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Budget approved BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Red Deer city council approved a $330.6 million operating budget that calls for a 3.77 per cent tax rate increase following seven days of number crunching and debate on Wednesday. The increase means the average $325,000 homeowner will pay $1,930.29, up $70.13 from 2014, on the municipal portion of the annual property bill. The actual tax rate will be set later this spring after it is combined with the provincial education tax rate. Mayor Tara Veer called this year’s spending plan “highly responsive to public feedback and priorities

‘WE ARE PLANNING FOR A FUTURE IN A WAY THAT IS MEASURED AND THAT CAN ALWAYS BE REVISITED WHEN IT IS NECESSARY . . .’ — MAYOR TARA VEER

around core service.” She said the budget has the most cost savings and efficiencies in the base budget in her 11 years on council. Corporate Services director Paul Goranson gave a broad overview of the cost savings and efficiencies happening across the city early in the budget talks

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for the first time. “We often hear from the public keep the operational increases in line with the cost of living,” said Veer. “I can genuinely say our administration has endeavored to do that.” Included in this year’s budget is the introduction of a new capital savings investment plan. Council voted to put aside one per cent of the tax revenue base every year with opportunities to review it for the next three years. “We are planning for a future in a way that is measured and that can always be revisited when it is necessary in order to respond to our changing community or changing economic climate,” said Veer.

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BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF Women represent 72 per cent of Canadians living with Alzheimer’s disease according to a new nationwide campaign launched by Alzheimer Society. Dr. David Westaway, president of Alzheimer Society of Alberta and Northwest Territories, said it mostly comes down to the fact that women have a longer life expectancy than men. After the age of 65, the risk factor for the disease doubles every five years. “The biggest risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease is age,” said Westaway who visited the society’s new office in Red Dr. David Westaway Deer on Wednesday. “You think you’re just getting set for a nice retirement and a nasty surprise comes around the corner.” Other risks factors include cardiovascular disease, diabetes, high blood pressure and smoking. The Red Deer chapter of the Alzheimer Society moved into its new, larger location earlier this month, at unit 1-5550 45th St. in Cronquist Business Park, where the sign for the former tenant — Ducks Unlimited — is still up. Westaway, who is an Alzheimer researcher at the University of Alberta, stepped into the role of president in October and will be visiting each of the Alzheimer Society offices in Alberta. He said women face the double burden of representing 70 per cent of family caregivers when it comes to the disease. In Alberta, about 46,000 people are living with Alzheimer’s disease. Janice Fogerty, community relations manager with the society in Red Deer, said because women are so strongly affected by the disease, it’s important for them to be aware of it so they can become proactive. “An early diagnosis can make such a huge difference, whether it’s their own diagnosis or somebody that they care about,” Fogerty said. The Alzheimer Society is encouraging all Canadians, including women, to visit www.alzheimer.ca/ the72percent to learn about the warning signs. Common warning signs include memory loss, impaired judgment, thinking or reasoning and changes in personality and behaviour that are out of character. Westaway said Alzheimer’s is a complicated and challenging disease, but it is receiving more attention. The Alberta government is currently working on a provincial strategy. For now, there is no cure, he said. “You only go one way. The disease becomes more and more debilitating. There are no treatments to stop it.” January is Alzheimer Awareness Month. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

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Elida Heck, 9, of Red Deer reacts as Robyn Askew of Crop Hair Boutique in Red Deer cuts her hair. This is the third time Elida has cut her hair to donate her locks to help those who need wigs. This time however Elida also did some fundraising and will donate over $700 in backpacks and merchandise to homeless and needy people in Red Deer. The backpack will contain clothing, gift cards for food and beverages, grooming kits and soap and cold weather gear.

Driver thought he had hit animal on bridge, not pedestrian BY BRENDA KOSSOWAN ADVOCATE STAFF The driver accused of leaving the scene after striking and killing a pedestrian in Red Deer said he thought he had hit some sort of animal, possibly a bear or a deer. Lawyers for the Crown and defence will state their cases today in the trial of Brent Robert Cameron, 26, accused of leaving the scene of an injury or fatal collision and then making up a lie to cover his tracks. Paul Gabriel Bertin, 18, died at about 2 a.m. on Oct. 6, 2012, after being struck down on the northbound lanes of Taylor Drive Bridge in Red Deer. Brent Robert Cameron is now on trial before Justice John Little in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench on charges that he failed to remain at the scene to avoid prosecution and public mischief for making a false report to police about his vehicle being stolen. Court heard evidence on Tuesday that Bertin was struck twice; first by Cameron’s 2010 Subaru Outback, and then by another vehicle with a lower profile that drove over him as he lay on the road. In her testimony on Wednesday, Calgary-based medical examiner Tera Jones stated that Bertin died

from the head and neck injuries sustained in the initial collision. Scrapes on his face and chest from the second vehicle were not connected with the cause of his death, said Jones. In a video recording of his second statement to an RCMP investigator, played for the court on Wednesday, Cameron acknowledged that he was driving the Subaru when it hit something on the bridge, but denies stopping the car to find out what he had hit. “A black figure ran out in front of me. I immediately panicked, thinking I’d hit an animal.” Cameron, who had moved to Red Deer from New Brunswick about 18 months earlier, told the officer that whatever he hit had darted out in front of him. He thought it could have been a bear or a deer. He acknowledged having a passenger in the car, but said she never saw what happened. Court heard earlier that the pair had met at a downtown bar and were planning to attend an afterhours party in Riverside Meadows. In his video statement, Cameron confirmed the woman’s testimony on Tuesday that he parked the car in Riverside Meadows after the collision and then called a cab and sent her away.

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Conviction quashed due to oddity in verdict

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — A man jailed four years ago for dangerous driving causing death had his conviction quashed Wednesday because of an oddity in the jury verdict that went unnoticed at the time. In entering an acquittal, Ontario’s top court said its hands were tied in terms of ordering a new trial for Sean DeForest. The strange case arose in Angus, Ont., in September 2007 when the car DeForest and his girlfriend, Ashley Catton, were in made a left turn and collided with a car coming the other way. A motorcycle then slammed into the rear of the second vehicle, leaving the rider injured and his passenger fatally wounded. Police charged DeForest, then 20, with dangerous driving causing death and with dangerous driving causing bodily harm. The pair were also charged with obstruction for lying to police about who was driving. At trial, the defence argued Catton, then 19, was the driver. However, the jury appears to have accepted the prosecution view that DeForest was driving. In announcing their verdict, the jury declared DeForest guilty on Count 1: Dangerous driving causing the death of the motorcycle passenger. At the same time, however, jurors acquitted him on Count 2: Dangerous driving causing bodily harm to the motorcycle’s driver. No one noticed the contradiction, and Superior Court Justice Anne Mullins later sentenced DeForest to 15 months for the dangerous driving conviction. On appeal, DeForest’s lawyer argued jurors could not have felt certain DeForest was the driver who caused the death, but might not have been the driver responsible for the motorcyclist’s injuries. The Ontario Court of Appeal agreed it made no sense. “The irreconcilable inconsistency between the verdicts on Counts 1 and 2 undermines the legitimacy and reliability of the convictions on the other charges,” the court states. “All of the convictions must be quashed.” Trial transcripts show the jury orally affirmed it had found DeForest guilty on the first count, but not on the second. There is no indication the trial judge looked at the verdict sheet filled out by the jury or made any further inquires.

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BUDGET: ‘A budget for the times’ Most councillors were pleased to have a plan in place after hearing from the community about the city’s lack of amenities compared to other municipalities. Last year Coun. Paul Harris unsuccessfully tried to convince council to put aside $2 million into a capital reserve fund. Council started the budget process with a proposed 4.31 per cent increase. But after finding savings in diesel prices and adjusting the fine revenue calculation over two years, the number was reduced. Coun. Dianne Wyntjes said she was happy the rate came in under four per cent. She said council made some revisions that did not result in service cuts which was important to her. The theme of the budget was maintaining and enhancing core services which council said was evident throughout with the focus on service and growth. Harris said the budget is aligned with the strategic direction which is about dialogue with community and community amenities and establishing financial sustainability. Coun. Tanya Handley said she would have liked to see the cost savings outlined by Goranson “quantified” in a way that the public knew what was happening behind the scenes. Some of the big ticket items included a boost to policing and firemedic staffing, expanded Action

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Fahmy family pinning hopes on Baird, official urges tempered expectations The family of an Egyptian-Canadian journalist imprisoned in Cairo is hoping that Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird’s visit to the city on Thursday will mark “the finale” to Mohamed Fahmy’s quest Bus service, catch up on road work, new weekend hours for Animal Control Services and support for Central Alberta 211 Services. Coun. Lynne Mulder said she was also pleased that smaller ticket items like helping out the Medicine River Wildlife Centre, the city’s promotional video and Fort Normandeau made the cut in this year’s budget. City Manager Craig Curtis said there was more public participation and survey this year than in recent years. He deemed it a “budget for the times.” “We built a lot of cost savings into this budget rather than identifying them separately,” said Curtis. “Also there’s a number of things that we do during the year that we never really reported on during the budget. We make savings and take them for granted ... There was at least $1.5 million built into the budget but it is probably a great deal more.” This year Red Deer set one of the lowest rates compared to other Alberta cities such as Grande Prairie (3.79 per cent); Medicine Hat (4.8 per cent); Calgary (4.5 per cent) and Edmonton (5.7 per cent). Lethbridge set its rate at 3.2 per cent. The $173.3 million capital budget for 2015 was approved in November, compared to $199.5 million in 2014 and $107.5 million in 2013. Some budget highlights: 10 new fire medics – $807,165 Six new police officers, three new municipal staff – $559,650 New neighbourbood parks landscaping – $260,623 Emergency Services Master Plan – $200,000 Value for money audit – $200,000 Red Deer Airport – $185,000 Central Alberta Crime Prevention Centre – $143,000 Ross Street Patio (with limited programming) – $80,000 Animal Control Services expanded weekends and

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COURT: Admitted to lying about car being stolen He said he never did learn her name and doubted that she knew his. He told the officer that, after parking his damaged car, he walked to a buddy’s house for a few beers before walking home. He admitted to lying about the car being stolen during his initial interview with the same investigator. “I didn’t think it was a big issue at the time,” he said. “I didn’t know what to do, I was in, like, such a panic.” Cameron was adamant that he had his eyes on the road the full time, but did not see whatever it was that he hit. Defence counsel Glen Allen of Wetaskiwin stated at the outset that he will not contest the charge of public mischief relating to the stolen vehicle report. Allen called no evidence after Crown prosecutor Wayne Silliker closed his case. bkossowan@reddeeradvocate.com

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‘We’re all in this together’ PRENTICE SAYS ALBERTA OIL CRUNCH WILL HURT ECONOMIES ACROSS COUNTRY BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — The aftershocks of Alberta’s collapsing petro-economy will shake up homes and businesses from coast to coast to coast, Premier Jim Prentice said Wednesday. “We’re all in this together,” Prentice told reporters on a conference call from Toronto. “It has been the Alberta economy that has been driving the national economy in this country for more than a decade. “Alberta has accounted for more than 50 per cent of the jobs that have been created in Canada (in that time).” Prentice said Alberta is facing some difficult choices given the benchmark price of oil has fallen from US$100 a barrel last summer to less than US$50 a barrel this week, siphoning billions of dollars from Alberta’s treasury. Alberta’s projected budget surplus this year will now be a $500-million deficit. Prentice noted that oil giant Suncor (TSX:SU) announced this week that it will lay off 1,000 oilsands workers. “There’s a very large number of people, for example, from Atlantic Canada, from Ontario, who commute to Alberta and work in the energy industry,” he said. “Most of those people pay their personal income taxes in the provinces in which they reside.” Prentice said if low oil persists, other dominoes will fall, hurting the federal government’s corporate and personal income tax take. “The energy industry is responsible for a third of the capital investment that is made across this country,” he said. “Much of the capital investment that is deployed in the energy industry is actually fabricated in places like Ontario. “The projects are financed by banks that are headquartered in Ontario.” Prentice has said Alberta will likely remain in deficit until 2018, about the time his advisers predict oil prices will have slowly rebounded to about US$75 a barrel. Until then, the province expects to lose $11 billion or more in revenue. Prentice said members of his cabinet and caucus will soon fan out to talk to Albertans about how to make up that massive shortfall, including discussions on tax hikes and bringing in a sales tax. He is promising fundamental change to Alberta’s books, saying it’s time to get day-to-day spending off the roller-coaster of volatile oil revenues. Prentice also said that public sector workers need to come to the table to help find a solution. He declined to say if that involves wage rollbacks or job cuts, but noted that Alberta’s public sector makes on average more than their counterparts across Canada. Labour leaders said that while they are all in favour of revenue reform, Prentice is cherry picking the labour issue. They said Alberta’s red hot economy and inflation have translated into public sector wages that are on average five per cent higher than other jurisdictions, but also private sector wages that are around 25 per cent higher. “You can pick any sector, any place, any job description and we’re getting paid better than anywhere else in the country,” said Mark Ramsankar, head of the Alberta Teachers’ Association. “I’m not apologizing for where Alberta teachers are sitting.” Heather Smith, president of the United Nurses of Alberta, said she wants to discuss revenue reform with Prentice, but said further job cuts would put patients at risk. “Patient safety trumps bad financing on the part of the government,” said Smith. Guy Smith of the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees noted that Prentice has already acknowledged he wants to improve morale and productivity in the public service. “The pressure on the front lines of the public ser-

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Alberta Premier Jim Prentice gives a state-of-the-province address in Edmonton on Dec. 9, 2014. Prentice said if low oil persists, other dominoes will fall, hurting the federal government’s corporate and personal income tax take. vice are immense — very low morale, high turnover,” said Smith. “(Prentice’s) goal is to try to make sure that the public service is running efficiently and professionally, and you don’t do that by coming after those workers for their wages and their benefits, and making cuts.”

Gil McGowan, head of the Alberta Federation of Labour, said they’ve seen this scenario before and are prepared to fight it. “Why (is it) whenever the price of oil drops politicians think public sector workers are the ones to shoulder the largest share of the burden,” he said.

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CALGARY — The Transportation Safety Board says a train derailment that forced an evacuation and closed a major Calgary traffic artery at rush hour was caused by faulty track layout. Seven cars carrying highly flammable hydrocarbons tipped over September 2013, although none spilled and no injuries were reported. The safety board says in a report that the derailment occurred when the lip of a train wheel overloaded a switch point on the track in a rail yard. About 140 houses in southeast Calgary were briefly evacuated. Canadian Pacific Railway has since redesigned and improved that section of track. The accident occurred about three months after another derailment on a bridge in downtown Calgary days after heavy flooding. That derailment caused Mayor Naheed Nenshi to demand answers from the rail carrier.

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Northern tiger declawed CANADA CANNOT COMPETE WITH A RESTRUCTURED AND MORE EFFICIENT U.S. BY LIVIO DI MATTEO SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE According to the employment numbers just released, the United States is doing quite well, with the preliminary Bureau of Labour Statistics numbers pointing to the addition of 252,000 jobs in December. The unemployment rate in the United States has fallen to 5.6 per cent and the stimulus provided by lower gasoline prices is expected to continue propelling the United States forward in its economic renaissance. Indeed, in 2014 the United States saw its total employment reach the highest level since 2007. Meanwhile, Canada exhibited a much weaker performance, with Statistics Canada reporting that Canada lost 4,300 jobs in December and had an unemployment rate of 6.6 per cent. This follows the loss of 10,700 jobs in November and suggests a reversal in economic fortunes is underway. The former northern tiger seems to have been declawed, while the American eagle has taken to the skies again. This reversal in performance should not come as a surprise, given the forces driving both economies in the wake of the 2009 recession. Even though there

were employment losses in Central Canada’s manufacturing sector, Canada managed to ride out the recession relatively well because high commodity prices generated a resource boom in the West. Canada was so insulated that its housing sector has continued to see price gains and its burden of consumer debt and housing prices now resemble those of the United States prior to the 2009 recession. Canada’s much touted superior economic and fiscal performance relative to the other G-7 countries can be attributed to the traditionally stronger Canadian banking sector, a strong fiscal position brought about by the deficit reduction of the 1990s and the presence of natural resource producing provinces. This good fortune bred a degree of complacency that resulted in Canada largely resting on its laurels with the sudden drop in oil prices now providing a rude awakening. In contrast, the United States was hit much harder by the 2009 recession. In 2008 and 2009 total employment in the United States fell 2.6 and 3.8 per cent respectively while in Canada grew by 1.7 per cent in 2008 and then fell 1.6 per cent the year following. The United States has come back because its remains one of the most dynamic and innovative economies in the world,

with a large dense internal consumer market and nimble firms — relative to Canada. The shock of the 2009 recession prompted its private sector to restructure and innovate and the result has been recovery and employment growth — even in manufacturing. Moreover, the United States is generating its own energy boom via shale oil: one of the dividends of this activity is the current drop in oil prices from the increased supply on world markets. The added impetus of much cheaper energy will provide the stimulus to further drive its economic recovery. The recovery of the American economy has been taking shape since 2009. Indeed, the United States has actually been outperforming Canada for several years when it comes to employment growth. From 2010 to 2013, average annual total employment growth in Canada was 1.3 per cent compared to 1.5 per cent in the United States. Indeed, over these four years, Canada’s employment growth rate only exceeded that of the United States in 2010. The United States has outperformed us in each subsequent year. Moreover, the United States appears to have overcome its manufacturing malaise and is actually creating manufacturing jobs again. Over the period

2010 to 2013, the average annual growth rate of manufacturing employment in Canada was -0.7 per cent whereas in the United States it was 1.2 per cent. In 2013 alone, manufacturing employment in Canada shrank by 2.9 per cent while in the United States it grew by almost 1 per cent. In motor vehicle production — the mainstay of Ontario manufacturing - 2013 saw employment grow 5.3 per cent in the United States and only 1.9 per cent in Canada. The United States is back. While wage growth is not marching in tandem with the employment gains and economic inequality is still an issue, it has used the last four years to restructure its economy. Its vast market and human capital resources, coupled with the new world of low energy costs, have placed it on the path to sustained economic growth. Canada on the other hand, has not used the last four years as productively and is now banking on a low Canadian dollar and an American economic recovery to fuel its exports. Canada may be in for a rude shock as it discovers its firms cannot compete with restructured and more efficient American firms. Livio Di Matteo is professor of Economics at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ont. This column was supplied by Troy Media (www.troymedia.com).

The strategy behind the Paris attacks After Ahmed Merabet, a French policeman, was killed outside the Charlie Hebdo offices in Paris last week, his brother Malek said: “My brother was Muslim and he was killed by two terrorists, by two false Muslims. Islam is a religion of peace and love.” It was moving, but to say that all Muslims who commit cruel and violent acts in God’s name are “false Muslims” is like saying that the Crusaders who devastated the Middle East 900 years ago were “false Christians.” The Crusaders were real Christians. They believed that they were doing God’s will in trying to reconquer the formerly Christian lands that had been lost to Islam centuGWYNNE ries before, and they had the DYER support of most people back home in Europe. Similarly, Said and Cherif Kouachi and Amedy Coulibaly believed they were true Muslims doing God’s will, and some people in Muslim-majority countries agree with them. But there is an important difference from the Crusades: the supporters of the young French terrorists are a minority everywhere, and among Muslims living in Western countries they are only a tiny minority. This is not a “war of civilizations.” Seventeen innocent people killed in Paris is not the equivalent of the Crusades. For that matter, neither was 9/11. These are wicked and tragic events, but they are not a war. There is a war going on, but it is a civil war within the House of Islam that occasionally spills over into non-Muslim countries. As foot-soldiers in that war, the three killers in Paris probably did not fully understand the role they were playing, but they were serving a quite sophisticated strategy. Two of these Muslim civil wars, in Afghanistan and Iraq, were ignited by U.S.-led invasions in 2001 and 2003. Four others, in Syria, Libya, Yemen and the northern, mostly Muslim half of Nigeria, have begun since 2011. Others go back even further, like the war in Somalia, or have flared up and then become dormant again, like Mali and Algeria. In every one of these wars, the victims are overwhelmingly Muslims killed by other Muslims. From time to time, non-Muslims in other countries are killed, too, as in New York in 2001, in London in 2007, in Bombay in 2008 and last week in Paris. And these killings do have a strategic purpose, but it’s not to “terrify non-Muslims into submission.” Quite the contrary. The great Muslim civil war is about the political, social and cultural modernization of the Muslim world. Should it continue down much the same track that other major global cultures have followed, or should those changes be stopped and indeed reversed?

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The Islamists take the latter position. Some aspects of modernization are very attractive to many Muslims, so stopping the changes would require a lot of violence, including the overthrow of most existing governments in Muslim countries. But that is the task that the Islamists in general, and the jihadi activists in particular, have undertaken. As they are minorities even in their own countries, the Islamists’ hardest job is to mobilize popular support for their struggle. The best way to do this is to convince Muslims that modernization — democracy, equality, the whole cultural package — is part of a Western plot to undermine Islam. This will be a more credible claim if Western countries are actually attacking Muslim countries, so one of the main jihadi strategies is to carry out terrorist atrocities that will trigger Western military attacks on Muslim countries. That was the real goal of 9/11, and it was spectacularly successful: it tricked the United States into invading not one but two Muslim countries. But smaller terrorist attacks that lead to the mistreatment of the Muslim minorities in non-Muslim countries also serve the cause. They can create a backlash that victimizes the local Muslim minorities,

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thus generating yet more “proof” that there is a war against Islam. This strategy actually has a name. Appropriately it is in French: “la politique du pire.” It’s the strategy of making things worse in order to achieve one’s ultimate goal — in this case, revolutions that will sweep away the existing governments in almost every Muslim country and put the Islamists in power instead. There is a sub-theme in some of the Middle Eastern wars that muddies the waters a bit: in Syria, Iraq and Yemen the general radicalization has also revived and militarized the age-old conflict between Sunni and Shia Muslims. But even in these countries, most of the killings are of Sunni Muslims by other Sunni Muslims. There will be more attacks like the ones in Paris, because lost young men seeking a cause abound in every community, including the Muslim communities of the West. We can’t arrest them all, so we will go on having to live with a certain amount of terrorism from both Muslim and non-Muslim extremist groups and trying not to overreact — just as we have been doing for many decades already. Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

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Minister of Defence Rob Nicholson leaves the podium following an announcement at Canadian Forces base Trenton in Trenton, Ont., on Friday Dec. 19, 2014. A new study looking at Canada’s politically charged military procurement system suggests the Harper government’s own policies have contributed to the dysfunction and delay. which are just about to go under contract and have yet to be built — as well as the national shipbuilding strategy, which is a process agreement and not an actual capital project. The government’s overhaul of defence purchasing last year will pay dividends, Quinney insisted. “Our defence procurement strategy is about getting the equipment that our

men and women in uniform need at the best value to taxpayers — while at the same time maximizing benefits to our Canadian economy and to our Canadian industries here at home,” she said in an email. But NDP defence critic Jack Harris said the joint report is an “objective condemnation” of the government’s record, one it will have to face on the

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MONTREAL — Former hockey great Guy Lafleur told his civil trial Wednesday he lost advertising and endorsement contracts following his 2008 arrest. Lafleur is seeking $2.16 million in a civil suit against the Crown and Montreal police for what he calls financial losses, moral damages and suffering to his family. He described the arrest as unjustified and exaggerated. “I don’t want other people to be put in the same situation as me,” Lafleur told the court. “I don’t want them or their families to live what I lived.” Lafleur was arrested in 2008 and found guilty in 2009 of giving contradictory testimony at his son’s bail hearing. The conviction was overturned on appeal a year later. He testified that at least two sponsorship and advertising contracts that helped make up his livelihood were cancelled because of the damage to his reputation. Companies didn’t want to work with him after he was arrested, Lafleur said. “My name is my livelihood and they had just attacked my past, my present and my future,” he testified. A lawyer for the Montreal police countered that Lafleur has not established the contracts were annulled as a result of his legal woes, adding the economic downturn in 2008 was likely more responsible.

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campaign trail later this year. “They claim there was a decade of darkness under the Liberals and they said they were going to fix that,” he said. “They’ve shown they haven’t been able to fix that.” The report found a small number of programs with the biggest price tags — fighters and warships — were the source of most of the problems. And the researchers assign much of the blame to staffing cuts by both Liberal and Conservative governments in the acquisitions branch at National Defence, as well as new reporting requirements introduced by the Harper government. The numbers are stark. There were 9,000 staff dedicated to buying military equipment in the early 1990s; by 2004, over the course of successive Liberal budgets, that number had been slashed by more than half to about 4,200. After the Conservatives came to power, the number of employees versed in the complex requirements and approval process inched up to 4,355 by 2009, but many positions — especially uniformed ones — remained vacant because of the Afghan war. Then the Harper government’s budget cuts took hold. “The situation worsened due to the Strategic Review and the Deficit Reduction Action Plan (DRAP), which (cut) 400 positions through the end of 2014/2015,” says the report, which also notes that the cuts took place despite the federal Treasury Board authorizing National Defence to hire more project planners. “Set against this significantly increased workload, there is simply not enough capacity in the acquisition workforce to manage it.”

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Derozan leads Raps past 76ers BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Raptors 100 76ers 84 TORONTO — Kyle Lowry jokingly grumbled at DeMar DeRozan in the post-game locker-room, blaming his teammate for the horde of reporters that was crowding their lockers. The crowd was waiting to speak to DeRozan, who’s locker is beside Lowry’s. DeRozan apologized for his point guard’s behaviour, saying — through with a wide grin — “We’re like a married couple.” In truth, Lowry and the Raptors were breathing a huge sigh of relief Wednesday night after DeRozan made a sparkling return from his 21-game injury layoff, scoring a team-high 20 points in a 100-84 victory over the Philadelphia 76ers. “Yeah, definitely (it felt good), just to play with my guys, honestly,” DeRozan said. “Just get back out there with them. It’s been tough sitting out this many games, just watching. It felt good to get back out there.” With his tiny daughter Diar watching from courtside, dressed in a Raptors jersey with “Mini DeRozan” across the back, the Raptors all-star received a standing ovation from the sellout crowd of 19,800 at the Air Canada Centre when announced in the starting lineup. There were more cheers when he scored his first points in nearly two months just under two minutes into the game, on a fadeaway jump shot that was classic DeRozan. When asked if DeRozan brings a sense of muchneeded calm to the team, coach Dwane Casey replied, saying “You think?” “And not only that, he makes great decisions,” Casey continued. “When things get helter-skelter, when we call a play, one of the plays we’ve been running for a while or whatever it is, there’s a calmness about him. “The ball is secure, he makes great decisions, it allows Kyle to space out and spot up. . .Lou (Williams), whoever it is. He can quarterback as well as score.” Williams finished with 19 points for Toronto (26-

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Toronto Raptors’ DeMar DeRozan (right) shoots on Philadelphia 76ers’ Luc Mbah a Moute during second half NBA basketball action in Toronto on Wednesday. 12), while Lowry had 18 points and 12 assists. Jonas Valanciunas added 12 points, while Amir Johnson finished with 10. But the night belonged to DeRozan, who had been sidelined since he tore his groin tending driving hard to the basket on Nov. 28 versus Dallas. The Raptors initially managed well without him, winning 11 of their first 15 games. But they had dropped five of their previous six before Wednesday, falling from

first place in the Eastern Conference to third. And looming Friday: the Eastern Conferenceleading Atlanta Hawks. “Yes it was great to have DeMar back, I’m happy, we’re all excited, he looked good,” Lowry said. “Very comfortable (with him). Get some guys some open shots, take some attention off me, and it’s always good when you get your all-star back, a guy who can get 20 points on 14 shots in such an efficient way.”

Printz ready for return to the ice Brett Printz is no stranger to adversity in hockey, but nothing could prepare him for what he has gone through this year. Just before the puck dropped on the season it was discovered he had a large cyst inside his left femur that needed to be removed. That was the best case scenario, as for a while it was thought to possibly be cancer. But after five months of rest, surgery and rehab, he is set to make his return to the ice this weekend when the Red Deer College Kings (8-9-01) host the Briercrest Clippers (3-16-0-1). It is a moment he wasn’t too sure he would get to experience, but one he was going to do everything he could to experience. JOSH “It was tough, one of the ALDRICH scariest things I had to go through was a CT scan to test if it was cancerous or not. Waiting for the results took a long time and the days go by slow,” said Printz. “Once you get through that and it’s not cancerous and they tell you there’s a chance you may never heal properly or play again, it’s another blow. What first goes through your mind is a little panic ... but the supporting staff around you is huge.” His breakout season did not happen until his second year of midget hockey and in his only campaign with the Red Deer Optimist Chiefs, leading the 2009-

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10 squad in scoring with 34 points (17 goals, 17 assists) in 34 games. With his size and scoring ability, the six-foot-two, 200-pound forward was a top prospect for the junior A level — he was an bit too much of a late bloomer for the major junior circuit. However, Printz never really had a permanent home in the Alberta Junior Hockey League, bouncing from the Drumheller Dragons to the Olds Grizzlys to the Fort McMurray Oil Barons to the Kindersley Klippers of the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League and to the Grande Prairie Storm back in the AJHL. He essentially lived out of a suitcase for three years while putting up 87 points (38-49-87) in 163 games. After originally committing to play for the University of Calgary Dinos for the 2013-14 season, he transferred to RDC at Christmas time and proceeded to have his best stretch of hockey since midget, scoring 12 points (7-5-12) in 13 games. “It was huge for my confidence,” said Printz, noting it’s a relief he no longer has to worry about being traded. “I’ve been all over the place and I do consider myself a streaky hockey player, so to be able to settle into a routine in Red Deer and live a normal life was huge for me.” He was to be one of the focal points of the RDC offence this season as head coach Trevor Keeper wanted to take advantage of his size and skill and move to a more physical brand of hockey. But in January last year his hip started to bother him. The original diagnosis was that he wasn’t stretching enough and he played through it. But the pain persisted. His girlfriend Abby Graalman is in the nursing

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program at RDC and she pushed him to get more testing done. He had an X-ray done in February but the results were sent to his doctor in Strathmore, where his parents had relocated. It wasn’t until the offseason when he was alerted to the hip pain being a much bigger problem. Different scenarios were thrown out at him, even reaching out to the point where the C word was thrown in as a possibility. But more tests were needed, including two MRIs and a CT scan. He trained as hard for this season as he ever had before, cutting about 10 pounds off his Brett Printz frame, with the unknown situation about his hip swirling in over his head. In September, the results finally came back. He had a 10 centimetre by six centimetre cyst inside his left femur near his hip. “(The doctor) suspects that when growing up, your brain forgets to send a signal,” said Printz. “The way he described it best was baking a fresh loaf of bread and you cut into the middle of the bread and there’s a hole in it.” He was lucky it was caught when it was, had he gone into the boards the wrong way, the femur could have shattered.

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The New York Jets stuck with defence. The San Francisco 49ers and Oakland Raiders are giving it a try, too. The Jets hired Arizona defensive coordinator Todd Bowles as head coach Wednesday, the 49ers promoted longtime defensive line coach Jim Tomsula, and the Raiders turned to Denver defensive co-ordinator Jack Del Rio. Denver, Atlanta and Chicago still have openings. The 49ers said Tomsula will be formally introduced Thursday at a news conference that comes after a more than two-week search that ended right in house. Tomsula replaces Jim Harbaugh, who parted ways with the 49ers on Dec. 28 in what the team called a “mutual decision.” Harbaugh was introduced as Michigan’s coach two days later following a successful four-year stint during which the 49ers reached three straight NFC championship games and a Super Bowl. “After conducting a thorough coaching search, and meeting with a number of outstanding candidates, Jim Tomsula clearly is the right man to lead this team,” CEO Jed York said in a statement. San Francisco went 8-8 this season and missed the playoffs. The Jets made it official with Bowles, also a top candidate for the Atlanta job, a day after hiring former Houston director of college scouting Mike Maccagnan as general manager. They fired Rex Ryan and general manager John Idzik on Dec. 29 following a 4-12 finish. “I am confident that Todd and Mike Maccagnan are the right combination to lead this team,” Jets owner Woody Johnson said. Bowles, a former NFL defensive back, is the Jets’ sixth straight defensive-focused head coach and fifth since Johnson took over in 2000, following Bill Parcells, Al Groh, Herm Edwards, Eric Mangini and Ryan. “It’s an honour and privilege to coach the Jets,” Bowles said in a statement. “I can’t help but be humbled by the chance to coach this team. I am going

was the head coach in Jacksonville for nine seasons before spending the past three as Denver’s defensive coordinator. Sparano was elevated from offensive line coach during the season to replace the fired Dennis Allen. Oakland went 3-9 under Sparano after losing the first four games under Allen. Ryan ended up in Buffalo on Monday and was as brash and bold as ever Wednesday at his first news conference. “Is this thing on?” Ryan said, tapping the microphone. “Because it’s getting ready to be on.” Outlining his objectives, Ryan said the job is his last chance to prove himself. He vowed to build the Bills into “a bully” and said he has an additional chip on his shoulder after being fired by the Jets. “Yes, it’s personal,” he said, about being fired. “It’s embarrassing.” Marrone shocked the Bills by stepping down Dec. 31. The second-year coach opted out of his contract after Terry and Kim Pegula purchased the franchise in October. Ryan made a veiled reference to Marrone’s departure by saying: “This football team deserves a loyal coach.” Bowles becomes the fifth black head coach currently in the NFL, joining Pittsburgh’s Mike Tomlin, Cincinnati’s Marvin Lewis, Tampa Bay’s Lovie Smith and Detroit’s Jim Caldwell. A person with knowledge of the situation told The Associated Press that former Dallas and Buffalo head coach Chan Gailey will be Bowles’ offensive co-ordinator. Gailey was out of football the last two seasons after being fired as the Bills’ coach after the 2012 season. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the Jets have not announced the hiring.

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In this July 16, 2014, file photo, Arizona Cardinals defensive coordinator Todd Bowles, front right, watches NFL football training camp along with defensive players Deone Bucannon (36), Trevardo Williams (48), Jonathan Brown (45), Kenny Demens (54) and Glenn Carson (56) in Glendale, Ariz. The New York Jets are close to an agreement with Bowles to make him their head coach, according to two people with knowledge of the negotiations. Bowles told ESPN in a text that he was taking the job, but the people told The Associated Press that no agreement had been completed as of late Tuesday night. to do everything I can to build a consistent winner.” Bowles from Elizabeth, New Jersey, was the Jets’ defensive backs coach under Groh in 2000 season. He beat out five other candidates who interviewed, including Seattle defensive co-ordinator Dan Quinn and former Buffalo coach Doug Marrone.

tight game. Kris Leblanc led the hosts with 13 points. Ed Ortiz added eight.

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Cougars beat Wetaskiwin The Notre Dame Cougars got a 22-point performance from Shea Best in a 70-43 JV girls basketball victory over the visiting Wetaskiwin Sabres Wednesday. Kamryn Henderson added 15 points for the Cougars, who were playing their third game in eight nights and outscored their guests 25-6 in the second quarter. Heather Daniel and Sarah Koopmans each scored 10 for the winners, while Lydia Mutoni was named Cougars player of the game. Notre Dame prevailed 58-44 in the boys contest, an 8-0 run to start the fourth quarter breaking open a

BUFFALO, N.Y. — The NHL has suspended Minnesota Wild defenceman Ryan Suter two games for elbowing Pittsburgh Penguins forward Steve Downie in the head. Suter will miss Minnesota’s game Thursday night in Buffalo against the Sabres and Saturday at home against the Arizona Coyotes. The 29-year-old had never been suspended before in his 10-year career. Suter said Tuesday night after the Wild’s loss in Pittsburgh that the elbow was accidental.

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REBELS: More than satisfied Sutter, meanwhile, was more than satisfied with the outcome. “Outside of that second period when we got into penalty trouble, we actually played pretty well tonight,” said the Rebels boss, whose squad downed the Lethbridge Hurricanes 5-3 in the first half of the mini road trip 24 hours earlier. “We did a lot of good things over the two nights.” The Rebels limited their hosts to 24 shots over 65 minutes, while directing 34 at Hitmen netminder Brendan Burke. Red Deer gave up just 25 shots the night before in Lethbridge. “We’re certainly getting better in that area,” said Sutter. “We have a good team and we have to understand that we’re a good team because we do things a certain way. “There might be some teams that have more skill or are a bit bigger, but we have to pay attention to our details and do things the right way.” ● The Rebels scored on three of four attempts in the shootout, with Connor Gay, Riley Sheen and Maxwell, with the eventual winner, finding the back of the net. Toth, meanwhile, was beaten by Calgary’s first two shooters — Radel Fazleev and Adam Tambellini — before denying Rankin and

A person with knowledge of the Del Rio’s hiring said a deal was agreed to Wednesday, not long after the team told interim coach Tony Sparano he would not get the job. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because an announcement had not been made. Del Rio, a former NFL linebacker,

PRINTZ: Surgery Printz was told the surgery — completed in November — would be similar to if he had broken his femur, and there was no guarantee he would play again. To repair the leg, doctors first had to drill into the femur to drain it and then clean out the cavity. Doctors then used a bone graft from a donor and partially from his own femur to help repair and fill the bone. They finished the procedure by inserting a titanium rod from his hip down to his knee to strengthen the leg and take pressure off the healing bone. Since then has been rehabbing the leg and leaning heavily on the patience, understanding and help of his girlfriend and his roommate/teammate Logan Sceviour, as well as his family from afar. “Coming home from the hospital, I couldn’t walk, I was on crutches. I needed my roommate and my girlfriend to help me get into bed and get out, to now where I’m walking and I feel great,” said Printz. “I’m starting to work out and skate and it’s been a process.” He returned to practice on Jan. 5, stepping back on the ice for the first

Coach Mike Yeo backed him up on that Wednesday, speaking before Suter’s disciplinary hearing. “What I saw when I looked at it initially is he’s not looking at the player at all,” Yeo said after the Wild’s practice at First Niagara Center. “He’s looking at the player and I think he puts his elbow up just almost kind of to box the guy out.” No one plays more than Suter, as he averages a league-high 29:34 a game, just ahead of Drew Doughty of the Los Angeles Kings. The argument could be made that no team needs one single skater more than the Wild need Suter, especially considering they’ve lost six in a row and 12 of their past 14 games. Yeo was hoping Suter would just be fined by the NHL, as Marco Scandella was earlier in the season. “I would hope for sure, for a lot of reasons,” Yeo said. “I know that that’s not his intention, that’s not the type of player that he is, and i know that he felt bad about it even during the game. As much as anything else, we need him in the lineup.”

time since the fall, and though he was sore by the end of the session, it was a feeling he won’t soon forget. “Going to the doctor and having him tell you that you’re allowed to skate now ... there’s a huge sigh of relief, you can see the light at the end of the tunnel when that happens,” said Printz. “I didn’t know what to expect ... I just wanted to get back out there and start living a normal life again.” Keeper is looking forward to getting him back in the lineup, especially if he can return close to form. The goal is to get him into either Friday’s game at 7 p.m. or Saturday’s game at 1:30 p.m. — both games are at Penhold — though Keeper says he will likely start him off in a third-line role and ease him into the top six. “I would imagine he’s going to have to get through a little bit of tentativeness,” said Keeper. “He was playing for a long time with pain in his hip and not sure what it was. Now he’ll be able to get out there, play through it and gain some confidence. He’s played really well in practice and said he feels good.” The Kings opened their second semester with a sweep over the Concordia Thunder (3-15-1-1) last weekend, and though Briercrest has struggled this season they cannot take them lightly. “They have one goaltender (Connor Dobberthien) that sees a lot of rubber and they ride him, he plays really well,” said Keeper. “They’re a deeper team than last year, I think they have two guys in the top 10 in scoring (Aaron Armstrong, fourth with 23 points; Ste-

phen Langford, 21st with 17 points). They’re quick, they forecheck hard and they pressure hard.” ● The Queens (4-5-3) hockey team has a home-and-home series with the MacEwan University Griffins (4-7-1), at the Red Deer Arena tonight at 7 p.m. and in Edmonton on Saturday at 8:15 p.m. ● RDC basketball has a home-andhome series with the St. Mary’s University Lightning, hosting on Friday with the women going at 6 p.m. and the men at 8 p.m. On Saturday they are in Calgary. ● RDC volleyball renews their Central Alberta rivalry with the Olds College Broncos this weekend, playing in Olds on Friday at 6 p.m. and at RDC on Saturday at 6 p.m. The Queens continue to sit atop the Canadian Colleges Athletic Association rankings while the men have slipped to No. 3 after splitting with Lethbridge College last weekend. ● The ACAC fall regional Curling bonspiel will go in Edmonton at the Avonair Curling Club this weekend. The event was originally supposed to be hosted by RDC in November, but was snowed out. jaldrich@ reddeeradvocate.com

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Hadwin to resume PGA Tour schedule BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Adam Hadwin will resume his first full season on the PGA Tour out of his comfort zone. The native of Moose Jaw, Sask., now living in Abbotsford, B.C., tees it up Thursday at the Sony Open in Hawaii, the Tour’s first full-field event of 2015 that comes following nearly a twomonth break. Hadwin will be one of five Canadians in the field — joining David Hearn of Brantford, Ont., Nick Taylor, a Winnipeg native now living in Abbotsford, Graham DeLaet of Weyburn, Sask., and Calgary native Roger Sloan — as American Jimmy Walker defends his title. But Hadwin will have to get used to more than just the five-hour time difference in Hawaii. “It feels weird to start my season this quickly,” Hadwin said during a conference call Wednesday. “Normally I’ve got another month before I start. “I went home for Christmas for a week, then straight back down to Phoenix and right back into it. I’ve been working hard in Phoenix since Dec.

28th. The reason I worked so hard was a pretty good reason, to play on the PGA Tour.” Hadwin will play the full 2014-15 season after topping the Web.com Tour money list last year. The 27-yearold opened the campaign on a solid note, making the cut in four of the five events he entered, finishing tied for 10th at the $6.2-million US Shriners Hospital for Children Open in Las Vegas in October. But Hadwin didn’t kick back and enjoy himself over the break. With longtime coach Brett Saunders heading to Australia to visit family, Hadwin said he had to get in as much work with Saunders as possible before his departure. After spending Christmas with family, Hadwin went to Phoenix and resumed preparing for the resumption of the Tour schedule. Still, after a hectic ’14 campaign, Hadwin said the time off — while limited — was certainly welcomed. “I was definitely drained, I was ready for a break,” he said. “There wasn’t a whole lot of time to enjoy the 2014 year and what went on. “By the end of Mexico (the OHL

Classic at Playa del Carmen, which ended Nov. 16), I was ready to put some distance between me and my clubs for a while.” Hadwin resumes play at No. 100 in the Tour rankings and 682 points behind FedEx Cup leader Robert Streb. “I think I got off to an OK start,” Hadwin said. “I really struggled with my game the first part but the one thing I learned was when I didn’t feel my best I was able to kind of hang in there, make the cut and get to the weekend and once you do that you never know what could happen. “You might find lightning in a bottle and jump into a top-10 like I did in Vegas. I was really proud that in the first five events I was able to do that.” Hadwin, who had two wins on the Web.com Tour, was recently named as Canada’s top male golfer for 2014. But Hadwin hasn’t set personal goals over the remainder of the PGA Tour. Instead, his focus will be on matters he can control. “I’m not a huge goal-setter, especially not sort of outcome goals — things like I want to keep my card or I want to be in the top-50,” he said. “Those are

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In this May 4, 2011, file photo, Manny Pacquiao pumps his fist during a news conference in Las Vegas. Promoter Bob Arum said Wednesday, that Pacquiao has agreed to all terms for what would be boxing’s richest fight ever, a bout with Floyd Mayweather Jr. that fans have been demanding for five years.

Manny Pacquiao agrees to fight Floyd Mayweather Jr. BUT MAYWEATHER REMAINS SILENT BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LAS VEGAS — Manny Pacquiao flew to Los Angeles on Wednesday, preparing for a meeting with contestants of the Miss Universe pageant. Whether he has an even bigger date on May 2 seems entirely up to Floyd Mayweather Jr. Promoter Bob Arum said Pacquiao has agreed to all terms for what would be boxing’s richest fight ever, a bout with Mayweather that fans have been demanding for five years. The question now is whether the long-reluctant Mayweather will finally sign on the dotted line for what could be an astonishing $120 million payday for the fighter who flaunts his money better than anyone. “Your guess is as good as mine,” Arum told The Associated Press. “I don’t want to be antagonistic and say he’s not on board and not going to sign. The representation is that he is on board with this.” Arum said negotiations with Mayweather’s representatives over the past few weeks resulted in agreements on everything from the date and site of the fight (MGM Grand in Las Vegas) to purse split (reportedly 60-40 in Mayweather’s favour) to the type of gloves the boxers will wear. But Mayweather has yet to personally agree to the fight, and the possibility remained that Arum was publicly discussing Pacquiao agreeing to terms to try to up the pressure on the unbeaten boxer to sign. “We’re waiting for Mayweather to sign a document saying, ’Yeah,”’ Arum said. Just what Mayweather is thinking remains unclear. Though he declared on Showtime last month that he wanted the fight, he rarely speaks to the media between fights and his manager, Al Haymon,

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Greening leads Vikings past Wells Furniture Gabe Greening dropped in 15 points to help the Vikings slip past Wells Furniture 72-70 in Central Alberta Senior Men’s Basketball Association action Tuesday. Mark Vos added 13 points for the winners and earned team MVP honours. Wells game MVP Dave McComish netted 15 points, while teammate Eddie Ellis scored 14. In another contest, Troy Normand netted 15 points to pace Sheraton Red Deer to a narrow 58-57 conquest of the Silver Spurs, who got 16 points from Brian Miller and 12 from game MVP Jeremy Bowler. Jeff Diep scored 14 points and was named Sheraton’s MVP of the game.

Wranglers take down Three Hills Thrashers Wally Samson’s early third-period goal was the eventual winner as the host Blackfalds Wranglers topped the Three Hills Thrashers 3-1 in a Heritage Junior Hockey League game Tuesday. Robin Carlson, with an insurance goal, and Chase Bennett also scored for the Wranglers. Luke Scheunert notched the lone goal for the visitors. Thomas Isaman made 30 saves for Blackfalds, assessed seven of 12 minor penalties and two of three misconducts. Brady Hoover turned aside 34 shots in the Thrashers net.

Wild acquire Devan Dubnyk from Coyotes BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ST. PAUL, Minn. — The Minnesota Wild acquired goalie Devan Dubnyk from the Arizona Coyotes on Wednesday for a third-round draft pick. The Wild are 12th in the Western Conference, ahead of only Arizona and Edmonton. They have lost six straight and 12 of 14 and are 29th in the 30-team NHL with an .889 save percentage. Niklas Backstrom started Tuesday night in a 7-1 loss at Pittsburgh and John Curry took over midway through

the third period. Darcy Kuemper is out with a lower-body injury. The 28-year-old Dubnyk was 9-5-2 with a 2.72 goals-against average and .916 save percentage in 19 games this season for the Coyotes, his first with the team. He made 22 saves Wednesday night in Arizona’s 3-2 home loss to San Jose. Dubnyk split last season with Edmonton and Nashville and also played for Hamilton in the AHL. He’s 70-84-22 with a 2.88 GAA in 192 career NHL games with Edmonton, Nashville and Arizona.

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almost never speaks publicly. Mayweather put out pictures of himself in front of a private jet and his new cars this week along with a picture of his Las Vegas mansion, but said nothing about the Pacquiao fight on social media. Arum said the negotiations have been at the highest levels, and Pacquiao agreed to all the demands by the Mayweather team. “We took our stands on certain issues, but essentially we acquiesced on most things,” Arum said. Arum said he planned to meet with Pacquiao on Thursday in Los Angeles to formally get his fighter’s signature on the terms of the bout. Pacquiao flew from the Philippines on his way to judge the Miss Universe pageant on Jan. 25 in Florida. Arum said the fight would be held at the MGM, where Mayweather has fought exclusively for years. The 15,000-seat arena would be scaled for a $40 million live gate. He said with pay-per-view revenues, the bout could generate $200 million. With a 60-40 split, that would mean a potential $120 million payday for Mayweather and his team and $80 million for Pacquiao and his promoter. Both would be record purses for fighters. Mayweather has resisted a Pacquiao fight for five years, first claiming Pacquiao would not agree to drug testing and later saying he wasn’t worth facing him in the ring. But Arum said Pacquiao has long since agreed to the testing, and the pressure has built on Mayweather to come to terms on the bout. Oddsmakers quickly put out lines Wednesday in this gambling city favouring Mayweather in the bout. Both the Westgate LV Superbook and William Hill made him about a 2 ½-to-1 favourite in man-to-man betting.

Eoin Wolfe of the Red Deer Central Lions Speed Skating Club snared a silver medal in Division 5 of the Alberta Open indoor long track meet at Calgary. Meanwhile, Lions teammates Stefanie Spicer, Rachel O’Connell and Lauren Spicer qualifed for the Canada Age Class long track championship Feb. 7-8 at Saskatoon. Also competing from the Lions Club were Maddison Pearman, who is the leader for the provincial Canada Winter Games team and Tess Pearman, who was selected as a second alternate for the Alberta team. Maddison Pearman will skate Jan. 23-25 in Quebec for a spot on the World Junior speed skating championship team and will relinquish her Canada Games berth if she qualifies. Other Central Lions placings: Train-to-train 11/12 girls: Mara Jenkins, 11th; Rachel O’Connell, 14th; 12/13 boys: Brandon O’Connell, 16th; Connor MacDougall, 21st; 13/14 girls: Stefanie Spicer, fourth; Lauren Spicer, 16th; Laurel Jenkins, 19th. Group 3 division 1: Brinley Davidson, 17th; Division 2: Dermot MacDougall, 13th; Division 4: Erin Findlay, fifth; Jackson Schultz, 10th; Daniel Revie, 13th; Ashley Marburg, 17th; Garrett Wright, 19th; Division 5: James Wigelsworth, 11th; Division 6: Maecyn

very dependant on how others play. “This year I’m just more focused on making sure I am as prepared as I can be for each event. I want to be a little bit better with my time management so that I’m doing everything each week that I need to do in order to be prepared for that event, scheduling enough time to get into the gym to stretch out and loosen my body and do all those things. “ If I can take care of the things I can control and prepare on and off the golf course then I’m going to set myself up to be successful. From there it’s anybody’s guess on how far I can take this.” And although Hadwin is living out his dream of playing on the PGA Tour, he says his life hasn’t changed. “I’m still doing the same things, I’m still friends with the same people, still hanging out and enjoying my life,” he said. “Obviously things on the course have changed a little bit, we’re playing bigger events, more people are watching. “But life off the course hasn’t changed.”

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SCOREBOARD Local Sports ● Senior high basketball: Camrose at Hunting Hills, Lindsay Thurber at Stettler, Notre Dame at Sylvan Lake, Ponoka at Rocky Mountain House, Lacombe at Wetaskiwin; girls at 6 p.m., boys to follow. ● College women’s hockey: Grant MacEwan at RDC, 7 p.m., Arena. ● Men’s basketball: Carstar vs. Orangemen, Kingsmen vs. Bulldog Scrap Metal, 7:15 and 8:30 p.m., Lindsay Thurber.

Friday ● College basketball: St. Mary’s University at RDC; women at 6 p.m., men to follow. ● WHL: Victoria at Red Deer, 7 p.m., Centrium. ● College men’s hockey: Briercrest at RDC, 7 p.m., Penhold Regional Multiplex. ● Midget AA hockey: Sylvan Lake at Red Deer Indy Graphics, 8 p.m., Arena. ● Chinook senior hockey: Stony Plain at Bentley, 8:30 p.m.

Heritage Junior League Northern Division W L OTL GF GA Pts Blackfalds 26 1 2 188 69 54 Airdrie 19 9 2 120 98 40 Mount’view 17 11 2 154 135 36 Three Hills 16 15 1 114 125 33 Red Deer 13 14 1 127 131 27 Stettler 10 19 3 96 136 23 Ponoka 2 24 4 71 175 4 Southern Division W L OTL GF 26 5 1 185 21 7 2 141 18 9 3 114 16 15 2 127 13 16 3 135 8 20 3 120 9 20 0 82

Coaldale Okotoks Cochrane Med Hat Strathmore Banff High River

Carlson, Black Gross, Coal Lyon, Coal Glasman, Black Murray, Coal Samson, Black deGraaf, RD Sutherland, MV Ablett, T Hills Hermary, Black

GP 29 32 32 29 32 29 28 30 30 27

GA Pts 95 53 94 44 108 39 153 34 148 32 170 19 137 18

Scoring G A Pts PIM 37 40 77 25 33 33 66 22 26 35 61 54 24 35 59 6 21 36 57 113 27 25 52 6 29 20 49 43 23 26 49 44 20 28 48 51 23 24 47 33

Goaltenders MP GA SO GAA Isaman, Black 910 34 0 2.24 Baumgardner, Black72028 2 2.33 Bilton, Okotoks 1201 49 3 2.45 Kelly, Coaldale 1284 62 0 2.90 MacAulay, Coal 641 31 1 2.90

Sv% .927 .921 .925 .913 .893

Sunday ● Major bantam hockey: Southeast at Red Deer White, noon, Arena. ● Chinook senior hockey: Fort Saskatchewan at Bentley, 2 p.m. ● Minor midget AAA hockey: St. Albert at Red Deer North Star, 2:45 p.m., Arena. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Okotoks at Blackfalds, 3:30 p.m.

Football NFL Odds (Odds supplied by Western Canada Lottery; favourites in capital letters) Playoffs

7.5 6.5

O/U 46.5 53.5

NFL Injury Report NEW YORK — The National Football League injury report, as provided by the league (OUT - Definitely will not play; DNP - Did not practice; LIMITED - Limited participation in practice; FULL - Full participation in practice): INDIANAPOLIS COLTS at NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — COLTS: DNP: CB Vontae Davis (knee), LB D’Qwell Jackson (not injury related), CB Greg Toler (groin). LIMITED: LB Erik Walden (knee). PATRIOTS: DNP: C Bryan Stork (knee). LIMITED: CB Brandon Browner (knee), LB Dont’a Hightower (shoulder), DT Chris Jones (elbow), WR Brandon LaFell (shoulder, toe). FULL: QB Tom Brady (ankle). GREEN BAY PACKERS at SEATTLE SEAHAWKS — PACKERS: LIMITED: DE Josh Boyd (ankle), QB Aaron Rodgers (calf), G Josh Sitton (toe). SEAHAWKS: DNP: DE Michael Bennett (not injury related), T Justin Britt (knee), RB Marshawn Lynch (not injury related), DT Tony McDaniel (shoulder). FULL: S Jeron Johnson (elbow), TE Tony Moeaki (calf). NFL Draft Early Entries Nelson Agholor, wr, Southern Cal Jay Ajayi, rb, Boise State Kwon Alexander, LB, LSU Javorius Allen, rb, Southern Cal Arik Armstead, dl, Oregon Deion Barnes, de, Penn State Malcom Brown, dt, Texas Sammie Coates, wr, Auburn Tevin Coleman, rb, Indiana Jalen Collins, cb, LSU Landon Collins, s, Alabama Amari Cooper, wr, Alabama Xavier Cooper, dt, Washington State Christian Covington, dt, Rice Ronald Darby, cb, Florida State Mike Davis, rb, South Carolina Stefon Diggs, wr, Maryland Lorenzo Doss, cb, Tulane Mario Edwards Jr., de, Florida State Durell Eskridge, s, Syracuse George Farmer, wr, Southern Cal Ereck Flowers, ot, Miami Dante Fowler Jr., de, Florida Devin Funchess, wr, Michigan Jacoby Glenn, cb, UCF Eddie Goldman, dt, Florida State Melvin Gordon, rb, Wisconsin Dorial Green-Beckham, wr, Oklahoma Deontay Greenberry, wr, Houston Randy Gregory, de, Nebraska Todd Gurley, rb, Georgia Eli Harold, de, Virginia Chris Hackett, s, TCU Eli Harold, de, Virginia Chris Harper, wr, California Dee Hart, rb, Colorado State Gerod Holliman, s, Louisville D.J. Humphries, ot, Florida Brett Hundley, qb UCLA Danielle Hunter, de, LSU Jesse James, te, Penn State Duke Johnson, rb, Miami Matt Jones, rb, Florida Nigel King, wr, Kansas Tyler Kroft, te, Rutgers Marcus Mariota, qb, Oregon Ellis McCarthy, dl, UCLA Benardrick McKinney, lb, Mississippi State Patrick Miller, ol, Auburn Tyler Moore, g, Florida Andrus Peat, ot, Stanford Breshad Perriman, wr, UCF Marcus Peters, cb, Washington Jordan Phillips, dt, Oklahoma Darius Philon, dt, Arkansas Bradley Pinion, p, Clemson Jeremiah Poutasi, ot, Utah Shane Ray, de, Missouri Josh Robinson, rb, Mississippi State Shaq Roland, wr, South Carolina James Sample, s, Louisville Jean Sifrin, te, UMass Donovan Smith, ot, Penn State Noah Spence, de, Ohio State Jaelen Strong, wr, Arizona State Shaq Thompson, lb, Washington Max Valles, lb, Virginia Trae Waynes, cb, Michigan State Leonard Williams, dl, Southern Cal Maxx Williams, te, Minnesota P.J. Williams, cb, Florida State Trey Williams, rb, Texas A&M Jameis Winston, qb, Florida State T.J. Yeldon, rb, Alabama Underclassmen have until Jan. 15 to file declaration papers with the league. The official list of underclassmen accepted by the NFL will be released on Jan. 19.

Rebels 5, Hitmen 4 (SO) First Period 1. Red Deer, Musil 10 (Nell) 7:38. 2. Calgary, Rankin 22 (Sanheim) 15:30 (shorthanded-SH). 3. Red Deer, Bleackley 21 (Sheen, Johnson) 18:12. Penalties — Feser RD (roughing) 8:23, Draude CAL (cross-checking) 8:23, Lang CAL (hooking) 13:43, Johnson RD (tripping) 15:52. Second Period 4. Calgary, Rankin 23 (Sanheim, Lang) 16:40 (pp). 5. Calgary, Bean 2 (Sanheim) 17:10 (pp). Penalties — RD Bench (served by Polei, too many men) 0:58, Bobyk RD (hooking) 5:09, Kanzig CAL (roughing) 8:13, Toth RD (Goalie, Ineligible P) 9:32, Strand RD (roughing) 15:28, Cote RD (slashing) 15:56, Kanzig CAL (interference) 17:29. Third Period 6. Calgary, Peterson 4 (Fazleev) 3:04. 7. Red Deer, Maxwell 13 (Polei, Musil) 10:34 (pp). 8. Red Deer, Bleackley 22 (Bobyk, Toth) 18:51. Penalties — Strand RD (holding) 4:57, Peterson CAL (tripping) 9:20. Overtime No Scoring. Penalties — None. Red Deer : Gay goal, Sheen goal, Cote miss, Maxwell goal. Calgary : Fazleev goal, Tambellini goal, Rankin miss, Draude miss. Shots on goal by Red Deer 12 9 11 3 4 — 34 Calgary 8 8 6 2 4 — 24 Goal — Red Deer: Toth (W, 19-11-3); Calgary: Burke (LS, 1-8-0). Power plays (goal-chances) — Red Deer: 1-4; Calgary: 2-7. Referees — Reid Anderson, Jeff Ingram. Linesmen — Michael Roberts, Justin Slimm. Attendance — 5,915 at Calgary.

Saturday ● Major bantam hockey: Lethbridge at Red Deer White, 12:30 p.m., Collicutt Centre; Southeast at Red Deer Black, 2 p.m., Arena. ● College men’s hockey: Briercrest at Red Deer, 1:30 p.m., Penhold Regional Multiplex. ● Minor midget AAA hockey: Calgary Stampeders at Red Deer North Star, 4:45 p.m., Arena. ● College volleyball: Olds at RDC, women at 6 p.m., men to follow. WHL: Regina at Red Deer, 7 p.m., Centrium. ● AJHL: Grande Prairie at Olds, 7 p.m. Heritage junior B hockey: Airdrie at Red Deer, 8 p.m., Arena; Three Hills at Ponoka, 8 p.m.

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WHL EASTERN CONFERENCE EAST DIVISION GP W L OTL SOL GF GA Brandon 44 31 9 3 1 191 141 Regina 43 26 14 2 1 163 127 Swift Current 44 20 19 1 4 132 145 Moose Jaw 45 18 23 3 1 132 164 Prince Albert 43 19 23 1 0 126 148 Saskatoon 42 10 29 2 1 116 188

Pt 66 55 45 40 39 23

CENTRAL DIVISION GP W L OTL SOL GF GA 42 29 11 1 1 165 117 44 25 14 3 2 158 140 44 23 16 1 4 178 141 44 21 18 3 2 131 120 43 21 21 0 1 137 158 41 10 25 3 3 109 172

Pt 60 55 51 47 43 26

WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION GP W L OTL SOL GF GA Kelowna 44 34 7 3 0 190 109 Victoria 44 22 19 2 1 150 145 Prince George 44 20 23 1 0 138 177 Vancouver 42 19 21 1 1 130 136 Kamloops 45 15 24 3 3 135 170

Pt 71 47 41 40 36

U.S. DIVISION W L OTL SOL GF GA 26 12 3 1 140 109 23 15 3 1 131 122 23 19 0 3 149 150 21 16 2 3 114 116 20 21 0 2 117 137

Pt 56 50 49 47 42

Medicine Hat Red Deer Calgary Edmonton Kootenay Lethbridge

GP 42 42 45 42 43

Everett Spokane Portland Seattle Tri-City

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 Wednesday’s results Moose Jaw 4 Kootenay 3 Regina 6 Medicine Hat 1 Red Deer 5 Calgary 4 (SO) Kamloops 6 Portland 2 Kelowna 7 Tri-City 1 Tuesday’s results Brandon 2 Edmonton 1 Red Deer 5 Lethbridge 3 Seattle 5 Spokane 4 (SO) Friday’s games Kootenay at Prince Albert, 6 p.m. Moose Jaw at Swift Current, 6 p.m. Medicine Hat at Saskatoon, 6:05 p.m. Lethbridge at Brandon, 6:30 p.m. Victoria at Red Deer, 7 p.m. Regina at Edmonton, 7 p.m. Portland at Prince George, 8 p.m. Seattle at Kelowna, 8:30 p.m. Tri-City at Vancouver, 8:30 p.m. Spokane at Everett, 8:35 p.m. Saturday’s games Lethbridge at Moose Jaw, 6 p.m. Medicine Hat at Prince Albert, 6 p.m. Brandon at Swift Current, 6 p.m. Kootenay at Saskatoon, 6:05 p.m. Victoria at Calgary, 7 p.m. Regina at Red Deer, 7 p.m. Portland at Prince George, 8 p.m. Vancouver at Kamloops, 8 p.m. Seattle at Everett, 8:05 p.m. Spokane at Tri-City, 8:05 p.m. Sunday, January 18 Victoria at Edmonton, 4 p.m. Regina at Calgary, 4 p.m. Tuesday, January 20 Vancouver at Kootenay, 7 p.m. Everett at Prince George, 8 p.m. Wednesday, January 21 Vancouver at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m. Tri-City at Kamloops, 8 p.m. Everett at Prince George, 8 p.m.

Blazers 6, Winterhawks 2 First Period 1. Kamloops, Rehill 5 (unassisted) 1:44. 2. Kamloops, Sideroff 15 (Needham, Ully) 7:01. 3. Kamloops, Needham 13 (Sideroff, Fora) 14:25 (pp). 4. Kamloops, Shirley 15 (McVeigh) 18:17. Penalties — Walter Por (cross-checking) 13:55. Second Period 5. Portland, Turgeon 14 (Schoenborn, Koules) 6:07 (pp). 6. Portland, Schoenborn 13 (Cederholm) 13:12. Penalties — Texeira Por (holding) 1:09, Walter Por (fighting) 3:37, Chyzowski Kam (fighting) 3:37, Maier Kam (hooking) 4:23. Third Period 7. Kamloops, Needham 14 (Sideroff, Ully) 1:30. 8. Kamloops, Ully 20 (Needham, Fora) 17:12 (pp). Penalties — Iverson Por (high-sticking) 1:49, McNulty Kam (tripping) 6:44, Revel Kam (slashing) 8:17, Koules Por (interference) 16:15, Viveiros Por (slashing) 20:00. Shots on goal by Portland 7 12 7 — 26 Kamloops 16 8 11 — 35 Goal — Portland: Hill (L, 12-7-0); Kamloops: Ingram (W, 8-11-1). Power plays (goal-chances) — Portland: 1-3; Kamloops: 2-4. Referees — Steve Papp, Dexter Rasmussen. Linesmen — Riley Balson, Tyler Hawthorne. Attendance — 3,787 at Kamloops. Pats 6, Tigers 1 First Period 1. Medicine Hat, Hunt 16 (Burroughs, Cox) 6:54. 2. Regina, Padakin 12 (Christoffer, Steel) 8:41. Penalties — Zborovsky Reg (tripping) 8:55, Gabrielle Reg (inter. on goaltender) 13:45, Padakin Reg (hooking) 14:28, Gabrielle Reg (tripping) 17:17. Second Period 3. Regina, Padakin 13 (Steel, Christoffer) 1:11. Penalties — Quenneville MH (high-sticking) 2:32, Vannelli MH (checking from behind) 2:41, Smith Reg (interference) 14:31. Third Period 4. Regina, Wagner 11 (Brooks) 4:57 (short-handedSH). 5. Regina, Cooper 16 (D’Amico, Hansen) 6:20. 6. Regina, Gabrielle 15 (Wagner) 16:21. 7. Regina, Kroeker 2 (unassisted) 19:14 (lp). Penalties — Zborovsky Reg (delay of game) 3:54. Shots on goal by 11 12 — 32 Regina 9 Medicine Hat 12 13 13 — 38 Goal — Regina: Wapple (W, 22-8-2); Medicine Hat: Langhamer (L, 21-8-1). Power plays (goal-chances) — Regina: 0-2; Medicine Hat: 0-6. Jordan Lightbrown. Linesmen — Matthew Sanders, Greg Sarauer. Attendance — 4,006 at Medicine Hat. Rockets 7, Americans 1 First Period 1. Kelowna, Chartier 37 (Bowey) 8:54 (shorthanded-SH). 2. Kelowna, Southam 7 (Goulbourne, Chartier) 14:39. Penalties — Williams TC (hooking) 1:12, Morrissey Kel (slashing) 6:55, Nejezchleb TC (slashing) 8:07, Kel Bench (served by Baillie, too many men) 8:34, Southam Kel (charging) 12:28. Second Period 3. Kelowna, Kirkland 16 (Baillie, Draisaitl) 6:00. 4. Tri-City, Williams 14 (Comrie, Wotherspoon) 18:08 (pp). Penalties — Morrison TC (high-sticking) 7:42, Soustal Kel (roughing) 12:44, Stephens Kel (hooking) 17:38. Third Period 5. Kelowna, Chartier 38 (Stephens) :43.

6. Kelowna, Dube 9 (Draisaitl, Morrissey) 11:06 (pp). 7. Kelowna, Braid 9 (Bowey, Kirkland) 18:11 (pp). 8. Kelowna, Dube 10 (Stadel, Quinney) 19:11. Penalties — Carlo TC (hooking) 10:33, Draisaitl Kel (holding) 13:06, Comrie TC (tripping) 14:39, Carlo TC (cross-checking) 16:56. Shots on goal by Tri-City 5 8 7 — 20 Kelowna 9 14 12 — 35 Goal — Tri-City: Sarthou (L, 6-11-0); Kelowna: Whistle (W, 26-6-3). Power plays (goal-chances) — Tri-City: 1-6; Kelowna: 2-5. Referees — Kevin Bennett, Nathan Wieler. Linesmen — Mark McLean, Dustin Minty. Attendance — 5,006 at Kelowna. Warriors 4, Ice 3 First Period 1. Moose Jaw, Point 18 (Rodewald) 13:01. 2. Moose Jaw, Point 19 (Blomqvist, Jensen) 16:43. Penalties — Brown MJ (hooking) 0:31, Vetterl Koo (instigator) 9:07, Vetterl Koo (fighting) 9:07, Vetterl Koo (10-minute misconduct) 9:07, Yakubowski MJ (fighting) 9:07, Clouston MJ (checking from behind) 16:55. Second Period 3. Moose Jaw, White 9 (Valentine) 9:06. 4. Kootenay, Vetterl 4 (Alfaro) 11:44. 5. Kootenay, Valiev 6 (Zborosky, Vetterl) 17:16. Penalties — Point MJ (high-sticking) 1:03, Martin Koo (fighting) 5:56, Clouston MJ (instigator) 5:56, Clouston MJ (fighting) 5:56, Clouston MJ (10-minute misconduct) 5:56. Third Period 6. Moose Jaw, Point 20 (Valentine, Blomqvist) 11:08 (pp). 7. Kootenay, Reinhart 9 (Bozon, Martin) 12:09. Penalties — Bozon Koo (cross-checking) 3:32, Point MJ (roughing) 3:32, Vetterl Koo (roughing) 4:08, Yakubowski MJ (Major - Checking to the Head) 4:08, Yakubowski MJ (game misconduct) 4:08, Beattie Koo (cross-checking) 9:25. Shots on goal by Kootenay 13 8 12 — 33 Moose Jaw 8 7 3 — 18 Goal — Kootenay: Hoflin (L, 21-17-0); Moose Jaw: Sawchenko (W, 11-14-2). Power plays (goal-chances) — Kootenay: 0-5; Moose Jaw: 1-2. Referees — Reagan Vetter, Chad Williams. Linesmen — Jason Roy, Shane Smith. Attendance — 3,252 at Moose Jaw. WHL Scoring Leaders G 15 34 13 38 20 20 25 26 19 25 20 23 21 13 26 25 17 27 20 19 18 14 23 23 22 18 17 16 11 19 15 8 16 15 10

Trevor Cox, MH Cole Sanford, MH Nick Merkley, Kel Rourke Chartier, Kel Cole Ully, Kam Jack Rodewald, MJ Adam Helewka, Spo Austin Carroll, Vic Nikita Scherbak, Eve Tim McGauley, Bra Brayden Point, MJ Connor Rankin, CAL Jaedon Descheneau, Koo Jansen Harkins, PG Adam Tambellini, CAL Oliver Bjorkstrand, Por Chase De Leo, Por Tyson Baillie, Kel Colby Cave, SC Jayce Hawryluk, Bra Luke Philp, Koo Matt Needham, Kam Chase Witala, PG Jake Debrusk, SC Conner Bleackley, RD Chase Lang, CAL Coda Gordon, SC Travis Brown, Vic Ivan Provorov, Bra Brett Pollock, Edm Rihards Bukarts, Bra Joe Hicketts, Vic Kailer Yamamoto, Spo Carson Stadnyk, Eve Parker Bowles, TC

A 56 29 50 22 37 35 29 27 34 25 30 26 28 36 22 23 31 20 26 27 28 32 21 20 21 23 24 25 30 21 25 32 23 24 29

Pts 71 63 63 60 57 55 54 53 53 50 50 49 49 49 48 48 48 47 46 46 46 46 44 43 43 41 41 41 41 40 40 40 39 39 39

2014-15 Canadian Hockey League Top Ten Poll The Canadian Hockey League’s top 10 poll for the 2014-15 season (last week’s rankings in parentheses; records as of Tuesday): 1. (1) Oshawa Generals (OHL, 31-6-2) 2. (2) Kelowna Rockets (WHL, 33-7-3) 3. (3) Brandon Wheat Kings (WHL, 31-9-4) 4. (6) Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds (OHL, 30-9-2) 5. (5) Rimouski Oceanic (QMJHL, 27-12-3) 6. (4) Erie Otters (OHL, 29-9-3) 7. (7) Medicine Hat Tigers (WHL, 29-10-2) 8. (8) Moncton Wildcats (QMJHL, 28-11-3) 9. (9) Blainville-Boisbriand Armada (QMJHL, 2512-5) 10. (NR) Everett Silvertips (WHL, 26-12-4) Honourable Mention: Barrie Colts (OHL, 24-13-2); Quebec Remparts (QMJHL, 25-15-3); London Knights (OHL, 24-13-3). National Hockey League EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division Tampa Bay Montreal Detroit Boston Florida Toronto

GP 45 42 43 44 41 44

W 27 27 23 23 20 22

L OT Pts GF 14 4 58 146 12 3 57 114 11 9 55 120 15 6 52 117 12 9 49 102 19 3 47 137

GA 122 97 107 114 113 136

Ottawa Buffalo

42 17 17 8 42 114 44 14 27 3 31 82 Metropolitan Division

118 150

GP W L OT Pts GF N.Y. Islanders 43 29 13 1 59 134 Pittsburgh 42 26 10 6 58 129 Washington 43 24 11 8 56 126 N.Y. Rangers 40 24 12 4 52 124 Philadelphia 44 17 20 7 41 119 Columbus 41 18 20 3 39 106 New Jersey 44 15 21 8 38 96 Carolina 43 14 24 5 33 91 WESTERN CONFERENCE

GA 116 100 106 98 130 134 124 114

Central Division Nashville Chicago St. Louis Winnipeg Dallas Colorado Minnesota

GP 42 43 43 44 42 44 42

Anaheim San Jose Los Angeles Vancouver Calgary Arizona Edmonton

GP 44 44 43 41 43 42 44

W L OT Pts 29 9 4 62 28 13 2 58 27 13 3 57 22 14 8 52 19 16 7 45 18 17 9 45 18 19 5 41 Pacific Division W 28 23 20 23 22 16 10

GF 130 134 140 121 131 115 113

GA 94 95 107 111 139 127 128

L OT Pts GF 10 6 62 125 16 5 51 119 13 10 50 121 15 3 49 114 18 3 47 123 22 4 36 99 25 9 29 99

GA 118 120 112 109 114 139 149

NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. Tuesday’s Games Carolina 3, Colorado 2, SO Boston 4, Tampa Bay 3 Detroit 3, Buffalo 1 N.Y. Islanders 3, N.Y. Rangers 0 Pittsburgh 7, Minnesota 2 St. Louis 4, Edmonton 2 Nashville 5, Vancouver 1 Winnipeg 8, Florida 2 Dallas 5, Ottawa 4 San Jose 3, Arizona 2 Wednesday’s Games Montreal 3, Columbus 2 Washington 1, Philadelphia 0 Anaheim 4, Toronto 0 New Jersey at Los Angeles, Late Today’s Games N.Y. Rangers at Boston, 5 p.m. Minnesota at Buffalo, 5 p.m. Vancouver at Philadelphia, 5 p.m. Montreal at Ottawa, 5:30 p.m. Edmonton at Tampa Bay, 5:30 p.m. Colorado at Florida, 5:30 p.m. Detroit at St. Louis, 6 p.m. Winnipeg at Dallas, 6:30 p.m. Calgary at Arizona, 7 p.m. Toronto at San Jose, 8:30 p.m. Friday’s Games Pittsburgh at N.Y. Islanders, 5 p.m. Vancouver at Carolina, 5 p.m. N.Y. Rangers at Columbus, 5 p.m. Washington at Nashville, 6 p.m. Winnipeg at Chicago, 6:30 p.m. New Jersey at Anaheim, 8 p.m. 2015 NHL All-Star Game Selections THE CANADIAN PRESS NEW YORK — Final players selected for the 2015 NHL all-star game Jan. 25 in Columbus, Ohio (x — voted in by fans; c — team captains): Goaltenders Sergei Bobrovsky, Columbus Blue Jackets; x-Corey Crawford, Chicago Blackhawks; Jimmy Howard, Detroit Red Wings; Roberto Luongo, Florida Panthers; Carey Price, Montreal Canadiens; Pekka Rinne, Nashville Predators. Defencemen Brent Burns, San Jose Sharks; Dustin Byfuglien, Winnipeg Jets; Drew Doughty, Los Angeles Kings; Oliver Ekman-Larsson, Arizona Coyotes; Justin Faulk, Carolina Hurricanes; Mark Giordano, Calgary Flames; Erik Johnson, Colorado Avalanche; x-Duncan Keith, Chicago Blackhawks; x-Brent Seabrook, Chicago Blackhawks; Kevin Shattenkirk, St. Louis Blues. Ryan Suter, Minnesota Wild; Shea Weber, Nashville Predators. Forwards Patrice Bergeron, Boston Bruins; Sidney Crosby, Pittsburgh Penguins; Patrik Elias, New Jersey Devils; c-Nick Foligno, Columbus Blue Jackets; Ryan Getzlaf, Anaheim Ducks; x-Zemgus Girgensons, Buffalo Sabres; Claude Giroux, Philadelphia Flyers; Ryan Johansen, Columbus Blue Jackets; Tyler Johnson, Tampa Bay Lightning; x-Patrick Kane, Chicago Blackhawks. Phil Kessel, Toronto Maple Leafs; Anze Kopitar, Los Angeles Kings; Evgeni Malkin, Pittsburgh Penguins; Rick Nash, New York Rangers; Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, Edmonton Oilers; Alex Ovechkin, Washington Capitals; Bobby Ryan, Ottawa Senators; Vladimir Tarasenko, St. Louis Blues; John Tavares, New York Islanders; cx-Jonathan Toews, Chicago Blackhawks. Tyler Seguin, Dallas Stars; Steven Stamkos, Tampa Bay Lightning; Jakub Voracek, Philadelphia Flyers; Radim Vrbata, Vancouver Canucks. Will participate in skills competition but not all-star game Jonathan Drouin, Tampa Bay Lightning; Aaron Ekblad, Florida Panthers; Filip Forsberg, Nashville Predators; Johnny Gaudreau, Calgary Flames; Mike Hoffman, Ottawa Senators; Tanner Pearson, Los Angeles Kings. Head Coaches Team Foligno — Darryl Sutter, Los Angeles Kings. Team Toews — Peter Laviolette, Nashville Predators.

Basketball National Basketball Association Chicago Milwaukee Cleveland Indiana Detroit

EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division Toronto Brooklyn Boston Philadelphia New York

W 26 16 13 7 5

L 12 23 24 31 35

Pct .684 .410 .351 .184 .125

GB — 10 12 19 22

W 31 27 17 15 15

L 8 12 22 25 27

Pct .795 .692 .436 .375 .357

GB — 4 14 16 17

Memphis Houston Dallas San Antonio New Orleans

1/2 1/2

Central Division

Pacific Division 1/2 1/2 1/2

Southwest Division

1/2 1/2

Southeast Division Atlanta Washington Miami Charlotte Orlando

W L Pct GB 26 14 .650 — 20 19 .513 5 19 20 .487 6 15 25 .375 11 14 25 .359 11 WESTERN CONFERENCE

Portland Oklahoma City Denver Utah Minnesota

W L Pct GB 27 11 .711 — 27 12 .692 1/2 27 13 .675 1 24 16 .600 4 19 19 .500 8 Northwest Division W 30 18 18 13 6

L 8 19 20 26 31

Pct .789 .486 .474 .333 .162

GB — 11 12 17 23

1/2 1/2 1/2

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

W 31 25 23 16 12

L 5 13 18 22 27

Pct .861 .658 .561 .421 .308

GB — 7 10 16 20

1/2 1/2

Tuesday’s Games Atlanta 105, Philadelphia 87 Washington 101, San Antonio 93 Minnesota 110, Indiana 101 Phoenix 107, Cleveland 100 Golden State 116, Utah 105 Dallas 108, Sacramento 104, OT Miami 78, L.A. Lakers 75 Wednesday’s Games Orlando 120, Houston 113 San Antonio 98, Charlotte 93 Toronto 100, Philadelphia 84 New Orleans 105, Detroit 94 Memphis 103, Brooklyn 92

Washington 105, Chicago 99 Atlanta 105, Boston 91 Denver 114, Dallas 107 Golden State 104, Miami 89 L.A. Clippers at Portland, Late Today’s Games New York vs. Milwaukee at London, England, 1 p.m. Oklahoma City at Houston, 6 p.m. Cleveland at L.A. Lakers, 8:30 p.m. Friday’s Games New Orleans at Philadelphia, 5 p.m. Brooklyn at Washington, 5 p.m. Memphis at Orlando, 5 p.m. Detroit at Indiana, 5 p.m. Atlanta at Toronto, 5:30 p.m. Chicago at Boston, 5:30 p.m. Golden State at Oklahoma City, 6 p.m. Denver at Dallas, 6:30 p.m. Portland at San Antonio,6:30 p.m. Minnesota at Phoenix, 7 p.m. L.A. Lakers at Utah, 7 p.m. Miami at Sacramento, 8 p.m. Cleveland at L.A. Clippers, 830 p.m.

Transactions BASEBALL American League BOSTON RED SOX — Traded C Dan Butler to Washington for LHP Danny Rosenbaum. HOUSTON ASTROS — Agreed to terms with DH Chris Carter on a one-year contract LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Assigned OF/1B Marc Krauss outright to Salt Lake (PCL). NEW YORK YANKEES — Designated RHP Gonzalez Germen for assignment. Agreed to terms with RHP Ivan Nova on a one-year contract. SEATTLE MARINERS — Traded RHP Lars Huijer to the Chicago Cubs for LHP Mike Kickham. Designated LHP Anthony Fernandez for assignment. TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Claimed RHP Matt West off waivers from Texas. Designated RHP Cory Burns for assignment. National League ATLANTA BRAVES — Traded C Evan Gattis and RHP James Hoyt to the Houston Astros for RHP Mike Foltynewicz, RHP Andrew Thurman and INF Rio Ruiz. COLORADO ROCKIES — Agreed to terms with OF Drew Stubbs and RHP Jordan Lyles on one-year contracts and RHP Tyler Chatwood on a two-year contract. WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Acquired INF Yunel Escobar from the Oakland Athletics for RHP Tyler Clippard. American Association AMARILLO THUNDERHEADS — Signed C/1B Matt Chavez. BASKETBALL National Basketball Association NBA — Fined Detroit G Brandon Jennings $15,000 for making an obscene gesture during the Monday’s game. LOS ANGELES CLIPPERS — Signed G Dahntay Jones to a 10-day contract. NEW ORLEANS PELICANS — Signed G Nate Wolters to a 10-day contract. PHOENIX SUNS — Assigned G Archie Goodwin to Bakersfield (NBADL). FOOTBALL National Football League BUFFALO BILLS — Retained special teams co-

ordinator Danny Crossman. CAROLINA PANTHERS — Signed G Derek Dennis, TE Kevin Greene, WR Marcus Lucas, LB Horace Miller, RB Darrin Reaves, DT Micanor Regis, OT Martin Wallace and DBs Kimario McFadden and Lou Young to future contracts. CINCINNATI BENGALS — Signed S Isaiah Lewis and OT Emmett Cleary to future contracts. DENVER BRONCOS — Signed G Jon Halapio to a future contract. DETROIT LIONS — Signed DB Trevin Wade to a future contract. NEW YORK JETS — Named Todd Bowles coach. Canadian Football League EDMONTON ESKIMOS — Signed QB Jordan Lynch. GOLF PGA TOUR — Suspended Bhavik Patel one year for violating the anti-doping policy. HOCKEY National Hockey League NHL — Suspended Minnesota Wild D Ryan Suter for two games, without pay, for elbowing Pittsburgh Penguins F Steve Downie during a game Tuesday. ARIZONA COYOTES — Acquired a 2015 third-round draft pick from Minnesota for G Devan Dubnyk. CAROLINA HURRICANES — Recalled F Andrej Nestrasil from a conditioning assignment at Charlotte (AHL). NEW JERSEY DEVILS — Signed F Joseph Blandisi and assigned him to Barrie (OHL). Activated D Eric Gelinas from injured reserve. Placed F Tuomo Ruutu on injured reserve, retroactive to January 9. American Hockey League AHL — Suspended Toronto LW Brad Ross 20 games for a performance-enhancing substance violation. CHICAGO WOLVES — Announced F Adam Burish was reassigned to the team from Worcester (AHL). HERSHEY BEARS — Reassigned G Brandon Anderson to South Carolina (ECHL). LEHIGH VALLEY PHANTOMS — Recalled G Martin Ouellette from Reading (ECHL). Loaned F

Kevin Goumas to Reading. MANCHESTER MONARCHS — Returned G Joe Howe to Reading (ECHL). Assigned F Vincent Arseneau to Indy (ECHL). MILWAUKEE ADMIRALS — Recalled G Rob Madore from Cincinnati (ECHL). WORCESTER SHARKS — Returned F Riley Brace to Wheeling (ECHL) Announced F John McCarthy was assigned to the team. ECHL BRAMPTON BEAST — Traded F Rob Ricci to South Carolina for D Guy Leboeuf. CINCINNATI CYCLONES — Signed G Ian Ansel. FORT WAYNE KOMETS — Signed F Kyle Thomas. MISSOURI MAVERICKS — Traded D Dallas Ehrhardt to Rapid City for D Landon Oslanski. LACROSSE National Lacrosse League COLORADO MAMMOTH — Signed Gavin Prout to a one-day contract and announced his retirement. SOCCER Major League Soccer D.C. UNITED — Signed F Jairo Arrieta from Orlando City SC for an international roster slot. PHILADELPHIA UNION — Signed M Maurice Edu to a multiyear contract. National Women’s Soccer League SKY BLUE FC — Traded the rights to D Kendall Johnson to Portland for the 25th and 34th overall picks in this year’s college draft. North American Soccer League ARMADA FC — Signed D Nurdin Hrustic, F Tommy Krizanovic and M Nico Zaldana. COLLEGE AMERICAN ATHLETIC CONFERENCE — Promoted Chuck Sullivan to assistant commissioner for communications. AIR FORCE — Agreed to terms with football coach Troy Calhoun on a five-year contract through 2019. ARKANSAS — DT Darius Philon announced he will enter the NFL draft. Announced the resignation of offensive co-ordinator Jim Chaney. AUBURN — Named Lance Thompson linebackers coach.

DEPAUL — Signed women’s basketball coach Doug Bruno to a one-year contract extension through the 2019-20 season. FLORIDA STATE — Announced DT Eddie Goldman will enter the NFL draft. HAMPDEN-SYDNEY — Announced the addition of wrestling as an intercollegiate sport. HUNTINGDON — Named Latonia Allen volleyball coach. KENTUCKY — Announced RB Braylon Heard will enter the NFL draft. JOHNSON C. SMITH — Announced the resignation of football coach Steven B. Aycock. LSU — Named Ed Orgeron defensive line coach. MICHIGAN — Named Greg Jackson secondary coach. OHIO STATE — Promoted co-offensive coordinator Ed Warinner to offensive co-ordinator. Named Tim Beck co-offensive co-ordinator/quarterbacks coach. OKLAHOMA — Announced the retirement of assistant head football and cornerbacks coach Jack Wright. OREGON — Announced QB Marcus Mariota and DL Arik Armstead will enter the NFL draft. SOUTHERN CAL — Announced WR George Farmer will enter the NFL draft. TEXAS — Announced senior TE M.J. McFarland was granted his unconditional release and will transfer. TROY — Named Jamaal Smith director of football player development and Todd Watson director of football operations and high school relations. UCLA — DL Ellis McCarthy announced he will enter the NFL draft. UNC ASHEVILLE — Named Mathes Mennell men’s soccer coach. VANDERBILT — Named Todd Lyght cornerbacks coach. VIRGINIA — Named Dave Borbely offensive line coach and Chris Beatty running backs coach. WASHINGTON STATE — Named Alex Grinch defensive co-ordinator. WISCONSIN — Retained running backs coach Thomas Brown. Named Inoke Breckterfield defensive line coach, Chris Haering special teams coach, Mickey turner tight ends coach and Ross Kolodziej strength and conditioning coach.

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Mariota declares eligibility for draft BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Heisman Trophy winner Marcus Mariota, whose bold moves and leadership on the field brought the Ducks to the brink of a national championship before falling short, is leaving Oregon early for the NFL. Mariota announced his long-awaited decision to forgo his senior season on Oregon’s website. The team said he filed paperwork on Wednesday, a day before the NFL deadline. “I will miss being with my teammates,” he said in a statement. “Being a part of this team was something special that I will always treasure.” Mariota has been the humble leader of Oregon’s high-flying offence for three seasons. This season, the Ducks (13-2) defeated Florida State at the Rose Bowl in college football’s first playoffs, but fell 42-20 to Ohio State in Monday night’s national championship game. The 6-foot-4 dual threat from Hawaii won every major award he qualified for, starting with the Heisman, as well as AP Player of the Year, the Maxwell and Walter Camp awards and Pac-12 Offensive Player of the Year. He set a conference record for most touchdowns in a single season with 58; 42 via pass, 15 on the run and a touchdown catch. His passing touchdowns set a Pac-12 single-season record. He also set the conference’s career mark for career touchdowns with 136. He threw at least one touchdown pass in all 41 college games he played in at Oregon, starting in every one of his appearances. And he’s one of just four quarterbacks in FBS history to pass for more than 10,000 yards and run for more than 2,000 in his career. “It’s been an honour to watch Marcus develop over the last four years, and I’m excited to see what his future holds,”

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Oregon’s Marcus Mariota (8) runs against Ohio State during the first half of the NCAA college football playoff championship game in Arlington, Texas. Mariota, the Heisman Trophy winner, has declared his eligibility for the NFL draft, in an announcement on Oregon’s website, Wednesday. Oregon coach Mark Helfrich said in a statement. “He’s given this program everything we could have asked, and he’ll be the standard by which others are judged. Mahalo.” Led by Mariota, Oregon finished No. 2 in this season’s final AP rankings. Overall, the Ducks ranked third in the nation in total offence with an average of 547 yards per game. The Ducks’ passing offence under Mariota was ranked 10th nationally with an average of 312.5 yards a game. Mariota’s passer efficiency rating (181.7) topped the na-

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LAKE FOREST, Ill. — John Fox interviewed for the Chicago Bears’ coaching job Wednesday, two days after parting ways with the Denver Broncos. Fox is at least the sixth candidate to interview for the job. He’s widely seen as a strong possibility given his record and his ties to consultant Ernie Accorsi and new general manager Ryan Pace. Fox was the defensive co-ordinator for the New York Giants from 1997 to 2001 when Accorsi was the GM. Saints coach Sean Payton was the offensive co-ordinator for part of that time, and he is tight with Pace, who was hired out of New Orleans’ front office. Fox won the AFC West all four of his years in Denver, but each of those seasons ended in ugly losses, including a 24-13 upset by Indianapolis this year. He was 49-22 with the Broncos, including the playoffs, following a 7874 record in nine years with Carolina, counting the post-season. He led the Panthers to a Super Bowl with Jake Delhomme at quarterback and got back there last year with Peyton Manning. The Broncos got blown out 43-8 by Seattle, convincing general manager John Elway to spend $60 million in guarantees on new defensive players so his quarterback shouldn’t have to carry the load by himself. Fox, who in the past was criticized for being too conservative, drew more scrutiny midway through this season when the Broncos altered their offence and started to focus more on the run. The Bears made big changes after finishing 5-11 and missing the playoffs for the seventh time in eight seasons, firing general manager Phil Emery and coach Marc Trestman. They interviewed former Buffalo Bills coach Doug Marrone and Detroit Lions defensive co-ordinator Teryl Austin. Chicago also has met with Seattle defensive co-ordinator Dan Quinn, Denver offensive co-ordinator Adam Gase and then-Arizona defensive co-ordinator Todd Bowles, who was hired by the Jets.

tion. Mariota was known for his steady demeanour from the start. Off the field, he was shy and unassuming, but he stayed on the field following every game to shake hands and pose for pictures. Mariota said before Monday’s season finale that he would trade his Heisman for a national championship, but it wasn’t to be. In the final game he threw for 333 yards and two touchdowns. “My main focus was to be a great

teammate,” he said following the game. “That’s all I hoped to accomplish. I don’t really care about legacies.” Mariota was a three-star recruit for the Ducks out of St. Louis High School in Honolulu. He is fiercely proud of his roots: His helmet facemask was designed to include the numbers 8-0-8 in a nod to the state’s area code, and following the national championship his family gifted him with stacks of leis that he wore in the locker room. “I think you could argue that this was the best, if not certainly one of the top two or three greatest seasons in college football history,” Helfrich said of Mariota following the game. “And then you add in the person and the legacy that he has from that standpoint, and there has never been one greater. None.” Three plays this season exemplified Mariota’s ability to create on the football field. Among his four touchdowns in Oregon’s victory over Wyoming was an acrobatic second-quarter keeper where he somersaulted into the end zone over receiver Keanon Lowe and a Cowboys defender. Then there was an inspired shovel pass to freshman running back Royce Freeman that gave the Ducks a key first down in a victory over then-No. 7 Michigan State. And although the Ducks would lose 31-24 to Arizona on Oct. 2, Mariota got creative to start the second quarter when he handed off to Freeman, who lobbed the ball back to Mariota for a 28-yard touchdown. Spartans coach Mark Dantonio summed Mariota up this way: “What he does is lead. What he shows is toughness. And what he does is create.” Mariota’s departure leaves the Ducks with uncertainty at quarterback.

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Skip Carson Dauk watches as Jeremy Weddell, left, and Clayton Boyer of Lufkin Pentagon in Red Deer play Do right Services of Nisku in the opening draw of last year’s Oilmen’s Bonspiel. The 33rd annual Oilmen’s Bonspiel kicks off on Friday at the Pidherney Centre. Competition runs through Sunday.

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Friday ● Silver Blades senior skating is offered on Fridays, 2 to 3:30 p.m., and Seniors Skating will be offered on Tuesdays from 2:30 to 3:30, both at the Red Deer Arena. Ages 50 years plus. Cost is $3 for drop-in. ● Scrabble is offered at Golden Circle Senior Resource Centre on Fridays at 1 p.m. for a cost of $1. Phone 403-343-6074.

Saturday ● Malanka Ukrainian New Year’s Eve Supper and Dance will be offered on Jan. 17 by the Kvitka Red Deer Ukrainian Dance Club. Event will take place at Festival Hall, with cocktails at 6 p.m., and dinner at 6:45 p.m. followed by show and dance with music by Northern Kings. Tickets are $45 until Jan. 13, or $50 after, from Irene at 403-346-5712, or Catherine at 403-343-2850. ● Ponoka Senior Drop-In Centre jam sessions are held Saturdays from 1 to 4 p.m. Lots of dancing. Admission is $2 at the door and includes refreshments and snack. Please bring snacks. Phone Linda at 403-783-8461. ● Annual Charter Night and Introduction of Citizen of the Year — Kathleen Raines — at Spruce View Community Hall, Jan. 17. Fellowship 6 p.m. with banquet at 7 p.m. Tickets cost $25 per person. Contact Suzanne at 403-728-0138. ● Ponoka Moose Lodge Old Time Dance will be held on third Saturday of each month, next Jan. 17, 7:30 to 11:30 p.m. Cost is $12, ($10 for Moose members.) Potluck lunch. Top name bands. See www.AlbertaDanceNews.com, or call Jean or Fred at 403783-8587 for more information. ● Town and Country Farmer’s Market will be held every Saturday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the lower level of Rocky Mountain House Museum (Visitors Centre Building). Exceptions will be when other special markets are scheduled. Contact Iris at 403-845-3629. ● Whisker Rescue will be at the Petsmart store every third Saturday of each month with the Senior for Senior Program from noon to 4 p.m. A senior cat is given to a senior person free of charge, and payment of veterinary bills; Whisker Rescue supplies food and litter if necessary. The next date is Jan. 17. For more information call Diane at 403-347-1251. ● Ponoka Senior Drop-In Centre jam sessions are held Saturdays from 1 to 4 p.m. Lots of dancing. Admission is $2 at the door and includes refreshments and snack. Please bring snacks. Phone Linda at 403-783-8461. ● Lego Days is held in the Children’s Department at Downtown Branch of Red Deer Public Library on Saturdays, Jan. 17, Feb. 14

and March 14 from 2 to 3 p.m. Children ages six and up, and those under six with an adult are invited to enjoy challenges, minute-to-win it games and free play. ● Girlz Club meets at Red Deer Public Library Dawe Branch on Jan. 17 from 1 to 3 p.m. Girls ages seven years and up invited to explore the coldest place on earth. For more information call 403-341-3822 or email cputnam@rdpl.org.

Sunday ● Lacombe Legion Breakfast is offered on the third Sunday of each month from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Coffee hour is held every Wednesday from 9:30 to 11 a.m. Phone 403782-6441. ● Gospel concerts at Ponoka Drop-In Centre are held the third Sunday of each month at 7 p.m. Admission is $5 at the door. Contact Doreen at 403-783-3805. The next gospel concert will be Jan. 18 with music by Gospel 792. ● Living Faith Lutheran Church invites everyone to Sunday Worship at Bethany CollegeSide at 10 a.m. Contact Ralph at 403347-9852. Coffee and fellowship follow service. Living Faith is a North American Lutheran Church Congregation. ● Seniors Church meets at 11 a.m. on Sundays at Bower Kin Place for hymns and gospel preaching. Phone 403-347-6706. ● Maker Kids ages eight and up meet on Sundays, Jan. 18, Feb. 15, March 15 from 2 to 3 p.m. at Downtown Branch of Red Deer Public Library to explore and create in this hands-on tech program with fun gadgets from littleBits to Mindstorm, to makey makey and more.

Monday ● Take Off Pounds Sensibly (T.O.P.S.) is a non-profit weight loss support organization which holds regular weekly meetings in Red Deer and Blackfalds. Learn about nutrition, portion control, food planning, exercise and more. Visit a meeting free of charge. Meetings are held on Monday evenings, Tuesday mornings and Thursday evenings. For locations and information call Gail at 403340-1859 or toll free at 1-800-932-8677 or see www.tops.org. ● Red Deer Public Library branches have many drop in programs for preschool children and their parents and caregivers. See www.rdpl.org, or contact your local branch. ● Chess Club at Red Deer Public Library Dawe Branch welcomes all levels of players from beginner to intermediate to learn chess rules and strategies on Mondays with child

players from 5 to 6 p.m. and adult players from 6 to 6:30 p.m. Co-sponsored by Alberta Chess Association. Phone 403-341-3822. ● Cover 2 Cover Book Club will meet on Jan. 19 from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at Dawe Branch of Red Deer Public Library. The theme will be books that make you feel alive. Visit www. rdpl.org/programs/book-clubs/cover2cover. New members always welcome. Phone 403341-3822. ● SNAP Youth Readers Club is offered at Dawe and Downtown Branches of Red Deer Public Library on Mondays, and is for youth who are new English speakers. The group will read a book together and learn new language skills. The Dawe group meets from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m., and the Downtown group meets from 4 to 5 p.m. in Waskasoo Kiwanis Meeting Room.

Tuesday ● Writers’ Ink — Red Deer and District Writers’ group for authors of all genres 18 years and older — meets every Tuesday, 7 to 9 p.m., year round at Sunnybrook Farm Museum. First three visits free. Small membership and drop in fees apply. Call Carol at 403-350-7480 and email to studio2@telus.net for more information. ● Red Deer Legion Branch #35 offers karaoke at Molly B’s Pub on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 7 p.m., and wing night on Thursdays from 5 to 10 p.m. Phone 403-342-0035. ● Red Deer Celiac Support Group meets in the coffee lounge at the south location of Sobeys Inc. on the third Tuesday of every month starting at 7 p.m., next Jan. 20. Those sensitive and allergic to gluten are invited to come out and find out more about celiac disease, gluten free diets and products, support, fellowship, coffee and goodies. See www.celiac.ca, or contact Marlene at 403-346-6235, or Clarice at 403-341-4351 or email reddeerceliacs@yahoo.ca. ● Notre Dame Safe Grad 2015 parent volunteer recruitment will be held on Jan. 20, 7 p.m. at Sheraton Red Deer. A minimum of 100 volunteers needed. Phone 403-3500901. ● Momstown Alphabet Play for parents with newborns to six years will be offered on Jan. 20, Feb. 17, and March 17 from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. at Red Deer Public Library Timberlands Branch. ● Schizophrenia — A Personal Story — will be presented at Red Deer Public Library Dawe Branch on Tuesdays, Jan. 20, Feb. 24, and March 24, from 6 to 7 p.m. Co-sponsored by Schizophrenia Society of Alberta to improve quality of life for those affected.

Wednesday ● Epilepsy Association of Central Alberta located at 4811 48 Street will offer Face to Face Support and Discussion on Jan. 21 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. See www.epilepsycalgary.com, or contact403-358-3358 or normak@epilepsycalgary.com. ● Red Deer River Naturalists — Flower Focus — meets on Jan. 21, 10 a.m. at Kerry

Wood Nature Centre. Contact Don for details at 403-343-2937. ● Epilepsy Association offers used books and videos for sale at The Hub on Ross. All items are $2 each. For more information call 403-358-3358. ● Norwegian Laft Hus is open Wednesdays from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Enjoy baking, gifts and much more at the log house with the sod roof behind the Red Deer Recreation Centre, south of the Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery. Contact norwegianlafthus@ gmail.com, 403-347-2055 for information or to arrange different times to visit. ● Central Alberta Historical Society will meet on Jan. 21, 7 p.m. Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery. Guest speaker Paul Gowans speaking on the history of Lindsay Thurber Comprehensive High School. Everyone is welcome. Contact Faye at 403-343-1881. ● Teen Movie Mania: The Hunger Games Mockingjay Madness event will be featured on Jan. 21 in Waskasoo Kiwanis Meeting Room at Downtown Branch of Red Deer Public Library from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. for youth ages 12 to 18 only. Enjoy the movie on the big screen, snacks, and door prizes. ● Fireside Readers book club will meet on Jan. 21 from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at Red Deer Public Library Downtown Branch in Waskasoo Kiwanis Meeting Room. For discussion will be People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks. Phone 403-342-9110. See the blog at http://firesidereaders.rdpl.org/. If you can’t attend meetings, read along and post your comments.

Thursday ● Golden Circle Senior Resource Centre dance, Thursday, Jan. 22, 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. at the seniors’ centre. Dance to the music of Black Velvet Band. Admission is $7. Phone 403-347-6165, 403-342-2875, or 403346-3896. ● Powered by Breathing Lung Support Group meets Thursdays from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. Those with lung disorders are invited to learn tips on having a better life with a chronic lung disorder at this Lung Association affiliated support group. Contact Barb at 403-3430804, or Mac at 403-347-2191. ● Red Deer River Naturalists meet the fourth Thursday of most months at 7:30 p.m. at the Kerry Wood Nature Centre. On Jan. 22, speaker Dorothy Hill will give a presentation on the evolution of parental care in birds. Non-members are welcome to attend. Annual membership is $15 for individuals and $20 for families. See www.rdrn.ca ● School’s Out Hangout for youth in Grades 4 and 5 will be offered at Timberlands Branch of Red Deer Public Library on Thursdays until 4 p.m. Hang out with friends and enjoy a variety of activities. ● Makers’ Club meets on Jan. 22 at Dawe Branch of Red Deer Public Library to join in Lego free play and building from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. For those ages seven years and up. Lego donations welcomed at Dawe and Downtown Library branches.

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Pope urges forgiveness BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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MADHU, Sri Lanka — Pope Francis travelled to the jungles of war-torn northern Sri Lanka on Wednesday for a deeply symbolic show of solidarity with the victims of the country’s 25-year civil war and to urge forgiveness and reconciliation “for all the evil which this land has known.” Thousands of people waving the white and yellow Vatican flags welcomed Francis to the Our Lady of Madhu shrine, which is revered by both Sinhalese and Tamil Catholics, as well as people of other faiths. No pope has ever travelled to the northern Tamil region, and Francis’ visit to Sri Lanka’s holiest Christian shrine — hours after canonizing the country’s first saint as a model for unity — provided a poignant backdrop for his calls for Sri Lankans to overcome their prejudices and seek pardon for the sake of peace. “Only when we come to understand, in the light of the cross, the evil we are capable of and have even been a part of, can we experience true remorse and true repentance,” he said after setting free a dove in a sign of peace. “Only then can we receive the grace to approach one another in true contrition, offering and seeking true forgiveness.” Tamil Tiger rebels fought a 25-year civil war to demand an independent Tamil nation after decades of perceived discrimination by governments dominated by the Sinhalese majority. UN estimates say 80,000 to 100,000 people were killed during the course of the war, though other reports suggest the toll could be much higher. The government crushed the rebels in a bloody series of offensives that ended in 2009. During the war, the Madhu shrine — which was originally built in the 16th century by Catholics

fleeing persecution in the northern Jaffna kingdom — again became a place of refuge with thousands of people fleeing there for cover. “I believe the holy father’s visit will be a remedy to our pain,” said Mary Conseeta, 22, who lost two brothers, aged 13 and 15, in 2008 when the school bus they were travelling home in exploded in a roadside blast blamed on Sri Lankan forces. She escaped with a wound in her leg. “I have faced enormous losses, not only me, but everyone who is here is carrying some form of grief,” she said before Francis arrived in Madhu. “All I pray for is peace.” During the final stages of the war, the villages around Madhu emptied out as residents fled deeper into rebel-held territory to escape the government’s offensive. At one point, the priest in charge of the shrine fled for safety along with its precious statue of the Madonna, which dates from the arrival of the earliest Christians in Sri Lanka and is believed to hold miraculous healing powers. Both eventually returned. On Wednesday, Francis cradled the statue in his arms, telling the faithful before him that while the statue had once left, the Virgin Mary had never stopped protecting them. “Just as her statue came back to her shrine of Madhu after the war, so we pray that all her Sri Lankan sons and daughters may come home to God in a renewed spirit of reconciliation and fellowship,” he said. Francis, who is particularly devoted to the Virgin Mary, urged the crowd to pray “for the grace to make reparation for our sins and for all the evil which this land has known.”

It was his second major call for reconciliation of the day: Earlier in the morning, he celebrated a Mass before a half-million people in Colombo’s Galle Face Green to canonize the Rev. Joseph Vaz as Sri Lanka’s first saint. Vaz was a 17th century Indian missionary who revived the faith in Sri Lanka during a time of antiCatholic persecution by Dutch colonists, who were Protestant Calvinists. The Catholic Church considers Vaz a great role model for today’s faithful, ministering to the faithful of both of Sri Lanka’s main ethnic groups and putting himself at great risk to spread the faith. Francis told the crowd that Vaz lived at a time — like today — when Catholics were a minority and often persecuted, and yet he ministered to all, regardless of their ethnic or religious background. “St. Joseph shows us the importance of transcending religious divisions in the service of peace,” Francis said in his homily, delivered in English and then translated for the crowd into both Sinhalese and Tamil. “As the life of St. Joseph Vaz teaches us, genuine worship of God bears fruit not in discrimination, hatred and violence, but in respect for the sacredness of life, respect for the dignity and freedom of others, and loving commitment to the welfare of all.” He said the Sri Lankan church today only wants to continue Vaz’s legacy of service to all, asking only for the freedom to preach in return. “Religious freedom is a fundamental human right,” he said. To underscore that point, Francis gave Sri Lanka’s bishops a replica of a 17th century decree from the then-king of Kandy — an independent state on the island at the time — allowing Catholic conversions of Buddhists — a somewhat provocative message given the recent upswing in violence against Muslims and some Protestant churches by Buddhist extremists.

REGISTRATIONS LOCAL EVENTS AND ORGANIZATIONS ● Bill Bourne in Concert at Golden Circle will take place on Feb. 21. Doors open at 6:30 with the concert at 7 p.m. Tickets cost $15 in advance starting on Jan. 19, or $20 at the door. Phone 403-343-6074. ● Reading Tails is a six week program for children ages six to 12 who would like to practice reading skills with a trained therapy dog and its handler at Red Deer Library Downtown Branch. For more information or to register contact 403-346-4688 or email lgrimes@rdpl.org. ● Red Deer Public Library has many volunteer opportunities. Techno-PRO Teen Volunteers needs youth ages 12 to 24 years who are savvy on various electronic devices are invited to contact 403-755-1130, or behnes@rdpl.org. College or high school reading volunteers who are interested in working with elementary school aged children are invited to contact lsheardown@rdpl.org, or 403-3093488. Adult literacy volunteers are needed to work with newcomers to Canada, and other adults who have literacy challenges. Call 403346-2533. Volunteers are also needed to offer settlement support to newcomers on topics of housing, and transportation in conjunction with Red Deer Public Library and Central Alberta Refugee Effort. Phone 403-346-8818, or connectingnewcomers@care2centre.ca. ● Newcomers Reading Club is now taking registrations for Levels 1 to 4 ESL. Classes start Feb. 18 and are usually held at Waskasoo Kiwanis Meeting Room at Red Deer Public Library Downtown Branch. To register, contact Central Alberta Refugee Effort at 403-346-8818. ● Light Technician Workshop will be presented by Klaglahachie Fine Arts Society with Theatre Alberta and Alberta Foundation of the Arts on Feb. 7 at Ponoka United Church. To register, contact mamahem@ hotmail.ca,or 403-783-8896. ● Delburne United Church Ground Hog Supper will take place on Feb. 2 from 5 to 7

p.m. at Delburne Hall. ● Golden Circle Senior Resource Centre celebrates Russia on Jan. 23 and 24. Enjoy dinner and entertainment by RendezVous Music of Calgary. Tickets for either night on sale at the Golden Circle. Costs are $30 for members and $40 for non-members. Phone 403-346-343-6074. ● Cultural Cafe on Jan. 25 presents Robbie Burns Night at Cronquist House from 6 to 8 p.m. Celebrate Scottish tradition with poetry, songs, haggis, and bagpipe music. Register by calling 403-346-8818 or see www.immigrant-centre.ca ● Rimbey Annual Women’s Conference will be held on Feb. 5 from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Peter Lougheed Community Centre in Rimbey. Keynote speaker is Zaheen Nanji on Unlock the Power of You, Embracing Change, and there will be six concurrent sessions, entertainment by comedians James Uloth and Steve Mazan, catered lunch, vendors, prizes and more. Registration fee is $35 until Jan. 29, and $40 after. Register at Family and Community Support Services in the Rimbey. Call 403-843-2030. ● The Alberta Dahlia and Gladiolus Society meeting will be held on Jan. 25, 2 p.m. at Eastview Estates Community Centre. A slide show of the top 50 dahlias, information on soil preparation and spring planting, and information on ordering dahlia tubers and glad corms will be featured. All interested public welcome. Contact Larry at 403-3468401, or larryquintilio@gmail.com. ● Lincoln Hall Society Dinner Theatre presents the musical Davy the Punk by Bob Bossin, Feb. 7 at Lincoln Hall. Doors open at 5:30 p.m., with supper by Bob Ronnie Catering from 6:30 to 8 p.m., and show at 8 p.m. Advance tickets only available until Feb. 5 for $45. Contact Kathy at 403-782-4194. ● Join hands for building a future for Somali Children Gala will be held on Jan. 30 from 6 to 9 p.m. at Festival Hall. Enjoy international cuisine supper, entertainment,

keynote speakers Lorinda Stewart and Azalea Lehndorff, photo booth, silent auction, door prizes and more for $35 per person. Tickets available from Little Star Restaurant, The Hub on Ross, Central Alberta Refugee Effort, and Central Alberta Immigrant Women’s Association. All money will go towards building, furnishing, and staffing a school for Somalian children. Donations may be made to TD Bank, Education for Somalian Girls and Boys, account 221-5234043. Contact Zainab. mohamoud@gmail.com, 403-550-4067. ● Arts and Craft Beer Fundraiser for Red Deer Arts Council and the Emerging Artist Award will be held on Jan. 31 at Festival Hall. Highlights include live music with St. James Gate, dancing, craft beer, live and silent auction, appetizers, and more. Tickets available at Black Knight Inn Ticket Centre for $50 per person, or $350 for a table of eight. See www.reddeerartscouncil.ca ● Red Deer College presents two wellknown speakers. Donald School of Business Distinguished Speaker Series presents Amanda Lang, Jan. 28 at Welikoklad Event Centre. Networking and refreshments from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. followed by speaker presentation from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Tickets are $75 each. Perspectives: Canada in the World Welcomes Margaret Atwood, April 6 at RDC Arts Centre, Mainstage at 7:30 p.m. Tickets

cost $40 or $32 for students and seniors. For each, tickets are available at www.bkticketcentre.ca or by calling 403-755-6626, 1-800661-8793. ● Notre Dame High School Fine Arts presents Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Feb. 12 to 14 at 7 p.m., and Feb. 14 at 1 p.m. at Red Deer Memorial Centre. Tickets are $20 for adults, $15 for students, and free for children under five from Notre Dame High School or from cast members. Special Preview Night will be held on Feb. 11, 7 p.m. with pay what you can admission for the general public. Contact stephanie.layden@rdcrs.ca. Annual Freeze the House Charity Bonspiel presented by Fas Gas in support of Ronald McDonald House Central Alberta will play out Jan. 30 to Feb. 1 at Pidherney Curling Centre. To register as a participant contact jennifer@rmhcentralalberta.org, or to volunteer contact linda@rmhcentralalberta.org. Registration fee includes three games, draw prizes, awards, Friday night mixer, and Saturday night dinner and dance. ● Alberta Sports Hall of Fame is accepting nominations until January 31 for the 2015 induction process. To nominate an individual or team that has attained a high level of excellence and brought recognition or honour to Alberta, visit www.ashfm.ca for a nomination package, or phone 403-341-8614.

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Dear Annie: My boyfriend and I are in our 60s and have known each other since high school. We reconnected five years ago, and for the past 18 months, we’ve been living together. At first, my boyfriend was loving and sweet and promised all sorts of dreams for our future. But after several months, he changed. He became distant, sometimes even cruel in his actions. I begged him to MITCHELL tell me if there was another woman, but he always denied & SUGAR it, in spite of rumours and the fact that things just seemed off. The problem is, even after all this time, I still have moments when I’m convinced he had a fling with a certain woman, and I can’t get over it. He still denies it, and I am confused and hurt. But when I ask, he will respond by withdrawing from me for months. I believe he did have an affair and never got over her and that’s why we have so little intimacy now. I have been praying and am seeing a counsellor, but I can’t seem to let it go completely. Is there something wrong with me? Or is my intuition telling me that he

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deceived me and is continuing to lie about it? All my friends say either to let it go or to end it, but I don’t want to leave him, and I have no control over my thoughts and feelings. Please help. — Louise in Louisville Dear Louise: Actually, you do have some control over those thoughts and feelings, but it takes effort and willingness. Your intuition is telling you that your boyfriend is not being completely honest, and you have become fixated on knowing something that he probably will never tell you. And it could be that there is nothing to tell. Because you wish to stay with him, please talk to your counsellor about how to forgive him, and then do the necessary work to get there. Dear Annie: I would like to write a note to all smokers: News flash. You smell like a dirty ashtray. Always. You try to be nice and go outside to have your cigarette, but when you come back in, you still smell like an ashtray. You smoke in your car so you can have your cigarette before you arrive at your destination, but when you walk into the room, you still smell. Your clothes reek of smoke — always. No amount of perfume covers it up. Just thought you’d like to know. I know I’m tired of smelling you. — A Nonsmoker Dear Nonsmoker: Although what you say is true, it is not so simple. Most smokers are well aware of the

HOROSCOPES Thursday, Jan. 15 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Regina King, 44; Charo, 64; Mario Van Peebles, 58 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: After the enlightening opportunities presented to you over the last couple of days, today is the day to plan out your actions and make each action count. If certain avenues are blocked for you today, it is merely the world asking you to take a more prosperous route. So be clear of your intentions and aims now. All in all, it will be a good day and a very positive time. HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today is your birthday, this year will prove to be just what you need in order to get on the right path going forward. Yes, there could be some blocks, but use the next path to your adLARISA MAIRA vantage. OZOLINS Truly, the doors have opened and are welcoming you into more prosperous times. More times will be spend alone or working on projects behind the scenes now. ARIES (March 21-April 19): If you feel that there is no way around the dilemma you find yourself in today, then rest and refocus. What is it that you want to express? Start that creative project, re-work your plans. Everything happens for a reason — trust that you are being guided to something great! TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You are one of the zodiac signs who like the slow and steady energy, so today you should be fine with minor delays. You want to be sure that what you are doing is right and that you will no doubt achieve those dreams you have within business or romantic partnerships. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Slow and steady will win the race for you on a professional level and with work colleagues as well. There are long term goals that you would like to implement now, so get on board and start the process. It is the day to get started. Share your ideas with others too. Inspire them. CANCER (June 21-July 22): You are truly taking the future by the horns and riding it into the night. Any stresses you feel today will not really bother you, as you step forward with all that you want to achieve. This will no doubt build your inner confidence and even your finances too. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You will become slightly frustrated today with those you are close with. It could simply be that you are irritated by others and you feel the need to take that out on them. Why not channel that energy into something that will get you feeling grounded? Start focusing on your home.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Slow and steady energy will get you everywhere now, especially when it comes to interpersonal relationships. There could be some frustrations coming up today, but simply know that any blocks or delays are there to shine a light on the right approach. Go with the flow now. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You might get a little frustrated today when trying to get your daily life and work in order. Just know that it will create some tension for you and try to be prepared for that. A stable approach towards everything you do will create a stronger footing towards your dreams. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Today is the day to take a slow, steady approach to all your creative projects and with your children as well. You will want to increase the bond with them and will most likely be eager to please them now. Be responsible and express discipline when required. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You will be feeling excellent today. You will see your future aims and direction in a new light as you are able to stop and take account of all that

lingering odor, not to mention the yellowing teeth and nails, frequent cough, and looming lung cancer. The downside has been well-documented and wellpublicized. But smoking is highly addictive. For some, giving it up is nearly impossible, no matter how much effort they put into trying. Though smoking in the car or outside the office is not ideal, it is better than nothing. Dear Annie: I’d like to offer a more positive response to all those mothers who complain about their daughters-in-law. My son is married to a wonderful woman. She is a great mother to their two children and stepmother to his daughter. I love this woman with all of my heart. I am always welcome in their home as they are in mine. I can have the grandchildren whenever I want. When their daughter was born, my daughter-in-law gave me the most wonderful gift: She allowed me to be in the delivery room for the birth. What a precious woman my son married. I called her “daughter,” because to me, that is what she is. My own mother-in-law was not very kind to me, and I vowed I would be different. Sometimes it takes a little work, and sometimes your son marries an angel. — Mother-in-Law of an Angel 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. you have accomplished to date. If you feel like any actions are blocked now, it is for your own good. Go with the flow! CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Today will offer you the ability to start implementing those goals you have set out for yourself. You might feel slightly uneasy about where your actions are leading you, but don’t worry. Everything will work out for the best. You’ll be able to see the larger perspective now. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The actions you are taking and the people you are surrounding yourself with are helping you increase your finances more than ever before. You will take an honest appraisal of where you are and this can only be positive now. You are definitely moving towards your dreams! PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): The actions you are taking today towards your career objectives will pay off for you. Maybe not today, but do understand that your long range goals will definitely be helped along by your actions today. The atmosphere at work will be with individuals who are very generous. Larisa Maira Ozolins is an internationally syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate.

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A one-stop service shop CITY FUNDING ALLOWS 211 PHONE SYSTEM TO LINK PEOPLE WITH COMMUNITY SERVICES BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF It seems only fitting that Red Deer’s new 211 phone service hopes to launch on the 11th day of the second month this year. United Way CEO Robert Mitchell chuckled about the timing, but was enthusiastic about bringing the service to Red Deer, where it had previously only been online. “We’re pretty much there now, we just have a few things left to sort out,” said Mitchell. “It’s going to be a one-stop shop, you don’t have to phone all these different places to get information. Go to 211 first and they’ll tell you the information you need.”

Earlier this week, Red Deer city council approved three-year funding for 211 phone service in the city. In total, the city will contribute $208,635 over three years, investing $67,500 this year, $69,525 in 2016 and $71,610 in 2017. The service offers information and referral for callers looking for community and social services. “It’s social, health and government services only,” said Mitchell. “There is no commercial activities or organizations on 211. “You can phone for all sorts of reasons, it could be for employment issues, parenting support, counselling services or even legal services.” The information given to callers goes beyond the numbers to call. It can include business hours, referral needs

and locations. Mitchell said it could also be very useful to staff in the social, health and government services sectors, working with clients who are unsure of where to refer their client to. Edmonton, Calgary and the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo already have both online and phone 211 service. For Red Deer, the calls to the service would be directed to a centre in Calgary. The funding provided to the United Way for the service is primarily used to maintain the database of contacts that will be drawn upon when someone is in need of a specific service. While the phone calls will be answered in Calgary, the data is stored in Edmonton.

“It makes it much more affordable,” said Mitchell. “If Red Deer wanted to do its own, it would be very cost prohibitive and difficult logistically.” Mitchell has been working on this project for three years. Central Alberta has had online 211 service since July 2014, at www.ab.211.ca. It’s not just limited to Red Deer — 44 municipalities in Central Alberta have had the service, stretching from Rocky Mountain House and Drayton Valley to Coronation and from Olds to Wetaskiwin. “That was the crux of the hard work in some respect,” said Mitchell. “You’re only as good as your database and we’ve worked hard to get our database up to date, has the right information and that we’ve checked it.” mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

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Naomi Ramsbottom with her five-year-old daughter Olivia at the kickoff of the STARS Home Lottery in Red Deer on Wednesday. Olivia had a life-saving flight on the STARS air ambulance when she was just one day old.

STARS reaches for stars THIS YEAR’S LOTTERY OFFERS BIGGEST PRIZE ROSTER EVER BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF The 22nd annual STARS Lottery is the non-profit organization’s biggest to date. STARS air ambulance launched the 2015 lottery on Wednesday with the grand opening of its four grand prize homes, including a 3,550-square-foot bi-level beauty located at 160 Close in Red Deer. “The 2015 STARS Lottery is our largest with a total of 3,227 prizes worth more than $5.3 million,” said Jeff Quick, executive vice-president of the STARS Foundation and chief fi-

nancial officer, at the Red Deer lottery home Wednesday morning. Grand prize homes are also located in Calgary, Lethbridge and Edmonton. The fifth grand prize is a 2015 GMC truck and Arctic Fox fifth wheel. Quick said tickets were made available early to past ticket buyers and as of Wednesday, a total of 47 per cent of tickets for the 2015 lottery were sold. Last year, the lottery was sold out by March 9. STARS Lottery is “one of the largest in Canada. And it’s the only one that has sold out for 20 years in a row,” Quick said. Fifty-seven per cent of tickets for the lottery’s new 50/50 draw have also

been sold. If sold out, the 50/50 draw promises a prize of $1.5 million. Quick credited the lottery’s success to immense community support for the lottery that will raise about $11 million for STARS operations in Alberta. It costs STARS a total of $30 million per year to operate its three Alberta bases. During the 2013-14 fiscal year, STARS flew 1,739 missions from bases in Calgary, Edmonton and Grande Prairie, including some flights into British Columbia.

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Town of Sylvan Lake officials are optimistic they can sort out their planning differences with Lacombe County. The rural municipality said last week that it wants to see some changes to the town’s recently approved Municipal Development Plan. County representatives acknowledge the plan discusses the importance of maintaining lake health, but the county wants to see more specifics in the plan about setbacks, preservation of open spaces and provisions for public lake access. For example, in the county 30-metre setbacks from the lake are required for any new development, but the same provision is not mentioned in the town’s MDP. The Municipal Government Act says the two municipalities have to get together with a mediator to address their concerns before a formal appeal is considered. Town communications officer Joanne Gaudet said the county raised similar issues previously when a draft version of the MDP was provided for comment. The town believes it addressed those concerns in the finished plan. It is more challenging for the town to get too specific about issues such as setbacks and preservation of open space because it doesn’t own any lakeside land itself; it is all in the hands of private landowners. The town is committed to ensuring the lake is protected and believes specific requirements for developers are better left to other planning documents. “Something like a detail like 30-metre setback could be more suitable for a land use bylaw.” Sylvan Lake is about to begin a review of its land use bylaw, which provides a road map for future development. While the town and county may not see exactly eye to eye on what the MDP should contain, Gaudet is confident the municipalities will come to an agreement.

Lacombe opens taps for microbreweries Lacombe is tapping into the growing interest in microbreweries. City council gave first reading to bylaw changes on Monday that will add microbreweries as potential uses in various commercial districts in the community. Microbreweries will be considered a discretionary use — as are other liquor-related businesses in town. That means the municipal planning commission has the final say on ap-

proval. The bylaw will include definitions for major and minor microbreweries. A minor microbrewery will be restricted to producing no more than 500,000 litres a year. A major microbrewery will be allowed to produce up to 2.5 million litres annually. Matthew Goudy, Lacombe’s director of planning and operations, said the bylaw changes follow recent interest shown by a business person in setting up a microbrewery in the community. The application is in its early stages and the proponent has not gone public yet.

On looking into the proposal, planning staff discovered that there was no mention of microbreweries in bylaws. “The rule is if we don’t speak to it in the bylaw, it’s not allowed in any zones,” said Goudy. As a discretionary use, each microbrewery application will go before the planning commission and the public will have an opportunity to comment. A public hearing on the bylaw changes is set for Feb. 9 and second and third readings will follow. Red Deer city council recently approved its own bylaw amendment enabling the development of microbrew-

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BRIEFS Try out snowshoes at Kerry Wood Nature Centre Anyone who wants to try snowshoeing can get the chance on Sunday. From 1 to 4 p.m., the Kerry Wood Nature Centre will loan snowshoes for a tramp around in the snow. Those who wish to try snowshoes must wear flat snow boots. The event goes ahead only if snow levels and weather permit. Admission is by donation of $3 per person or $10 per family. For more details, call 403-346-2010. The nature centre is located at 6300 45th Ave. in Red Deer.

Hot and fit, magazine declares of Red Deer native A Red Deer native can boast being the hottest and fittest Canadian, according to one magazine. Nadine Dumas, 33, may have left Red Deer for warmer climates — the Cayman Islands — in 2005, but she grew up in the area. She is an owner/operator of What It Takes, where she works one-on-one as a life coach, sports nutritionist and personal trainer. And in this month’s issue of Inside Fitness Magazine, based out of Oakville, Ont., she topped the list of 100 of Canada’s hot and fit.

Turn old sweaters into something new Crafty recyclers can learn how to turn old sweaters into something new at a the Fantastic Felt Workshop at the Kerry Wood Nature Centre on Jan. 24. The crafting event is suitable to anyone 14 years or older. Basic sewing skills are an asset but not necessary. Preregistration is required by Jan. 22. The cost is $17 plus GST. All materials will be supplied. To register, or for more information call 403-346-2010. The nature centre is located at 6300 45th Ave. in Red Deer.

Art reception Jan. 24 for Soul Summits exhibit Art lovers can meet the artists at a Kerry Wood Nature Centre reception on Jan. 24. The group art show called Soul Summits is at the Marjorie Wood Gallery from 2 to 4 p.m. Paintings in the show were inspired by a helicopter trip to Mount Assiniboine in 2013. The art show opened Jan. 7 and runs until Jan. 31.

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STARS: Service came to rescue Naomi and Rob Ramsbottom, of Drumheller, know first hand how STARS impacts the lives of Albertans. Their daughter Olivia, who is now five, was transported by STARS the day after she was born. Olivia had suffered a stroke and was born at 36 weeks with under developed lungs. Naomi Ramsbottom recalled how STARS came to her daughter’s rescue. “STARS came and they brought the neonatal intensive care unit team to us and they instantly had her incubated and stable within minutes,” Ramsbottom said. She said when she was crying and afraid because she would be separated from her newborn during the helicop-

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Musician and inspirational speaker Robb Nash brought his story and band to Camille J. Lerouge School Wednesday. Nash uses his music to connect with over 60,000 youth each year directly through school assemblies and hundreds of thousands of youth through mediums such a Facebook and YouTube. With positive energy in story and song Nash sensitively deals with serious issues he has experienced first hand such as youth suicide and addiction. Nash challenges the students to make changes in themselves and the world around them. The address of the gallery is 6300 45th Ave. in Red Deer.

Police seek help in probing two hit and runs Police are looking for help finding drivers responsible for two separate and unrelated hit and runs in Red Deer this week. Red Deer RCMP believe there is enough specific evidence that the public could easily identify the suspect vehicles. The first incident occurred in Glendale on 70th Street Drive just after midnight on Monday. Police said the suspect vehicle hit a parked truck that had an attached trailer. The truck was hit with enough force to push it onto the sidewalk and caused significant damage to both the truck and the trailer. Based on the evidence left at the scene, RCMP suspect the vehicle they are looking for is a 1999 to 2002 Jeep Grand Cherokee, grey in colour or with a grey trim. The suspect vehicle lost a headlight, its bumper and grill parts at the scene. Police believe it should be recognizable with that amount of visible damage. The second incident occurred beter flight, a paramedic assured her Olivia would not be alone. He gave her a piece of paper listing the names of pilots and crew accompanying Olivia on the flight and a phone number for the Calgary hospital. “He told me I could call the number in 20 minutes and check up on her and he wasn’t lying. They gave me the information I needed.” Olivia was out of hospital in eight days. Her mother said her daughter’s quick recovery was due to STARS. “I encourage everyone to come out and support STARS because they are always there, no matter where you are in Alberta — rural Alberta or right in Red Deer — they’ll come and they’ll bring the care that you need. We need to do our best to keep them in the air.” Tickets for STARS Lottery 2015 are $25 for a single ticket, $60 for three tickets, $100 for six and $250 for 18. The 50/50 tickets are $10 each or 5 tickets for $25. For more information, visit www.starslotteryalberta.ca. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

tween midnight and 12:30 a.m. on Tuesday in Highland Green on Haliburton Crescent. A car parked on the street was hit with enough force to push it onto the sidewalk, causing damage to the rear driver’s side and rear bumper. Based on the grill and parts of the bumper left at the scene, police believe the suspect vehicle is a grey Nissan with recognizable damage on its front end and a missing grill. Police continue to investigate both incidents. Anyone with information is asked to call Red Deer RCMP at 403343-5575. If you wish to remain anonymous call Crime Stoppers at 1-800222-8477 or report it online at www. tipsubmit.com.

Foodgrains field needed for next year A long-standing Central Alberta community farming fundraiser is looking for land for its 2015 project. The Central Alberta Foodgrains

Charity needs a place to sew its seeds this year. Last year, the project rased $74,425 locally. And with a four-to-one matching ratio from the Canadian government, a total of $371,250 was donated. The growing project is one of more than 200 in Canada for the Canadian Foodgrains Bank. The Central Alberta group based in Lacombe and is now entering its 20th year. Another harvest is held each year near Ponoka. “We were very pleased with out CPS wheat crop last year,” said committee member Doug Maas, in a release. “Again, local farmers and input suppliers were instrumental in our success as well as our sponsor-an-acre supporters.” Last year, the group used a 175-acre field about 10 minutes southeast of Lacombe. Every year, the group uses a different field in Lacombe County. The group is looking for land for its 2015 operating. If any farmer is interested in providing or renting the land and wants to be part of this charitable project, they are asked to call Maas at 403-782-1860.

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All about beaks Bird beaks are truly a wonder of nature. As a bird’s main (and sometimes only) tool, beaks enable birds to undertake activities essential to their existence—capturing and gathering food, singing, communicating, making a nest, feeding and tending their young, preening, drinking, and defending themselves from predators. Beaks, also called bills, are lightweight bony elongations of a bird’s skull, covered with skin which produces keratin. Keratin, a family of fibrous structural proteins, is a key component of not only beaks, but also hooves, hair, and finger and toenails (and even the outer MYRNA layer of human skin!). PEARMAN On most bird species, the keratin condenses OUTDOORS and dries to form the beak’s hard, glossy veneer. Like our nails, the tip and cutting edge of the beak are continually renewed as they wear away. While most birds have straight beaks, a shape which allows them to readily access a variety of food sources, some species have evolved beaks that are specifically shaped to enable — as well as restrict — them to exploit specific food items. Here are a few examples of some birds in Central Alberta with specialized beaks. ● Rose-breasted Grosbeaks, top, have stubby but very powerful beaks adapted for cracking open shells and grinding small seeds. They dexterously roll a seed over in their bill and reverse it end over end until the seed lies along the bill’s sharp edge. The beak is then snapped shut, shearing the husk lengthwise. The unpalatable husk drops to the ground and the nutmeat swallowed. Rose-breasted Grosbeaks are summer residents in Central Alberta and can be readily attracted to feeding stations offering sunflower seeds. ● Double-crested Cormorants, inset, colonial nesters found on some Central Alberta ponds and lakes, have thin, strong hooked bills specialized for fishing. They also use their beaks to haul nesting material, to clamber around on rocks and branches, and as weapons to grab and peck at any neighbour that ventures too close to their nest. ● Mallard ducks, middle, by far the most common duck species in this area, have wide lamellate beaks equipped with “teeth” which they use to strain invertebrates and other morsels from the water. They also use their beaks to preen themselves and waterproof their feathers by smearing them with a special oil contained in a gland (uropygial gland) near the base of their tail. ● White-winged Crossbills, bottom, are so-named because of their remarkable beaks, which cross at the tip. This unique adaptation enables the birds to insert their bills between the scales of spruce cones and twist the lower mandible so the seed opens wide enough for them to deftly extract the tiny seed with their tongues. White-winged Crossbills, like other northern finches, are abundant in Central Alberta some years and absent others. Their presence or absence is dependent on the cone crop. Myrna Pearman is the biologist/site services manager at Ellis Bird Farm. She can be reached at mpearman@ellisbirdfarm.ca.

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Cowboy Welfare lingers on New Year’s has passed, still with no word of the end of Cowboy Welfare and holding the money saved in a conservation trust for land stewardship programs and projects, policy changes leaked by Ted Morton in Calgary on Halloween, saying they could be announced before Christmas. There is still BOB hope for the SCAMMELL change, because the policy regarding grazing dispositions is currently up for review. There are worries coming from Morton’s suggestion that the idea for the change was inspired by the fact that much of Cowboy Welfare Country was solidly Wildrose Country in the last general election. But now 11 Wildroses have crossed the legislature floor, 10 of them to join the Progressive Conservative caucus. Does that mean, even in a time of low oil prices and high financial crisis, that we needn’t bother with “punishing” rich ranchers by cutting off their Cowboy Welfare for having voted Wildrose, and just go on stuffing untold millions of undeserved public dollars into their already over-jammed jeans? Those floor crossings have had me musing on the nature of statesmanship. It is often said that a statesman has a bedrock of principles, a moral compass, a vision and the ability to build consensus and, I would add, the courage to achieve that vision. With the huge majority he already had, it seems to me that if Premier Jim Prentice were a statesman instead of purely a politician, he’d have denied the floor-crossers entry to the PC caucus and told them they’d continue to do their job, sitting in opposition, whether as independents, Liberals or NDP. A strong opposition is crucial to a democracy, and Wildrose was one of the best Alberta has ever had. Proof? Prentice’s only quick, major and solid accomplishments were all fought for by Alberta’s Loyal Opposition: keeping Michener Centre open, kyboshing new licence plates, and selling Redford’s Royal Air Farce. The cross-floor death march of our Opposition, like lemmings to the brink of their own destruction, reminds me of the similarities with the last time the voters gave us a big Opposition in Alberta.

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Cowboy Welfare Country: with Wildrose decimated, who will advocate for the need to end this costly practice? Wildrose had a chance to form the government in our last election, until one of its fruitcake candidates started sermonizing about gays “perishing in a lake of fire.” In 1993, the Liberals also had a good chance of forming the government until, late in the campaign, leader Laurence Decore casually made some gratuitous and totally unnecessary remarks about abortion. In 2012, Wildrose won 17 seats and 34 per cent of the popular vote. In 1993, the Decore Liberals won 32 seats and 40 per cent of the popular vote. Wild-rose worked hard as an effective opposition until their recent mass suicide. The Liberals wanted to be the government in ’93 and never bothered with the hard work of an Opposition. Premier Ralph Klein rustled and rode off with the Liberals’ one-hoss policy of draconian spending cuts and balancing the budget. Liberal numbers were reduced to 18 in the 1997 election, and were down to five in 2012. Small, but effective Oppositions

can become governments. In 1967, Peter Lougheed and five other PCs were elected in Alberta and were so effective at conveying their new vision for Alberta, that they became the government in 1973. Lougheed was the only statesman we have ever had as premier. With him, it was not all about oil and gas at all costs. Lougheed loved our outdoors and had a vision of preserving and protecting the best of it. He and his minister of Lands and Forests, Allan Warrack, took and ran with the Alberta Fish and Game Association’s idea for the creation of a trust fund for the acquisition and maintenance of fish and wildlife habitats, and the Buck for Wildlife Fund was created. The concept of ending Cowboy Welfare and putting the untold millions gained into a conservation trust to be used for land stewardship programs is as good, if not a better idea even, than Buck for Wildlife ever was, particularly since it apparently comes from government.

The government would be so astonished at the amount of money saved by ending Cowboy Welfare that it might finally envisage diversifying Alberta’s economy by properly managing our public land and the renewable resources on it to provide substantial income when oil and gas are gone. What the government needs is the encouragement and the courage to do the right thing, bring the good idea into effect, make Morton’s hint of a preChristmas gift a reality. Statesmanship is needed, in the sense of a new vision for Alberta and Albertans. Courage is essential. People who believe in free enterprise for everyone else and socialism for themselves will not be weaned from Cowboy Welfare without bellowing piteously. But even that is changing: lately I have been hearing from a few rueful rancher recipients who admit Cowboy Welfare has gone on too long, and was never right in the first place. Bob Scammell is an award-winning columnist who lives in Red Deer. He can be reached at bscam@telusplanet.net.

Fly south, see plantings Cold, snowy weather sends many people fleeing south to warmer environments. For many people who escape, the sun and sea are the main attraction — but they are not the only ones. Take time to enjoy the greenery, planted and native. Pubic gardens, resorts and even roadsides contain attractive plantings that thrive in the LINDA warm climate. TOMLINSON Plants are chosen for looks and the ability to grow with very little maintenance. Look closely and notice plants that are familiar as they are used locally as bedding-out plants or as tropicals and house plants. Devil’s ivy scindapsus aureus is very versatile. It is most often sold as

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a hanging plant, but in larger plantings it works well as a ground cover. The plant will spread across the soil’s surface and use its aerial roots to attach itself to the trunk of trees, then grow upwards. Mature plants will produce larger leaves, many of them split, making it easy to confuse them for a split leaf philodendron. A fuller plant is achieved when long strands are clipped off, forcing the plant to put out new growth from the plant’s centre. New ends of the vines can be snipped off and rooted to create new plants. Place devil’s ivy in an area that gets bright but defused sunlight. Snake plant sansevieria trifasciata is one of the easiest plants to grow. It grows equally as well in full sunlight or shade. Allow the soil to dry out between waterings and the plant will thrive. In tropical areas, the snake plant is often used as a short hedge or barrier plant as it will grow up to four feet (one metre) in height. The long blades can be cut into segments and used to start new plants.

Fiddle leaf figs ficus lyrata can be spotted along the coast of Mexico, where the sand from the beach and the shrubs meet. Don’t expect to see the big-leafed varieties that are grown inside or in greenhouses. These plants are battered by the wind and salt, stunting them into becoming shrubby with smaller leaves. To grow a fiddle leaf fig as an attractive houseplant, place it in an area that receives indirect sunlight. Allow the plant to develop side branches or the bottom of the plant can become leggy. Purple heart setoreasea purpurea is considered an easy-to-grow, strong hanging plant. Place the pot in full sun and water it regularly and this plant will grow outwards, producing light pink flowers. Clipping the tips back will make the plant fuller, making it more attractive. Ends can be replanted to make new plants. Plant the purple heart outside in a warm climate and it becomes an attractive ground cover, one that will withstand a small amount of traffic. Oleanders are sold in early summer

as large plants to grace patios during the warm months. They will survive a small amount of frost if given winter protection. In Alberta, they can be overwintered in the dormant state or as a tropical. Shorter days and less moisture will send the plant into dormancy. Once dormant, the plant needs are minimal: a cool area and an occasional watering until the plant begins showing new growth in the spring. At this time, increase the amount of sunlight and water the plant receives. The second way is to place the plant in full sunlight or under artificial lights, keeping it actively growing. Oleanders are shrubs that thrive in wet areas, producing highly scented flowers. On the next trip to a warmer climate, look at the plants that make up the greenery to see if what Albertans struggle to grow inside are the same as the ones that grow with little effort elsewhere. Linda Tomlinson is a horticulturalist who lives near Rocky Mountain House. She can be reached at your_garden@hotmail.com.

How many people can the Earth sustain? “The world has escaped the Malthusian trap. Get used to it.” — Margaret Wente “... the increase of wealth is not boundless.” — John Stuart Mill

it hasn’t happened, largely due to technological progress (and to confirm that fact, Wente mentions recent advances in industrial-sized greenhouses that boost plant growth, while greatly reducing water usage). But are there limits to how many I first came across the people the Earth can feed? name John Stuart Mill in Surely, if enough space-age the early 1970s, when crossgreenhouses were built, nocountry vacations in the body would go to bed hunstation wagon were livened gry. And surely, if common up with guessing games, sense was common, we’d courtesy of the Guinness cease waging war, and the Book of Records. Who was newspapers would be filled the smartest person who with good news and nothing had ever lived? Well, apelse. parently, it was John Stuart But when we look at the Mill, who started learning real world, we see something ancient Greek at the age else entirely. In fact, the of three, and at some point Global Footprint Network was found to have an IQ of estimates that “It now takes over 200. the Earth one year and six EVAN And who is Margaret months to regenerate what BEDFORD Wente? Well, apparently we use in a year.” she is a columnist in anothHow can that be? Surely, er newspaper. it is impossible to use more And in a recent column, than what it available ... isn’t she dismissed the notion it? that the world is going to heck in a Actually, it is quite possible. And handbasket. She mentioned Malthus, I’m not just referring to provincial the 19th century scholar who warned budgets. that population growth would, at some Take a look at a forest. Or a quarpoint, overtake food production. So far, ter section of farm land. Now go to

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your computer and search for the term “global soil erosion.” One of the first links that appears is from a Time magazine article from 2012. It indicates that we have about 60 years worth of topsoil left, based on the rate that we’re using it now. The problem is most severe in places like China, India and Africa, but in case you think that we have nothing to do with those parts of the globe, I would ask you to pick up whatever shiny new electronic toy is closest to you and look at the label on the bottom. We are all in this mess together, my friends. Alberta is doing relatively well, since practices such as no-till farming help to keep the soil on the fields where it belongs. But in my work, I still occasionally come across road ditches that are full of newly eroded soil. And if you don’t believe me, search for “soil erosion risk alberta” and click on the first link. The resulting colorful map shows that even our most favourite province has no shortage of spots where tons-o-soil somehow disappear from the land on windy and/or rainy days. And soil is only one example from only half of the equation. It’s from the bio-capacity half, which is all about the good stuff that the environment

gives us (soil, in this case, which gives us food). The other half of the equation is called the footprint. It is all about the demands that we make on the environment. Demands like making it absorb the nasty stuff that we are constantly try to get rid of. Pollution, for example. Currently, one of our biggest demands is for a convenient place to put all of the inconvenient CO2 that spurts out of our tailpipes and our chimneys. That’s about 35 billion tonnes every year. And it has helped to give 2014 the dubious distinction of being the warmest year in recorded history ... so far. So maybe the predictions of Malthus will still come to pass, since the last time I did an Internet search on “ecological footprint” and “bio-capacity,” the graphs invariably showed the former still rising and the latter still falling, year by year. Therefore, I think that John Stuart Mill can retain his status as being the smartest person. And I also think that Margaret Wente will have to do a bit more research in order to show us that Malthus was wrong. Evan Bedford is a local environmentalist. Direct comments, questions and suggestions to wyddfa23@telus.net. Visit the Energy and Ecology website at www. evanbedford.com.

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Lots of development in Central Alberta BLACKFALDS, ROCKY HAVE RECORD YEARS BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR When Blackfalds set a development record in 2013, the margin of improvement over the previous high was narrow enough for the achievement to remain in doubt until that December. There was no such drama in 2014, with the town eclipsing its 2013 building permit tally by nearly two thirds. Staff in Blackfalds’ planning and development department approved $124.2 million worth of construction during the year, up sharply from $75.6 million in 2013 and $72.0 million in 2012. And whereas the 2013 number consisted primarily of residential projects, and the figure for 2012 got a big boost from the Abbey Centre, last year’s permits were strong in every category. “There was a fair bit of stuff going on overall,” said planning and development manager Terry Topolnitsky. Residential permits made up $98.9 million of the total issued by the Town of Blackfalds last year, a jump from $65.8 million. Commercial and industrial building contributed $9.4 million and $6.2 million respectively, with the Central Alberta Co-op gas bar and convenience store making up about $5 million of the commercial tally. Wolf Creek Public Schools’ new kindergarten-to-Grade 6 school provided a $9.5 million boost in the institutional category. Topolnitsky expects another big year in 2015, with five single-family homes approved during the first two weeks of January, and prospects good for continued activity on the commercial and industrial fronts. “We haven’t really slowed down,” he said. Sylvan Lake also enjoyed a healthy increase in the value of the building permits it issued last year — with the total growing to $60.8 million from $52.2 million. Most notable was a jump in residential permit values, to $50.1 million from $42.3 million in 2013. Commercial development in the lakeside town was also strong, at $9.0 million. Industrial projects added $800,000, institutional work nearly $300,000, and other permits more than

$400,000. It was a bounce-back year for developers in Olds, where 2014 permit values hit $45.1 million, up from $22.1 million the previous year. The residential component grew to $19.9 million from $12.6 million. Approval of the Centennial Village housing complex at Olds College made up $15.6 million of $17.0 million in the institutional category, with the new Cam Clark Ford dealership accounting for $3.5 million of the $4.8 million commercial tally. It was also a year for the record books in Rocky Mountain House, where the $40.1 million worth of permits issued in 2014 — up from $13.2 million the previous year — marked an all-time high. Residential construction approvals jumped to $17.8 million from $4.1 million, helped by the $9.5-million assisted living/independent living complex being developed by Laebon Homes and Christenson Communities. Expansion of Rocky’s arena added $13 million to the $13.9 million institutional tally, and expansion of the Walking Eagle Inn, Voyageur Motel and the Chinook Inn combined to boost commercial permit values by $7.6 million, to $8.5 million. Brad Dollevoet, the town’s director of planning and community development, said activity in the energy sector fueled much of Rocky’s growth last year, and he’s optimistic about 2015 — despite the drop in oil prices. Like Blackfalds, Penhold continues to capitalize on its proximity to Red Deer, with rapid residential growth. The town’s record 105 housing starts last year was reflected in the $23.8 million worth of residential permits issued in 2014, up from $13.8 million. The total value of all permits issued in Penhold was $34.2 million, as compared with $19.2 million the previous year. Commercial development added $2.8 million and industrial work $1.1 million, while under the institutional heading a regional lift station for the South Red Deer Regional Wastewater Commission contributed $6.5 million. The City of Lacombe issued building permits for $31.8 million in construction last year, up from $27.0 mil-

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TJ Cepesko of VNO Exteriors shovels snow from the roof of a home under construction in the Aspen Lakes neighborhood in Blackfalds on Wednesday. Rapid residential construction helped propel the town to another building permit record in 2014. lion in 2013. Residential work made up $18.7 million of last year’s total, as compared with $21.4 million the previous year. In the city’s commercial/industrial category, the 83-room Best Western Plus Lacombe Inn & Suites accounted for about $9 million of the $12.4 million worth of permits issued. Further north in Ponoka, planning and development staff gave a green light to $15.6 million in construction last year, down from $18.7 million. But the 2012 figure included $12.3 million under the institutional heading — a number boosted by extensive school work in the community. In the case of residential construction, permit values in Ponoka spiked to $9 million from $4.2 million, with commercial $5.6 million and industrial

$235,000. Meanwhile in Stettler, $12.9 million worth of building permits were issued last year, down from $13.2 million. Residential work accounted for $3.6 million of the 2014 values, as compared with $2.8 million in 2013. Commercial permits contributed $6 million, industrial $2.8 million and institutional $490,000. At Innisfail, the town approved $12.2 million worth of construction last year, down from $21.4 million. Residential permits accounted for $6.8 million of this total, down from $9.2 million. Commercial development in Innisfail was a strong $4.8 million in 2014, with industrial work adding $637,000 and institutional projects $86,000. hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

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BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR The range of products that are delivered to people’s doors is broad and varied. But an item that landed at Tim Creedon’s his place of work recently exceeded even those boundaries. The executive director of the Red Deer and District Chamber of Commerce had to sign off on a terra cotta warrior last month. The imposing figure, which arrived from China, is an accurate likeness of one of the soldiers in the famed Terra Cotta Army that guards the grave of Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of China. Now standing at attention in the doorway of the Chamber office, the clay statue was sent to Red Deer by Citslinc International Inc. of California. That company organizes familiarization tours of China, with North American chambers of commerce among its primary sources of customers. Creedon said he met Citslinc president Leo Liu at a chamber conference in Charlottetown several months ago. The two men, along with Alberta Chambers of Commerce CEO Ken Kobly, discussed the potential for offering Citslinc trips to chamber members in this province. “In that conversation, Leo said, ‘I’ll send you a terra cotta warrior,’” recalled Creedon, who didn’t give the offer to much thought thereafter. “I just didn’t know what I was saying yes to. I had no idea that I would then get an email two months later to say this 550-pound (250-kg) package was on its way to me.” Chamber staff struggled to unpack the warrior and manoeuvre it into position for the Chamber’s Christmas open house. It attracted plenty of attention that day, and has continued to do so since. “He’s certainly going to make an impression as you come into the Chamber, there’s no question about it,” said Creedon. The hope is that he’ll also generate interest in a Citslinc tour of China for Alberta chamber members. Details of that opportunity should be available shortly, said Creedon, who participated in a Citslinc trip in 2013 and described it as a fantastic experience. “So he’s here to provide a wonderful conversation piece to publicize these trips.” The warrior might also serve double-duty by impressing Asian guests who visit the Chamber office, said Creedon. “We do entertain people from China in Red Deer who are considering in-

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Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 115.97 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 47.97 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55.14 BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . 15.02 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.14 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 62.01 Cdn. National Railway . . 78.33 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 210.91 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 41.87 Capital Power Corp . . . . 26.15 Cervus Equipment Corp 19.00 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 43.43 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 53.92 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 21.25 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 39.56 General Motors Co. . . . . 34.30 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 20.54 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.15 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 41.29 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 29.22 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 42.27 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . 10.88 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 52.59

Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 19.42 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.67 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86.61 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 33.65 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 12.41 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 16.63 First Quantum Minerals . 11.70 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 24.50 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 7.85 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 3.80 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . 17.04 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 41.58 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.09 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 13.71

Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 116.24 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 13.03 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 18.12 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 58.70

Energy Arc Resources . . . . . . . . 22.40 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 21.65 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 54.81 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.26 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 35.86 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 32.75 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . . 7.96 Canyon Services Group. . 7.15 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 23.32 CWC Well Services . . . 0.4300 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 14.97 Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 1.34

MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The resourceheavy Toronto stock market closed lower Wednesday amid reduced expectations for global growth and a surprisingly weak U.S. retail sales report. The S&P/TSX composite index fell 102.73 points to 14,084.43. But the damage wasn’t primarily due to falling energy stocks, as has been the case recently. Instead, mining stocks sold off for a second day as copper prices plumbed lows not seen since the worst days of the 20082009 financial crisis. The TSX base metals sector was down almost nine per cent on top of a similar-sized drop Tuesday as copper prices fell 14 cents to a six-year low of US$2.51 a pound. Copper has been steadily weakening over the last year, losing about 25 per cent over the past year. But the decline in just the past two weeks has been fierce, down 12 per cent this month alone. “The drop is quite troubling,” said Himalaya Jain, director, portfolio manager at ScotiaMcLeod. The fall in prices triggered a massive sell-off in the base metals sector with some premier metal stocks falling heavily as investors consider how falling metal prices will impact earnings. For example, First Quantum Minerals (TSX:FM) was down $1.77 or 13.15 per cent to $11.70 after plunging 15 per cent on Tuesday, while Teck Resources (TSX:TCK.B), Canada’s biggest miner, dropped 95 cents or 6.5 per cent to $13.71 following a six per cent slide the previous session. Copper prices got a major shove Wednesday after the World Bank said it now expects the global economy to expand three per cent in 2015, down from its earlier forecast of 3.4 per cent. A strengthening U.S. economy and the fall in oil prices won’t be enough to offset troubles in the eurozone and emerging markets, the bank said. But analysts are surprised by the speed of the decline and point out there is no big economic reason to explain the huge drop. “What’s interesting is, just like oil, the fundamentals for copper, things like supply/demand, that story hasn’t really changed substantially,” Jain said. “And similar to what is going on in oil, is you have a lot of short-term investors, including hedge funds, which are really

driving the bus here. “The spot market tends to be driven by a small number of investors and they have been making a lot of money going short on these commodities and that has emboldened them to look at other commodities as well.” Meanwhile, the Canadian dollar was ahead 0.07 of a cent at 83.72 cents US. An earnings disappointment from banking giant JPMorgan Chase also helped send New York indexes well into negative territory. The Dow Jones industrials dropped 186.59 points to 17,427.09, the Nasdaq fell 22.18 points to 4,639.32 and the S&P 500 index was down 11.76 points at 2,011.27 as U.S. retail sales fell 0.9 per cent in December, the largest decline since January. Losses would have been higher on the TSX had it not been for a positive day for a change for both oil prices and energy stocks. The energy sector gained 2.3 per cent as crude jumped $2.59 to US$48.48 a barrel. Oil prices improved mid-afternoon after the Federal Reserve said in its latest regional economic survey that the U.S. economy was growing at a moderate pace in December and early January, helped by gains in sales of autos and other consumer products, increased factory production and a pickup in tourism in various parts of the country. Crude prices have collapsed since June 2014, down almost 60 per cent amid a glut of supply. Negative days for oil and energy companies have been the norm lately as the price slide accelerated from the end of November when OPEC said it wouldn’t cut production to support prices. Suncor (TSX:SU) is the latest energy giant to announce big spending cuts in response to falling oil. It expects its 2015 capital budget to be between $6.2 billion and $6.8 billion, down $1 billion from its spending estimate issued in mid-November. Suncor is also cutting 1,000 jobs and its shares edged up six cents to $34.87. Financials were also a major drag, down 1.8 per cent as Royal Bank of Canada (TSX:RY) chief executive Dave McKay said the lender will begin testing its $9.6-billion portfolio of energy-related loans to see how it will perform if oil prices remain around US$45 a barrel for a prolonged period. RBC shares were down $1.02 to $75.68. The gold sector faded about 1.26 per cent although February bullion added 10 cents to US$1,234.50 an ounce.

Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 89.74 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 38.34 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.58 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 25.58 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 45.15 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 3.61 Penn West Energy . . . . . . 1.94 Pinecrest Energy Inc. . . . 0.015 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 5.95 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 34.87 Talisman Energy . . . . . . . . 9.02 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.65 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . 43.35 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 51.07 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 75.31 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 61.65 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91.89 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 28.10 Carfinco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.69 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 31.83 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 43.94 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 83.46 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 20.44 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 45.02 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.55 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 75.68 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 38.06 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50.54 BlackBerry was a major advancer, up $3.42 or 29.5 per cent to $15.02 as Reuters reported that smartphone company Samsung has recently made overtures to buy the company for as much as $7.5 billion. FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS Highlights at the close of Wednesday at world financial market trading. Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 14,084.43, down 102.73 points Dow — 17,427.09, down 186.59 points S&P 500 — 2,011.27, down 11.76 points Nasdaq — 4,639.32, down 22.18 points Currencies: Cdn — 83.72 cents US, up 0.07 of a cent Pound — C$1.8199, up 0.73 of a cent Euro — C$1.4082, up 0.10 of a cent Euro — US$1.1789, up 0.17 of a cent Oil futures: US$48.48 per barrel, up two dollars, 59 cents (February contract) Gold futures: US$1,234.50 per oz., up 10 cents (February contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $21.073 oz., down 29.5 cents $677.50 kg., down $9.48 ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: Jan ’15 $5.00 higher $469.10; March ’15 $3.70 higher $454.00; May ’15 $1.60 higher $448.50; July ’15 $0.40 lower $443.50; Nov ’15 $1.20 lower $429.00; Jan. ’16 $3.40 lower $430.20; March ’16 $3.40 lower $433.50; May ’16 $5.70 lower $438.50; July ’16 $5.70 lower $440.00; Nov. ’16 $5.70 lower $440.00. Barley (Western): March ’15 unchanged $182.00; May ’15 unchanged $184.00; July ’15 unchanged $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. Wednesday’s estimated volume of trade: 416,400 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 416,400.

Ottawa welcomes U.S. regulations but won’t commit to match BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

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OTTAWA — Natural Resources Minister Greg Rickford says he welcomes tough new U.S. oil and gas regulations on methane emissions announced by the White House and calls Canada a “willing partner” — but not one ready to immediately match the American move. The Obama administration said Wednesday it plans to use its regulatory power to cut methane emissions by between 40 and 45 per cent from 2012 levels by the year 2025. Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas, far more potent than carbon dioxide, and is emitted in significant volumes in flaring and venting from oil and gas operations. The announcement came while Rickford was in Washington making yet another pitch in support of TransCanada’s proposed Keystone XL pipeline. “Any time the United States is thinking about regulations in coal or methane, it tells me two things,” Rickford said at a news conference in the U.S. capital. “One: Canada is a willing partner. And two: That this is an opportunity for Canada and the United States and Mexico, in a trilateral sense, to bring North American opportunities and solutions to challenges we face in energy.” Alberta brought in provincial health and safety rules on venting and flaring last May, Rickford noted. “I would say to you that in some respects we’re ahead of the United States on certain parts of methane regulation,” he said. “For example, flaring is the best example.” However, the national methane reduction target set by the White House far outstrips anything on the books in Canada, and encompasses everything from pipeline leaks to natural gas processing, compressors, remote sensing and leak detection technology. “We are reviewing the details of the U.S. proposal to assess its implications for Canada,” Shane Buckingham, a spokesman for Environment Minister Leoan Aglukkaq, said in an email. Regulating Canada’s oil and gas industry to curb the sector’s greenhouse gas emissions has been an unfulfilled promise of the Conservative government since 2007. Last month, Prime

Minister Stephen Harper repeated that it would be “crazy” for Canada to get out of alignment with its largest trading partner by imposing unilateral emissions regulations on Canada’s oil and gas sector. “This is an industry that is integrated between Canada and the United States, in North America, and what is crazy would be for us to impose costs only on our industry in a way that would not reduce emissions, but simply shift jobs and development to other parts of North America,” Harper told CBC in a year-end interview. Dave Sawyer, an environmental economist, said the details of the Obama plan remain thin but the overall target is significant. “It is a big deal,” Sawyer said in an interview. “The fact that they’ve quantified the target at such an aggressive level says to me, wow, OK, there’s more here than this list would imply.” Sawyer, on his EnviroEconomics website, has calculated the proposed U.S. methane cuts amount to roughly a quarter of Canada’s current shortfall under its Copenhagen target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 2020. By hitching his government’s refusal to regulate the oil and gas sector to Canada-U.S. alignment, “the prime minister has sort of painted himself into a corner,” said Sawyer.

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Mixing the serious, silly LARRY WILMORE’S CEREBRAL APPROACH REPLACING COLBERT ON COMEDY CENTRAL BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES — As Larry Wilmore sits down with a plate of pasta, a fan hands him a slip of paper with an idea to explore on Wilmore’s new Comedy Central show premiering Monday. It’s about international banking issues. OK, that’s a stretch. Even if Wilmore exudes more gravitas than the typical comic, he’s unlikely to find the funny there. Yet the encounter illustrates one of Wilmore’s strengths as he prepares to replace Stephen Colbert in the time slot following The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. At 53, he’s got a resume and maturity that a 28-year-old joke slinger can’t match, and he’s planning a show that’s not afraid to mix the serious with the silly. “Better to have an authentic, interesting conversation and have the show be a little quieter than just setting up jokes that at the end of the day nobody cares about,” he said. “That, I’m not interested in. I’d rather be scared by something somebody says.” Wilmore played a role, the “senior black correspondent,” on The Daily Show. He’s replacing a man who famously portrayed a cable blowhard on The Colbert Report, but Wilmore plans to be himself. Wilmore wrote for In Living Color and The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. He created The Bernie Mac Show and co-created the animated series The PJs. He was set to be the executive producer of ABC’s new sitcom black-ish before Stewart offered him this opportunity. Creating the new show “doesn’t intimidate me at all,” Wilmore said. “It would have if I hadn’t done that before. That’s another reason I think Jon felt comfortable saying, you know, Lar-

ry’s got this.” Originally called The Minority Report, the program was designed to showcase underdogs, not simply racial minorities. Since Fox owns that title because of a movie of the same name and made clear it wasn’t happy, a switch was made to The Nightly Show. “It fills a void,” said Comedy Central President Michele Ganeless. “It’s so simple at its very core, the idea that there are underrepresented voices out

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BRIEF New Girl actress Zooey Deschanel pregnant with her 1st baby with producer beau NEW YORK — New Girl actress Zooey Deschanel is expecting her first baby. She and her producer boyfriend, Jacob Pechenik, released a statement to People magazine on Tuesday saying they are “over the moon” and “excited to meet our little one,” who is due in the summer. The couple began dating last year. Deschanel split from ex-husband, Ben Gibbard, lead vocalist of the band Death Cab for Cutie, in 2012. Her older sister, Emily Deschanel, star of Bones, is pregnant with her second child with husband David Hornsby. New Girl is in its fourth season, airing Tuesdays on Fox.

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Larry Wilmore speaks on stage during Comedy Central’s The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore panel at the Viacom 2015 Winter TCA earlier this month in Pasadena, Calif.

TORONTO — The prestigious Scotiabank Giller Prize is expanding its jury from three to five members. Organizers say the 2015 jury will include Canadians Alison Pick, Alexander MacLeod and Cecil Foster as well as Britain’s Helen Oyeyemi and Ireland’s John Boyne, who will serve as chair. This is the first time in the 22-year history of the literary prize that it has appointed a five-member jury. Last year’s jury included Canadian author Shauna Singh Baldwin, British novelist Justin Cartwright and American writer Francine Prose. They read 161 books submitted by 63 publishers and chose Us Conductors by Montreal’s Sean Michaels as the winner. Executive director Elana Rabinovitch says the larger jury “allows for more and different perspectives and injects new vigour into the quality of the deliberations.” “Bringing more readers into the mix, gifted individuals with varied backgrounds and voices, is bound to bring a different level of discernment

there.” Wilmore expects to anchor half the show, with comic observations and work from contributors Shenaz Treasury, Ricky Velez and Mike Yard. A panel inspired by the likes of Politically Incorrect and Meet the Press will toss around issues of the day. The Daily Show dissects how the media covers news; The Nightly Show will be about the news itself. It requires a nimble approach, both to the conversation about the books,” she said in a statement. The Giller prize purse increased last year to $140,000, with $100,000 going to the winner and $10,000 to each finalist. Organizers say that makes it the richest fiction prize in Canada.

Next Avatar movie delayed; will be released in 2017 WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Director James Cameron said Wednesday that writing three Avatar sequels is such a complex job he’s delaying the first new film a year and it will now be released in late 2017. Cameron plans to film the highlyanticipated sequels at one time and then release the three films over consecutive years. The first had been due in late 2016, but he said the writing process had proved to be “very involved” and that the initial target date was probably too ambitious. “There’s a layer of complexity in getting the story to work as a saga across three films that you don’t get when you’re making a stand-alone

in keeping the conversation moving and booking panelists knowledgeable about the issues on short notice. Wilmore hopes he and the viewers learn something. “I don’t always feel like I have to have a strong opinion about something,” he said. “Sometimes I’m agnostic about an issue and my whole thing is to try and get more information. That’s part of my comic persona, too. I call myself a passionate centrist, which means half the time I disagree with myself.” Don’t be put off by the cerebral approach, though. It’s comedy, not school. “We’ll change on the air, as well,” he said. “A show like this has to adapt on the air. Because once you’re on the air, the audience will tell you what your show is, what they like. You have to listen to that and keep evolving.” Ganeless and Wilmore both understand the pressure in replacing Colbert. The producer side of Wilmore is comfortable creating The Nightly Show. The performer side acknowledges some apprehension, knowing most of the audience will be unfamiliar with him. “Stephen was so funny and so unique,” he said. “He had such a legion of fans and he’s a special performer. The way I look at it is I have to be myself and do my own thing and do something different. Stephen is going to be off doing something new himself (on CBS). I’ll be more in competition with myself than with Stephen. I’ll be more in competition with the new Stephen, to be honest.” Wilmore is doing test shows this week, two without an audience, two with. Then it’s go time. “People say, ‘Are you going to be ready?”’ he said. “That’s irrelevant. Monday night is premiere night. It’s coming whether I like it or not.” film,” he said in Wellington, New Zealand, where he was helping promote the local film industry with other directors including Peter Jackson. Cameron said the goal was to have the scripts for the three movies completed by the end of this month. He’s leading a team that’s writing the screenplays. “We’re writing three simultaneously. And we’ve done that so that everything tracks throughout the three films. We’re not just going to do one and then make up another one and another one after that,” he said. “And parallel with that, we’re doing all the design. So we’ve designed all the creatures and the environments.” Cameron said he thought it was important that each film linked forward to the next one in a satisfying way but also came to a resolution so that the audience wasn’t left hanging. Released in 2009, Avatar became the highest-grossing film in history, with a box office take of nearly $2.8 billion. It won three Academy Awards. Cameron shot the original movie in New Zealand and is planning to shoot the sequels there. The films will be made by Lightstorm Entertainment and Twentieth Century Fox.

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Ann Curry to exit NBC News after a quarter-century NEW YORK — Longtime NBC News correspondent and anchor Ann Curry is leaving the network. A senior executive confirmed reports of Curry’s departure. Curry’s exit comes 2 ½ years after she was ousted from the anchor desk of the Today show after a tumultuous run of just a year.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — As comedy star Andrea Martin prepares to host the Canadian Screen Awards she wants to make it clear that although she was born in the U.S., she feels very much a part of this country. “I’m a permanent resident of Canada, I got married here, I had my kids here, my career has gone on for 40 years here, I have a house here. I don’t know how much more Canadian I can be, other than carry a passport,” the SCTV alum joked Tuesday after the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television announced the 2015 nominees. Martin is also among the nominees for the awards, which honour homegrown film, television and digital media in 128 categories. She’s up for best actress in a leading comedy role for playing the matriarch on Global’s now-can-

Awards contenders include David Cronenberg’s dark comedy film Maps to the Stars with 11 nominations, including best picture and best director. Scoring 10 nominations apiece were the Bravo TV series 19-2, HBO Canada’s Call Me Fitz and the CBC’s Mr. D. Mr. D creator and star Gerry Dee, who plays a bumbling teacher, said some real-life educators may have helped give a boost to the series this season. “I actually brought in a couple of teachers this year to the writers’ room that I taught with and they brought a lot of insight into the teaching world, because I’ve been out of it for 10 years,” said the former gym teacher. “So certainly it was a group effort on that front.” Several of the nominations for the Montreal cop drama 19-2came in acting categories, with stars Jared Keeso, Benz Antoine, Dan Petronijevic and Maxim Roy among the contenders.

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The Biggest Loser Trainer Bob Harper resurfaces at the ranch in the new episode “The Comeback,” and he isn’t alone. He’s accompanied by someone from Comeback Canyon who literally gets back in the game. Mixed reactions result for the other four players remaining in the competition, with one of them worrying very vocally about being able to maintain a healthy lifestyle back home. Prowess in rowing and playing basketball proves helpful during a challenge. 7 p.m. on A&E; 9:01 p.m. on A&E; 11:02 p.m. on A&E

The Critics’ Choice Movie Awards From the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles, Michael Strahan (“Live With Kelly and Michael”) hosts the 20th annual ceremony honoring the finest in cinematic achievement as selected by the Broadcast Film Critics Association. Special awards will be presented to Kevin Costner, Ron Howard and Jessica Chastain. In competition, “Birdman” leads the pack of nominees with 13 nods, followed closely by Wes Anderson’s “The Grand Budapest Hotel” with 11. 8 p.m. on CBXT, CBRT

The Nature of Things Last year they gave us a film called “A Dog’s Life,” but now filmmakers Donna and Daniel Zuckerbrot explore what makes cats — sorry, Rover — the number-one pet in the world, in this new episode “The Lion in Your Living Room.” It’s no surprise that cats seems mysterious, because we know relatively little about them — such as the revelation that all domestic cats in the world are descendants of the Middle-Eastern Wild Cat. 8 p.m. on CTV2, WXYZ; 11 p.m. on KXLY

How to Get Away With Murder Did the alleged killer’s medication factor into a nanny’s murder? Annalise (Viola Davis) and the team consider that possibility in defending the woman accused of the crime in “He Has a Wife.” Rebecca and Bonnie (Katie Findlay, Liza Weil) have doubts about Annalise over a legal development. Alfred Enoch, Jack Falahee and Karla Souza also star. 8 p.m. on WDIV; 11 p.m. on KHQ

Parenthood Many visual surprises await the family when Zeek and Camille (Craig T. Nelson, Bonnie Bedelia) have Max (Max Burkholder) develop some newly discovered rolls of film in the new episode “Let’s Go Home.” Sarah and Julia (Lauren Graham, Erika Christensen) come clean with each other about their fears regarding their respective relationships. Adam and Crosby (Peter Krause, Dax Shepard) reach a decision about the Luncheonette, but Jasmine (Joy Bryant) has other ideas. 9 p.m. on CBXT, CBRT

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Obituaries JENKINS Evelyn D. 1934 - 2015 Mrs. Evelyn Jenkins (nee Craig) of Red Deer, Alberta, passed away peacefully at Bethany Collegeside Care Centre on Tuesday, January 13, 2015 at the age of 80 years. Evelyn was born in Saint John, New Brunswick, on May 17, 1934. After marrying William (Bill) Jenkins, they began their adventure with the Canadian Armed Forces moving from posting to posting until retirement in 1983, which had them settling in Red Deer, Alberta. Evelyn was a loving mother to Bill Jenkins (of Edmonton) and Beth Edens (of Red Deer), and a loving Nana to Debra Edens (of Red Deer). Evelyn is survived by her son, Bill (Shauna Lawrence) Jenkins, daughter, Beth (Bob) Edens, granddaughter, Debra Edens, sister, Elsie Lounsberg, and brothers; David and Leslie Craig. Evelyn is predeceased by her husband, William (Bill) Jenkins, her parents; Doris and Arthur Craig, and brothers; George, Artie and Enoch Craig of Saint John, New Brunswick. There is no way to fill our loss, but if there were words to describe Evelyn it would be strength, courage and LOVE. A private family service will be held. Memorial donations in Evelyn’s honour may be made directly to the Alzheimer’s Society, 105, 4419-50 Avenue, Red Deer, Alberta, T4N 3Z5. Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com

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POPP Martha K. (nee Schepp) Feb. 20, 1917 - Jan. 10, 2015 On Saturday, January 10, 2015 our dear mother, grandmother, great grandmother and sister, was gathered into God’s arms. She passed away peacefully, with her daughter, Marlene at her side, in her residence at Extendicare Michener Hill in Red Deer. Martha, along with 8 brothers and sisters, was born to George and Kathrina Schepp. In October 1940 she married Frank Popp and they first lived in the Landestrew District. From there they moved to a farm one mile south of MacNutt, Sask., where they lived for 20 years prior to moving to Yorkton. In 1986 they moved to Red Deer, Alberta. Martha will be sadly missed by her three children, Wayne (Darlene) Popp of Surrey BC, Marlene (Ray) Lang of Red Deer, Alberta and Harvey (Judith) Popp of El Cajon, CA. She also leaves to mourn her passing, 5 grandchildren, Kimberly (Wayne) Marfleet, Kevin (Brandi) Popp, Robert (Nicole) Lang, Cara (Colin) Penman, and Clinton Popp. She is survived by her great grandchildren Brittany and Brendon Marfleet, MacKenzie and Berkley Popp, Starr and Wyatt Lang, Derek, Stuart and Addison Penman. She will be missed very much by her 103 year old sister, Alma Veal of Langenburg, Saskatchewan. She is also survived by numerous nieces, nephews and cousins. Martha was predeceased by her parents, George (1939) and Kathrina (1961), her husband Frank Popp (1991), her Granddaughter Shawna Marie Lang (1974), as well as 4 brothers and 3 sisters. Martha was an expert seamstress and enjoyed knitting as well as crocheting. She loved to bake and her grandchildren were especially fond of her cinnamon scuffles. A Divine Funeral Service, lead by Pastor Hennig and Pastor Van Katwyk will be held at Mount Calvary Lutheran Church, 18 Selkirk Boulevard, Red Deer, Alberta on Saturday, January 17, 2015 at 11:00 am. The Service will be followed by a lunch and celebration of Martha’s life in the Fellowship Hall of Mount Calvary Lutheran Church. Interment will follow at Alta Rest Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations made be made to the Mount Calvary Lutheran Church, 18 Selkirk Boulevard, Red Deer, Alberta, T4N 0G2. Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com. Arrangements in care of Rhian Solecki, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer. 403.340.4040.

DONALD Dr. Elizabeth Ann Dr. Elizabeth Ann Donald passed away peacefully in her sleep at Harmony Care Homes in Red Deer, Alberta, on January 9, 2015, at the age of 88 after suffering with Alzheimer’s disease for a number of years. She was born in Edmonton February 14, 1926. Betty, as she was fondly known, is survived by her brother, Jack Donald and his wife, sister-in-law, Joan Donald of Red Deer.She is also survived by her nephew, John Donald and his wife, Joan of Red Deer and their family, Crystal (Jerry) Lam and their daughter Kendall of Red Deer, and Dr. Scott (Amanda) Donald of Winnipeg. Her niece, Kathy (Peter) Lacey of Red Deer and their family, Robert Lacey of Edmonton, Mark (Jana) Lacey and their daughter Sophia of Blackfalds and Diane Lacey (Justin Fedun) of Red Deer. Betty’s passion in life was education in the Foods and Nutrition field. After receiving her PhD at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Betty returned to Edmonton and taught Foods and Nutrition at theUniversity of Alberta until her retirement. Betty received awards for her work and has chosen to provide a number of scholarships at the University of Alberta in the field of Nutrition. She will be remembered by a number of friends she made during these years. She was predeceased by her parents, Margaret and Archibald Donald. At Betty’s request, no Memorial

Service will be held. A small quiet gathering will be held in Betty’s honor at a later date. In lieu of flowers, if desired, please make a donation to the charity of your choice. For condolences or further information, please send to 5102-58 Street, Red Deer, AB, T4N 2L8, or: jjdonald@telusplanet.net.

Births

VanLAERE/FALLIS Gwendolyn(Gwen) Gertrude Maiden name Bebee Born on August 19, 1935 December 27, 2014. Passed away peacefully surrounded by her family at the Red Deer Hospice after a very brave battle with cancer. She leaves to mourn her five children Allie Fallis (Christine), Faye Racine Swicheniuk (Eugene), Robert Fallis (Debbie), Barry Fallis, Rick Fallis (Shelly). She also leaves her brother Kelvin Bebee (Signe) sister Altina Hause and Avelyn Peever, eleven grandchildren and two great grandchildren. She was predeceased by both her parents Cecil and Gertrude Bebee, brothers Clinton Bebee, Garnett Bebee, and Carlos Bebee, sister Agnes Kennedy and our father Edwin Armstrong Fallis. She is gone You can shed tears that she is gone, Or you can smile because she lived. You can close your eyes and pray that she will come back, Or you can open your eyes and see all she has left. Your heart can be empty because you can’t see her, or you can be happy for tomorrow because of yesterday. You can remember her and only that she is gone, or you can cherish her memory and let it live on. You can cry and close your mind, be empty and turn your back, or you can do what she would want, smile, open your eyes, love, and go on. In lieu of flowers donations can be made to the Red Deer Hospice Society 99 Arnot Ave. Red Deer, AB. T4R 3S6. The family wish to extend our deepest gratitude to the Red Deer Hospice and a special thanks to Dr. Nav Rattan for their kindness during this most difficult time. Memorial Service will be held on Saturday, January 17 at the Jehovah’s Witness Kingdom Hall 11 Bennett Street at 3 pm.

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HEAVY gauge gold chain, possibly broken with Jesus Christ on cross, heirloom, maybe lost Canadian Tire (north) 403-342-0247 You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS 403-347-8650

Medical

790

F/T & P/T Pharmacist and Pharmacy Technician positions req’d. Apply w/resume to: Highland Green Value Drug Mart, Red Deer Start your career! See Help Wanted OPHTHALMIC TECHNICIAN req’d for Ophthalmology office. Job training is provided but qualifications and previous experience an asset. Starting wages $14/hr. Please fax resume to 403-342-2024.. Only those considered will be contacted. P/T MEDICAL RECEPTIONIST/ Office Assistant. Friendly, energetic, and ability to work independently. Fax resume to 403-340-3349

Oilfield

800

BEARSPAW is a moderately sized oil and gas company operating primarily in the Stettler and Drumheller areas. We are currently accepting applications for a

JUNIOR OIL AND GAS OPERATOR

ANYBODY witnessing a hit and run on December 29, 3:10 pm. at Olymel North Parking Lot involving a green 1992 MX3, 2 dr. Damage was done to the front passenger side. Vehicle was hit hard enough to move it. No name was left behind. If you have any information please contact 587-877-1392 COCAINE ANONYMOUS 403-396-8298

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jobs CLASSIFICATIONS 700-920

Caregivers/ Aides

710

FT Live-in caregiver for 2 kids age 5 and a baby. Must have completed high school and min. 2 yrs. exper. Housekeeping req. Will work 44 hrs./wk, 8.8 hrs./day. Starting wage of $10.75/hr. Room & board provided. email resume to jmrossouw@yahoo.ca

We hold you tightly in our hearts and there you will remain; life has gone on without you but will never be the same.

P/T F. caregiver wanted for F quad. Must be reliable and have own vehicle. 403-505-7846

FOREVER AND ALWAYS Fiancee Shauna, Mom Helen, children Chandra and Aaron

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Personals

Remembering you is easy, we do it every day; but missing you is a heartache that never goes away.

CURRY, Dale 27 Feb. 1961 - 15 Jan. 2014

Welcome Wagon

EAST 40TH PUB

FULL-TIME IN-HOME 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. $10.20/hour; 44 hours per wk, benefits pkg. Compl. of high school, and 1 to 2 yrs. exp. Call (403) 986-4154 or e-mail jabagate@yahoo.com

In Memoriam

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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.

Clerical

in our Stettler Field. Applicants need to be mechanically inclined, motivated to work hard and learn quickly. 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). Please Submit Resume’s Attention Human Resources Email: payroll@ bearspawpet.com Fax: (403) 258-3197 Mail: Suite 5309, 333 96th Ave NE Calgary, Alberta T3R 1H1 LOCAL SERVICE CO. in Red Deer REQ’S EXP. VACUUM TRUCK OPERATOR Must have Class 3 licence w/air & all oilfield tickets. Fax resume w/drivers abstract to 403-886-4475

NOW HIRING

Well Testing Personnel Experienced Supervisors & Operators Must have valid applicable tickets. Email: lstouffer@ testalta.com RED DEER based hot shot company looking for exp’d driver, 15/6 rotation, company benefits, Fax resume & current abstract to 403-342-2152

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

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ACCOUNTING POSITION

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Red Deer company requires three quarter to full time experienced accounting person that will learn company structure and daily duties including payroll, payables, bank reconciliations, lease managements and be able to complete monthly ¿nancial reporting to owners. Accounting experience required to prepare Year end ¿nancials for accountants. Competitive wages and bene¿ts plan. Hours Àexible. Please submit cover letter, resume and references to: Box 300F c/o Red Deer Advocate 2950 Bremner Ave., Red Deer T4R 1M9

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BOULEVARD Restaurant & Lounge

GREGG DISTRIBUTORS LP

Red Deer County

OUTSIDE SALES REPRESENTATIVES

Gasoline Alley, 37471 Hwy 2S,

SERVICE RIG

Bearspaw Petroleum Ltd is seeking a FLOORHAND Locally based, home every night! Qualified applicants

Professionals

810

Cook ~ $14.00/hr.

To prepare & cook all food up to standard, clean kitchen & maintain hygiene, follow recipes, assist in receiving & storing

Position Reports to: GM in Red Deer Skills Required: * Safety Training - NCSO (or some courses required for NCSO) * Computer literate Microsoft, Excel, Powerpoint, Gmail * Punctual * Able to do public speaking * Organized * Able to work both independently and as part of a team Please send your resume with your references by e-mail to len.chinski@ lafarge.com or by fax to the attention of Len Chinski at 403-347-8060

820

Restaurant/ Hotel

JJAM Management (1987) Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s Requires to work at these Red Deer, AB locations: 5111 22 St. 37444 HWY 2 S 37543 HWY 2N 700 3020 22 St. FOOD ATTENDANT Req’d permanent shift weekend day and evening both full and part time. 16 Vacancies, $10.25/hr. + benefits. Start ASAP. Job description www.timhortons.com Education and experience not req’d. Apply in person or fax resume to: 403-314-1303

LUCKY’S LOUNGE located in Jackpot Casino, requires Waitress’s Fri. - Sun. Please apply in person at 4950 47 Ave. No phone calls please Looking for a place to live? Take a tour through the CLASSIFIEDS

TAP HOUSE NORTH

EAST 40TH PUB REQ’S P/T / F/T COOK

(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.

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Apply in person with resume 3811 40th Ave.

HOLIDAY INN EXPRESS RED DEER Red Deer is seeking

FRONT DESK CLERK ~ $14.00/hr.

THE RUSTY PELICAN is now accepting resumes for F/T Exp’d LINE COOKS at all stations. MUST HAVE:

850

Trades

ACADEMIC Express ADULT EDUCATION AND TRAINING

• GED Preparation •

Women in the Trades Program

•

Math and Science for the Trades Program Gov’t of Alberta Funding may be available.

403-340-1930 www.academicexpress.ca 2 yrs. min. on-the-job DRYWALL HELPER REQ’D. • exp., must have comExperience an asset. • pleted High School be 403-341-7619 reliable, self motivated GOODMEN work well under limited HOUSEKEEPING supervision. ROOFING LTD. ROOM ATTENDANT Requires ~14.00/hr. Rate is $13.25 - $15./hr. • Clean & vacuum rooms, No benefits. SLOPED ROOFERS public areas, pool etc. LABOURERS • Replenish amenities, 733644 Ab Ltd. & FLAT ROOFERS linens & towels. O/A The Rusty Pelican • Adhere to Holiday Inn Valid Driver’s Licence safety standards. Location of employment: preferred. Fax or email All positions are permanent 4105 2079 - 50 Ave. info@goodmenroofing.ca Full-time/Part-time, shift Red Deer, AB T4R 1Z4 or (403)341-6722 work & weekends. email: NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE! Education: Above Secondary bennett.bkkp@xplornet.com Needing experienced Work Experience not or Call 403-347-1414 ceramic tile floor installers essential, training provided. or Fax to: 403-347-1161 and labourers for job in Fax resume to 780-702-5051 Only candidates selected Edson, room and board for an interview will be HOLIDAY INN provided. Also need contacted. labourers for local jobs. Red Deer South, Something for Everyone Contact Lance Gasoline Alley, Everyday in Classifieds 403-352-6296 37471 Hwy 2S, Answer phone calls, take reservations. • Check in/out guests. Balance cash out & attend to guest needs

Red Deer County is seeking

FRONT DESK CLERK ~ $14.00/hr.

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

Advocate Opportunities

RED DEER ADVOCATE

HOUSEKEEPING ROOM ATTENDANT ~ $14.00/hr.

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Clean & Vacuum rooms, public areas, pool, etc. • Replenish amenities, linens & towels. • Adhere to Holiday Inn safety standards All positions are permanent Full-time/Part-time, shift work & weekends. Education: Above Secondary Work Experience not essential, training provided. Fax resume to 780-702-5051 PART-TIME help for Burnt Lake Cafe in the Burnt Lake Industrial Area. Call Louise @ 403-342-6687

CARRIERS NEEDED FOR FLYERS, FRIDAY FORWARD & EXPRESS

3 days per week, no weekends

RED DEER ADVOCATE

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

CENTRAL AB LIFE & LACOMBE EXPRESS 1 day a week in:

ACADEMIC Express ADULT EDUCATION AND TRAINING

• GED Preparation •

Women in the Trades Program

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Math and Science for the Trades Program Gov’t of Alberta Funding may be available. 403-340-1930 www.academicexpress.ca

WE are looking for a

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, flexible, safety conscious people with equipment experience, some basic mechanical abilities, driver’s license, and own transportation. We offer an excellent benefits plan and a company matching RRSP savings plan. Please forward your resume via email to the address attached. Please have ‘Plant Laborer’ in the subject line. Drug and alcohol policy in effect and pre-employee testing. Inquiries regarding careers with CFR should be directed to hr@cfrchemicals.com Fax: 346-2299

Advocate Opportunities NEWSPAPER CARRIERS NEEDED For Afternoon Delivery 2 Days/Week (Wed. & Fri.)

WESTPARK & WESTLAKE Westpark Cres. & 35 St. also Welliver & Wishart St. KENTWOOD Kirsch Close, Kemp Ave. & Kee Close

Please call Rick for details 403-314-4303

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

CARRIERS REQUIRED

ADULT Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the

LACOMBE BLACKFALDS

Please call Debbie for details 403-314-4307

Iverson Close Isbister Close MORRISROE AREA McKenzie St. / Marion Cres. SUNNYBROOK AREA Scott St. / Somerset Close LANCASTER AREA Lampard Cres Lancaster Drive Long Close Lord Close Landry Bend / Landry Close Ladwig Close VANIER AREA Vickers Close Victor Close Viscount Drive Call Prodie @ 403- 314-4301 for more info **********************

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

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

Handyman Services

1200

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

Massage Therapy

1280

MASSAGE ABOVE ALL WALK-INS WELCOME 4709 Gaetz Ave. 346-1161

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.

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

DEER PARK AREA

Call Classifieds 403-309-3300 1165

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.

$266.00/MO.

To Advertise Your Business or Service Here

Escorts

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)

CROSSLEY ST. COOPER CL, CARTER CL, CONNAUGHT CRES, CHURCHHILL CL. AREA

CLASSIFICATIONS

CELEBRATIONS HAPPEN EVERY DAY IN CLASSIFIEDS

880

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INNISFAIL Penhold Olds Sylvan Lake

INGLEWOOD AREA

502326A26

Apply in person or send resume to: Email:kfcjobsrd@yahoo.ca or Fax: (403) 341-3820

DALE’S Home Reno’s Free estimates for all your reno needs. 403-506-4301

F/T Permanent Truck 1693338 Alberta LTD Driver Required for Rocky o/a Custom T’s Fast Express (1790810 AB Hire Sales Supervisor - retail Ltd.) in Red Deer, AB Location at Parkland Mall, Straight truck: 4600kg+w/2 4747 67th St, Red Deer, axles and van AB T4N 6 F/Time, Perm, Shifts, Need class 5 DL + 2 yrs Weekends exp. $25 per hr/ with OPEN availability Salary - $22.00 hourly Duties: pick up/deliver Experience min. 2 years, freight, pre-trip truck good English. inspection, communication Education: Some high school. Central Alberta’s Largest with customers. Physically Main duties: demanding position. Time Greet customers. Car Lot in Classifieds management skills Supervise and co-ordinate sales staff, required. Apply at: 8004 Looking for a new pet? Hire and train of new sales Edgar Industrial Green, Check out Classifieds to staff, Red Deer, T4P3S2 find the purrfect pet. Call: 403.845.2230 Fax: Resolve customer 587.997.7719 complaints, Control sales report and Truckers/ order merchandise, HALLCON is seeking Authorize payments and Drivers qualified drivers to the return of merchandise, transport rail crews Keep with Malls’ laws and throughout Red Deer area. regulations. Drivers are ideally based Company’s business address: out of RED DEER. No 45 Boyce Street, Red Deer overnight stays required. AB T4R 1P2 This position is an on call Please apply by E-mail: position. Employees are Reachiesales@gmail.com responsible for taking trips during the period ACADEMIC Express they have designated ADULT EDUCATION themselves available to do AND TRAINING so. Transportation is done CENTRAL AB based in Hallcon company WINTER START trucking company requires vehicles. Vehicles are extensively & consistently Owner Operators maintained ensuring GED Preparation & Contract Drivers optimal safety for drivers in AB. Home the odd night. and clients. Drivers must Would you like to take the Weekends off. Late model possess valid Class 1, 2, GED in your community? tractor pref. 403-586-4558 or 4 license, with clean CLASS 3 DRIVERS driver abstract. Assisted • Red Deer w/airbrake endorsement licensing upgrade to • Rocky Mtn. House needed immed. for waste & achieve a class 4 is • Rimbey recycling automated & roll available. Pay is based at • Caroline off trucks. Email resume a rate of $16.00. Earning • Castor with a min. of 2 references potential is based on • Sylvan Lake to: canpak@xplornet.ca your availability, as our • Innisfail operation runs on a 24/7 • Stettler F/T TRUCK drivers req’d. on call basis. Both full time • Ponoka Minimum Class 5 with air and part time employees • Lacombe and clean abstract. Exp. are welcome. Semipreferred. In person to Key retired, retired, full time, Gov’t of Alberta Funding Towing 4083-78 St. Cres. part time employees are may be available. Red Deer. welcome. Forward Tired of Standing? resumes & current driver 403-340-1930 abstract: Shane Flack Find something to sit on www.academicexpress.ca asmabnorth@gmail.com. in Classifieds SWAMPERS F/T needed immediately for a fast growing waste & Advocate recycling company. Opportunities Heavy lifting involved (driver’s helper) position. Reliability essential. Own MORRISROE AREA: transportation required. Adult Newspaper Carriers Needed Please email resumes to For Early Morning Delivery of the canpak@xplornet.ca

To deliver the CENTRAL AB LIFE 1 day a week in:

Bell St.

• Very Competitive Wages • Advancement Opportunities With medical Benefits • Paid training • Paid Breaks

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

KODIAK Enterprises Red Deer, AB. is currently hiring JOURNEYMAN & APPRENTICE WELDERS F/T year round employment SHOP YARD PERSON Please call Bob 403-357-8669 or email resume to: bob@kodiakent.com

Misc. Help

ANDERS AREA

FULL TIME and PART TIME SHIFTS AVAILABLE

1100

880

Misc. Help

ROUTES IN:

GASOLINE ALLEY LOCATION

Contractors

860

To deliver the

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

Now Hiring

INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp. with oilfield service companies, other small businesses and individuals RW Smith, 346-9351

Truckers/ Drivers

CARRIERS REQUIRED

KENTWOOD & PINES

BOWER AREA

1010

850

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

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

Accounting

Trades

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

ADULT Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the

820

Restaurant/ Hotel

in Red Deer due to our growth & expansion. We offer an attractive compensation, benefits & bonus program. Sales exper. is not necessary but an industrial background is an asset. Please forward your resume to 5141 - 76A St. Close, Red Deer, AB T4P 3M2, or to hr@gdl.ca or fax to (403) 341-3210. Start your career! See Help Wanted

2803-50 Avenue,

•

Quality Control/ Safety Coordinator

We are looking for

is seeking

must have all necessary valid tickets for the position being applied for. Kitchen Helper ~ $11.00/hr. Bearspaw offers a To clean kitchen following very competitive salary safety & hygiene standards. and benefits package Clean utensils, cutlery, along with a steady crockery & glassware items, work schedule. floors, assist in prep. Please submit resumes: All positions are permanent Attn: Human Resources Full-time/Part-time, Email: shift work & weekends. payroll@bearspawpet.com Education: Above Secondary Fax: (403) 252-9719 or Work Experience not Mail to: Suite 5309, essential, training provided. 333-96 Ave. NE Fax resume to 780-702-5051 Calgary, AB T3K 0S3 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

830

Sales & Distributors

Massage Therapy

1280

FANTASY SPA International Ladies

Painters/ Decorators

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

Seniors’ Elite Retreat, Finest Services in VIP Treatment.

10 - 2am Private back entry

403-341-4445

Misc. Services

1290

5* JUNK REMOVAL

Property clean up 340-8666 Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds

1310 1372

HELPING HANDS

Home Supports for Seniors. Cooking, cleaning, companionship. At home or facility. 403-346-7777 Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much!

Snow Removal

1380

SNOW blowing/dump/junk SHOVELLING AND snow runs/odd jobs 403-885-5333 blowing 403-318-7625

Dixon Cres. Dunlop St., Dixon Ave. & Close $107.00/mo Dunning Cres. Cl., and Depalme St. GRANDVIEW AREA 4700 Blks. of 43 & 43A Ave. and 3 blks. of 47 St. also 4400 Blks. of 40A Ave. and 41 Ave. and 1 Blk. each of 46 and 47 Streets area $73.00/mo. TIMBERSTONE AREA Trimble Cl. Traptow Cl. Tallman Cl. Teasdale Dr. Truant Cres. & area $224.00/mo. also Timberstone Way, 2 blks. of Timothy Drive and Trumph Pl. $97.00/mo For More Information Call Jamie at the Red Deer Advocate 403-314-4306

RED DEER ADVOCATE Monday through Saturday. Delivery to be done before 6:30 am. Reliable vehicle needed. DEERPARK AREA Deschner Close, Dubois Cres., Doherty Close, Duston St. and area. $327.00/mo. ROSEDALE AREA Ramage Cres, Ramage Close and Ralston Cres. area $295.00/mo. For More information, please call Jamie 403-314-4306

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

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

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Friday Forward ONLY 2 DAYS A WEEK in 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. plus 3 blocks of Douglas Ave. $104./mo. GRANDVIEW AREA 3900 & 4200 Blocks of 43 Ave. area and 4000 & 4200 Blocks of 41 and 42 Ave. $66./mo TIMBERSTONE AREA For More Information Call Jamie at the Red Deer Advocate 403-314-4306

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U.S. Justice Department issues new guidelines during leak investigation BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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In this Monday, Nov. 17, 2014, file photo, smoke rises from the Syrian city of Kobani, following an airstrike by the U.S.-led coalition, seen from a hilltop outside Suruc, on the Turkey-Syria border. With more than a thousand militants killed and territory slipping away, the Islamic State group is losing its grip on the Syrian border town of Kobani under intense U.S.-led airstrikes and astonishingly stiff resistance by Kurdish fighters.

Islamic State loses ground in symbolic battle for Kobani BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BEIRUT — With more than a thousand militants killed and territory slipping away, the Islamic State group is losing its grip on the Syrian border town of Kobani under intense U.S.-led airstrikes and astonishingly stiff resistance by Kurdish fighters. It is a stunning reversal for the Islamic State group, which just months ago stood poised to conquer the entire town — and could pierce a carefully crafted image of military strength that helped attract foreign fighters and spread horror across the Middle East. “An IS defeat in Kobani would quite visibly undermine the perception of unstoppable momentum and inevitable victory that IS managed to project, particularly after it captured Mosul,” said Faysal Itani, a fellow at the Atlantic Council, referring to the militants’ seizure of Iraq’s second-largest city during its blitz into Iraq from Syria last summer. It would also rob the group of a “psychological edge that both facilitated recruitment and intimidated actual and potential rivals, as well as the populations IS controlled,” Itani said. In September, Islamic State fighters began capturing some 300 Kurdish villages near Kobani and thrust into the town itself, occupying nearly half of it. Tens of thousands of refugees spilled across the border into Turkey. By October, Islamic State control of Kobani was so widespread that it even made a propaganda video from the town featuring a captive British photojournalist, John Cantlie, to convey its message that Islamic State fighters had pushed deep inside despite U.S.-led airstrikes. The town, whose capture would give the jihadi group control of a border crossing with Turkey and open direct lines between its positions along the border, quickly became a centerpiece of the U.S.-led air campaign in Syria. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry declared it would be “morally very difficult” not to help Kobani. The U.S.-led air assault began Sept. 23, with Kobani the target of about a half-dozen airstrikes on average each day, and often more. More than 80 per cent of all coalition airstrikes in Syria have been in or around the town. Analysts, as well as Syrian and Kurdish activists, credit the air campaign and the arrival of heavily armed Kurdish peshmerga fighters from Iraq, who neutralized the Islamic State group’s artillery advantage, for bringing key areas of Kobani

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‘Revenge for the prophet’ YEMEN’S AL-QAIDA CLAIMS RESPONSIBILITY FOR ASSAULT ON PARIS MAGAZINE BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CAIRO — Yemen’s al-Qaida branch on Wednesday confirmed it carried out last week’s deadly assault on a French satirical newspaper to avenge cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad, as it called for unity among jihadi ranks and vowed more attacks on the West. In an 11-minute video posted on the group’s Twitter account, Nasr al-Ansi, a top commander of alQaida in the Arabian Peninsula, said the attack on the office of the Charlie Hebdo weekly —in which two gunmen massacred 12 people — was in “revenge for the prophet.” He warned of more “tragedies and terror” in the future, saying “you will look for peace and stability but you will not find it because of the deeds of those carrying out martyrdom operations and heroes of lone jihad.” Al-Ansi said AQAP “chose the target, laid out the plan and financed the operation.” He said the radical Yemeni-American cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who was killed in a U.S. drone strike in Yemen in September 2011, had arranged the attack. If confirmed, that would mean the Paris attack was years in the making. But Al-Ansi produced no evidence to support his claims, leaving lingering questions over the relationship between the attackers and the militant group’s leadership in Yemen. U.S. intelligence officials say they have no evidence AQAP co-ordinated the attack or knew about it in advance. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to discuss classified matters publicly. An AQAP member told The Associated Press Friday that the group was responsible, but the video contained the first official claim. The statement emerged as Charlie Hebdo defiantly released a new issue with a caricature of the prophet on the cover, with copies selling out before dawn across Paris.

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The assault on the magazine was the first successful operation by AQAP outside of Yemen, and came after a number of failed attacks on the U.S., which views the Yemeni affiliate as al-Qaida’s most dangerous franchise. Al-Ansi said orders came from al-Qaida’s top leader Ayman al-Zawahri, Osama bin Laden’s successor. The attack on the weekly was the beginning of three days of terror in France that saw 17 people killed before three Islamic extremists were gunned down by security forces. Brothers Said and Cherif Kouachi, who carried out the attack on the paper, were “heroes,” al-Ansi said. “Congratulations to you, the nation of Islam, for this revenge that has soothed our pain,” he said. He made no claim to a subsequent attack on a kosher grocery store by a friend of the Kouachis, Amedy Coulibaly, who killed a French policewoman on Thursday and four hostages on Friday. Coulibaly appeared in a video message two days after his death pledging allegiance to the Islamic State group, a fierce rival to al-Qaida, and saying he had worked with the Kouachis. The Coulibaly video raised questions over possible co-operation between the rival groups, which are competing for resources, recruits and leadership of the worldwide jihadi movement, and which in Syria are battling over turf. Al-Ansi called the timing of the two attacks a “coincidence.” But he also praised Coulibaly and appealed for unity among jihadi ranks, saying the attack marked a “new turning point in the history of confrontation” with the West. “Al Qaeda seeks to unify the jihad and will work with other groups,” said Katherine Zimmerman, a research fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. “Coulibaly’s support for ISIS did not appear to affect AQAP’s calculations in praising his role.” However, she added that AQAP’s rejection of the Islamic State’s self-styled caliphate would likely preclude co-operation at higher levels.

By taking responsibility for the deadliest attack in France in more than half a century, al-Qaida’s Yemeni branch is positioning itself as the group’s most influential offshoot. In Yemen, the group is battling against the government as well as Shiite rebels, known as Houthis, who have seized the capital and other parts of the country as part of a prolonged power struggle with the U.S.backed president. As the Houthis have moved into predominantly Sunni areas they have driven many into the arms of the jihadis. The group has also benefited from a popular backlash against years of U.S. drone strikes, which have targeted AQAP leaders and safe houses but also killed civilians. In Wednesday’s video, al-Ansi accused France of belonging to the “party of Satan,” saying it “shared all of America’s crimes.” 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 Detroitbound airliner in 2009 using a new type of explosive hidden in the bomber’s underwear, and another attempt a year later to send bombs hidden in toner cartridges aboard cargo planes bound to the U.S. from the Gulf. At least one of the two brothers involved in the Paris attack 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 AP said 34-year-old Said Kouachi was trained in preparation to return home and carry out an attack. Al-Qaida has in the past threatened the Charlie Hebdo staff and other cartoonists who depict Islam’s prophet, which is considered sacrilege by most Muslims. Editor Stephane Charbonnier, one of those killed last Wednesday, was on a hit list published in a 2013 edition of Inspire, AQAP’s English-language publication.

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Fresh tinctures for the mind and body This morning, with the moon hang- Plants that carry a strong scent and are ing in a powder blue sky, it frequently use to make antiwas cold enough that even microbial tinctures such as: my lab, Bubbaloo, hesitated thyme (thymus vulgaris), anwhen I put my boots on to gelica (angelica archangelgo for a walk. So I closed ica) and lovage (levisticum the door on the cold, put the officinale). kettle on and spent some The other plants that I time flipping through seed make fresh tinctures with catalogues. calm the nervous system. Many people ask me if This morning I find myself I grow the plants I use in considering these plants. my practice as a herbalist. In a large planter, where “Some I do, some I don’t,” we kept the recycling in beis my usual answer. I love fore I repurposed it, I grow to grow herbs in the garden the most versatile, abunthat make great fresh plant dant and safe tonic for the ABRAH tinctures, a water/alcohol nervous system: oat seed ARNESON extract of plant medicine. (avena sativa). I love this There are two reasons I love HERBS FOR LIFE plant, but not for breakfast. fresh plant tinctures: If I eat oats for breakfast, ● Often tinctures made my sensitive tummy bewith fresh plants gathered from the comes upset. garden or from the wild carry more Oat seed is the perfect nerve tonpotent medicine than tinctures made ic for everyone from the hyperactive with dried plants. child to his frazzled mom. Oat seed ● Making medicine with fresh smooths frayed nerves and slows down plants is less work than making medi- overactive reaction times. Oat seed is cine with dried plants. Fresh plant perfect for those times when one feels tinctures eliminate the precarious dry- exhausted by an over-demanding life. ing process. The next plant that I love to grow is There are two classes of plant that skulcap (scutellaria lateriflora). I grow I like to make into fresh tinctures. skullcap in the garden by the deck.

This garden bed my husband built for me a couple of years ago. At the time, I expressed great concern about the blend of soil he used: lots of sand, some peat moss and compost. But the sand, with its amazing draining ability in contrast to peat moss’s ability to hold moisture has made this a bed that skullcap loves to grow in. I think skulcap’s name says it all. This is medicine for people who live in their head. They tell me, “I can’t stop thinking,” or “My thoughts are all tangled up.” Skulcap calms thoughts, while quieting anxiety. Skulcap is the plant to use when anxiety triggers twitching and pacing. Sometimes it is used in sleep formulas, but mostly I like to use it in over-work formulas. A little skullcap makes the day hum along. I always plant california poppy (eschscholzia californica). Usually I plant it next to the rhodiola (rodiola roscea), a medicinal herb from Siberia, in another garden. They always seem to be a strange combination but they definitely enjoy each other’s company. California poppy calms down the disturb mind quickly. It is purely symptomatic relief. I rarely use it long term for clients. I find it most helpful during times of intense transition such as get-

ting married, getting divorced or writing exams. It takes the edge off. Borage (borago off.) is a plant I do not even recall bringing in to the garden. It arrived on its own, uninvited and has tried to dominate the garden ever since. Borage for courage is a saying herbalists pass on to students of plant medicine. A fresh tincture of borage leaves and flowers brings hope and courage where there was none. Borage calms the release of stress hormones from the adrenal glands. Borage seems to give people the courage to take unpopular stands while setting firm boundaries. I have seen people take borage to help them find the courage to heal deep, festering family wounds. It’s curious that a plant that refuses to stay where it was planted helps humans find the courage to set boundaries. Well, the garden seems to taking shape already and there isn’t even any dirt under my fingernails. Herbs for Life is written by Abrah Arneson, a local clinical herbalist. It is intended for information purposes only. Readers with a specific medical problem should consult a doctor. For more information, visit www.abraherbalist.ca. Arneson can be reached www.abraherbs. com.

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Lose weight without losing your mind Are you preparing for a new year, foods. They have catered to our adnew you? Jumping on the bandwagon dictive pleasure sensors that seek the with the No. 1 New Year’s pleasure of these foods. resolution? You guessed it: The more these foods are weight loss. consumed, the more they Every year, people conspike the pleasure sensors, tinue to struggle with weight like a drug. loss, emotional eating, exGravitating towards a cess fast food intake, stress whole natural foods diet and, of course, lack of exerwill bring the pleasure sencise. sors down, which means Have you been frustratthese foods won’t seem as ed with your body or your enjoyable at first. The good health? Moderate successes news is that after several followed by relapses and weeks, our taste nerves acfrustration? tually adapt back to norKRISTIN It’s rampant. mal levels and the original FRASER The problem when it “pleasurable foods” don’t comes to weight loss is that have that same pleasurable people continue to believe spike effect. The drug effect that the solution is to eat subsides. less food and exercise more. How do you avoid eating This, my friends, is how you less calories? lose your mind, according to Dr. Doug Look at the China Study. In rural Lisle, author of The Pleasure Trap. areas of China, people consume more We are designed, as humans, with a calories per day than in the U.S. Acmotivational triad, according to Lisle: cording to the study, 2,641 calories a that all humans 1) seek pleasure; 2) day on average were consumed in Chiavoid pain; 3) are driven by energy ef- na versus 1,981 calories a day in the ficiency, that is, we want the most with U.S. More calories. Less weight. Less the least amount of effort. heart disease. Less cancer. Less diaWith the food industry stripping our betes. food of nutrients and creating highfat, high-salt, high-sugared processed Please see WEIGHT on Page D8

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Look out for your eyes, and look ● Contact lens wearers: Clean up great doing it. your act. If you’re among the millions We’re not talking about rocking a of North Americans who wear contact cool pair of lenses, poor shades, though cleaning, wearthat’s a smart ing them too move for yearlong or in the round eye prowrong places tection. (we mean loSmart steps cales, not somethat protect where other your eyes from than the eyes) leading causes boost your risk of vision loss — for keratitis, an a risk for milinfection of the lion of people cornea caused — also can keep by bacteria, viMIKE ROIZEN & MEHMET OZ you all-around ruses, fungi or, healthy. that’s right, an Who should amoeba. be paying attenKeratitis can tion? You. cause inflamHalf of the folks at risk for eye trou- mation, corneal ulcers and vision loss. ble haven’t seen an eye doc lately, and It sends more than a million North many others do things that put their vi- Americans to the doctor or ER annusion at risk every day! ally, according to a new report from So here’s the latest on guarding the Centers for Disease Control and against top vision troubles and how Prevention. looking out for your eyes can help you look and feel great, too. Please see VISION on Page D8

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● Focus on better eye health: Don’t wear your lenses when you shower, swim, go in a hot tub or sleep (unless your doc prescribes overnight wear). Wash your hands before handling your lenses. Always use fresh lens solution, never water, for cleaning and storage. Don’t top off the solution in your lens case; replace it with fresh stuff. And use fresh solution, not water, to clean your case. Dry it with a clean tissue, and store upside down with the caps off. Replace lenses as recommended; replace your storage case every three months. ● Everybody: Eat for healthy eyes. Pile your plate with fruits and veggies. It can lower your risk for major visionrobbers like cataracts and age-related macular degeneration. AMD, an eye problem for two million Americans, damages central vision and can make it difficult to do everyday tasks. ● Change how you see veggies: Make sure your food choices include plenty of green leafy veggies like spinach — a top source of eye-loving lutein and zeaxanthin, also found in almonds and mandarin oranges. Your body stores lutein and zeaxanthin in high concentrations in the lens of your eyes. There, these compounds work like natural sunglasses to deflect the sun’s harmful ultraviolet rays. Bonus effect? A produce-packed diet also helps you stay slim, boosts your mood and protects against everything from heart disease and diabetes

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Women make up majority of Canadians with Alzheimer’s BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — In the new film “Still Alice,” Julianne Moore plays a linguistics professor in the prime of her professional and personal life who is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease after she begins forgetting words, misplacing items around the house and getting lost while out jogging. The film underscores what is perhaps a littleknown fact: almost threequarters of the almost 750,000 Canadians with Alzheimer’s are women. It’s not that women have a greater risk for the disease than men — they don’t. But because females tend to live longer on average, a higher proportion end up developing the progressive degenerative brain disorder. Still, advancing age isn’t the only factor. The film’s main character, Alice Howland, develops a rare genetic type of Alzheimer’s not long after turning 50. And such cases of early-onset dementia appear to be on the rise. Rev. Faye Forbes of Halifax was stunned to learn four years ago that the memory lapses and apathy she began experiencing in her late 50s were likely the result of Alzheimer’s. “When the shock was over, the pieces started fitting together,” says the Anglican priest, now 62. About four years prior to her diagnosis, Forbes noticed she was becoming forgetful: going upstairs in her home for something, then not being able to remember what she’d been after. She started misplacing objects and couldn’t find them; she lost interest in activities she’d always loved — working in her garden, knitting, making crafts and cooking. Reading also became difficult as she would miss words, sometimes entire sentences, and couldn’t recall what she had just read. Her doctor diagnosed her with depression, linked to the stress of attending seminary. For two years, she was prescribed different antidepressants, but her symptoms persisted. “In the meantime, my cognitive skills went downhill, the apathy grew worse. I just wanted to cocoon myself in one room and stay there. I didn’t want to do anything. I didn’t want to interact with people anymore,” says Forbes, who had previously been an extroverted people-person. “Just doing everyday things like going to the

grocery store was confusing,” she says, describing her mind as being in a constant fog. Eventually a psychiatrist ruled out depression and suggested she might be suffering from early-onset Alzheimer’s, a diagnosis confirmed by a neurologist. She was started on a medication aimed at easing her symptoms, though it can’t cure the disease. “The fog in my head lifted and I was able to resume a different life — but a normal life,” says Forbes, who helps conduct services and bible studies part-time at St. Francis by the Lakes Anglican Church. “That was one of God’s blessings.” Still, she’s aware she will lose herself bit by bit as the disease relentlessly destroys her brain. “I’m not concerned for myself. I’m a very positive person, so I look at the best that each day has to offer,” says Forbes, who shares a house with the middle of her three daughters. “What hurts me the most about it is what it will eventually do to my family. “This disease does not affect just the person who’s diagnosed. It affects every person in that person’s life, especially their families.” And often it is a woman in the family who ends up caring for a loved one with dementia, says the Alzheimer Society of Canada. Not only do women comprise 72 per cent of Canadians with Alzheimer’s, but 70 per cent of caregivers are also female. “Alzheimer’s disease is really a woman’s issue,” says Mimi LowiYoung, CEO of the Alzheimer Society, which has launched an awareness campaign to alert this vulnerable segment of the population to the 10 warning signs of the disease. “What we have to understand also is that Alzheimer’s disease and (other forms of) dementia aren’t part of normal aging, and we are seeing younger people getting the disease and there’s a large number of women in that category with early-onset,” says LowiYoung. “You can imagine somebody at 48, at the height of their life, with children and career, on average, and all of a sudden their lives come to a grinding halt because they’ve been diagnosed with early-onset dementia. And the disease tends to progress quite quickly” compared with agerelated dementia, she says. For Mary Beth Wighton, the signs were there,

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CDC lab worker remains symptom-free 3 weeks after possible Ebola exposure NEW YORK — Health officials say a federal laboratory technician who was possibly exposed to the Ebola virus did not get sick. Ebola symptoms usually strike within three weeks of infection. Officials on Tuesday said the employee at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention hasn’t shown any symptoms since the incident Dec. 22. Officials feared the technician may have been accidentally exposed when a small amount of live Ebola virus was moved into a CDC lab in Atlanta.

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The difference? Nutrient density of the food. Dietary fibre was 33 grams per day in China versus 12 grams per day in the U.S. Total calories of fat per day in China was 14 per cent versus 34 to 38 per cent in the U.S. Animal proteins represent 0.8 per cent of calories in China versus 10 to 11 per cent in the U.S. The conclusion? Eat more fibre-rich fruits, vegetables and plant-based proteins and fill up on it! Nutrient density is a powerful tool to have the pleasure of feeling full without having a concentration of pleasure-trapping calories that don’t serve you. You won’t have to go through the process of restriction and losing your mind! Adding a cup of oatmeal for breakfast every day or chia pudding (four tbsp chia has approximately 16 grams of fibre; combine with almond milk and cinnamon with blueberries and vanilla for a tasty breakfast) or try a cup of black beans to your dinner every day. Each will help you feel more satiated without deprivation. A large salad, with a simple lemon juice and sea salt and a couple tablespoons of olive oil. Try one option for 30 days to see the difference it makes. The path to maintaining a healthy lifestyle will be filled with many obstacles to slide back into the pleasure trap. The path to health must be worthwhile for you. Remember the choices you make will lead to the continued frustration or your peace of mind.

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