,” said Todd Hirsch, ATB Financial’s chief economist. “But it’s not doom and gloom here. We’re still on track with Canadian averages; we’re just not full steam ahead as we have been in recent years.”

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Snow and ice policy praised BY ADVOCATE STAFF The early reviews are in — and they’re good — for the city’s new snow and ice policy. “I think when we first rolled it out there was a lot of concern and angst about what is a dual windrow, what’s that going to look like and what does it mean to me,” said Elaine Vincent, the city’s director of development services. “Now that we’ve had that first residential snow clearing program we’ve seen that angst calm down,” said Vincent following a budget presentation to council. “Residents are seeing what it is. It is quicker and it is faster.” Windrows are the piles left by snow plows. In the past, they were piled on one side of the street but the new policy is to deposit smaller piles on each side of a street.

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Mourners hold signs depicting victim’s eyes during a rally in support of Charlie Hebdo, a French satirical weekly newspaper that fell victim to an terrorist attack, Wednesday, at Union Square in New York. French officials say 12 people were killed when masked gunmen stormed the Paris offices of the periodical that had caricatured the Prophet Muhammad. Please see related stories on page A4 and A5.

Buchanan demands greater security for city assets BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF

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Red Deer city Coun. Buck Buchanan got all fired up about the security at city-owned buildings and properties. Buchanan took issue with the city’s plans to spend $40,000 to develop a corporate security program on the second day of operating budget presentations on Wednesday. Buchanan questioned the low priority placed on something he said is critical to the security of people, information and finances in city operations. Director of Corporate Services Paul Goranson said the dollars will help them move forward in developing mid-to long-term security strategies. “Some of the things that are happening in our world and in Canada does put more emphasis on the need for different focuses of security,” he said. Buchanan said the work is not being done fast enough.

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“It’s critical in everything we do,” said Buchanan. “We talk about our assets. We talk about our financial . . . yet it is running off the corner of someone’s desk. I am wondering at this slow pace. When do we up the ante.” Lisa Perkins, director of corporate transformation, said the city has a corporate security team

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which represents finance, information, technology services, buildings, assets and other areas. The team has policies and reporting processes in place, similar to what the city does around health and safety. She said as the city has found best practice opportunities to improve safety when doing building renovations such as at the Civic Yards buildings and the G.H. Dawe Centre and the Recreation Centre. Security plans have been built into most city buildings and facilities. Buchanan said this highlights the need for an organizational review. He said if planning and legal services can be brought in house than a corporate security division is possible. “Like any other program or service as the needs grow, how we choose to offer that service could be using in house, external, consulting, embedded within an already existing area,” said Perkins. “I think that needs to be determined. Again form follows function.”

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Randy Hjertaas prepares to sweep a rock thrown by his brother Rick at the Michener Hill Curling Club in Red Deer on Wednesday. The two along with their teammates are preparing for the Senior District playdowns taking place at the club this weekend. Six teams from Red Deer and Southern Alberta will compete for four spots at the next stage playdowns to determine which Alberta senior team will represent the province in the national senior championships later this winter.

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ECONOMY: Three scenarios The economic outlook offers three possible scenarios for Alberta in 2015. The most probable would see the global economy stabilize and oil production decline, pushing the price of West Texas intermediate crude to between US$55 and $70 a barrel. This would have only a small impact on oilsands projects and curb conventional drilling by 10 per cent — resulting in modest job losses and provincial GDP growth of 2.0 per cent. A less likely scenario would be one in which global economic growth slows further and surplus oil supplies keep crude prices in the US$40 to $55 range. Several oilsands projects would be deferred or cancelled and conventional drilling would drop by 20 per cent as a consequence, with more significant job losses and GDP growth of only 0.5 to 1.5 per cent. The third scenario, which ATB Financial said is the least likely to become reality, would be one in which international growth accelerates and falling oil production pushes WTI prices to between US$70 to $90. This would have little impact on the oilsands, conventional drilling would stabilize by the second half of the year, and growth in Alberta would remain above 2.5 per cent. “Anything could happen, but we feel the most probable scenario is one that returns oil prices to a reasonable range by the end of 2015,” said Hirsch. ATB Financial’s economic outlook noted that nonenergy sectors in Alberta remain strong. “The agriculture, forestry and tourism industries all benefit from low oil prices and a soft Canadian dollar,” said Hirsch. “They’ll do well in 2015, with tractors, trucks and tourists fuelling up and spending their money in Canada.” Alberta’s residential construction sector did not appear to have been impacted by low energy prices as of November, said the economic outlook, and nonresidential construction was still strong. Meanwhile, retailers in the province were still enjoying record sales in September and October. The report noted that business confidence in the province did fall sharply in December, which was expected given the steep decline in oil prices. hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

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City eyes beefing up animal control services The City of Red Deer is considering beefing up its animal control services to provide weekend coverage. Kim Fowler, city’s planning director, said the $75,000 budget request will cover the cost of providing animal control on Saturdays and Sundays. Currently, officers are only on duty during the week. The shortcoming was emphasized last year when a dog attacked and killed urban chickens on two occasions on a Friday and the following

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The security issue came up during the Corporate Division presentation. Funding adjustments in the division will cover core maintenance, growth and amenities and increased costs due to regulatory changes. Corporate Services/General requests: Amenities and growth contributions (based on growth assessment from previous year for capital fund) – $1.1 million Legal Services due to raising costs and demand – $136,000 Financial Sustainability for initiatives which may need additional research – $50,000 Computer Aided Design Software Upgrade – $41,500 Grants part-time position – $47,500 Council administrative support – $24,588 Thursday Schedule (starts at 1 p.m.): Community Services Summary Debate crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

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Popular lunch-hour concerts would continue on the Ross Street Patio but Friday evening events could be cut if city council approves a funding request. City staff trimmed $25,000 from the Ross Street Patio budget to reduce it to $80,000. The patio has been created every summer since 2012 and has proven popular, said Kim Fowler, the city’s director of planning. “There is some reduction likely in programming and we’ll have to work with our partners in culture services to determine what that impact is,” she said. The city is also exploring sponsorship options to further reduce the cost.

Also, under the new policy, residential streets are cleared within 15 days, down from the old standard of 40 days. Next winter, the pace will be picked up even further and residents can expect to see residential streets cleared within five days. Based on this winter’s experience, meeting that target may mean some changes, said Vincent. The city may have to turn to overnight snow clearing in neighbourhoods or bring in snow bans. In Edmonton and many other cities, motorists are prohibited from parking on the road during snow clearing efforts. Another possible option is assigning specific snow clearing days to the city’s 11 snow zones so residents will always know what day the plows are coming. To bankroll the new snow measures, city council approved $1.9 million in capital spending last year to add two more plow trucks, two graders, a skid steer, a truck/trailer combo, a snowblower and a loader. An $855,000 increase in operational spending was also approved for this winter, and again next winter.

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At least one city department will be under the microscope if council approves a value for money audit as part of the 2015 operating budget. On Day 2 of the city division presentations, council heard a $200,000 request from the City Manager’s division for audit on one of the departments. Lisa Perkins, director of corporate transformation, said this builds on the very successful value for money audit that was conducted in 2012 on the areas of water, wastewater and electric, light and power. Perkins said the area that has yet to be determined and there will be input from council on the department. Coun. Buck Buchanan questioned the audit and suggested that an organizational review was more appropriate. City manager Craig Curtis said the city wants to cover a broader area than just one city department. He said a report will be coming to council in the coming months. Following the value for money audit pilot, the audit committee recommended at the time to conduct an audit every year. In all the departments within the division – city manager’s office, communications, strategic planning and human resources — requested $468,000 in funding adjustments for the 2015 budget year.

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Wolf kill set to expand despite government denial: observers BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Internal government reports say Alberta will have to expand its wolf kill to protect more threatened caribou herds living on ranges heavily disturbed by industry, despite official assurances that no such measures are planned. Observers say the documents — obtained by The Canadian Press under freedom-of-information legislation — represent the true state of affairs as the province prepares to release range plans for it northern foothills. They say any credible new plans will inevitably follow the recommendations to kill more wolves. “If you’re serious about caribou conservation, you’re going to have to have some stop-gap measures in place to buy time,” said Stan Boutin, a caribou biologist at the University of Alberta. “The only stop-gap measure the government has currently entertained is the wolf removal. How they think they can distribute a plan that doesn’t have a short-term solution in place seems absurd to me.” Alberta has killed almost 1,000 wolves since 2006 on the range of the Little Smoky herd, a small group of caribou in west-central Alberta. The herd’s range has been about 95 per cent disturbed by industry, leaving the caribou increasingly exposed to wolf predation. Three other nearby ranges are in similar states with disturbance rates

from 50 to 95 per cent — far higher than federal guidelines for usable caribou habitat. Energy leases are still being sold on those ranges. Forestry also continues. Plans for the four areas are expected early this spring, said Alberta Environment spokesman Duncan MacDonnell. The Little Smoky plan is already a year late and a federal deadline of 2017 for all of Alberta’s caribou ranges is looming. The government knows the world is watching. “Avoiding the loss of caribou populations will be important to retaining the social licence and avoiding legal challenges and market action campaigns related to continued industrial activities within caribou ranges,” says a 2012 briefing note in the material obtained by the news agency. Scientists say it’ll be generations before those four landscapes recover. Poisoning wolves and shooting them from helicopters is the only way to keep caribou around until they do. The province has consistently said it will not extend the wolf kill to new caribou ranges. “It’s not being delivered anywhere outside Little Smoky and there are no plans to do so,” said MacDonnell. But the documents show the move was being considered as early as 2010. “It is recommended that the Little Smoky method form the basic approach for achievement of near-term caribou population goals in other caribou ranges,” concluded one report

from February 2013. That document also considers alternatives such as penning pregnant cows until they give birth, sterilizing wolves, leaving out moose carcasses for wolves to eat, trapping wolves and penning off large areas of caribou range. Only killing lots of wolves reduces enough predators to make a difference, it said. “No other techniques can be advanced as practical or effective at this time,” it said. “Due to the extent of habitat change on many caribou ranges and the time required for habitat recovery, effective reductions in predation pressure on caribou populations is needed in the near-term, if caribou populations are to persist.” Moreover, industry expects the wolf kill to expand, the report said. “Many representatives of industrial companies currently assume that the Crown will extend this approach to other caribou ranges.” The report said plans to expand the wolf kill were being developed, although hadn’t been completed. The proposal was considered, then dropped, said MacDonnell. “It has been under discussion, but it’s not being delivered anywhere else, and there are no plans to do so.” The 2013 report acknowledged wolf kill programs are unpalatable. “All techniques for reducing mortality rates on caribou are likely to attract some public criticism.”

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BRIEF Man appears in court accused of attacking girl STONY PLAIN — A member of an Alberta reserve says people in the community are still angry and in shock following an attack on a six-year-old girl a few days before Christmas. The man accused of the crime, James Clifford Paul, made his first court appearance Wednesday in Stony Plain, west of Edmonton. Paul faces charges of attempted murder, aggravated sexual assault and kidnapping. The 21-year-old appeared briefly on closed-circuit television, standing in an orange jumpsuit with his arms crossed over his chest. The case was put over to Jan. 14 at the request of defence lawyer Arnold Piragoff. “It’s ugly. It’s horrible. It’s really hard to accept what happened,” a woman from Paul First Nation later said outside the courthouse. “When you think about it, you kind of stop breathing for awhile ... It’s so hard to accept that it happened right at home.” The woman said she is related to both the girl and the accused and went to court to show support for the two families. A publication ban prevents identifying the child and her family. RCMP have described the attack as “horrific” and said the suspect knew the girl. Relatives said she was found lying naked in the snow on the reserve Dec. 20. She was near dead and flown to the Stollery Children’s Hospital in Edmonton, where she remained unconscious for several days.

Emergency Services seeking 10 more fire-medics BUDGET

Ten more fire-medics are needed to cope with soaring call volumes and lengthening response times. Since 2009, Emergency Services calls have jumped 28 per cent to just over 11,000. Fire calls alone have increased 31 per cent to just under 1,700. Emergency co-response (requiring both ambulance and fire) rose a staggering 152 per cent to 3,817 calls from 1,457. That surge in workload has left some stations understaffed at times and caused service levels to drop. The city target is for Emergency Services to respond within four minutes of travel

time 90 per cent of the time. In 2009, the department hit that target 88 per cent of the time, but only 81 per cent of the time in 2014. From 2009 to 2014, the city’s population increased 9.6 per cent to 98,585. Elaine Vincent, the city’s director of development services, said adding the fire-medics is needed to meet the city’s contractual obligations with Alberta Health Services but also to meet provincial response requirements under the province’s high-intensity residential fire legislation that requires a truck on scene within 10 minutes 90 per cent of the time. “Currently right now we are at risk

BUDGET: Other funding requests Council heard a $100,000 request for the corporate performance management initiative will provide the resources to finalize performance metrics and implement the city’s fees and

er the addition of fire-medics should await the results of the master plan review. Vincent said that regardless of the plan’s outcome, the additional help is needed to meet standards. City manager Craig Curtis said senior staff also considered the same question, and after detailed review, he is “thoroughly satisfied” the additional fire-medics are warranted. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

charges review. City Manager Division requests: 2015 Value for Money Audit – $200,000 Corporate Performance Management Measures and Metrics – $100,000 Promotional Video – $50,000 Staff forum – $28,000 Employee Engagement Survey – $50,000 Inclusion Employment Program – $40,000 crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

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of not meeting some of those (standards) with some of our fire halls that are not staffed at the same level as others,” said Vincent following a budget presentation to city council on Wednesday. Adding the fire-medics will cost the city about $887,000 this year, including $70,000 in one-time costs. Another $200,000 has been requested to update the Emergency Services Master Plan. Mayor Tara Veer questioned wheth-

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Why kill cartoonists? BY ADAM TAYLOR SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE At least 12 people have been killed after gunmen stormed the offices of Charlie Hebdo, a French satirical newspaper, in Paris on Wednesday. President Francois Hollande has called the attack a “terrorist attack without a doubt” and early indications point to it being carried out by Islamist extremists. The attack is horrifying no matter what way you look at it, but it’s almost bewildering when you consider the target. The attackers weren’t fighting the French state. They weren’t killing soldiers and appear to have only incidentally killed policemen. They weren’t even attacking a far-right group that pushes an anti-Islam line. Instead, they were targeting satirists and cartoonists, such as the newspaper’s editor, Stéphane Charbonnier, and Jean Cabut, better known as Cabu. The terrorists wanted to kill people who make drawings for a living. Stranger still, that doesn’t even seem that unusual. Charlie Hebdo had been targeted before. In 2012, its offices were firebombed and its website was hacked. While no one was harmed, the perpetrators were never caught. It was widely assumed that the attacks were committed by extremist Islamists. Then there’s the case of Kurt Westergaard, a Dutch cartoonist who was the subject of a murder plot in 2008. Or the case of Swedish artist Lars Vilks, who received death threats and was the subject of a number of assassination attempts after a drawing of his was published in the Swedish newspaper Nerikes Allehanda. In each case, the threats stemmed from controversial depictions of the Muslim prophet Muhammad. Graphic depictions of the prophet are considered taboo by many Muslims, in particular Sunni Muslims, largely because they could be considered a form of idolatry (similar traditions have existed in a number of faiths). Blasphemy against the prophet is a considered a crime (sabb al-nabi), though religious teaching on how it should be punished varies widely: As noted in Muhammad in History, Thought, and Culture: An Encyclopedia of the Prophet of God, Koranic verses can be interpreted to suggest that any punishment should be meted out by God, not by humans. Depictions of Muhammad by non-Muslims have caused offense for centuries, whether in Dante’s Divine Comedy (where the Islamic prophet is depicted in hell), or in a statue of Muhammad that had stood on the roof of New York City’s State Appellate Division courthouse for 50 years (it was removed in 1955 after protests from Islamic countries, though a depiction in the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington remains). In 1977, a film about the life of Muhammad titled The Message attempted to avoid the problem by never actually showing the prophet. It didn’t work: After Islamic groups took hostages in a Washington siege that left two dead, the filmmakers cancelled the Washington premiere and halted screenings. However, in the past few years the issue of depiction of Muhammad has intertwined with debates about free speech, with cartoonists often leading the charge. In 2005, the Dutch newspaper Jyllands-Posten asked illustrators if they would be willing to draw Muhammad after writer Kåre Bluitgen said he was unable to find anyone to illustrate his book on the prophet. The challenge was also, in part, a response to the murder of Theo van Gogh, a filmmaker who was killed by an extremist in 2004 after the release

of his short film Submission, which criticized how Islam treats women. In the end, 12 cartoons showing Muhammad were published by Jyllands-Posten, including one by Westergaard that showed the prophet wearing a bomb as a turban. The publication of the cartoons sparked controversy among Dutch Muslims, who said the action was designed specifically to insult Islam. It soon spiraled into an international incident. The 57-nation Organization of the Islamic Conference issued a statement condemning the cartoons, and Saudi Arabia withdrew its ambassador to the Netherlands. However, there was also significant support for Jyllands-Posten. One Dutch poll showed that 62 per cent of those surveyed said the paper should not apologize. Newspapers all around the world began to republish the cartoons, saying they supported a fight against self-censorship, and faced their own backlash. Other cartoonists, inspired by the controversy, began to draw similar images: Gregorius Nekschot, a pseudonymous Dutch cartoonist, received both support and criticism for his own cartoons regarding Islam (he was arrested for “insulting people” in 2008). Swedish artist Vilks drew a picture of Muhammad as a type of street sculpture called a roundabout dog in 2007; after it was withdrawn from a local art exhibition, it went on to be published in newspapers and provoked another round of outrage and threats. Charlie Hebdo, an irreverent weekly that had a history of mocking just about every religion and ideology, placed itself at the centre of the debate. In

2007, it republished the Jyllands-Posten cartoons and added one of its own. In 2011, it published a number of images of Muhammad and renamed itself Charia Hebdo, a play on the word “sharia,” for an issue. After its offices were firebombed in 2012, it published yet more cartoons showing Muhammad. In a country with an often turbulent history of relations with the Islamic world and France’s own Muslim minority, it was provocative. Writing in the Financial Times after Wednesday’s killings, Tony Barber said the newspaper needed some “common sense.” Regardless, the attempts by a small minority of Islamist extremists to kill cartoonists are strikingly illogical. Even if the cartoons are insulting to many Muslims (including the vast majority who don’t support today’s violence), there are far greater injustices and outrages in the Muslim world that surely merit more attention. So why cartoons? The ability of the Internet to spread anger likely plays a part: It allows media to spread quickly and internationally, often without much context. It was a terribly made, low-budget film shot in California that almost no one had ever seen (The Innocence of Muslims) that sparked huge protests across the Middle East in 2012 after appearing on YouTube, for example. Perhaps most importantly, despite the repeated threats against it and police protection, Charlie Hebdo was still a relatively soft target: The police officer who had been assigned as Charbonnier’s bodyguard was among those killed. Adam Taylor is a Washington Post columnist.

Asylum-seekers: the limits of tolerance The language of the immigration debate in Germany has got harsh and extreme. German Chancellor Angela Merkel attacked the anti-immigration movement in her New Year speech, saying its leaders have “prejudice, coldness, even hatred in their hearts.” The “anti-Islamization” protests all across Germany on Monday fizzled out in the end. About 18,000 people showed up at one rally in Dresden, where the weekly protests by the Patriotic Europeans against the Islamization of the West (Pegida) began last October, but that hardly counted because there are few Muslims — indeed few immigrants of any sort — in Dresden. Anti-immigrant sentiment GWYNNE in Western countries is always DYER highest where there are few or no immigrants. In big German cities like Hamburg, Berlin and Stuttgart that do have large immigrant populations, the counter-demonstrators outnumbered the Pegida protesters 10-to-one. But the debate is not over. Germany is taking in more immigrants that ever before: some 600,000 this year. That’s not an intolerable number for a country of 82 million, but it does mean that if current trends persist, the number of foreign-born residents will almost double to 15 million in just 10 years. That will take some getting used to. And there’s another thing: a high proportion of the new arrivals in Germany are Muslim refugees. Two-thirds of those 600,000 newcomers in 2014 were people from other countries of the European Union where work is scarce or living standards are

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lower. They have the legal right to come under EU rules, and there’s really nothing Germany can do about it. Besides, few of the EU immigrants are Muslims. The other 200,000, however, are almost all refugees who are seeking asylum in Germany. The number has almost doubled in the past year, and will certainly grow even larger this year. And the great majority of the asylum-seekers are Muslims. This is not a Muslim plot to colonize Europe. It’s just that a large majority of the refugees in the world are Muslims. At least three-quarters of the world’s larger wars are civil wars in Muslim countries like Syria (by far the biggest source of new refugees), Iraq, Yemen, Somalia, Afghanistan and Libya. Many of these refugees end up in other predominantly Muslim countries (like Lebanon, where between a quarter and a third of the population is now Syrian refugees.) But Europe is relatively close, and a much better place to be if you can get there: each asylum-seeker who is accepted by Germany gets free accommodation, food, medical care and clothing. Adults also get $160 a month. Moreover, if they make it to Europe, the war cannot follow them. Every country has an obligation to accept and protect legitimate refugees seeking asylum, but in practise some dodge their responsibilities. Last year the United Kingdom, which has 65 million people, accepted less than half as many refugees as Sweden, which has 10 million people. But even the best-intentioned countries, like Germany, are starting to show the strain. It’s easy to mock the fears of Germany’s “Patriotic Europeans against the Islamization of the West” — only five per cent of Germany’s population is Muslim. But nine per cent of the children born in Germany in recent years have Muslim parents because of the higher birth rates of Middle Eastern immigrants. If the current wave of asylum-seekers continues

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— and there is no particular reason to believe that the Syrian civil war will end soon — then Germany will add another two million Muslim immigrants to its population in the next decade. And they too will have higher birth rates than the locals. With its current asylum policy, Germany could be 10 per cent Muslim 10 years from now. You might reasonably ask: what’s wrong with having a 10 per cent Muslim population? But it’s hard to think of a Muslim country that would welcome the relatively sudden arrival of a 10 per cent Christian minority with equanimity. And special thanks to the Islamist thugs who committed the massacre at Charlie Hebdo in Paris on Wednesday for making it even harder for Europeans to see the difference between terrorist fanatics and ordinary Muslims. Most Europeans still try to see things in proportion and not judge all Muslims by the acts of a few, but they are failing more frequently. People are people, and their tolerance has limits. Even in Sweden, the most heroically open country in Europe, where they are expecting more than 100,000 asylum applications this year, former prime minister Fredrik Reinfeldt said just before last September’s election: “I’m now pleading with the Swedish people to have patience, to open your hearts, to see people in high distress whose lives are being threatened. Show them that openness, show them tolerance.” Once more, the Swedes did that. The mainstream parties, all of which share that vision of Sweden, have formed a coalition government that is pledged not to slam the gates shut on asylum-seekers. But the anti-immigration party, the Sweden Democrats, more than doubled its vote and became the thirdlargest party. Even in Sweden, time is running out on tolerance. Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

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BRIEF Harper angry, saddened by ‘barbaric’ attack OTTAWA — Canadian political leaders reacted with horror and anger Wednesday to the attack on a Paris newspaper, with the prime minister touching on Canada’s own recent tragedies involving jihadist sympathizers. In a statement, Stephen Harper offered condolences to the families and friends of the 12 people killed in the assault and said Canada stands with France. The Canadian embassy in Paris is flying its flag at half mast. “This barbaric act — along with recent attacks in Sydney, (Australia), Saint-Jean-surRichelieu, and Ottawa — is a grim reminder that no country is immune to the types of terrorist attacks we have seen elsewhere around the world,” Harper said. “Canada and its allies will not be intimidated and will continue to stand firmly together against terrorists who would threaten the peace, freedom and democracy our countries so dearly value. Canadians stand with France on this dark day.” NDP Leader Tom Mulcair said he was shocked and disgusted by the mass shooting, calling it senseless violence. “Freedom of speech is a fundamental, universal value,” Mulcair told a news conference on Parliament Hill. “We cannot allow ourselves to be silenced by cowardly acts such as these.”

French satirical weekly has history of drawing Muslim ire PARIS — The French newspaper Charlie Hebdo’s staple is provocation — and it pokes fun at popes, presidents as well as the Prophet Muhammad. The satirical weekly has a history of drawing outrage across the Muslim world with crude cartoons of Islam’s holiest figure. The magazine’s offices, where 12 people were killed by gunmen Wednesday, were firebombed in November 2011 after it published a spoof issue that “invited” Muhammad to be its guest editor and put his caricature on the cover. A year later, the magazine published more Muhammad drawings amid an uproar over an anti-Muslim film. The cartoons depicted Muhammad naked and in demeaning or pornographic poses. As passions raged, the French government defended free speech even as it rebuked Charlie Hebdo for fanning tensions. The small-circulation weekly leans toward the left and takes pride in making acerbic commentary on world affairs through cartoons and spoof reports. “We treat the news like journalists. Some use cameras, some use computers. For us, it’s a paper and pencil,” the Muhammad cartoonist, who goes by the name Luz, told The Associated Press in 2012. “A pencil is not a weapon. It’s just a means of expression.” Editor Stephane Charbonnier, among the 10 journalists killed Wednesday, also defended the Muhammad cartoons speaking to The AP in 2012. “Muhammad isn’t sacred to me,” said Charbonnier, who used the pen name Charb. “I don’t blame Muslims for not laughing at our drawings. I live under French law. I don’t live under Quranic law.”

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Terror in Paris FRENCH POLICE IDENTIFY THREE SUSPECTS IN ATTACK ON NEWSPAPER OFFICE THAT KILLED 12 BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PARIS — Police hunted for three heavily armed men with possible links to al-Qaida in the militarystyle, methodical killing of 12 people Wednesday at the office of a satirical newspaper that caricatured the Prophet Muhammad. President Francois Hollande, visiting the scene of France’s deadliest such attack in more than half a century, called the assault on the weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo “an act of exceptional barbarism.” France raised its terror alert system to the maximum — Attack Alert — and bolstered security with more than 800 extra soldiers to guard media offices, places of worship, transport and other sensitive areas. Fears had been running high in France and elsewhere in Europe that jihadis returning from conflicts in Syria and Iraq would stage attacks at home. Two officials identified the suspects as French brothers Said and Cherif Kouachi, in their early 30s, and 18-year-old Hamyd Mourad, whose nationality wasn’t immediately clear. Heavily armed police moved into the city of Reims, in France’s Champagne country east of Paris, apparently searching for the suspects. Video from BFM-TV showed police dressed in white apparently taking samples inside an apartment. It was not immediately clear who lived there. One of the police officials said they were linked to a Yemeni terrorist network, and Cedric Le Bechec, a witness who encountered the escaping gunmen, quoted the attackers as saying: “You can tell the media that it’s al-Qaida in Yemen.” Cherif Kouachi was sentenced to 18 months in prison after being convicted of terrorism charges in 2008 for helping funnel fighters to Iraq’s insurgency. He said he was outraged at the torture of Iraqi inmates at the U.S. prison at Abu Ghraib near Baghdad. The masked, black-clad men with assault rifles stormed the offices near Paris’ Bastille monument in the Wednesday noontime attack on the publication, which had long drawn condemnation and threats — it was firebombed in 2011 — for its depictions of Islam, although it also satirized other religions and political figures. Shouting “Allahu akbar!” as they fired, the men used fluent, unaccented French as they called out the names of specific employees. Artist Corinne Rey told the French newspaper

L’Humanite that she punched in the security code to the Charlie Hebdo offices after she and her young daughter were “brutally threatened” by the gunmen. Eight journalists, two police officers, a maintenance worker and a visitor were killed, said prosecutor Francois Molins. He said 11 people were wounded — four of them seriously. After fleeing, the attackers collided with another vehicle, then carjacked another car before disappearing in broad daylight, Molins said. Among the dead: the paper’s editor, Stephane Charbonnier. The staff was in an editorial meeting and the gunmen headed straight for Charbonnier — widely known by his pen name Charb — killing him and his police bodyguard first, said Christophe Crepin, a police union spokesman. Rey said the assault “lasted five minutes. I hid under a desk.” Two gunmen strolled out to a black car waiting below, one of them calmly shooting a wounded police officer in the head as he writhed on the ground, according to video and a man who watched in fear from his home across the street. The witness, who refused to allow his name to be used because he feared for his safety, said the attackers were so methodical he first thought they were members of France’s elite anti-terrorism forces. Then they fired on the officer. “They knew exactly what they had to do and exactly where to shoot. While one kept watch and checked that the traffic was good for them, the other one delivered the final coup de grace,” he said. “Hey! We avenged the Prophet Muhammad! We killed Charlie Hebdo,” one of the men shouted in French, according to video shot from a nearby building. The other dead were identified as cartoonists Georges Wolinski and Berbard Verlhac, better known as Tignous, and Jean Cabut, known as “Cabu.” Also killed was Bernard Maris, an economist who was a contributor to the newspaper and was heard regularly on French radio. Le Bechec, the witness who encountered the gunmen in another part of Paris, described on his Facebook page seeing two men “get out of a bullet-ridden car with a rocket-launcher in hand, eject an old guy from his car and calmly say hi to the public, saying ‘you can tell the media that it’s al-Qaida in Yemen.”’

Italy beefs up security at ‘sensitive targets’ ROME — Italy has beefed up security at “sensitive targets” after the attack on the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, citing the presence of the Vatican and Italy’s participation in anti-terrorism coalitions. Interior Minister Angelino Alfano said Wednesday there were no concrete threats about any possible attacks here, according to the ANSA news agency. But he said security was reinforced around “sensitive” French, U.S. and Jewish targets. He noted that the Islamic State group has boasted it aimed to conquer Rome — the seat of Christianity. Pope Francis strongly condemned the attack as “abominable,” saying such violence is never justified. A solidarity rally by the Italian journalists’ union was planned for Thursday in front of the French Embassy.

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MADRID — Spain raised its terror threat level Wednesday following the attack on a French satirical newspaper that killed 12 people. But Interior Minister Jorge Fernandez Diaz said there was no intelligence indicating the nation faces imminent danger more than a decade after it was hit with Europe’s worst Islamic terror attack. The threat level was raised from Level 2 to Level 3, with four being the highest on the scale. The move means that authorities will increase security measures at key infrastructure installations, but Fernandez Diaz didn’t specify which ones. Spain last used the terror Level 3 measure in June for nine days when the country prepared for the coronation of King Felipe VI. About 200 people in Madrid gathered outside the French Embassy Wednesday night to voice their outrage about the attack on the Charlie Hebdo newspaper. Some held pens aloft in support of the newspaper’s satirical cartoonlike drawings while others chanted “Freedom of Expression” and “We Are All Charlie.” A similar rally with about 200 people was held outside the French Consulate in Barcelona. In March 2004, bombs on rush-hour trains killed 191 people in Madrid in Europe’s most deadly Islamic terror attack.

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OTTAWA — On the eve of a nail-biting referendum on Scottish independence, Canada’s top public servant counselled Stephen Harper on the possible implications for the Quebec sovereignty movement. Newly declassified memos also show Privy Council Office officials kept Denis Lebel, Harper’s Quebec lieutenant and intergovernmental affairs minister, apprised of developments as the September ballot drew near. Voters were asked whether Scotland should be an independent country, with the understanding a vote of 51 per cent would decide the outcome. Scots ultimately voted to remain part of the United Kingdom, though things were too close to call in the days leading up to the historic referendum. Wayne Wouters, who was Privy Council clerk at the time, stressed to Harper the interest among the Canadian media, especially in Quebec. Wouters noted that leading Quebec sovereigntists had said that a clear question — similar to the one put to Scottish voters — would be beneficial in the provincial context.

MONTREAL — A Quebec judge has denied bail to a man arrested on terrorism-related charges, ruling he could pose a serious threat to public safety and national security. Nejib Belhaj-Chtioui was detained upon his arrival from Tunisia at Montreal’s Pierre Elliott Trudeau airport in early December and had been seeking his release pending further developments in the case. But Quebec court Judge Patrick Healy ruled Wednesday that Belhaj-Chtioui, 36, must remain behind bars. He faces two charges in connection with the terrorism hoax section of the Criminal Code — conveying information and committing an act to cause reasonable concern that it is connected to a terrorist activity. Belhaj-Chtioui has pleaded not guilty. Because of the nature of the charges, the burden of proof was reversed and it was up to the accused to prove he should be released.

Additional 10,000 Syrian refugees to be offered asylum OTTAWA — A promise to 10,000 Syrian refugees that they will be able to find safe haven in Canada in the next three years needs to be backed up by a better system to get them here, advocates said Wednesday. Communities are willing and able to take in those seeking shelter from the brutal violence in Syria, but changes are needed to the asylum program, refugee groups and opposition politicians say. “We have a problem in our refugee resettlement system: very long delays, limitations on who you can sponsor — there are issues to be addressed and these issues will remain,” said Faisal Al Azem of the Syrian Canadian Council. “But that number is a huge step forward, so in that sense we are thankful and positive.” The Conservative government made the new commitment after months of pleading from refugee groups and Syrian Canadians for a drastic increase in the number of spaces available to Syrian refugees. An estimated 3.2 million people have been displaced by the ongoing civil war in the country and the United Nations AS High Commissioner for LOW Refugees had hoped to AS resettle 100,000 globally by the end of 2016. Canada’s new pledge is the answer to that call, said Immigration Minister Chris Alexander. “We do this not only because we can, but because it is right and just,” Alexander said in a statement. The UNHCR welcomed the announcement as “in keeping with Canada’s strong humanitarian tradition to offer resettlement to refugees worldwide.” But many are taking a wait-and-see approach to whether that promise will be kept. In the summer of 2013, the Conservatives agreed to resettle 1,300 Syrians by the end of 2014, but it took months to get the program going and the full commitment is not expected to be met until March of this year.

Council of Law Society of New Brunswick to vote on B.C. law school FREDERICTON — The council of the Law Society of New Brunswick will vote Friday whether to allow graduates of a controversial law school proposed in Langley, B.C., to practise in the province. Last June, the council voted 14-5 in favour of accrediting the program at Trinity Western University. But during a general meeting in September, members of the law society voted 137-30 passing a resolution asking the council to reverse its decision. That resolution was not binding on the council, and now the council will vote whether to rescind its original decision. The Christian university requires all students and staff to sign a covenant barring same-sex rela-

tionships, an agreement that has stoked controversy throughout the country. The school is challenging a Law Society of British Columbia decision not to accredit graduates, and a similar judicial review is underway in Nova Scotia. The Nova Scotia Barristers’ Society has decided not to allow graduates of the proposed law school to enrol in the bar admission program unless the university drops the sexual requirement.

Conservative MP and anti-abortion advocate says he won’t run again WINNIPEG — A Manitoba Conservative MP and anti-abortion advocate says he won’t be asking voters to send him back to Ottawa but he hasn’t ruled out running provincially. Rod Bruinooge, who represents Winnipeg South, announced Wednesday that he plans to leave federal politics this fall to spend more time with his two young children. He said the loss of a close family member over the Christmas holidays led to his decision to spend more time at home. “It has reminded me how precious each moment is with my kids,” he said in a statement. “I have told my children today that come October, I will no longer be an MP and will be spending all of my time with them. They were very excited.” More than 20 Conservative MPs have announced they won’t be running in the federal election set for October. A handful of Liberals and NDP incumbents have also announced their retirements. Bruinooge has held the riding since 2006 when he defeated Liberal stalwart Reg Alcock by just over 100 votes. He increased his margin of victory in subsequent elections and won the riding in 2011 with 52 per cent of the vote. He was chairman of a parliamentary caucus that sought to rekindle the abortion debate and bring “more value” to the lives of unborn children. Although Prime Minister Stephen Harper has consistently said he isn’t interested in reopening the abortion debate, Bruinooge has said that few Canadians appreciate that an unborn child has “less value than a kidney.” He also spoke out shortly after abortion provider Henry Morgentaler was awarded the Order of Canada in 2008, calling it “reprehensible.” Bruinooge did not respond to an interview request.

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Sandhu sent to Americans BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR With Monday’s addition of Connor Gay to the Red Deer Rebels roster, someone had to go. That someone proved to be fellow right winger Tyler Sandhu, who on Wednesday was dealt to the Tri-City Americans. The Rebels got a pair of fourth-round bantam draft picks — one in 2016 and another a year later — in return, which is the price they paid for Sandhu in an October deal with the Everett Silvertips. “You look at our right side and he (Sandhu) was kind of boxed out in that situation,” said Rebels general manager/head coach Brent Sutter. “Sandhu was good for us, he scored eight goals in his time here, but Gay is one of those players who have to play in your top six forwards. “With this trade we were able to recover what we paid to bring Tyler in. We got two fourths back, which just continues to add to our arsenal, you might say. We have all our (bantam draft) picks back for this year, except for a fifth, and after the first round in 2016 we have multiple picks in the second, third and fourth rounds. That’s huge for us.” Like Gay, Sandhu is more of a skilled forward who is better suited to playing on one of a team’s top two lines. That was no longer going to be the case with the Rebels. “From Tyler’s perspective, he’s 18 and he needs to play,” said Sutter. “With the situation here, he probably wasn’t going to dress as much as he’d like. I

didn’t think that was fair to the player.” Sutter said Americans GM Bob Tory initiated the trade. “Bob called me a couple of days ago. They’ve run into some injury problems and they were looking for an experienced player who can score goals,” said Sutter. “It’s a good situation for Sandy, he just has to go there and take advantage of it. It’s up to him.” If Sandhu excels in Tri-City, the trade will go

down as a ‘win-win’. “Like with every trade, you want it to work for everybody,” said Sutter. “They (Americans) get a player who can hopefully go there and help them offensively.” Sandhu, a native of Richmond, B.C., is in his third season in the Western Hockey League. He collected 18 points — including eight goals — in 28 games with the Rebels and has garnered 82 points (41-41) in 148 WHL career games. ● The Saskatoon Blades and Swift Current Broncos exchanged 18-year-old defencemen Wednesday, with the Blades getting Buffalo Sabres third-round NHL entry draft pick (2014) Brycen Martin and a conditional fifth-round bantam draft pick in 2017 and the Broncos acquiring Jordan Thomson and a first-round bantam pick in 2016 . . . The Kamloops Blazers had attempted to acquire Martin in exchange for 19-yearold defenceman Josh Connolly Tuesday, but the WHL voided the trade. Instead, the Blazers sent Connolly to his hometown Prince George Cougars 24 hours later, with six-foot-six rearguard Marc McNulty, also 19, coming back to Kamloops. McNulty was picked by the Detroit Red Wings in the sixth round of the 2013 NHL entry draft . . . On Tuesday, The Moose Jaw Warriors and Victoria Royals swung a three-player deal that also included three bantam draft picks. The Royals sent import forward Axel Blomqvist to Moose Jaw for import defenceman Alexey Sleptsov and goaltender Justin Paulic. In addition, the Royals got a sixth-round pick in 2015 and the Warriors received a third-round selection in 2015 and a fifth-rounder in 2017. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

Red Wings edge Flames BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Detroit 3 Calgary 2 CALGARY — Justin Abdelkader and Henrik Zetterberg each had a goal and an assist to lead the Detroit Red Wings to a 3-2 victory over the Calgary Flames on Wednesday. Riley Sheahan also scored for Detroit (22-10-9), which has won five of its last seven games. The Red Wings have won two of their first three games on a six-game road trip. Mason Raymond and Mikael Backlund scored for Calgary (21-17-3). The Flames are 3-2-0 with one game to go in a six-game homestand. The Flames reach the halfway point of the season in ninth place in the Western Conference, two points back of the second wild card spot. Also at the 41-game mark, Detroit is third in the Atlantic Division, one point back of Montreal. Detroit took a 2-1 lead at 17:28 of the second period, shortly after killing off its third consecutive minor penalty - and second to Abdelkader. Zetterberg started the sequence by beating Sean Monahan on a face-off deep in the Flames end. Detroit worked the puck around and eventually Zetterberg got it back on a pass from Abdelkader and fired his 10th of the season past Jonas Hiller from the side of the net. Five of Zetterberg’s goals have come in his last nine games. Joined on the line by Gustav Nyquist, who had two assists, the same trio combined for an important insurance goal 2:03 into the third period to make it 3-1. That goal, Abdelkader’s career-high 11th, was the eventual winner. Calgary cut the deficit to 3-2 on Backlund’s short-handed goal at 5:13 as he backhanded in a nice pass from Paul Byron.

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Gay excited for opportunity with Rebels

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Detroit Red Wings’ Drew Miller, centre, has the puck stolen from him by Calgary Flames goalie Karri Ramo, bottom, as Raphael Diaz, tries to avoid Ramo during second period NHL hockey action in Calgary, Wednesday.

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BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR The Regina Pats decided that being solidly in second place in the WHL’s Eastern Division wasn’t proof positive that the team would experience a lengthy playoff run come spring. Therefore, with a bigger focus on the future, Pats head coach and senior vice-president of hockey operations John Paddock dealt away his top 19-year-old players, starting with forward and Calgary Flames prospect Morgan Klimchuk and followed by defenceman Kyle Burroughs and forwards Dryden Hunt and Connor Gay. Klimchuk was dealt to the Connor Gay Brandon Wheat Kings last Friday and on Monday Paddock sent Burroughs and Hunt to the Medicine Hat Tigers and Gay to the Red Deer Rebels. Coming back the other way were younger players and draft picks, although the Rebels also got a first- and second-round pick due to the fact that arguably their top prospect, Jake Leschyshyn, was included in the deal. Gay would have been happy if he had survived the purge, but he’s more than OK with being the newest addition to the Rebels roster. “The Pats made the decision that they wanted to base the team around the younger guys. I respect that decision and I’m lucky enough to come to Red Deer,” the 19-year-old right winger said Wednesday following his first practice with the Rebels.

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Calgary Stampeders’ coach John Hufnagel hoists the Grey Cup trophy after defeating the Hamilton Tiger-Cats to win the CFL championship game in Vancouver, B.C., on Sunday, November 30, 2014. Hufnagel, who guided the Calgary Stampeders to the CFL’s best regular-season record and a Grey Cup title, was named a finalist for the CFL’s coach-of-the-year honour. See story on page B3.

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Local Sports Pt 62 53 44 36 35 21

CENTRAL DIVISION GP W L OTL SOL GF GA 38 27 9 1 1 153 101 41 22 15 1 3 165 128 40 21 14 3 2 139 131 40 21 18 0 1 129 145 40 19 16 3 2 119 112 38 9 23 3 3 99 161

Pt 56 48 47 43 43 24

WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION GP W L OTL SOL GF GA Kelowna 41 32 6 3 0 178 102 Victoria 41 20 18 2 1 140 138 Prince George 42 20 22 0 0 134 169 Vancouver 40 18 20 1 1 122 128 Kamloops 42 14 23 3 2 126 161

Pt 67 43 40 38 33

U.S. DIVISION W L OTL SOL GF GA 24 12 3 1 131 106 22 14 3 0 119 110 21 18 0 3 137 138 19 16 2 2 102 106 19 19 0 2 110 123

Pt 52 47 45 42 40

Medicine Hat Calgary Red Deer Kootenay Edmonton Lethbridge

Everett Spokane Portland Seattle Tri-City

GP 40 39 42 39 40

z-league title; y-conference title;d-division leader; x-clinched playoff berth. Note: Division leaders ranked in top three positions per conference regardless of points; a team winning in overtime or shootout is credited with two points and a victory in the W column; the team losing in overtime or shootout receives one point which is registered in the OTL or SOL columns Wednesday’s results Regina 3 Everett 1 Swift Current 5 Calgary 4 (SO) Prince Albert 5 Moose Jaw 1 Tri-City at Prince George, 8 p.m. Kelowna 4 Vancouver 2 Portland at Spokane, 8:05 p.m. Tuesday’s results Everett 5 Brandon 0 Calgary 6 Moose Jaw 1 Prince George 8 Tri-City 4 Thursday’s games Medicine Hat at Victoria, 8:05 p.m. Friday’s games Everett at Moose Jaw, 6 p.m. Edmonton at Regina, 6 p.m. Swift Current at Prince Albert, 6 p.m. Saskatoon at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.

Brooks 41 Okotoks 40 Drumheller 42 Olds 39 Canmore 40 Cgy Canucks 40 Cgy Mustangs 43

Red Deer at Kootenay, 7 p.m. Kelowna at Kamloops, 8 p.m. Prince George at Victoria, 8:05 p.m. Portland at Spokane, 8:05 p.m. Seattle at Tri-City, 8:05 p.m. Medicine Hat at Vancouver, 8:30 p.m. Saturday’s games Everett at Swift Current, 6 p.m. Edmonton at Moose Jaw, 6 p.m. Prince Albert at Regina, 6 p.m. Saskatoon at Kootenay, 7 p.m. Brandon at Red Deer, 7 p.m. Calgary at Lethbridge, 7 p.m. Vancouver at Portland, 8 p.m. Medicine Hat at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m. Kamloops at Spokane, 8:05 p.m. Prince George at Victoria, 8:05 p.m. Sunday, January 11 Brandon at Calgary, 1 p.m. Edmonton at Swift Current, 3 p.m. Tri-City at Seattle, 6:05 p.m. Tuesday, January 13 Brandon at Edmonton, 7 p.m. Red Deer at Lethbridge, 7 p.m. Spokane at Seattle, 8:05 p.m. 2014-15 Canadian Hockey League Top Ten Poll The Canadian Hockey League’s top 10 poll for the 2014-15 season (last week’s rankings in parentheses; records as of Tuesday): 1. (1) Oshawa Generals (OHL, 30-5-1) 2. (2) Kelowna Rockets (WHL, 31-6-3) 3. (3) Brandon Wheat Kings (WHL, 29-8-4) 4. (4) Erie Otters (OHL 27-8-3) 5. (5) Rimouski Oceanic (QMJHL, 25-12-3) 6. (6) Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds (OHL, 27-9-2) 7. (7) Medicine Hat Tigers (WHL, 27-9-2) 8. (8) Moncton Wildcats (QMJHL, 26-11-2) 9. (NR) Blainville-Boisbriand Armada (QMJHL, 2311-5) 10. (10) London Knights (OHL, 24-11-3) Honourable Mention: Saint John Sea Dogs (QMJHL, 23-11-5); Everett Silvertips (WHL, 24-11-4); Quebec Remparts (QMJHL, 25-13-2).

GP Spruce Grove 42 Lloydminster 42 Fort McMurray 42 Sherwood Park43 Bonnyville 39 Drayton Valley 39 Whitecourt 40 Grand Prairie 43

AJHL North Division W L OTL SOL GF GA 33 6 2 1 173 88 24 13 1 4 132 110 24 14 3 1 131 116 20 19 2 2 122 123 17 16 5 1 125 130 12 19 4 4 91 124 13 21 2 4 120 145 13 28 1 1 91 175

Pt 69 53 52 44 40 32 32 28

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South Division W L OTL SOL GF GA 31 5 2 1 142 81

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Wednesday’s results Calgary Canucks 6 Brooks 2 Spruce Grove 4 Grand Prairie 0 Whitecourt 3 Sherwood Park 2 Tuesday’s results Drumheller 3 Canmore 2 Calgary Mustangs 5 Okotoks 2 Fort McMurray 5 Bonnyville 1 Friday’s games Sherwood Park at Olds, 7 p.m. Camrose at Okotoks, 7 p.m. Calgary Canucks at Drumheller, 7:30 p.m. Spruce Grove at Lloydminster, 7:30 p.m. Whitecourt at Fort McMurray, 8 p.m. Saturday’s games Camrose at Okotoks, 7 p.m. Calgary Canucks at Canmore, 7 p.m. Whitecourt at Bonnyville, 7:30 p.m. Drayton Valley at Fort McMurray, 8 p.m. Sunday, January 11 Lloydminster at Drumheller, 2 p.m. Brooks at Olds, 2 p.m. Spruce Grove at Sherwood Park, 2:15 p.m. Drayton Valley at Bonnyville, 4 p.m. Canmore at Calgary Mustangs, 7:30 p.m. . National Hockey League

Atlantic Division GA 110 93 103 110 128 97 107 140

GP W L OT Pts GF Pittsburgh 40 24 10 6 54 120 N.Y. Islanders 40 26 13 1 53 123 Washington 39 21 11 7 49 118 N.Y. Rangers 36 21 11 4 46 113 Columbus 38 18 17 3 39 100 Philadelphia 40 15 18 7 37 108 New Jersey 42 15 20 7 37 94 Carolina 40 12 24 4 28 79 WESTERN CONFERENCE

GA 97 112 101 90 121 121 118 105

Tampa Bay Montreal Detroit Boston Toronto Florida Ottawa Buffalo

GP 39 40 40 40 39 38 40

Anaheim Vancouver San Jose Los Angeles Calgary Arizona Edmonton

GP 41 38 41 40 41 39 41

W L OT Pts 26 9 4 56 26 12 2 54 24 13 3 51 20 13 7 47 18 15 6 42 18 15 5 41 16 16 8 40 Pacific Division W 26 23 22 19 21 15 9

GF 119 124 124 103 121 107 103

GA 90 87 99 96 128 110 117

L OT Pts GF 9 6 58 115 12 3 49 112 14 5 49 113 12 9 47 112 17 3 45 117 20 4 34 92 23 9 27 90

GA 110 100 108 103 108 130 139

Today ● College women’s hockey: NAIT at RDC, 7 p.m., Arena. ● Bantam AA hockey: Red Deer Steel Kings at Lacombe, 7:15 p.m.

Friday ● College volleyball: Lethbridge at RDC; women at 6 p.m., men to follow. ● Peewee AA hockey: Olds at Lacombe, 6 p.m. ● College men’s hockey: Concordia at RDC, 7 p.m., Penhold Regional Multiplex. ● WHL: Red Deer at Kootenay, 7 p.m. (The Drive). ● AJHL: Sherwood Park at Olds, 7 p.m. Heritage junior B hockey: Three Hills at Stettler, 7:30 p.m. ● Minor midget AAA hockey: Calgary Blackhawks at Red Deer Aero Equipment, 8 p.m., Arena. ● Midget AA hockey: Airdrie at Sylvan Lake, 8:15 p.m. ● Chinook senior hockey: Bentley at Innisfail, 8:30 p.m.

NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. Tuesday’s Games Philadelphia 2, Ottawa 1, SO New Jersey 4, Buffalo 1 Tampa Bay 4, Montreal 2 Nashville 3, Carolina 2 San Jose 4, Minnesota 3, OT Colorado 2, Chicago 0 Columbus 4, Dallas 2 St. Louis 6, Arizona 0 Detroit 4, Edmonton 2 Vancouver 3, N.Y. Islanders 2 Wednesday’s Games Washington 6, Toronto 2 Boston 3, Pittsburgh 2, OT Detroit 3, Calgary 2 N.Y. Rangers at Anaheim, late. Thursday’s Games New Jersey at Boston, 5 p.m. Washington at Philadelphia, 5 p.m. Buffalo at Carolina, 5 p.m. San Jose at St. Louis, 6 p.m. Dallas at Nashville, 6 p.m. Chicago at Minnesota, 6 p.m. Ottawa at Colorado, 7 p.m. Winnipeg at Arizona, 7 p.m. Florida at Vancouver, 8 p.m. N.Y. Rangers at Los Angeles, 8:30 p.m.

EASTERN CONFERENCE

GP W L OT Pts GF 42 26 12 4 56 138 40 26 12 2 54 110 41 22 10 9 53 116 41 20 15 6 46 107 41 21 17 3 45 132 37 17 11 9 43 87 39 16 15 8 40 103 41 14 24 3 31 78 Metropolitan Division

Nashville Chicago St. Louis Winnipeg Dallas Minnesota Colorado

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Saturday

First Period—1, Calgary, Raymond 6 (Jones, Backlund), 2:27. 2, Detroit, Sheahan 8 (Helm), 7:58. Second Period—3, Detroit, Zetterberg 10 (Abdelkader, Nyquist), 17:28. Third Period—4, Detroit, Abdelkader 11 (Nyquist, Zetterberg), 2:03 (pp). 5, Calgary, Backlund 2 (Byron, Brodie), 5:13 (sh). Shots on Goal—Detroit 7-8-7—22. Calgary 118-11—30.

Central Division

Basketball Red Deer Women’s Basketball Young Guns 57 Rampage 32 POG: Young Guns — Kirsten Ramsay; Rampage — Shelby Hauck Funk defeats Triple Threat 51-38 POG: Funk — Shalene Rascher; Triple Threat — Jessi Charchuk; Top scorer: Funk — Shalene Rascher 12 points; Triple Threat — Melanie Calihoo and Ingrid Luymes Hoosier Daddy defeats Xpress 84-29 POG: Hoosier Daddy — Mallory Jones; XPress —Sara Soodsma; Top scorer: Hoosier Daddy — Kristy Landry 22, Jones 20; XPress — Sandra Tapids 12. Storm defeats Shooting Stars due to forfeit Big Ballers defeat Red Deer Royals due to forfeit National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE

d-Atlanta d-Toronto d-Chicago Washington Cleveland Milwaukee Brooklyn Miami Indiana Boston Charlotte Detroit Orlando Philadelphia New York

W 27 24 25 24 19 19 16 15 14 12 13 12 13 5 5

L Pct GB 8 .771 — 10 .706 2 11 .694 2 11 .686 3 17 .528 8 18 .514 9 19 .457 11 20 .429 12 22 .389 13 21 .364 14 24 .351 15 23 .343 15 25 .342 15 29 .147 21 33 .132 23

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d-Golden State d-Portland d-Memphis Dallas

L Pct GB 5 .844 — 8 .771 1 10 .714 3 11 .703 3

24 23 21 22 17 17 16 15 13 11 5

11 .686 12 .657 15 .583 16 .579 18 .486 19 .472 20 .444 20 .429 23 .361 24 .314 29 .147

4 5 8 8 11 12 13 13 16 17 23

Utah 97, Chicago 77 Detroit 108, Dallas 95 Denver 93, Orlando 90 Phoenix 113, Minnesota 111 Sacramento 104, Oklahoma City 83 Indiana at Golden State, Late L.A. Lakers at L.A. Clippers, Late

1/2 1/2 1/2 1/2

Thursday’s Games Charlotte at Toronto, 5:30 p.m. Houston at New York, 6 p.m. Miami at Portland, 8:30 p.m.

1/2

d-division leader 1/2 1/2 1/2

WESTERN CONFERENCE W 27 27 25 26

Houston L.A. Clippers San Antonio Phoenix New Orleans Oklahoma City Denver Sacramento Utah L.A. Lakers Minnesota

1/2 1/2 1/2

Friday’s Games Boston at Indiana, 5 p.m. Atlanta at Detroit,5:30 p.m. Philadelphia at Brooklyn, 5:30 p.m. Memphis at New Orleans, 6 p.m. Utah at Oklahoma City, 6 p.m. Chicago at Washington, 6 p.m. Minnesota at Milwaukee, 6:30 p.m. Phoenix at San Antonio, 6:30 p.m. Denver at Sacramento, 8 p.m. Cleveland at Golden State, 8:30 p.m. Orlando at L.A. Lakers, 8:30 p.m.

Tuesday’s Games Phoenix 102, Milwaukee 96 Detroit 105, San Antonio 104 Wednesday’s Games Milwaukee 97, Philadelphia 77 Washington 101, New York 91 Charlotte 98, New Orleans 94 Houston 105, Cleveland 93 Atlanta 96, Memphis 86 Boston 89, Brooklyn 81

Sunday

Transactions BASEBALL American League BOSTON RED SOX — Designated C Dan Butler for assignment. Agreed to terms with LHP Craig Breslow on a one-year contract. National League ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — Agreed to terms with INF Nick Punto on a minor league contract. Named Robby Hammock manager of Mobile (SL), J.R. House manager of Visalia (Cal), Mark Grudzielanek manager of Kane County (MWL), Shelley Duncan manager of Hillsboro (NWL), Joe Mather manager of Missoula (Pioneer) and Mike Benjamin manager of the AZL Diamondbacks. ATLANTA BRAVES — Agreed to terms with RHP Jason Grilli on a two-year contract and LHP Josh Outman and C A.J. Pierzynski on one-year contracts. NEW YORK METS — Agreed to terms with RHP Bobby Parnell on a one-year contract. SAN DIEGO PADRES — Agreed to terms with RHP Josh Johnson on a one-year contract. Designated INF-OF Jake Goebbert for assignment. American Association GRAND PRAIRIE AIR HOGS — Released RHPs Tobin Mateychick and Hayden Shirley and INF Brian Myrow. WINNIPEG GOLDEYES — Signed INF Ben Bostick and LHP Kyle Anderson. BASKETBALL National Basketball Association CLEVELAND CAVALIERS — Acquired C Timofey Mozgov from Denver for two protected 2015 first-round draft picks. MIAMI HEAT — Recalled G Shabazz Napier from Sioux Falls (NBADL). NEW YORK KNICKS — Released Fs Lou Amundson and Lance Thomas and C Alex Kirk. Signed G Langston Galloway to a 10-day contract. WASHINGTON WIZARDS — Waived G-F Glen Rice Jr. CYCLING

USA CYCLING — Named Andy Sparks director of track programs, Mark Guthart technical director, Laura Ryan national events manager, Cynthia Weisinger race director certification manager, Steve Bitter digital and social media manager and Daniel Gillespie sponsorship and member benefits manager. FOOTBALL National Football League ATLANTA FALCONS — Announced assistant general manager Scott Pioli will take on pro and college scouting and will report to general manager Thomas Dimitroff. BALTIMORE RAVENS — Signed LB Austin Spitler to a future contract. CAROLINA PANTHERS — Signed TE Mike McNeill to a future contract. CHICAGO BEARS — Signed C Taylor Boggs to a future contract. CLEVELAND BROWNS — Signed C Braxston Cave to a future contract. DETROIT LIONS — Signed DT Xavier Proctor, DE Roy Philon, DB Nate Hess, LB Jerrell Harris, TEs Jordan Thompson and Emil Igwenagu and WRs Andrew Peacock and Skye Dawson to future contracts. KANSAS CITY CHIEFS — Signed DB DeMarcus Van Dyke to a future contract. NEW YORK GIANTS — Fired defensive coordinator Perry Fewell and secondary/cornerbacks coach Peter Giunta. NEW YORK JETS — Signed DE Kerry Hyder to a future contract. PITTSBURGH STEELERS — Signed DEs Alejandro Villanueva and Joe Kruger and LB Howard Jones to future contracts. SAN DIEGO CHARGERS — Signed QB Brad Sorensen and DB Aaron Hester to future contracts. SEATTLE SEAHAWKS — Placed DT Jordan Hill on injured reserve. Signed S Steven Terrell from the practice squad and DT Jimmy Staten to the practice squad.

TENNESSEE TITANS — Signed NT Chigbo Anunoby to a future contract. Canadian Football League WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS — Signed FB-LS Tim Cronk. HOCKEY National Hockey League NHL — Fined Florida F Vincent Trocheck and Detroit F Gustav Nyquist $2,000 for diving/embellishment. CALGARY FLAMES — Assigned Fs Markus Granlund and D Corey Potter to Adirondack (AHL). Activated C Mikael Backlund and D Ladislav Smid from injured reserve. TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS — Named Peter Horachek interim coach. American Hockey League HARTFORD WOLF PACK — Signed F Tyler Brown to a professional tryout agreement. MILWAUKEE ADMIRALS — Recalled F Patrick Cehlin from Cincinnati (ECHL). PORTLAND PIRATES — Reassigned F Greg Carey to Gwinnett (ECHL). SAN ANTONIO RAMPAGE — Recalled D Josh McFadden from Cincinnati (ECHL). OLYMPIC SPORTS USA TABLE TENNIS — Named Richard Finn national media and marketing consultant. SOCCER Major League Soccer LA GALAXY — Signed M Steven Gerrard, effective July. NEW YORK RED BULLS — Fired coach Mike Petke. Named Jesse Marsch coach. PORTLAND TIM-

● Major midget girls hockey: Rocky Mountain at Red Deer, 12:30 p.m., Collicutt Centre. ● College volleyball: Lethbridge at RDC, women at 1 p.m., men to follow. ● Minor midget AAA hockey: Calgary Blazers at Red Deer Aero Equipment, 2 p.m., Arena. ● Bantam AA hockey: Southwest at Red Deer Ramada, 2:30 p.m., Kinex; Lethbridge at Lacombe, 5:45 p.m. ● Peewee AA hockey: Lethbridge Red at Sylvan Lake, 3:30 p.m., Caroline. ● Major bantam girls hockey: Southeast at Red Deer, 4:30 p.m., Kinsmen B. ● Midget AA hockey: Lacombe at Red Deer Indy Graphics, 4:45 p.m., Arena; Lethbridge at Olds, 7:30 p.m. ● WHL: Brandon at Red Deer, 7 p.m., Centrium. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Mountainview at Stettler, 7:30 p.m.

BERS — Re-signed F Gaston Fernandez. SPORTING KANSAS CITY — Signed F Jacob Peterson. North American Soccer League NEW YORK COSMOS — Signed sporting director and coach Giovanni Savarese, assistant coaches Carlos Llamosa and Alecko Eskandarian, goalkeeper coach Guillermo Valencia and fitness coach Simone Lucchesi to contract extensions. COLLEGE DOANE — Named Amanda Mason women’s soccer coach. FLORIDA — Announced men’s basketball F Schuyler Rimmer has transferred from Stanford. Suspended C Jon Horford and G Zach Hodskins for conduct detrimental to the basketball team. FLORIDA STATE — Sophomore QB Jameis Winston announced he will enter the NFL draft. GEORGIA — Named Brian Schottenheimer offensive co-ordinator and quarterbacks coach. KANSAS — Named Zach Yenser run game coordinator/offensive line coach NEBRASKA — Named Reggie Davis running backs coach, Hank Hughes defensive line coach, Danny Langsdorf offensive co-ordinator and Charlton Warren secondary coach. SOUTHERN CAL — Announced women’s freshman basketball G Sadie Edwards has transferred from Connecticut.

● Major bantam hockey: Red Deer White at Red Deer Black, noon, Arena. ● Major midget girls hockey: Lloydminster at Red Deer, 12:45 p.m., Collicutt Centre. ● Bantam AA hockey: Southwest at Sylvan Lake, 1:30 p.m., Caroline; Lethbridge at Red Deer Ramada, 2 p.m., Kinsmen A. ● Peewee AA hockey: Airdrie at Red Deer Parkland, 1:30 p.m., Kinex; Cranbrook at Sylvan Lake, 3 p.m., Eckville. ● AJHL: Brooks at Olds, 2 p.m. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Okotoks at Ponoka, 2 p.m.; Banff at Red Deer, 6 p.m., Arena. ● Midget AA hockey: Taber at Lacombe, 2 p.m. ● Midget AAA hockey: Sherwood Park at Red Deer, 3 p.m., Arena.

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Queens hockey hopes for fresh start If any Red Deer College team could December, losing 3-0 to SAIT, keeping have been hurt by the Christmas break, them from climbing out of the ACAC’s it was the Queens hockey team. basement and into second place. The Queens (3-5-2) had got off to a In the four-team league, the top terrible start to the Alberta Colleges three teams advance to playoffs. The Athletic Conference women’s hockey Queens are one point behind the Macseason, but were playing their best Ewan University Griffins (4-5-1) for hockey — including taking that final spot. The Trojans three of four points from are in second place, three the league leading NAIT points up on the Queens. Ooks — in the weeks leadAfter their 0-3-0 start, ing up to the break. they went 3-2-2 to close out But they dropped their the first half of the season, final regular season game on many nights out playing of the semester 3-0 to the their competition, regardSAIT Trojans (5-4-1) and less of the result. In their 10 then lost their one exhibiregular season games, they tion game post-Christmas, were only outshot twice and 4-0 to the Mount Royal tied once more on the shot University Cougars of the clock once. higher calibre Canada West Their biggest issue has JOSH Universities Athletic Assobeen capitalizing on those ALDRICH ciation. opportunities, scoring a But head coach Bob Rutz league-low 14 times, tied has a different way of lookwith the Griffins. ing at the break altogether, Generating more offence knowing full well what his team is ca- has been the focal point of their pracpable of. tices since regrouping from the break. “That last regular season game be“We’ve spent a lot of time on our D, fore Christmas, we laid a pretty big getting pucks through from the point egg, so I think the momentum was lost and spent a lot of time on getting in before the break,” said Rutz. “We’re front of the goalie and taking their eyes just viewing this as a fresh start and away,” said Rutz. “We’re not a team just looking forward to the challenge that has two or three players that can of getting into the playoffs and going go coast-to-coast and bury it top shelf, from there.” so we’re going to have to focus on scorRDC seemingly lost some of its mojo ing goals the old-fashioned way.” in their final regular season game in The Queens also experienced a

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little roster shuffling over the break. They lost second year forward Hayley Smyl who left the team over the break, but they also saw the return of forward Micaela Smith. The five-foot-eight left winger did not play in the first semester due to academic eligibility issues, but practiced with the club. Though she was held off the score sheet in her seven games with the Queens last season, Rutz is hoping she can add a spark to the offence in the second half of the season. “She adds a little bit of speed, she has good puck skills and a good shot,” he said. “She hasn’t played in a while so it’s going to take her time to get back into it.” The Queens will open their second half tonight at the Red Deer Arena against the Ooks. RDC went 1-0-1 against NAIT in the first semester — winning 3-2 in a shootout on Nov. 20 in Red Deer and then losing 1-0 in overtime on Nov. 21 in Edmonton — and Rutz says they will have their hands full this week. “Every time you play NAIT you know you’re going to have to work hard,” he said. “They’re big, they’re physical and they’ve got a couple of players that if you give them the opportunity, they’re pretty significant offensive threats.” ● In volleyball action, RDC hosts the Lethbridge College Kodiaks on Friday and Saturday. Despite being

the top ranked men’s team in the country, the Kings (11-1; 34-10) will not be taking the Kodiaks (7-5; 25-21) lightly, as they suffered their only loss of the first half of the season 3-1 (25-22, 19-25, 25-19, 25-19) in Lethbridge on Oct. 18. The Kings are coming off a rough tournament in Camrose, losing all three of their matches with three of their top players still sidelined with injuries. The Kings will debut two new players for the second half on Friday: power Nic Dubinsky, who had 27 kills and four blocks against the host Augustana Vikings in his first match on the weekend, and power Regan Fathers, giving them three Aussies on their roster. The Queens are also ranked first in the Canadian College Athletic Association rankings after an 11-1 (34-6) first semester. However, they are coming off a more successful Christmas tournament, finishing 3-1 at The King’s University College. The Kodiaks come into the weekend with a 3-9 (15-30) record. Action gets underway with the women at 6 p.m. on Friday with the men at 8 p.m, on Saturday the women go at 1 p.m. and the men at 3 p.m. ● The Kings (6-9-0-1) men’s hockey team opens their post-Christmas schedule on Friday at Penhold at 7 p.m., hosting the Concordia Thunder (3-14-0-1). On Saturday, they play again in Edmonton at 8:15 p.m. jaldrich@reddeeradvocate.com

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HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL Then Notre Dame Cougars handed the Lindsay Thurber Raiders their first loss of the senior boys high school basketball season, 66-61, in a back-and-forth game on Tuesday at Notre Dame. Tony Bornyi led the Cougars with 20 points while Ben Pasiuk had 24 points Jarett Zilinski six points and Justin VanTetering eight for Lindsay Thurber. The Cougars are in Okotoks at the Holy Trinity Tournament this weekend. In senior girls action, the Raiders crushed the Cougars 71-32 led by Kelsey Lalor’s 15 points. Bretton Bowd also had nine points for the Raiders and CJ Stephens led the Cougars with 12 points. The Hunting Hills Lightning girls also beat the Lacombe Rams 56-22 in Lacombe.

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GAY: Scorer “I’m extremely excited about getting the opportunity to play in this organization. It’s a pretty good feeling.” Gay, who instantly becomes the Rebels’ leading scorer with 20 goals and 44 points in 39 games this season, felt he would be staying with the Pats as a veteran presence once Burroughs and Hunt had been dealt to the Tigers earlier Monday. “When Dryden and Kyle got traded to Medicine Hat I thought I might be OK to be staying in Regina,” said Gay. “But I knew there was a possibility I might be traded because I had talked to John. He couldn’t give me an answer either way. “But it’s history now and I’m here and I’m happy.” Rebels GM/head coach Brent Sutter isn’t expecting Gay to become the Rebels’ primary goto guy. Sutter merely

expects the six-foot, 190-pound Saskatoon native to continue to play to his potential. “We’re looking for him to provide us with a real good veteran presence,” said the Rebels boss. “He’s got a knack for scoring goals. He’s good around the net and just from watching him in practice you can tell he’s a real smart player. “He’s not going to be a guy who is physically dominant, but he’s going to battle and win battles just from having good size. He’s a smart player who knows how to play the game and that’s what we want from him.” As a third-year WHL player, Gay feels that he harbours leadership skills. “I like to think so. I’m a guy who doesn’t speak a ton but I like to do it with my play,” he said. “ I work hard and hopefully I can help this team continue to win.” Gay will make his Rebels debut Friday night versus the host Kootenay Ice, skating on a line with Presten Kopeck and centre Brooks Maxwell. Meanwhile,

10 in the West Division semifinal before ending its season with a loss in the conference final against Calgary. Jones is attempting to become the fifth Eskimos coach to win the award, joining Ray Jauch (1970), Hugh Campbell (1979), Ron Lancaster (‘96) and Higgins (‘03). Montreal orchestrated an amazing turnaround in Higgins’ first year as head coach. The Alouettes began the season 1-7 but finished by winning eight of their last 10 regular-season contests to finish second in the East Division with a 9-9 record. Montreal became the first team in CFL history to fall six games below .500 and still finish at that mark or better. After dispatching B.C. 50-17 in the East Division semifinal, the Alouettes lost 40-24 to Hamilton in the conference final. “Any time you receive this type of nomination, it is a reflection of all the work the team and the organization has put in,” Higgins said in a statement. “I am flattered to be nominated and I accept it on behalf of the entire Alouettes organization.” Wyatt Johnson will move onto a line with Riley Sheen and Conner Bleackley. The Rebels will host the Brandon Wheat Kings Saturday. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

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Eskimos’ coach Chris Jones Higgins is a two-time recipient of the award, also winning in ‘05 with Calgary. He’s looking to become the fifth Montreal coach to earn the honour. The others include Marv Levy (1974), Charlie Taaffe (1999-2000), Don Matthews (2002) and Marc Trestman (‘09).

coming on strong for the rest of the game, Calgary could not get the game back to even. Calgary did not take advantage of four power plays throughout the game. Ranked 26th entering the game, the Flames’ power play is 3 for 38 in its the last 11 contests. Detroit entered the night ranked fourth in penalty killing. Hiller entered the game halfway through the second period in relief of Karri Ramo. Making his first start since Dec. 16, Ramo only

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TORONTO — John Hufnagel, who guided the Calgary Stampeders to the CFL’s best regular-season record and a Grey Cup title, was named a finalist for the CFL’s coach-of-the-year honour Wednesday. Tom Higgins of the Montreal Alouettes and Chris Jones of the Edmonton Eskimos are the other finalists. The award winner will receive the Annis Stukus Trophy on Jan. 21 in Winnipeg. Voting was conducted by 65 members of the Football Reporters of Canada. Calgary finished atop the West Division with a 15-3 record under Hufnagel, also the club’s general manager. After dispatching Edmonton 43-18 in the conference final, the Stampeders capped their season with a 20-16 victory over the Hamilton Tiger-Cats in the Grey Cup at B.C. Place Stadium. This marks the fourth time Hufnagel has been nominated for the award. He won it in ‘08 after leading Calgary to a Grey Cup crown. He and Wally Buono, currently the

B.C. Lions’ general manager and vicepresident of football operations, are the only coaches to lead the Stampeders to multiple championships. Hufnagel improved his CFL coaching record to 88-37-1, moving him into 11th on the league’s all-time list. His career winning percentage of .702 is tops among coaches with at least 100 career appearances on the sidelines. “I thank the players, coaches and staff of the Stampeders for their contributions to our successful season,” Hufnagel said in a statement. “The Grey Cup championship was a team effort and my nomination for the Annis Stukus Trophy is a reflection of the great people we have throughout our organization on and off the field. “I also congratulate Tom and Chris for their excellent coaching work and their team’s success during the 2014 season.” Jones is a first-time award nominee after leading Edmonton to a 12-6 record and second in the West Division in his first season as head coach. After posting a 4-14 record in 2013, the Eskimos recorded the biggest turnaround of any CFL team last season. Edmonton beat Saskatchewan 18-

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● Forshee Community Hall old-time family dance nights are usually held the first Friday of each month from 7 to 10:30 p.m. This month’s dance on Jan. 9. Admission is $10 per adult, children 17 years and under are free. Evening lunch is included. Live old time music with Tom Morin on lead vocals with Country Gold North Band. For more information, call 403-748-3378.

day — general meeting at 2 p.m.; Coffee every morning at 8:30 a.m. and Wednesday at 10 a.m. For more information, call Ruth at 403-728-3482. ● Multiple Sclerosis Society presents their inaugural Whisky Festival, Jan. 13, 6 to 9 p.m. at Red Deer Golf and Country Club. Tickets are $95 from Black Knight Inn Ticket Centre. Enjoy an evening of whisky appreciation and exploration, mouth watering cuisine and local musical talent and more, in support of the MS Society.

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● Royal Canadian Air Force Association members meet at noon on the second Saturday of the month at the ABC Country Restaurant for a luncheon and business meeting. Guests are welcome. Next meeting is Jan. 10. The association preserves and perpetuates the traditions of the Royal Canadian Air Force and advocates a proficient and well equipped air force in Canada. The local 703 Wing provides a forum for serving former participants in military and civil aviation and a meeting of like minded people. Contact Al at 403-341-3253, or email to amlow@shaw.ca.

● Boomtown Trail Cowboy Church meets the second and last Wednesday of each month at 7 p.m. in the Elnora Drop In Centre, next Jan. 14 and 28. Cowboy boots and hats welcome. For more information, call 403-749-3361. ● Central Alberta Photographic Society (CAPS) meets the second and fourth Wednesdays of the month at 6:45 p.m. at Golden Circle Senior Resource Centre, next on Jan. 14 with guest speaker Randy Fiedler presenting Retrospective of work at Red Deer Advocate. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. for socializing. Go online to www.centralalbertaphotographicsociety.com for more information. ● Daytime Documentaries will be held on the second Wednesday of each month from 2 to 4:30 p.m. in the Waskasoo Meeting Room at Red Deer Public Library Downtown Branch. A documentary film will be shown on Martin Strel, a Slovenian national hero and B-grade action film star who is also an ultramarathon swimmer and holder of several Guinness World Book Records, followed by staff-facilitated discussion on Jan. 14. Free. Contact Donna Stewart or Priscilla at 403346-2100. ● Epilepsy Association of Central Alberta located at 4811 48 Street will offer Benefits of Meditation Workshop on Jan. 14 from 6 to 8:30 p.m. with presenter Robin McKay, and Face to Face Support and Discussion on Jan. 21 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. See www. epilepsycalgary.com, or contact403-358-3358 or normak@epilepsycalgary.com. ● Suicide Information and Education Services presents Breakfast with Floyd Wickman — Mind, Time, and Passion — on Jan. 14, 7 a.m. at Sheraton Hotel and Conference Centre Tuscany Room. To find out more, contact Laura at 403-342-4966, 403-406-41410, lmacneill@suicidehelp.ca.

Friday

Sunday ● Discovery Sundays are offered at Kerry Wood Nature Centre from 1 to 4 p.m. to learn something new about the natural world around us. Drop in, or phone 403-3462010 to find out more. ● Olds Evergreen Jams are held on the second and fourth Sunday of every month at the Olds Evergreen Centre from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m., next Jan. 11 and 25. Admission is $2. Snacks included. Call Bonnie at 403-5567844 for more information.

Monday ● The Parkland Handweavers and Spinners Guild meets the second Monday of each month at Sunnybrook Farm Museum at 7 p.m. New and experienced weavers welcome. For more information contact Red Deer Weavers at reddeerweavers@gmail.com or Darlene at 403-749-3054, Amy at 403-3094026 or Margaret at 403-346-8289. ● Central Alberta Brain Injury Society Caregiver of Survivors of Brain Injury and Stroke sessions will be offered in 2015. Dates and times as follows: Jan. 12 — Functional and Mobility Issues after brain injury/ stroke; Jan. 19 — Brain Injury — the invisible injury; Jan. 26 — Stress and coping following traumatic change and chronic disability; Feb. 2 — Community Resources for caregivers and individuals with brain injury and stroke. See cabis.info, or contact 403-341-3463, cabis@telus.net.

Tuesday ● The Central Alberta Mopar Association (CAMA) Car Club meets on the second Tuesday of every month at 7 p.m. at Humpty’s Classic Restaurant in Gasoline Alley. Admirers and owners of Chrysler family vehicles are welcome. Yearly membership is $17 for new members and $12 for current members. For more information contact Glen at 403318-8388 or visit centralalbertamopar.com ● CrossRoads Church Seniors monthly luncheon is offered on the second Tuesday of each month from noon to 2 p.m. in the Chapel, next on Jan. 13. All seniors invited. The cost is $8 at the door. Phone 403-3476425. ● Overeaters Anonymous meets Tuesdays at 7:30 p.m. at Mighty Fortress Lutheran Church, 51 Alford Ave. This 12-step program of recovery is for individuals experiencing difficulty with overeating. No dues or fees. See www.oa.org, or phone Phyl at 403-347-4188. ● The Tony Connelly Singers choral group invites singers to join them on Tuesdays, 9:30 to 11 a.m. at the Senior Citizens Downtown House. The group shares the gift of music and friendship at various seniors’ functions from Sept. to June. Call Shirley at 403-342-5904, or Betty at 403-346-7316 for more information. ● Golden West Drop-In in Spruce View activities: Tuesday — line dancing, 10 a.m. to noon, and Bridge 1 to 4 p.m.; first and third Wednesdays — West Country Ink, and fourth Wednesday — cribbage, 2 p.m.; first Thurs-

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It will be busy at the Kerry Wood Nature Centre this weekend with family-oriented events running Saturday and Sunday. Nature Savvy Saturday runs Saturday, Jan. 10, from 1 to 4 p.m. Discover the natural world through self-guided activities and a craft. Admission is by donation. Family Planetarium is on Sunday, Jan. 11, from 1 to 2 p.m. The night sky comes to life in the nature centre’s indoor planetarium. Learn about the stars and the stories they tell. Admission is $3 per person, $10 per family.

Thursday ● Red Deer and District Garden Club meets on Jan. 15 at Kerry Wood Nature Centre at 7 p.m. Come hear speaker Serena Zwicker of Parkland Nurseries speak on landscape design principles. More information at www.reddeergardenclub.ca or www.facebook.com/RedDeerGardenClub. For more information call Noreen at 403-357-4071. ● Red Deer Art Club has ongoing sessions every Thursday from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Golden Circle Senior Resource Centre. These afternoons are open to all who are interested in learning techniques and sharing ideas using water based mediums. Open to beginner or advanced artists. For more information call 403-342-4242, email reddeerartclub@gmail. com or search out the club on Facebook. ● Golden Circle Senior Resource Centre dance, Thursday, Jan. 15, 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. at the seniors’ centre. Dance to the music of Country Gold North Band. Admission is $7. Phone 403-347-6165, 403-342-2875, or 403-346-3896. ● Philosopher’s Café meets on Jan. 15 at the Red Deer College Library at 7 p.m. for open, meaningful dialogue and sharing of ideas and perspectives. College philosophy instructor Guillermo Barron will lead discussion on “It’s 2015 already: what does privacy mean?” Admission is free, refreshments provided. See www.rdc.ab.ca/library or phone 403-342-3344. ● Central Alberta Community Legal Clinic will hold a photo identification clinic on Jan. 15 from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. at 301 5008 Ross St. The clinic offers free affidavits of identification that are notarized by a lawyer. This ID does not replace government issued ID but is intended to help people access basic services while replacing their proper ID. To book an appointment, phone 430-314-9129, see www.communitylegalclinic.net, or email to info@communitylegalclinic.net.

REGISTRATIONS LOCAL EVENTS AND ORGANIZATIONS ● Parkland Cross Country Ski Club offers day tours on local ski trails for skiers of all abilities. Enjoy an hour or two out with other skiers and learn about skiing in Central Alberta. See www.parklandxskiclub.org or contact rtownell@gmail.com to find out more. ● Circle Chase Rounds Dance Club in Innisfail offers dance lessons for cha cha, two step and more for eight weeks starting Jan. 23 at 7 p.m. Cost is $80 per couple. Contact Cliff at 403-782-4094 or cjdancinglacombe@ yahoo.ca. ● Alberta Health Services offers QuitCore stop smoking program at Johnstone Crossing Community Health Centre for six consecutive Thursdays from 2:30 to 4 p.m. starting Jan. 22. Phone toll-free 1-866-710-QUIT (7848) to register. See www. albertaquits.ca. ● Malanka Ukrainian New Year’s Eve Supper and Dance will be offered on Jan. 17 by the Kvitka Red Deer Ukrainian Dance Club. Event will take place at Festival Hall, with cocktails at 6 p.m., and dinner at 6:45 p.m. followed by show and dance with music by Northern Kings. Tickets are $45 until Jan. 13, or $50 after, from Irene at 403-346-5712, or Catherine at 403-343-2850. ● Red Deer River Watershed Alliance (RDRWA) will hold their Ambassador Breakfast on Jan. 16, from 8 to 9:30 a.m. at Lacombe Composite High School. The event will feature the winners of Central Alberta Caring For Our Watershed Competition win-

ners Michaela Reitsma, Ava Funkhouser, Tizita Hill, and Sofia Capettini who will present their winning entry, and geodesic greenhouse tours will be available. Event is free but please RSVP to info@rdrwa.ca or call Kelly at 403-340-7379 by Jan. 14. ● Sheraton Celebrity Dance-Off Gala in support of Aspire Special Needs Resource Centre will be held on March 20. Local celebrities have been paired with professional dance instructors to compete for the honour of best ballroom dancer. Tickets for the gala, including dance with live band to follow the competition will be on sale to the general public starting Jan. 12 for $200 to $400 from Aspire, 403-340-2606. See celebritydanceoff. ca. Tickets sell out quickly. ● Heart and Stroke Foundation requires volunteers to sign up as canvassers for February Heart Month. Phone 403-342-4435. ● Red Deer Learning Circle is a program designed to teach life skills to adults with developmental disabilities. For more information call Lexi or Dixie at 403-358-7816. ● Red Deer River Naturalists — Bird Trivia Night — will be held on Jan. 16 for a fun-filled evening beginning at 7 p.m. This is a board game played in teams. No experience necessary. To join in, contact Judy at 403342-4150 to register. ● Red Deer River Naturalists — Flower Focus — meets on Jan. 21, 10 a.m. at Kerry Wood Nature Centre. Contact Don for details at 403-343-2937.

Potato shortage forces Venezuela’s McDonald’s to get creative BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CARACAS, Venezuela — Forget the French fries. How about a side of yuca with that Big Mac? Venezuela’s more than 100 McDonald’s franchises have run out of potatoes and are now serving alternatives like deep-fried arepa flatbreads or yuca, a starchy staple of traditional South American cooking. McDonald’s is blaming a contract dispute with West Coast dock workers for halting the export of frozen fries to the country. The dispute also caused several days of French fry rationing in Japan last month. But Sonia Ruseler, an Argentina-based spokeswoman for Arcos Dorados, which runs McDonald’s restaurants in Latin America, declined to say Tuesday why Venezuela’s neighbours are not suffering from similar scarcity. Accustomed to shortages of their favourite foods, and equally

in the habit of grumbling about the government as they walk away emptyhanded, many Venezuelans assume the embattled socialist administration is to blame. “It’s because of the situation here; it’s a total debacle,” said Maria Guerreiro, who huffed out of a Caracas McDonald’s with her family when she found out they were serving only fries made of yuca, which is also known as cassava. Her daughter won’t eat the super-starchy root, she said, and they’d come for the sole purpose of treating the two-year-old to a Happy Meal. Ruseler said the corporation is working to resolve the shortages, and in the meantime, “will continue to give our clients the McDonald’s experience, offering 100 per cent Venezuelan options.” Rival Burger King, meanwhile, used sly social media posts Tuesday to remind Venezuelans that some fast food chains are still offering American-style fries.

John Toaspern, chief marketing officer with the US Potato Board, noted that Venezuela’s import of frozen potatoes fell off a cliff long before the labour dispute escalated. During the first 10 months of 2014, the country imported just 14 per cent of the frozen fries from major McDonald’s supplier Washington State that it brought in for the same period the year before, according to federal data compiled by the board. Most of the shortages in Venezuela are driven in part by the country’s tight currency controls, which make it hard to get dollars at a subsidized rate for imports while creating a thriving black market for currency. As a result, the country either has the most expensive Happy Meal in the world ($27 the official exchange rate) or the cheapest (90 cents at the black market rate). McDonald’s has likely been grappling with shortages in Venezuela for a while, according to Alixa Sharkey, a researcher with the market research

company Euromonitor International. And while other countries might be able to adjust to hiccups at the ports by finding alternate solutions like flying in frozen potatoes, the dysfunction in Venezuela makes these workarounds impossible. “This situation probably has little to do with the U.S. port dispute and is mostly the result of Venezuela’s very difficult economic situation,” she said. While McDonald’s may be the ultimate symbol of U.S. capitalism, the socialist government seems acutely aware that Venezuelans relish their Happy Meals. A state-sponsored news website posted a story this week assuring the situation “has nothing at all to do” with government policy. At the Caracas McDonald’s, a man wearing an “employee of the month” cap braved the dinner rush Monday, patiently explaining to patron after patron that instead of French fries, the store was offering yucca fries, miniarepas, or salads.

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New Year’s health resolutions: buyer beware! Internet, and the obscene amount of money that they had spent — all with no results. Both of these patients were frustrated, feeling like they had not been heard, had been given many false promises and, most importantly of all, were still not feeling better. As a word of caution, I always tell patients that making promises in medicine is a very risky business and it should raise red flags for you as a patient. As the patients and I continued our discussions, I quickly made the observation that many natural treatments had been recommended and tried, but there had been no attempt at identifying the underlying problem. This is what led to ongoing unsuccessful results. As a naturopathic doctor, one of our most important philosophies is to identify and treat the underlying cause, essentially getting to the root of the problem. Identifying the underlying cause allows us to target our treatments accordingly to ensure that we get results faster but, most importantly, that these results are long-lasting. With the New Year comes optimism and fresh starts. But I urge you to take the appropriate amount of time to research and determine what your best course of action is to reach your health goals. By the end of the year, I do not want you feeling frustrated with the time and resources spent on your New Year’s resolutions without success. If you are seeing a naturopathic doctor, speak to them if you are thinking about adding a new natural treatment into your health program.

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One process that some people may not want to talk about — or think about, for that matter — but should be given some serious thought and consideration is colon cleansing. While it may not be the most fun of processes, it can really make a significant difference on how you feel and function on a day-to-day basis. Let’s walk you through the main benefits of colon cleansing so that you can see why this is a must-do for optimal health status.

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MCELDERRY First, most people would be surprised at just how much weight they may lose if they proceed to do a good colon cleanse. 00If you have a high amount of buildup in your colon, washing this out is going to produce instant weight loss and then, as your body is functioning better after that, it’ll also help you continue to see faster weight loss after it’s over.

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Colon health Next, you’ll also experience better colon health as well. If you are regularly doing colon cleansing, this can be a good way to reduce your risk of cancer or other conditions relating to the colon and GI tract. While this may not be an immediate concern for you, over time, without proper colon care and maintenance, it can become a real issue. You don’t have to colon cleanse often to reap benefits for disease prevention, but it does need to be done regularly.

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Dr. Shane Johnson ND was born and raised in Red Deer and is the owner of Aspire Natural Medicine. He completed his naturopathic medical training at Bastyr University, and is among only a handful of naturopathic doctors in Alberta to complete an additional one-year residency in family medicine. For more detailed information on naturopathic medicine visit www.aspiremedicine.ca.

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A vial of the Canadian-made Ebola vaccine VSV-ZEBOV. A Swiss trial of a Canadian-made Ebola vaccine has resumed after being suspended because of concerns about an unexpected side-effect. in up to about 20 per cent of recipients. Huttner said the percentage of people who experienced joint pain in the Geneva study was not higher than 20 per cent and the symptoms have gone away in most cases. “Almost all cases are resolved now. The intensity was fairly mild. There were some cases of ... pain that was reported to be moderate, not just mild. But all people were able to work. Nobody was hospitalized,” she said. “And yes, there are a couple of people who still have some ongoing pain, but it’s very mild. And it’s considered less than at the time of diagnosis. ... (It’s) just taking a little while to diminish.” The trial, one of at least seven Phase 1 trials of rVSV-ZEBOV, is being conducted at the University Hospitals of Geneva. The researchers plan to enrol another 56 volunteers, giving some a placebo and others a low dose of the vaccine. “We actually believe this could be very immunogenic, even at a lower dose. That’s why we were willing to go down,” Huttner said. A Canadian trial of the vaccine is also being conducted, at the Canadian Centre for Vaccinology at Dalhousie University in Halifax. A spokesperson for the centre, Mary Appleton, said via email Tuesday that 40 volunteers - the targeted number - have been vaccinated in that trial, with no side-effects of concern noted. The Canadian trial is testing three low doses of the vaccine. Phase 1 trials are designed to show that a drug or vaccine is safe to use in people and to determine what the dose should be. Larger later-stage trials try to answer the question of whether an experim e n t a l product actually works.

CHICAGO — Complications are uncommon for women undergoing testtube fertility procedures: A new 12-year U.S. study shows the most frequent involve drugs used to stimulate ovaries, but it suggests problems are rarely fatal. Over-stimulated ovaries occurred in 154 out of every 10,000 pregnancy attempts; rates of other complications were less than 10 per 10,000 attempts. There were 58 deaths reported during the 2000-11 study. The study lacks information on their causes, and with more than 1 million pregnancy attempts involved, the results are reassuring, said Dr. Jennifer Kawwass, an Emory University assistant professor and the lead author. The study is the first large-scale effort to quantify risks for U.S. patients undergoing these treatments, Kawwass said. Results were published in Tuesday’s Journal of the American Medical Association. Treatments studied The researchers examined federally mandated reports from U.S. fertility clinics. The fancy term for treatments involved is assisted reproductive technology, the shorthand is IVF. It refers to in vitro fertilization — mixing eggs and sperm in a lab dish. Any resulting embryo or embryos are then transferred to the uterus. A type of IVF involving injecting a single sperm into an egg was included in the study. Fertility drugs are used with IVF to stimulate ovaries to produce eggs. High doses can cause swollen ovaries and mild abdominal bloating. Severe cases may involve persistent pain, substantial weight gain, vomiting and dangerous blood clots. The data includes women using

their own eggs and those donating eggs. More on complications Deaths included 18 within 12 weeks of starting fertility drugs — suggesting the drugs might have played a role. The other 40 deaths occurred later, suggesting pregnancy-related complications might have been involved; 18 of these women were carrying twins, triplets or more. The reports don’t list exact causes of death. Rates for over-stimulated ovaries didn’t change during the study but rates for other medicine side-effects and hospitalizations declined. Stable rates were seen for other problems, including infections, bleeding and anesthesia complications. Complications were most rare in donors, who typically are healthy young women, and none died. What experts say Dr. Richard Paulson, vice-president of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, said many complications and deaths could have been from underlying conditions causing infertility, rather than the treatments. Doctors in recent years have limited the number of embryos transferred, to reduce chances for unsafe multiple births. Paulson, director of the University of Southern California’s fertility program, said the move could lead to a decline in some complications including those related to over-stimulated ovaries. Dr. Jamie Grifo, director of New York University’s fertility centre, noted that about 2 per cent of U.S. babies are born from IVF, and said the study confirms that risks facing women undergoing the procedure are small. Online: ● JAMA: http://jama.ama-assn.org ● CDC: http://tinyurl.com/ozvtlay

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TORONTO — A trial in Switzerland of a Canadian-made Ebola vaccine resumed this week after being suspended over concerns about an unexpected side-effect reported by some volunteers. And while the Geneva-based trial of the rVSV-ZEBOV got back on track, researchers at Oxford University began testing another Ebola vaccine, made by the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson. The Janssen vaccine joins rVSVZEBOV, which is being developed by Merck and NewLink Genetics, and a vaccine being developed by GSK (formerly GlaxoSmithKline) in the race to provide the world with a licensed Ebola preventative. The Swiss trial of rVSV-ZEBOV was temporarily suspended in mid-December after several participants reported experiencing pain in the joints of their fingers or toes about two weeks after being injected with the vaccine. It has been resuming using a substantially lower dose of the vaccine than what was given earlier. A two-week Christmas break had been planned for the trial, but that hiatus — stretched to three — was started early so the research team could investigate the reaction. At the time the trial was halted four participants had complained of experiencing joint pain. Dr. Angela Huttner, one of the researchers heading the trial, said more cases came to light, but she would not reveal how many of the 59 volunteers enrolled in the study before the break reported joint pain. “The number did go up,” she acknowledged in an interview Tuesday. During the pause the researchers studied a number of the people who reported joint pain to see if they could find another explanation for the problem. But in the end they concluded the pain was likely a side-effect of the vaccine. The study’s informed consent form was altered to warn future volunteers they might experience joint pain after vaccination. “We did very extensive work-ups to rule out other causes, to rule out infections and any other kinds of things that can bring on these kinds of joint symptoms,” Huttner said. “We do feel that the joint symptoms were linked to the vaccine.” Most of the complaints related to pain in fingers and toes, but some people reported pain in their knees, she acknowledged. And while it had not been expected as a side-effect for this vaccine, Huttner and her colleagues pointed out that joint pain is a known side-effect of other live-virus vaccines. (This vaccine, which was designed at the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg, is made with a live vesicular stomatitis virus that has been genetically altered to include a key Ebola protein. The VSV virus doesn’t sicken humans - it is a virus that infects some animals - but it does deliver the Ebola protein to the immune system, which starts producing antibodies against Ebola as a result. It cannot cause Ebola disease.) Vaccines that protect against rubella are also known to cause joint pain,

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MONDAY DEADLINE FOR NOMINATIONS FOR 2019 WINTER GAMES ORGANIZERS BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF Nominations to join the board behind the 2019 Canada Winter Games in Red Deer are closing fast. People have until Monday to nominate themselves or someone they know to help organize the games. The board of directors is looking for people who have had career success, can reflect institutional and community stakeholders, are knowledgeable of sport and large-scale event planning and are available to make a time commitment of five to 10 hours a month up to the games in February 2019. “At the end of the day, we’re looking for community-minded citizens

who have some good experience in business or community engagement or events, and are interested in ensuring the games are stewarded from the board level,” said Scott Robinson, 2019 Winter Games transition team member. The board will have up to 15 members. Seven of those positions will be appointed, including board chair Lyn Radford, two from the Canada Winter Games Council, one from the federal government, one from the Alberta government, one from the municipal government and one from Red Deer College. The remaining eight positions are open to community members-at-large. “We’ll certainly be looking for people with diverse backgrounds to en-

sure the board has diversity to it,” said Robinson. “They’re going to be the stewards of the games and the host society. “Their responsibility is to oversee the organization as a whole from both a fiscal point-of-view and from an operational and a leadership point-ofview.” Radford has experience putting large sports events together, including the 2010 Olympic Torch Relay and the 2006 Alberta Summer Games. Board members will have a lot of hands-on work to do to get the games ready, including putting the right CEO in place, approving and monitoring the budgets and developing the host society’s vision, mission, values and strategic priorities.

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The board’s first major step would be to get policies in place and then they will go about hiring a CEO for the games. “The games will have somewhere in the neighbourhood of 60 to 70 staff by the time the games are delivered,” said Robinson, on top of thousands of volunteers. For more information on how to apply and to get nomination packages, visit the facebook page www.facebook. com/reddeerisready or pick up the nomination packages at the Red Deer Recreation Centre, at 4501 47A Ave.; G.H. Dawe Library, at 56 Holt St.; Collicutt Centre, at 3031 30th Ave.; or the Red Deer Public Library downtown branch, at 4818 49th St. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

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A Johnstone Park man set up video surveillance after a garage opener and keys were stolen. Two days later, the video system captured images of this man attempting to steal a vehicle at the home.

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Michener Hill Curling Club manager and ice maker Bert Lowe was up on the roof Wednesday clearing the recent snowfall from the buildings roof. Along with keeping the ice inside in top shape Lowe finds time to keep the exterior of the building free of ice and snow.

Mail thefts continue, Red Deer police warn Mail thefts continue to be a problem in Red Deer, with five new reported cases bring brought to the RCMP’s attention. Before Christmas, Red Deer RCMP issued an alert of seven instances of mail theft in different parts of Red Deer. Five more thefts were reported after Christmas and the police are reiterating their warning to residents to check their mail regularly and to be alert to what may be missing. “Many thieves are looking for envelopes with cash or cheques in them, but others are looking for ways to access personal information such as bank and credit card information,” said Cpl. Leanne Molzahn. “Scammers glean information from bank and credit card statements in an effort to steal money or your identity. Sometimes they’re also looking for personal information they can use to approach you with a scam.” Theft of mail, a criminal code violation, carries a maximum penalty of up to 10 years in prison.

Over the next five years, Canada Post is transitioning away from door-to-door mail delivery and will instead rely on community mailboxes. Several of the instances over the last few weeks have been at community mailboxes. Police offered the following tips to protect yourself against identity theft: ● Know when your credit card, financial statements and bills are due. If they don’t arrive when they are supposed to, call the company — an identity thief may have changed the billing address. ● Pay attention to credit card expiry dates. If the replacement card doesn’t arrive when you expect it, call your credit card company. Someone may have taken your new card from your mailbox or changed the mailing address. ● Buy a shredder and use it. Shred anything with personal or financial information such as credit card receipts, copies of credit applications, insurance forms, cheques, financial state-

ments and old income tax returns. ● Cut up expired and unused credit and debit cards. The card may have expired but the number may still be valid and could be used to make purchases. ● If you are going to be away, arrange for a trusted neighbour to pick up your mail. You can also go to your local post office (identification is required) and ask Canada Post to hold your mail. ● Lock your household mailbox if possible. ● Be careful what identification you provide and to whom, especially your main identity documents, birth certificate, driver’s licence or social insurance number. These documents can be used to produce other ID and gain access to more of your personal and financial information. If anyone has information about these mail thefts, they are asked to call the Red Deer RCMP at 403-343-5575. If you wish to remain anonymous, call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or report it online at www.tipsubmit.com.

City man sets up video camera after break-in; suspect returns to steal vehicle Red Deer police received a helping hand from a Johnstone Park homeowner who took action after his home was entered recently. The homeowner, who is not being named, said that his son’s car, parked outside, was broken into on Dec. 15 and the garage door opener was taken from the vehicle. Someone then opened the homeowner’s garage, went into his house and took keys for another vehicle, a Ford Escape SUV. The culprit then left without taking anything. The next day, the homeowner installed video surveillance and took other security measures. Red Deer City RCMP said that on the night of Dec. 17, a man drove up to the residence in a red car, possibly an Alero. He used the previously stolen keys to enter the Ford Escape and damaged the gear shift while attempting to put the vehicle in gear, while someone else waited in the red car. The suspects departed when they realized the homeowner was aware of their activity. The surveillance equipment captured images of the suspect, which the homeowner quickly provided to police and also posted on the Facebook page Red Deer Stolen Vehicles. “There’s very clear footage of his face,” the homeowner told the Advocate, who also expressed concern and frustration that police had not been providing him with updates on the case, nor had they been able to arrest anyone quickly. The homeowner said he spent about $2,000 on the extra security and repairing the damage done to his SUV by the person who came back and tried to steal it. The homeowner said he was concerned the person was still out there, possibly doing the same thing at other homes. He spoke again with police on Tuesday. On Wednesday, Red Deer RCMP put out a press release looking for public assistance to identify the man caught on camera on Dec. 17. The suspect is described as Caucasian, with dark eyes and dark eyebrows, wearing gloves, a black hoodie, black shoes with white laces, a black cap with white writing on the front, and dark-coloured jeans.

Flood-ravaged rural properties purchased BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF Two flood-ravaged Red Deer County properties that were purchased from their owners by the province have been designated as environmental reserves. The designation, approved by county council on Tuesday, follows the purchase of the two properties next to the Red Deer River by the county using a grant specifically provided for the pur-

RED DEER COUNTY pose by Alberta Environment. Both properties, totalling about 23 acres on the west side of the river, 27 km west of Bowden, were prone to flooding. The owners and the amount paid were not disclosed. Coun. Philip Massier questioned whether the newly created environmental reserves could serve as a boat launch or other public area. County manager Curtis Herzberg

said those uses are allowed but cautioned council about getting more involved. It was with some reluctance that county administration undertook the job of negotiating the land purchase because the river and flood issues are provincial responsibilities. Herzberg said he would not want to see the county get deeper into an area outside its jurisdiction.

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“I don’t see it as a future park or a future anything for us,” he said of the properties near the county’s Range Road 40. Red Deer County does not want to take on the liability that would come with overseeing a park or other public venue. Also, Herzberg said administration does not want to be put in a position where it must devote significant staff time dealing with future similar floodrelated property negotiations. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

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BRIEFS Lacombe project honoured at watershed alliance event The Red Deer River Watershed Alliance will be in Lacombe for an ambassador breakfast road trip. As a change of pace, the monthly breakfast will instead be held at the Lacombe Composite High School, at 5628 56th Ave., from 8 to 9:30 a.m. on Jan. 16. The winners of the Central Alberta 2014 Caring for our Watershed competition — Michaela Reistma, Ava Funkhouser, Tizita Hill and Sofia Capettini — will present their awardwinning stewardship action Lacombe Educational Aquaponics Food System, as well as a tour of the geodesic greenhouse, which is home to the eco-visions aquaponic setup at the Lacombe Composite High School. This is a free event but requires a reservation. RSVP by Jan. 14 by calling 403-340-7379 or emailing info@rdrwa. ca.

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Lacombe break-in suspects enter not-guilty pleas Two suspects arrested in connection with break-in attempts in Lacombe have pleaded not guilty to the charges against them. Lacombe police arrested Sean David Porter, 32, and Natasha Verna Clark, 28, on Oct. 20 after two people were seen trying to enter homes and vehicles on Henner’s Road, located at the northern edge of the city. Both suspects have been held in custody since their arrest on charges of possessing stolen property, possessing break-in tools, attempted residential break-ins and possession of dangerous weapons. Clark faces additional charges including breaching conditions of a recognizance relating to older charges that are still before the courts.

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David Jaburek uses a gas-powered blower to blow snow off the lineup of vehicles at Northwest Motors in Red Deer this week. Central Albertans got a mix of weather on Wednesday, as it warmed up but continued to snow, with a gusty wind. There was also a risk of freezing rain in the early evening in the forecast. For the rest of the week, expect cooler temperatures, but sunshine. She and Porter entered their plea in Red Deer provincial court on Wednesday, appearing by closed-circuit TV from separate rooms in the Red Deer remand Centre. Represented by Red Deer defence counsel Greg Gordon and Paul Morigeau, they have asked to be tried by judge alone in Red Deer provincial court.

Woman hit by pickup truck while jaywalking: police A few streets in downtown Red Deer were closed to traffic for a short time on Wednesday afternoon a pedestrian was struck by a truck near Jackpot Casino. Red Deer City RCMP say a woman, 50, was jaywalking across 49th Street near 47th Avenue when she was hit by an 84-year-old male driving a pickup truck. Police do not believe the driver was at fault and do not propose laying charges at this time. The woman was taken to hospital to be examined and treated for injuries that are not believed to be life-threatening.

Rocky man awaits bail over murder charge in B.C. Bail will be addressed early in February for a Rocky Mountain House man facing a charge of murder in the Kootenay region of B.C. Roger Brian Jordan Shimell, 24, has been held in custody since Dec. 28, when RCMP from Trail were called to a home in nearby Fruitvale. Police allege that Scott Douglas Decembrini, 52, was found inside the residence suffering from severe injuries. He was rushed to hospital in Trail but did not survive. Shimell was found in the residence and was arrested on a charge of second-degree murder. He made his first court appearance in Rossland provincial court in Trail on Monday. His bail hearing had been scheduled for Nelson on Wednesday, but was adjourned to Rossland on Feb. 5. Const. Kris Clark, an RCMP media

relations officer based in Kelowna, said Shimell and Decembrini have a family connection, but investigators have not established their exact relationship. Fruitvale is 16 km east of Trail.

Sentencing set after armed robbery guilty plea Sentencing has been set over to March for one of two suspects from an armed robbery in Red Deer early last year, while charges have been withdrawn against the man arrested with him. Charges were laid against Stephen Early Donaldson, 21, and Jordan Curtis Baron, 20, by Red Deer RCMP investigating the robbery of the Mac’s convenience store on Boyce Street on Feb. 3, 2014. Both men were charged with robbery, using an imitation firearm to commit a robbery and wearing a disguise to commit a criminal offence. They had originally asked to be tried in the Court of Queen’s Bench with a preliminary hearing to be held before to weigh the Crown’s evidence. Charges against Donaldson were withdrawn during the preliminary hearing, held in Red Deer provincial court on Dec. 18. Baron is to be sentenced in Red Deer provincial court on March 5 after changing his plea to guilty on a portion of the charges against him.

Mayor’s awards names sought by Feb. 17 The City of Red Deer is accepting nominations for the 2015 Mayor’s Rec-

ognition Awards, which this year will see some changes. The awards are intended to recognize individuals, groups or teams from Red Deer whose actions have brought honour and recognition to the city. Nominations will be accepted until Feb. 17 at 9 a.m. The Continuous Voluntary Award has been discontinued but a new award has been created — the Community Builder Award. The other award categories include Athletics, Fine and Performing Arts, Distinguished Voluntary Service and the Mayor’s Special Award. Some minor modifications have been made to the nomination criteria as well. The City of Red Deer relies on the nomination process to bring forward names of deserving citizens. The awards are presented at a ceremony in June. For more information, including nomination forms, visit www.reddeer.ca. Nomination forms can also be picked up at Legislative Services, second floor, at City Hall, at 4914 48th Ave.

Moebius syndrome awarness day planned People are asked to wear purple on Jan. 24 to mark Moebius Syndrome Awareness Day. Moebius syndrome is a rare neurological disorder that is present at birth. It leaves it victims unable to move their faces. They can’t smile, frown, grimace or blink their eyes. The syndrome primarily affects the sixth and seventh cranial nerves. For more information, check www. manyfacesofmoebiussyndrome.com.

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Anyone looking to warm themselves up with a sip of scotch or a plate of haggis has many local chances to do so. The annual celebration of everything Scottish has many homes in Central Alberta this winter. From Sylvan Lake to Innisfail to Red Deer, several Robbie Burns Day celebrations will be held. Sylvan Lake Legion will be the first in Central Alberta group to host a Robbie Burns Day supper, on Jan. 21. Starting at 5:30 p.m. at the Legion, at 4916 50th Ave., the evening includes cocktails and the piping in of the haggis. Dinner is at 6:30 p.m. and dancing is at 8:30. Tickets cost $25 and can be purchased at the Legion. On Jan. 24, at the Red Deer Legion at 2810 Bremner Ave., the Robbie Burns supper hosted by the Red Deer Legion Pipe Band. Starting with cocktails from 6 to 7 p.m., the evening includes the traditional supper with haggis. The evening also includes the piping in of the haggis, a pipe band performance and the highland dancers. Tickets cost $30 are available from any pipe band member or the front desk of the Red Deer Legion. For more information, call Arnie MacAskill at 403-782-7183. At Cronquist House in Bower Ponds, at 4707 Fountain Dr. in Red Deer, the Central Alberta Refugee Effort’s Cultural Cafe will hold a Robbie Burns night with haggis, bagpipes and poetry from the famous Scot. The event takes place on Jan. 25 from 6 to 8 p.m. To register, email jan.underwood@ care2centre.ca. The event is free but seating is limited. The Innisfail Legion is hosting its own Robbie Burns Day supper on Feb. 6 at the Legion, at 5108 49th Ave. Cocktails start at 5:30 p.m. with the haggis being piped in at 6:20 p.m. and then supper will be served. Tickets cost $25 and can be purchased by calling Michael or Marion at 403-227-2916.

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It will soon be 49 straight years of identical to mine, which he says he got these weekly columns, minus very oc- from Henry’s, a shoe store in Trochu! casional holidays, such as every seven A holidays resolution was to get the years when the lead paper, The Ad- word out on the too-little-known Disvocate, is not publishing on ability Tax Credit that can Christmas and New Year’s save people with mobility Days. and other health problems We used to travel a lot big bucks in taxes to help in the festive season: to pay for walkers, stair lifts, Herself’s parents west of etc., maybe even New BalPincher Creek, and mine ance 577s. Check the rules at Brooks, often also alterand forms on the Revenue nating Christmas and New Canada website, then get Year’s at one place, then the your doctor and accountant other. Many of those trips on it. are now family legends. It was a vintage annual The absolute classic was oyster-caviar season in this when the clutch on my behouse. Fisherman’s Pride loved Landcruiser went in Red Deer supplied out on Boxing Day just as Malpeque (P.E.I.) oysters BOB we turned north onto Hwy 2 frozen on the half shell, the SCAMMELL off Hwy 3 to head home. We Co-op had live Colville Bays were towed to Claresholm (New Brunswick) and old and Herself, me, two kids, buddy Mac Johnston came two dogs and one case of by with his usual gift of two chicken pox hove up at the Blue Bird dozen live Malpeques in the shell. Motel in a town that was all but shutNever having had a lesson in his tered for the holidays. life, son-in-law Chris Hooper shucked Thanks to the great kindness of the the live Malpeques so quickly he Bluebird folks, we all, including re- should consider big city competitions. I paired Landcruiser, celebrated New had oysters raw on the half shell twice, Year’s Eve in Red Deer. stewed once, and Herself and I dined As usual in recent years, my Christ- on them fried and scalloped. Farmed mas shopping has all been online to oysters are a sustainable fish success places with superb service: L.L. Bean, story; they even clean the water that Hammacher Schlemmer, and Lee Val- sustains them. ley Tools being among the best. Bean International House of Caviar in almost failed me for the first time in Burnaby took only a day to deliver my more than half a century when they in- annual caviar fix, perfectly iced, to formed me they could not ship the gee- our house in Red Deer. Sustainabilzer shoe of choice, the New Balance ity strides are being made in caviar 577 Walking Shoe with Hook and Loop from farmed sturgeon that even seem (Velcro) closure, outside the U.S. to bring the price down. Meanwhile, son John ordered me Thus, this year I was able to feast a pair from a dodgy-sounding site. A twice on a full 50 grams of only somepackage duly arrived from China with what ruinously expensive German Sishoes that might have been New Bal- berian Sturgeon Caviar; at a quarter ances, but not 577 Walking Shoes, not the price, it reminds me sufficiently of the right colour, and with ordinary lac- my beloved Beluga caviar of my youth. es. Resolution: I’ll never touch BeThis international operation was luga again until conservation initianecessary because not one of the Red tives bring the supply up and the price Deer stores that claim to carry New down, or until someone else is treatBalance had the slightest interest in ing. ordering in a pair of 577s for me. AnyIHOC also shipped me two jars of way, the snowbird friend Bean had the inexpensive Danish rainbow trout shipped my shoes to in Arizona had caviar, always a treat, and a jar to try just left after delivering them to me in of Icelandic orange Capelin roe, which Red Deer, when the next book-buying is the crunchy, tasty flying fish roe visitor slipped off a pair of new 577s garnishing many of the rolls in sushi

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Fifty grams of German Siberian Sturgeon caviar and one ounce of ice-cold Russian vodka. joints. Lots of visitors came by, many buying books, and all with great stories to tell. It was our turn to host the whole family, including four grandchildren from five to 10. We wouldn’t have it any other way, but very early Christmas morning reminded me that I may be a tad too old to be a young grandfather. The cards, letters, photos, calls and emails, especially from readers, were another holiday treat, especially from the growing number of females who hunt and fish.

I rarely get reports from the new owners of my prized firearm collection I sold five years or so ago. But Jim Wiseman, who bought my favourite rifle, a semi-custom Mannilicherstocked seven-by-57 Husquvarna, sent me a gem, a trophy: a picture taken precisely where I hunted years ago, of his niece, Julie, with her first deer, a mule deer doe, and holding my old “Husky,” the rifle with which she made a perfect shot. Bob Scammell is an award-winning columnist who lives in Red Deer. He can be reached at bscam@telusplanet.net.

How to avoid over-purchasing seeds Seed catalogues for 2015 have started to arrive through the mail and are available online. The ones from the large seed houses are full of tantalizing pictures and information. Smaller businesses provide lists and less information. Both encourage people to dream of spring and gardening. It is easy to get carried away sitting in a warm house dreaming of spring, and purchase too many seeds, plants and bulbs or ones that will not mature in the average season. To avoid-over purchasing, compile a list of seeds that one might want to grow. Once the list is complete, consider the following: LINDA ● Where the plants will be TOMLINSON placed in the garden, matching their growing requirements for hours of sunlight, heat, moisture and frost free days to location. ● Will they all fit? ● How many plants of each variety are needed? ● Did you grow the plants last year and were they successful? Look at the seeds that were left over from last year, checking each package to see how many are left. With the exception of onions and parsnips, most varieties of seeds will still be viable for a number of years, especially if they were stored at a constant temperature. Next, be realistic. There are approximately 90 days between frosts in Central Alberta. Plants that require longer to mature need to either be started early or have frost protection in spring and fall. Long-season seeds can be started at home or custom grown at a local greenhouse. If only a few of each plant are needed for the garden, the most economical method it to purchase the plants from a greenhouse in the spring. When purchasing vegetable seeds, consider the size of the garden and how much produce it can grow. Plant more if the plan is to preserve for winter consumption. Much less is needed to eat fresh. Order more seeds if the plan is to succession plant, or to plant cold crops in August for fall consumption. Later in the season, some seeds such as spinach and kale can be hard to find. Seed houses plan to have most of their seeds sold by the end of June. Once the list is compiled, it is time to decide where to order. Large packages are listed by weight, giving a clear understanding of what each package contains. Seed packets are different. Some companies will give a weight or seed count on their packages, others will not. For the most part, the more one pays for the package, the more seeds it contains. But there are always exceptions to the rule. It is also possible to purchase plants, bulbs and tubers to be delivered by mail. Ask when they will be shipped to make sure it works with the local climate. Trees and shrubs will have been placed in cold storage in the fall and they are shipped before they break dormancy. The roots will be packed in wet peatmoss or shavings to keep them moist and viable. Be prepared to plant all bare-rooted plants in pots or outside when they arrive as the change in temperatures will signal the plants to break dormancy. A limited selection of green plants, cuttings and plugs are also available for purchase via catalogues. Cuttings and plugs need to be sent early enough to allow them to increase in size before they can be

placed outside. Bulbs and tubers will be breaking dormancy when they arrive. Placing them in cool storage can slow down the growth for a short period before they will need to be planted. Plants that are shipped too early or can’t be cared for properly will die.

Lastly, calculate the cost of shipping into the cost of the seeds and plants. It costs to ship merchandise and most companies pass this on to the consumer. When only one or two things are purchased, the individual cost of an item can double. Linda Tomlinson is a horticulturalist who lives near Rocky Mountain House. She can be reached at your_ gaqrden@hotmail.com.

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Strong holiday season for retailers LOCAL BUSINESSES BENEFIT FROM MILD WEATHER BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR It was a merry meteorological Christmas for local retailers, with relatively mild weather being credited for strong seasonal sales. Holiday revenue at Comforts the Sole in the city’s downtown was up nearly 50 per cent over 2013, said owner Lorna Watkinson-Zimmer, recalling the “bitterly cold” conditions that hampered last year’s shopping blitz. “When I closed the door for Christmas 2013, I almost slammed the door because I was so ticked off with the shopping season.” Tina Bale, who manages nearby Ten Thousand Villages, said her store enjoyed its best Christmas since relocating to 4928 48th St. from Southpointe Common three years ago. She agreed that weather was likely a factor. “Last year was a really tough one.” A few blocks away at Sunworks Home & Garden, employee Lesley Caddy noticed that customers were in a more festive mood this year. “Because the weather was good, people were in the holiday spirit.” Not only were sales strong at Sunworks, there seemed to be fewer lastminute shoppers, she said. Billi Mayne, who works a few doors away at Housewarmings, was also impressed with the consumer traffic in December. “We had such a nice winter this year,” she said. Veteran downtown businessman Terry Balgobin, owner of Artistry in Gold Design Studio, said weather “al-

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Ten Thousand Villages manager, Tina bale, left, and store volunteer Jean Knopp are experiencing quieter days in the downtown store following the busy Christmas shopping season. ways plays a role” during the Christmas shopping season. Sales leading up to Dec. 25, 2014, were about the same a year ago, he said, but Christmas 2013 was a pretty good period for Artistry in Gold. Amanda Gould, executive director of the Red Deer Downtown Business Association, said she wouldn’t be surprised if shoppers avoid store-to-store

shopping when temperatures turn frigid. “I’m sure it certainly makes them think twice about where they’re going.” Dan Hachey, manager at Parkland Mall, also commented on the importance of weather to Christmas sales. Snowfall in particular can influence consumers, he said.

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A new report says Saskatchewan’s potash royalty structure needs to be overhauled because it is too complex and “alarmingly inefficient.” Jack Mintz, a professor at the University of Calgary, says the royalty program is the most complicated in the world. “Hardly anyone understands the Saskatchewan system,” said Mintz, who is the director of the university’s School of Public Policy. His report released Wednesday says that while Saskatchewan produces almost one-third of the world’s potash, its tax on the resource isn’t competitive on an international level. “What you really want is something that’s stable,” said Mintz, who added that there are wide fluctuations in the current approach. The royalties collected by governments from resource companies help fill provincial coffers. Saskatchewan’s system includes a production-based levy, revenue-based levies, profitbased taxes and other taxes on capital investment. “Saskatchewan is competitive as long as there is a lot of investment that is undertaken by firms,” Mintz said. “But it’s not very competitive — in fact it actually has the highest effective tax rate on investments compared to any other country that we look at — when companies aren’t investing as much as

the 2002 period.” Investments are treated differently depending on when companies were established. For those producing potash in 2001 and 2002, the maximum taxable volume was their average sales in those years. For those who were not producing potash until after 2002, the maximum taxable amount is 75 per cent of their sales — but for no more than one million tonnes. In the report, Mintz and co-author Duanjie Chen compared Saskatchewan’s system to New Brunswick as well as to Canada’s international competitors. Mintz said royalty structures in both provinces result in lost revenue during boom periods, but too much revenue is taken from companies when their production slows. New Brunswick has a better-designed system than Saskatchewan, he said, but it’s still not a model of efficiency. Mintz suggested the approach contributes to instability in the potash industry. He said he believes Saskatchewan would have had billions in extra revenue between 2009 and 2014 using a rent-based tax system. “What we are recommending would be a very stable (system) in the sense that the government would get good revenues when the prices are high, the industry won’t get whacked with a

“It there’s too much snow, they can’t make it to the mall; if there’s not enough snow, they can make it out of town.” An absence of snow can also delay shoppers’ Christmas gift-buying, said Hachey. “It can lull people into thinking that it’s further off and delay their shopping.” Conditions couldn’t have been too bad this year, because sales at Parkland Mall in the weeks leading up to Christmas were trending ahead of 2013’s pace, noted Hachey. Watkinson-Zimmer said other factors probably contributed to her store’s success this Christmas. A big one was recent efforts to beautify the downtown and attract people there through such initiatives like the farmers’ market, festivals and the Ross Street Patio. “We’ve got an absolutely top-of-the line-downtown,” she said. Bale agreed. “It’s so beautiful downtown now that I think there is a lot more foot traffic.” Mayne said she’s also noticed an increase in shoppers. “We get a bunch of people in here saying they’ve lived here 10-plus years, some even say they’ve lived here 30 years, and this is their first time downtown.” The Downtown Business Association is trying to fuel the renewed interest in Red Deer’s downtown. “This year, the DBA quadrupled its investment in advertising for the downtown over the Christmas period. “We used everything we could get our hands on this year.” hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

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bunch of taxation when revenues are down.” Premier Brad Wall said he doesn’t agree with Mintz’s calculations. “There’s a number of problems with Mr. Mintz’s numbers,” Wall said. “Chief among them is that he’s underestimated potash revenue annually every year by $150 million ... from 2006 to 2013. “I think we’ve gotten pretty good return” when average potash revenue over time and job growth are factored in. But Wall agreed the current royalty system is complex. “Together with industry, we need to have a stable, arguably more simplified, royalty process that makes sure we’re getting value for Saskatchewan people.” NDP finance critic Trent Wotherspoon agreed that royalty policy is in need of review. “I think there are some valid questions being asked,” he said. “There was an aim to encourage investment in Saskatchewan in that potash sector and that investment has been unprecedented.” Wall said the current structure encouraged the expansion of the potash industry. “These investments are massive and they’re made and they’re in the ground,” Wall said. He added that he wouldn’t be concerned about companies scaling back production if royalties changed. “I don’t think it’s just a royalty com-

Canada posts trade deficit with the world in November OTTAWA — Canada had a largerthan-expected trade deficit in November as a drop in oil prices led a broad decline in exports. Statistics Canada said Wednesday the country posted a merchandise trade deficit of $644 million in November, higher than the $300-million deficit expected by economists, according to Thomson Reuters. The federal agency also revised its results for October to show a deficit of $327 million, compared with an initial reading of a $99-million surplus. Export Development Canada’s chief economist Peter Hall noted the November numbers were down in nine of 11 broad trade categories. “It certainly is a red-ink month, isn’t it?” Hall said in an interview Wednesday. “It’s a very broadly based drop, monthly, in trade. So it’s likely to cause quite a bit of concern.” Canada’s overall merchandise imports fell 2.7 per cent in November, while exports fell 3.5 per cent. Exports totalled $43.3 billion in November — the lowest level since last April — while imports amounted to $43.9 billion, which is the lowest level since July. The November data showed the effects of lower oil prices, which have been dropping since last summer. The U.S. benchmark price broke below US$50 a barrel this month and, in recent days, has been trading at levels not seen in nearly six years.

WestJet concerned about oil prices affecting demand BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — Canada’s two largest airlines benefited from strong passenger demand last year, but WestJet raised concerns about possible storm clouds forming due to low oil prices. The Calgary-based airline says demand remains strong so far. “However, we are concerned that a prolonged period of low oil prices could have an impact on our energy driven economy which in turn could in the long term impact travel expenditures,” spokesman Robert Palmer said Wednesday after the airline reported its December and 2014 traffic numbers. Analysts expect airlines to cut ticket prices as fuel costs drop, which should spur overall passenger demand and offset the negative impact of a lower Canadian dollar on operating costs. But, they also fear WestJet’s greater exposure to Alberta and its oil-fuelled economy could see it to lose ground against Air Canada. Analyst David Tyerman of Canaccord Genuity said the Western Canadian economy is a “wild card” for WestJet. “There’s a fear I think out there and I would share it - that WestJet will

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Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 119.39 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 13.33 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 18.18 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 60.71 MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto stock market closed modestly higher Wednesday as investors tried to mount a relief rally after two days of punishing losses sparked by a collapse in oil prices to below US$50 a barrel and worries about the effects of such a decline. But the rally largely fizzled as the S&P/TSX composite index came down from a 180-point run-up early in the morning to close up 38.23 points at 14,285, regaining little of the more than 500-point plunge over the previous two sessions. The steady decline in gains during the session didn’t surprise Kash Pashootan, portfolio manager at First Avenue Advisory in Ottawa, a Raymond James company. “On a day like today you see the investor (has) confidence in the overall market through this relief rally,” Pashootan said, adding investors need “some sort of longer-term direction in terms of where (oil) supply is going.” “I don’t see how anyone can really pick a bottom without it being pure speculation until we get some clarity and direction from oil supply cuts.” The Canadian dollar closed up 0.05 of a cent at 84.6 cents US amid data showing falling oil exports increased the Canadian trade deficit in November. U.S. indexes were higher as the release of the minutes from last month’s U.S. Federal Reserve meeting reassured investors that the central bank likely will not raise rates sooner than generally expected, which is around the middle of this year. On an upbeat note, the minutes also said that the Fed sees foreign weakness as a risk to the U.S. economy but expects the huge drop in oil prices to be positive. The Dow Jones industrials jumped 212.88 points to 17,584.52, the Nasdaq climbed 57.73 points to 4,650.47 and the

Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 19.42 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 13.47 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88.60 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 32.38 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 13.15 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 18.55 First Quantum Minerals . 16.13 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 23.81 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 9.74 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 3.84 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . 18.31 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 42.09 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.68 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 15.56 Energy Arc Resources . . . . . . . . 23.34 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 23.44 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 56.47 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.56 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 38.25 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 32.18 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . . 7.99 Canyon Services Group. . 8.11 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 22.92 CWC Well Services . . . 0.4050 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 15.27 Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 1.49 S&P 500 index was up 23.29 points at 2,025.9. Most of the positive TSX action came from non-resource sectors that have been beaten down recently — the consumer discretionary component up 1.4 per cent and telcos ahead 1.25 per cent. But the TSX financial and industrial sectors lost early momentum. And the energy sector continued to pile up losses and gave back another 0.55 per cent even as oil prices stabilized for the moment. The February crude contract in New York climbed 72 cents to US$48.65 a barrel as data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration showed that U.S. crude inventories declined by 3.1 million barrels last week. Analysts had expected supplies to increase by 380,000 barrels. Prices have plunged 55 per cent since the highs of last June. Markets are dealing with an overabundance of supply, made worse by OPEC’s refusal to cut production to support prices. Traders have become reluctant to speculate on where a bottom for prices is but on Wednesday, Bank of America-Merrill Lynch warned that the sharp drop in prices could prompt Saudi Arabia and other petro-states into cutting production. The gold sector faded 1.5 per cent as gold prices backed off after charging ahead the previous three sessions as investors shunned riskier assets. The February contract faded $8.70 to US$1,210.70 an ounce. FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS Highlights at the close of Wednesday at world financial market trading. Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 14,285.00, up 38.23 points Dow — 17,584.52, up 212.88 points S&P 500 — 2,025.90, up

Coleman says LNG proposals will take flight in B.C. in 2015 VICTORIA — Natural Gas Development Minister Rich Coleman says he expects British Columbia’s dreams of building a liquefied natural gas industry will come true in 2015 with energy companies deciding to proceed on plans to build pipelines and export terminals. In an statement released Wednes-

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Quebec energy board calls TransCanada’s Energy East plan ‘desirable’ impact of the pipe conversion on gas consumers in Central Canada. In an assessment released Wednesday, Quebec’s energy board said petroleum shippers should assume the costs related to that aspect of Energy East because the project was conceived primarily with them in mind. The Regie de l’energie added that distributors of natural gas should not be the only ones to pay for the gasrelated portion of the pipeline. Quebec Energy and Natural Resources Minister Pierre Arcand reacted to the comments by saying he hopes TransCanada and Gaz Metro, Quebec’s gas distributor, reach agreement on a common vision with acceptable costs. They must “take into consideration the interests of consumers and businesses in terms of natural-gas prices,” he said The board estimates the demand for natural gas in Quebec will grow by about two per cent annually between now and 2030 and that the only reliable option is to buy gas from outside Quebec and bring it into the province via TransCanada’s network.

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — Quebec’s energy regulator came out in favour of the Energy East pipeline on Wednesday, calling the TransCanada Corp. project “desirable.” The Calgary-based company is aiming to link up to 1.1 million barrels a day of Alberta crude to export terminals and refineries in Quebec and New Brunswick through the $12-billion pipeline. For about two-thirds of the way, an existing segment of cross-Canada natural gas pipe would be converted to oil service, with new pipe to be built through Quebec and New Brunswick. TransCanada (TSX:TRP) filed its regulatory application to the National Energy Board in October. Pushback against the project has emerged on various issues, including the need to protect a beluga habitat in Quebec’s St. Lawrence River where plans to build one export terminal have been put on hold. There are also concerns about the

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Preston ‘Pret’ and Megan Dahlgren hold their daughter, Naomi, as they pose for a photograph Monday near Salt Lake City. Two Utah men set to appear in the reality TV show ‘My Husband’s Not Gay’ say they’re fulfilled in their relationships to their wives even though they’re attracted to other men. The show’s concept has come under fire since it was announced by the TLC network last month. her questions. Megan Dahlgren says her marriage remains strong, including the physical aspects of their relationship. “We do have a happy, healthy sex life,” she said. Dahlgren and Bennion both said their upbringing in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was a big part of why they wanted to remain in a husband-and-wife relationship. “I would say it was part of my decision early on, especially, and a big influencer of that,” Dahlgren said. “It certainly helped guide me toward where I’m at today, no doubt about it.” Church spokesman Eric Hawkins said in a statement Tuesday that marriage is deeply personal. “While the church does not promote marriage as

a treatment method for same-sex attraction, couples who are trying to be lovingly supportive of each other while being true to their religious convictions deserve our support and respect,” Hawkins said. Jeff Bennion said he would be horrified if a parent told a gay child that they should be more like one of the men on the show. “That’s not anything that I would support or agree with,” he said. But Bennion said that he’s happy with his wife and their 6-year-old son. “I can’t believe how lucky I am,” he said. My Husband’s Not Gay is not the only show about people from Utah in unusual marriages. TLC also airs the shows Sister Wives and My Five Wives about polygamous unions.

that “people want to see the movie and we want to be able to deliver” it. Rogen and Franco play journalists involved in a CIA plot to kill North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Before the movie could be released, the Sony studio’s computer system was hacked by unknown assailants linked to North Korea.

was in Warsaw for the opening of the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews and then travelled to Krakow, his childhood city. The Oscar-winning director plans to a movie on the Dreyfus affair, the early 20th century French spy scandal, in Poland in February and March. One of Polanski’s lawyers, Jerzy Stachowicz, said Wednesday that the team would contest the extradition bid. Martyniuk said that as a rule Poland does not extradite its citizens. In December, a judge in Los Angeles rejected Polanski’s bid for a new hearing. Paris-born to Polish Jewish parents, Polanski spent his childhood and youth in Poland but lives in France. He holds Polish and French passports, but his movements are restricted by an Interpol warrant in effect in 188 countries. He travels freely between Switzerland, France and Poland. Polanski pleaded guilty to a charge of unlawful sexual intercourse, and was sentenced to prison for a 90-day psychiatric evaluation. He was released after 42 days and, fearing the judge would force him to serve the remainder of the sentence, he fled.

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WILLIAMS Marjorie (Gano) Marjorie Oregonia Williams, longtime resident of Red Deer, passed away at the Grande Prairie Care Centre on Sunday, December 28th, 2014 at the age of 94 years. Marjorie was born on February 8th, 1920 in Newberg, Oregon. She married George Williams on July 10th, 1943. Marjorie had many part-time jobs while her children were growing

up and worked for 20 years at the Sally Shop and retired in 1981. Marjorie and George travelled a lot and she enjoyed many trips with her sister, Lavon. In later years, she enjoyed their coffee friends at the mall. She was also a charter member of the heritage DAR. Marjorie will be sadly missed by her son, Danny (Lois), sister, Lavon (Doug Whiteside), brother-inlaw, Alan Williams, nephew, Kevin (Freda) Whiteside, and several nieces and nephews in England. She will be lovingly remembered by grandchildren; Danny Jr. (Carmon) Stacey, Larry, and Barry (Krista), great-grandchildren; Darcie (Alex), Ryley, Stevie, Tara, Bailly, Darian, and Kassidy, and great-greatgrandson, Jaxson. Marjorie was predeceased by her husband, George Williams, parents; John and Bessie Gano, brother, Elmer Gano, and son, Gary Williams. A Funeral Service will be held at Eventide Funeral Chapel, 4820-45 Street, Red Deer, on Saturday, January 10th, 2015 at 1:00 p.m. Interment will take place prior to the service at 11:00 a.m. at the

CRUZ Romeo S. It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Romeo S. Cruz on December 28, 2014 at Red Deer Regional Hospital after a brief illness. Romeo is predeceased by his loving wife, Eva and leaves behind two daughters, Lisa and Cristina and a son, Jose. He will be missed by his children and grandchildren but especially saddened is Cristina who cared for him until the end. A heartfelt thank you to the Red Deer Bible Baptist Church whose support and fellowship to Romeo was provided by the congregation over the last number of years. Mahal kita Tay. “Be still and know that I am God.” A service is planned at the Red Deer Bible Baptist Church 4618 41 Ave. in Red Deer at 11:30 Saturday January 10, 2015.

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LEE Mark William July 26, 1967 Coronation, Alberta January 5, 2015 Red Deer, Alberta Mark Lee, beloved husband of Laurie of Red Deer, passed away on Monday, January 5, 2015 at the age of 47 years. He was a family man, a devoted husband and loving father. The most important thing to Mark was his

BRANDON Mervin Albert 1937 - 2014 Our Dad and Poppa passed away on December 13, 2014 at the Peter Lougheed Hospital in Calgary at the age of 77. He was predeceased by our Mom, Beverley, his parents Albert and Muriel Brandon, brother-inlaws Terry Quinn, Dennis Walline and Bill Olstead, and nephew Norman Whatmore. He was Poppa to seven grandchildren, Kelsey and Tyler Brandon, Rebekah and Scott Steneker, Curtis (Jessica), Cody and Tanya Brandon and two great-grandchildren Hayden and Andre. He is survived by his two sisters Bernice (Ken) Rind of Calgary, Alberta and Eileen Olstead of Edmonton, Alberta and sister-in-laws Ramona Quinn of Frobisher, Saskatchewan and Margaret (Wayne) Whatmore of Whitecourt, Alberta. After graduating from Brandon University with a teaching degree and marrying our Mom, our Dad with our Mom moved to Bentley Alberta in 1960. Dad initially taught in the Bentley High School and later the Lacombe Composite High School. Over the years we have met many of Mr. Brandon’s students who always comment on how much they liked him. After retirement he enjoyed doing part-time accounting work with the Tweit family of Lacombe County. Dad was active in the Bentley community and particularly with the Bentley Elks and the United Church. He enjoyed trips south with our mom, golfing, curling and of course the Saskatchewan Rough Riders. Dad moved to the Red Woods retirement home when our mom became ill last year. We are very proud of how he rose to the challenge of moving to Red Deer, living alone and making new friends after our mom’s passing in August 2013. We will always be grateful to all his friends who visited him, helped with his appointments, took him for coffee and watched football games with him etc. A service to celebrate our dad’s life will be held at Wilson’s Funeral Chapel, Lacombe on Saturday, January 10th, 2014 at 1:00 PM. A family Interment for our parents in Frobisher, Saskatchewan will occur at a later date. Expressions of sympathy may be made by visiting www.wiilsonsfuneralchapel.ca. Dad was an active supporter of the Parkinson’s Society in Red Deer and participated in their walkathon every year. If so desired, donations may be made to the Parkinson Society at 5406 - 43 St. Red Deer, AB. T4N 1C9. We loved our Dad very much and will miss him, son, Bryan (Laurie) Brandon of Carbon, Alberta, daughter Janine (Casey) Steneker of Calgary, Alberta and Warren (Michelle) Brandon of Edson, Alberta. WILSON’S FUNERAL CHAPEL & CREMATORIUM, of Lacombe and Rimbey in charge of the arrangements. 403-782-3366 403-843-3388 “A Caring Family, Caring For Families”

family. Mark is survived by his loving wife of twenty-five years of marriage and thirtytwo years of partnership Laurie; his children, Jordan (Milen), Brandon, Gavin, Maeghen, and Krissi; his grandchildren, Brookelyn, Addisyn, Bella, and Zooey; his mother Gale Lee; his siblings, John (Michelle) and Nadine; his sister-in-law, Terri; his brother-in-law, Mark (Aimee); and numerous friends. He was predeceased by his maternal grandparents, Ellen and Les. Mark enjoyed collecting sports memorabilia, especially anything representing the “Atlanta Braves.” He was an avid runner, and in his long running career he never had a DNF (did not finish). In 2014 he accomplished his goal of 1500 miles. Mark was indeed a “Brave” man. “He always ran a great race” A Celebration of Mark’s Life will be held at Holiday Inn South (37471 Hwy 2 South, Red Deer, AB) on Saturday, January 10, 2015 at 1:00 p.m. Condolences may be forwarded through www.mcinnisandholloway.com The family would like to thank their amazing friends and extended family for all of their incredible support. If Births friends so desire, a Trust Fund has been set up in the Mark Lee family name. Donations can be made at any Servus Credit Union in Alberta. ARE YOU EXPECTING In living memory of A BABY SOON? Mark Lee, a tree will Welcome Wagon be planted at Fish has a Creek Provincial special package Park by just for you & McINNIS & HOLLOWAY your little one! FUNERAL HOMES For more information, Chapel of the Bells, Call Lori, 403-348-5556 2720 Centre St. North Calgary, AB T2E 2V6, Telephone: 1-800-661-1599

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must have all necessary valid tickets for the position being applied for. Kitchen Helper ~ $11.00/hr. Bearspaw offers a To clean kitchen following very competitive salary safety & hygiene standards. and benefits package Clean utensils, cutlery, along with a steady crockery & glassware items, work schedule. floors, assist in prep. Please submit resumes: All positions are permanent Attn: Human Resources Full-time/Part-time, Email: shift work & weekends. payroll@bearspawpet.com Education: Above Secondary Fax: (403) 252-9719 or Work Experience not Mail to: Suite 5309, essential, training provided. 333-96 Ave. NE Fax resume to 780-702-5051 Calgary, AB T3K 0S3 F/T Food Service SuperSTREAMLINE Inspection visor and Store Manager. Ltd. is looking to fill helper $13-$19.50/hr. Must be positions. Experience in able to work nights/days NDT and oilfield safety and weekends. Call Little tickets an asset but will Ceasars Red Deer at train. Candidate must be 403-346-1671 or email to willing to travel and have a allan_barker25@yahoo.ca valid drivers license. Send resumes to cgraham@ streamlineinspection.com

Has Opening for all positions! Immediately. All applicants must have current H2S, Class 5 with Q Endorsement,and First Aid. We offer competitive wages & excellent benefits. Something for Everyone Please include 2 work Everyday in Classifieds reference names and numbers. Please fax resume to: Restaurant/ 403-264-6725 Hotel Or email to: tannis@treelinewell.com No phone calls please. EAST 40TH PUB www.treelinewell.com REQ’S P/T / F/T COOK Classifieds...costs so little Apply in person with resume 3811 40th Ave. Saves you so much!

820

LUCKY’S LOUNGE located in Jackpot Casino, requires Waitress’s Fri. - Sun. Please apply in person at 4950 47 Ave. No phone calls please

D2 RED DEER ADVOCATE Thursday, Jan. 8, 2015

820

Restaurant/ Hotel

THE RUSTY PELICAN is now accepting resumes for F/T DISHWASHER Apply within: 2079-50 Ave. 2-4 pm. Mon.-Fri. Fax 403-347-1161 Phone calls WILL NOT be accepted.

HOLIDAY INN EXPRESS RED DEER 2803-50 Avenue,

Red Deer is seeking

FRONT DESK CLERK ~ $14.00/hr. • • •

Answer phone calls, take reservations. Check in/out guests. Balance cash out & attend to guest needs

THE RUSTY PELICAN is

now accepting resumes for HOUSEKEEPING Exp’d LINE COOKS at ROOM ATTENDANT F/T all stations. MUST HAVE: ~14.00/hr. •

850

Trades

GALAXY Plumbing & Heating is seeking full time journeyman service plumbers to start immediately. Must have drivers license, steel toed boots, own tools, self motivated and able to work independently. A good attitude is essential. Please call Joe at 403-588-0392, fax resume to 403-347-4539 or email galaxyadmin@telus.net

860

Truckers/ Drivers

• GED Preparation •

Women in the Trades Program

WE are looking for a

•

Math and Science for the Trades Program

for our Kuusamo facility. The plant is located 4-5 kilometers west of Sylvan Lake on Hwy 11. This is an entry level position working mainly outdoors that can lead into the Plant Operator positions. Duties will include assistance of Plant Operators in the transfer of chemicals, movement of product within the plant, truck and rail car loading/unloading, and chemical blending as well as housekeeping and light maintenance. We are looking for hard working, flexible, safety conscious people with equipment experience, some basic mechanical abilities, driver’s license, and own transportation. We offer an excellent benefits plan and a company matching RRSP savings plan. Please forward your resume via email to the address attached. Please have ‘Plant Laborer’ in the subject line. Drug and alcohol policy in effect and pre-employee testing. Inquiries regarding careers with CFR should be directed to hr@cfrchemicals.com Fax: 346-2299

CENTRAL AB based trucking company requires

Gov’t of Alberta Funding may be available.

Owner Operators & Contract Drivers

880

830

403-340-1930 www.academicexpress.ca

ACADEMIC Express ADULT EDUCATION AND TRAINING

WINTER START GED Preparation Would you like to take the GED in your community? • • • • • • • • • •

Red Deer Rocky Mtn. House Rimbey Caroline Castor Sylvan Lake Innisfail Stettler Ponoka Lacombe Gov’t of Alberta Funding may be available. 403-340-1930 www.academicexpress.ca

Advocate Opportunities

900

SAFETY

TRAINING CENTRE OILFIELD TICKETS

Industries #1 Choice!

“Low Cost” Quality Training

403.341.4544

24 Hours Toll Free 1.888.533.4544

850

860

Plant Laborer

Employment Training DRIVER REQ’D FOR DELIVERY OF NEW APPLS. IN RED DEER AREA. MAPLE LEAF MOVING Call 403-347-8826 or fax resume to: 403-314-1457.

SOBEYS VILLAGE MALL is now hiring:

Assistant Produce Manager previous produce and retail management experience required Please forward resumes to: Frank.Bangma@ sobeys.com fax: (403) 347-4588 apply online at: www.sobeyscareers.com SWAMPERS F/T needed immediately for a fast growing waste & recycling company. Heavy lifting involved (driver’s helper) position. Reliability essential. Own transportation required. Please email resumes to canpak@xplornet.ca

R H2S Alive (ENFORM) R First Aid/CPR R Confined Space R WHMIS & TDG R Ground Disturbance R (ENFORM) D&C B.O.P. R D&C (LEL) #204, 7819 - 50 Ave. (across from Totem) (across from Rona North)

3 days per week, no weekends To deliver the CENTRAL AB LIFE 1 day a week in:

ROUTES IN:

ANDERS AREA

Please call Debbie for details 403-314-4307

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Friday Forward ONLY 2 DAYS A WEEK in DOWNTOWN AREA

1500-1990

You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!

Dixon Cres. $72./mo. Dunlop St., Dixon Ave. & Close $35./mo Dunning Cres. Cl., and Depalme St. plus 3 blocks of Douglas Ave. $104./mo. GRANDVIEW AREA

INGLEWOOD AREA

Monday through Saturday. Delivery to be done before 6:30 am. Reliable vehicle needed.

RIVERSIDE MEADOWS

Call Prodie @ 403- 314-4301 for more info **********************

TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 403-314-4300

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KENTWOOD Kirsch Close, Kemp Ave. & Kee Close PINES Pearson Crescent For more information or to apply call Joanne at the Red Deer Advocate 403-314-4308

RED DEER ADVOCATE

To Advertise Your Business or Service Here

Monday through Saturday. Delivery to be done before 6:30 am. Reliable vehicle needed.

classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com

1010

INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp. with oilfield service companies, other small businesses and individuals RW Smith, 346-9351 Buying or Selling your home? Check out Homes for Sale in Classifieds

1100

BRIDGER CONST. LTD. We do it all! 403-302-8550

Escorts

1165

KAYLA 392-0891 *BUSTY* INDEPENDENT w/own car

Handyman Services

1200

ATT’N: Are you looking for help on small jobs around the house or renovate your bathroom, painting or flooring, roof snow removal? Call James 403-341-0617

Massage Therapy

1280

DALE’S Home Reno’s MASSAGE ABOVE ALL Free estimates for all your WALK-INS WELCOME reno needs. 403-506-4301 4709 Gaetz Ave. 346-1161

Massage Therapy

1280

FANTASY SPA International Ladies

Moving & Storage

MOVING? Boxes? Appls. removal. 403-986-1315 TOO MUCH STUFF? Let Classifieds help you sell it.

Elite Retreat, Finest Painters/ in VIP Treatment. 10 - 2am Private back entry

403-341-4445

Misc. Services

1290

5* JUNK REMOVAL

1300

Decorators

1310

JG PAINTING, 25 yrs. exp. Free Est. 403-872-8888

Seniors’ Services

1372

Property clean up 340-8666

HELPING HANDS

SNOW blowing, junk/metal p/u, odd jobs 403-885-5333

Home Supports for Seniors. Cooking, cleaning, companionship. At home or facility. 403-346-7777

AFFORDABLE

Misc. for Sale

MISCELLANEOUS dishes, casserole dish, bundt pan, vases, more, all for $20 403-314-9603 ZIPPERED Tote Bags (3) 12x8.5x5.5, red satin, black paten crock, metallic gold satn. $10. ea. or 3 for $25. 403-227-2976

Pets & Supplies

FIREWOOD, Spruce & Pine. North of Costco 403-346-7178, 392-7754

LOGS Semi loads of pine, spruce, tamarack, poplar. Price depends on location. Lil Mule Logging 403-318-4346 Now Offering Hotter, Cleaner BC Birch. All Types. P.U. / Delivery. Lyle 403-783-2275 SPLIT Dry Firewood. Pine & Birch. Delivery avail (403)845-8989

1700

Health & Beauty

1810

FREE 2 goldfish, 5-6” 403-347-5912

Sporting Goods

1860

TOBAGGAN, 3 seat, wooden, good cond. $45.; Super GT snow racer, with foot brakes & steering wheel, exc. to new cond. $65. 403-348-6449

Travel

Homestead Firewood Packages Spruce & Pine -Split. Firepits avail. 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472

1760

1900

TRAVEL ALBERTA Alberta offers SOMETHING for everyone. Make your travel plans now.

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rentals CLASSIFICATIONS

FOR RENT • 3000-3200 WANTED • 3250-3390

Houses/ Duplexes

3020

MOUNTVIEW

NEW LIZ AREN NY, 1 red croc. make-up bag. c/w 12 eyeshadows, 2 blush, 1 nail polish, 1 lip gloss. $195 value, asking $50. Would make a great Christmas gift. 403-227-2976

3 bdrm. house, main floor, 5 appls., fenced yard, large deck, rent $1550 incl. all utils. $900 s.d. Avail. Feb 1. 403-304-5337

1710

3 bdrm., 2 bath, 4 appls., large fenced yard, $1600./mo. $1000. d.d. Newly reno’d Avail Feb . 1. 403-304-5337

WASHER, Kenmore, Dryer Maytag, large capacity both in good working cond. $65. pr. 403-782-7439

1720

Jewellery

1750

Misc. for Sale

1760

WEST PARK

Condos/ Townhouses

3030

SEIBEL PROPERTY www.seibelprperty.com Ph: 403-304-7576 or 403-347-7545 6 locations in Red Deer ~ Halman Heights ~ Riverfront Estates

~ Westpark

~ Kitson Close ~ Kyte & Kelloway Cres. ~ Holmes St. S.D. $1000 EARRINGS, stirling silver, Rent $1245 to $1445 pierced earings, never 3 bdrm. townhouses, worn. 1 1/2” drop, Jeweller 1.5 bath, 4 & 5 appls., blinds, appraised $135. lrg. balconies, no dogs. Asking $100. obo N/S, no utils. incl. 403-227-2976 Avail. immed. & Feb. 1 References required.

BLUE blanket, queen size, 5 toss cushions, 2 lt. pink, 2 rose, 1 blue, all for $20 403-314-9603 KEENS ladies size 7 steel toed boots, over $200 new, sell for $50, worn once; 36” Sony Wega trinitron $30 403-227-5681 L.L. Bean Christmas tree stand. Antique “design”, made of cast iron (heavy-duty support), painted green. $25 (403) 342-7908

SOUTHWOOD PARK 3110-47TH Avenue, 2 & 3 bdrm. townhouses, generously sized, 1 1/2 baths, fenced yards, full bsmts. 403-347-7473, Sorry no pets. www.greatapartments.ca

4 Plexes/ 6 Plexes

3050

ORIOLE PARK 3 bdrm., 1-1/2 bath, $1175. rent, s.d. $650, incl water sewer and garbage. Avail. Feb. 1st. 403-304-5337

Advocate Opportunities

CARRIERS REQUIRED To deliver the

CENTRAL AB LIFE & LACOMBE EXPRESS 1 day a week in: LACOMBE BLACKFALDS Please call Rick for details 403-314-4303

WESTPARK & WESTLAKE

1000-1430

Call Classifieds 403-309-3300

Contractors

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS NEEDED For Afternoon Delivery 3 Days/Week (Wed., Thurs. & Fri.)

ADULT Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the

CLASSIFICATIONS

Accounting

For more information or to apply call Joanne at the Red Deer Advocate 403-314-4308

NORMANDEAU Nash St. & Neville Close ALSO Northey Ave.

VANIER AREA Vickers Close Victor Close Viscount Drive

For More Information Call Jamie at the Red Deer Advocate 403-314-4306

Adult Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the RED DEER ADVOCATE

RED DEER ADVOCATE

LANCASTER AREA Lampard Cres Lancaster Drive Long Close Lord Close Landry Bend / Landry Close Ladwig Close

3900 & 4200 Blocks of 43 Ave. area and 4000 & 4200 Blocks of 41 and 42 Ave. $66./mo TIMBERSTONE AREA

MORRISROE AREA:

Bell St.

SUNNYBROOK AREA Scott St. / Somerset Close

DEER PARK AREA

1660

Firewood

Household Appliances

CLASSIFICATIONS

ADULT Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the

McKenzie St. / Marion Cres.

TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, office, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.

WANTED

BOWER AREA

MORRISROE AREA

South East Downtown and Parkvale area $289.00 mo.

1630

Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514

For More Information, Please call Prodie 403-314-4301

Iverson Close Isbister Close

EquipmentHeavy

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With only 64 papers, approximately: $350.00/mo.

Ahlstrom Close Andrew Close Asstlee / Ansett Cres. Allsop Ave. / Allsop Cres. Anderson Close Anquetel Close

INNISFAIL Penhold Olds Sylvan Lake

BABY dolls, 2 have rooted hair and sleepy eyes, inclds. a few clothes, all for $20 403-314-9603

stuff

Advocate Opportunities

FOR FLYERS, FRIDAY FORWARD & EXPRESS

1580

Children's Items

Household Furnishings

CARRIERS NEEDED CARRIERS REQUIRED

1520

Antiques & Art

Large (13.5” tall) antique stoneware whiskey jug made in Scotland $35 1-gallon antique stoneware crock $15 Both in mint condition (403) 342-7908

ADULT EDUCATION AND TRAINING

Clean & vacuum rooms, • 2 yrs. min. on-the-job Requires public areas, pool etc. exp., must have comF/T Permanent Truck • Replenish amenities, pleted High School be SLOPED ROOFERS Driver Required for Rocky linens & towels. reliable, self motivated LABOURERS Fast Express (1790810 AB • Adhere to Holiday Inn work well under limited & FLAT ROOFERS Ltd.) in Red Deer, AB safety standards. supervision. Straight truck: 4600kg+w/2 All positions are permanent Valid Driver’s Licence axles and van Full-time/Part-time, shift Rate is $13.25 - $15./hr. preferred. Fax or email Need class 5 DL + 2 yrs work & weekends. No benefits. info@goodmenroofing.ca exp. $25 per hr/ with Education: Above Secondary or (403)341-6722 OPEN availability Work Experience not 733644 Ab Ltd. NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE! Duties: pick up/deliver essential, training provided. O/A The Rusty Pelican freight, pre-trip truck Fax resume to 780-702-5051 NOW HIRING for inspection, communication Location of employment: following Positions with customers. Physically 4105 2079 - 50 Ave. Tile setters $28.25/hr demanding position. Time HOLIDAY INN Red Deer, AB T4R 1Z4 Floor Covering Installer management skills Red Deer South, email: $ 28.25 / hr required. Apply at: 8004 Gasoline Alley, bennett.bkkp@xplornet.com Full time and Permanent Edgar Industrial Green, 37471 Hwy 2S, or Call 403-347-1414 40hrs/week Red Deer, T4P3S2 Red Deer County or Fax to: 403-347-1161 Min 3 year experience Call: 403.845.2230 Fax: is seeking Only candidates selected Labourer $20/hr 587.997.7719 for an interview will be 40hrs/week FRONT DESK CLERK contacted. No experience required ~ $14.00/hr. Misc. Full time and permanent • Answer phone calls, position take reservations. Help Sales & Valid Driver’s Licence • Check in/out guests. Distributors preferred • Balance cash out & 1693338 Alberta LTD email resume at: attend to guest needs. o/a Custom T’s cat1employment OUTSIDE SALES Hire Sales Supervisor - retail HOUSEKEEPING @gmail.com OPPORTUNITIES Location at Parkland Mall, ROOM ATTENDANT Growing industrial supply or drop off resume at 4747 67th St, Red Deer, Central Alberta Tile One ~ $14.00/hr. company in Red Deer AB T4N 6 7619 50 Ave Suite 9 • Clean & Vacuum rooms, looking for F/Time, Perm, Shifts, Red Deer public areas, pool, etc. OUTSIDE SALES Weekends • Replenish amenities, REPRESENTATIVES to Salary - $22.00 hourly linens & towels. SHUNDA join our team. We offer an Experience min. 2 years, • Adhere to Holiday Inn attractive compensation, CONSTRUCTION good English. safety standards requires a benefits & bonus program. Education: Some high school. All positions are permanent Sales experience is not Main duties: Safety Coordinator Full-time/Part-time, shift necessary but an industrial Greet customers. to implement, manage & work & weekends. background is a definite Supervise and co-ordinate enhance our existing Education: Above Secondary asset. Please forward your sales staff, safety program. Fax Work Experience not resume to Hire and train of new sales resume and references essential, training provided. human.resources.depart1 staff, to 403-343-1248 or Fax resume to 780-702-5051 @gmail.com Resolve customer email admin@shunda.ca. complaints, JJAM Management (1987) Control sales report and STONE MASONS Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s order merchandise, Exp. only, 403-588-5306 Trades Requires to work at these Authorize payments and Red Deer, AB locations: STUCCO PLASTERERS & the return of merchandise, 5111 22 St. Keep with Malls’ laws and ACADEMIC Express LABOURERS. Needed 37444 HWY 2 S regulations. Immed. Exp’d but will train. ADULT EDUCATION 37543 HWY 2N Drivers License pref’d. Lots Company’s business address: AND TRAINING 700 3020 22 St. 45 Boyce Street, Red Deer of work! 403-588-5306 FOOD ATTENDANT AB T4R 1P2 • GED Preparation Req’d permanent shift Please apply by E-mail: weekend day and evening Reachiesales@gmail.com Truckers/ • Women in the Trades both full and part time. Drivers Celebrate your life Program 16 Vacancies, $10.25/hr. + with a Classified benefits. Start ASAP. CLASS 3 DRIVERS ANNOUNCEMENT • Math and Science for Job description w/airbrake endorsement the Trades Program www.timhortons.com needed immed. for waste & 1699960AbLtd is looking Education and experience recycling automated & roll for 2 F/T permanent shift Gov’t of Alberta Funding not req’d. off trucks. Email resume supervisors for days, may be available. Apply in person or fax with a min. of 2 references evenings, wknds. 120 - 47 resume to: 403-314-1303 to: canpak@xplornet.ca Clearview Market Red 403-340-1930 PART-TIME help for Burnt www.academicexpress.ca F/T TRUCK drivers req’d. Deer, AB. must have exc. customer service, cash Lake Cafe in the Burnt DRYWALL HELPER REQ’D. Minimum Class 5 with air handling, and supervisory Lake Industrial Area. Call and clean abstract. Exp. related. wage $13.75 w/at Experience an asset. Louise @ 403-342-6687 preferred. In person to Key 403-341-7619 least 1 year exp. email: Towing 4083-78 St. Cres. restuarantbusiness@ Red Deer. hotmail.ca Advocate

Opportunities

880

Misc. Help

ACADEMIC Express

in AB. Home the odd night. Weekends off. Late model tractor pref. 403-586-4558

GOODMEN ROOFING LTD.

880

Misc. Help

278950A5

820

Restaurant/ Hotel

DO YOU: - Want extra income - Know the city well - Possess a clean, valid drivers license - Have a friendly attitude - Enjoy customer service - Want part-time work (12 to 22 hrs/week) As part of our service team, you will be dispatched in response to service concerns to deliver newspapers and flyers to customers or carriers. A delivery vehicle provided by company! Work 3 to 4 shifts a week. Hours of shifts are morning shifts of Monday through Friday 5:00 AM to 9:00 AM. Saturday starting at 7 AM. Wednesday to Friday Shifts starting at 1 PM. *All Shifts based on 4 hours and likely to run longer. Please apply with resume to: qmacaulay@reddeeradvocate.com or call 403-314-4302 and speak with Grant. We thank all applicants for their interest; however only selected candidates will be contacted.

DOWNTOWN AREA $638./mo

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS NEEDED For Afternoon Delivery 3 Days/Week (Wed., Thurs. & Fri.)

PARKVALE AREA $586./mo.

WESTPARK & WESTLAKE

DEERPARK AREA Dixon Cres, Donnelly Cres, Duston St. area $482.00/mo. Deschner Close, Dubois Cres., Doherty Close, Duston St. and area. $327.00/mo. Dempsey St., Dodge Ave, Donlevy Ave area $327.00/mo. Dowler St., Daniel Cres. Dawe Cl., Dunham Close and area $412.00/mo. For More information, please call Jamie 403-314-4306

NORMANDEAU Nash St. & Neville Close ALSO Northey Ave. KENTWOOD Kirsch Close, Kemp Ave. & Kee Close MUSTANG ACRES TRAILER PARK For more information or to apply call Joanne at the Red Deer Advocate 403-314-4308

RED DEER ADVOCATE Thursday, Jan. 8, 2015 D3

3060

Suites

ADULT 2 BDRM. spacious suites 3 appls., heat/water incld., Oriole Park. Mike 403-350-1620 403-986-6889 GLENDALE reno’d 2 bdrm. apartments, avail. immed, rent $875 403-596-6000 LARGE, 1 & 2 BDRM. SUITES. 25+, adults only n/s, no pets 403-346-7111

NOW RENTING 1 & 2 BDRM. APT’S. 2936 50th AVE. Red Deer Newer bldg. secure entry w/onsite manager, 5 appls., incl. heat & hot water, washer/dryer hookup, inÁoor heating, a/c., car plug ins & balconies. Call 403-343-7955

THE NORDIC

1 bdrm. adult building, N/S. No pets. 403-596-2444

3080

Roommates Wanted

SENIOR housemate wanted $500/mo. 403-347-1036

3090

Rooms For Rent

AVAIL. immed., lrg. fully furn. bdrm. c/w working gas frpl. $300 dd, $600/mo Working or student M. only. 403-396-2468 CLEAN, quiet, responsible, Furn. $575. 403-466-7979 ROOM FOR RENT $500./mo. 403-352-7417

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homes CLASSIFICATIONS 4000-4190

Realtors & Services

4010

HERE TO HELP & HERE TO SERVE

Call GORD ING at RE/MAX real estate central alberta 403-341-9995 gord.ing@remax.net

4020

Houses For Sale

FREE Weekly list of properties for sale w/details, prices, address, owner’s phone #, etc. 342-7355 Help-U-Sell of Red Deer www.homesreddeer.com

MOVE IN TODAY

1550 sq. ft. bi-level w/dbl. att. garage $499,900 403-588-2550

Condos/ Townhouses

4040

OPEN HOUSE SAT. & SUN. 1-5 639 OAK ST. Springbrook 403-588-2550

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wheels CLASSIFICATIONS 5000-5300

5030

Cars

2001 Chev Malibu, 4 dr. 134,000 kms. 403-352-6995

Utility Trailers

5140

CAR TRAILER, Tandem axle, Áat deck, bumper tow. $1500. 403-343-0687

Auto Wreckers

5190

RED’S AUTO. Free Scrap Vehicle & Metal Removal. AMVIC APPROVED. We travel. May pay cash for vehicle. 403-396-7519

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Whatever You’re Selling... We Have The Paper You Need! Central Alberta LIFE & Red Deer ADVOCATE CLASSIFIEDS 403-309-3300 CALL NOW TO FIND OUT MORE

PUBLIC NOTICES

Public Notices

6010

DONALD JOHATHON LEONARD

You have 2 weeks to call Red Deer Queen of Courts Bench 403-340-5220 on behalf of your divorce

WORLD

BRIEFS

Judge in Washington state rules against florist who didn’t want to do flowers for gay wedding RICHLAND, Wash. — A judge has decided the state of Washington has the authority to bring a consumer protection lawsuit against a florist who refused to provide flowers for a gay wedding. Benton County Superior Court Judge Alex Ekstrom also ruled Wednesday that the owner of the Richland, Washington, flower shop can be held personally liable for violating the Consumer Protection Act. Barronelle Stutzman and her shop, Arlene’s Flowers, are being sued for refusing to sell flowers for a 2013 same-sex wedding. The judge still has two more motions to rule on in the lawsuit, including whether the facts case show the florist violated the Consumer Protection Act and the Washington Law Against Discrimination. The state attorney general is asking for a permanent injunction requiring Stutzman and her shop to comply with the consumer protection law.

Police fatally shoot man outside Ohio airport terminal who they say lunged at them with knife COLUMBUS, Ohio — A man who tried to buy an airline ticket using a fake ID was fatally shot Wednesday after returning to his illegally parked car, where he lunged at an airport police officer with a knife during a confrontation, police said. The man had multiple knives on him and suspicious items in his car that led to a bomb squad investigation, Police Sgt. Rich Weiner said. The man was identified only as a Columbus-area resident in his early 40s pending notification of his relatives. After the first shots were fired, the man got back up and headed back toward the terminal, at which point a second airport officer shot him, Weiner said. It was unclear whether he was shot by both officers. He was shot multiple times, Weiner said. Police are investigating the man’s background and why he was using a fake ID to buy a ticket. “At this point this is just a violent encounter between an armed man and the officers here,” Weiner said. Surveillance video, which was not released, will show what happened, he said. The incident caused some airport delays as the ticketing level was put off limits and passengers were diverted to a lower-level area to enter the airport, said Elaine Roberts, president and chief executive officer of Columbus Regional Airport Authority. The confrontation outside occurred after the officer called a tow truck for the man’s vehicle, which he left illegally parked in the departures area.

Congo’s leader says his troops are ready for military action against rebel group BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Congo’s president assured Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday that his army is ready to take military action with UN troops against a rebel group in that failed to surrender by a Jan. 2 deadline. UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said Ban called for “decisive action” against the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda in a phone conversation Wednesday with Congo’s President Joseph Kabila. The rebel group, known as the FDLR, was formed by extremist Rwandan Hutus who took part in the 1994 genocide and then fled across the border into Congo. A senior UN official said the UN has prepared “a joint directive” authorizing the operation which it expects Kabila’s government to sign “very soon.” The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because talks were private, would not say when military action will start, but it is likely to begin soon after the document is signed. Congolese support is critical to the success of the military operation because once the rebels are defeated Congolese forces need to move in quickly to restore security and the government must start providing services, the official said. Dujarric said Monday that the Congolese

army and the UN peacekeeping mission have already prepositioned their troops and were ready to go. The operation could take months because the estimated 1,500 FDLR combatants don’t wear uniforms and live with their families in large areas of North Kivu, South Kivu and northern Katanga provinces, mingling with the civilian population, the official said. Eastern Congo is home to a myriad of armed groups and militias, many vying for control of the region’s vast mineral resources. Like the FDLR, they earn money from illegal sales of diamonds, gold and other precious metals.In February 2013, the Congolese government and 10 other African nations, including Rwanda and Uganda, took the most concerted action to bring peace to Congo by signing an agreement not to interfere in each other’s internal affairs or host armed groups. The Security Council followed up by beefing up the U.N. force in Congo with the Intervention Brigade and authorizing the use of unarmed drones on a trial basis for intelligence gathering in the east. Since then, government forces and U.N. peacekeepers have defeated one of Congo’s main rebel groups, the M23. The UN official said peacekeepers have been reaching out to the FDLR warning of an offensive and urging the fighters to surrender and leave with their families, but the rebels appear to be preparing for combat.

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U.S. military ordered not to use female guards to move 5 defendants in Guantanamo MIAMI -— Officials at the U.S. Navy base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have been ordered to stop using female guards to move the five defendants in the 9-11 terrorism case. The order by the military judge presiding over the case addresses a long-simmering dispute. For months, defendants have refused to meet with lawyers because any physical contact with unrelated women violates their Muslim beliefs. Lawyers said in seeking the order that the military only recently began using women in the top-security unit and it was interfering with the defendants’ right to counsel. Prosecutors said in opposing the motion that the makeup of the guard force should be left to prison officials. Wednesday’s ruling by Army Col. James Pohl is an interim order that applies only in the 9-11 case.

Cuban dissident says he believes 2 men on U.S. list of 53 political prisoners have been freed HAVANA — Two young Cuban political prisoners were freed Wednesday, and a leading human rights advocate said he believed their liberation was part of a U.S.-Cuban deal to release 53 dissidents. The head of Cuba’s Human Rights and Reconciliation Commission, Elizardo Sanchez, told The Associated Press that 19-yearold twins Diango Vargas Martin and Bianko Vargas Martin were released without any of the judicial procedures that normally precede the liberation of those held in politically related cases. According to Amnesty International, the brothers were arrested in December 2012 as they tried to return to their home, where they lived with their mother, a member of the dissident group Ladies in White. They had been held on charges of using violence or intimidation against a state official. Amnesty described them as prisoners of conscience. U.S. officials said last month that Cuba agreed to free 53 people considered by Washington to be political prisoners who it wanted freed as part of negotiations to restore full diplomatic relations. Since then, neither Cuba nor the United States has publicly give out any of the names on the list and no releases have been announced, prompting swelling criticism in the U.S. of the deal between Presidents Barack Obama and Raul Castro. Francisco “Pepe” Hernandez, president of the Cuban American National Foundation, said he had been informed by the White House that Lady in White member Sonia Garro, her husband and a neighbour had been let go as part of the deal prior to both governments’ Dec. 17 announcement of warming relations. Sanchez said he had no official confirmation that the Vargas Martin brothers were on the list of 53 prisoners, but the facts of their release led him to believe their release was part of the U.S.-Cuba deal.

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Members of the Springfield Fire Division try to pull their fire hose out of ice Wednesday, after it became frozen to the ground following an overnight five alarm fire in Springfield, Ohio that destroyed the Tri-State Pallet warehouse. Firefighters were on the scene for more than 12 hours as the industrial building, which was more than 100 years old, continued to smolder. Temperatures near zero made fighting the fire difficult as the thousands of gallons of water froze on the surrounding area and the fire fighting equipment.

Girl, 15, who fatally shot 16-year-old brother suffered years of abuse BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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A 15-year-old girl who fatally shot her 16-year-old brother suffered years of abuse, including being locked in a room for weeks at a time with only a blanket and a bucket to use the bathroom, according to police reports and interviews. The shooting at a small white house off a dirt road in rural north Florida happened Monday while the children’s parents were away for work. The father, a truck driver, and his wife, who often goes with him, left the 16-yearold boy to watch over the 15-year-old, her 11-year-old sister and their 3-year-old sister, police said. The parents left Sunday and were due back Tuesday. Sometime Monday, the 15-year-old girl was locked in her room by her brother, police said. After the boy fell asleep, she talked her 11-year-old sister into unlocking her door. The older girl knew her parents kept a pistol in their room, but they had locked their door. So the girl went outside and used a knife to remove an air conditioner from her parents’ bedroom window. She climbed in while her 11-year-old sister kept watch and grabbed the gun out of a pink bag and loaded it, police said. The girl went back inside the house, telling her young sisters to get in the closet, she told police. She turned her head and fired at her sleeping brother in the living room, and he screamed “Help! Help!” She buried her head in a pillow for a while and upon returning to the living room, the girl found her 3-year-old sister trying to wake her dead brother, according to the police report. She fled with her 11-year-old sister, leaving the 3-year-old behind, police said. “It’s hard for us to get our arms around this act,” Columbia County Sheriff Mark Hunter said. “This is the stuff nightmares are made of.” Police caught up with the girls after a friend of theirs received a “weird phone call” from the 11-year-old girl, saying she had run away and needed someone to pick her up from a Dollar General, according to a

police report. When the woman arrived, she found the older sister there, too. The older girl said something might have been wrong with another sibling at home. As she spoke, she applied makeup and “would not maintain eye contact and appeared emotionless,” officers wrote in a police report. She soon started crying and told the officers that her brother had beaten her and that she had shot him. When officers arrived at the home, the 3-year-old said: “he’s dead.” The brother’s body was lying near the fireplace, under a blanket with his head on a pillow. Police have not released a motive for the shooting. The girls’ mother told police that they often locked the 15-year-old girl up when she misbehaved. The longest they kept her locked in her room was 20 consecutive days, the father told police. In the girl’s room, police found only a blanket and a bucket filled with urine in the closet. “It was learned that (the 15-year-old girl) has made past attempts at ending her life but neither law enforcement nor (emergency management services) was notified,” police wrote in their report. The girls are in being held in juvenile detention on suspicion of murder, and a prosecutor is trying to decide whether they will be charged as adults. Their parents face charges of child neglect and failing to supervise. The 3-year-old is in the custody of child welfare officials. Police documents released Wednesday said the girl’s uncle was convicted of molesting her in 2010. They also say the children’s mother discovered the siblings having sex in 2011. Authorities and child welfare officials investigated, but no one was charged. Because of the girls’ ages and abuse allegations, The Associated Press is not naming the girls, their brother or the parents.

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you are sure working hard to get it where you want it. So be thankful and grateful that you have this opportunity to create a better existence for yourself. Allow others to help as well. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Disruptions with friends might occur today, especially female friends. Perhaps you have been invited out to join in with some group activities. This could create some tension for you within your home life and with family now. Be careful to make the proper decisions today. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): There could be some issues with your mother now that will leave you less passionate, but perhaps it is just to get you taking more positive actions. Maybe that is her way of motivating you? All in all, a good day to celebrate and actively leave your mark in the public realm. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Today is the best time to walk to the beat of your own drum. You will be more inclined to create some intense feelings from those at a distance from you. I would say that the actions you are taking to prolong joy within your life will have long term effects now. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): There will be some heated disputes with others in your life today. Perhaps, it will simply be you trying to prove yourself with them. Relax more and try not to step too far outside the box. Equally, today can be one of the best days ever, channel your energy appropriately. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): After yesterday’s joy, today you will be more inclined to share that positive energy with others and do something about it. Your feelings can range between anger or joy, depending on what you are dealing with, but generally charged up excitement is expected. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Best advice I can give you today is to let go and go with the flow. Don’t try to force anything as it will indicate a loss on your part. You will need some space away from your daily life and those involved within it. Excitement is possible, take it slowly — you want it to last all day. Larisa Maira Ozolins is an internationally syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate.

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