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Piecing together a contender REBELS GENERAL MANAGER/HEAD COACH BRETT SUTTER HAS BEEN WHEELING AND DEALING TO BUILD A COMPETITIVE TEAM — FOR NOW AND THE FUTURE Here, now and hereafter.

Red Deer Rebels general manager/head coach Brent Sutter has engineered a series of trades over the past two months with the intent of addressing his club’s present needs while building for the 2015-16 Memorial Cuphosting season and protecting the future.

It’s been a daunting task, but so far the Rebels boss is right on track.

GREG In the manner of forgMEACHEM ing a team worthy of hosting the Memorial Cup in 2016, Sutter has been able to add valuable pieces now instead of waiting for REBELS BEAT ICE B4 next season’s trade deadline.

In 2001, he acquired standout forward Martin Erat, large and mobile defenceman Darcy Robinson and back-up netminder Cam Ondrik in a deal involving the Saskatoon Blades. In one fell swoop, Sutter added talent and size and the Rebels went on to hoist the Memorial Cup in May. Sutter will possibly add another major piece, say in January of next year, but for now he’s trying to get most of his homework done early, and for good reason.

“Certainly it’s something that you’d like to do,” he said, in reference to his early shopping spree.

“It’s important to build your team the way you’d like as far as the chemistry it needs to have ... with the players coming together as a team and getting to know each other like they need to both on and off the ice.”

Sutter acquired overage forward Riley Sheen from the Lethbridge Hurricanes in early December, then picked up forward Austin Adamson and key rearguard Nelson Nogier from the Saskatoon Blades. From there, he added defenceman Colton Bobyk from the Spokane Chiefs and obtained winger Connor Gay from the Regina Pats.

As a result, the Rebels, who currently sit fifth

in the WHL Eastern Conference, gained three pieces for next season’s cup run while making the present team stronger.

“It is about this year, too,” said Sutter. “When we made the trade for Sheener, we knew that if we were going to be at the level we needed to be at and able to play with those top teams in our conference, that we needed to improve.

“You look at our conference and there’s not a huge point spread between third and eighth place. To be quite honest, Brandon and Medicine Hat are sitting where they are (first and second in

the confere n c e ) because of t h e starts they had. They haven’t had any setbacks throughout the season and that’s really the difference between those teams and our team right now.”

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As Eastview Middle School teacher Kelly Goheen looks on, Hannah Kleven and her classmates take aim at the targets at the Central Alberta Archers Association site in Red Deer on Friday afternoon. The Grade 7 recreation education students are learning the basics of archery under the supervision of club members. At the end of February, the Central Alberta Archery Association will be hosting their annual Mother of all Shoots at the Westerner where over 600 archers from around North America will compete.

Prentice says election timing will be in ‘the best interests of Albertans’ CALGARY — Alberta’s financial situation is as bad as it has been in decades and the timing of the next provincial election will be determined by what is in “the best interests of Albertans,” Premier Jim Prentice said Friday.

“I’ve not turned my mind to the timing of an election but I’ll tell you this — the timing of an election

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REBELS: Goaltending still a concern “We were four games under .500 through our first 12 games and those other teams were six games above .500. That’s a 10-game spread. We’ve made up that ground to where we’re seven games on the plus side and now we have to continue to build off that. These acquisitions are going to give us the best opportunity to do that, plus going into next season, outside of Sheener, the guys we’ve added are all guys who could be on our team.”

There’s an age-old adage that successful hockey teams build from the back end out. Goaltending is still somewhat of a concern with rookie Rylan Toth and still-green second-year man Taz Burman, but Sutter is confident both are capable of protecting leads as they continue to gain experience.

The addition of Nogier and Bobyk to the blueline is nothing but huge considering top-end defencemen are the most sought-after commodity at the major junior level and beyond. Both defenders are large and mobile with puck-moving abilities, and both are intelligent players.

“Those are key additions,” Sutter insisted. “If you’re going to have a top team in your league and have a chance to win your league and then give yourself a chance in the Memorial Cup (tournament), your defence had better be very good.”

While building for this year and next, Sutter has also been able to restore his cupboard in terms of bantam draft picks.

Nogier didn’t come cheap, costing the Rebels forward Mason McCarty and, most importantly, firstand second-round picks, and Bobyk and a fourthround selection were acquired in exchange for

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defenceman Nic Charif and second- and sixth-round picks.

The trade with Regina sent the Rebels’ top 15-year-old prospect, Jake Leschyshyn and a fourthround pick to the Pats, with Red Deer getting Gay along with first-, second- and seventh-round selections. That trade, in particular, projects as a huge win for the Rebels.

The ability to execute a multitude of deals that will help your team now, next season and down the road is, of course, dependent on finding the right dance partner(s).

“It’s somewhat of an art to go through this. You have so many different things you have to look at,” said Sutter. “You sit down and go through the scenarios with Shaun (assistant GM/ director of player personnel Sutter), your office staff and coaches. You get everyone involved before you make the final call.

You also have to communicate with other general managers. There’s a process you go through. You want trades to work out for both teams ... for everyone involved.

“Every trade is a bit different. There’s a reason why teams are doing certain things. Saskatoon wanted to accumulate some draft picks to build towards the future. In Regina, they’re looking towards building their team around a certain age group, so they keyed in on a certain player they wanted from us and obviously there’s a price to pay when you do that. We were accumulating draft picks and we also wanted a player who could be good for us this year and possibly be a 20-year-old for us next season. Those are discussions you get into and at the end of the day, there are reasons why each team does certain things.”

While the likes of the Blades and Pats are heading back to the future, the Rebels are building around their 18-year-old players with an eye toward having three solid 20-year-olds next season.

“It’s important for us to have a strong team this year, a team that’s capable of making a push, because you have to have a winning attitude,” said Sutter. “It’s something that we’ve been working on.

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Please see BUDGET on Page A3 ously need goaltending to have success and we need our two young goaltenders to continue to develop and grow and be good players for us. We score enough goals. We have to tighten it up defensively and part of that is acquiring the guys we have on the back end.”

Looking past this season and next, the Rebels should be in good shape considering they still own plenty of picks in the next three bantam drafts. Admittedly, some of that depth might be sacrificed in future trades, but as of now the Rebels are missing just a fifth-round selection this year, have all their picks as well as an additional selection in each of the second, third and fourth rounds next year, and own a pick in every round of the 2017 draft.

The bantam draft is, after all, the lifeblood of every WHL franchise. The Blades traded away oodles of early-round picks and prospects while building their 2013 Memorial Cup host team, missed the playoffs by a country mile the following season and are now early into what could be a lengthy rebuilding phase.

Sutter aims to avoid a similar Memorial Cup hangover, and by making several deals a year ahead of time hasn’t stripped the cupboard bare. In fact, he still has the assets needed to make another major move without mortgaging the club’s longer-term future.

“We don’t want to come out of the Memorial Cup year and be in a situation where we’re in a rebuild phase for four to five years,” said the Rebels boss.

“We want to make sure of that, so you have to manage things properly. We’re doing the best we can with it and yet it’s a collective affair.

“Coaches live in the day, that’s just what coaching is. But from a GM’s perspective, you always have to think about the big picture and how everything fits in. That’s what we’ve been working on here the last two years and when we got the Memorial Cup (bid), the stakes got even higher. So we have to make sure this is all properly looked at the right way this year and next.” gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

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and when it happens will be driven by what is in the best interests of Albertans — not what is in the best interests of any political party,” Prentice said.

While the vote is set by legislation for the spring of 2016, Prentice has refused to close the door to holding it as early as this spring.

Speculation ramped up after former Wildrose leader Danielle Smith resigned and crossed the floor along with eight other members of the Opposition to join the Progressive Conservative government.

Red Deer city council will debate the proposed $329-million operating budget for a second day on Monday.

The draft budget calls for a 4.31 per cent property tax increase to the municipal portion of the tax bill.

Owners of a $325,000 house could see a $80.17 increase in the municipal port of their taxes to $1,940 in 2015.

Education taxes are not included and won’t be known until the province crunches its numbers later this year.

During the four-hour session council approved base budget items, prior year budget items and the new requests under the Office of the Mayor and City Manager ($5.1 million), Corporate Services ($22.1 million) and Development Services ($18.3 million) Divisions.

While council was on the same page for most items, Coun. Lawrence Lee voted against a one-time funding request for a $200,000 value for money audit early in the day.

The city has not determined what area will be put under the microscope and council will have final approval.

“Red Deer didn’t just open for business yesterday,” said Lee following the debate. “We have 100 years of history and operating as a city. As a city council we would look to our city manager for the outputs and the learnings from the value for money audits. We just did one in 2012 on utilities. There has been a similar one done. What has happened with those learnings?”

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Federal Liberal nomination meeting on Sunday The nomination meeting for federal Liberal candidate Jeff Rock will be held at the downtown branch of the Red Deer Public Library on Sunday at 2 p.m.

Jeff Rock, minister at Gaetz Memorial United Church, is seeking the Liberal nomination for the Red DeerLacombe riding in the 2015 election.

Rock has called Alberta home since 2009 and has been active in the community. He has served as board chair of the Central Alberta AIDS Network Society and with the City of Red Deer’s Downtown Redevelopment Action Plan Committee. He has been a Rotarian for 12 years and held various Rotary positions across Canada.

Rock has volunteered with several local organizations and co-ordinated fundraising initiatives, including the Rotaract Club of Red Deer’s Chicken Wing Festival.

The meeting will be held in the Snell Auditorium of the library, located at 4818 49th St.

Suspects in Stettler shooting still lack lawyers A pair of suspects arrested after a Stettler shooting have yet to hire lawyers.

Darren James Bauer, 33, and Kathleen Sherry Cooper, 25, both appeared on Friday in Red Deer provincial court,. Both are in custody.

Although represented by duty counsels Amna Qureshi and Mark Daoust, neither of the accused was ready to proceed because they have yet to obtain lawyers to take on their cases.

Daoust indicated to Judge Jim Hunter that Bauer “might be interested in resolving the matter” when he next appears in court on Jan. 22. The same date was set for Cooper’s next appearance.

Hunter said he expects both of the accused to have lawyers present.

Bauer and Cooper face a variety of federal and provincial charges. The most serious is an attempted murder charge against Bauer connected to the shooting of 37-year-old man following a traffic incident in Stettler on Dec. 31.

Bauer was charged with using two weapons — a pistol and shotgun — against the victim, David Nelson Byrt.

Cooper was arrested with Bauer in Calgary. She was charged with possession of a stolen pickup truck and breaching release conditions.

Both suspects also face previous unrelated charges, including failure to appear for a preliminary hearing

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BUDGET: Fees and charges policy Lee said there are other initiatives coming up that would produce similar outcomes to a value for money audit.

Lee said it would be more prudent to use those avenues first before putting the expenditure in the books for 2015.

City Manager Craig Curtis said the city felt the audit or detailed study was a valuable exercise where a number of funding and structural issues were identified.

Most councillors said the utilities value for money audit was a winwin for the city including Coun. Paul Harris, who sits on the audit committee. Harris stressed next time to ensure teh purpose statement is clear in the terms of reference.

“One of the primary jobs of council is to make sure each department is doing their jobs effectively and efficiently and also that they are looking at new ways to find revenue and also cost savings,” said Harris. “This is a great opportunity.”

One of the common themes that came up repeatedly over the last week was the new fees and charges policy. The principles are expected to come to council for approval later this year.

Some proposed fee increases in the budget already went through the lens of the new guidelines including the new fee for criminal record checks and the increased adult admission fees to recreation facilities.

Council debated a $100,000 item that would support more work on the new policy and the city’s participation in a benchmarking initiative

Lacombe Police made their second significant drug bust in a week early Thursday morning.

A police officer on routine patrol spotted a suspicious vehicle parked in the west end of the city.

It turned out the vehicle was stolen and two occupants were arrested.

A search uncovered $5,000 worth of methamphetamine, drug paraphernalia and a large amount of cash.

Two men from Edmonton face a number of charges including possession of stolen property, possession of drugs for the purpose of trafficking and breaching conditions of release.

Both are in custody.

On Jan. 2, Lacombe police made an arrest under similar circumstances. A patrolling officer spotted a suspicious parked vehicle in the early morning hours in the north end of the city.

A search uncovered methamphetamines, cocaine and marijuana, as well as a weapon and a significant amount of stolen property.

A 36-year-old man from Blackfalds, faces 12 charges, including possession of drugs for the purposes of trafficking, possession of stolen property, possession of a prohibited weapon and various breaches of release conditions.

The accused is in custody.

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Calgary man grazed in shooting CALGARY — Ryan Korderas thinks he’s the luckiest unlucky man alive.

The 33-year-old plumber from Calgary was out celebrating on New Year’s Eve and was still up early the next morning when he offered to buy breakfast sandwiches for a bunch of friends. One pal offered to drive him to a nearby McDonald’s.

They were a half block away from the restaurant at about 5 a.m. when they drove past a big house party and slowed down. Korderas said there were lots of people standing outside and some were about to get into a waiting taxi.

Then it happened.

“We heard shots,” said Korderas.

“But it was really like almost distant.

It sounded, if anything, like it was a little cap gun or something.”

Sitting in the passenger seat, Korderas said he felt something hot on his buttock.

“I kind of joked — well, I wasn’t joking — but I said, ‘I think I got hit.”’

Korderas said his friend didn’t believe him until they parked at McDonald’s.

“I jumped out of the car and looked at the door and, sure enough, there were two holes. At that point, we got kind of freaked out and just drove straight back to his house and called 911.”

with mid-sized cities to determine how the cities are faring in various service levels like transit.

Citing concerns of timing and practicality, Coun. Ken Johnston voted against the expenditure.

Johnston said the city can increase or justify a fee increase anytime without a $200,000 investment.

“Transit can do that right now,” he said.

“Parks and Recreation can do that right now...

Hopefully we don’t invest anymore money on what I think is something that we can easily do internally.”

Coun. Tanya Handley spoke in strong support of the development of the fees and charges policy. She said in the end the city will have a consistent pattern for all the fees and charges.

Council spent more than half an hour debating a $12,000 line item for increased bank fees that was eventually struck from the budget after a close vote.

Bank fees are expected to rise this year because of the high cost to handle coins and the general growth in city operations.

Johnston, a former banker, the issue was broader than a $12,000 line item.

“I think we were remiss in not pursuing an RFP because I think in the 2015 reality of banking that we would have found a financial partner that could do way more than handle our bank accounts and handle our cashflow,” said Johnston. “It’s unfortunate that council didn’t want to go there. It was a small item but I think there would be a large pay off in sponsorships and collaboration down the road.”

Among the big ticket items were approvals for 10 new fire medics ($877,165) and additional funding ($417,114) for crews to get catch up on the back lanes and roads that have not been kept up-to-date in recent years.

A new staffer will split his/her time working on city grants and

Police have arrested and charged three people allegedly connected to break-ins, stolen vehicles and an attempt to flee that came to an end with the help of a spike belt and police dog.

Sometime late on Dec. 11 or in the early morning hours of Dec. 12, two men broke into an underground parking garage on Duston Street in Red Deer. They broke into and stole various items from eight vehicles before stealing a silver 2010 Jeep Patriot.

The men were caught on surveillance cameras. Police then distributed photos through the media and received numerous tips from the public.

Then on the morning of Dec. 27, RCMP received a report that a 2008 Chevrolet Silverado had been stolen from a residence in Deer Park. Police tracked the vehicle to a range road east of Red Deer. They followed the vehicle as it attempted to evade police, driving through fields and rural properties.

RCMP used a spike belt to flatten the front tires on the vehicle. The truck continued driving for a short distance before striking several fences and becoming stuck. At that point, the male driver and female passenger abandoned the vehicle and attempted to flee on foot.

Police dog services tracked the pair, who were taken into custody.

The female is a youth. She is charged with possession of property

Canada Winter Games work. For the first time, council will have a dedicated administrative support staff.

The transit department will hire a new project manager for the Greening the Fleet initiative.

The entire operating budget is expected to be passed by Jan.14.

The debate will start in council chambers at 1 p.m. on Monday. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

obtained by crime in relation to the Dec. 27 incident.

RCMP investigation also confirmed that the man taken into custody was one of two men caught on camera during the break-in to the underground parkade on Duston Street.

The second suspect in the Dec. 11 break-in and theft was also identified and taken into custody shortly after.

A 22-year-old man faces the following charges relating to the Dec. 11 and 27 incidents: break and enter with intent; two counts of possession of stolen property over $5,000; 10 counts of mischief; and failing to comply with a probation order.

A 19-year-old man from Sylvan Lake faces the following charges in relation to the Dec.11 incident: two counts of break and enter with intent; possession of stolen property over $5,000; and nine counts of mischief.

The first man and the female youth will appear in Red Deer provincial court on Tuesday. The other man will appear in court on Wednesday, when he will answer to these charges as well as more charges on an unrelated file.

As well, the events of Dec. 27 led police to recover a second stolen vehicle, a 1998 Pontiac Sunfire. The Jeep Patriot stolen in the original file of Dec. 11 was found abandoned in Red Deer on Dec. 15 at 51st Avenue and 36th Street.

Red Deer RCMP are thanking the public for their assistance in successfully concluding these investigations.

Announcement LONGTIME CENTRAL ALBERTA LAW FIRMS MERGE The new year will see two of Central Alberta’s longest established law firms join forces to establish the largest full-service law firm in Central Alberta.

Dave Manning and Keith Lamb of Johnston Ming Manning LLP of Red Deer and Joe Lehane and Monty Wild of Miller Lehane & Wild are pleased to announce that Johnston Ming Manning (Innisfail) LLP has acquired the law firm of Miller Lehane & Wild in Innisfail effective January 1, 2015.

Johnston Ming Manning LLP was established in the City of Red Deer in 1953 and has continuously provided legal services to Red Deer and Central Alberta for over 60 years. The law firm currently has 11 lawyers and 2 articling students and a further articling student soon to join their ranks. The Innisfail subsidiary will be known as Johnston Ming Manning (Innisfail) LLP and will operate from the former offices of Miller Lehane & Wild.

Miller Lehane & Wild in Innisfail was established in 1977. The current lawyers, Joe Lehane and Monty Wild, have over 80 years of combined experience and will continue to provide legal services together with the lawyers from Johnston Ming Manning (Innisfail) LLP. Both of these law firms have been long-time members of Central Alberta’s legal business and agricultural community. The new law firm will continue to provide a full range of legal services to Innisfail and the Central Alberta community.

The well- trained, talented and personable support staff and legal assistants working with both law firms will continue to work for the new combined law firm to help meet the needs of all of their clients. Johnston Ming Manning (Innisfail) LLP will continue with Joe Lehane and Monty Wild to provide legal services from their offices located at 5035 – 49 Street in Innisfail. The new office will now be in a position to provide a full slate of legal services to meet their many clients’ needs with the Red Deer office making available to the Innisfail branch all of the expertise of its lawyers.

Please visit the Johnston Ming Manning LLP website at www.johnstonmingmanning.com for information on all the lawyers now available to the Innisfail office.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The Conservative Party of Canada has removed a “Donate Now” button from a web page which highlighted Stephen Harper’s comments about the deadly Paris terrorist attack, after critics called it crass.

The page on the party website, titled Standing Up Against Terrorism, featured the prime minister’s reaction to the horrific shootings at the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine and noted that Canadians can count on Harper and the Conservatives to ensure their safety.

“When a trio of hooded men struck at some of our most cherished democratic principles — freedom of expression, freedom of the press — they assaulted democracy everywhere,” the web page said, quoting Harper.

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Duck-helping woman won’t serve prison sentence pending appeals MONTREAL — A Quebecer who was convicted after two people died when their motorcycle crashed into her car as she helped ducks on a highway has had her prison sentence delayed.

Emma Czornobaj was sentenced last month to 90 days in prison on weekends and had her driver’s licence withdrawn for 10 years.

The Quebec Court of Appeal suspended those provisions on Friday pending her appeal of the sentence as well as of her conviction on two counts of criminal negligence causing death and two of dangerous driving causing death.

After Czornobaj stopped her car in June 2010 to rescue ducklings on the side of a Montreal-area highway, the motorcycle carrying Andre Roy and his teenager daughter Jessie slammed into her vehicle.

The Quebec Superior Court justice who handed down the sentence noted that Czornobaj, 26, showed no remorse during the trial and described the tragedy as an accident.

The Crown had been seeking nine months of detention and 240 hours of community service, while the defence

Prime Minister Harper and our Conservative government to ensure the safety of Canadians while protecting their rights.”

Initially, the page featured a button in the top right corner where supporters could click to donate to the party.

Liberal MP Marc Garneau was quick to condemn that as inappropriate.

“Conservatives fundraising off an ongoing terrorist act is offensive and totally crass,” Garneau wrote on Twitter.

“Is there no limit?”

The button was later removed to ensure people understand the web page was never meant to raise money, said Cory Hann, the Conservative party’s director of communications.

“This was not, and is not, a fundraising campaign,” Hann wrote in an email.

“This was to inform Canadians about the prime minister’s strong remarks yesterday against the despica-

ble terrorism in Paris,” he added.

“That said, to avoid any confusion we have had our web editor remove the button from this particular page.”

But the NDP pointed out the page still encouraged viewers to provide their personal contact information.

That merely allows the Tories to contact citizens later and ask for political donations, said New Democrat MP Charlie Angus.

“I was actually sick in my stomach when I saw that the response to this horrific bloodshed and killing from the Conservative party was to make some money off it,” Angus said in an interview.

“So now what they’re doing is they’re collecting your information, if you want to be really angry about this, and then they’ll send you a fundraising request afterwards,” he said.

“They are using for their own political advantage the deaths of innocent people in other countries.”

Angus said he’s concerned that this could mark the beginning of a new low for the Tories as Canadians head into the 2015 election campaign.

But Hann noted that it’s common practice for the Tories and other parties to include donate buttons on their websites.

He pointed to one posted by the Liberals, which featured such a button above comments from Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau on the October shootings at the National War Memorial and on Parliament Hill.

A small green “Donate” icon was present in top right corner of the NDP website on Wednesday, above Tom Mulcair’s comments about the Paris tragedy.

A similar button was also present Friday on a Liberal site, above a statement from Trudeau about the deadly attack.

argued she should only get the community service.

One of Czornobaj’s lawyers, JeanFrancois Bouveret, said he believes the appeals might be heard only in 2016.

In his ruling Friday, Quebec Court of Appeal Justice Yves-Marie Morissette said Czornobaj must keep the peace.

The home is in a rural, wooded area about 25 kilometres northeast of Halifax’s airport.

RCMP Cpl. Greg Church said Hennigar was taken into custody at about 12:45 a.m. Thursday after someone rammed two police vehicles with a car in the Milford area, about a half-hour drive from the scene of the blaze.

Autopsies have been completed on the bodies of Clifford and Mildred Ward, but Church would not release their causes of death.

He also wouldn’t discuss relationships between the deceased and the accused, citing the federal Privacy Act.

meeting in Wales, but they were abruptly dropped by senior Canadian military leaders, who said the idea required much more study.

The country’s operations commander, Lt.-Gen. Jonathan Vance, wouldn’t comment on the politics, but said joining the force militarily could tie Canada to specific actions during international emergencies when the government might have other plans.

Police charge man with two counts of second-degree murder in Halifax house fire HALIFAX — A 30-year-old man was charged with second-degree murder Friday in connection with the deaths of two people found in a house fire in Halifax.

Codey Reginald Hennigar from Wyses Corner, N.S., is charged with two counts of murder in the deaths of 81-year-old Clifford William Ward and 54-year-old Mildred Ann Ward, both from Wyses Corner.

The RCMP said another person discovered later inside the home Old Guysborough Road was the victim of a homicide and their investigation continues.

Given the condition of the body, investigators believe it will take some time before the identity will be known, the Mounties said.

Hennigar appeared in Dartmouth provincial court wearing a red fleece jacket, looking down at his clasped hands as he sat on the prisoner’s bench. His case was adjourned to Jan. 30.

The fire at the home erupted Wednesday at around 4:30 p.m.

Canada shies away from joining British-led NATO-UN response force OTTAWA — Canada has quietly rebuffed a call from Britain to join a multi-national expeditionary force that Prime Minister David Cameron’s government was promoting in light of heightened tensions with Russia.

Several defence and government sources say there was a determined diplomatic push in the run-up to last fall’s NATO summit to get the Harper government to sign on to the formation.

Denmark, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands and Norway have already said they’d take part.

The British were keen to have the Canadian military aboard and apparently even offered to do a significant amount of training of the force at Canadian Forces Base Wainwright, Alta.

There were behind-the-scenes discussions prior to the Sept. 5 NATO

Manitoba aboriginal leader files lawsuit over teacher’s social media comments WINNIPEG — A Manitoba aboriginal leader’s lawsuit against a high school teacher is alleging defamation against an entire race of people.

Grand Chief Derek Nepinak of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs is suing Brad Badiuk, a technology teacher at Kelvin High School in Winnipeg, over comments posted on Badiuk’s Facebook page.

The comments, posted under Badiuk’s account, accused First Nations people of being lazy and seeking free money from non-aboriginals. Some of the comments were directed specifically at Nepinak and suggested he wanted to “get his hands” on other people’s money.

A statement of claim filed on Nepinak’s behalf Friday in Manitoba Court of Queen’s Bench alleges the comments have hurt Nepinak’s reputation and have defamed all aboriginals.

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In House of Commons written responses to the NDP, the Conservatives say that just 22 of the 961 unpaid interns were subsequently brought on to work for the government.

All federal agencies and departments were required to provide responses to NDP MP Laurin Liu’s questions about their respective unpaid interns except for those that were part of the so-called Post-Secondary Cooperative Education and Internship Program.

That government initiative allows students to get hands-on experience with federal organizations.

Separate from that program, Veteran Affairs Canada hosted the most unpaid interns of any department, with 142 since 2008, but only one was later hired on as a paid employee, the responses reveal. The Department of National Defence had 57 interns; seven were offered jobs.

In 2011, for example, Veterans Affairs employed 36 unpaid interns in Ontario for 15-week stints. They worked an average of 37.5 hours a week.

A spokeswoman for Veterans Affairs said the department “provides high-school and university students with on-the-job training and valuable work experience in an office environment to complement education and to help fulfill program requirements.”

The Department of National Defence had 57 interns; seven were offered jobs.

The length of the other internships across the 32 departments and agencies ranged from just a few weeks to several months. Many interns worked more than 30 hours a week during their stints.

According to the responses, a host of departments had no information because they don’t track unpaid interns, while others had missing data for several years. In an interview, Liu said the dearth of information was troubling, as was the low hiring rate.

“It’s really surprising how few of them were actually hired,” she added.

“It’s only 2.3 per cent, which is really dismal.”

More penalties meted out in Dalhousie University scandal HALIFAX — The 13 male dentistry students at Dalhousie University who were allegedly members of a Facebook page where sexually violent content about women was posted will no longer attend classes with the rest of their classmates, the president of the university announced Friday.

Richard Florizone said the university has also launched an independent investigation that will explore the environment, training and policies at the dentistry school to determine if they contributed to a tolerance for misogyny and sexist conduct.

“It’s been a tough month for our university ... and mostly for the women who were directly targeted in these posts,” he told a news conference. “All of us continue to be shaken by those misogynistic comments that we find completely unacceptable.”

He said the 13 male students will not be allowed to attend lectures with the rest of their classmates when classes resume Monday. The 13 students had their clinical privileges suspended earlier this week.

Those students will attend classes “remotely” or in other classrooms on campus, Florizone said.

He said the restorative justice process offered earlier to those affected will continue despite assertions from some female students that they were

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Fourteen women and 12 of the 13 tions that were being processed at the members of the Facebook group will time and some $20,000 in fees. be taking part in the process, which The government said the decision uses an informal and confidential was made to prevent the introduction resolution procedure that includes all of the virus to Canada. of the parties involved.

But it did provide an exception, Florizone said he understands that under which the immigration minister some people have been left frustrated could grant visas in exceptional cases by the slow pace of the process, saying where travel is in the national interest. in a statement: “Restorative justice isn’t a process that can satisfy a desire for swift resolution.”

“We understand that it is a process that focuses on reconciliation and reflection and it can be a powerful tool for change,” he said. “I understand those who have a different view.”

FREDERICTON — Graduates of a Reports of the offensive posts proposed Christian law school in Britand the university’s initial response ish Columbia that has stoked controprompted rallies and calls for expulversy would be able to practise in New sion of the 13 students.

Brunswick, that province’s law society said Friday.

The council of the Law Society of New Brunswick met Friday to discuss a decision it made last year to accredit Trinity Western University in Langley, OTTAWA — Six people from EbolaB.C. affected countries have been granted The university requires all students visas to come to Canada despite a fedand staff to sign a covenant barring eral government ban imposed on such same-sex relationships, saying school travel last year. members must observe a set of ChrisThe government isn’t releasing any tian behavourial standards that affirm specific details about the six, citing that sexual intimacy belongs within privacy concerns. the bounds of traditional marriage beThey aren’t believed to have been tween a man and a woman. travelling together and each would Last June, the council voted 14-5 in have been required to undergo screenfavour of accrediting the program but ing for the highly contagious virus members of the law society later voted before they left West Africa and again upon arrival in Canada, including a 21- 137-30 asking the council to reverse its decision. day monitoring period.

On Friday, the council was dead“I can confirm that there are no Eblocked 12-12 on a motion to reverse its ola cases in Canada,” Patrick Gaebel, first decision and with no majority rea spokesman for the Public Health sult, the original ruling stands.

Agency of Canada, said in an e-mail.

Helene Beaulieu, president of the “Should a case ever be confirmed, Law Society of New Brunswick, said the Public Health Agency of Canada she was surprised by the result but would quickly inform all Canadians.” added that it shows how divided peoIn October, the government said it ple are on the issue. would no longer accept visa applica“The result of this vote demontions from people seeking to come to strates the challenges the courts are Canada from Guinea, Sierra Leone going to face in trying to balance the and Liberia or if they’d been there in competing interests — the freedom of the three months before applying for religion and the freedom of sexual oria visa. entation,” she said.

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Oil provinces can survive SHORT-TERM FUTURE MAY BE UNCERTAIN, BUT IN THE LONG RUN WE WILL BE FINE This holiday, I stopped in to visit some former colleagues at the newspaper in Windsor, a city that has had more than its share of hard knocks as Canada’s resource-driven loonie has accelerated the decline of manufacturing.

What made this visit a little different than previous ones was the realization that the tables for our respective home provinces have started to turn. I from the swaggering province of AlDOUG berta had gotFIRBY ten accustomed to being a ray of sunshine in gloomy Ontario. This day, however, the forecast for the West is an emerging economic cold front.

“How are things? How are they?” one asked, giving me a matronly look of concern. She reminded me of her years as a reporter in Edmonton, riding Alberta’s terrifying petro-driven roller coaster. Was this, perhaps, the reprise of the early-1980s recession that saw Albertans lose their jobs, their homes and in some cases their will to live?

I wasn’t sure how to answer her.

The short answer is, “We’re all right, Jack.”

And we are, right now. The real question is how will Alberta and Saskatchewan — and for that matter Newfoundland and Labrador — be six months, a year, two years from now?

It’s anybody’s guess. If you scan the opinions of economists and other socalled experts, you’ll discover a wide gulf of views on just what the future holds. Ontario-based Jeff Rubin, for example, sees this as the beginning of the end of the era of prosperity for the three big oil-and-gas provinces. Others, like Calgary-based Todd Hirsch, are far more optimistic, and actually see this economic downturn as an opportunity for the province and its energy industry to catch its breath and bring costs under control.

Happily, I am not an economist and won’t try to make grandiose forecasts.

I will admit to scoffing when Murray Edwards, one of the wealthiest and most powerful oilmen in Calgary (and part owner of the Calgary Flames NHL team), predicted weeks ago that oil would sink to $40 a barrel. Turns out,

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he wasn’t far off; just about every Albertan is aware that it has already dipped below $50.

Effects are starting to appear. Several of the major oil sands players have announced they are postponing planned projects, in some cases indefinitely. House prices, which have been on a tear, are levelling off and may soon begin to “moderate,” as real estate forecasters euphemistically describe it. Alberta’s premier, Jim Prentice, has warned that the province’s budget is going to take a huge hit — $6 to $7 billion — which will force the province to cut spending, find new sources of revenue (the long-dreaded sales tax?) and defer big capital proj-

ects which were on the books.

Uneasiness is in the air. Panic is not.

If I am struck by anything, it is the resilient calm of the people in this province, who have seen it all before, and seem to be square-jawed enough to face just about anything the Saudis throw at us. There remains an overpowering sense that this too shall pass, and we’ll all be fine if we just use some common sense.

When times are good, Albertans can spend with the best of them. We have the 4X4s, monster homes, high-end restaurants and Nordstroms to prove it.

But when things turn sour, you see a far different side of the western spirit,

and one that makes you proud to be here as one of them. This diverse gang of engineers, executives, rig pigs and cowboys is made of far hardier stock than their shiny boots might suggest.

They are galvanized by the legacy of their forefathers — courage forged in the decades of adversity these formerly have-not provinces endured and ultimately triumphed over.

The short-term future for the resource-dependent provinces is indeed uncertain. But in the long run, we will indeed be all right, Jack. In fact, much better than that.

Doug Firby is editor-in-chief and national affairs columnist for Troy Media (troymedia.com).

Losing perspective on success A SOCIETY THAT DOESN’T UNDERSTAND HOW ITS WEALTH IS GENERATED IS DESTINED TO LOSE IT

BY GWYN MORGAN SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE It’s been 30 years since Mancur Olson, the late American economist, wrote Rise and Decline of Nations. The premise of his widely-acclaimed book is the longer a society enjoys political stability, the more likely it is to develop powerful special interest groups that erode economic prosperity.

His words have proven prescient as we witness Europe’s debt-burdened stagnation and degeneration of the U. S. Congress into fractious ideological gridlock.

Canada weathered the 2008 economic crisis better than other countries, emerging as one of the world’s most financially sound and prosperous nations.

The cornerstone that distinguishes Canada’s prosperity is our rich resource endowment, which generates some two million jobs, more than half of all merchandise exports and one third of all capital investment. Resource companies are planning capital investment of more than $600 billion over the next decade, creating hundreds of thousands more new jobs each year.

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by regulatory agencies staffed with highly-qualified experts applying environmental standards ranked among the world’s best. But now almost every project meets strident opposition from what Olson terms “powerful special interest groups,” including environmental activists who use scientifically baseless, fear-instilling propaganda to foment local, national and even international opposition. The length and cost of regulatory hearings have grown exponentially as regulatory authorities strive to ensure all voices are heard.

But being heard is never enough for zealots ideologically opposed to almost every pipeline, mine or hydroelectric project. Hence, the number of antiproject court filings has mushroomed.

With the new year, multiple such court cases have been filed across the country.

In B.C. alone, opponents have filed cases against two oil export pipelines, two metals mines, a major hydroelectric project and a coal transfer dock.

Oil pipelines that would carry oil east from Alberta are also meeting strident opposition, mainly from antioilsands activists.

In Ontario, regulatory hearings of a proposal to simply reverse the flow of an existing pipeline previously moving imported oil east became so rancorous that authorities were forced to shut down the hearing due to what a National Energy Board spokesper-

son termed, “elevated security risk.”

Another proposal that would carry Alberta oil to an export terminal in New Brunswick also faces opposition from activists with the same anti-oilsands agenda.

A second and potentially even more serious barrier to our country’s resource dependent economy came on June 26, 2014, when the Supreme Court of Canada, after a 24-year litigation process, awarded Aboriginal Title to a huge tract of British Columbia’s interior to the T’silqot’in First Nation.

Paradoxically, the impact on resource development isn’t the transfer of title to the lands in question, but rather the investment-chilling uncertainty the decision creates around access to other lands claimed by First Nations. The decision states, “The level of consultation and accommodation required varies with the strength of the Aboriginal Group’s claim to the land.” But how could the “strength” of any specific land claim be established without further lengthy developmentfreezing court proceedings?

In B.C., where almost all Crown lands are subject to overlapping land claims by hundreds of aboriginal groups, this lack of clarity has fostered precipitous action by some First Nations bands. For example, chiefs of the Gitxsan First Nation served an “eviction notice” to logging companies, sports fishing lodges and the CNR, giv-

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Climate change: the top issue Welcome to 2015 and federal election year in Canada. While there will be many political issues, perhaps the most demanding test of our political parties is how they will deal with energy and climate change.

It’s an issue that won’t go away. By March 31, Canada must tell the world its target for greenhouse gas emission reductions after 2020, and how this will be accomplished.

This is the next step towards a global summit DAVID of world leaders CRANE in Paris, which is committed to produce a global action plan

by December 2015, about two months after our election.

Canada did sign the Kyoto Protocol in 1997, with the Liberal government pledging to cut greenhouse gas emissions to six per cent below 1990 levels by 2008-12. But in 2011 the Conservatives withdrew Canada’s commitment, with emissions by then about 30 per cent higher than the 1990 level. While

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the Liberals had signed on to Kyoto, they never had a credible plan to meet their commitment.

The Conservatives came into office in 2006 promising to act, though while in opposition Prime Minister Stephen Harper had dismissed climate change as a socialist plot. In 2007, then Environment Minister John Baird introduced the Conservative plan. It was called Turning to Grow. It promised to cut greenhouse gas emissions to 20 per cent below the 2006 level by 2020 and by 60 to 70 per cent by 2050.

It proposed emission intensity targets — the level of greenhouse gas emissions per unit of output — for major industries, including oil and gas.

All major industries were to cut their emissions intensity by 18 per cent below 2006 levels by 2010, and 2 per cent more each year after that.

But this wouldn’t mean lower emissions if production grew significantly, as was expected, in the oil sands. Carbon capture and storage technology was to be required for all new oilsands plants.

For their part, the Liberals came out, in 2008, with plans for a national carbon tax.

In their strategy, The Green Shift, the Liberals planned to raise $15.4 billion a year by imposing a carbon tax, starting at $10/tonne of greenhouse

gas emissions and rising by $10 a year, reaching $40/tonne after four years.

The Liberals promised to return all of the carbon tax revenue to Canadians in the form of personal and business tax cuts and anti-poverty measures.

For their part, the NDP advocated a cap-and-trade system that would set emission caps and allow companies to buy and sell emission permits.

The Conservatives won the 2008 election, but Baird’s emissions intensity plan was quickly ditched by his successor, Jim Prentice, while Dion’s carbon tax was ditched by the new Liberal leader, Michael Ignatieff.

Prentice replaced intensity targets with plans for “absolute caps” on greenhouse gas emissions, with a capand-trade system, but a system dependent on the U.S. also introducing a cap-and-trade system. If the U.S. opted for a regulatory system instead, then Canada would harmonize with that, Prentice said. Canada’s policy was to wait for the U.S. to act first. Canada’s 2020 pledge was lowered, to emissions in 2020 17 per cent lower than in 2006.

Even this lower commitment, it now turns out, will not be met.

Ignatieff, in 2009, announced that the Liberals would also implement a cap-and-trade system rather than a carbon tax. However, Ignatieff refused to set an emissions reduction target.

The Liberals came a poor third in the 2011 election.

Heading into the 2015 election, the NDP is committed to a cap-and-trade system.

So are the Conservatives, but only if the Americans adopt cap-and-trade as well.

Since this seems extremely unlikely, it is not at all clear what the Conservatives would do.

The March 31 deadline for a national action plan will force it to say something and for the other parties to respond. For their part, the Liberals have no clear policy. Justin Trudeau simply says he was “a mature conversation” with Canadians. But that is not a policy.

HSBC, the global banking group, has called Canada a climate “ostrich,” hiding its head in the sand as much of the world moves to a lower-carbon society.

Each of our parties faces a spotlight glare. Which will have the ability, or willingness, to offer real and clear choices on our energy-environment future, with credible policies to back their plans up?

It will matter a great deal to our future and we should not settle for anything less.

Economist David Crane is a syndicated Toronto Star columnist. He can be reached at crane@interlog.com.

Way back when not that long ago Here it is, the dead of winter — a bunch of cold snow, cold ice, cold hands, feet, faces and other human appendages. And all this got me to thinking. And it got me to remembering.

Which reminds me, it’s been quite a while since Hay’s Daze had an episode of what I like to call Way back when not that long ago — in sense of, well, never.

So I figure it’s way past time to plant one’s boots firmly in a snowbank and ruminate.

For instance, way back when, the snow that landed on the sidewalk was a lot lighter.

Not lighter in colour per se, HARLEY although with HAY all global stuff in the air it probably was a tad more pristine, but I clearly remember shovelling the sidewalk in good old Parkvale with an old bent metal shovel and I didn’t get nearly as tired as I do now. With this new modern snow, I can barely throw a half a dozen shovels-full without having to go back into the house and lie down for a while.

Also, it’s pretty clear that the Fahrenheit of my youth was not nearly as cold as the Celsius we suffer through today. I clearly remember walking six or seven long blocks to Central School in -20 without a tuque, on account of I didn’t want to mess up my perfect Suave Hair Cream wave, and the only thing I froze significantly was my jug handle ears.

Which was not that unusual given the size and trajectory of those big lugs.

Today, however, -20 is definitely tuque time, and every heavily layered bodily part still freezes bad enough to convince a person that the longest trip out in the cruel winter a person should ever take is from somewhere warm several steps to your pre-heated car.

And speaking of pre-heated cars, way back when not that long ago, we never had voodoo push-button clicker thingies that started our vehicles from way inside a warm building. These “magic remote command start” devices, which are based on laser technology, spy satellites orbiting the Earth, and something called the “Wi-Fi Internet,” are similar to the hand-held remote control clickers we all use to surf through 150 channels of nothing to watch on our flat screen, wide screen, HD screen TV sets.

None of which we had way back when either. Suffice to say the remote car starter in particular is an enchanted gift from the heavens.

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Used to be, back when cars had things called carburetors and three on the tree and bench seats, winter would come and it was more or less a crap shoot if your car would even start, let alone start with a magic remote clicker. At least, that was the case with our ’58 Ford. Oh, and my friend Jim’s ’63 Comet. And Shane’s ’54 Austin A40.

And pretty much every single one of our high school beaters.

Even though we usually remembered to plug in the block heater when it got cold enough that the door handles and locks would freeze solid, it usually took about a half an hour and three friends to pop the hood and noodle around with the air cleaner, poking around various vehicle orifices whilst the poor unfortunate buddy, the car owner, sat frozen solid inside the vehicle trying to start it.

“It’s flooded!” someone would always say. “And the battery’s dead,” someone else would say. And then everyone would go back inside the nearest warm building and try to find a coffee. “We’ll have to jump it,” yet another person would say, and eventually we’d find one of our friends whose

car would actually start and we’d hook up jumper cables and crank it over until it was flooded so badly it wouldn’t start for three days.

I mean, when was the last time you plugged in your vehicle? Cars today seem to start at -30 or -40 without even being plugged into anything at all.

This of course is also pure black magic voodoo whereupon something called block heaters have all been replaced by heated seats.

And speaking of freezing the nuts and bolts off, way back when, outdoor winter sports were a lot different in the sense of being basically fatal. Unlike today where kids play warm hockey in something called arenas, virtually all of our hockey games were played during freezing nights on outdoor rinks.

I clearly remember that the rule was the game would be cancelled if the temperature dropped below -20 (or the metric equivalent).

I can’t tell you how many times we found ourselves under the night lights at the dark and frigid local rink thrashing around for two hours like ice-covered zombies when the weather was -19.5 of pure glacial deep freeze.

The so-called hockey game would, of course, be regularly punctuated by trips to the shack, where we would all crowd around the roaring stove in the middle of the room and bawl our heads off while the excruciating pins and needles thawed out of our frozen feet, hands, faces, etc. Good times!

So when we now find ourselves fully enveloped in the throes of a cold and icy winter, it’s sometimes helpful to remember way back when not long ago when people had to hike four miles (15 km) to school or to the nearest mall through snow as high as a Hereford’s eye, at -45 pulling a sled with their three younger family members huddled in blankets and warmed by a box of heated stones. Or not.

Because as the creator of the popular cartoon The Family Circle once said: “Yesterday’s the past, tomorrow’s the future, but today is a gift. That’s why it’s called the present.”

Harley Hay is a local freelance writer, award-winning author, filmmaker and musician. His column appears on Saturdays in the Advocate. His books can be found at Chapters, Coles and Sunworks in Red Deer.

An extraordinarily generous year in Central Alberta Every year around this time, I al- nizability and then nearly killing a sixways make reference to the generosity year-old, leaves her for dead in the of the people in Central Alberta, and snow. The young man suspect has been this year won’t be any different. charged with sexual assault a couple For some reason though, this year of times before. seems to stand out as exThe economy begins to traordinary, so as I reflected crumble, a move led by on that, I began to realize other countries. Personal just why it feels so poignant. and national debt has never In this last year, we all been so high; Canada among have experienced many the highest. things that tear at the very Hurricanes, tornadoes, fabric of life; things that can floods, chemical spills, easily make us lose hope. along with the general disI’m referring to the news content of people in all items we have been assaultcountries leaves one woned with and I have listed dering what in the world is just a few. happening.

ISIL probably topped the The list of negatives that CHRIS news with their wanton dewe are assaulted with each SALOMONS struction of lives wherever and every day has a tendenthey operate. I don’t think cy to undermine almost evthat there has ever been erything else that happens. such blatant killing for any Maybe it’s because news war or useful purpose in all of this type is the attention of mankind’s history. getter for media outlets and generates A man plays out his delusional fan- their bottom line. tasy and not only kills a man but chops I for one have the habit of watching him up and mails him out piece by and reading the news and have found piece. myself more and more down on life Someone rapes, beats to unrecog- with all the bad news. It never use to

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bother me as it has in this last year, to the point that some days I just shy away from any news at all.

Then along comes the Christmas season (and it is the Christmas season in spite of opposition to it), and all of a sudden a different nature enters into people.

For the last two or three weeks, we once again have been floored by the beautiful expressions that the population embraces; whether religious or not. It seems that hearts that have been hardened by the world over the course of the year, suddenly soften and these same people start to think outside the box.

In our own family, we have discarded the heavy gift giving of the past and now tend to look at all the needs in the world and the city; needs that we ourselves do not have in this bountiful country. With the donations we at Potter’s Hands have received this year (other years have really not been different; it just seems that way), it is obvious that we are not the only ones who look beyond their own families and consider those in the community who do need help.

That this society that has been so

bombarded by commercialism is able to experience the generosity of so many lifts my spirits knowing that life is not only negative, rather it is a world and a community that is full of caring, loving people.

Over the last few weeks, donations have provided for several months’ worth of food. Also, we have received many donations of socks, gloves, tuques, small personal care and food items. Some staff and children from the Penhold School came and served a meal and handed out personal care items, as has another church in Red Deer.

We just stand back in gratitude and watch it all happen. This is definitely a time when a thank you is not sufficient, nevertheless, we thank you from the bottom of our hearts. All I can think of to add is a blessing for the New Year; from the source of our belief and motivation of our action.

“May the Lord bless you and keep you; may he make his face to shine upon you; may he lift up his countenance upon you and give you his peace.”

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ON THE ROAD TO ADVENTURE IN AFRICA WITH A SELF-DRIVE There is something incredibly intrepid about the notion of driving yourself across Africa watching an ever-changing landscape filled with elephants, giraffes, lions and other wildlife roll past your window.

It’s the epic road trip that is only possible in a few of Africa’s safest countries.

And as we set off in our rented Toyota four-by-four vehicle into Namibia’s greatest wildlife sanctuary, I couldn’t help wondering if this was actually a good idea.

Etosha National Park spans an area of more than 22,200 square km and contains a salt pan so large that it can DEBBIE be seen from space. The park OLSEN is home to hundreds of species, but I worried that finding them in such a vast area would be difficult without a guide.

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The endangered black rhino is notoriously shy and difficult to spot in the wild. A sighting is considered a special treat on any safari. When we saw one within minutes of entering the park, I knew that seeing wildlife on our own wasn’t going to be a problem.

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b t bet b t for f wildlife ildlif sightings i hti d we gott a park k our best and map that showed us where all the water holes were.

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TOP: Finding a maternal herd of elephants with their young bathing and drinking at a remote watering hole was a highlight of our visit to Etosha National Park.

CLOCKWISE FROM ABOVE: You might think the rarest animal sighting is one of the Big Five, but the pangolin is something locals often don’t see. A nocturnal termite and ant eater, the pangolin is very rare. This injured pangolin was picked up by a conservation group for rare and endangered species. We spotted the conservationist and pulled over to check it out; Don’t let the name deceive you, the black rhinoceros and the white rhinoceros are the same colour. The main difference is found in the shape of their mouths. The black rhinoceros is less common, smaller, more solitary, more aggressive and is found in thick brush, making it harder to spot in the wild.

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MIDDLE RIGHT:A wide assortment of international cheese was a feature table at the Tropical Princess Christmas Eve dinner.

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I remember a special Christmas dinner when I was a CUSO volunteer in Nigeria many years ago.

I had been invited to spend Christmas Day at a Lutheran agricultural missionary’s place.

I was greeted like a long-lost son.

There was a beautiful decorated Christmas tree with a present under the tree for me. The Christmas dinner feast was awesome.

Another memorable Christmas dinner was spent at my friends for a Norwegian dinner. I had never experienced the famous Norwegian dish of lutefisk (cod soaked in lye). Thinking it was mashed potatoes, I took several large scoops. Was I surprised with my first bite!

Spending the Christmas holidays at a Caribbean resort was also very memorable.

Our family of five married children and 10 grandchildren spends every other Christmas together. On one of our off years, my wife Joan and I spent Christmas in Dominican Republic with the family of one of our daughters.

We organized our trip through Red Tag Canada travel on the Internet.

Our accommodation at the Tropical Princess resort just outside of Punta Cana was excellent.

We arrived in the dark to find the main foyer decorated with a big artificial evergreen tree with huge colourful balls. The palm trees on the grounds were lit with light ropes wrapped around the length of their trunks. The paths to our apartment were lined with tiny garden lights.

It was a magical setting!

Our granddaughters even had their own room attached to their parents’ room for easy supervision.

In the morning, the sun was shining and the beach was very active with holidayers from various parts of the world. The hotel staff were wearing red Santa hats as they went about their tasks. It was great to have left the big snow storms behind!

There were all sorts of activities at the resort. Beach volleyball, parasailing, shopping at a market down the beach and excellent musical entertainment on the main stage at night.

I booked a scuba diving session with Passion Paradise Adventures at La Romana and the rest of the family snorkeled off of a beach on the other side of the island.

The scuba diving was some of the best I have ever done and the beach barbecue on the isolated beach of Isla Catalina was perfect.

Christmas Eve is a big event at the Tropical Princess resort and included a live nativity scene. The guests were dressed up for Christmas Eve dinner and we were assigned tables in the open air dining plaza.

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“And he’s playing with confidence, which is the big thing.”

Rookie forward Jeff de Wit gave the Rebels a 1-0 lead with his second goal

of the season 2:16 into the contest, and Presten Kopeck potted his 11th with 12 seconds remaining in the opening frame.

With Ice star forward Jaedon Descheneau serving a tripping penalty in the third period, Riley Sheen connected to give the Rebels a 3-0 lead.

Despite the fact the Rebels were outshot 31-22 overall, Sutter liked his team’s defensive play.

Please see REBELS on Page B5

Kings start new year with a victory SNAP SIX-GAME LOSING STREAK

BY JOSH ALDRICH ADVOCATE STAFF Kings 3 Thunder 2 PENHOLD — The Christmas break did the Red Deer College Kings (7-9-01) men’s hockey team a lot of good.

In their first game of the new year on Friday, they rolled past the Concordia Thunder 3-2 at the Penhold Multiplex, snapping a six-game Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference losing streak.

The game was arguably their most complete effort of the season, and had it not been for a big game by Concordia (3-15-0-1) goalie Rhys Hadfield, the difference in the score would have been much bigger.

“The guys rejuvenated over the break, we had an unbelievable week of practice ... the guys were hungry, they were willing to do what it took tonight,” said Kings assistant coach Cody Reynolds, who along with fellow assistant coach Jeff Denham filled in for suspended head coach Trevor Keeper.

“We did the little things right and we got better every single period.”

Keeper was serving a one-game ban for comments he made in the media about officiating following their 6-5 loss to the Augustana Vikings on Nov. 29 The Kings got goals from Riley Simpson, Nick Bell and Tyler Berkholtz while Kraymer Barnstable made 20 saves for the win.

The Thunder responded with goals from Brett Richards and Nathan Smith while Hadfield made 42 saves and picked up an assist.

Concordia opened the scoring at 7:05 of the first period as Richards put home a rebound off a rush and the Thunder went into the break with a 1-0

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

Red Deer College King Davis Claffey breaks away from CUCA Thunder players Philip Dillon and Chase Fallis during second period action at the Penhold Arena on Friday. lead despite being outshot 16-9 in the frame.

Simpson tied the game 2:03 into the second period, after he was left alone in front of the net and found the back of the net off a quick pass from Riley Point behind the net.

Bell put the Kings in front at 13:30 with teammate Davis Claffey serving a five minute major and a game misconduct for hitting from behind. The Red Deer defenceman took a stretch pass from Berkholtz and went in alone on Hadfield, he was stopped on his first shot but shovelled the rebound into

the cage.

The Thunder didn’t take long to respond, just as the major ended Smith picked his way through the Kings defence and beat Barnstable.

The score remained tied 2-2 at the intermission, but Berkholtz made quick work of it in the third period, banging home a rebound at 3:13.

Concordia never really came close to tying it.

“It sets the tone for the second half and that’s what good teams do, they get better as the season goes on,” said Reynolds. “You want to finish off the

season on a high note heading into playoffs.”

The two teams are back at it tonight in Edmonton at 8:15 p.m. ● The RDC Queens (4-5-3) moved into third place and the final playoff position in the ACAC with a 1-0 win over the NAIT Ooks in Edmonton on Friday. Megan Jones scored the lone goal for the Queens while freshman goalie Summer Roberts stopped all 13 shots she faced for her first ACAC win and shut out. jaldrich@reddeeradvocate.com

Oilers show signs of life with 5-2 win over Blackhawks

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Edmonton 5 Chicago 2 EDMONTON — The Edmonton Oilers seem to be getting it together under interim coach Todd Nelson.

Derek Roy had a goal and two assists as the Oilers came away with a 5-2 victory over the Chicago Blackhawks on Friday.

Benoit Pouliot, Jeff Petry, Nail Yakupov and Taylor Hall also scored for the Oilers (10-23-9) who have gone 3-1-2 under Nelson since he took over sole coaching responsibilities when G.M. Craig MacTavish moved back upstairs after joining Nelson for five games in the wake of the firing of Dallas Eakins.

The Oilers had lost 20 of their previous 21 games before showing some recent signs of life.

“It’s fun to win,” Hall said. “It does make you forget about what place you are in the standings for a couple of days. We need that, we need to be a relaxed group. For us, winning helps out a lot with that.

“We’re starting to gel a lot as a team.

When we get down, we come together, we don’t try to do too much individually, we’re starting to play like that and it’s helping out a lot. It’s a nice little stretch for us. A win is a win, no matter where it is in the season. And when you’re winning against a team like Chicago it’s even better.”

“That’s how we have to play every game,” added Yakupov. “That was really a team game tonight. It was really exciting. We started to play the right way.”

The Oilers twice scored quickly af-

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Chicago Blackhawks’ Brad Richards (91) and Edmonton Oilers’ Benoit Pouliot (67) battlein the corner during first period NHL hockey action in Edmonton on Friday. p ter allowing a goal, something Nelson said was a good sign that there is still some fight in the squad.

“It was a great sign that we could bounce back right away,” he said.

“That’s good to see, hopefully that continues and we keep on maturing in that direction. Once they scored, our guys stuck with it and got rewarded.”

Brandon Saad had both goals for the Blackhawks (27-13-2), who have lost two of their past three games.

“They played a good game, but we

had all the chances we needed to win this game tonight,” said Blackhawks goalie Antti Raanta. “I’ve played better games myself.

“The game winning-goal, the third one, if you let that kind of bad rebound right to a guy’s stick, you have to recover and make the save. You can’t let in that kind of goal. We lost the game almost because of me, so it is a bad feeling.”

The Blackhawks were coming off a tough trip after playing the Wild in

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Minnesota on Thursday night, but Saad said they can’t use that as an excuse.

“It’s tough, but there are no excuses,” he said. “It is part of the NHL and the schedule. We can’t blame it on that.

We got outworked tonight. It was a big game for us and a tough loss.

“We’re not happy with our last two performances.”

The Blackhawks started the scoring seven-and-a-half minutes into the first period as Oilers goalie Ben Scrivens was able to make an initial stop on Chicago forward Jonathan Toews, but the Edmonton defence let Saad skate in unmarked to deposit the rebound into the net for his 11th goal of the season.

Edmonton got that goal back just over a minute later as Pouliot tucked a puck past Raanta during a scramble in front of the Blackhawks net.

The Oilers went up 2-1 on the power play with six-and-a-half minutes left to play in the opening frame. Teddy Purcell fed a puck in front of the Chicago net and Roy came racing in to deflect it past Raanta.

Chicago tied the game six minutes into the second period as Oilers defender Nikita Nikitin blew a tire, allowing a two-on-one. Marian Hossa elected to shoot on the play and the rebound came directly to Saad, who scored his second goal of the game.

Edmonton came flying back to regain the lead only 46 seconds later as Petry joined the rush and slipped the rebound from a Yakupov shot through Raanta’s legs to make it 3-2.

Scrivens kept his team in the lead with five minutes left in the second period as he made a huge stop on Andrew Shaw on the doorstep.

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Kings fall, Queens stand tall RDC ATHLETICS

Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

Florida Panthers’ Tomas Fleischmann, left, from the Czech Republic, looks on as he scores the game-winning goal past teammate Dave Bolland, centre, and Calgary Flames’ Kris Russell, second form left, and goalie Jonas Hiller, from Switzerland, during third period NHL hockey action in Calgary, Friday.

Flames can’t tame Panthers

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Thomas Fleischmann scored at 16:51 of the third period to lead the Florida Panthers to a wild 6-5 win over the Calgary Flames on Friday.

Fleischmann lifted a backhand over both Calgary defenceman Kris Russell and goalie Jonas Hiller for the gamewinning goal just 45 seconds after Matt Stajan scored his second goal of the game for Calgary.

Fleischman, Jonathan Huberdeau, Brad Boyes and Sean Bergenheim all finished the game with a goal and an assist for the Panthers (19-11-9), who skated to a 3-1 road win over the Vancouver Canucks one night earlier. Jimmy Hayes and Brian Campbell also scored for Florida, while David Bolland had two assists.

Stajan and T.J. Brodie each scored twice for the Flames (21-18-3), who suffered their third straight loss to finish their six-game homestand with a 3-3-0 record. Mikael Backlund had a goal and an assist, while Lance Bouma chipped in with three assists.

Neither goaltender was especially sharp as Florida’s Al Montoya stopped 29 of 35 shots. Hiller made 25 saves in a

losing cause at the other end of the ice.

Stajan opened the scoring at 2:42 of the first when he pounced on a clearing attempt by rookie Florida defenceman Aaron Ekblad and one-timed a shot past a stunned Montoya for his first goal in 15 games. Even though he didn’t get an assist, Bouma helped set up the goal with a big hit on Ekblad behind the Florida net to force the turnover.

The Panthers evened the score less than three minutes later when the combo of Boyes and Huberdeau took advantage of a blunder by Hiller behind the Calgary net. Hiller ventured behind his own net and attempted to play the puck to Calgary forward Mason Raymond, but Boyes intercepted the pass and quickly fed Huberdeau in front of the net for an easy goal.

Huberdeau then returned the favour at 13:12 of the opening period when he set up Boyes for a tip-in goal to the top corner behind Hiller to put the Panthers up 2-1.

The Flames pulled even with a power-play goal at 16:36 when Brodie’s shot from the right boards somehow found its way into the net behind Montoya, who got a piece of it with his right pad.

The Flames nearly went up 3-2 with 51.9 seconds left in the first.

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Arthur Gordon was the lone Crusaders player to beat Olds netminder Jesse Gordichuk in the shootout, while Crusaders goaltender Josh Mudryk allowed goals by Ty Mappin and then Schwarz.

Schwarz also scored during regulation time, with the other Olds goals coming off the sticks of Jade McMullen, Colton Sheen, Jordan Steenbergen, Jack Goranson and Cale Brown. Gordon and Reid Bosse each tallied twice for the visitors, with Ben Sowa and Bryar Ortynski also connecting.

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them out of their system and then do things on our side like defend and challenge the ball and generate points,” said Walton.

The Queens also got several solid individual efforts, led by middle blocker Alex Donaghy and setter Bronwyn Hawkes.

Donaghy had 11 kills, an ace, four stuff blocks and five digs while Hawkes had 36 assists, an ace, a block and eight digs.

The teams meet again today with the women’s match at 1 p.m., followed by the men.

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“I thought we did a really good job defensively. We didn’t give up much in the middle of the ice and when there was something we did a good job of blocking shots,” he said. “We kept things to the outside.”

In the end, the victory made up for last week’s hard-luck loss to the Ice. “It’s funny how the hockey gods work,” said Sutter. “I thought we did some really good things tonight. There are things we need to work on and get better at, but

at plus-2 . . . The Rebels head out on the road next week for games Tuesday and Wednesday at Lethbridge and Calgary, then host the Victoria Royals and Regina Pats Friday and Saturday. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

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all in all our work ethic and awareness was very good. Everyone was focused and dialed in.”

The Rebels returned home early today and will face the visiting Brandon Wheat Kings tonight at 7 p.m.

The Wheat Kings have been waiting in Red Deer and practised Friday at the Centrium.

“That’s the schedule, that’s the way it is,” said Sutter. “But it’s fine.

This is a challenging weekend for us, a good test.”

• The Rebels were one-for-two on the power play; the Ice were zero-for-two . . . Cale and Haydn Fleury were selected as the second and third stars of the game . . . Fleury was the Rebels’ best plus/minus player

Kodiaks 3 Kings 0 With the addition of two new players picked up during the Christmas break, the RDC Kings have put together a lineup they hope will defend their Canadian colleges men’s volleyball championship.

However, that lineup, which includes newcomers Regan Fathers and Nic Dubinsky, needs some fine tuning, which was obvious in a 23-25, 22-25, 22-25 loss to the visiting Lethbridge Kodiaks in ACAC action Friday.

While the Kodiaks were solid on their side of the net the Kings were anything but. They made error after error, many of which came when they looked as if they may get back in the match.

“We made a ton of mistakes,” said Kings head coach Aaron Schulha. “Blake (assistant coach Henwood) looked at the stats and we had more stats than they did but we also made a boat load of errors, way more than they did.

“However, we wanted to see what that lineup would look like and we also knew it would be a bit of work in progress.

We shifted Tim (Finnigan) back to the left side and Regan was totally new to our system. At times he showed what he’s capable of and at times he put too much pressure on himself, trying to do more than he needed to. But that’s what quality players do.”

Dubinsky, who was a two-time all-star at Lethbridge, was also trying too hard against his former team and was just missing his kills.

Setter Luke Brisbane and middles Adam Turlejski and Justin Lukacs were the other three starters, all of whom started during the first half of the season when

the Kings ran off an 111 record and sat first in the CCAA rankings.

Ironically, their only loss was against the Kodiaks.

“They have a physical team and were simply better on first contact than we were,” said Schulha. “But we’re also not used to losing in our gym and certainly not 3-0. That’s tough to swallow, but we have to try to look at what this group will look like at the end of the season.”

Dubinksy had 11 kills while Fathers, who joins Brisbane and Turlejski from Australia, added nine kills, four aces, five digs and two stuff blocks.

Queens 3 Kodiaks 0 The Queens started a bit slow, but by the midpoint of the first set were starting to show their form and rolled to a 2519, 25-16, 25-16 victory over the Kodiaks.

Part of the slow start was a result of an injury to starting outside hitter Leah Koot (ankle). She was replaced by firstyear Lauren Marshall, who didn’t look out of place.

“It’s hard to say why we had the slow start, possibly we were nervous with the injury and bit hesitant,” said Queens head coach Talbot Walton. “But we were also a bit ahead of ourselves in the rallies. We were thinking a couple of plays in advance and not taking care of the initial moment.

“We needed to make sure we had good digs and hits. When we’re rushing you see mistakes with the ball falling in and we’re lunging at the ball instead of taking care of it.”

The Queens, who have the same lineup as they did the first half of the season that saw them post an 11-1 record and sit first in Canada, weren’t about to panic with the score tied early.

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WHL EASTERN CONFERENCE EAST DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Brandon 41 29 8 3 1 183 130 Regina 41 25 13 2 1 152 120 Swift Current 42 20 17 1 4 130 138 Prince Albert 42 18 23 1 0 120 143 Moose Jaw 43 16 23 3 1 124 158 Saskatoon 41 9 29 2 1 110 184

Pt 62 53 45 37 36 21

CENTRAL DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Medicine Hat 39 28 9 1 1 156 103 Red Deer 41 22 14 3 2 142 132 Calgary 41 22 15 1 3 165 128 Edmonton 41 20 16 3 2 123 113 Kootenay 41 21 19 0 1 130 148 Lethbridge 39 10 23 3 3 103 162

Pt 58 49 48 45 43 26

WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Kelowna 42 33 6 3 0 180 103 Victoria 43 21 19 2 1 145 143 Prince George 43 20 22 1 0 136 172 Vancouver 40 18 20 1 1 122 128 Kamloops 43 14 23 3 3 127 163

Pt 69 45 41 38 34

GP 41 40 43 40 41

Everett Spokane Portland Seattle Tri-City

U.S. DIVISION W L OTLSOL 25 12 3 1 22 15 3 0 22 18 0 3 19 16 3 2 20 19 0 2

GF GA 137 108 122 115 142 141 105 110 114 126

Pt 54 47 47 43 42

z-league title; y-conference title;d-division leader; xclinched 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 Friday’s results Everett 6 Moose Jaw 2 Edmonton 4 Regina 1 Prince Albert 4 Swift Current 3 (OT) Lethbridge 4 Saskatoon 1 Red Deer 3 Kootenay 1 Kelowna 2 Kamloops 1 (SO) Victoria 3 Prince George 2 (OT) Portland 5 Spokane 3 Tri-City 4 Seattle 3 (OT) Medicine Hat at Vancouver, 8:30 p.m.

Today’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’s games

Dallas Colorado Minnesota

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.

FRIDAY’S SUMMARIES Rebels 3, Ice 1 First Period 1. Red Deer, De Wit 2 (Doetzel, Feser) 2:16.

2. Red Deer, Kopeck 11 (Gay, Maxwell) 19:48.

Penalties — Pawlenchuk RD (tripping) 6:19, Doetzel RD (interference) 10:28.

Second Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Lishchynsky Koo (slashing) 11:52.

Third Period 3. Red Deer, Sheen 10 (Nogier, Bobyk) 13:26 (pp).

4. Kootenay, Fleury 1 (Philp, Vetterl) 15:40.

Penalties — Polei RD (fighting) 6:30, Martin Koo (fighting) 6:30, Descheneau Koo (tripping) 13:03.

Shots on goal by Red Deer 7 7 8 — 22 Kootenay 11 11 9 — 31

40 41 39

18 15 7 43 17 16 8 42 18 16 5 41 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts Anaheim 42 26 10 6 58 Vancouver 39 23 13 3 49 San Jose 42 22 15 5 49 Los Angeles 41 19 13 9 47 Calgary 42 21 18 3 45 Arizona 40 16 20 4 36 Edmonton 42 10 23 9 29

123 108 109

131 119 114

GF 116 113 115 115 122 96 95

GA 114 103 115 107 114 131 141

NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Friday’s Games N.Y. Islanders 3, New Jersey 2, OT Toronto 5, Columbus 2 Tampa Bay 2, Buffalo 1 Florida 6, Calgary 5 Edmonton 5, Chicago 2 Today’s Games Boston at Philadelphia, 11 a.m.

Nashville at Minnesota, 12 p.m.

Dallas at Colorado, 1 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Montreal, 5 p.m.

Detroit at Washington, 5 p.m.

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

Ottawa at Arizona, 5 p.m.

Carolina at St. Louis, 6 p.m.

Calgary at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

Winnipeg at Los Angeles, 8 p.m.

N.Y. Rangers at San Jose, 8 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Florida at Edmonton, 5 p.m.

Minnesota at Chicago, 6 p.m.

Winnipeg at Anaheim, 7 p.m.

Goal — Red Deer: Burman (W, 4-3-0); Kootenay: Hoflin (L, 21-16-0).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Red Deer: 1-2; Kootenay: 0-2.

Referees — Chris Crich, Chris Schlenker.

Linesmen — Darren Holeha, Greg Sarauer.

Attendance — 2,596 at Kootenay.

NHL EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division Tampa Bay Montreal Detroit Boston Florida Toronto Ottawa Buffalo

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

Nashville Chicago St. Louis Winnipeg

GA 111 93 103 110 103 130 112 147

GP 41 40 38 40 39 41 44 41

GA 114 97 94 104 126 123 124 107

W 27 24 23 21 18 16 15 13

L OT Pts GF 13 1 55 126 10 6 54 120 11 4 50 121 11 8 50 120 18 3 39 102 18 7 39 111 21 8 38 96 24 4 30 84

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF 40 27 9 4 58 122 42 27 13 2 56 130 41 25 13 3 53 131 41 20 14 7 47 104

GA 92 94 101 100

Panthers 6, Flames 5 First Period 1. Calgary, Stajan 2 (unassisted) 2:42.

2. Florida, Huberdeau 7 (Boyes) 4:28.

3. Florida, Boyes 8 (Huberdeau) 13:12.

4. Calgary, Brodie 7 (Giordano, Colborne) 16:36 (pp).

Penalties — Mackenzie Fla (Illegal Check to Head Minor) 5:10, Olsen Fla (delay of game) 15:14, Campbell Fla (cross-checking) 19:08.

Second Period 5. Calgary, Backlund 3 (Wideman, Bouma) 2:27.

6. Florida, Bergenheim 6 (Fleischmann, Bolland) 2:46.

7. Calgary, Brodie 8 (Bouma, Backlund) 8:13.

8. Florida, Hayes 12 (Jokinen, Gudbranson) 17:05.

Penalties — Trocheck Fla (holding) 19:39.

Third Period 9. Florida, Campbell 2 (unassisted) 9:29.

10. Calgary, Stajan 3 (Jones, Bouma) 16:06.

11. Florida, Fleischmann 5 (Bolland, Bergenheim) 16:51.

Penalties — Bouma Cgy (roughing) 2:40, Bouma Cgy (roughing) 13:52, Montoya Fla (roughing) 13:52, Boyes Fla (slashing) 17:35, Kopecky Fla (slashing) 19:54, Giordano Cgy (slashing) 19:54.

Shots on goal by Florida 13 9 13 — 35 Calgary 6 10 14 — 30 Goal — Florida: Montoya (W, 3-4-2); Calgary: Hiller (L, 13-13-2).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Florida: 0-1; Calgary: 1-5.

Referees — Mike Leggo, Tom Kowal.

Linesmen — Scott Cherrey, Mark Wheler.

Attendance — 19,289 at Calgary.

FRIDAY’S SUMMARIES GP W L OT Pts GF 43 27 12 4 58 140 40 26 12 2 54 110 41 22 10 9 53 116 42 21 15 6 48 110 39 19 11 9 47 96 42 22 17 3 47 137 40 16 16 8 40 105 43 14 26 3 31 81 Metropolitan Division

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Oilers 5, Blackhawks 2 First Period 1. Chicago, Saad 11 (Toews, Hossa) 7:34.

2. Edmonton, Pouliot 5 (Roy) 8:52.

3. Edmonton, Roy 3 (Purcell, Lander) 13:35 (pp).

Penalties — Rundblad Chi (high-sticking) 12:12, Hendricks Edm (closing hand on puck) 19:24.

Second Period 4. Chicago, Saad 12 (Hossa, Toews) 5:47.

5. Edmonton, Petry 4 (Yakupov, Roy) 6:33.

Penalties — Klinkhammer Edm (slashing) 8:31.

Third Period 6. Edmonton, Yakupov 5 (Hall) 16:51.

7. Edmonton, Hall 11 (unassisted) 17:34 (en).

Penalties — Bickell Chi (hooking) 1:15.

Shots on goal by Chicago 6 9 6 — 21 Edmonton 7 8 7 — 22 Goal — Chicago: Raanta (L, 6-3-0); Edmonton: Scrivens (W, 8-13-7).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Chicago: 0-2; Edmonton: 1-2.

Referees — Wes McCauley, Francois St. Laurent.

Linesmen — Ryan Galloway, Matt MacPherson.

Attendance — 16,839 at Edmonton.

Maple Leafs 5, Blue Jackets 2 First Period 1. Columbus, Johansen 14 (unassisted) 3:15.

2. Toronto, Bozak 14 (unassisted) 8:30.

3. Toronto, Winnik 3 (Bozak) 14:32.

4. Toronto, Kessel 19 (van Riemsdyk, Franson) 16:31 (pp).

5. Toronto, van Riemsdyk 18 (Kessel, Franson) 17:23 (pp).

Penalties — Connauton Clb (delay of game) 5:15, Savard Clb (interference) 15:35, Clb Bench (too many men) 15:56, Boll Clb (slashing) 19:08.

Second Period 6. Columbus, Johansen 15 (Savard, Foligno) 3:43 (pp).

Penalties — Winnik Tor (tripping) 2:31.

Third Period 7. Toronto, van Riemsdyk 19 (Winnik) 18:47 (en).

Penalties — van Riemsdyk Tor (roughing) 16:26.

Shots on goal by Columbus 8 4 8 — 20 Toronto 17 6 9 — 32 Goal — Columbus: Bobrovsky (L, 15-11-2); Toronto: Bernier (W, 16-10-3).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Columbus: 1-2; Toronto: 2-4.

Referees — Marc Joannette, Dean Morton.

Linesmen — Greg Devorski, Mark Shewchyk.

Attendance — 18,965 at Toronto.

Today

● 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.

Sunday

● 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.

Basketball Toronto Brooklyn Boston Philadelphia New York

Atlantic Division W L Pct 24 11 .686 16 20 .444 12 22 .353 6 29 .171 5 34 .128

Atlanta Washington Miami Charlotte Orlando

Southeast Division W L Pct 28 8 .778 25 11 .694 15 21 .417 14 24 .368 13 26 .333

GB — 8.5 11.5 18 21 GB — 3 13 15 16.5

Central Division W L Pct 25 12 .676 19 17 .528 20 18 .526 15 23 .395 12 24 .333

Chicago Cleveland Milwaukee Indiana Detroit

Northwest Division GB — 5.5 5.5 10.5 12.5

Portland Oklahoma City Denver Utah Minnesota

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Pacific Division W L Pct 28 5 .848 24 12 .667 22 17 .564 15 21 .417 12 25 .324

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Transactions BASEBALL American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Agreed to terms with OF Delmon Young on a one-year contract and with C J.P. Arencibia on a minor league contract. Designated C Ryan Lavarnway for assignment.

KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Named Al Nipper pitching coach at Omaha (PCL), Brian Buchanan manager, Steve Luebber pitching coach and Abraham Nunez hitting coach for Wilmington (Carolina), Omar Ramirez manager, Carlos Reyes pitching coach and Damon Hollins hitting coach for Lexington (SAL), Justin Gemoll manager, Jeff Suppan pitching coach and Andre David hitting coach for Idaho Falls (Pioneer), Scott Thorman manager and Jesus Azuaje hitting coach for Burlington (NYP), Darryl Kennedy manager, Mark Davis and Mitch Stetter pitching coaches and Nelson Liriano and Willie Aikens hitting instructors for the Royals (Arizona); Gustavo Martinez pitching coach for the Royals (Dominican), Chino Cadahia senior co-ordinator of player development, Bill Fischer senior pitching advisor, John Wathan special assistant to player development, Bill Springman advisor to player development/hitting and Larry Carter minor league pitching co-ordinator.

National League CHICAGO CUBS — Agreed to terms with OF Chris Denorfia on a one-year contract. Designated LHP Mike Kickham for assignment.

PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Agreed to terms with RHP Wilfredo Boscan and LHP Charlie Leesman on minor league contracts.

Can-Am League SUSSEX COUNTY MINERS — Named Steve Shirley manager.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association MILWAUKEE BUCKS — Signed F Kenyon Martin to a 10-day contract. Waived G Nate Wolters.

PHILADELPHIA 76ERS — Suspended F Andrei Kirilenko for not reporting to the team after his trade from Brooklyn on Dec. 11, 2014.

FOOTBALL National Football League CINCINNATI BENGALS — Signed TE Kevin Brock.

Canadian Football League SASKATCHEWAN ROUGHRIDERS — Signed DB Terrell Maze and WR Korey Williams to contract extensions. Named Ron Selesky scout.

WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS — Re-signed OL Devin Tyler.

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National Hockey League COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS — Signed G Sergei Bobrovsky to a four-year ontract extension through the 2018-19 season.

NASHVILLE PREDATORS — Reassigned F Miikka Salomaki to Milwaukee (AHL). Activated F Taylor Beck and F Matt Cullen from injured reserve.

NEW JERSEY DEVILS — Placed D Eric Gelinas on injured reserve, retroactive to Dec. 31. Activated F Jacob Josefson from injured reserve.

WASHINGTON CAPITALS — Recalled G Pheonix Copley from Hershey (AHL). Reassigned G Justin Peters to Hershey for conditioning purposes.

American Hockey League BINGHAMTON SENATORS — Signed F Todd Bertuzzi to a professional tryout agreement.

ELMIRA JACKALS — Announced F Matt Tassone was loaned to Rochester (AHL).

SAN ANTONIO RAMPAGE — Released F Stephan Vigier from his professional tryout contract.

SOCCER Major League Soccer NEW YORK RED BULLS — Signed MF Lloyd Sam to a contract extension. Purchased the rights to D Ambroise Oyongo from Rainbow FC Bamenda.

SEATTLE SOUNDERS FC — Signed F Darwin Jones.

SPORTING KANSAS CITY — Announced it renewed their affiliation agreement with OKC Energy FC (USL PRO) with a multiyear extension.

COLLEGE ALABAMA — Announced WR Amari Cooper, S Landon Collins and RB T.J. Yeldon are entering the NFL draft.

ARKANSAS — Signed defensive co-ordinator Robb Smith to a three-year contract.

BARTON — Announced the resignation of director of athletics Gary W. Hall to become athletic campaign consultant within the Office of Advancement. Named Todd Wilkinson director of athletics. Promoted Matt Atkins to assistant athletic director and compliance.

CHATTANOOGA — Agreed to terms with men’s football coach Russ Huesman to a contract extension through the 2020 season.

CLEMSON — Signed defensive co-ordinator Brent Venables to a four-year contract and co-offensive co-ordinators Tony Elliott and Jeff Scott to two-year contracts.

EMORY & HENRY — Named Franklin Featherston men’s assistant basketball coach.

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Cleveland at Sacramento, 7 p.m.

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Construction continues on the third floor of a multi-family housing project in Timberstone. The 2020 Apartment Homes along Timberstone Way are to be completed by the summer of 2015

Housing starts buck projected rate of decline IMPACT OF LOW OIL PRICES WILL SHOW IN FEBRUARY REPORT

BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR More homes were started in Red Deer last year than in 2013, according to the latest figures from Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. But the momentum of the residential construction sector appears to be waning.

CMHC reported on Friday that there were 876 housing starts in the city last year, a 10.5 per cent improvement over the 784 starts in 2013. That yearover-year increase was down from a 20 per cent jump between 2012 and 2013.

“We were projecting that the rate of growth would decline and this is what happened,” said Ekaterina Kortava, a regional market analyst with CMHC. Starts on single-detached homes this year were up just one per cent over 2013, to 393 from 389. That compares with a 19 per cent improvement in this category from 2012 to 2013.

In the case of units in multi-family projects, 2014 produced 474 starts in Red Deer. That marked a 20 per cent increase over 2013, but was a significant slowdown from the 63 per cent jump between 2012 and 2013.

“The rate of growth was much lower than before,” said Kortava.

Low vacancy rates in the rental market spurred much of the multi-family construction, she said.

“Almost half of the multi-family starts this year, about 40 per cent, were in the rental market. This helped to drive up the total starts number.”

But many of the resulting apartments are now on the market, with builders likely to wait for the market to absorb these units before starting new projects, said Kortava.

“There were 322 apartment units completed between August and October 2014.”

CMHC expects the pace of residential construction to further moderate in 2015. It’s cited the antici-

pated slowdown of people moving to Alberta — and Red Deer — as a reason for this.

“Eventually this will cause the demand (for housing) to slow down and the number of starts to slow down as well,” said Kortava.

The impact of low oil prices was not factored into CMHC’s last housing forecast, issued in October. But this factor will be considered in the housing agency’s next outlook, which is due out in early February, said Kortava.

“Obviously, given that there are many businesses in Red Deer that operate in the oil and gas industry, there will be an effect of oil prices.”

In the final month of 2012, there were 36 housing starts in Red Deer — up from 34 in December 2013.

Single-detached projects accounted for 28 of the December 2014 tally, as compared with 24 a year earlier; while multi-family starts slipped to eight from 10.

Among Alberta urban centres with 50,000 or more people, Calgary, Red Deer, Grande Prairie, Lethbridge and Medicine Hat all posted more housing starts in 2014 than in the preceding year. Edmonton and the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo were down.

In the case of centres with populations of 10,000 to 49,999, Sylvan Lake had 238 housing starts in 2014, up from 223 the year before; and Lacombe fell to 74 from 98.

Across Canada, the pace of new housing construction slowed in December, said CMHC. The equivalent of 180,560 units were started on a seasonally adjusted basis last month, down from 193,199 in November, it said.

On a regional basis, there were small increases in Ontario and British Columbia urban starts, and relatively large declines in other parts of the country.

In a separate report, Statistics Canada reported on Friday that the value of building permits dropped by 13.8 per cent from October to November, when they had a total value of nearly $6.59 billion.

With files from The Canadian Press.

NEW JOBS REPORT

Canada sheds jobs to close out 2014

Local unemployment rate jumps

OTTAWA — The Canadian labour market capped off 2014 by losing 4,300 net jobs in December, a slight dip from the previous month that left the unemployment rate locked at 6.6 per cent, Statistics Canada said Friday.

The agency’s latest job-market survey found that Canada added 185,700 net new positions in 2014, with the bulk of the increase coming in the second half of the calendar. The unemployment rate, meanwhile, moved down over the course of the year from 7.2 per cent.

“I think we can say it was a fairly good year for employment - nothing through the roof, but it was just a decent year,” said Jimmy Jean, a senior economist with Desjardins Capital Markets.

“Looking forward, we continue to expect the Canadian economy to benefit from the U.S. acceleration... so we should continue to see a very decent pace of job creation on an overall basis.”

For December, the agency’s report found the country gained 53,500 full-time positions, a tally more than offset by a loss of 57,700 part-time jobs.

December was the second straight month the survey registered a small drop in employment. The economy shed 10,700 net jobs in November, but those decreases followed large back-to-back increases of 74,100 in September and 43,100 jobs in October.

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BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR An international beauty products heavyweight is entering the Red Deer retail market.

Sephora, which operates approximately 1,900 stores around the world, is expected to open in Bower Place shopping centre this spring.

Mall manager John Rooke said the company is taking possession of space near the mall’s centre court within the next few weeks and should open in April.

“Their stores are absolutely gorgeous,” he said.

“It’ll be a great addition to Bower.”

Sephora carries a broad range of skin care, color, fragrance, body and hair care products, including some under its own private label. Founded in France in 1970, it’s operated in Canada since 2004.

Rooke said the company has a thriving online business in Central Alberta, but consumers here have had to travel to Calgary or Edmonton to visit a Sephora store. He anticipates that the new shop will make Bower Place more desirable for complementary stores.

“Once you’ve got a Sephora in your midst it really does attract a lot of retailers that want to be around a Sephora.”

An announcement on Facebook that Sephora is coming to Red Deer has drawn an enthusiastic response, said Rooke.

“We’re pretty excited.” hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

Nebraska court clears Keystone

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

A downward trend in the Red Deer region’s rate of unemployment reversed sharply in December, based on the latest figures from Statistics Canada.

Local unemployment jumped 1.2 percentage points to hit 4.5 per cent — tying this area with Edmonton for the highest jobless rate in the province.

A year earlier, the unemployment rate in the Red Deer region was 2.7 per cent.

The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for Alberta last month was 4.7 per cent, up 0.2 percentage points from November but down 0.1 percentage points from the same month last year.

The Lethbridge-Medicine Hat region had the lowest unemployment rate in the province last month, at 2.8 per cent. Camrose-Drumheller was next at 3.1 per cent, followed by Athabasca-Grande Prairie (3.8 per cent), Banff-Jasper-Rocky Mountain House (4.0 per cent), Wood Buffalo-Cold Lake (4.1 per cent), Calgary (4.3 per cent), and then Red Deer and Edmonton.

The national rate was 6.6 per cent, unchanged from November. Saskatchewan posted the lowest unemployment figure, at 3.6 per cent.

Alberta’s labour force grew by 12,100 people during the month and employment increased by 5,700 positions. Full-time employment increased by 8,400, while part-time employment decreased by 2,700 over the same period.

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A recent survey of small and medium-sized businesses by ATB Financial indicates a steep drop in confidence about the Alberta economy.

The financial institution’s latest quarterly Business Beat Economy Index fell to 44.5 — the first time the index has been below 50 since ATB Financial began tracking business confidence in 2013. The previous Business Beat index, released in October, was 68.6.

ATB Financial said in a release that a score of less than 50 suggests that more business operators believe the province’s economy will be worse off six months from now than those who feel it will be better off in six months.

Despite being less optimistic about the province’s overall economy, the business owners surveyed seemed confident in the future of their own business.

The index related to this criteria was 67.5, down from 70.4 in October.

When asked about the impact of the lower price of oil, 69 per cent of respondents said their business had not yet been affected, 16 per cent said their business had been negatively affected and 13 per cent said the lower price had had a positive impact.

For businesses in the energy sector, the percentage negatively affected by low oil prices was 48 per cent.

“Obviously the oil patch feels the heat first,” said Wellington Holbrook, ATB Financial’s executive vice-president of business and agriculture. “Other businesses may not feel it yet, but it all comes down to how long these oil price pressures persist as to whether or not it will trickle into other sectors.”

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OVER TO OBAMA FOR FINAL DECISION ON PIPELINE

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS WASHINGTON — The Keystone XL pipeline decision now rests in President Barack Obama’s hands, with a Nebraska court clearing an obstacle that has delayed the conclusion of the years-long debate over the Canadian oil project.

Obama had been saying for months that he couldn’t complete a review until Nebraska’s Supreme Court ruled in a dispute over the route - and now the verdict is in.

Friday’s court decision produced a rare moment of unity in the protracted, passionate debate that has transformed a 36-inch oil pipe from Alberta to Texas into a proxy battle over America’s commitment to fighting climate change.

Both sides appear to agree now: After six years, the issue rests with the president.

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MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto stock market closed lower Friday, failing to catch a lift from a mixed American employment report as investors continued to shed financials on worries over how the collapse in oil prices could impact the big banks.

The S&P/TSX composite index dropped 72.8 points to 14,384.92 as traders also digested a big miss in Canada’s December job numbers. Statistics Canada says the country lost 4,300 jobs in December but the national unemployment rate was unchanged at 6.6 per cent.

Economists had expected the economy to crank out 15,000 jobs last month.

The Canadian dollar was down 0.22 of a cent to 84.27 cents US. New York indexes were sharply lower after two days of major advances amid far more encouraging employment news as the U.S. economy created 252,000 jobs last month, comfortably above the consensus of 230,000. The jobless rate fell to 5.6 per cent from 5.8 per cent but investors were discouraged by other data showing a drop in wage growth, raising a note of caution about the economy.

The Dow Jones industrials fell 170.5 points to 17,737.37, the Nasdaq declined 32.12 points to 4,704.07 and the S&P 500 index was down 17.33 points at 2,044.81.

The TSX had racked up solid gains the previous two sessions but closed out the first full week of 2015 trading with a loss of 369 points or 2.5 per cent, led by a drop of about six per cent in the energy sector as oil prices continued to look for a bottom.

Prices have plunged more than 50 per cent from mid-2014 highs and are down eight per cent just since Dec. 31 as the global economy works through a huge oversupply of crude, a situation analysts believe will take months to sort out.

However, the TSX energy sector was positive Friday, ahead 0.25 per cent while the February crude contract in New York was down 43 cents at US$48.36 a barrel after rising the previous two sessions.

The financials were also a major drag this week, down 1.45 per cent Friday for a decline of almost five per cent this week.

The collapse in oil prices leaves investors wondering how banks will be impacted but there other things worrying traders as well.

“The Bank of Canada came out at the end of last year saying consumers have a lot of debt, (that) real estate values are overvalued, and then you have oil on top of that as well,” observed

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“And it’s not just oil prices being low, it’s the fact that oil companies as whole, who normally deal with banks for lending and so forth, they’re cutting back on their spending, meaning they’re borrowing less from the banks and that means banks’ revenues will come down as well.”

The base metals group was 0.15 per cent lower as March copper lost two cents to US$2.75 a pound.

The gold sector ran ahead about 4.7 per cent as February bullion was ahead $7.60 at US$1,216.10 an ounce.

Elsewhere on the TSX, TransCanada Corp. (TSX:TRP) was ahead 41 cents to $55.34 after a Nebraska court struck down a lower-court decision that had been one of the barriers to the stalled Keystone XL pipeline.

The end of the Nebraska case means President Barack Obama can soon wrap up his administration’s review of the $8-billion pipeline, which has become a major irritant in Canada-U.S. relations.

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Barley (Western): March ’15 $5.00 higher $182.00; May ’15 $5.00 higher $184.00; July ’15 $5.00 higher $186.00; Oct. ’15 unchanged $181.00; Dec. ’15 unchanged $181.00; March ’16 unchanged $181.00; May ’16 unchanged $181.00; July ’16 unchanged $181.00; Oct. ’16 unchanged $181.00; March ’17 unchanged $181.00.

Friday’s estimated volume of trade: 494,720 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 494,720.

The unemployment rate matched the projection of economists, who had also predicted a net gain of 15,000 jobs for December, according to Thomson Reuters.

Experts were watching for clues that Canada’s economic strength was shifting from the energy sector to manufacturing, an expected fallout from the lower loonie and the oil prices that began to plummet in October.

Jean said he was surprised to see the natural-resources sector add 10,200 jobs across Canada in December, while the manufacturing industry lost 18,300 positions.

“We’ve kind of been expecting the opposite to be at play with the weaker currency,” he said.

By industry, accommodation and food services saw the biggest job onemonth decline in the survey, losing 32,800 positions in December. But, over 2014, the category had added 38,300 jobs.

The Statistics Canada findings also show the youth unemployment rate moved up 0.3 percentage points in December to 13.3 per cent, but that 62,500 more young people had jobs compared to a year earlier.

The survey found that 23,600 fewer women between the ages of 25 and 54 were working last month. The unemployment rate, however, for that category remained unchanged at 5.2 per cent as fewer participated in the labour market.

REGINA — Farm lobby groups in Saskatchewan and Manitoba say fines levied against Canada’s two largest railways don’t reflect the damage caused when the companies failed to transport the minimum required grain volumes last year.

Transport Minister Lisa Raitt said Thursday that Canadian National Railway and Canadian Pacific Railway were fined a combined total of $150,000. Norm Hall, president of the Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan, said farmers are frustrated with the fallout from months of railway backlogs following last year’s bumper grain crop.

“There’s also some relief that the federal government did step forward, but there’s still frustration,” Hall said.

“The one thing that bothers us most about this is that fine, that money, goes to government. It in no way goes to those that were hurt ... be it the pro-

“It still boils down to President Obama,” said Nebraska farmer Randy Thompson, who led the court fight against the project.

“He holds the hammer on this issue - and hopefully he’ll come down in our favour.”

Way on the other end of this bitter dispute, a Republican senator actively pushing the project through the U.S. Congress concurred that a decision is nigh: “President Obama has no excuse to further delay the Keystone XL pipeline project,” John Hoeven said.

The Canadian government said a similar thing in more diplomatic language. In a statement, Natural Resources Minister Greg Rickford welcomed the ruling and said it cleared the way for the State Department to conclude its previously delayed review - a process ultimately controlled by the president.

The premiers of Alberta and Saskatchewan also expressed satisfaction.

Alberta’s Jim Prentice said he’ll be visiting the U.S. in a few weeks to address some criticisms over its economic and environmental implications.

Those claims have been all over the map.

And it’s not just on the environmental front where’s there’s disagreement, with one side billing the project as the harbinger of climatological disaster and the other as an actual benefit for the planet because it would reduce reliance on higher-polluting train transport.

The economic prognostications are also worlds apart.

FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS Highlights at the close of Friday at world financial market trading.

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 14,384.92, down 72.80 points Dow — 17,737.37, down 170.50 points S&P 500 — 2,044.81, down 17.33 points Nasdaq — 4,704.07, down 32.12 points Currencies: Cdn — 84.27 cents US, down 0.22 of a cent Pound — C$1.7995, up 1.42 cents Euro — C$1.4053, up one cent Euro — US$1.1843, up 0.54 of a cent Oil futures: US$48.36 per barrel, down 43 cents (February contract) Gold futures: US$1,216.10 per oz., up $7.60 (February contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $20.174 oz., down six cents $648.59 kg., down $1.93 ICE FUTURES WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: Jan ’15 $0.30 higher $466.00; March ’15 $0.50 higher $452.20; May ’15 $1.00 lower

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Saturday, Jan. 10, 2015

Northern Crossing Music and Drama Society presents

Because It’s Christmas

CLOCKWISE FROM ABOVE: Northern Crossing Senior Choir. Three ‘seasoned ladies’ sing about the 12 Days After Christmas; Northern Crossing Junior Choir. Nicole Matheson sings Grown Up Christmas.

A small group of choir members sing as Rocky Dreams Dance School perform in the background.

Photos by ALAN MARSHALL/freelance

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sold-out crowd thrilled to Northern Crossing’s Christmas concert, Because It’s Christmas, at the Lou Soppit Community Centre in Rocky Mountain House on Dec. 17 and 18.

The title of the show was taken from the song of the same name, as recorded by Barry Manilow. As the choir sang the melody, guest performers from Rocky Dreams dance school performed an elegant routine.

The concert opened with three carols sung

by Northern Crossing’s children’s choir, under the direction of Leanne Oslund. Beautiful choral music, piano duets, solos, small group numbers, and a Norwegian folk tale followed.

The ever-popular Haymakers had the audience tapping their toes and joining the choir and orchestra in a jolly sing along of favorite Christmas music.

The Northern Crossing Music and Drama Society is a non-profit organization. Founded in December 1985, the first Christmas concert was Vivaldi’s Gloria. The group tried a musical the following spring. Oklahoma was such a success that the society has produced a Christmas show and spring musical ever since.

Over time, the Christmas show has evolved

from strictly choral music to a variety of acts, including dance, drama, comedy, and PowerPoint presentations, while always keeping the Christmas story as its central theme.

The spring musicals have been based on big Broadway productions, such as Fiddler on the Roof, Oliver, Sound of Music, Paint Your Wagon and Carousel. Plans are well underway for the next spring production of South Pacific, with the show running April 25, 26, and 30 and May 1 and 2.

Northern Crossing has been a prominent part of the entertainment scene in Rocky Mountain House for 30 seasons. This is in large part thanks to the support of local businesses, organizations, and the public.

Mark your calendars for April and May, and come and see for yourselves.

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The Northern Four

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

The artist group The Northern Four, from the left, Judy Sutter, Jeri-Lynn Ing, Larry Reese and Susan Woolgar, with their exhibition that is now on display in the Harris-Warke Gallery on Ross Street in Red Deer.

LOCAL ARTISTS OFFER STRIKINGLY DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES ON ALBERTA LANDSCAPE IN A NEW EXHIBIT AT HARRIS-WARKE GALLERY

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF Ask four artists to paint the same four landscapes and you get 16 widely different interpretations.

Local artists Jeri-Lynn Ing, Larry Reese, Judy Sutter and Susan Woolgar went to Southern Alberta to do some outdoor painting last August.

Before finishing their time at the Gushul residency in Blairmore, they set out a challenge: Each artist would take a photograph of a different view, then all four would paint the same four scenes that were caught on camera.

For instance, Reese painted a farm house nestled in rolling hills beside the Crowsnest River in a bold, illustrative style using acid colours. The other three artists chose to edit the house out of the picture altogether.

Sutter realistically rendered the bend in the river and a tree from the photo, while Ing and Woolgar were interested in capturing impressions of the windswept trees and plays of light on the hills.

Even though styles diverge, viewers can still observe commonalities, with three of the artists choosing to paint highlights using various orange tints.

“This was a lot of fun to do,” said

Oxbow by Susan Woolgar. painter to a less representational one.

“I’m trying to look beyond the literal, because I’ve painted that way for so long,” she said. “I sought different ways to express landscape, looking beyond the accepted textures and colours.”

The most problematic reference was an intricately detailed forest scene. Woolgar, an Alberta College of Art and Design graduate, painted four or five versions of it before coming up with her final artwork, Slope.

“I fought with the composition until I found something that I liked,” explained Woolgar, who eliminated most of the busy-ness, focusing on a rocky slope, covered with moss and dappled sunlight. She also scraped paint away in places, to reveal interesting colours and create textures.

Her impressionistic Oxbow features wind-bent trees under a pinkish sky.

While its been suggested that the ability to paint more loosely and boldly comes with confidence and experi-

for more than a decade. He had painted as a hobbyist since he was a youth.

His works show the most stylistic experimentation of the group, ranging from super-realism of Whispers of Quiet to poster-like graphics in Along Comes the Dawn.

Sutter has also taken art classes for years, but doesn’t get the chance to paint as much as she would like because of family and other commitments (she’s married to former NHL player and coach, and ex-Red Deer Rebels coach Brian Sutter).

Her Evening on Castle River Road contains rich yellows and olive greens, giving a sense of waning, golden light.

It was a departure from the actual photo, taken earlier in the day, but Sutter wanted a more intense interpretation.

By contrast, Sutter’s Afternoon on Miner’s Creek gives a sense of greyeddown filtered light, achieving a sense of place for the forest painting, in which sunlight disperses through tree branches.

Evening Castle River Road by Judy Sutter.

While they do much of their plein air painting together as “the Northern Four,” they decided to work on these landscapes separately and not discuss their approaches with each other.

Some intriguing artworks came out of the project, as can be seen in the Four Paintings, Four Perspectives joint exhibit at the Harris-Warke Gallery in Sunworks.

Although paintings from the same photograph sometimes share aspects of light or composition, others are so completely different, it’s hard to tell they were inspired by the same reference material.

The artists say they knew they would each be bringing their own styles and perspectives to the table, but were still surprised by the results.

Ing, who took her landscapes close to abstraction, She noticed that the pinks and lavenders she used to paint grasses in her depiction of a hazy forest scene lined up closely with colours used for the same scene by Sutter and Woolgar.

Ing, who has taken various art courses over the years, admitted that she found herself pulled by conflicting desires during the exercise: “I wanted it to be loose and not too literal,” but she also felt some pressure to paint what was before her — the trees, roads, meadows and rivers.

“I was caught up in this internal struggle (that came down to) how much do I owe the land?”

Woolgar, who shares a studio with Ing, is evolving from being a realistic

Judy’s View by Jeri-Lynn Ing.

Along Comes the Dawn by Larry Reese.

ence, Woolgar believes it really comes with experimentation. “You have to paint your way into it.”

Reese and Sutter, who are more realist painters, consider themselves less experienced than Ing and Woolgar, but produced some striking images.

In Follow Your Dreams, Reese used a pallet knife to create the impression of Castle River Road leading to the Rocky Mountains. He liked how the added texture helped create shadows and grasses in the landscape.

As an acting instructor in the Red Deer College Motion Picture Arts program, Reese had opportunities to take painting classes at the college and has been pursuing visual arts “seriously”

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The four Central Alberta painters say they like the encouragement and camaraderie that comes with painting together.

Even when working apart, as they did during this project, they enjoy coming together at the end to share impressions and critique each other’s works.

“I like painting with people who I respect and people who challenge me,” summarized Reese, who feels the skills and abilities of the other artists push him to excel at his own painting.

The show continues to Feb. 12. A First Friday reception will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. on Feb. 6. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

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SATURDAY, JAN. 10, 2015

Resolve to regress

IN BRIEF

French imams, Vatican condemn Paris attack

LEARN TO REDISCOVER VINTAGE FAITH

BY JEREMY BOUMAN SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE Seventeen years ago, I received one of the most progressive pieces of technology of the late 90’s: an eMate 300, brought to the world by the makers of the iPhone and iPad. Never heard of it, you say?

The eMate was a darling of a mini-laptop, clad in a translucent green shell before Apple made such an aesthetic feature mainstream with their iMac. It ran off the ill-fated NewtonOS, which powered their line of personal digital assistants.

It had a keyboard and seven-inch monochrome backlit display and featured handwriting recognition technology, a calendar, a word processor, and other such programs.

Originally, it was sold to schools to help them enhance learning and plug students into the ever-growing influence of computing that had begun shaping education.

Eventually, Apple opened the device up for purchase to consumers.

And in 1998 I received it as a high school graduation present before heading off to college, where I used it to take notes and write most of my papers.

Fast forward 15 years later to 2012.

That year I started taking my love of writing to a new level, from hobby to profession.

To get serious I even bought a shiny new MacBook Air to propel that love forward.

But something interesting happened: rather than foster my writing, it got in the way.

You understand, right?

You’re working away on something — a project, a paper, a proposal — and before you know it you’re trolling through the latest LOLCats vid, or worse: you’re tweeting/ Facebooking/emailing off the latest LOLCats vid!

I don’t know about you, but the hyperconnected, always-online world of Facebook and Twitter has proved a debilitating distraction for my creative life.

Rather than serving my writing, my progressive MacBook Air technology actually became a hindrance to my creative life.

It harmed it more than it helped move it forward, like it promised.

That’s when I went all regressive on my Air, ditching it for my vintage eMate.

One day I stumbled across it at the bottom of my closet and thought it the perfect solution to my writing woes.

So I dusted it off, charged it up, and then I sat down, placing my fingers on its retro keys.

When I did, something magical happened: I wrote, yes, but I wrote for hours of undistracted bliss!

All without those dreaded LOLcats screeching and scratching for my attention.

You see, in order to move forward in my writing and creative life — to progress, if you will — I needed to move backward in my technology.

For two years now I’ve written blog posts, long-form articles — even entire novels — all using this vintage technology.

Rather than becoming progressive, I got regressive.

All for the sake of my creative life.

OK, now the punchline: I think there’s a sort of parable here that can be applied to our spiritual life, as well.

As I wrote a few months ago, I believe that in order for my generation of Millennial Christians (really all Christians) to move forward in our spiritual journey, we need to go backwards.

To get regressive.

After all, that’s what regress means — the act of going back, a returning to what was before.

What would it look like to commit to being regressive in 2015, to go backwards by rediscovering and retrieving what the church has believed, about our origins and identity; why things are so messed up and we are, too; the person of Jesus and the fix he bore; about faith, life, and everything in between; even about God himself?

That’s my challenge to you this year. For one year, set aside the progressive and go regressive, to rediscover and retrieve the vintage Christian faith.

I’ll wager such a move will foster your spiritual life as much as going regressive did my writing one.

(PS — I invite you to join me in this space the next several months as I explore and unpack what the vintage faith is and what it means for your spiritual life.)

Jeremy Bouma (Th.M) is an author and founding director of THEOKLESIA, a content curator dedicated to helping the 21st century Church rediscover the vintage Christian faith.

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Four leading French imams and the Vatican have issued a joint statement denouncing the Paris newspaper massacre, warning that the world is a dangerous place without freedom of expression but urging the media to be respectful of religion. The Muslim spiritual leaders were visiting the Vatican this week along with French Catholic bishops.

They stressed that dialogue among different faiths is the only way to eliminate prejudice.

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Romance in symphony RDSO

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF Some musical hearts and flowers will be sent out to the audience, courtesy of the Red Deer Symphony Orchestra.

The Romance of Chopin concert, on Saturday, Jan. 17, at the Red Deer College Arts Centre, can be thought of as an early valentine to listeners.

The program consists of the passionate Piano Concerto No. 2 in F Minor by Frédéric Chopin, the beautiful and melancholy Valse Triste by Jean Sibelius, and the ear-candy-ish Sinfonia Concertante in E-Flat Major, by Johann Christian Bach.

The three pieces should provide a dreamy, melodic evening at the symphony, said RDSO music director Claude Lapalme.

Chopin is the most romantic of the Romantic composers, and much of the tenderness associated with his music — as well as its more fiery side — is showcased in his Piano Concerto No. 2. It will feature pianist Mikolaj Warszynski.

Although raised in Edmonton, Warszynski was born in Chopin’s native Poland and has performed as soloist around the globe, including North America, Europe and South Korea — where he’s a visiting instructor at the Seoul Conservatory of Music.

Much will be demanded of Warszynski in this complex concerto, but other orchestral instruments will act mostly as background accompaniment for the piano, said Lapalme.

Since Chopin only wrote two piano concerti, compared to his bulk of solo piano compositions, this is a momentous work, he added. The “extraordinarily” emotional concerto also wears its heart on its sleeve: “It’s like, I love you, I hate you. I’m sad, I’m happy,” said Lapalme, with a chuckle. “You can’t get more romantic than that. ...”

After a dramatic start, the tune’s tempo slows for a more poetic second movement. The third is a mazurka, or Polish folk dance. “There’s a horn call, almost like a hunting call, and it ends in a flurry, a torrent of notes. It’s a very bright movement,” said Lapalme, who believes most people don’t associate Chopin with this kind of exuberant

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Edmonton-based pianist Mikolaj Warszynski performs with the Red Deer Symphony Orchestra as part of the Romance of Chopin concert Saturday, Jan. 17. melody.

The composer, who died at age 39 of a consumptive lung disease, is most often thought of as reflective writer, but had an innovative and varied style. For instance, Lapalme said audience members might want to listen for Chopin’s “odd quirk” — of adding a single bass trombone to the two horns and two trumpets in the horn line, giving some more punch or strength to the melody.

“It’s unusual but it works.”

The Sibelius piece, titled Slow

Waltz, also feels very Chopin-esque.

Lapalme said the 20th-century composer creates a very romantic melody in “all shades of grey.” The short piece is melancholy, intimate, beautiful “and very, very wistful.”

By contrast, Johann Christian Bach’s Sinfonia Concertante is a bright, sunny, Rococo spectacle.

The lavish piece, written by Johann Sebastian Bach’s youngest surviving son, is easy listening in the extreme.

“Not to sound too clever, but it’s music

that’s made to please,” said Lapalme.

“It’s never complex, but it’s extremely well done, technically perfect writing.”

This kind of chocolate-box-pretty music proved influential to other composers, so listeners might hear some melodious strains that are reminiscent of Mozart’s work, which came later.

Tickets to the 8 p.m. concert are $59.35 ($54.85 seniors/$43.35 students or first four rows) from the Black Knight Ticket Centre. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

Taken to the cleaners VIEWERS GET LITTLE FOR THEIR TIME AND MONEY Taken 3 1.5 stars (out of four) Rated: 14A Taken 3 is such a blatant paycheque gig for Liam Neeson, you almost expect him to stop midmovie to deposit his loot into an ATM. Instead, he careers around Los Angeles, vainly trying to maintain velocity in an action-thriller franchise that was already wheezing to a halt with Taken 2, which was set in Istanbul.

That was PETER back when the HOWELL title actually made sense. In Taken 2, as in the surprisehit 2008 original Taken, set in Paris, Neeson’s ex-CIA guy Bryan Mills employed his “particular set of skills” to rescue family members from badass foreign kidnappers.

The family-snatch angle is little more than an after-thought in Taken 3 — maybe they should have called it

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Mistaken?

This means we’re denied the thrill of hearing Neeson make a truly threatening telephone call to the badasses, which is as vital to the enjoyment of this series as hearing Dr. Evil’s “one meellion dollars!” demand to world leaders in Austin Powers.

Instead, returning director Olivier Megaton, writer/producer Luc Besson and co-writer Robert Mark Kamen go in for the framed-man plot, and a whole lot of other hoary clichés to boot. No frequent-flyer miles were wasted making this film, but a lot of brain cells certainly were.

Mills is back home in Los Angeles, still trying to be a good dad to his feisty daughter Kim (Maggie Grace) and a decent co-parent with his jittery exwife Lenore (Famke Janssen), who has yet another new husband, a slithery businessman named Stuart (Dougray Scott).

Much is made of the predictability of Mills, who always does clueless dad stuff like bringing a giant stuff panda as a birthday gift for his now-twentysomething daughter. Seems Kim, too, is also set in her ways, which will feature into the creaking plot.

Meanwhile, Lenore has a recurring problem with finding a man she can happily cohabit with. Things aren’t going so well between her and Stu, who

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Liam Neeson stars in Taken 3: the movie franchise has run its course. has run afoul of a grinning Russian mobster named Oleg (Sam Spruell).

All this talk about being predictable is meant as a tipoff that Taken 3 won’t be so easy to suss, but alas, the reverse is true.

It’s obvious to the audience what is going on right from the get-go, although it takes the good guys so long to catch up, you’ll feel like shouting “Duh!” at the screen when they finally do.

When something very bad happens to Lenore, Mills is falsely blamed and then hightails it as only he can. The LAPD and FBI set off in hot pursuit, led by a detective (Forest Whitaker, in a thankless role) who is like a cross between Colombo and Inspector Clouseau.

Whitaker’s lawman Franck Dotzler spends much of the film munching and pondering a bag of warm bagels left at a crime scene, while also playing cat’s cradle with a rubber band and fondling a chess piece, all added in a desperate attempt to make his charac-

ter interesting.

It doesn’t help the film, and neither do the multiple car chases that play like a theme-park ride of action tropes, shot with a fidgety hand-held camera that gets downright annoying.

Mills and his pursuers race-by-numbers through crowded city streets, perilous mountain roads (fall down, go “kaboom!) and the winding turns of a parking garage.

The film’s only bright spot is the presence of Neeson, who manages to bring a measure of dignity to even his most craven of assignments, and who, at the age of 62, still looks far more convincing as an action hero than, say, Harrison Ford did at that age.

I’ll happily watch Neeson in almost anything.

But it’s time for this particular franchise to call it a day, before the rust really sets in on his “particular set of skills.”

Peter Howell is a syndicated Toronto Star movie critic.

Discovery network taking a turn under new boss

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PASADENA, Calif. — There’s a new boss in charge at the Discovery Network, and he’s anxious to get rid of mega-sharks, mermaids and man-eating snakes.

Rich Ross, a longtime Disney executive who began this week as president of Discovery Communications’ flagship channel, said he wants to broaden its appeal to reach more women and families. He has also been quick to make clear what he doesn’t want Discovery to be.

The network has been doing well financially but has been criticized, particularly by the scientific community, for some specials that have stretched the boundaries of truth. Most recently, animal rights activists were angered by the Eaten Alive premise of an explorer who would be swallowed by a giant anaconda. The reality turned out to be far less dramatic.

Discovery’s annual Shark Week the past two years

have featured fanciful “documentaries” about megalodons.

The network also aired a show, produced by sister channel Animal Planet, about mermaids and another about a supposed Russian yeti.

“Brands are all about trust,” said Ross, who is replacing former network head Eileen O’Neill and her interim successor Marjorie Kaplan. “You can expand the universe of what people think you are, but there’s only so much elasticity. On Discovery, that’s why I talk about authenticity. Authenticity is job No. 1, 2 and 3.”

Fictional documentaries, no matter their entertainment value, no longer have their place, he said.

“It’s not whether I’m a fan of it,” he said. “I don’t think it’s actually right for Discovery Channel and it’s something that I think has, in some ways, run its course.”

Eaten Alive had the right intention — to tell the story of a rare and frightening large snake — but

misleading packaging, he said. The fervour of the story got out of control, he said.

“I don’t believe you’ll be seeing a person eaten by a snake during my time,” he said.

Judging by how that show backfired for Discovery, Ross’s stance is wise, said Derek Baine, an analyst of the cable market for SNL Kagan. One important part of Discovery’s strategy now is to build its strength internationally, he said.

“They’re going to have to have a careful eye on producing programming that is not just appealing to the U.S. but in international markets,” he said.

One of Ross’s first hires at Discovery is designed to send a clear message. John Hoffman, a multiple Emmy Award-winner who spent many years in HBO’s well-regarded documentary unit, was named Discovery’s executive vice-president of documentaries and specials. As an independent producer, Hoffman most recently did the project Sleepless in America for the National Geographic Channel.

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Barry Adelman, far right, executive producer of the 72nd annual Golden Globe Awards, is joined by, left to right, fellow Golden Globes executive producer Allen Shapiro, Miss Golden Globe 2015 Greer Grammer, Moet ambassador Elettra Wiedemann and Hollywood Foreign Press Association president Theo Kingma as they roll out the red carpet at the 72nd annual Golden Globe Awards Preview Day at the Beverly Hilton on Thursday in Beverly Hills, Calif.

Golden Globes producers to keep starry focus BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — The folks behind Sunday night’s Golden Globes show say they won’t address the Sony hack during the big show, but the subject is fair game for hosts Tina Fey and Amy Poehler.

“I think that especially in the last couple of months, the girls have been provided with quite some interesting fodder,” Hollywood Foreign Press Association President Theo Kingma said coyly outside the Golden Globes’ ballroom at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.

Inside the venue — filled with scissor-lifts, boxes of cables and builders getting the place cameraready — 20-time Globes producer Barry Adelman said he’s leaving discussion of the Hollywood hacking scandal to the stars in the spotlight.

“I’m sure there’ll be some comments this year about (the Sony scandal and the film ”The Interview“ at the centre of it), but we’ll let that happen from the people who are on stage,” he said.

“Our focus is to provide the same prism that we always do, which is saluting excellence for the past year in both movies and TV, and whatever comes with that will come out naturally in the show.”

Adelman won’t see what Fey and Poehler have prepared until the weekend, and he expects the three-time hosting duo to make tweaks right up until show time.

“They want the material to be as fresh as it can possibly be,” he said.

This will be the third year in a row Fey and Poehler have hosted the show, and they’ve said it will also be their final time.

Last year, they helped boost the Globes’ TV rat-

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ings to the best they’ve been in a decade.

Birdman leads film nominees at this year’s Golden Globe Awards with seven bids, including best picture (musical or comedy), best actor for star Michael Keaton and supporting actor nods for Emma Stone and Edward Norton. Other film front-runners include the coming-of-age story Boyhood and World War II code-cracking drama The Imitation Game, which have five nominations each, including best picture (drama).

On the television side, the FX crime drama Fargo has a leading five nominations, followed by HBO’s True Detective with four.

George Clooney, who called for an alliance to release The Interview in the name of artistic freedom after it was shelved by Sony, will receive the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the ceremony.

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Wrestling with Death isn’t like that.

“You’ve never seen wrestling juxtaposed with the mortuary story,” said Tom Huffman, the senior vice-president of unscripted programming for WGN America. The 12-episode show, which debuts on WGN America at 10 p.m. EST Tuesday, focuses on the family of LaFonce Latham, who runs the Wilson Funeral Home in Osceola, Arkansas, by day and wrestles under the name Big Daddy each Friday night. Grieving townspeople fill out the cast, and the bagged bodies in the embalming room are the morbid props.

“It’s not exploiting the dead,” Huffman said. “It’s a lot like paper obituaries. They want to have their loved ones’ lives’ celebrated.”

The macabre mixed up with the mayhem are not for the squeamish. Morticians massage body parts to help the spread of tinted embalming fluid — the reality part of a reality show.

“We would do nothing to make the funeral business look belittled,” Latham said in an interview this week.

For past 22 years, Latham and his family had been embalming and wrestling in relative obscurity until a television producer came to the Mississippi River town of 8,000 for a funeral. The backstory isn’t complicated: Latham had watched wrestling as a youngster and, as an adult, bought tickets for neighbourhood kids when shows came to town.

“I started out just to be a sponsor of it, and the next thing I knew I was up there in the ring,” Latham said. He has since built his own 300-seat arena for the Mid-Southern Championship Wrestling League and keeps people coming back with various story lines that end with cliff-hangers involving good and evil.

“One of the most boring matches you’ll ever watch is two good guys going after one another,” Latham said. “To be a good heel he has to be able to make the crowd not like him. You have to be ornery. A bad guy is someone who looks at a woman holding a baby and remarks at how ugly the baby is.”

A dozen years ago, Arkansas hosted TV crews filming The Simple Life, a fish-out-of-water story that had Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie milking cows and pumping gas. Reality television has boomed since then, bringing viewers dubious classics like Sex Sent Me to the ER and Duck Dynasty and giving rise to a new class of celebrities who are famous only for being famous. Somewhere, there had to be wrestling morticians. That they were in a rural Arkansas town was just a coincidence, Huffman said.

“We never tried to exploit their culture or do anything to be insensitive to it,” Huffman said. “This show could have been in Manhattan.”

Osceola Mayor Dickie Kennemore relayed word through his secretary Thursday that he didn’t want to comment about the show.

If Latham has learned a lesson, it’s that bad guys on the wrestling circuit are bad for business. His new son-in-law now works at the funeral home and changed his stage persona after some in town threatened to cancel their burial insurance.

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Worried about sharing anxiety and depression issues Dear Harlan: I have a long history of depression and anxiety issues.

I’m in a new relationship.

I’m not sure how or when to share this information.

Also, I don’t know how detailed my explanation should be. Some of the details are hard for me to deal with.

Not sharing the truth feels like a betrayal, but I’m afraid to share too much too soon.

Any advice? — Oversharer Dear Oversharer: Your depression and anxiety are just one part of you.

There is so much more to you. I know this is a big deal, but everyone has his or her uncomfortable secrets.

Your partner doesn’t need HARLAN to review your medical hisCOHEN tory.

That’s not a betrayal. It’s sharing too much information too soon.

You need to feel safe and secure before you share.

There’s nothing untruthful about waiting until you’re comfortable.

Early dating is about having experiences that are light and fun.

When you do contemplate crossing over into a more intimate relationship, think about sharing more intimate details about your life.

And expect the person you’re with to do the same.

How to share this information will become easier when you’re comfortable with the uncomfortable.

When you’re comfortable with your depression and anxiety, it doesn’t have to be this horrible burden.

It can be a story.

It goes like this: This is a part of you.

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And stop trying to get her naked online.

It’s not going to happen.

Some women aren’t into it.

There’s nothing private about online sex.

Use your imagination and respect the word “no.”

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Dear Harlan: How can you walk away from your first love when the person isn’t letting you move on?

I constantly get texts and calls.

I can’t help myself and respond. I don’t know how to move on. — Stuck Dear Stuck: You’re NOT allowing yourself to move on.

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It’s the first time you’re loved by someone who doesn’t have to love you.

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When first love ends, it’s scary. It’s hard to know if it will happen again.

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The only one keeping you from moving on is you.

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The truth is that depression and anxiety are common.

According to the ACHA-NCHA study, a third of college students have felt so depressed that it was difficult to function, and over 50 percent struggle with anxiety.

Most young people get depressed and anxious.

But few are self-aware enough to manage their feelings like you.

Dear Harlan: I’m trying to be friendly with my ex, but he’s completely terrible.

I believe in being civil, but he acts like a jerk to me all the time.

We’ve been apart for three months. Is this normal? — Irritating Ex Dear Irritating Ex: It’s normal.

He can’t stand you. Face it.

You’re awful to look at because the sight of you causes him pain.

That’s what happens when you become an ex. You turn ugly. It isn’t because you’re unattractive — it’s all part of being his ex. You lose that “happy to see you” feeling he used to get during the relationship. A lot of people can’t stand looking at their exes. Looking at them reminds people of pain, rejection and loneliness.

Most exes move on, but it can take months or years.

An ex has to find love without you.

The best way to deal with him is to avoid him.

When you see him, get away.

Don’t escalate the hate.

Upsetting you means getting a reaction, and any reaction is enough for him.

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I’ve tried to do the phone sex thing and suggested using our computer camera, but she shuts me down.

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Abused son becoming an abuser?

Dear Annie: My 16-year-old son, “Freddie,” has always kept to himself.

We see Freddie’s uncle about once a year, and I only recently discovered that this same uncle molested Freddie when the boy was seven years old. I had no clue. When Freddie was 11, I spoke with MITCHELL him about in& SUGAR appropriate touching, but he never told me about his uncle.

I’ve always been protective of Freddie and thought we were fine, until an aunt confronted Freddie, saying he had inappropriately touched my adult niece a few months ago. What do I do about this?— Mom’s Heartache Dear Mom: Sexually abused children can become sexual abusers if the original abuse was not properly dealt with. Your niece is an adult and more

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3. Consider asking whether you can get her medical supplies that insurance doesn’t cover.

We need grab bars in the bathroom, waterproof pads for her bed, a box of plastic gloves, even a pack of clean cotton washcloths and scouring powder.

4. Offer to make calls to find me a good nurse’s aide.

If you want to spend your last days at home, start adapting your place now.

Don’t be like my mother, who did nothing and then came home from the hospital suddenly debilitated.

Her children had to make all the necessary changes under time pressure and at our own expense, while listening to Mom complain that she wanted everything “back the way it was.”

Write a living will and a Do Not Resuscitate order, and keep it where others can find it.

Yes, my mother is a dear, intelligent and wise person.

But the reality of dying at home involves much hard work that is usually left to one of the children, who takes it on alone and without experience. — Exhausted in the Midwest

Dear Exhausted: You have made some very pointed suggestions that a great many people will think are too much trouble, but that only underscores how much work you do alone.

Please look into respite care for yourself through the Eldercare Locator (eldercare.gov), the National Respite Network and Resource Center (archrespite.org) and the Family Caregiver Alliance (caregiver.org).

Dear Annie: “Fuming in Washington” said her granddaughter is too busy to say thanks. It reminds me of a Calvin and Hobbes comic strip. Calvin is writing a thank-you note to Grandma for sending a box of crayons.

Hobbes comments on the quickness of the note, and Calvin replies, “Yeah, I always write her a thank-you note right away, ever since she sent me that empty box with the sarcastic note saying she was just checking to see if the postal service was still working.” —Y Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@ comcast.net, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

Sunday, Jan. 11 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Mary J. Blige, 44; Amanda Peet, 43; Jean Chretien, 81 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Today will start off a powerful imprint on you today. Declare your true on a good note. Much can be accomplished now. value and let others respond. Start that creative There is more of an opportunity to contemplate isproject, or at least discuss those plans now. sues that have been ongoing with others. You will VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You might be diswant to see the brighter side. Perhaps this means cussing someone you like today. This will not only letting go of some perspective you create some powerful changes for you have held for some time. You will personally, but also some changes be in a reflective mode and will throughout your daily life. take a serious look at your future By acknowledging those feelwithin relationships. ings, you’ll feel better. More harmony HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today is comes when you speak the truth. your birthday, this year will prove to LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You will offer you more professional opporhave some powerful thoughts about tunities. Although you might reflect family and home life after today. Someon the down side of the positive thing inside you has changed and you opportunities as you remember are looking at life with more of an emolast year’s faults, try to see only tional intensity. the positives now. Soon, everyTake those much needed rests, if thing will be in balance and workneeded. Your dream life will be very ing beautifully for you. Long range telling as well. goals are the key to success this LARISA MAIRA SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): year!

Friends will instigate a dialogue with OZOLINS ARIES (March 21-April 19): you that will prove to be just what you You will look at your long range need today. goals in a different manner today.

Huge transformations are occurring Others in your life will prove to offer within your local environment now. You some interesting insight into your could be moving, or you could be simply hearing current direction. Ask for help, if needed, but trust powerful words that will change your perspective. that you will know what to do when the time arrives.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Your conDoors will open up now! fidence is up and this should have an impact with TAURUS (April 20-May 20): A serious look at what you are sharing with others on a professional your spouse’s or your business partner’s relationand public level today. Finances can increase as ship will help you find the best route forward. Every well, as you move towards clearer intentions for relationship has its own issues, but now it is simply yourself professionally. to understand if that is compatible with your life. To CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Be open to be able to coexist will be the subject of issue today. new possibilities now. The details will sort themGEMINI (May 21-June 20): There is a serious selves out, but it’s up to you to make sure that you look at those others in your life now. Yes, they will allow them to flow. The more in line you feel that, help you figure out a proper plan to create more the more doors will open and you will start to see stability within your life. Stronger bonds can be the path just build in front of you. formed. This, of course, is not without looking deepAQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The more you ly into the issues and resolving them one by one. communicate today, the better things will get for CANCER (June 21-July 22): You might feel you within business relationships and with signifislightly limited today by family and relatives, but this cant others in your life. Yes, there will be powerful is all in good fun. You will value the time spent with emotions happening below the surface, but now them, even if it means forgoing your own wishes at details on what they are will emerge. this time. Peace can be achieved by understanding PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Others in your their personal direction and it will help you too. life, most likely friends, will offer you something toLEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You will be more inday that you should not refuse. They will open your clined to know right from wrong or perhaps to life up towards greater fulfilment of your wishes.

So, be keen to listen and gain all you can through those interactions today.

preach that vision to others. This is not to say that your words will be anything but joyful, but there is a sense that you will want to share your personal perspective with others more than not today.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The more you value the opinion of family members, the better today will go.

This is not to say you will fully agree with them, but to hear another’s point of view will get the juices moving for you. Inspirations will start to come back, once you’ve worked out the plan.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You will be feeling good today, although you will still feel slightly thwarted by not being able to do exactly what you want at the moment.

This should be fine, as you understand now that with discipline come many rewards. Soon they will appear. Keep on track.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): There is something mysterious happening within your dream life.

A sudden awareness of what you can do to increase your finances will prove to be just what you need to make those much needed steps forward.

Your confidence will build, once you get on the right track.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Today will offer you a much needed breakthrough towards understanding that your true aspirations are indeed possible. Friends will help you see this truth as you are focused on professional advancements. Make the time for friends today. It will bring you pleasure.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Today will offer you more opportunities on a professional level.

Dreams that you have had for yourself, even with romantic relationships, will succeed if you take every opportunity that is presented to you at the moment. Trust in the natural flow of life. It will work out!

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): There is a great opportunity for you to make advancements within working and significant romantic relationships today. Yes, you will have to take a serious look at your true aspirations, but you’ll soon realize that everything is within reach. Solid dreams are coming true!

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): There is a great opportunity for you to create a lasting impression on others. You will no doubt take a serious look at your public demeanour and will act out accordingly with the long range goals you have set up for yourself. Today will be excellent for work.

Larisa Maira Ozolins is an internationally syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate.

capable of protecting herself from a 16-year-old’s inappropriate touching than a child would be. But it indicates that Freddie may still need help.

Please contact RAINN (rainn.org) for information and referrals.

Dear Annie: A couple of times a week, I get a phone call from someone who knows my bedridden 92-year-old mother. They tell me what a wonderful person she is and to keep them “updated,” meaning, I suppose, to tell them when she dies. Here is what I want to say to the caller: Taking care of an elderly parent at home is exhausting and a tremendous amount of work.

The time to pitch in is now. Here is a list of things you can do: 1. If you live close by, offer to spend an afternoon with Mom or send over a meal. Mow the lawn or shovel the driveway. Offer to drive her to the hospital or to a doctor’s appointment the next time she needs to go, and then do it.

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You will strive to make relationships work. You will most likely want to surround yourself with those who you have strong connections with because you will want your emotions to be able to run free.

By the end of the day, things will be excellent. Everything will be free and relationships will excel.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today is your birthday, this year will prove to be a year when you will be interacting with new individuals. This will leave you feeling empowered. This year is really about grabbing the bull by the horns and starting your passionate journey forward. Allow aspects of yourself to drop by the wayside, if it no longer serves you.

Take the lead and exude confidence now.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): You will meet powerful individuals today who can open many doors for you on a professional level. You may meet someone who can help you adjust your sails towards improved health as well. Being of service to others can merely help you see life’s true joys!

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Early in the day, you might feel like the world is about to end. Powerful changes are in store for you and this will in turn create some tensions with others. By day’s end, you will feel in balance and fine. So what changes that energy? Simple, see life from a different viewpoint!

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Deep fears might surface today. Let them, acknowledge them, and then simply find a way for that situation to never come to fruition again.

Life throws us all curve balls; it’s time to learn how to create a spectacular save. Take all the time you need and focus on the truth.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): What you share today will be heard by others, powerfully at that. Try to be more delicate that usual.

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Above: The outside of the passion project cabin created for Cabin Pressure.

Below: installing the indoor/outdoor dining room.

Timing, for us, is everything. No matter the project, it’s a professional aspect to which we appoint critical importance.

Whether ringleading a simple living room makeover (will our preferred floor installer be available within our window of opportunity? Will our painter be free to lavish freshly plastered walls?) or spearheading a house build from the ground up, getting our ducks COLIN & in a row is parJUSTIN amount.

Take, for instance, a recent project, created as part of Cabin Pressure. The Haliburton slanty shanty upon which we were toiling might have easily collapsed had the lakeside wind picked up any further. And whilst saving it from demolition (by less sensitive developers) was indeed an honour, don’t expect a McMansion when our final visions broadcast: that’s so not our style. Think Skandi cabin in the woods with more than a touch of Mid Mod magic.

As an adjunct, we attached a stunning Discovery Dream Homes log framed extension and an adorable free standing bunkie created by Canada Builds, the same wonderful team who installed the impressive guest annex which featured on our TV show last year.

This time, however, our plans were moderated due to a tangle of bends on the approach to the cottage, sharp twists that limited the size of that which could be safely delivered.

We’ll reveal the entire bunkie soon, but for today we’re focusing on just one end of the 25-feet-by-10-feet craned in structure. Et voila — meet our ‘indoor/ outdoor’ dining room. Installed, we might add, with the weather closing in and the snow beginning to fly.

And so we reference our opening sentence as regards timing. Whilst you might think early winter an unusual period to create the room, we saw it as the perfect moment: with summer behind us — and trades easier to secure — our timetable made perfect sense.

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But hey, they fitted us — and our doors — in.

Measuring a modest nine-feet-by-10, floored with engineered Kentwood (patiently installed by the team at Carpet One) and sided, internally, with white pine, which we recoloured using stain created by boiling hemlock bark in an antique cauldron (watch the show to see our woody spell!) it’s the perfect indoor/outdoor nook.

Being that Sunspace Weather Master Plus stacking doors ‘concertina,’ they afford flexible ventilation as required. And you saw them here first — they haven’t, as yet, appeared anywhere else on TV or in print: they’re literally a brand spanking new product.

What’s more, the sliding View Flex glazing panels (with mesh bug screens to protect against etymological invasion) are infinitely adjustable up or down.

We’ve used the soft plastic ‘glass’ window system before, but it’s particularly exciting to see it installed in these unique folding doors. Available in several different colourways, we chose black to compliment the bunkie’s graphite-toned Cape Cod siding. And boy, were we happy!

Completed, our devilishly cute bunkie is a perfect compliment to the larger main cottage. We’ve named the whole compound Grey Gardens, an allusion to the notorious Hamptons mansion of Little Edie and Big Edie (Bouvier Beale), cousins of former First Lady, the late Jackie Kennedy. Oh dear: that home fell into grotesque disrepair and was overrun with raccoons and various wildlife. As indeed was our cabin, when first we found it. Mais plus ca change.

Inside, we dressed the little diner with an antique farmhouse door from Rebarn, set on trestle legs, and bentwood black chairs from Ikea. This done, we accessorized with sheepskins and faux antler wall hangings from HomeSense. Wood detailing and final styling (via bowls and such like) were rooted out in a thrift store, as was the antique brass sundial for which we paid the princely sum of $15. Were sure you get the gist: we just don’t like overspending if it can be avoided. Clever shopping and all.

Everything considered, our cute wee (semi) ‘al fresco’ eating zone was a joy to compose. And hey: the unbroken lake views make it the perfect space in which to dine and recline. The

work complete, all we can to do now is pray for warmer climes. Although, the weather as it has been, God only knows when that might be.

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The lower number on this digital probe shows internal tank temperature on an electric water heater. Steve’s tests show that overnight standby heat losses amount to 3F or 4F. skylight was fine before the roof work and the contractor won’t come back to investigate without charging me. They won’t even return my calls now.

Answer: Send me the name and phone number of your roofing contractor and I’ll give them a call. It’s amazing how responsive forgetful contractors get when a little light shines on them.

Although it doesn’t always help, I recommend a simple system of screening contractors before any work be-

gins. Just ask for half a dozen references from previous clients, then call them all and ask how things went. It’s unfortunate that steps like this need to be taken to identify the good tradespeople, but at least it works most of the time. Only hire contractors who can show you proof of insurance, too.

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Prices increased 5.5 per cent in November compared with 12 months earlier, real estate provider CoreLogic said Tuesday. That was up slightly from October’s year-over-year increase of 5.4 per cent, which was revised downward from a previously reported 6.1 per cent.

The housing market faces an affordability crunch.

Many potential buyers were sidelined by double-digit home price gains in 2013, which eclipsed average wage growth of roughly 2 per cent. That affordability gap caused sales to slide in 2014, restraining price growth in recent months.

CoreLogic projects that price growth will remain mild as the U.S. real estate market continues to recover from the lows reached after the Great Recession. Nationwide, home prices remain 12.9 per cent below their April 2006 peak.

Over the next 12 months, CoreLogic expects that home values will rise 4.6 per cent. The firm estimates that roughly half the country’s homes will match or surpass their pre-recession prices by the middle of 2015.

But “pockets of weakness” are surfacing in some parts of the country, noted Sam Khater, deputy chief economist at CoreLogic.

In three of the states with the highest annualized gains in November — Texas (8.5 per cent), Colorado (8.8 per cent) and North Dakota (7.9 per cent) — home values have “been benefiting from the energy boom,” Khater said. But as oil prices have more than halved from $107 a barrel in June, home values in these states may see downward pressure, he said.

Prices nudged up just 2.5 per cent over the past 12 months in the Washington, DC metro area. That slowed growth in surrounding states, with Maryland chalking up a nearly flat 0.1 per cent gain and Virginia prices increasingly only 1.8 per cent.

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Answer: I’m all for energy savings, The main thing to watch for is relibut the amount of energy that could ably dry conditions year-round. Does be saved by your plan would be very any water ever come in through the small. Also, switching the ceiling of your cellar space? blower off would probably If it does, then insulation of involve modifying your any kind will just turn into a heater, and that’s never a messy nightmare. If there’s good idea. any doubt about the waterI wouldn’t do it, and I do proof nature of the ceiling, lots of extreme DIY things. remove the plywood, coat Two years ago, I did a the concrete with a watertest to determine how much proofing compound, then energy my modern, tankwatch during the rainy seastyle electric water heater son to make sure everything lost over night. I attached remains bone dry. a thermocouple to the side That said, if it’s possible of the tank (the actual steel to leave the plywood on, do tank that holds the water, it. You’ll see why in a minunderneath the insulation ute.

STEVE that surrounds it), and I Some people use sheets of MAXWELL found something surpriswhite, beady expanded polying. Overnight temperature styrene foam for jobs like loses when the tank temyours, but that’s a mistake. perature started at about 140F only Air will migrate through this stuff, alamounted to a 3F or 4F of drop over lowing moisture to condense on the an eight-hour period. And this was in a cold side. Even with the more impervibasement that was fairly cool — about ous extruded polystyrene foam in your 50F. Losses would even be less if the favour, you’ll need to seal all edges to tank was in a warmer room. Losses stop air from sneaking in behind. would be greater with an older style The other thing about foam is that it tank insulated with fibreglass, but must be covered with drywall or wood my foam-insulated tank didn’t lose a to meet fire code regulations. If you’ve whole lot. managed to leave the plywood in place on the ceiling, it will provide a good place for drywall screws to grab and hold.

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Carpet charisma There are always many ways to start off the decorating process.

When it’s time to plan your seating area, whether it’s in the living room, parlour, den or great room, first thoughts are of comfortable chairs or a multi-purpose sofa. Or you may have seen a shade of paint or a wallpaper pattern that revved up your enthusiasm.

These are all good; inspiration for change can and does come from anywhere. I could decorate an entire room around a funky coffee table or DEBBIE a pair of retro TRAVIS lamps.

But another trigger struck me during a visit to a carpet gallery. It was a vast space filled exuberantly with mountains of rugs piled high, and hanging from huge dowels along the walls. I was surrounded by the most luxurious blend of rich colour palettes, a mosaic of designs and subtle textures that begged to be stroked.

So can you really decorate a room around one fine carpet?

The first step is to see what choices you have and if there is a carpet design that really excites you.

Visit a rug emporium, or go online to get the full picture. At www.imperialcarpetandhome.com, you will discover old world classics alongside stunning abstract designs. If your taste leans toward the contemporary, look at the Passion Collection with its vivid colours and patchwork of striking designs. Traditionalists will enjoy the collections made with fine hand-knotted wool from India and Pakistan in turquoise, tan and copper shades. The art lover will discover painterly scenes depicted in the Savoy Art Collection, and nature-lovers will be drawn to organic designs from branches to leaves in monochromatic shades of earth and sea.

Imperial Carpet’s owner John Kozoronis designs many of his carpets, deriving inspiration from various forms of the visual arts.

In their Dream Collection, the abstract design in the carpet shown here is made of hand-knotted bamboo silk.

The contemporary shades ranging from silver to charcoal grey are brilliantly punctuated with splashes of royal blue and vibrant orange. Rather than a repeat pattern found in more traditional carpets, the random design suits a setting furnished with modern sectionals and sofas with little detail but richly textured fabrics.

How you place furniture on and around the carpet will give you different vantage points from which to view

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The stunning shades and rich random design of this Dream carpet are derived from the abstract visual arts and created using the high sheen of bamboo silk. the design. By showing off the vibrant colours, the character of your room will take on a lively mood. Anchoring a corner table or chair over the brighter sections will allow for a quieter, more pensive atmosphere.

Decorating can be as costly or frugal as your budget allows, and for most of us it helps to keep the splurge items to a minimum. A carpet is a splurge item, so take the time to learn about how it is made, the materials used, and how it holds up to life underfoot. Then take it home and be sure that it complements your room, the lighting and your lifestyle. If you have chosen a carpet with differing pile heights, these create a texture of their own that changes with the viewing angle and light. The sheen

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ANDREW Russel Francis July 15, 1922 - Eckville, AB January 5, 2015 - Olds, AB It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Russ Andrew on Monday, January 5, 2015 at the age of 92 years.

Russ was born and raised in the Eckville area and in 1957 he moved his growing family to Olds. He was very active in his community serving on the Town of Olds council; president of the Ag Society; assisting with the 4-H Light horse club; as a past member of the B.P.O.E and the Lions Club.

Russ had a passion for finding a deal at an auction and was well known at the local sales. For nine years Russ and Betty were “Snow Birds” to Arizona where he discovered a talent for wood working and Lapidary. Russ and Betty had many wonderful trips to Alaska, Hawaii, the Maritimes, England and a few cruises. Russ was always up for a game of cards or a trip around the dance floor and could be heard whistling while doing both. Russ is survived by loving wife of sixtyfour years, Betty; his son, Eric (Susan); his daughters, Sheila (Calvin) and Rhoda (Terry); his six grandchildren; nine greatgrandchildren; sister, Ethel Osberg; and his sisters-in-law, Evie (Walter) and Helen (Cecil). He was predeceased by his parents, Frank and Clara; his sister, Bernadette; his brothers, Walter and Cecil; and his brother-in-law Laurence Osberg.

As per Russ’s wishes there will be no funeral services.

In living memory of Russel Andrew, a tree will be planted at Fish Creek Provincial Park by McINNIS & HOLLOWAY FUNERAL HOMES, AIRDRIE, 300 TOWERLANE DRIVE, AIRDRIE, AB. Telephone: 403-948-1100

JESSE, Kenneth Allen March 5, 1938 - Lethbridge, Alberta December 30, 2014 - Calgary, Alberta Kenneth Allen Jesse passed away peacefully at the age of 76, having enjoyed the gifts of life and the love of his wife and high school sweetheart Grace Florence Jesse (nee Booth). He treasured the love of his three daughters and their families: Karen and Greg Hess, Shannon, Max and Zack; Linda Jesse and Harold Visscher, Heather (Matheson) and James Bird; Paula and Greg Coxson, Benjamin. Ken often said he made two terrific decisions when he was young. One was to marry Grace and the other was to become a teacher. Ken was the son of Max and Helen Jesse. He was close to his twin brother Richard (Dick) and his wife Arlene, sons Melvin and Ken and daughter Janice.

Ken is survived by his wife Grace, his three daughters and their families, his mother Helen Jesse, his brother Dick, Melvin, Ken and Janice and Grace’s sister Leona Peter, nieces and nephews. Ken was an educator in the province of Alberta for 34 years. He was a strong supporter of public education and he felt it was a privilege to serve students, parents, teachers and trustees. During his career he served as a teacher, principal and superintendent. Ken started his teaching career in Burdett and went on to work in Calgary, Red Deer and Banff. His work was recognized locally, provincially and nationally. When Ken retired, he and Grace spent their summers in Sundre with friends and family.

Building, gardening, biking, golfing, cooking and entertaining filled many of the pleasant summer days at ‘O So Kozy’. At Ken’s request there will not be a public funeral service. A Private Celebration of Ken’s Life is arranged.

Condolences may be forwarded through www.mcinnisandholloway.com. In lieu of flowers, a memorial tribute to the Ken Jesse Education Fund may be made by contacting the University of Calgary at phone number 403-220-5854 or toll free 1-800-972-8632 or https://netcommunity.ucalgary.ca/do-donation-form-kenjesse-education-fund In living memory of Ken Jesse, a tree will be planted at Fish Creek Provincial Park by McINNIS & HOLLOWAY FUNERAL HOMES, Crowfoot, 82 CROWFOOT CIRCLE N.W, Calgary, AB. Telephone: 1-8900-661-1599.

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LANG Frank Frank Lang, longtime resident of Red Deer, Alberta, has passed away on Friday, January 2nd, 2015 at the age of 94 years. Frank was born in Scott, Saskatchewan, to John and Elizabeth Lang on September 28th, 1920.

There, the family of eight boys and two girls, farmed and enjoyed a wholesome family life. At age 21, Frank served his country for five years during the Second World War and then returned to civilian life to marry his

Bertha Cameron (Hermary) September 27, 1939 January 8, 2012

In our hearts your memory lingers.

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There is not a day dear Mother, That we do not think of you.

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with whom he enjoyed over 60 years of marriage. Frank and Angie raised their three children, did lots of camping with the grandkids, were always there for the family and enjoyed many polka festivals. Frank’s claim to fame were his woodworking projects and most family members are in possession of one of his masterpieces.

Frank is survived by his brothers; Joe, Tony (Beatrice) and Pete (Rose), and his children; Linda (Wayne), Terry (Maureen) and Allen (Wendy). He was also blessed with fifteen grandchildren, twenty-three greatgrandchildren, and five greatgreat-grandchildren. Prayer Service for Frank will be held at Eventide Funeral Chapel, 4820-45 Street, Red Deer, on Sunday, January 11th, 2015 at 7:00 p.m. A Memorial Mass and celebration of Frank’s life will take place at St. Mary’s Catholic Church, 6 McMillan Avenue, Red Deer, on Monday, January 12th, 2015 at 11:00 a.m. Memorial donations in Frank’s honour may be made directly to the Kidney Foundation of Canada, 11227 Jasper Ave., Suite 202 Edmonton, AB T5K 0L5.

Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting: www.eventidefuneralchapels.com

Arrangements entrusted to EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL 4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer.

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LEE JAMES DAVIS Feb 11, 1969 - Jan 10, 2010 ~Loved beyond words Missed beyond measure Mom and family

Card Of Thanks BETTENSON, Shirley We would like to express our sincere thanks to all those who attended Mom’s Service; to those who sent flowers, memorial donations, food and cards. We would also like to express our thanks to all the caregivers from Nannies for Grannies, D’Sant Care & Services, and the staff at Symphony Seniors Living Aspen Ridge for their wonderful care of our Mom every day. Special thanks to Reverend Jeff Rock for the lovely service and support for our family. To the U.C.W. for providing the lovely luncheon after the service.

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Associated industry experience eg. instrumentation or facilities construction experience would be an asset but is not necessarily required.

This position offers a diverse and challenging work environment with competitive pay, attractive benefits and the ability to grow within the organization. Applicants must live or be willing to relocate to within a 20 minute commute of the work place location (Stettler).

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This position is a fulltime and is a salary based position with company benefits. Duties include maintain shop & inventories, loading of trucks with fluid products and blending of KCl products in shop. This is a 24 hr rotational on call basis position when on duty. Ideal candidate will have a mechanical aptitude with a class 1 license with fluid hauling experience. Fax resume w/all tickets and current drivers abstract to: 403-346-3112 or email to: roger@fluidexperts.com

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Must have completed high school and min. 2 yrs. exper. Housekeeping req.

LOCAL SERVICE CO. Will work 44 hrs./wk, 8.8 in Red Deer REQ’S EXP. hrs./day. Starting wage of VACUUM TRUCK $10.75/hr. Room & board OPERATOR provided. email resume to Must have Class 3 licence jmrossouw@yahoo.ca w/air & all oilfield tickets.

Fax resume w/drivers FULL-TIME IN-HOME abstract to 403-886-4475 caregiver for employer ejabagat at 36 Jamieson Ave., Red Deer for four children: newborn, 20 mo. old, 3 yrs. old and 9 years old. Duties; bathe, dress, feed and meal prep. and some light housekeeping.

NOW HIRING $10.20/hour; 44 hours per wk, Well Testing Personnel benefits pkg. Compl. of high Experienced Supervisors school, and 1 to 2 yrs. exp. & Operators Call (403) 986-4154 or Must have valid applicable e-mail jabagate@yahoo.com tickets. Email: lstouffer@ testalta.com

Dental

740

BOWER DENTAL CENTRE is currently seeking a registered dental assistant who is a member of CADA. We are looking for a multi-talented person who will work chairside and reception as needed.

Please e-mail your resume to marina@bowerdental.com or drop off at BDC. P/T DENTAL Hygienist req’d in Innisfail.

Email resume to jtkdental@hotmail.com

Medical

790

F/T & P/T Pharmacist and Pharmacy Technician positions req’d.

Apply w/resume to: Highland Green Value Drug Mart, Red Deer

STREAMLINE Inspection Ltd. is looking to fill helper positions. Experience in NDT and oilfield safety tickets an asset but will train. Candidate must be willing to travel and have a valid drivers license.

Send resumes to cgraham@ streamlineinspection.com

TREELINE WELL SERVICES 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.

Please include 2 work reference names and numbers.

Please fax resume to: 403-264-6725 Or email to: tannis@treelinewell.com No phone calls please. www.treelinewell.com

Births Professionals

810

THE Central Alberta AIDS Network Society (CAANS) is looking for

1 F/T Nurse or 2 P/T Nurses For a complete job description see our website www.caans.org

Oilfield

800

SERVICE RIG Bearspaw Petroleum Ltd is seeking a FLOORHAND

A baby’s Smile can warm your heart...

Remember their special celebrations

First steps, first words, first birthday.

EVERY DOLLAR DONATED BRINGS US CLOSER TO FINDING A LOVING HOME FOR AN ANIMAL IN-NEED. PLEASE DONATE.

CELEBRATIONS everyday

www.reddeerspca.com

Happy 1st Birthday!

Gracie Love, Mom & Dad

in the Classifieds 309-3300 Email classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com

Locally based, home every night! Qualified applicants

The Central Alberta AIDS Network Society (CAANS) is looking for an

F/T Executive Assistant For a complete job description see our website www.caans.org

Restaurant/ Hotel

820

EAST 40TH PUB REQ’S P/T / F/T COOK Apply in person with resume 3811 40th Ave.

must have all necessary valid tickets for the position JJAM Management (1987) Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s being applied for.

Requires to work at these Bearspaw offers a Red Deer, AB locations: very competitive salary 5111 22 St. and benefits package 37444 HWY 2 S along with a steady 37543 HWY 2N work schedule.

700 3020 22 St. Please submit resumes: FOOD ATTENDANT Attn: Human Resources Req’d permanent shift Email: weekend day and evening payroll@bearspawpet.com both full and part time.

Fax: (403) 252-9719 or 16 Vacancies, $10.25/hr. + Mail to: Suite 5309, benefits. Start ASAP. 333-96 Ave. NE Job description Calgary, AB T3K 0S3 www.timhortons.com Education and experience You can sell your guitar for a song... not req’d. or put it in CLASSIFIEDS Apply in person or fax and we’ll sell it for you! resume to: 403-314-1303

RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, Jan. 10, 2015 D5

820

THE RUSTY PELICAN is now accepting resumes for F/T Exp’d LINE COOKS at all stations. MUST HAVE:

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

PART-TIME help for Burnt Lake Cafe in the Burnt Lake Industrial Area. Call Louise @ 403-342-6687

TAP HOUSE NORTH (formerly Sam’s Cafe) is now taking applications for Full Time/Part time COOK, Bring resume to 7101 Gaetz Ave. Red Deer between 2-4 pm.

Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY

★

Rate is $13.25 - $15./hr.

No benefits.

733644 Ab Ltd. O/A The Rusty Pelican Location of employment: 4105 2079 - 50 Ave. Red Deer, AB T4R 1Z4 email: bennett.bkkp@xplornet.com or Call 403-347-1414 or Fax to: 403-347-1161 Only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.

Trades

A Star Makes Your Ad A Winner!

CALL:

309-3300 To Place Your Ad In The Red Deer Advocate Now! Oilfield

2 yrs. min. on-the-job exp., must have completed High School be reliable, self motivated work well under limited supervision.

850

GOODMEN ROOFING LTD. Requires SLOPED ROOFERS LABOURERS & FLAT ROOFERS Valid Driver’s Licence preferred. Fax or email info@goodmenroofing.ca or (403)341-6722 NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE!

850

Trades

Trades

880

KODIAK Enterprises ACADEMIC Express Red Deer, AB. ADULT EDUCATION is currently hiring AND TRAINING JOURNEYMAN & APPRENTICE WELDERS • GED Preparation F/T year round employment • GED Preparation SHOP YARD PERSON • Women in the Trades • Women in the Trades Please call Bob Program Program 403-357-8669 or email resume to: • Math and Science for • Math and Science for bob@kodiakent.com the Trades Program the Trades Program NOW HIRING for following Positions Gov’t of Alberta Funding Gov’t of Alberta Funding Tile setters $28.25/hr may be available. may be available.

Floor Covering Installer $ 28.25 / hr 403-340-1930 403-340-1930 Full time and Permanent www.academicexpress.ca www.academicexpress.ca 40hrs/week Min 3 year experience DRYWALL HELPER REQ’D. Start your career!

Labourer $20/hr Experience an asset.

See Help Wanted 40hrs/week 403-341-7619 No experience required Classifieds...costs so little Full time and permanent Saves you so much! position Valid Driver’s Licence preferred Journeyman Heavy email resume at: cat1employment Duty Mechanic, @gmail.com Red Deer or drop off resume at Shop & Field Mechanic will SOBEYS VILLAGE Central Alberta Tile One service and maintain winch 7619 50 Ave Suite 9 trucks, generators, MALL Red Deer centrifuges and all other is now hiring: equipment.

Assistant Produce SHUNDA Desirable candidate will Manager CONSTRUCTION possess: previous produce and retail requires a * Journeyman Heavy management experience Equipment Technician Safety Coordinator required Ticket and min 5 years to implement, manage & Please forward resumes experience enhance our existing to: Frank.Bangma@ * Ability to perform CVIPs safety program. Fax sobeys.com on heavy trucks resume and references fax: (403) 347-4588 * Self motivation and ability to 403-343-1248 or apply online at: to train an apprentice email admin@shunda.ca. www.sobeyscareers.com * Excellent interpersonal skills STUCCO PLASTERERS & To apply: e-mail resume to LABOURERS. Needed hr@apexoil.ca by January Immed. Exp’d but will train. Trades 16, 2015.

Drivers License pref’d. Lots Visit our website at of work! 403-588-5306 www.apexoil.ca

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ACADEMIC Express

ACADEMIC Express

ADULT EDUCATION AND TRAINING

ADULT EDUCATION AND TRAINING

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

• • • • • • • • • •

STONE MASONS Exp. only, 403-588-5306

Truckers/ Drivers

800

Advocate Opportunities

MORRISROE AREA:

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

Red Deer Rocky Mtn. House Rimbey Caroline Castor Sylvan Lake Innisfail Stettler Ponoka Lacombe

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

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

CARRIERS REQUIRED

Gov’t of Alberta Funding may be available.

403-340-1930 www.academicexpress.ca Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much!

To deliver the

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

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

850

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

WESTPARK & WESTLAKE NORMANDEAU Nash St. & Neville Close ALSO Northey Ave.

860

KENTWOOD

Are you looking for year-round work that is not interrupted by the local economy or seasonal shut downs?

Employment Type: Full-Time Title: Senior Operator Location: Alder Flats Reports to: Plant Manager, Field Operations Start date: TBD

CENTRAL AB based trucking company requires

Growth-oriented Bellatrix Exploration Ltd. is seeking a dynamic and energetic individual to fulfill the responsibilities of Senior Operator (four required) in the Field Operations department.

Bellatrix Exploration Ltd. is publicly listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange and New York Stock Exchange - MKT. Bellatrix Exploration Ltd. offers a comprehensive, competitive total compensation package.

Primary Responsibilities: • Maintain flow rates and product specifications at optimum levels • Ensure good housekeeping practices and clean work areas are maintained • Responsible for pollution/spill monitoring and reporting • Required to train junior operators in all aspects of running the plant • Monitor the ISCADA system in off hours and direct field operators for any upsets • Responsible for writing detailed work requisitions and review/correct any by his subordinates • In charge of ensuring all lubrication systems are maintained and correct lubricants are used • Thorough knowledge of the shutdown keys and ESD levels of the plant • Conduct area inspections and document in log book • Maintain and clean any plant equipment to a high standard • Be a liaison between all contractors and Bellatrix personnel • Responsible for off shift maintenance supervision and assistance • Conduct plant site specific orientations on an as-needed basis • Keep all safety tickets and certifications current and up-to-date • Supervise removing and isolating hazardous energy for maintenance of the plant • Plan and supervise any turn-around work necessary • Required to assist in writing site specific operating procedures and start-up procedures Qualifications: • Requires a Fourth Class Engineering Certificate and be working on achieving a Third Class Certificate • Minimum 10 years experience in related industry • Strong knowledge of DCS, PLC and HMI systems • Excellent written and oral communication skills To apply: Please send a cover letter, and resumé to careers@bellatrixexp.com Subject: Senior Operator All applications will be treated with the highest level of discretion.

Please apply to the position in the manner as described above.

Resumés that are faxed or dropped off will not be considered.

Owner Operators & Contract Drivers in AB. Home the odd night.

Weekends off. Late model tractor pref. 403-586-4558 Central Alberta’s Largest Car Lot in Classifieds CLASS 3 DRIVERS w/airbrake endorsement needed immed. for waste & recycling automated & roll off trucks. Email resume with a min. of 2 references to: canpak@xplornet.ca F/T Permanent Truck Driver Required for Rocky Fast Express (1790810 AB Ltd.) in Red Deer, AB Straight truck: 4600kg+w/2 axles and van Need class 5 DL + 2 yrs exp. $25 per hr/ with OPEN availability Duties: pick up/deliver freight, pre-trip truck inspection, communication with customers. Physically demanding position. Time management skills required. Apply at: 8004 Edgar Industrial Green, Red Deer, T4P3S2 Call: 403.845.2230 Fax: 587.997.7719 F/T TRUCK drivers req’d.

Minimum Class 5 with air and clean abstract. Exp. preferred. In person to Key Towing 4083-78 St. Cres.

Red Deer.

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Bellatrix Exploration Ltd. thanks all candidates for their interest.

Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE.

Trades

850

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1699960AbLtd is looking for 2 F/T permanent shift supervisors for days, evenings, wknds. 120 - 47 Clearview Market Red Deer, AB. must have exc. customer service, cash handling, and supervisory related. wage $13.75 w/at least 1 year exp. email: restuarantbusiness@ hotmail.ca

850

BECOME A CANYON

CHAMPION

MUSTANG ACRES TRAILER PARK

LICENSED HEAVY DUTY MECHANICS AND APPRENTICES

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

• Planned preventive maintenance on fleet equipment • Major repairs and overhaul of on-highway vehicles • CVIP inspection and repairs as per government programs.

ADULT Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the

As an integral part of our TEAM, you will receive top rate wages and benefits and be a part of our Quality-Share bonus program.

Paid tuition for apprentices and an annual tool allowance for journeymen and apprentices.

Submit your résumé to:

Hi-Way 9 Express Ltd. 4120 78 Street Crescent Red Deer, AB T4P 3E3 Fax: (403) 823-4285 email: employment@hi-way9.com

CARRIERS NEEDED 3 days per week, no weekends ROUTES IN:

ANDERS AREA Ahlstrom Close Andrew Close Asstlee / Ansett Cres.

Allsop Ave. / Allsop Cres.

Anderson Close Anquetel Close

KENTWOOD & PINES

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

NORMANDEAU Nash St. & Neville Close ALSO Northey Ave. KENTWOOD Kirsch Close, Kemp Ave. & Kee Close

Expected duties are:

FOR FLYERS, FRIDAY FORWARD & EXPRESS

Monday through Saturday.

Delivery to be done before 6:30 am.

Reliable vehicle needed.

WESTPARK & WESTLAKE

Now hiring for a FT and PT Mobile Driver.

•Patrol, report, observe and monitor various Red Deer sites •Provide administrative support for the site supervisor •Provide field operation support for the Red Deer area •Training and monitoring after hours employees •Other duties as assigned •Candidates must be able to work night shifts between the hours of 21:00 until 9:00 •Must possess a valid driver’s license with a clean drivers abstract Must have a valid security guard license or must be willing to obtain one Interested candidates are requested to submit resume and cover by email or fax to: calgaryinfo@concordsecurity.com #1635 - 1632 14th Ave NW Calgary, Alberta T2N 1M7 ph. 403-252-8005 fax 403-252-8086 www.concordsecurity.com

RED DEER ADVOCATE

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

880

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START YOUR CAREER WITH US

Kirsch Close, Kemp Ave. & Kee Close

501719A10

820

Restaurant/ Hotel

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

501801A9

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.

BOWER AREA Bell St. INGLEWOOD AREA Iverson Close Isbister Close

CANYON IS HIRING IN 2015

MORRISROE AREA

Class 1 Driver / Operators

McKenzie St. / Marion Cres.

f Coiled Tubing — Experienced Operators & Supervisors f Frac — Pump Operators, Bulk Transportation Drivers f Cement & Acid - Pump Operators f Heavy Equipment Technician, Field - 2 positions

SUNNYBROOK AREA Scott St. / Somerset Close LANCASTER AREA Lampard Cres Lancaster Drive Long Close Lord Close Landry Bend / Landry Close Ladwig Close

Why Canyon? f Scheduled days off f Premium compensation package f RRSP matching program

f Flexible Medical/Dental Plans f Paid technical and leadership training f Career advancement opportunities

Our preferred method of application is online at the website listed below. We thank all applicants; however only those selected for an initial interview will be contacted—a current driver’s abstract will be required.

VANIER AREA Vickers Close Victor Close Viscount Drive

*Inquire about the guaranteed bonus when applying to see if your position qualifies—applies to most field positions with the exception of 22/13 rotational positions

How to apply: online: canyontech.ca/careers 1-855-406-1414

501718A10

Contact us:

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

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

ADULT Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the

RED DEER ADVOCATE Monday through Saturday.

Delivery to be done before 6:30 am.

Reliable vehicle needed.

DOWNTOWN AREA $638./mo PARKVALE AREA $586./mo.

DEERPARK AREA Dixon Cres, Donnelly Cres, Duston St. area $482.00/mo.

Deschner Close, Dubois Cres., Doherty Close, Duston St. and area. $327.00/mo.

Dempsey St., Dodge Ave, Donlevy Ave area $327.00/mo.

Dowler St., Daniel Cres. Dawe Cl., Dunham Close and area $412.00/mo.

For More information, please call Jamie 403-314-4306

D6 RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, Jan. 10, 2015 D6 RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, Jan. 10, 2015

880

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 Looking for a place to live?

Take a tour through the CLASSIFIEDS

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

Employment Training

900

SAFETY

AFFORDABLE

TRAINING CENTRE OILFIELD TICKETS

Industries #1 Choice!

“Low Cost” Quality Training

403.341.4544

24 Hours Toll Free 1.888.533.4544

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

1660

Firewood

Homestead Firewood

278950A5

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Household Furnishings

1720

WANTED

Plant Laborer

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, exible, safety conscious people with equipment experience, some basic mechanical abilities, driver’s license, and own transportation. We offer an excellent benets 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 Celebrate your life with a Classified ANNOUNCEMENT

Buy & Sell #1500 - #1990

Antiques & Art

1520

SEIBEL PROPERTY

Misc. for Sale

1760

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

Manufactured Homes

3040

EquipmentHeavy

1630

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

1660

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

Sporting Goods

1860

LARGE, 1 & 2 BDRM. SUITES. 25+, adults only n/s, no pets 403-346-7111

ALL wood children’s pull sled, round back, exc. cond, $30. 403-346-5423 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 Packages

1900

CARRIERS REQUIRED

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, inoor heating, a/c., car plug ins & balconies.

Call 403-343-7955

THE NORDIC

1 bdrm. adult building, N/S. No pets.

403-596-2444

Roommates Wanted

To deliver the CENTRAL AB LIFE 1 day a week in:

For Rent #3000 - #3200

Please call Debbie for details 403-314-4307

Houses/ Duplexes

3020

MOUNTVIEW

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Friday Forward ONLY 2 DAYS A WEEK in CLEARVIEW RIDGE AREA CROSSLEY ST. COOPER CL, CARTER CL, CONNAUGHT CRES, CHURCHHILL CL. AREA

$261.00/MO.

3 bdrm. house, main oor, 5 appls., fenced yard, large deck, rent $1550 incl. all utils. $900 s.d. Avail.

Feb 1. 403-304-5337

WEST PARK

3 bdrm., 2 bath, 4 appls., large fenced yard, $1600./mo. $1000. d.d.

Newly reno’d Avail Feb . 1.

403-304-5337

Condos/ Townhouses

DOWNTOWN AREA South East Downtown and Parkvale area $289.00 mo.

DEER PARK AREA Dixon Cres. $72./mo.

Dunlop St., Dixon Ave. & Close $35./mo Dunning Cres. Cl., and Depalme St. GRANDVIEW AREA 3900 & 4200 Blocks of 43 Ave. area and 4000 & 4200 Blocks of 41 and 42 Ave. $66./mo TIMBERSTONE AREA Trimble Cl. Traptow Cl. Tallman Cl. Teasdale Dr. Truant Cres. & area $224.00/mo.

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

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ALIX, 2 bdrm. 1 bath condo, 1210 sq. feet with balcony & 2 parking. Avail, immed. 403-341-9974

Rooms For Rent

3090

1 BDRM, bsmt. suite. $575/mo. 403-343-0974 AVAIL. immed., lrg. fully furn. bdrm. c/w working gas frpl. $300 dd, $600/mo Working or student M. only. 403-396-2468 CELEBRATIONS HAPPEN EVERY DAY IN CLASSIFIEDS

Mobile Lot

3190

PADS $450/mo.

Brand new park in Lacombe.

Spec Mobiles. 3 Bdrm., 2 bath. As Low as $75,000.

Down payment $4000. Call at anytime. 403-588-8820

Open House

BRIDGER CONST. LTD. We do it all! 403-302-8550 DALE’S Home Reno’s Free estimates for all your reno needs. 403-506-4301

Escorts

1165

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

ATT’N: Are you looking for help on small jobs around the house or renovate your bathroom, painting or ooring, roof snow removal?

Call James 403-341-0617

Massage Therapy

DOUBLE WIDE MOBILE HOME 6307 69 Street $85,000 1248 sq ft 3 Bedrooms 2 Baths, Full Fenced & landscaped Pets allowed w/restrictions. Private lot on side street of Mustang Acres Galley kitchen w/upgrades. Numerous upgrades to exterior Huge covered deck. MLS CA0050115 Margaret Comeau at (403) 391-3399 (cell) RE/MAX †real estate central alberta

HERE TO HELP & HERE TO SERVE

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

Houses For Sale

4020

Cottages/Resort Property

4130

22 PARKLAND BEACH at GULL LAKE $389,000 A 4 season cottage with shop. Located close to lake on a wooded lot 2 driveways, galley kitchen, wood burning replace 3 pc bath w/claw tub.

Multiple decks, hot tub Heated shop w/living quarters, laundry & 3 pc bath MLS CA0048302 Margaret Comeau at (403) 391-3399 (cell) RE/MAX †real estate central alberta

A lifestyle you have more than earned Stunning new Laebon home in the Timbers-Red Deer 1426 sq.ft. 3 bdrms/2baths, large private master suite $499,900 Call Samantha 403.392.6261

Transportation #5000-5300

Directory

2001 Chev Malibu, 4 dr.

134,000 kms. 403-352-6995 1999 BUICK Regal, loaded 154,000 km.403-352-6995

Auto Wreckers Amazing new Laebon Home 1452 sq.ft. modied bi-level with large private master suite 3 bdrms/2baths $394,599 Call Jocelyn 403.302.9612

DO YOU WANT YOUR AD TO BE READ BY

1280

FANTASY SPA International Ladies

4280

OPEN HOUSE, Horizon Village, 55+, #58 Botterill Cr., Sat. 1 - 4 p.m.

Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds

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1290

5* JUNK REMOVAL

Property clean up 340-8666 SNOW blowing, junk/metal p/u, odd jobs 403-885-5333

Moving & Storage

1300

MOVING? Boxes? Appls. removal. 403-986-1315

Painters/ Decorators

1310

Elite Retreat, Finest JG PAINTING, 25 yrs. exp. in VIP Treatment.

10 - 2am Private back entry Free Est. 403-872-8888

403-341-4445

MASSAGE ABOVE ALL WALK-INS WELCOME 4709 Gaetz Ave. 346-1161

Drive a little save a lot Brand new 2135 sq.ft.

Laebon home 3 bdrms/2.5 baths $431,599 Call Jocelyn 403.302.9612 FREE….List of homes for sale with owners. Prices and owners phone numbers included. Call Help-U-Sell of Red Deer at 403-342-7355.

LAUREL TRUDGEON Residential Painting and Colour Consultations.

403-342-7801.

5190

RED’S AUTO. Free Scrap Vehicle & Metal Removal.

AMVIC APPROVED. We travel. May pay cash for vehicle. 403-396-7519

100,000 Potential Buyers???

TRY

Central Alberta LIFE SERVING CENTRAL ALBERTA RURAL REGION

Huge pie shaped lot in Red Deer New 2bdrm/2bath Laebon home in Timberstone $347,900 call Aaron 403.396.4016

Public Notices

CALL 309-3300

DEADLINE THURS. 5 P.M.

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Cars

NOTICE

Looking for a new pet?

Check out Classifieds to find the purrfect pet.

EASY!

The easy way to find a buyer for items you want to sell is with a Red Deer Advocate want ad. Phone 309-3300.

Seniors’ Services

Classified. It’s the easy-to-access, information-packed marketplace visited regularly — by all kinds of consumers.

Classified. It’s the resource you can count on to sell a myriad of merchandise items because our columns compel qualified buyers to call.

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HELPING HANDS

Home Supports for Seniors.

Cooking, cleaning, companionship. At home or facility. 403-346-7777 Looking for a place to live?

Take a tour through the CLASSIFIEDS

Snow Removal

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Sell it.

403-309-3300

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Any persons who witnessed an accident on September 15, 2014 at 7pm, at the intersection of 45 Street and 54 Ave (near Webber Physio) please call (403) 341-6164 or (403) 396-3138 for statement only. No court appearance required.

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Contractors

Manufactured Homes

BDRM. for rent in Vanier Woods,. $600 + dd, 403-588-6268 after 6 pm.

TO ADVERTISE YOUR BUSINESS OR SERVICE HERE CALL CLASSIFIEDS

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

3080

Business and Services Directory Handyman Services

Condos/ Townhouses

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

INNISFAIL Penhold Olds Sylvan Lake

INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp. with oileld service companies, other small businesses and individuals RW Smith, 346-9351

4010

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

1810

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Al-Qaida in Yemen, suspected of ties to Paris gunmen Has long urged strikes in the West

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CAIRO — The al-Qaida offshoot that masterminded the bloody rampage in France has been the most active of the terror network’s branches in trying to strike in the West.

Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula said Friday it directed the attack against the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris “as revenge for the honour” of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad.

The strike would be the Yemenbased branch’s first successful strike outside its home territory — and a triumph for its trademark double-strategy of waging jihad in Yemen to build its strength to strike abroad.

At least one of the two brothers involved in the attack on the weekly travelled to Yemen in 2011 and either received training from or fought alongside the group, authorities say. A U.S. intelligence assessment described to the Associated Press shows that 34-yearold Said Kouachi was trained in preparation to return home and carry out an attack.

Formed in 2009 as a merger between the terror group’s Yemeni and Saudi branches, AQAP has been blamed for a string of unsuccessful bomb plots against American targets.

These include a foiled plan to down a Detroit-bound airliner in 2009 using a new type of explosive hidden in the bomber’s underwear, and another attempt a year later to send mail bombs hidden in toner cartridges on planes bound to the U.S. from the Gulf.

The group’s lead bomb maker, Ibrahim al-Asiri, is believed to have created the explosives used in both foiled plots.

Bill Roggio, editor of the Long War Journal, which chronicles militant activities, said Yemen’s branch of al-Qaida has managed to seize territory inside Yemen, provide training and support for extremist groups operating in Syria, Iraq and other regions, and promote “lone wolf” attacks in the West.

“They are active in the heart of the Middle East. They threaten the Yemeni government and they are directing their activities externally as well,” he said. “And they are serving to train and support in other theatres.”

The group’s leader, Nasser alWahishi, spent years as Osama bin Laden’s personal assistant before returning to his native Yemen.

His close ties to bin Laden gave him influence within the group’s various branches and led to him assuming leadership of the core group after the al-Qaida leader’s death.

His focus on networking with other militant groups in Africa, Iraq and Syria gave the Yemen branch particular prominence in the network. The group was the first to use English publications to reach out to supporters in the West, with the launch in 2010 of its English-language magazine, Inspire. It featured commentary by a radical U.S.-born cleric, Anwar al-Awlaki, who was killed in a U.S. drone strike in Yemen in 2011, but whose words are still influential in cyberspace.

The group has repeatedly threatened Charlie Hebdo and other cartoonists who have satirized the Prophet Muhammad.

Charlie Hebdo editor Stephane Charbonnier, one of the 12 people slain in Wednesday’s attack on the magazine, was on a hit list published in a 2013 edition of Inspire.

In claiming responsibility for directing the operation, a member of the al-Qaida affiliate said its leadership “chose their target carefully as revenge for the honour of the prophet.”

He said France was targeted “because of its obvious role in the war on Islam and oppressed nations.”

“The crimes of the Western countries, above them America, Britain and France will backfire deep in their home,” he warned, adding that the group will continue al-Qaida chief Ayman al-Zawahri’s policy of “hitting the snake’s head ... until the West retreats.”

He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized by the group to give his name. His comments in Arabic were later posted on Twitter by users known to be supporters of AQAP. In the latest edition of Inspire, the group stressed its commitment to supporting lone wolf militants and small groups in attacks targeting their home countries.

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French security forces kill gunmen to end terror rampage Witnesses say Saudi blogger 20 DEAD IN THREE DAYS OF VIOLENCE flogged 50 times for We are a free people who cave to no pressure. insulting — Francois Hollande French president Islam SAUDI ARABIA

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PARIS — With explosions and gunfire, security forces Friday ended three days of terror around Paris, killing the two al-Qaida-linked brothers who staged a murderous rampage at a satirical newspaper and an accomplice who seized hostages at a kosher supermarket to try to help the brothers escape.

The worst terrorist violence France has seen in decades killed at least 20 people, including the three gunmen. A fourth suspect — the common law wife of the market attacker — was still at large and believed to be armed.

Al-Qaida’s branch in Yemen said it directed the attack against the publication Charlie Hebdo to avenge the honour of the Prophet Muhammad, a frequent target of the weekly’s satire.

The brothers were not unknown to authorities: One had a terrorism-related conviction for ties to a network sending fighters to battle American forces in Iraq, and both were on the U.S. no-fly list, according to a U.S. official.

President Francois Hollande urged his nation to remain united and vigilant, and the city shut down a famed Jewish neighbourhood amid fears of more violence.

“The threats facing France are not finished,” Hollande said. “We are a free people who cave to no pressure.”

The drama, which played out on live TV and social media, began with the brothers Said and Cherif Kouachi methodically massacring 12 people Wednesday at the Charlie Hebdo offices, stopping to shoot a wounded police officer in the head before escaping by car.

On Thursday, a gunman police identified as Amedy Coulibaly shot a policewoman to death south of Paris, although authorities were not sure at first if it was related to the Charlie Hebdo shootings.

It all ended at dusk Friday with near-simultaneous raids in two locations: a printing plant in the town of Dammartin-en-Goele, northeast of Paris, where the Kouachis were holed up, and the Paris supermarket where Coulibaly killed four hostages and threatened more violence unless the police let the Kouachis go.

As scores of black-clad security forces surrounded both sites, booming explosions, heavy gunfire and dense smoke heralded the news that the twin sieges finally had ended.

The three gunmen were dead — but the authorities also discovered four dead hostages at the market. Sixteen hostages were freed, one from the printing plant and 15 others from the store.

The attackers had ties both to each other and to terrorist activities that reached back years and extended from Paris to al-Qaida in Yemen. They epitomized Western authorities’ greatest fear: Islamic radicals who trained abroad and came home to stage attacks.

After the killings at the Charlie Hebdo offices, Cherif Kouachi, 32, and his 34-year-old brother Said led police on a chase around northeastern France, robbing a gas station and stealing a car before ending up at the printing plant in Dammartin-en-Goele, near Charles de Gaulle airport. One of the brothers was wounded in the neck at one point during a shootout with police after he commandeered a car, Paris Prosecutor Francois Molins said.

Authorities said the brothers temporarily took a man hostage at the plant but let him go, and a second man was later discovered to have been hiding inside the building.

A member of the al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula gave a statement in English to The Associated Press saying the group’s leadership “directed the operations and they have chosen their target carefully.”

The attack was in line with warnings from the late al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden to the West about “the consequences of the persistence in the blasphemy against Muslim sanctities,” the member said, speaking on condition of anonymity because the group’s regulations do not permit him to give his name.

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He said the group has delayed its declaration of responsibility for “security reasons.”

The brothers were cornered there for much of the day before the explosions and gunfire rang out in the twilight and a police SWAT team clambered onto the roof.

“They said they want to die as martyrs,” Yves Albarello, a local lawmaker inside the command post, told French television station i-Tele.

At the kosher grocery near the Porte de Vincennes neighbourhood in Paris, the gunman burst in shooting just a few hours before the Jewish Sabbath began, declaring “You know who I am,” the official recounted. The attack came before sundown when the store would have been crowded with shoppers.

Coulibaly killed the four people in the market shortly after entering, Molins said.

Several people wounded when Coulibaly opened fire in the grocery store were able to flee and get medical care, the official said.

About 100 students were locked down in nearby schools and the highway ringing Paris was closed.

The mayor’s office also shut down all shops along Rosiers Street in the city’s famed Marais neighbourhood in the heart of the tourist district. Hours before the Jewish Sabbath, the street is usually crowded with shoppers. The street is also only a kilometre (half-mile) from Charlie Hebdo’s offices.

Charles de Gaulle airport, not far from the standoff in Dammartin-en-Goele, briefly closed two runways to arrivals, and Hollande held a series of crisis meetings with his security team throughout the day.

Police released a photo of Coulibaly and his wife, Hayat Boumeddiene, described as an accomplice.

Authorities increasingly grew to see links between the attackers after they discovered that Boumeddiene and the companion of one of the Kouachi brothers had exchanged about 500 phone calls, Molins said.

He added that several people have been given preliminary charges in the investigation. They include relatives of the three gunmen.

Several people who were wounded when the gunman opened fire in the grocery store fled and got medical care, the official said.

Minutes before police stormed both sites, Coulibaly had threatened more violence if authorities launched an assault on the two brothers, a police official said. A group of people holed up in the supermarket’s freezer — apparently unbeknownst to the gunman.

BFM also said it spoke with Coulibaly, who said he and the Kouachis were co-ordinating their actions, and that he was with the militant Islamic State group. The organizations are normally rivals.

The TV station said Coulibaly didn’t hang up properly after the phone call and that this allowed police to hear him saying a final prayer before his death, perhaps suggesting that this prompted the police raid.

In the final assault, phalanxes of security forces converged on the store entrance behind a flash from a stun grenade — and fired inside. Frenzied civilians — one of them carrying a toddler — scurried out under escort by helmeted police in body armour.

Police said Coulibaly had been a co-suspect with Cherif Kouachi in a court case involving terrorism that never made it to trial.

Cherif Kouachi was convicted of terrorism charges in 2008 for ties to a network sending jihadis to fight U.S. forces in Iraq.

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A Saudi blogger convicted of insulting Islam was brought after Friday prayers to a public square in the port city of Jiddah and flogged 50 times before hundreds of spectators, a witness to the lashing said.

The witness said Raif Badawi’s feet and hands were shackled during the flogging but his face was visible. He remained silent and did not cry out, said the witness, who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity fearing government reprisal.

Badawi was sentenced last May to 10 years in prison and 1,000 lashes. He had criticized Saudi Arabia’s powerful clerics on a liberal blog he founded. The blog has since been shut down. He was also ordered to pay a fine of 1 million riyals or about $266,600.

Rights activists say Saudi authorities are using Badawi’s case as a warning to others who think to criticize the kingdom’s powerful religious establishment from which the ruling family partly derives its authority. London-based Amnesty International said he would receive 50 lashes once a week for 20 weeks.

Saudi Arabia’s close ally, the United States, had called on authorities to cancel the punishment.

Despite international pleas for his release, Badawi, a father of three, was brought from prison by bus to the public square on Friday and flogged on the back in front of a crowd that had just finished midday prayers at a nearby mosque. His face was visible and, throughout the flogging, he clenched his eyes and remained silent, said the witness.

The witness, who also has close knowledge of the case, said the lashing lasted about 15 minutes.

Badawi has been held since mid-2012 after he founded the Free Saudi Liberals blog. He used the blog to criticize the kingdom’s influential clerics who follow a strict and ultraconservative interpretation of Islam known as Wahhabism, which originated in Saudi Arabia. He was originally sentenced in 2013 to seven years in prison and 600 lashes in relation to the charges, but after an appeal, the judge stiffened the punishment. Following his arrest, his wife and children left the kingdom for Canada.

Ensaf Haidar, Badawi’s spouse, was devastated after learning the flogging had gone ahead, a person close to the family told The Canadian Press.

Haidar was so distraught she couldn’t send her kids to school in Quebec, where she is currently living with them, the person said in an email exchange.

She fled to Egypt in April 2012 with their two daughters, Najwa and Miryam, and son, Tirad, according to Amnesty International Canada spokeswoman Anne Sainte-Marie.

The family moved to Quebec in November 2013.

Rights groups argue that the case against Badawi is part of a wider crackdown on freedom of speech and dissent in Saudi Arabia since the 2011 Arab Spring uprisings. Criticism of clerics is seen as a red line because of their prestige in the kingdom, as well as their influential role in supporting government policies. According to Amnesty, the charges against Badawi mention his failure to remove articles by other people on his website. He was also accused in court of ridiculing Saudi Arabia’s morality police.

In a statement after the flogging, Amnesty called the flogging a “vicious act of cruelty” and said Badawi’s “only ’crime’ was to exercise his right to freedom of expression by setting up a website for public discussion.”

NYPD commissioner: officers slowed arrests after two killed New York police officers have been purposefully not writing tickets or making some low-level arrests in the nearly three weeks since two officers were fatally shot by a man vowing retaliation for police killings of unarmed black men, the city’s police commissioner said Friday.

But William Bratton said the problem at the nation’s police largest department is on the mend and the numbers are already going back up.

“I would describe it as a slowdown,” Bratton said.

Numbers for low-level arrests like fare beating in the subway and public drunkenness were down by half and summonses for criminal activity were down more than 90 per cent after the Dec. 20 shooting deaths of Officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu in their patrol car.

The officers were targeted by a mentally unstable man who vowed online to kill two “pigs” in retaliation for the deaths of black men and boys at the hands of police around the country. The shootings caused a growing rancour between the rank and file and Mayor Bill de Blasio to boil over, as dozens of officers turned their backs on him at the hospital, and then thousands did at the funerals for the officers. Police unions said de Blasio contributed to anti-police sentiment by supporting protests over the police killings.

There had been chatter of a deliberate slowdown because of the startling change in police statistics but Bratton did not confirm it until Friday, after he had taken a comprehensive look.

He said he didn’t know the cause of the slowdown, but he has said he realizes morale among some officers is low.

Bratton said he doesn’t believe the slowdown affected safety and noted crime remains at historic lows. No officers were facing discipline.

“I don’t think it’s warranted,” he said. “I’m very mindful of the extraordinarily stressful situations that the officers in the city found themselves in last month. And so we’ll work to bring things back to normal.”

One officer was suspended for insubordination during the period but it wasn’t directly related to the slowdown.

Bratton said no police union gave any official instruction to slow police action. He met this week with the union leaders, and with borough chiefs to discuss the issue.

The low enforcement activity prompted some to question Bratton’s signature crime-fighting tool known as “broken windows,” where low-level offences were targeted to prevent more serious crime. But

Bratton said Friday it had no major impact.

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French PM acknowledges ‘failings’ BETTER INTELLIGENCE COULD GO A LONG WAY TO PREVENTING THREE-DAY SPREE OF HORROR

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PARIS — France’s prime minister on Friday acknowledged “failings” in intelligence that led to a three-day spree of horror and at least 20 people dead, as criticism mounted that the attacks might have been avoided if officials had been more alert to the deadly peril posed by suspects already on their radar.

Even as authorities were still investigating the events during three days of violence, a debate brewed over who should be held accountable in the apparent lapses by law enforcement and national security officials.

Some security experts, however, noted the huge difficulties faced by authorities in preventing attacks when potential terrorists and their sympathizers number in the thousands on official watch lists.

The experts note other factors at play: Security services are drowning in data, overwhelmed by the quantity of people and emails they are expected to track, and hampered by the inability to make pre-emptive arrests in democratic countries.

The French government appeared to be steeling itself for recriminations. “There was a failing, of course,” French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said on BFM television. “That’s why we have to analyze what happened.”

Criticism has focused on the failure to more closely follow the two brothers who carried out Wednesday’s attack on the Charlie Hebdo newspaper.

One had been convicted on terrorism charges and the other was believed to have linked up with al-Qaida forces while in Yemen. Both were on the U.S. no-fly list, according to a senior U.S. official, because of their links to terrorist movements.

Michel Thooris, secretary-general of the France Police labour union, called the French attack a “breakdown” in security. Somewhere along the line the suspects fell through the cracks, he said: either the judicial system not sentencing them strongly enough, or a failure in police surveillance. “This was a military strike against civilians by individuals at war, in a country at peace,” he said.

Thooris also criticized authorities for not doing more to warn the public to stay away from sensitive sites after the suspects went on the run, and said “lax” French regulations allowed for terrorism to be imported from war zones abroad.

“The current policy of blocking French citizens from travelling abroad to wage jihad by letting them run free is absurd,” he said. “If they can’t go fight in Syria or Iraq, they’ll fight here in France.”

Many observers tend to blame poor police work in these types of attacks.

They note that the French suspects were on police radar, as were two radical Islamists who killed British soldier Lee Rigby in London in 2013.

And just because someone is on a watch list does not mean they will be followed all the time.

Intelligence officials decline to reveal specifics about their country’s lists, but it is believed they include thousands of people around the continent. Lists typically include not only returning jihadis, but people suspected of financial crimes, sex crimes and other serious offences.

“Those watch lists are quite long, especially since 9-11, which means the police don’t have the resources to follow everyone,” said Benoit Gomis, a Frenchman who is a counter-terrorism expert with the Chatham House research group in the U.K. “It difficult to track the right people. We have so much noise, so much data, but we can’t necessarily find the right information and act on it when it’s needed.”

In the case of Cherif and Said Kouachi, the chief suspects in the slaughter of 12 people at the satirical newspaper in Paris, efforts to track the brothers were weakened by legal considerations. Said had no criminal record, and the latest legal case against Cherif had ultimately been thrown out.

“You can only do so much within the rule of law,” Gomis said. “You can’t arrest them for extreme views. Lots of people will say we should have arrested them, or put them in jail, but we need to respect the rule of law.”

British security officials say acts of terror are more likely to be committed by people police are already aware of. But in practical terms, they say, the number of people requiring surveillance has jumped substantially in western Europe as an increasing number of mostly young Muslims have travelled to Syria to join forces with the Islamic State group and other militant organizations fighting the regime there.

Spanish officials say roughly 3,000 Europeans have left to join jihadi movements, and many have returned home after getting extensive training in weapon use plus ideological indoctrination as potential terrorists.

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Armed security forces fly overhead in a military helicopter in Dammartin-enGoele, northeast of Paris, Friday Jan. 9, 2015. French security forces swarmed this small industrial town northeast of Paris, Friday in an operation to capture a pair of heavily armed suspects in the deadly storming of a satirical newspaper.

These returnees form the core risk group, and predicting which ones will launch attacks is proving extremely difficult, Spanish Interior Minister Jorge Fernandez Diaz said Friday in an interview on Spain’s Telecinco television network.

“There are hundreds of them in Europe and they could activate themselves at any time as solitary actors, integrated in cells or in loosely structured groups and could produce very tragic events like we have seen in Paris,” he said.

Top Italian anti-terrorist prosecutor Armando Spataro said that rogue terrorists are one of the new threats.

“It is clear that when confronted with a situation like these isolated episodes, even the best and the most prepared police in the world cannot prevent them,” Spataro said, adding that he did not agree with criticism that the French police had dropped the ball.

Spataro was skeptical that watch lists were helpful in the fight against terrorism - citing the 2009 case of a Nigerian who had been reported by his father as intending to mount a terrorist attack but who managed nonetheless to get on a Delta flight from Amster-

dam to Detroit. And he was critical of the Italian interior minister’s announcement that there were 53 Jihadists under surveillance in Italy.

“If that is true, maybe better not to say anything and investigate them instead,” Spataro said. “Maybe now they will flee.”

In Austria, Interior Minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner said agencies “have their eyes” on 60 jihadis who have returned from conflict zones. She said all of them face criminal charges for suspicion of supporting a terrorist organization.

In the Czech Republic, the counterintelligence service known as BIS is seeking increased powers to monitor financial transactions and communications. Draft legislation says the agency seeks information “about individuals who are known to be supporters and promoters of a radical version of Islam.”

Each country uses a different system to keep track of suspected extremists. Germany does not keep a centralized watch list at the federal level, but the security service of each state maintains lists of people considered dangerous.

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