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Wounded Mountie not expected to survive ST.ALBERT— An Alberta Mountie severely wounded on Saturday was not expected to live, the RCMP said SHOOTING Sunday as the OF AUXILIARY force’s commis- OFFICER RAISES sioner expressed CONCERNS A3 dismay over the criminal background of the man police believe responsible for the shooting.

Const. David Wynn had not regained consciousness more than a day after the shooting, Asst. Commissioner Marianne Ryan, in charge of the RCMP in Alberta, told a news conference in Edmonton.

“He sustained a life threatening injury to the head at close range, we do not expect him to survive,” said Ryan, who visited Wynn’s bedside on the weekend.

“He is being treated and looked after in the hospital, but it is not optimistic he’ll survive,” added Ryan, who was joined by RCMP Commissioner Bob Paulson.

Wynn, 42, and Derek Walter Bond, an auxiliary constable, were shot in a casino northwest of Edmonton while investigating a suspicious vehicle.

Bond was shot in the arm and torso, but was released from hospital on Saturday.

Mounties in Alberta identified a suspect on Sunday who was found dead

in the hours following the shooting.

Police said that Shawn Maxwell Rehn, 34, was the person whose body they found in a home, not far from the Apex Casino in St. Albert where the two officers were shot.

Paulson said Rehn had an “incredibly complex criminal history” that included overlapping firearms bans.

Paulson and other officials declined to go into detail about that criminal history, but Paulson noted it may provoke an examination of the police and justice system that allowed Rehn to be free.

“I’ve been policing for 30 years and I’ve never seen anything the likes of this,” Paulson said.

Police said an autopsy to determine how Rehn died will be performed on Monday.

The shooting of Wynn touched a personal chord thousands of kilometres away. People in a Nova Scotia community where he once served as a paramedic expressed shock and prayed for his recovery.

“For many years, we worked side by side with him in his former career,” said a Facebook post from the Bridgewater Police Service, on Nova Scotia’s south shore.

“When he made the decision to switch careers and join the RCMP, we supported him.”

“Our love and support go out to his family, friends, and colleagues.”

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Red Deer’s Shawn Anderson completes a trick during the Alberta Snowboarding Association Slopestyle competition at Canyon Ski Resort in Red Deer on Sunday. See related story on Page B4.

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A lifetime of playing the fiddle

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF Al Womacks picked up his first fiddle when he was 14 years old, and 75 years later he’s still playing.

“My brother bought a fiddle from Eatons. He gave up on it so I picked it up and started playing.

“I got all my instructions off the radio by just listening to it,” he said. In those days, old time country music was broadcast out of Calgary and Camrose stations and the young fiddle player spent hours sawing away and mimicking the legends crackling over the airwaves.

“He drove his mother crazy,” chuckled Al’s wife Peggy, whom he married in 1944.

Al concedes his early efforts may have been a little annoying. “I never ever did have a music lesson,” he said.

At the time, Womacks, who was one of eight siblings, six boys and two girls, was living with his family on a farm near Heinsburg, Alta., in the St. Paul area.

He soon joined other local musicians and the played dances and weddings.

By 1947, the Womacks had moved to Trail, B.C., where Al had a job with a local smelting company. He would return to Alberta in 1953, moving to Edmonton, Red Deer and, in 1964, to Slave Lake where he worked in the oilpatch with Chevron. He retired from the company in 1989 and moved to Lacombe in 1994.

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Over the years, they have played hundreds of gigs in seniors homes, lodges community halls and Legions throughout Central Alberta.

For every show, he was accompanied by his trusty vintage fiddle.

He doesn’t know for sure how old it is.

He knows it was before 1916 because that year was pencilled inside during a repair job.

BLACKFALDS — The Bjarnason family were looking for some thrills on Saturday afternoon and weren’t disappointed at Riders’ Rush Cable Park.

Shayne Bjarnason and three-yearold son Logan were all smiles after their cable-pulled inner tube ride in All-Star Park.

“It’s actually cool,” said Shayne after completing a run. “It goes a little faster than you think it would.”

The cable park has only been open for six days but word is already spreading.

Owner Sam Kiat said the Facebook page has drawn 8,000 hits in two weeks.

Kiat got the idea for the cable park after seeing a similar setup on a trip to the Philippines, where it was used in a water setting for wakeboarders.

The cable system had already been adopted for snow in numerous places in North America and Europe and the Blackfalds resident saw an opportunity.

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Al Womacks plays the fiddle at the Golden Circle Seniors Centre dance last week. and on, and had a group in Trail. He also played in church for years, but work and raising four children pushed the music to the background for quite some time.

After moving to Lacombe, he picked up his fiddle and joined a band.

First called Old Tyme Tunes, it later changed its name to Country Gold North. It included Al on fiddle, Ella Barnes on piano, Dick Handley on bass and Tom Morin on acoustic guitar and vocals.

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SHOOTING: Resource officer Stacey Brown, with Emergency Health Services in Nova Scotia, said all employees at the agency were thinking of Wynn, as well as Bond.

Paula Power, a spokeswoman for St. Albert Public Schools, said Wynn has been a resource officer at Keenooshoyo Elementary School for five years. She said his main duty has been to provide drug education for Grade 6 students, but he was frequently in the school speaking with students and parents, and appears annually in red serge for the Remembrance Day assembly.

Power said counsellors were to be available at the school Monday for students, as well as for teachers and staff.

Wynn is the face of the RCMP for many of the students, who have known him for most of their elementary school years.

“It’s tremendously shocking. It is for the whole community. But when it affects someone with a relationship with a school, it’s different,” Power said.

Police have said it didn’t appear Wynn and Bond were expecting trouble when they walked inside the casino, and on didn’t know the identity of the man they confronted or his background.

The suspect fired two shots and police said Wynn didn’t have a chance to fire back. Bond, being an auxiliary constable, wouldn’t have had a gun and normally only carries pepper spray and a baton.

Evidence suggests no one else was involved in the shooting.

A massive manhunt tracked Rehn to an unoccupied home, where police said it appeared he forced his way in.

Police have said they surrounded the home tried to establish communication. When that failed, they entered the home and found the man dead.

RCMP Assistant Commissioner Marlin Degrand said he has viewed the security video from inside the casino. He said the officers were trying to place hands on Rehn when he broke free. Bond was shot first, then Wynn. It was very quick, he said.

Paulson said it wasn’t a firepower issue. He said officers were well-equipped.

“Frankly, this is not an issue of a tactical response gone bad. This is an issue of this individual walking around in conditions that we need to understand whether it was reasonable for this man to be walking around at this time,” Paulson said.

The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team, a police watchdog, said it will investigate Rehn’s death. It said in a news release that since the body was found while the home was being contained by police, it is considered to be a death in police custody.

Mark Furey, who represents Lunenburg West in the Nova Scotia Legislature, said Wynn and the shooting were what many people were talking about

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Josh Kiat goes off one of the jumps at the Riders’ Rush Cable Park in Blackfalds on Saturday evening. The park, which opened a week ago, is the first of its kind in Alberta, and has a 500 foot course with plenty of jumps and obstacles to do tricks off of. on Sunday.

Furey, himself a 32-year veteran of the RCMP before entering politics, said he remembered Wynn when he was still a paramedic.

Furey said the shooting, and every other recent police shooting in the country, has had particular significance for Bridgewater. Another RCMP officer, Sgt. Derek Burkholder, was killed in 1996 when he was shot while attending to a domestic call in Lunenburg County.

“It’s a very close community,” Furey said of police and EMS staff. “They find themselves in close services on frequent occasions.”

FIDDLE: Old instrument The venerable old instrument was picked up about 60 years ago by his father-in-law. He was on a road crew and discovered the fiddle at a friend’s house he stopped by. The price was $10.

Last week, Al and his band played their last show at Red Deer’s Golden Circle Centre. They also bid farewell to Red Deer’s Royal Canadian Legion.

Al said it was sad to say goodbye, but also a bit of a relief because the commitment was becoming harder as he has got older.

“I don’t want to promise to play and can’t make it,” he said.

“I made so many friends over the years. I think that was the most important part of it, the people.”

Al isn’t hanging up his fiddle. Country Gold North still plans to play at the Forshee Community Hall the first Friday of the month. He still shows up regularly for jam sessions that are held in various communities, such as Eckville, Rimbey, Ponoka and Bashaw. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

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CABLE: Up to 45 km/h Powered by a 480-volt electric motor, the cable can whisk inner tubers, snowboarders or skiers down the course at speeds up to 45 km/h, although around 30 km/h is typical for most riders.

At the end of the several hundred-metre course the pulley reverses and pulls riders back to the start.

Bjarnason is glad to see a new attraction in town.

“I think it’s just a great thing for the town, that’s for sure. It’s nice to have some stuff for the kids to do.”

Josh Kiat, Sam’s 17-year-old son, is an avid snowboarder and says the cable system provides a similar experience. The pull takes a little getting used to at first, but beginners can set the speed to as low as they want until they are comfortable.

Riders’ Rush has a number ramps and other features for snowboarders to test their skills, similar to what you would find in a mountain terrain park.

The system allows two riders to go at once if they like. Sam Kiat said he bought the equipment from Florida, where it was used for wakeboarders.

The installer said the calbe parks are really taking off in Canada. Ontario has more than 20.

Kiat wants to find a site to set up his cable gear for wakeboarders this summer. He needs a stretch of privately owned water at least 24 metres wide and 1.2 metres deep.

Those who want to check out the park should bring a helmet. It costs $15 per person for a one-hour ride and $25 per person for two hours for residents and $20 and $30 for non-residents. Group events can also be booked. For information go to: www.ridersrush.com pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

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Shooting of auxiliary officer raises safety concerns

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS ST. ALBERT — The shooting of an auxiliary RCMP officer in Alberta on Saturday is raising questions about whether more could be done to protect the safety of such officers who don’t carry firearms.

Auxiliary Const. Derek Walter Bond, 49, was shot in the arm and torso when he and a regular RCMP officer — Const. David Matthew Wynn — walked into a casino just north of Edmonton while on a routine investigation.

Bond was released from hospital on Saturday evening, while Wynn remains in grave condition and police said he was not expected to survive a gunshot wound to the head.

As an auxiliary officer, Bond did not carry a gun though normally auxiliary officers carry pepper spray and a baton. The dramatic events that unfolded in the community of St. Albert on Saturday are thrusting the role of such officers into the spotlight.

Rob Creasser, spokesman for the Mounted Police Professional Association of Canada, said there’s good reason why auxiliary officers do not carry guns.

“They don’t have near the training that a regular member does,” he said. “They’re really not trained in situational use of guns, like when do you pull it and when do you shoot.”

He said auxiliary officers are civilians who volunteer part-time to do jobs that free up regular police officers, such as traffic control. They also ride along with officers, as long as they’re under the direct supervision of a regular member of the RCMP. There are over 2,000 auxiliary constables in the

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RCMP across the country. Creasser said they typically wear a RCMP uniform with a small patch on the shoulder that distinguishes them as an auxiliary officer.

He said auxiliary officers are a huge help to regular officers. Creasser, who is now retired from the RCMP, said when he was with the force he often used them to direct traffic at collision scenes. He added they carried firearms at one time but the practice was stopped many years ago.

Creasser said the St. Albert shootings should signal to government that the safety of all police officers — not just auxiliary officers — is under threat.

“As we’re starting to find out in today’s world, police are becoming a target,” he said.

“Not that long ago, just out my back door in Kamloops here, there was another member shot. We’ve seen members that were just sitting in their police cars in New York get shot. Paris officers are getting shot. It’s a really disturbing trend.”

He said the RCMP is “hugely under-resourced” and it’s about time governments at all levels got that message. The RCMP needs better services, better equipment and more members, he said.

Steve Summerville, president of Stay Safe Instructional Programs and a former police training officer in Ontario, said in his experience auxiliary officers are given comprehensive training, but not nearly the same amount as regular officers.

He said they are trained in how to respond to potentially violent situations using verbal strategies, self-defence and their batons, but are not trained in higher levels of use-of-force such as when to fire a gun.

He said it’s too soon to jump to conclusions about what took place in St. Albert. He noted that Bond was with an regular officer and would not have been left on his own.

“I think we should get all the facts to determine exactly what did transpire before we start seeking solutions,” he said. “You might find that even if the auxiliary member had been armed with a firearm to some degree, it may or may not have made a difference.”

Laura Huey, a sociology professor at the University of Western Ontario who has studied policing, said there are multiple reasons why auxiliary officers do not carry firearms.

She said there have long been concerns within policing circles about using civilians to perform regular policing functions. Police unions would not want to see volunteers filling roles that could be undertaken by regular members, she said.

Huey added that concerns have been raised about training standards, the quality of auxiliary recruits and the costs of training and arming civilians — which would have to be paid by taxpayers at a time when governments are trying to shrink police budgets, not expand them.

“The role of auxiliary officers does need to be reconsidered. However, I’m not convinced that re-arming them is necessarily the answer,” she said in an e-mail. “To reverse this policy the public would have to be willing to increase police budgets in order to pay for comprehensive reviews of current auxiliary members, train them to police member standards and pay for re-arming and other costs. Why not just hire more police officers in remote communities?”

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS IQALUIT, Nunavut — Extra mental-health workers have been flown to a remote Arctic hamlet as a defrocked priest who sexually abused many of its children is expected to face a sentencing hearing Monday.

“Mental-health support and counselling support are available for the people involved with this hearing,” said William Qamukaq, a community justice worker in Igloolik, Nunavut.

Eric Dejaeger, a 67-year-old former Oblate priest, will face the opening day of a sentencing hearing on 32 counts of child sexual abuse between 1978 and 1982 when he lived in Igloolik on the northern tip of the Melville Peninsula in central Nunavut.

His crimes, which range from indecent assault to bestiality, were so vile that the written judgment from the Nunavut Court of Justice began with a warning about disturbing content.

Dejaeger’s arrest and trial roiled dark and damaging memories in the community.

“There is a large number of victims, which makes it necessary,” Qamukaq said. “One or two people won’t be enough throughout the hearing, so resources have been made available.”

In addition to Qamukaq, a full-time psychiatric nurse and mental-health social worker are to be in Igloolik. An additional psychiatric nurse is to be present during video conferencing with the hearing, which is being held in Iqaluit.

A meeting is to be held in Igloolik prior to the video conferencing to prepare the victims, and a mental-health worker is to travel to Iqaluit with those who will deliver impact statements in person.

Community healers from Clyde River, Nunavut, will also be at the courthouse in Iqaluit.

“The mental-health team has been working closely with the hamlet, community and the RCMP to address concerns surrounding this case as they arise,” said Ron Wassink of the Nunavut Health Department.

Dejaeger’s case ranged across two continents and raised questions about the role of the Catholic Church and Canadian officials in delaying justice for victims still suffering mental scars from horrific attacks. During the trial, witness after witness left court only to be heard outside, howling and weeping in anguish. Although Dejaeger originally faced 80 charges, Justice Robert Kilpatrick found that many memories had grown uncertain over the years

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The Canada Revenue Agency wants to set the record straight when journalists fail to include its upbeat take in their stories.

A new document shows the CRA is considering a special web page to post rebuttals to media coverage it doesn’t like.

The web page would also be a place where the agency could direct journalists to a canned response if it gets flooded with calls on a hot topic.

Officials pitched the idea to CRA commissioner Andrew Treusch in an August 2014 memo.

“The purpose of this briefing note is to follow up on a discussion with your office of actions that might be taken to get our positive messaging out in instances where media coverage does not reflect the content we have provided,” it says.

The Canadian Press obtained a copy of the memo under the Access to Information Act. The document weighed the pros and cons of the idea. One the one hand, the agency saw the advantage of putting out facts and data, “both in a broad sense and in instances where we are encountering difficulties in generating media pickup of this information and balanced coverage.”

On the other hand, the CRA wants to avoid scooping journalists by posting responses to their questions on its website before their stories are published or broadcast.

“Constructive relationships with the media are important to the CRA’s compliance communications goals, as the CRA relies on the media to convey information for taxpayers throughout the year, particularly during filing season,” the memo says.

“We also want to avoid outcomes that incur significant costs for the agency — for example, as a result of the need for translation.”

In the end, agency officials recommended going ahead with the plan. “(Public affairs branch) proposes the creation of a new section in the newsroom on the CRA website where the agency could post relevant, approved

material in instances where a journalist has written an article without reflecting the CRA’s input or when the agency is responding to numerous media requests on a significant subject.”

Officials told Treusch that if he approved of it, the new section of the website could be up and running by the end of September.

The commissioner signed off on the idea on Aug. 8.

In the comments section, he told staff to brief the officials in the office of National Revenue Minister Kerry-Lynne Findlay and to ask them if they’d like a similar memo.

The new section had not appeared on the agency’s website as of Sunday.

CRA spokeswoman Jennifer McCabe said the idea is “still under consideration.”

“The CRA puts a lot of time into the development of comprehensive responses to individual media inquiries, and is always seeking new ways to provide timely, relevant and factual information to all media and to Canadians,” she wrote in an email.

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The economy’s new math POLITICS TRUMPS REALITY IN THE CONSERVATIVE’S BUDGET FORECASTS In the clash between arithmetic and politics this winter, politics will be the easy winner.

If you are scratching your head, wondering how a slim projected government surplus based on $81 per barrel oil will not become a deficit when oil is heading to half that value, you TIM are woefully HARPER stuck on that old math.

Don’t worry about the fact the Conservatives essentially spent the surplus they had last autumn and have pushed the next federal budget into the new fiscal year.

The new Conservative math is political math.

There’s another name for it. It’s a shell game.

Finance Minister Joe Oliver appears ready to arbitrarily set a future oil price — one that neither he nor Prime Minister Stephen Harper can predict — that will allow him to proceed with voter-friendly promises in

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Even as he pushed the budget date into April, he told a Calgary audience last week that he will balance this budget, then run surpluses in the years to come, rising to over $13 billion by 2019-20.

That math should worry Canadians because it is the final equation in convoluted trigonometry that happens when politics trumps honest budgetmaking.

Conservatives have election promises based on a balanced budget, they have staked their economic reputation on a balanced budget, and even if the last thimble of bitumen swirls down the drain, you are going to get a balanced budget.

If Harper and Oliver are wrong, no one will know the actual numbers until the fall of 2016, long after an election.

A growing number of economists are lining up to say this government should just be honest with Canadians, tell them that plunging oil prices have blown a hole in their books and promises will have to be deferred.

“This government will have to be judged on its economic and political credibility,’’ says Scott Clark, a former deputy finance minister. “Who is going to believe them? I won’t.”

Clark says Oliver is “fudging the books.’’

If the government had to bow to the new reality and go into a deficit of a couple billion dollars, the earth would not stop spinning on its axis.

A deficit in a single year “has as much impact on the economy as the loss of a single game has on an NHL team’s playoff prospects,” Clark wrote with fellow economist Peter DeVries, another former finance official, last week in IPolitics.

But this gang won’t do that.

They have to balance the budget so they can make good on a promise Harper made on a chilly early April day in Vaughan almost four years ago — the doubling of the limit for Tax Free Savings Account contributions to $10,000, a vote-friendly initiative that was contingent on the deficit being eliminated.

In the short term, there is a cost.

The Finance Department has estimated that the existing TFSA program, introduced in 2009, cost the government more than $400 million in foregone revenue in 2013. But that figure will be in the tens of billions when accounts are drawn on in the years to come.

Similarly, an adult tax fitness credit is tied to the balanced budget.

Then there is the matter of other pre-election spending, such as money that should go to veterans and the ongoing costs of an air mission against

Islamic State in northern Iraq.

A form of income-splitting and increased payments to families with children under 18 were made last autumn before the oil free fall picked up speed. That surplus was spent faster than an adolescent on his way to school with a weekly allowance in his pocket.

Based on today’s reality, those are also likely unaffordable, but those cheques will be in the mailbox in July.

Of course, there has always been reason to be suspicious of this government’s fun with figures. When former Parliamentary Budget Officer Kevin Page tried to find where 2012 budget cuts would hit, he found himself stonewalled and in the middle of a court challenge.

When he gets past his budget, Harper could benefit politically from depressed oil prices.

Ontario, which will gain with low oil prices, will feel a little better when Harper comes calling for votes this year.

Albertans may not feel as welcoming, but are unlikely to rise up against Conservatives.

But first, those books will have to be balanced — come hell or low oil prices. That decision was made four years ago.

Tim Harper is a syndicated Toronto Star national affairs writer.

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Digging out of Canada’s mining dilemma It sometimes seems people in the mining and fossil fuel industries — along with their government promoters — don’t believe in the future. What else could explain the mad rush to extract and use up the Earth’s resources as quickly and wastefully as possible?

Global mining production, including fossil fuels, has almost doubled since 1984, from just over nine-billion tonnes to almost 17-billion in 2012, with the greatest increases over the past 10 years.

It’s partly to meet rising demand from expanding human populations and supply the cycle of consumerism that fuels the global economy through planned obsolescence, marDAVID keting unnecessary products SUZUKI and wasteful technologies.

And, as the British Geological Survey notes, “It may be uncomfortable to acknowledge, but wars have been the drivers for many of mankind’s technological developments. Such technologies depend on secure supplies of numerous mineral commodities for which demand inevitably escalates in times of war.”

Mining is important to human well-being, but the current economic system means it’s often aimed at maximizing profit with little regard for people or the environment. It’s one area where Canadians can make a difference. Canada is a global leader in mining, especially in Latin America. According to the Mining Association of Canada, “Almost 60 per cent of the world’s public mining companies are listed

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on the TSX and TSX-Venture Exchanges, and 70 per cent of the equity capital raised globally for mining companies is raised on these exchanges.” The association adds, “Canadian-headquartered mining companies accounted for nearly 37 per cent of budgeted worldwide exploration expenditures in 2012.”

Canada has also tied foreign aid to support for mining interests.

Canadian mining companies haven’t always had a great record for environmental and social responsibility in communities where they operate — but public scrutiny and pressure may be helping to change that. In the face of criticism, industry leaders insist practices are improving. “The Canadian mining industry, and certainly what our members are doing now, is much, much different now than what it was 20, 25 years ago,” Canadian Mining Association president and CEO Pierre Gratton told Global News in response to a critical Council on Hemispheric Affairs article.

According to the June 2014 article, “Large-scale Canadian mining companies, and the Canadian government that oversees such commercial ventures, have failed to adhere to reliable standards of international law, which assert that home states are responsible for the actions of their citizens abroad.”

The article points to evidence that Canadian mining corporations have often operated with little regard for nature reserves and protected areas, and have depleted scarce water supplies, neglected indigenous rights and disrupted communities and created health problems through air, water and land pollution. “Each year, a number of protestors who raise concerns against mining activities are seriously injured, persecuted, or even killed.”

That appears to be the case at a gold- and silvermining operation in Guatemala run by a subsidiary

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In the past, Canadian companies haven’t been held responsible for actions of foreign subsidiaries — but that may change.

A number of people from Eritrea and Guatemala are suing three Canadian mining companies in Canadian courts for alleged abuses at mines in those countries, which include forced labour, human rights violations and assault.

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BRIEF HMCS Toronto returns home after six-month deployment HALIFAX — A Canadian navy frigate returned home to Halifax today after a six-month deployment in the Mediterranean Sea. Dozens of people held yellow balloons and homemade signs as the ice-clad HMCS Toronto docked in Halifax harbour this morning.

Master seaman Kurt Sheppard was the first off the vessel, waving a bouquet of red roses as he descended the stairs onto the jetty.

Sheppard rushed over to meet his newborn baby girl Sadie for the first time, smiling and kissing her face.

HMCS Toronto was taking part in a NATO exercise in the Mediterranean Sea responding to Russia’s military aggression in Ukraine.

In November, six crew members helped battle a fire and evacuate the burning building in Turkey after spotting the blaze while eating at a restaurant during a port visit in Antalya.

HMCS Fredericton left Halifax at the end of December to replace HMCS Toronto.

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More stringent oversight of military intelligence at DND in limbo

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — National Defence has been looking at ways to introduce more stringent oversight of its intelligence operations, but “fiscal restraint” may prevent the department from implementing the preferred option.

A series of internal documents and slide presentations, obtained by The Canadian Press under access-to-information legislation, show the head of defence intelligence ordered the exhaustive, independent review — which was conducted in the wake of the scandal involving navy sub-Lt. Jeffery Delisle, who was convicted of spying for the Russians.

Unlike the Canadian Security Intelligence Service and the Communications Security Establishment, there is no direct civilian oversight body to review the actions and operations of military agents, who conduct investigations into possible threats against the Forces both overseas and on

Canadian soil.

The powers of intelligence services have come under the microscope following allegations of National Security Agency eavesdropping in the U.S., and the bombshell revelations of former contractor Edward Snowden.

Closer to home, CSE has faced questions about its activities, and the Harper government has indicated it intends to introduce legislation giving law enforcement more tools to track suspected terrorists.

The draft defence intelligence review lays out four options, of which the preferred would be a permanent, independent review board reporting directly to the minister and taking its authority from the federal Inquiries Act. But in recommending the idea, the report noted defence may have to accept a watered-down version in the form of a parttime review team — a so-called hybrid option — that would be appointed for external reviews when necessary.

The assessment said they recognized that

“in a period of fiscal restraint and downsizing” a permanent review team might not be possible and that the government might want to “avoid the challenges and costs” of setting up the body.

The report underscored the need for a review body by highlighting a recent military intelligence operation where the minister, when authorizing it, stipulated that it must be the “subject of independent review at least every 12 months” and defence had to hire an outside consultant three times to live up to the demand.

A spokesman for the defence intelligence command was asked whether anything was done with the recommendations, but did not answer the questions directly.

Instead, Capt. Travis Smyth noted that their operations and activities were monitored by the chief of defence staff, the military’s top brass and the department’s chief of review services.

They could also be subject to review by the auditor general and the privacy commissioner, he said.

DIVER’S WEEKEND

Palestinians protest Baird’s visit by hurling eggs and shoes RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territory — Dozens of Palestinian protesters in Ramallah hurled eggs and shoes at the convoy of Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird.

Baird travelled to the West Bank city today to meet with Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad Malki.

The protesters held signs reading: “Baird you are not welcome in Palestine.”

Activists from Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party had earlier called for a boycott of the minister because of the Canadian government’s perceived pro-Israel stance.

Baird is in the region for four days of meetings with Israeli and Palestinian officials.

In a statement this morning, he described his meeting with Malki was “cordial and constructive,” and said it included “candid and frank exchanges on areas where we differ in opinion.”

Canada is opposed to the recent Palestinian bid to pursue war crime charges against Israel.

Baird’s statement says he asked Malki to “strongly reconsider the consequences of moving forward with any action that may be counterproductive to a negotiated solution with the State of Israel.”

It was also his first meeting with the Palestinian Authority since the United Nations Security Council blocked a Palestinian motion to set a three-year deadline for the establishment of a Palestinian state on lands occupied by Israel.

Baird has spoken out against the move, as he has with similar Palestinian statehood initiatives at the U.N..

The minister later met in Jerusalem with Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Avigdor Lieberman, and is scheduled to meet with other Israeli politicians.

In a statement, Baird noted his meetings come a year after Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s visit to Israel, and the two signed a declaration outlining co-operation in the diplomatic, trade and development areas.

“Canada and Israel share similar views on the world stage,” said Baird.

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Leading Seaman Donnie Allan, a clearance diver with the Esquimalt-based Royal Canadian Navy Fleet Diving Unit, participates in a diving demonstration as beluga whales Aurora, left, and her daughter Qila, back right, swim at the Vancouver Aquarium in Vancouver, B.C., on Sunday. The demonstration was part of the aquarium’s divers’ weekend, an annual celebration and exploration of ocean diving.

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Languages commissioner wants Quebec to do more to help Anglos

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — The Quebec government has rejected a renewed call by Canada’s official languages commissioner that it create an office of anglophone affairs to better serve the province’s linguistic minority.

Graham Fraser told The Canadian Press he met with the three Liberal anglophone members of the legislature and said there was “no indication” the governing party would create a body dedicated to Quebec’s 600,000 anglophones.

The government’s reaction is not a surprise to community groups in Quebec who often complain the Liberal government’s rhetoric about the province’s anglophones doesn’t match its actions.

The Liberals publicly acknowledge the importance of the province’s English speakers — as opposed to their predecessors who were, at times, openly hostile to Quebec’s largest linguistic minority.

But members of Quebec’s anglophone minority say local control over institutions at the heart of their community is slowly eroding, as is their influence over public policy — regardless of the government in power.

“The English community has a problem with successive governments,” Fraser said. “They tend to be taken for granted whoever the government is. As a result, they have limited clout with Quebec City.”

The Liberal government says its three anglophones MNAs — Immigration Minister Kathleen Weil, Native Affairs Minister Geoffrey Kelley and David Birnbaum, parliamentary assistant to Premier Philippe Couillard — sufficiently represent Quebec’s English community.

Fraser and the heads of anglophone community groups in the province disagree.

Sylvia Martin-Laforge, director general at the anglophone lobby group, Quebec Community Action Network, says having three Anglo MNAs in Quebec City is “absolutely not” enough.

Her organization has access to politicians, but she said English groups need direct access to the bureaucracy.

“What we need are inside coaches,” she said.

“Somebody whose job it is to work with me in the provincial government.”

She said a glaring example of why anglophones need an inside partner is the recent introduction of Bill 10, which critics say will further erode local control over the English-language hospital network.

Health Minister Gaetan Barrette’s legislation would reform the governance of health institutions, which the government says will save millions of dollars towards balancing the budget.

But centralizing services makes the anglophone community nervous.

Any control it gives up is control given to Quebec City, which doesn’t have the interests of anglophones as a priority, said Martin-Laforge.

The English-speaking community is particularly sensitive to perceived threats against its governance of schools and hospitals, which are considered pillars of its identity and culture.

Giving up any control over schools or hospitals to francophone Quebec City is considered unacceptable.

“The community built its institutions — all of them,” Martin-Laforge said. “We bought the land, we built the buildings, we did all the work. If we don’t have institutions we have nothing.”

Birnbaum used to be part of building those institutions. A former head of the Quebec English School Board Association, he told The Canadian Press that an anglophone affairs office is not the solution.

“I’m not sure the answer is to set up a political entity which is specifically tasked with the concerns of the English-speaking community,” he said.

He said Couillard is the premier of all Quebecers and Bill 10 will “go a long away” to addressing the concerns of the anglo community.

The bill is still in committee stage, he explained, and he asked that anglophones remain patient as he’s spent hours working on amendments to the bill.

He said it’s important that people recognize the distinction between the Liberals and the Parti Quebecois because his government “understands that English-speaking Quebec is an ally.”

“I understand that it has to pay dividends, but it’s important to note the distinction.”

Birnbaum said Quebecers will soon see some dividends as he expects Couillard to introduce a plan to recruit and encourage more anglophones into the Quebec civil service.

“Often making progress is simply preventing further erosion — that’s a tough reality but it’s often the case for minority communities,” he said.

Overdue earthquake will rip up Vancouver Island

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS PACHENA BAY , B.C. — The low tide, bright sunshine and constant roar of endlessly approaching waves display the full power of the wide-open Vancouver Island shoreline at the remote beach handed down to Stella Peters and her family as a wedding dowry.

For generations, Peters and her relatives have been the keepers of Pachena Bay, the picturesque beach that scientists forecast as an epicentre for the next massive earthquake and tsunami.

The bay is also the home to the Huu-ay-aht First Nations village of Anacla, about 300 kilometres northwest of Victoria, which aboriginal oral history says was devastated when an ancient earthquake convulsed the West Coast of North America.

First Nations from Vancouver Island to northern California describe the earthquake and tsunami in similar legends and artwork involving a life-anddeath struggle between a thunderbird and a whale that caused the earth to shake violently and the seas to wash away their people and homes.

When the next megathrust quake hits, residents on the west side of Vancouver Island will barely have 20 minutes to get to higher ground.

“Every year we hear the same thing, that, ’Oh, the big waves are going to come, the big waves are going to come,”’ Peters says as she looks out on the Pacific Ocean. “I’m not really too worried about it actually happening. We’re not ready for it, but in a sense we are. We seem to be on the ball when it comes to evacuating the place.”

“Nobody (will be) left behind,” says Peters. “All the elders, the kids, even the dogs are all taken out of here.”

On Jan. 26, 1700 at about 9 p.m., a magnitude 9 earthquake struck the Pacific coast, causing violent shaking for minutes that scientists believe was felt as far away as the Manitoba border. The shaking was followed almost immediately by a tsunami that legend and scientists say sucked everybody and everything along the outer coast into the ocean.

About nine hours later, a tsunami the height of a four-storey building hit the Japanese coast on Jan. 27, 1700, destroying all in its path.

It wasn’t until the late 1990s that scientists linked the tsunami in Japan to geologic reports of the earthquake off the Pacific coast in North America.

Scientists using earthquake mapping and profiling techniques now believe the ancient quake and tsunami are eerily similar to the magnitude 9.2 earthquake and tsunami that struck in the Indian Ocean on Boxing Day 2004, killing more than 250,000 people.

Earthquakes and tsunamis like the Vancouver Island and Boxing Day events are not one-time occurrences, due to their locations near major fault lines that build up pressure over 300 to 500 years and eventually cause the earth to buckle and let go, scientists say.

The Cascadia subduction zone off Vancouver Island is the result of two locked geological plates under the sea floor.

“Right now the two plates are sort of stuck together,” says Alison Bird, a Victoria-area Natural Resources Canada seismologist. “They’re locked, yet they are still moving toward each other. What’s happening is there’s a lot of stress building up. The

stress builds up over hundreds of years and when it releases it releases in a megathrust earthquake.”

Following the Japanese earthquake and tsunami in 2011, about 70 Pachena Bay residents were evacuated to the village’s hilltop administration building and long house. Peters says there was no damage, but the Pachena River shifted from low tide to high tide in minutes.

University of Victoria ocean engineer Kate Moran says the Huu-ay-aht council was wise to accept the advice of its elders and build its new administration building high above Pachena Bay because it’s only a matter of time before another devastating tsunami arrives.

Moran, who previously advised the Obama administration in the United States on climate policy issues, headed the first research team into the Indian Ocean area following the Boxing Day earthquake and tsunami.

She says there are many similarities between Boxing Day 2004 and Vancouver Island Jan. 26, 1700.

In both cases, there was a major rupture of the earth that triggered deadly earthquakes and tsunamis, Moran says. She described the events in 1700 and 2004 as ripping open the earth’s zipper.

“What you can now do is actually put videos to the event and to me that’s really helpful for people understanding the risks here (on Vancouver Island),” says Moran, who heads the university’s world-leading Ocean Networks Canada, which includes a 24-hour ocean monitoring program through a series of Internet connected cables.

She says the university is planning to install a specialized radar at Tofino’s airport this year that can detect tsunami waves far offshore.

“When scientists want to study subduction zones, I would say that Cascadia, (Japan’s) Nankai, Barbados and Chile are the (locations) that have been studied the most because of their significance,” Moran says.

Bird says experts know that the ancient quake and tsunami devastated the western shores of Vancouver Island and the eastern coast of Japan.

“This completely jibes with First Nations oral history, which talks about the fact it was wintertime and they’d just gone to bed,” she says. “Sadly, villages along that western coastline were decimated by this wave. Many people were lost. The (Japanese) recorded the time the wave hit at various points along the coast and how high the wave went up.”

She says if a similar earthquake occurs now, people living along the outer coast of Vancouver Island will have between 15 and 20 minutes to escape. Victoria can expect a tsunami wave of between two and four metres within 75 minutes.

Greater Vancouver would likely escape a tsunami in the event of a megathrust earthquake, but the shaking would be prolonged and violent enough to damage buildings, says Bird.

The odds of another megathrust earthquake and tsunami on Vancouver Island happening within the next 50 years are about one-in-10, says Bird.

Peters says she believes somebody or something has been looking out for her village for the past 315 years, but she also knows that could change at any moment.

“Right where we live we have to deal with what Mother Nature gives us,” she says.

“We’re supposed to be 20 metres above sea level, but now where the village is, we’re six metres above.”

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NDP finance critic Nathan Cullen wrote Sunday to Finance Minister Joe Oliver, outlining what his party would like to see in the next federal budget.

The budget, which has traditionally been released in February or March, has been delayed until at least April as the Conservatives evaluate the effect of falling oil prices. In his letter, Cullen urged Oliver not to delay the budget “in the hopes oil prices might recover.”

In a telephone interview Sunday, Cullen said he was worried that Oliver may change his department’s approach to calculating future oil prices. The calculations in the government’s fall economic update were based on a price of US$81 per barrel.

But now that prices have plunged to near six-year lows, the finance minister has said he will rely on private-sector forecasts — some of which expect oil prices to rebound later this year — when he prepares his next budget. A budget based on higher oil prices would give the government considerably more latitude than one that bases its projections on current levels.

“I’m a bit worried they’re going to cook the books,” Cullen said.

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Rebels rope up win over Pats

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR

Rebels 4 Pats 3 (SO) For the second night in succession the Red Deer Rebels were involved in a game-deciding skills competition Saturday at the Enmax Centrium.

And for the second night in succession the required shootout got into double figures in terms of participants.

But unlike Friday’s outcome, a 2-1 loss to the Victoria Royals, the Rebels came out on the good side when Adam Musil, the 18th shooter, placed a puck behind Regina Pats goalie Daniel Wapple for a 4-3 WHL victory.

“I usually don’t go into the shootout,” said Musil, who never got the call in Friday’s 14-player competition.

“I have one move that I do and that’s about it. It worked out tonight and I’m glad.”

For a second straight game, the Rebels stumbled out of the chute and fell behind just 2:02 in when Taylor Cooper circled the Red Deer net, then whirled and shot from the faceoff circle and caught the far corner behind a screened Rebels netminder Taz Burman.

Rebels GM/head coach Brent Sutter called a timeout roughly two minutes later to lecture his troops and Musil notched his 11th of the season at 6:37 with a shot from the left faceoff circle that beat Wapple to the short side.

The Rebels never trailed the rest of the way, as defenceman Colton Bobyk cashed a two-on-one feed from Brooks Maxwell 78 seconds after Bobyk connected, and Presten Kopeck pushed the lead to 3-1 with a well-aimed wrist shot from the top of the circle. Burman

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Red Deer Rebel Adam Musil bangs away at the puck in front of Regina Pats goaltender Daniel Wapple during action at the Centrium on Saturday. Despite not scoring on the play, Musil did find the net during the game as he scored a goal in regulation and got the shootout winner in a 4-3 Rebels win. drew an assist on the goal, his first point of the season.

But the Pats wouldn’t go quietly, and in fact pulled to within one on Adam Brooks’ short-handed marker midway through the second period — a backhand shot from an angle — and drew even 8:44 into the third stanza as Cooper potted his second of the night and 18th of the season from a scramble.

The clubs were back and forth through a scoreless overtime before Musil sealed the deal in the shootout.

“Good teams don’t lose twice in a row. We battled back and found a way to win” said Musil. “It wasn’t the (type) of game we wanted to play, but we found a way. Good teams find a way to win and that’s absolutely what we did.”

Wapple made 32 saves through 65 minutes, while Burman blocked 26 shots. The Rebels goalie then turned back all nine shooters he faced in his second shootout win of the season.

“He’s been awesome (in shootouts),” said Sutter. “He stopped nine shooters tonight. “ In the last two nights we’re one-

for-16 in the shootout so we’re not doing too bad with that one,” joked the Rebels boss. “We were just asking the kids who would have shot next (if Musil hadn’t ended the game). I said maybe they’ll make a rule that when it gets to a certain point maybe they’ll let the coaches shoot.”

All chuckles aside, the victory marked the end of a successful fourgames-in-five-nights grind in which the Rebels posted three wins and lost a point to the Royals.

“It was a tough week and to get seven out of eight points . . . we’ll take that,” said Sutter. “Tonight we knew we were going to be playing a good team. They’re a quick team and they’re obviously very well-coached. We had to battle and scratch and claw for everything we got and it was a big two points.”

Both coaches, Sutter and Pats bench boss John Paddock, were unimpressed with the officiating of referees Mike Campbell and Fraser Lawrence, particularly down the stretch. Both clubs were the victims of questionable calls,

including a goaltender interference penalty on Rebels forward Evan Polei when he was cross-checked into Wapple.

“The most disappointing part of the whole game, really, was the last 10 minutes . . . for both teams,” said Sutter. “But we won’t get into that one.”

The Rebels are idle until Saturday when the Vancouver Giants visit the Centrium.

“We move on, we get a week off until we play again,” said Sutter. “It was a big win tonight and a big four-game set for us. We were able to gain some ground on the teams behind us, so it was huge.”

The Rebels moved two points past the Pats and into third place in the Eastern Conference. Red Deer sits second in the Central Division, five points ahead of the third-place Calgary Hitmen, who downed the visiting Pats 5-2 Sunday afternoon.

In Sunday’s other WHL game, Victoria edged the Oil Kings 4-3 at Edmonton. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

NFL CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIPS

Seahawks cap off stunning Patriots blowout Colts rally with overtime win for Super Bowl berth

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Seahawks 28 Packers 22 SEATTLE — The loudest stadium in America was silent. A return trip to the Super Bowl was slipping away.

Time for the Seattle Seahawks to show why they are champions.

“You have the belief these guys have in one another, there is nothing you can’t do,” coach Pete Carroll said after an implausible comeback for a 28-22 victory over Green Bay in the NFC championship game Sunday.

Plagued by turnovers and outplayed much of the day, the Seahawks staged a stunning rally built on resilience.

Russell Wilson, who struggled until the final minutes, hit Jermaine Kearse for a 35-yard touchdown 3:19 into the extra period to win it.

The Seahawks became the first defending champion to make the Super Bowl in 10 years, and will play the winner of the AFC title game between Indianapolis and New England. How they got there was stunning.

“The will and the drive of these men is unbelievable,” Wilson said. “We always find a way to finish.”

Seattle (14-4) trailed 19-7 with about four minutes remaining and had been ineffective on offence all game. Wilson finally put a drive together with passes to Doug Baldwin and Marshawn Lynch — initially ruled a touchdown

but called back because he stepped out of bounds.

Wilson finished with a 1-yard scoring run to cut the lead to 19-14 with 2:09 left.

The onside kick went high to Packers tight end Brandon Bostick, but he couldn’t gather it, and Seattle’s Chris Matthews recovered at the 50.

The crowd, quiet since Seattle fell behind 16-0, came alive, and Lynch sped and powered his way to a 24-yard TD run. On the 2-point conversion, Wilson — about to be sacked — threw a desperate pass hauled in by Luke Willson to make it 22-19 with 1:25 remaining.

Aaron Rodgers, limping on an injured calf, calmly led the Packers (135) downfield to set up Mason Crosby’s fifth field goal, a 48-yarder with 14 seconds to go to force overtime.

Then Wilson and Kearse struck, with Kearse — the target on all four of Wilson’s interceptions — beating Tramon Williams on the winning pass.

Kearse has also caught the winning score in last year’s conference title win over San Francisco.

“Just making the plays at the end and keep believing,” said Wilson, who was overwhelmed and sobbing after the game.

“There was no doubt ... we had no doubt as a team.”

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Patriots 45 Colts 7 FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Bill Belichick and Tom Brady are headed to a special place where no coach or player has gone more — the Super Bowl.

They earned their trip with the second most lopsided AFC championship victory ever.

The New England Patriots dominant duo earned a sixth trip to the Super Bowl with a 45-7 wipeout of the Indianapolis Colts in the AFC championship game before a raucous, rain-soaked crowd Sunday night.

Scoring touchdowns on their first four second-half possessions, the Patriots (14-4) moved on to face defending champion Seattle (14-4) for the NFL title on Feb. 1 in Glendale, Arizona.

Belichick will face Pete Carroll, whom he replaced as Patriots coach 2000. The Seahawks beat the Green Bay Packers 28-22 in overtime in the NFC title game.

“I only have one thing to say. We’re on to Seattle,” Belichick said, echoing the statement he repeated several times, “We’re on to Cincinnati,” after a 41-14 loss at Kansas City dropped the Patriots to 2-2.

Brady threw three touchdown passes, LeGarrette Blount ran 30 times for

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148 yards and three scores and the Patriots charged away after leading just 17-7 at halftime.

“I know we’ve had some ups and downs this year,” Brady said, “but right now we’re up, baby, and we’re going to try to stay up for one more game.”

In his first year as a starter, Brady led the Patriots to a Super Bowl win in the 2001 season, starting a run of three championships in four years. Now he and Belichick have a chance for their first in 10 years.

The list of milestones is long: —— Brady surpassed John Elway for most Super Bowls for a quarterback and tied defensive lineman Mike Lodish for most by any player.

—— Belichick tied Don Shula for most Super Bowls for a coach and broke a tie with Tom Landry with his 21st post-season win.

—— New England tied Dallas and Pittsburgh for most appearances in the big game with eight.

Brady completed 23 of 35 passes for 226 yards before being replaced by Jimmy Garoppolo with 3:20 left. Brady went to the sideline where he was embraced by Belichick. Moments earlier, while sitting on the bench, Brady was shown on the video board with soaked hair.

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Kings get upset by lowly Clippers

BY JOSH ALDRICH ADVOCATE STAFF

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Clippers 5 Kings 3 PENHOLD — It took the Red Deer Kings 40 minutes to find their game on Saturday afternoon against the Briercrest College Clippers, and by that time it was too late.

The Clippers (4-17-0-1) pulled off the 5-3 Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference men’s hockey upset at the Penhold Regional Multiplex, a game the Kings (9-10-0-1) will look back as an opportunity missed.

In truth, the loss started 18 hours before as Briercrest nearly rallied from a four-goal deficit in their 6-4 loss on Friday.

“We put ourselves in too big a hole in the first period with the penalties and the powerplay goals against,” said Kings head coach Trevor Keeper.

“We wanted to make this first two weekends 4-0, we’re 3-1 , but the real test is against NAIT coming up ... Our ultimate goal is to end up third or fourth, set the table for playoffs, we want to host a playoff round.”

Taylor Epps scored twice for Briercrest on Saturday while Josh Peters, Manuel Schellenberg and Stephen Langford added one goal each and Connor Dobberthien made 46 saves for the win.

Greg Lameroux replied with two goals for RDC with Logan Sceviour getting the

On Friday, they were in on four goals and combined for 11 points for RDC. On Saturday they were again the Kings best line with Lameroux scoring twice and Simpson and Jones both adding an assist.

“They have confidence and they’re moving the puck,” said Keeper. “Guys like Lameroux are starting to shoot the puck more, Doug Jones is moving his feet and getting lots of breaks driving wide, they’re creating things.”

Brett Printz made his season debut after missing the first five months to a cyst in his left femur. He was used in a fourth line role with Connor Patchett and Jordan McTaggart.

Printz then headed to the dressing room with nine minutes to go after the Kings shortened their bench in the third period to three lines in an attempt to come back.

“He’s got to expect that he’s not in game shape, he might feel good, but he doesn’t have the jump and the confidence and the timing,” said Keeper.

“He can’t get frustrated, he’s got to find a way to get his feet moving and adjust to the game speed and he’ll be fine.”

The Kings have their work cut out for themselves next weekend with a series against the second place NAIT Ooks (15-3-0-1). jaldrich@reddeeradvocate. com

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Joel Topping of the Red Deer College Kings works his way through his Briercrest Clippers opponents during Saturday afternoon ACAC action at the Penhold Multiplex. The Clippers defeated the Kings 5-3. third. Mike Salmon had a tough afternoon, allowing five goals on 23 shots before being replaced by Kraymer Barnstable who stopped all six shots he faced over the final 23:28.

The Clippers scored two power-play goals in the first period as they took a 3-2 lead.

Lameroux tied it up for the Kings at 6:48 of the second pe-

riod, but it didn’t last as the Langford scored at 8:02 and then Epp at 16:32 to chase Salmon.

From there it was all Dobberthien who stopped all 17 shots he faced in the third period, several of the highlight reel variety, to give the Clippers their first win over the Kings since Nov. 8, 2003.

“He sees a lot of shots and he always plays well, he competes,” said Keeper of fivefoot-nine Dobberthien. “He’s not a big guy but he battles hard. We pumped (almost) 20 shots at him (in the third) and we couldn’t score.”

It was another solid game for the line of Lameroux, Riley Simpson and Doug Jones.

Monahan OT goal helps Oilers top Panthers in shootout Flames burn Sharks

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Flames 4 Sharks 3 (OT) SAN JOSE, Calif. — Sean Monahan already has shown quite the knack for scoring overtime goals.

Monahan scored his fourth overtime goal in 120 NHL games to help the Calgary Flames win their fourth straight road game, 4-3 over the San Jose Sharks on Saturday night.

“Everybody that plays hockey, they want to be the difference maker and I think in those times it’s do or die,” said Monahan, who is only 20. “I want to be that guy to make the difference and lucky enough sometimes that happens.”

Dennis Wideman, Joe Colborne, Jiri Hudler also scored for the Flames, who have their longest road winning streak since taking six straight from Feb. 12-March 5, 2009.

Joni Ortio made 19 saves and has all three wins to start a crucial five-game road trip that will end at the All-Star break next week.

Logan Couture, Joe Thornton, Melker Karlsson scored for the Sharks, who have lost four of their past five home games. Antti Niemi made 19 saves.

“There are nights where we don’t execute or are sloppy sometimes it’s only half a team, tonight was a full team,” coach Todd McLellan said.

“We’re fortunate to have a point. We need to realize that.

That start itself was unacceptable.”

The winning play came off a faceoff on the opening shift of overtime. Monahan won the draw from Joe Pavelski and went straight to the net. Mark Girodano got the puck at the point and sent a backhand shot that Niemi struggled to control.

Monahan then beat Justin Braun to the rebound for the game-winner just 24 seconds into the extra period.

“Monny really improved on faceoffs this year,” coach Bob Hartley said. “It shows right there.

We won the draw and won the game.”

Both teams had chances to break a 3-all tie in the third but Ortio stopped Patrick Marleau on a breakaway midway through the period. The Sharks then killed a Calgary power play shortly Follow us on Facebook to see all our news after that with Niemi making a strong save against Monahan to preserve the tie.

After falling behind 2-0 in a listless opening period, the Sharks responded with three quick goals to take the lead starting with Couture’s tally just 12 seconds into the second.

Calgary went shorthanded for too many men on the ice and paid the price when Thornton knocked the rebound of Pavelski’s shot into an empty net for the tying goal less than 3 minutes later.

Karlsson capped the barrage when Pavelski’s

Oilers 3 Panthers 2 (SO) SUNRISE, Fla. — Nail Yakupov wasn’t expecting his first career shootout attempt, but he made it a successful one.

Yakupov scored the winning goal in the shootout to lift the Edmonton Oilers over the Florida Panthers 3-2 on Saturday night.

Yakupov’s shot got past Roberto Luongo in the first round, and Edmonton’s Viktor Fasth was perfect in the shootout.

“I don’t know why, but Coach gave me my first shootout (chance) and I nailed it.

It feels pretty good,” Yakupov said.

Yakupov was sitting on the bench when, to his surprise, he got a tap on the back from Coach Todd Nelson.

“I’m like, ‘Where?? Shootout?? I’m going first?’?He (says), ’Yes,” Yakupov said.

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HAWKS: Blame Kearse, who has caught touchdown passes in four straight post-season games, and several other Seahawks leaped into the stands behind the end zone, saluting the stadium-record crowd of 68,538.

Wilson ran through cameramen to jump on Kearse’s back, and defensive end Michael Bennett borrowed a bicycle from a police officer and rode around the edge of the field saluting the “12s.”

Until the final minutes, there seemed to be no doubt the Packers were headed to the big game Feb. 1 in Glendale, Arizona. Despite All-Pro

Rodgers’ injury, Green Bay and its overlooked defence was carrying the day.

“It’s going to be a missed opportunity that I’ll probably think about for the rest of my career,” Rodgers said. “We were the better team today, we played well enough to win.

We can’t blame anybody but ourselves.”

Special teams trickery lifted the Seahawks back into the game after falling behind 16-0.

Their first touchdown came on a fake field goal when holder Jon Ryan threw 19 yards to tackle eligible Garry Gilliam in the third quarter. And Matthews’ onside kick recovery kept the Seahawks alive.

Lynch rushed for 157 yards on 25 carries and was the one consistent offensive force Seattle had. He was crucial to both late scoring drives in reg-

ulation.

PATS: Up to par He pumped his fist in the air 12 times then slapped hands with teammates.

The biggest blowout in AFC title history was Buffalo’s 513 win over the Los Angeles Raiders in the 1990 season.

For Colts quarterback Andrew Luck, it was the worst game of his three-year career and the fourth rout in his four career games against the Patriots, all by at least three touchdowns. He completed 12 of 33 passes for 126 yards, no touchdowns and two interceptions.

“My play wasn’t up to par to give you a chance to beat a great team,” he said.

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centring pass hit off his skate and went into the net for his sixth goal in eight games to give the Sharks the lead. The goal was upheld on instant replay when officials ruled Karlsson didn’t re-direct the puck with a kicking motion.

Calgary tied it midway through the period on a wrist shot from Hudler in the slot, setting the stage for the third period.

“That was a great response, getting that tying goal in the second was really important for us,” Ortio said. “That’s when we’re good. We’re good in the third period and we showed that again tonight.”

The Flames got off to a fast start with a goal in the opening minute. Wideman’s point shot got through a screen by Markus Granlund and beat Niemi just 40 seconds into the game.

Calgary kept up the intensity and even capitalized when they went short-handed for the first time in three games.

Hudler’s trip put San Jose on the power play but the Sharks didn’t get many chances and then committed a costly turnover that led to a Calgary goal.

Brent Burns’ bad pass to Pavelski in his own zone led to a breakaway chance for Colborne, who stickhandled around Niemi to make it 2-0 less than 6 minutes into the game.

“We just weren’t sharp enough,” Pavelski said. “We pride ourselves on good starts and we didn’t have it.”

NOTES: Thornton scored his first power-play goal in 97 games, since Dec. 3, 2013, at Toronto. ... Flames F Curtis Glencross missed the game after leaving Thursday’s game against Arizona with a lowerbody injury. Mason Raymond played in his place.

straight starts for the first time since the opening three games of the season.

“It’s a big game for us. It’s not a matter of taking the point and moving on,” Luongo said.

“We needed to bounce back and we didn’t come up with the win.”

Edmonton has won six straight at Florida since March 8, 2002. Five of the games have gone past regulation.

The Panthers are a bit deflated after losing two in a row at home coming off a 4-2 road trip and took little comfort in getting a point.

“We had a real bad game tonight. We got outworked in every aspect of the game,” Panthers coach Gerard Gallant said.

“We know (Edmonton is) a good team. They play hard.

Their record doesn’t indicate their team. They’re fast and they forced us all night long and they had a lot of odd-man rushes against us.”

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“So I jumped and went in there and scored.”

Nelson knew that Yakupov had no shootout experience.

“Yeah, I did, so I?had nothing to lose,” Nelson said. “It was a situation where I said, ’Why not?”’

Matt Hendricks and Jordan Eberle scored in regulation for Edmonton. Fasth made 35 saves for his third win this season.

The Oilers won for the first time in four games and snapped a franchise record 14-game, road-losing streak.

The Oilers, who have three road wins this season, earned their first since Nov. 9 at the New York Rangers.

“It felt good,” Fasth said.

“All the guys, they worked really hard today and it felt good to get this win here on the road.”

Jonathan Huberdeau and Erik Gudbranson scored for Florida, and Luongo stopped 32 shots. He has lost three

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Slumping Raptors fall to Pelicans

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New Orleans Pelicans’ Alexis Ajinca (left) shoots over Toronto Raptors’ Tyler Hansbrough but picks up an offensive foul on the play during first half NBA action in Toronto, Sunday. attempt he chucked up to end the first half.

“We’ve just got to be there for him the best way we can, help lift him, just like we do everybody else,” DeRozan said. “We’ve all been there, playing in this league, everybody’s been there in some type of way. We’ve just got to help him out the best way we can, and get him back on his feet. Once he gets rolling, it’s going to be something he definitely needed when he looks back at it.”

Casey said he won’t give up on Ross, who hasn’t looked anything like the

AUSTRALIAN OPEN TENNIS

Bouchard puts last year’s success behind her, focused on 2015

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MELBOURNE, Australia — Genie Bouchard is putting her Australian Open breakthrough form of a year ago out of mind as the Canadian concentrates on a new year and a new tennis season.

The 20-year-old from Westmount, Que., takes the seventh seed when the first major of the season opens on Monday, with Bouchard facing Germany’s Anna-Lena Friedsam.

“I try to see it as just a new year. I’m not concerned about defending points from last year,” said Bouchard, the 2014 Melbourne semi-finalist. “To me it’s 2015. I start at zero and try to do as well as I can.

“My past results don’t mean anything when I’m going to walk out on the court tomorrow. I still have to fight and try to play as well as I can. I have great memories from last year, but it doesn’t really mean anything to me this year.”

Bouchard is deliberately keeping the pressure off after rising into the Top-10 thanks to grand slam semis appearances in Melbourne and Paris, and a Wimbledon final.

Her only goal at the moment is beat-

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ing Friedsam— ranked 91 spots below her. The German took a win over the Canadian three years ago at a minor event in Slovenia.

“I know she’s talented. She’s young, as well. I think she has a good serve, a good forehand. I don’t really remember 100 per cent. I’m just going to be ready for a battle. It will be my first tournament match of 2015 (after playing for Canada at the Hopman Cup team event in Perth)... I’m really excited to go out there and try to do my best. Try just to prove to myself that I can get some matches under my belt at the beginning of the year. I think that’s always very important.”

Bouchard has been without a permanent coach since parting with longtime mentor Nick Saviano under somewhat obscure circumstances in the offseason. For the moment, the Canadian is travelling in Australia with former player Diego Ayala. That’s about the extent of explanations from Bouchard about the arrangement, “He was someone I worked with when I was younger. You don’t get that on the tour now so much. So I think that’s helpful for me right now.

“There’s that familiarity I have with him right now which is good,” she added. “He’s been on tour with a few players, can hit really well, as well.”

But as for any future plans: “We’re in Australia together. I don’t know where it’s going to go, but that’s the plan for now.”

The Bentley Generals erupted for four first-period goals Sunday and rolled to a 7-1 Chinook Hockey League win over the visiting Fort Saskatchewan Chiefs.

Josh Smith and Cody Esposito each scored twice for the winners, who got single goals from Don Morrison, Brett Robertson and Kyle Sheen. Giffen Nyren picked up four assists for Bentley.

Darren Reid replied for the Chiefs, who trailed 4-1 and 6-1 by periods and were one-for-two on the power play.

The Generals, also one-for-two with a man advantage, got a 20-save outing from Dustin Butler. David Tetrault stopped 33 shots for Fort Saskatchewan The win was the second of the weekend for Bentley, which edged the visiting Stony Plain Eagles 2-1 Friday on goals from Nyren and Torrie Dyck and a 21-save performance by Butler.

three and a half weeks to really sort of just buckle down and put in the work.”

Raonic, seeded eighth, comes into the Australian Open with a positive attitude after his Brisbane success.

“It was motivating in a lot of ways because the first tournament of the year, you don’t really know how things are going to play out. I was able to really give myself an opportunity through many matches to just constantly get better.

“Every match I played, I got better. I played well in the semis. I played much better in the final. I was sort of figuring things out... Even in

Storm 3 Grizzlies 0 OLDS — Karl El-Mir scored twice and Liam McLeod stopped all 29 shots he faced as the Grande Prairie Storm blanked the Olds Grizzlys 3-0 Saturday in an AJHL game viewed by 442 fans at the Sportsplex.

Jarred Toole added an empty-net goal for the visitors with 35 seconds remaining on the clock.

Bill Gorn made 18 saves for Olds.

The Grizzlys were zero-for-three on the power play, while the Storm were one-for-two.

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Gerry Festa blocked 33 in the Drillers net, while Travis Ziegler made 34 saves for Innisfail.

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“There’s definitely more of an awareness when you make your way through tournaments draws,” said the player from Thornhill, Ont., who made a Grand Slam breakthrough last summer with a Wimbledon semifinal. “There are targets, goals I want to achieve, things I want to do this year.”

Raonic began 2015 with a finals appearance at Brisbane, where he lost in three sets to Roger Federer— a major recovery after losing all three of his group matches in November at the season-ending ATP finals.

On his current form, the 24-year-old feels much more ready to begin play at Melbourne Park against 144thranked Illya Marchenko of the Ukraine in a firsttime meeting.

“I feel like I’m playing well. I feel like I’m able to sort of organize my game and do the things I want to do, which is important. We spent a lot of time working on fitness.

“We spent a lot of time, through discussion, working on the mental side of things, how I want to deal with things, especially at important moments against top players. All these kind of things... We had about

player who tied the franchise record with his 51-point performance last season.

“He’s a young man, all young players are going to be up and down, we just have to help him any way we can,” Casey said. “Whether it’s extra work, if coming out of the lineup is going to help him and his confidence, whatever it takes to get his mojo going. We’re playing for something and it is an important time for us to come out of it.”

The Raptors were clobbered in the paint 62-34, and beaten on secondchance points 18-9.

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Pelicans 95 Raptors 93 TORONTO — The Toronto Raptors are playing like they have the weight of the world on their shoulders, says coach Dwane Casey.

Mired in their first real slump in recent memory, the Raptors dropped a 95-93 decision to the New Orleans Pelicans on Sunday.

Then they departed the Air Canada Centre with heads hanging, as the six-game homestand they had hoped would turn their fortunes in their favour ended with just two wins.

“We’re playing in mud right now,” Casey said. “Confidence wise, we have to come out believing that you’re going to make a play. . . we have to play with that type of confidence, that type of belief that you can get it done. Somehow, some way, we have to get back to playing basketball and not feeling that weight on our shoulders.”

DeMar DeRozan scored 22 points for the Raptors (26-14), who have lost seven of their last nine games, and dropped back-to-back home games for the first time since last March. Greivis Vasquez, who started the second half in place of scoreless Terrence Ross, finished with 16 points, Amir Johnson had 14 points and 10 rebounds, and Patrick Patterson added 10 points.

Tyreke Evans scored 26 points, including the driving layup with two seconds to go that gave New Orleans the win. Alexis Ajinca finished with 22 for the Pelicans (20-20), who were playing without starters Anthony Davis and Jrue Holiday.

“This team actually started to win last year and you guys haven’t seen any struggles since we started winning,” an emotional Vasquez told reporters in a quiet post-game locker-room. “Everything was heaven, everything was blue, beautiful, clear. Now you’re seeing some struggles.

“Every NBA team. . . I remember At-

lanta a month and a half ago was struggling, now they’re probably the best team in the NBA and good for them, credit to them. We’re trying to search our identity back and it’s about being humble and hungry.”

The Raptors had looked forward to being home after a disappointing sixgame road trip out west, but the misery continued at the Air Canada Centre, and Friday’s 110-89 rout by the Atlanta Hawks prompted a players-only meeting.

Toronto got off to its worst start of the season Sunday, with season lows for both the first quarter — 14 points — and first half — 36 points. They headed for the locker-room at halftime amid a smattering of boos, something that hasn’t been heard at a Raptors game in more than a year.

“Fans have to be patient,” Vasquez said. “Discouraged how they boo us. I don’t think that’s very nice because we are really playing hard for them and representing the city. We want the best and we want to win.”

The Raptors finally showed some life in the third, outscoring the Pelicans 35-14 in the frame to take a 7165 lead into the fourth. They would stretch their advantage to 12 points on a pair of free throws from Williams with 6:39 to play. And then, the Raptors hit the proverbial wall once again, as the Pelicans — missing Davis to a sprained toe and Holiday to a sore right ankle — roared back to take the lead in the final minute.

DeRozan drained two free throws to tie the game with 43 seconds to play, but Evans dribbled down the clock and scored with 1.6 seconds remaining, to the dismay of the ACC crowd, then DeRozan missed on a last-ditch shot at the final buzzer to send the Raptors into Monday’s game at Milwaukee having lost two in a row.

The slumping Ross, meanwhile, sat at the end of the Raptors’ bench for the entire second half, his final play of the game an air ball on a three-point

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Local boarders solid in slopestyle

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Jesse Aulin completes a flip during the Alberta Snowboarding Association Slopestyle competition at Canyon Ski Resort in Red Deer on Sunday.

RDC volleyball roll to sweep over Olds Broncos

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setter Jamie Craig had 34 assists and libero Jasmine Hemsing had 18 digs.

Queens 3 Broncos 1 The Red Deer College Queens (15-1; 46-7) reaffirmed their status as Central Alberta’s volleyball power on the weekend with a dominating 3-1 (25-22, 26-28, 25-13, 25-18) victory over the Olds College Broncos (10-6; 35-20).

Despite a difficult opening two sets, once the Queens found their game in the third set they showed why they are the No. 1 ranked Canadian Colleges Athletic Association women’s volleyball team.

“The good thing about playing them is that they are very similar too us, their style is very good to what we need to play against. When they can do it at a high level it’s obviously a very good level,” said RDC head coach Talbot Walton.

“For us to be able to match up against something that is somewhat similar and still execute at a high level is somewhat critical. Anytime we can take two wins out of a bit of a rivalry between the two of us, that says a lot.”

RDC’s passing and serving struggled for the first two sets allowing the Broncos to hang around and keep the Queens off balance, and it showed in their stats.

Queens power Miranda Dawe had just one kill through those two sets, but once the passing came together, setter Bronwyn Hawkes was able to put her in better position and she finished with a game-high 15 kills, along with five digs, an assist and a block.

Walton is hoping he sees Dawe play at the level of the final two sets more often.

“We need that type of leadership out of that P1 powerhitter spot,” said Walton. “She just got comfortable and wasn’t trying to come in and force it, when she approaches big and strong cross court, she’s real hard to block because she’s such a long, big jumper and it’s real hard to set up a block in front of that.”

Hawkes finished with 47 assists two aces and nine digs while middle Alex Donaghy had 13 kills, an ace and five digs. Kelsey Tymkow had 11 kills while Megan Schmidt had 10 while RDC libero Maddi Quinn had a match-high 29 digs.

But the Broncos did hang with the Queens for most of the match, showing their potential to be a contender in the not too distant future.

Of their six losses this season, four of them have been to RDC. Naomi Jardine and Cheyenne Heildelbrecht had 11 kills each to lead Olds, while

Kings 3 Broncos 0 In three sets the RDC Kings showed how dominant they can be but how far they need to go when it comes to focus and drive.

The Kings beat the Olds College Broncos 3-0 (25-22, 25-7, 25-20) on Saturday in Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference men’s volleyball action, but they found a way to make life more difficult than it needed to be.

Heading into the weekend, the Broncos had won just one set all season, but they very nearly took two off the heavily favoured Kings. They pushed RDC to the limit in the opening set and then hung around in the fourth set before eventually succumbing to their Central Alberta rivals. Those two sets sandwiched a set where the Kings were able to show how much power they now have at their disposal after a successful Christmas break where they added two big weapons — Nic Dubinsky and Regan Fathers.

“It’s nice that we can turn it on when it matters, but we’ve got to close the gap between our high end and our low end because it’s really distinguishable at the moment,” said RDC Kings head coach Aaron Schulha.

It was also a match where the Kings were able to go deep into their bench and spread the court time around.

Fathers finished with a match-high eight kills while Nic Dubinsky and Anthony Finnigan both had seven and setter Luke Brisbane had 32 assists.

Getting Finnigan back into the fold could also be huge for the Kings as the third year power has been out of the line up for much of the season battling leg injuries. He’s not quite 100 per cent yet, but he could still be a major asset as they head down the season’s final stretch.

“He’s an energy guy, a guy that keeps it real light on the floor and a guy that gives us some much needed depth on the left side,” said Schulha.

“As an attacking piece, he’s real explosive that way, but with all the other pieces he’s a pretty integral part to what we’re doing.”

Jonny Smook, Dylan White and Zack Deacon all had seven kills for Olds while setter Markus Hirsch had 20 assists.

RDC has a home-and-home series with the Ambrose University Lions next week, playing at RDC on Friday and in Calgary on Saturday. jaldrich@reddeeradvocate. com

Local snowboarders held their own against some of the province’s best young riders at the first ever slopestyle competition held at Canyon Ski Resort on Sunday.

Three members of the Riders on Board snowboarding club found their way on to the podium with Liam Krause winning the 12-15 boys division, Jace Dibben finishing second in the U-12 boys division and Taylor Davies coming in third in the girls division.

“It’s good for the people around here because they don’t see a lot of competitions at Canyon,” said Riders on Board coach Calvin Coleman.

Conditions were perfect for the competition with temperatures just above 0C in the afternoon.

The slopestyle competition puts boarders out one at a time on the course that features jumps and other obstacles for them to grind on.

In this particular competition, they were given three heats each to put together their best runs.

The event attracted 33 competitors from Edmonton, Calgary, Red Deer, Canmore, Leduc and Medicine Hat. With this being the first time the ski hill has hosted a slopestyle snowboarding event, Sunday was as much about gathering information about the course as anything.

Expect more such competitions in the coming years.

“In 2019 the Canada Winter Games will be held here at this resort, so we need to prepare them and prepare the officials,” said the Alberta Snowboarding Association director of operations Aletta de Rooij. “We have four years to build it out to the best venue for the Canada Winter Games ever.”

The ASA is the first level of competitive snowboarding above grassroots in the province.

There is a Northern Alberta circuit and a Southern Alberta circuit. Snowboarders on each circuit accumulate points from each event and will meet for the series final on March 15 in Calgary.

Up next for the tour is the Hidden Valley ski hill in Medicine Hat on Feb. 22. jaldrich@reddeeradvocate. com Results Girls 1) Kianah Hyatt 2) Bailey Birkkjaer 3) Taylor Davies U12 boys 1) Coen Skrypnek 2) Jace Dibben 3) Tyson Lewis 12-15 boys 1) Liam Krause 2) Taevis Kapalka 3) Kalin Fairgrieve-Park 16 and over boys 1) Gregor Zed 2) Mason Benesh 3) Dawson Cunnings

MINOR HOCKEY Both teams had 35 shots on goal Sunday but the Lethbridge Hurricanes were the only side to find the back of the net in a 2-0 Alberta Midget Hockey League win over the visiting Red Deer Optimist Chiefs.

Cole Sears made 33 saves in the Red Deer net. Arik Weersink posted the shutout at the other end as his teammates scored once in each of the first and third periods.

Minor midget AAA The Red Deer North Star Chiefs salvaged a single point from two weekend games, earning a 3-3 tie with the visiting St. Albert Flyers Sunday despite being outshot 54-42.

Seth Stratton, Dylan Scheunert and Graysen Cameron accounted for the North Star goals, while Justin Travis turned in a 51-save performance.

On Saturday, North Star was an 11-6 loser to the visiting Calgary Stampeders, getting two goals from Stratton and singles off the sticks of Jeremy Klessens, Zach Kungle, Kobe Williams and Nathan Kartusch.

Travis and Canon Whitbread combined to make 52 saves for North Star, outshot 63-27.

Meanwhile, the Red Deer Aero Equipment Chiefs dropped a pair of games — 7-0 to the host Airdrie/Cochrane Avalanche and 2-1 to the Hurricanes in Lethbridge.

Jacksyn Goodall had the lone Aero Equipment goal at Lethbridge, where Riley Katchiuk made 42 saves in a losing cause. The Chiefs were outshot 44-39.

On Saturday, the Chiefs surrendered five second-period goals en route to the shutout loss. Shae Herbert made 34 saves for Aero Equipment, outshot 41-21.

Major bantam Josh McNeil scored twice twice and added two assists to lead the Red Deer Rebels

Photo by ASHLI BARRETT/Advocate Staff

Keaton Sawicki of the Red Deer Rebels White Bantam AAA team fends off Tayler Miller of the Lethbridge Golden Hawks on Saturday afternoon at the Collicutt Centre. The Rebels lost to the Golden Hawks 3-2.

Black to an 8-3 thumping of the visiting Southeast Tigers Saturday.

Also tallying for the winners were Zach Zaparniuk, Caden Depta, Tristen Hatto, Tanner Scott, Hayden Clayton and Deegan Mofford. Steven Arthur made 31 saves for the Rebels Black, who held a 48-34 advantage in shots.

Meanwhile, the Red Deer Rebels White lost 3-2 to the visiting Lethbridge Golden Hawks Saturday, then knocked off Southeast 4-0 Sunday at the Arena.

Dylan Hilman, Luke Bast, Ethan Schlag and Josh Tarzwell supplied the goals Sunday, while Duncan Hughes

HERITAGE JUNIOR B HOCKEY Kale Lapointe, Jonathan Finnigan and Shawn Rowe scored in a losing cause Saturday as the Red Deer Vipers dropped a 6-3 Heritage Junior Hockey league decision to the visiting Airdrie Thunder.

Klay Munro made 27 saves for the Vipers, who trailed 2-1 after one period and 4-2 after 40 minutes. James Fisk stopped 37 shots at the other end.

Red Deer was one-for-five on the power play while the Thunder were zero-for-six.

In other Heritage League weekend games: ● The Blackfalds Wranglers rung up a pair of victories — 5-2 over the visiting Okotoks Bisons Sunday afternoon and 7-6 over the host High River Flyers Friday.

Andrew McLennan, who al-

so had two assists, and Bryce Boguski each tallied twice in Sunday’s win.

Robin Carlson accounted for the other Blackfalds goal, while Thomas Isaman made 32 saves.

The Wranglers were onefor-five on the power play while being outshot 34-32 by their guests, who were one-forthree while a man up.

On Friday, Carlson’s second goal of the evening — a power-play marker at 13:33 of the third period — was the winner. Trent Hermary, Jordan Jakubow, Brock Boguski, Wally Samson and Brett White completed the Wranglers’ scoring.

Isaman and Kyle Baumgardner, who was credited with the win, combined to make 17 saves for Blackfalds. Flyers

made 29 saves. The Rebels White outshot their guests 3929.

Elijah Funkhouser notched both goals in Saturday’s setback to Lethbridge, which held a 23-20 advantage in shots. Hughes made 20 saves in a losing cause.

Major bantam girls The Red Deer Sutter Fund Chiefs came out on the short end of their lone weekend engagement, falling 5-1 to the host Calgary Outlaws.

Shaelynne Bilodeau scored the lone Red Deer goal. The Chiefs, outshot 34-12, got a combined 29-save outing from Chantelle Sandquist and Mandi Fitzsimons. goaltenders Tyler Fornwald and Ryan Fisher teamed up to block 25 shots.

The Wranglers sniped two goals during six power-play opportunities. High River was two-for-seven with a man advantage. ● Connor Ablett and Patrick Fougere each tallied twice to lead the Three Hills Thrashers past the host Ponoka Stampeders 6-4 Saturday.

Michael Lougheed and Russell Olson notched the other Three Hills goals.

Braeden Grant, Travis Woodford, Tye Munro and Kaden Leibel replied for the Stamps.

Greg Pols made 33 stops for the winners. Ponoka netminders Zane Steeves and Eli Falls, who took the loss, combined to make 29 saves.

The Thrashers were twofor-four with a man advantage; the Stamps were two-for-five.

SCOREBOARD Hockey

CENTRAL DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL 44 30 12 1 1 46 26 14 3 3 46 24 17 1 4 46 22 18 4 2 45 22 22 0 1 43 10 27 3 3

GF 174 163 184 140 144 114

WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF Kelowna 45 34 8 3 0 192 Victoria 47 25 19 2 1 160 Prince George 46 20 24 1 1 143 Vancouver 44 19 23 1 1 130 Kamloops 46 16 24 3 3 136

Everett Portland Spokane Seattle Tri-City

GP 44 47 44 44 45

U.S. DIVISION W L OTLSOL 28 12 3 1 25 19 0 3 23 17 3 1 22 17 2 3 22 21 0 2

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WHL EASTERN CONFERENCE EAST DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF Brandon 46 33 9 3 1 204 Regina 46 26 16 2 2 170 Swift Current 46 21 20 1 4 140 Moose Jaw 47 19 24 3 1 137 Prince Albert 45 19 25 1 0 132 Saskatoon 44 12 29 2 1 124

Medicine Hat Red Deer Calgary Edmonton Kootenay Lethbridge

B5

GF 151 161 134 119 127

Overtime No Scoring.

Penalties — None.

GA 149 142 150 169 158 194

Pt 70 56 47 42 39 27

GA 126 145 147 126 163 185

Pt 62 58 53 50 45 26

GA 114 150 189 140 170

Pt 71 53 42 40 38

GA 112 155 134 124 137

Pt 60 53 50 49 46

Saturday’s results Moose Jaw 5 Lethbridge 0 Medicine Hat 5 Prince Albert 4 Brandon 5 Swift Current 3 Saskatoon 3 Kootenay 2 Victoria 4 Calgary 1 Red Deer 4 Regina 3 (SO) Portland 8 Prince George 2 Kamloops 1 Vancouver 0 Everett 6 Seattle 0 Tri-City 7 Spokane 0 Sunday’s results Victoria 4 Edmonton 3 (OT) Calgary 5 Regina 2 Tuesday’s games Vancouver at Kootenay, 7 p.m.

Everett at Prince George, 8 p.m.

Wednesday’s games Vancouver at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.

Tri-City at Kamloops, 8 p.m.

Everett at Prince George, 8 p.m.

Thursday, January 22 Kootenay at Edmonton, 11:30 a.m.

Saturday’s summary Rebels 4, Pats 3 (SO) First Period 1. Regina, Cooper 17 (unassisted) 2:02.

2. Red Deer, Musil 11 (Nell) 6:37.

3. Red Deer, Bobyk 2 (Maxwell, Kopeck) 7:55.

Penalties — Cooper Reg (boarding) 8:17, Wagner Reg (unsportsmanlike cnd.) 10:29, Feser RD (unsportsmanlike cnd.) 10:29, Williams Reg (hooking) 13:25, D’Amico Reg (checking from behind) 14:40.

Second Period 4. Red Deer, Kopeck 14 (Burman) 5:29.

5. Regina, Brooks 19 (Wagner) 10:01 (shorthanded-SH).

Penalties — Kroeker Reg (high-sticking) 9:04, Kroeker Reg (high-sticking) 9:04, Kopeck RD (inter. on goaltender) 11:00, Williams Reg (crosschecking) 17:41.

Third Period 6. Regina, Cooper 18 (Steel, Cole) 8:44.

Penalties — Musil RD (slashing) 0:49, Zborovsky Reg (interference) 3:11, Steel Reg (slashing) 12:44, Musil RD (10-minute misconduct) 13:50, Polei RD (inter. on goaltender) 13:50, Williams Reg (holding) 14:36, Bobyk RD (slashing) 15:22, Cooper Reg (roughing) 17:45, Polei RD (inter. on goaltender) 18:02.

Shootout Regina : Cooper miss, Gabrielle miss, Steel miss, Kroeker miss, Brooks miss, Williams miss, D’Amico miss, Cole miss, Padakin miss.

Red Deer : Nell miss, Kopeck miss, Feser miss, Maxwell miss, Bleackley miss, Fleury miss, Gay miss, Cote miss, Musil goal.

Shots on goal Regina 7 10 9 3 9 — 29 Red Deer 11 8 13 3 9 — 35 Goal — Regina: Wapple (LS, 22-9-2); Red Deer: Burman (W, 6-3-0).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Regina: 0-3; Red Deer: 0-10.

WHL Scoring Leaders Trevor Cox, MH Cole Sanford, MH Nick Merkley, Kel Rourke Chartier, Kel Cole Ully, Kam Austin Carroll, Vic Tim McGauley, Bra Adam Helewka, Spo Jack Rodewald, MJ Nikita Scherbak, Eve Oliver Bjorkstrand, Por Connor Rankin, CAL Adam Tambellini, CAL Jaedon Descheneau, Koo Brayden Point, MJ Chase De Leo, Por Jansen Harkins, PG Luke Philp, Koo Tyson Baillie, Kel Colby Cave, SC Jayce Hawryluk, Bra Matt Needham, Kam Conner Bleackley, RD

G 17 35 14 38 20 28 27 26 21 20 27 24 29 22 20 18 14 20 27 20 19 15 22

A 56 30 50 22 38 28 29 30 35 35 27 29 23 30 32 33 37 29 20 27 28 32 21

Pts 73 65 64 60 58 56 56 56 56 55 54 53 52 52 52 51 51 49 47 47 47 47 43

National Hockey League EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts Tampa Bay 47 29 14 4 62 Detroit 46 26 11 9 61 Montreal 44 28 13 3 59 Boston 46 24 16 6 54 Florida 43 20 13 10 50 Toronto 46 22 21 3 47 Ottawa 44 18 18 8 44 Buffalo 47 14 30 3 31

GF 152 134 121 121 106 138 120 89

GA 126 115 105 117 120 142 122 167

Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts N.Y. Islanders 45 30 14 1 61 Pittsburgh 44 26 12 6 58 N.Y. Rangers 43 26 13 4 56 Washington 45 24 13 8 56 Philadelphia 46 18 21 7 43 Columbus 43 19 21 3 41 New Jersey 46 16 22 8 40 Carolina 45 15 25 5 35

GF 144 134 131 133 123 110 102 94

GA 125 111 104 115 137 137 132 119

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts Nashville 44 30 10 4 64 St. Louis 45 28 13 4 60 Chicago 45 28 15 2 58 Winnipeg 47 25 14 8 58 Dallas 45 21 17 7 49 Colorado 46 19 17 10 48 Minnesota 44 20 19 5 45

GF 136 145 139 131 143 121 123

GA 102 110 105 117 148 132 129

Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Anaheim 46 30 10 6 66 133 121 San Jose 46 24 16 6 54 125 125 Vancouver 43 25 15 3 53 121 109 Calgary 45 24 18 3 51 131 118 Los Angeles 45 20 14 11 51 126 120 Arizona 45 16 24 5 37 104 150 Edmonton 46 11 26 9 31 104 154 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Saturday’s Games Tampa Bay 3, Colorado 2, SO

Edmonton 3, Florida 2, SO Anaheim 3, Los Angeles 2, SO Columbus 3, Boston 1 Philadelphia 4, Buffalo 3 Montreal 6, N.Y. Islanders 4 Carolina 3, Ottawa 2 Detroit 5, Nashville 2 St. Louis 3, Toronto 0 Dallas 5, Washington 4 Minnesota 3, Arizona 1 Calgary 4, San Jose 3, OT

Today

● JV basketball: Stettler at Innisfail, Sylvan Lake at Ponoka, Notre Dame at Rocky Mountain House, Lindsay Thurber at Wetaskiwin, Hunting Hills at Camrose; girls at 6 p.m., boys to follow. ● Women’s basketball: Shooting Stars vs. Spartans, Red Deer Royals vs. Xpress, 7:15 and 8:30 p.m., Central Alberta Christian.

Sunday’s Games Winnipeg 4, Arizona 3, SO N.Y. Rangers 5, Pittsburgh 2 Dallas 6, Chicago 3 Detroit 6, Buffalo 4

Tuesday

Monday’s Games Philadelphia at N.Y. Islanders, 11 a.m.

Carolina at Toronto, 5:30 p.m.

Vancouver at Florida, 5:30 p.m.

Colorado at St. Louis, 6 p.m.

Columbus at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

Calgary at Los Angeles, 8:30 p.m.

New Jersey at San Jose, 8:30 p.m.

● Heritage junior B hockey: Stettler at Blackfalds, 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday

● Heritage junior B hockey: Red Deer at Ponoka, 7:45 p.m.

Tuesday’s Games Ottawa at N.Y. Rangers, 5 p.m.

Edmonton at Washington, 5 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Philadelphia, 5:30 p.m.

Nashville at Montreal, 5:30 p.m.

Minnesota at Detroit, 5:30 p.m.

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

Arizona at Chicago, 6:30 p.m.

Boston at Dallas, 6:30 p.m.

Thursday

● College women’s hockey: SAIT at RDC, 7 p.m., Arena.

Flames 4, Sharks 3 (OT) First Period 1. Calgary, Wideman 11 (Colborne, Raymond) :40.

2. Calgary, Colborne 4 (Stajan) 5:59 (sh).

Penalties — Hudler Cgy (tripping) 4:09, Kennedy SJ (slashing) 14:59.

Second Period 3. San Jose, Couture 16 (Marleau, Braun) :12.

4. San Jose, Thornton 10 (Pavelski, Marleau) 2:40 (pp).

5. San Jose, Karlsson 7 (Pavelski, Braun) 9:00.

6. Calgary, Hudler 14 (Backlund, Giordano) 11:32.

Penalties — Cgy Bench (too many men) 2:10.

Third Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Tennyson SJ (hooking) 9:33.

Overtime 7. Calgary, Monahan 13 (Giordano, Byron) :24.

Penalties — None.

Shots on goal Calgary 11 6 4 2 — 23 San Jose 4 10 8 0 — 22 Goal — Calgary: Ortio (W, 3-0-0); San Jose: Niemi (LO, 18-11-5).

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

Oilers 3, Panthers 2 (SO) First Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Huberdeau Fla (elbowing) 8:20, Jokinen Fla (slashing) 9:30.

Second Period 1. Edmonton, Eberle 12 (Fraser) 3:35.

2. Florida, Gudbranson 2 (Jokinen, Bjugstad) 5:41.

3. Florida, Huberdeau 8 (Barkov, Kulikov) 14:29.

Penalties — Hayes Fla (holding) 15:57, Campbell Fla (high-sticking) 18:40.

Third Period 4. Edmonton, Hendricks 6 (Gordon, Fayne) 6:32 (sh).

Penalties — Hall Edm (hooking) 6:17, Hall Edm (slashing) 11:31, Lander Edm (stick holding) 17:55.

Overtime No Scoring.

Penalties — None.

Shootout — Edmonton wins 1-0 Edmonton : Yakupov goal, Eberle miss, Hall miss.

Florida : Barkov miss, Bjugstad miss, Jokinen miss.

Shots on goal Edmonton 12 15 5 2 — 34 Florida 15 7 12 3 — 37 Goal — Edmonton: Fasth (W, 3-10-2); Florida: Luongo (LO, 17-9-8).

Golf Sony Open Sunday At Waialae Country Club Course Honolulu Purse: $5.6 million Yardage: 7,044; Par: 70 Final (a-amateur) Jimmy Walker, $1,008,000 66-66-62-63 Scott Piercy, $604,800 67-67-66-66 Harris English, $291,200 66-69-65-67 Gary Woodland, $291,200 70-65-65-67 Matt Kuchar, $291,200 65-63-68-71 Jerry Kelly, $163,600 73-62-67-66 Brian Davis, $163,600 66-70-65-67 Zac Blair, $163,600 71-66-64-67 Rory Sabbatini, $163,600 64-67-74-63 Max Homa, $163,600 69-67-63-69 Shawn Stefani, $163,600 69-66-65-68 Justin Thomas, $163,600 67-61-70-70 Daniel Berger, $105,000 68-66-68-67 Russell Knox, $105,000 66-65-69-69 Webb Simpson, $105,000 62-66-72-69 Brian Harman, $105,000 66-67-64-72 Russell Henley, $68,444 72-64-67-67

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257 266 267 267 267 268 268 268 268 268 268 268 269 269 269 269 270

Jason Day, $68,444 Stuart Appleby, $68,444 Colt Knost, $68,444 Ryan Palmer, $68,444 Robert Streb, $68,444 Pat Perez, $68,444 D. Summerhays, $68,444 Jason Kokrak, $68,444 James Hahn, $42,280 Chez Reavie, $42,280 Charles Howell III, $42,280 Chris Kirk, $42,280

65-69-68-68 68-69-67-66 70-68-66-66 69-63-69-69 63-69-69-69 67-68-70-65 66-67-67-70 67-69-64-70 69-64-69-69 67-67-68-69 69-66-67-69 66-67-74-64

Abu Dhabi Championship Sunday At Abu Dhabi Golf Club Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Purse: $2.7 million Yardage: 7,583; Par: 72 Final Gary Stal, France 68-69-67-65 R. McIlroy, Northern Ireland 67-66-71-66 Martin Kaymer, Germany 64-67-65-75 Victor Dubuisson, France 69-72-64-67 Thomas Pieters, Belgium 65-67-70-70

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270 270 270 270 270 270 270 270 271 271 271 271

269 270 271 272 272

Tyrrell Hatton, England 66-71-70-67 James Morrison, England 68-67-72-67 Jamie Donaldson, Wales 73-67-65-70 Ross Fisher, England 71-69-69-66 C. Schwartzel, South Africa 71-68-65-71 An Byeong-hun, South Korea 67-75-65-69 Alejandro Canizares, Spain 69-70-71-66 Ernie Els, South Africa 70-72-69-65 Oliver Fisher, England 69-70-70-67 M. Orum Madsen, Denmark 68-69-69-70 Justin Rose, England 73-69-69-65 Anthony Wall, England 70-71-66-69 Steve Webster, England 73-67-67-69 Niclas Fasth, Sweden 69-70-68-70 Branden Grace, South Africa 66-74-67-70 Miguel Angel Jimenez, Spain 72-67-67-71 Paul Lawrie, Scotland 68-73-67-69 Alexander Levy, France 66-70-67-74 D.Van der Walt, South Africa 70-70-65-72

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Also Peter Uihlein, United States 67-68-70-74 — 279 Mikko Ilonen, Finland 66-75-68-73 — 282 Rickie Fowler, United States 67-75-73-71 — 286

Transactions Saturday’s Sports Transactions HOCKEY National Hockey League DALLAS STARS — Recalled F Curtis McKenzie and D Jyrki Jokipakka from Texas (AHL). Placed F Brett Richie on injured reserve, retroactive to Dec. 15.

NASHVILLE PREDATORS — Recalled D Anthony Bitetto from Milwaukee (AHL).

OTTAWA SENATORS — Recalled F Jakub Culek from Evansville (ECHL) to Binghamton (AHL).

WASHINGTON CAPITALS — AssignedG Brandon Anderson to Tulsa (ECHL).

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

BINGHAMTON SENATORS — Recalled F Dany Hobbs from Evansville (ECHL).

HAMILTON BULLDOGS — Released F Shane Bakker from a professional tryout agreement. Signed F Sahir Gill to a professional tryout agreement.

Assigned D David Makowski to Wheeling (ECHL).

Recalled G Franky Palazzese from Wheeling.

LEHIGH VALLEY PHANTOMS — Recalled F Kevin Goumas from Reading (ECHL).

MANCHESTER MONARCHS — Signed G Joe Howe to a professional tryout agreement.

NORFOLK ADMIRALS — Assigned F Steve MacIntyre to Utah (ECHL).

ECHL ALLEN AMERICANS — Signed D Daniel Barnes.

Added G Josh Trimberger as emergency backup.

EVANSVILLE ICEMEN — Signed D Bo Driscoll.

IDAHO STEELHEADS — Signed F Mike Curry.

INDY FUEL — Released G Tony Giordano as emergency backup. Added G John Havrilack as emergency backup.

READING ROYALS — Signed D Gentry Zollars.

Added G Chris Bourgeois as emergency backup.

TULSA OILERS — Released G Kevin Murdock.

WHEELING NAILERS — Released D Nicholas Kuqali. Added G Brandon Billie as emergency backup.

Sunday’s Sports Transactions HOCKEY National Hockey League CAROLINA HURRICANES — Assigned D Austin Levi from Charlotte (AHL) to Stockton (ECHL).

COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS — Assigned C Sean Collins to Springfield (AHL).

DETROIT RED WINGS — Assigned F Martin Frk from Toledo (ECHL) to Grand Rapids (AHL).

MONTREAL CANADIENS — Assigned G Joey MacDonald to Hamilton (AHL). Assigned D Dalton Thrower to Hamilton (AHL) from Bramption (ECHL).

NASHVILLE PREDATORS — Reassigned D Anthony Bitetto to Milwaukee (AHL).

NEW YORK RANGERS — Agreed to terms with D Marc Staal on a contract extension.

TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS — Assigned F Denver Manderson to Orlando (ECHL).

A U T O

Sunday

Friday

Saturday’s summaries

WASHINGTON CAPITALS — Reassigned D Steven Oleksy to Hershey (AHL).

American Hockey League AHL — Suspended Binghamton LW Max McCormick one game.

ALBANY DEVILS — Assigned D Eric Baier to Orlando (ECHL).

HAMILTON BULLDOGS — Assigned G Franky Palazzese to Wheeling (ECHL). Recalled D David Makowski from Wheeling. Signed F Shane Bakker to a professional try out contract.

SAN ANTONIO RAMPAGE — Assigned D Josh McFadden to Cincinnati (ECHL).

ECHL ALLEN AMERICANS — Released D Daniel Barnes.

Signed F Josef Fojtik.

BAKERSFIELD CONDORS — Released F Dan DeLisle.

EVANSVILLE ICEMEN — Signed Fs Mark Anthoine and Jordan Sims.

IDAHO STEELHEADS — Released F Mike Curry.

INDY FUEL — Released G John Havrilack as emergency backup. Added G Chris Kamal as emergency backup.

ORLANDO SOLAR BEARS — Released F Mike Sgroi.

READING ROYALS — Released G Chris Bourgeois as emergency backup.

WHEELING NAILERS — Released G Brandon Billie as emergency backup.

A. ● Major bantam hockey: Calgary Flames at Red Deer White, 2 p.m., Arena. ● Bantam AA hockey: Airdrie at Red Deer Steel Kings, 2:30 p.m., Kinex; Okotoks at Olds, 4:45 p.m., ● Junior women’s hockey: Edmonton at Central Alberta, 3:45 p.m., Penhold Regional Multiplex. ● Minor midget AAA: Calgary Rangers at Red Deer Aero Equipment, 4:45 p.m., Arena. ● Midget AA hockey: Calgary Gold at Sylvan Lake, 5:30 p.m., Eckville; Calgary Rangers at Red Deer Indy Graphics, 7:15 p.m., Collicutt Centre; Calgary Canucks at Olds, 7:30 p.m. ● WHL: Vancouver at Red Deer, 7 p.m., Centrium. ● College men’s hockey: NAIT at RDC, 7 p.m., Penhold Regional Multiplex. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Red Deer at Stettler, 7:30 p.m.; Coaldale at Three Hills, 8 p.m.

● College volleyball: Ambrose University at RDC, women at 6 p.m., men to follow. ● AJHL: Canmore at Olds, 7 p.m.

Heritage junior B hockey: Banff at Stettler, 7:30 p.m.; Mountainview at Three Hills, 8 p.m. ● Minor midget AAA hockey: Red Deer Aero Equipment at Red Deer North Star, 8 p.m., Arena. ● Midget AA hockey: Red Deer Indy Graphics at Red Deer Elks, 8:30 p.m., Collicutt Centre.

Saturday

● Peewee AA hockey: Red Deer TBS at Red Deer Parkland, 12:30 p.m., Kinsmen

● Peewee AA hockey: Bow Valley at Red Deer Parkland, 11:30 a.m., Kinsmen A; Southwest at Sylvan Lake, 2:45 p.m. ● Major bantam hockey: Rocky Mountain at Red Deer White, noon, Arena. ● Major midget girls hockey: Spruce Grove at Red Deer, 12:30 p.m., Collicutt Centre. ● Bantam AA hockey: Medicine Hat at Red Deer Steel Kings, 2 p.m., Kinsmen A. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Mountainview at Ponoka, 2:30 p.m.; Airdrie at Stettler, 3:30 p.m. ● Midget AA hockey: Bow Valley at Red Deer Elks, 5:30 p.m.; Airdrie at Olds, 5:30 p.m.

Football New England 45, Indianapolis 7

NFL Playoffs

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

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

Wild-card Playoffs Saturday, Jan. 3 Carolina 27, Arizona 16 Baltimore 30, Pittsburgh 17 Sunday, Jan. 4 Indianapolis 26, Cincinnati 10 Dallas 24, Detroit 20

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

New England vs. Seattle, 4:30 p.m.

Divisional Playoffs Saturday, Jan. 10 New England 35, Baltimore 31 Seattle 31, Carolina 17 Sunday, Jan. 11 Green Bay 26, Dallas 21 Indianapolis 24, Denver 13

Most Postseason Coaching Victories Through Jan. 18 x-active Coach, Teams W L x-Bill Belichick, New Eng 21 8 Tom Landry, Dallas 20 16 Don Shula, Ind.-Miami 19 17 Joe Gibbs, Washington 17 7 Chuck Noll, Pittsburgh 16 8

Conference Championships Sunday, Jan. 18 Seattle 28, Green Bay 22, OT

Pct .724 .556 .528 .708 .667

Basketball National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB Toronto 26 14 .650 — Brooklyn 17 24 .415 9 1/2 Boston 13 25 .342 12 Philadelphia 8 32 .200 18 New York 5 36 .122 21 1/2

Atlanta Washington Miami Charlotte Orlando

Southeast Division W L Pct 33 8 .805 28 13 .683 18 22 .450 16 25 .390 15 29 .341

GB — 5 14 1/2 17 19 1/2

Central Division W L Pct 27 15 .643 21 19 .525 21 20 .512 16 25 .390 15 27 .357

GB — 5 5 1/2 10 1/2 12

Chicago Milwaukee Cleveland Detroit Indiana

WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct GB Memphis 29 11 .725 — Houston 28 13 .683 1 1/2 Dallas 28 13 .683 1 1/2 San Antonio 26 16 .619 4 New Orleans 20 20 .500 9

Portland Oklahoma City Denver Utah Minnesota

Northwest Division W L Pct 30 11 .732 20 20 .500 18 22 .450 14 27 .341 7 32 .179

GB — 9 1/2 11 1/2 16 22

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

Pacific Division W L Pct 32 6 .842 27 14 .659 24 18 .571 16 24 .400 12 29 .293

GB — 6 1/2 10 17 21 1/2

Saturday’s Games Charlotte 80, Indiana 71, OT Detroit 107, Philadelphia 89 Atlanta 107, Chicago 99 Golden State 131, Houston 106 Washington 99, Brooklyn 90 Minnesota 113, Denver 105 Memphis 102, Portland 98 L.A. Clippers 117, Sacramento 108 Sunday’s Games New Orleans 95, Toronto 93 Oklahoma City 127, Orlando 99 San Antonio 89, Utah 69 Monday’s Games Philadelphia at Washington, noon Minnesota at Charlotte, noon Detroit at Atlanta, 12:30 p.m.

Boston at L.A. Clippers, 1:30 p.m.

Denver at Golden State, 2 p.m.

Dallas at Memphis, 3 p.m.

Indiana at Houston, 3:30 p.m.

New Orleans at New York, 3:30 p.m.

Chicago at Cleveland, 5:30 p.m.

Toronto at Milwaukee, 6 p.m.

Sacramento at Portland, 8 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at Phoenix, 8 p.m.

Tuesday’s Games Oklahoma City at Miami, 5:30 p.m.

San Antonio at Denver, 7 p.m.

Lacrosse National Lacrosse League East Division GP W L Pct GF GA New England 2 2 0 1.000 29 15 Toronto 2 2 0 1.000 33 23 Buffalo 3 2 1 .667 31 33 Minnesota 2 1 1 .500 27 30 Rochester 2 0 2 .000 19 30

Colorado Vancouver Edmonton Calgary

GP 2 3 2 2

West Division W L Pct 2 0 1.000 1 2 .333 0 2 .000 0 2 .000

GF 37 42 18 30

GA 29 48 23 35

GB — — 1/2 1 2 GB — 1 1/2 2 2

WEEK THREE Saturday’s results Buffalo 14 Vancouver 13

WEEK FOUR Friday, January 23 Buffalo at Toronto, 5:30 p.m.

Saturday, January 24 Minnesota at New England, 5 p.m.

Toronto at Rochester, 5:30 p.m.

Edmonton at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Vancouver at Colorado, 7 p.m.

WEEK FIVE Friday, January 30 Minnesota at Buffalo, 5:30 p.m.

New England at Edmonton, 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, January 31 Calgary at Toronto, 5 p.m.

Buffalo at Rochester, 5:30 p.m.

Colorado at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

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Dufour-Lapointe wins world moguls title CANADIAN OLYMPIC CHAMPION WINS WORLDS, KINGSBURY TAKES MEN’S SILVER

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS KREISCHBERG, Austria — Justine Dufour-Lapointe loves winning freestyle skiing medals. But every event, every run, is all about smaller objectives for the Montreal native.

Dufour-Lapointe added to her Olympic gold medal by winning the world moguls title on Sunday, while Mikael Kingsbury of Deux-Montagnes, Que., took silver in the men’s event.

Dufour-Lapointe, who earned bronze at the 2013 worlds in Norway, scored 87.25 points in the final. Defending champion Hannah Kearney of the United States, who took the title in 2005 and again two years ago, won silver with 85.66, while Brittney Cox of Australia gained 81.98 for the bronze medal.

“Every time I’m going to a competition I’m asking myself what my one true objective is.

What my one true goal is that I’m setting by myself,” said Dufour-Lapointe. “It’s not like the colour of a medal or just a medal. It’s the way I want to ski. For example, sometimes I’m setting for myself to ski the fastest for the day.

“This is how I figure it out.

I focus on the right thing and then the medal appears.”

Breaking each competition down into smaller goals has worked well for her this season, with Dufour-Lapointe earning medals at her last three competitions. She won bronze in moguls at Calgary on Jan. 3, silver in the event at Deer Valley, Colo., on Jan. 9 and then gold in dual moguls on Jan. 10, again at Deer Val-

ley.

On Sunday, DufourLapointe’s objective was to adjust her style to the shorter run at Kreischberg, Austria.

“Because the course was smaller than usual my main focus was on being really clean and at the same time being really fast. It’s a balance. You need to be fast but also really compact and clean. That was my main goal and I think I did it well all day long.”

Added Dufour-Lapointe: “I think this is maybe why I won today.”

Dufour-Lapointe’s older sister Maxime finished 1.06 points short of the podium in fourth, while her other sister, Chloe, is the 2013 dual moguls world champion.

“I’m so happy for my sister Maxime. She skied so well.

She’s improving every competition. She always surprises us, she’s amazing,” said Justine Dufour-Lapointe. “Of course Chloe didn’t make it today with us in the super final. It was really heartbreaking for me.

“It’s always fun to know that both of my sisters are there next to me. We’re like a little team together. I always feel stronger when they’re there.”

On the men’s side, Kingsbury lost to Anthony Benna by 0.35 points, as the Frenchman ended on 86.89 points.

Russia’s Alexandr Smyshlyaev scored 85.68 for bronze, edging fourth-place and 2009 world champion Patrick Deneen of the United States by only 0.04.

Sunday’s silver ended a run of three-straight golds by Kingsbury. He took the top prize in moguls in Calgary, then won gold in moguls and

Walker blows away the field and wins Sony Open by record margin GOLF

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HONOLULU — Jimmy Walker was getting coffee Sunday morning when he saw that U.S. Open champion Martin Kaymer had lost a 10-shot lead with 13 holes to play in Abu Dhabi.

He went back to his room and told his wife, “Winning is hard.”

Later that afternoon, Walker made it look easy.

With the most impressive performance of his career, Walker blew away the field Sunday in the Sony Open by closing with a 7-under 63 to win by nine shots, a record margin for the tournament and the biggest rout on the PGA Tour in nearly six years.

Walker watched Jordan Spieth win the Hero World Challenge last month by 10 shots against an 18-man field and wondered if he was on another planet.

“And that’s kind of the way it feels when you watch those performances,” Walker said.

“You see them and are like, ’Man, what golf course is that guy playing?’ And to be able to say you’ve done that and you’ve distanced yourself like that, it’s really cool. I think it’s a good learning experience.

Definitely happy to keep the pedal down.”

The timing could not have been better.

Six days ago on Maui, Walker lost a tournament he felt he should have won. Sunday on Oahu, he played like he was on

his own island.

On a course that lends itself to a free-for-all, Walker shot 6263 on the weekend and never gave anyone much of a chance.

The previous Sony Open record for margin of victory was seven shots, last done by Paul Azinger in 2000. Walker became the first repeat winner of this tournament since Ernie Els in 2004.

Scott Piercy closed with a 66 to finish alone in second. Matt Kuchar, who started the final round two shots out of the lead, didn’t make a birdie and shot 71 to tie for third with Harris English and Gary Woodland, who each had a 67. Kuchar ended his streak of 255 rounds on the PGA Tour with at least one birdie.

But this was Walker’s show, and it came with a small measure of redemption.

Walker had a three-shot lead with five holes to play at Kapalua last Monday when he wound up losing to Patrick Reed in a playoff at the Tournament of Champions. With a quick turnaround, he quickly put it behind him.

“I really wanted to finish out the day like I didn’t do last week,” Walker said.

He finished at 23-under 257.

David Hearn of Brantford, Ont. was the top Canadian at the Sony Open. He shot a 68 on the final day to finish tied for 51st place at 5-under for the tournament.

The text message Sunday morning from swing coach Butch Harmon was to “keep the pedal down today.” The message from caddie Andy Sanders over just about every putt was, “Don’t let up.”

dual moguls in Deer Valley the next week.

Like Justine DufourLapointe, Kingsbury tries not to emphasize medals, but instead concentrates on his personal process on the slopes.

“I’m just focusing on myself right now. Focusing on skiing well and not trying to focus on the results,” said Kingsbury.

“That’s helped me a lot. I’m just following my process and I know that if I ski well I put myself into a position to win every time.”

Kingsbury had been leading competition all day, but had a slight miscalculation on his first jump at the top of the hill in the super final.

Quebec City’s Philippe Marquis also competed in the men’s super final, but did not finish his run and officially finished sixth overall. Teammate Simon Pouliot-Cavanagh, also from Quebec City, ended the day in 17th place after stumbling in the final 1.

Benna hadn’t finished in the top 15 of a major championship before. Benna earned his most recent of four career World Cup podiums in Finland in December.

Still, Kingsbury thought Benna deserved the world championship.

“I’m not surprised because he’s a very good skier. He deserved the title today,” said Kingsbury. “I think if I hadn’t have made my mistake I think I would have had a very good chance of winning, but it’s great. He’s a great guy and I’m very happy for him.”

The next medal event of the freestyle skiing world championships is the dual moguls on today.

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Justine Dufour-Lapointe, of Canada, jumps during the women’s freestyle skiing World Cup dual moguls Jan. 10, 2015, in Park City, Utah. Dufour-Lapointe took the win at that event and also won the world moguls title at the World Championships in Austria, Sunday.

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BRIEFS U14AA Sting win ringette gold at Golden Ring tournament The Central Alberta Sting U14AAs earned gold at the Calgary Esso Golden Ring Tournament this weekend.

The local ringette team beat the Lower Mainland Thunder from B.C. 2-0 in the final with Jamie Lalor and Megan Grubb scoring and MaKenna Smalley earning the shutout.

The Sting advanced to the final with a 4-1 win over the Calgary Crossfire on Sunday morning, getting two goals from Colby Wagar and one each from Saxon Anderson and Rachel Vandervlis.

They won their cross-over quarter-final game 4-2 over the Zone 5 Edge, getting two goals from Wagar and one each from Erika Driesen and Hanna Gill.

The Sting went 2-1 in the round robin portion of the tournament, opening with a 3-1 win over Calgary U14AA 212, as Kianna Doyle scored twice and Carly Cherniak once. They followed with a 6-1 win over the Saskatoon Saints — Doyle with the hat trick and single goals from Anderson, Grubb an Hannah Morrison — a 3-3 tie with the St. Albert Mission — Doyle with two goals and Wagar with one.

The Sting are off to Richmond Hill, Ont., for a tournament at the end of the month and are now preparing for AA provincials in February in St. Albert.

Johnson wins two silver at Western Canada championships Bailey Johnson of the Red Deer Nordic Cross Country Ski Club picked up two silver medals and placed fourth in another event during the Western Canada championships Friday to Sunday at Canmore.

Bailey garnered a silver in Friday’s under-16 female five kilometer distance classic race and was runner-up in Saturday’s one km sprint free skate. She finished fourth in the 10 km distance skate Sunday.

The three-day event attracted over 500 skiers from British Columbia to Manitoba, with over 50 racers competing in most age divisions.

Other top-20 Red Deer Nordic results: Five km distance classic: Anna Zimmerman, 17th, U18 female; One km sprint free skate: Zimmerman, 20th; 10 km distance skate: Owen Pimm, 13th, U14 male.

The Red Deer College Kings completed their Alberta Colleges Athletics Conference men’s basketball sweep if St. Mary’s University Lightning on Saturday with a 88-52 win in Calgary.

The Kings were led by Justin Jarvis with 25 points and 12 rebounds, the second straight game the Christmas break addition has been their player of the game. In Friday’s 93-63 win he had 19 points and 16 rebounds.

“Justin was outstanding this weekend,” said Kings head coach Clay Pottinger in an email. “We haven’t seen numbers like that from one of our forwards since Robert Pierce.”

• The RDC Queens lost 80-60 to the Lightning on Saturday, dropping both games to the Lightning on the weekend. Kennedy Burgess was the Queens player of the game with 18 points, six rebounds and eight assists.

RDC is off this next weekend with a bye, they return the following week to play the Medicine Hat College Rattlers.

• The RDC Queens women’s hockey team finally scored more than one goal in a game and won, beating the MacEwan University Griffins 3-2 on Saturday in Edmonton. Suze Vanderline scored the winner in the third period short-handed while Ashley Graf and Megan Jones also scored.

The win gives RDC a three-point lead over the Griffins for the third and final playoff spot.

“That was the grittiest, nastiest, game I’ve seen this team play all year,” said Queens head coach Bob Rutz in an email. “We went hard to the net, created many secondary scoring chances and played hard nosed in out own zone. It was a great battle and it was nice to see the girls have some success putting the puck in the net after working so hard the past two weeks.”

• The RDC women’s curling team had a big weekend at the ACAC Fall Regional at the Avonair Curling Club in Edmonton.

The defending national champion women’s rink went 4-2, with wins over Olds College Lakeland College, Grande Prairie Regional College and Concordia. They lost to Portage College and MacEwan University.

The RDC men and mixed teams, however, both went 1-5. The men only managed a single win over Olds College.

The mixed rink, meanwhile, managed a single win over Lakeland.

The Winter Regional is scheduled for Feb. 6-8 in Camrose with the top four teams in each division advancing to the ACAC championships in Grande Prairie.

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Oilmen’s bonspiel The 33rd Annual Red Deer Oilmen’s Bonspiel wrapped up this past weekend.

Curlers working full time in the oil, gas and petroleum industries, as well as support services and supply, took part in the event, making up a total of 56 curling teams.

The four-day event, which kicked off on Thurday, saw well over 350 Red Deerians in attendance throughout the ‘spiel, including the curlers themselves.

The 2014 Winners included Whaler Industrial Contracting, Quinn Pumps, Bonnetts Energy, Terroco Industries and Challand Pipeline.

The Pidherney Centre will also host the fourth annual Freeze the House Bonspiel in support of Ronald McDonald House Central Alberta from Jan. 30 - Feb. 1.

STORY AND PHOTOS BY ASHLI BARRETT/ ADVOCATE STAFF Photos clockwise from the top: Corrosion Technologies team member Barry Williscroft watches his stone head down the ice during a match against Icon Energy Services at the 33rd Annual Oilmen’s Bonspiel on Saturday.

A total 56 teams competed in the 33rd Annual Oilmen’s Bonspiel this past weekend a the Pidherney Centre.

The HSE Integrated team, consisting of Kyle Turner, Ryan Cederstrand, Chris Weiss and Dean Varty, rocked argyle pants, reminiscent of the Norwegian Olympic Curling Team, during their match on Saturday Rapid Rod Third Jim Smith releases his stone during a match against High Arctic Energy Services

Parkland affordable housing under different management

BY ADVOCATE STAFF The Bethany Group is assuming management duties of Parkland Foundations’ affordable housing programs and facilities.

The partnership comes after the resignation of Parkland CAO Marie Flowers, who is scheduled to leave the foundation on Jan. 31.

“While we were sad to see Marie Flowers leave us, we took her departure as an opportunity to explore

where the foundation could go and who could help lead us towards the future. After much deliberation, we decided to partner with The Bethany Group, who bring with them a vast amount of resources,” said board chair Connie Huelsman in a press release announcing the partnership on Friday.

Bethany Group will report to Parkland Foundation’s board of directors.

Bethany and Parkland say the new partnership just means a new administrative team and residents should not see any significant changes.

Parkland Foundation provides affordable housing for seniors in Central Alberta, including Autumn Glen Lodge in Innisfail and seniors apartments in Bowden, Innisfail and Penhold.

The foundation also provides family housing in Bowden and administers a rent supplement program on behalf of the province.

Autumn Glen Lodge is over 50 years old and the first project that Parkland and Bethany will take on together is a proposal for a new facility in Innisfail.

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Other Bethany Group partners include Flagstaff Regional Housing Group, Lacombe Foundation and Rimoka Housing Foundation. In Red Deer, Bethany Group works with Red Deer Housing Authority to provide housing assistance to those in need.

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Fight for online sales ramps up BUT CANADIAN COMPANIES SIT BACK

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Aggressive moves by U.S. retailers to win over Canadian online shoppers with perks such as price-matching and free shipping might be just what Canadian stores need to sharpen their ecommerce offerings.

“I think (Canadian) retailers have been complacent — until now. (But) things are changing with the influx of U.S. competition,” says retail analyst Doug Stephens.

“Canadian retailers really have to ask themselves, is it not time to at least get on board and do e-commerce like it’s 1999?”

Stephens said pressure is building for established retailers such as Hudson’s Bay Co. (TSX:HBC) and Canadian Tire (TSX:CTC.A) to beef up their online presence to compete with the U.S. where the online marketplace is developing so fast that last month Amazon, the country’s largest online retailer, introduced one-hour home delivery in New York City.

Stephens said the amount of experience largescale companies like Amazon and Walmart have in ecommerce, as well as the speed that online shopping

is evolving in terms of technology and product offerings, can put Canadian retailers at a disadvantage.

So can the “perks,” like free shipping, according to Craig Patterson of Vancouver-based blog Retail Insider.

“Free is huge and if Canadian companies aren’t offering free shipping then they’re going to have a challenge competing against American websites,” he said.

“They’re going to have trouble attracting Canadians in general to e-commerce because, otherwise, people are just going to go into stores. Retailers need to put the investment in and recognize that ecommerce can drive in-store sales.”

Canadian retailers are challenged with having not enough distribution centres that would allow them to offer incentives like same-day shipping without hurting their bottom line.

Retailers have also been held back by legacy computer systems that may not be able to handle a high volume of e-commerce stocking and distribution, said Sally Seston, founder of Retail Category Consultants.

“It’s almost like a Band-Aid on a Band-Aid on a Band-Aid,” said Seston, whose company is based in Toronto and New York.

“It’s a huge expense to make that leap into the technology, to be in the position of where you need to be to add these services.”

Yet she suggests that the ultimate goal for Canadian retailers may not be to mirror the U.S., but rather, countries such in Europe or even Australia that have similar geograpical and distribution challenges.

In those countries, in-store delivery or pickup at lockers, which are usually located outside stores and accessible after hours, are offered in place of free or low-cost shipping.

That’s the route that Canadian Tire seems to be taking. Customers at the national general merchandiser can pick up website orders in-store. But the retailer has said it doesn’t expect e-commerce to be a “meaningful part” of its business until at least 2017.

In June, Hudson’s Bay executive chairman and recent CEO, Richard Baker, also emphasized the importance digital sales.

In the recent third-quarter results, HBC said digital commerce sales amounted to $228 million of its $1.9 billion consolidated overall sales.

The Toronto-based company has said its goal is to have online sales account to 20 per cent of overall sales within the next five years.

Canada can’t mute opposition to Keystone

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS WASHINGTON — The American environmental organizations fighting the Keystone XL pipeline say there’s no climate-change plan Canada could possibly adopt that would make them back down.

Multiple groups contacted this week dismissed an idea often heard in Canada — that a more ambitious climate policy by the federal government might have influenced the Keystone outcome.

They said there’s no carbon tax too high, cap-andtrade ceiling too low, or climate plan too punishing on greenhouse-gas emissions that would have changed their opposition to that pipeline.

“Inconceivable. Would never happen,” said Jason Kowalski, the U.S. policy director for 350.org, one of the groups that helped turn a Nebraska land dispute into a national debate over climate change.

They’re now awaiting the final outcome of the sixyear Keystone saga — and these green groups are extremely optimistic they’re on the verge of victory.

President Barack Obama has issued several signals that point to a rejection of the project, like announcing he’d veto a Keystone bill without even waiting to see what the final version looked like.

That veto announcement had a political ripple effect across the northern border, with some opposition politicians in Canada blaming the Harper government’s inaction on climate change for the turn of events.

The Liberals in particular, including leader Justin Trudeau, have repeatedly suggested Keystone might have succeeded if not for government inertia on climate change — which they say turned the Canadian oilsands into an environmentalist target.

Kowalski is unsparing when asked about those Canadian politicians’ claims: “They’re fake, and they’re phoney, and they don’t understand climate science.”

He said any worthwhile climate policy would make Keystone XL unnecessary — because it would halt the growth of Canadian oil production. His group points to a paper in the journal Nature that concluded virtually all the oilsands would have to be left in the ground to keep global temperatures from rising by 2 degrees C. “Pundits don’t understand this,” Kowalski said this week during a protest outside the White House.

“The point of climate policy is to leave carbon in the ground.”

Deirdre Shelly was also at the White House protest on Tuesday, where groups dropped off boxes with hundreds of thousands of signatures from people asking Obama to reject the pipeline.

The university student said it would be great if Canada had a more aggressive climate policy, like a carbon tax.

“But it wouldn’t give them an out to just go on developing one of the dirtiest forms of oil on the planet,” said the American University student in international studies and environmental politics.

“The climate movement is done with letting people slide by on weak policy and weak commitments, and then saying, ’Yeah, OK, you can go develop that awful, awful product.”’

When asked about her end goal, Shelly laid it out:

Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

Environmental groups in the U.S. say no Canadian climate policy would ever be aggressive enough to make them accept the Keystone XL pipeline. They include Jason Kowalski (left) of the environmental group 350.org, shown after a protest outside the White House on Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2015 where environmental organizations dropped off boxes with petition signatures urging President Barack Obama to reject the Keystone pipeline.

“We need to stop Keystone, we need to stop Energy East, we need to stop Kinder Morgan, we need to stop all of the pipelines, all of the infrastructure projects, exports, exploration, and (our addiction) to fossil fuels.”

It was a similar response from a clean-energy advocate who has worked as a spokesman for billionaire anti-Keystone Democratic donor Tom Steyer.

“The idea that Keystone would have gotten approved if (Prime Minister Stephen) Harper had done more on carbon pollution is silly. You can’t build Keystone and do anything meaningful to offset its 55-coal-plant footprint,” Mike Casey said.

The Canadian government has consistently pointed to a study from Obama’s own State Department that the pipeline would actually reduce emissions, because it would be cleaner than rail. It also points out that Keystone opponents are a minority within U.S. public opinion. Be that as it may, the anti-Keystone position has now become a mainstream position within one of America’s two major political parties — the party that controls the White House, and enough Senate seats to uphold a presidential veto.

It’s a far cry from the issue’s origins as a Nebraska land dispute. The activist who organized farmers there against the project, Jane Kleeb, said when contacted this week that a Canadian climate plan wouldn’t have made a difference to their property rights and drinking water. But one Canada-watcher in the U.S. said the course of events might indeed have been influenced early on. Had Canada stayed in the Kyoto accord, and had carbon capture been working earlier, David Biette said: “I think it would be a different story.” That possibility disappeared after about 2011, he said, when Keystone mushroomed from a Nebraska land dispute into a proxy national referendum on the carbon economy. Now Canadians need to know that the debate is not about them. In fact, it’s not even about the pipeline itself anymore, said Biette, the director of the Canada Institute at the Wilson Center.

“It’s a symbol,” Biette said. “It’s way more about U.S. politics than it is about Canada ... Having Canadian politicians come into the United States right now to talk about the positive aspects of the Keystone pipeline — it’s not going to be helpful.”

Careers, finances big hurdles for immigrants Immigrants face a myriad of challenges adjusting to life in a new country, but perhaps two of the biggest are establishing a career and finances.

According to Statistics Canada, some 1.16 million foreign-born people immigrated to Canada between 2006 and 2001, accounting for 3.5 per cent of the total population of Canada in 2011.

As of 2011, 20.6 per cent of Canadian residents — more than 6.7 million people — were born outside of Canada.

Compared to other G8 countries, Canada has the highest proportion of foreign-born TALBOT residents.

BOGGS A recent report by BMO Wealth Institute concludes that newcomers face a myriad of challenges when arriving in Canada, including many financial hurdles.

The report found the top five challenges immigrants face when arriving in Canada are finding adequate employment, learning a new language, adapting to the weather, missing support from their homeland and financial constraints.

“Starting a new life in Canada can be an exciting experience but there are many unknowns and challenges to adapting to a new country, and these include key financial considerations,” said Chris Butt-

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igieg, senior manager of wealth planning strategy with BMO Financial Group. “With all of the obstacles that new Canadians face it is all the more important to ensure they have their financial house in order.”

Immigrants can receive help finding employment and overcoming some of the financial hurdles they can encounter when coming to live in a new country like Canada.

The Toronto Region Immigrant Employment Council, for example, has a mentoring program to help skilled immigrants look for career opportunities.

Newcomers are matched with a leader in their profession and are given exposure to the job market, effective job search strategies and greater understanding of the Canadian workplace, resulting in more than 75 per cent finding employment in their field within 12 months.

BMO offers a number of tips to help new Canadians navigate the financial landscape in Canada.

It’s important for newcomers to start building a good credit history as soon as possible. They can start building a credit score by opening a small line of credit or credit card and paying off the balances as required.

They can build a budget by tracking all expenses over a three-month period and estimating how much they can spend per year in each category.

A financial plan should also be developed. This strategically allocates financial resources to achieve financial goals.

One way newcomers can move toward achieving

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their financial goals is to minimize the amount of tax they pay on what they earn each year.

Tax-free plans like the tax free savings plan and tax-deferred plans such as the registered retirement savings plan are crucial tools of any financial plan to reach savings goals for the purchase of a home or for retirement.

Another tax-advantaged plan is the registered education savings plan (RESP), which can be used to save for a child’s post-secondary education. Up to $50,000 can be contributed into an RESP for each child who is enrolled in qualified educational programs, such as a trade school, college or university.

There is no annual contribution limit and the government will add a grant of up to $7,200.

Income and capital gains can be generated within an RESP through investments and grow tax-free until the children named in the plan are ready to pay for their post-secondary education. They only pay income tax on the gains earned by the plan and the grants as they are withdrawn, which usually is low because the income of most post-secondary students is limited.

A financial professional can help immigrants develop a personalized financial plan that will incorporate their financial goals for today and into the future.

Talbot Boggs is a Toronto-based business communications professional who has worked with national news organizations, magazines and corporations in the finance, retail, manufacturing and other industrial sectors.

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How prepared is Ontario to take back its old job as Canada’s economic engine?

OTTAWA — Inside his humming facility on the outskirts of Ottawa, Mark Perry’s operation pumps out specialized plastic products — everything from patented storm-drain basins to giant toy guns for water parks.

For this Ontario manufacturer, business is growing. Soon it might even be looking to hire.

Perry can count himself among the survivors of Central Canada’s manufacturing downturn, a tough era largely brought on by fierce competition from China and a high dollar that claimed the lives of many companies across the region.

The period devastated the oncemighty Ontario manufacturing sector, enabling the Prairie energy fields to take over as Canada’s economic power plant.

But with the rapid fall of oil prices, the tumbling loonie and renewed U.S. demand, there are expectations the country’s economic strength could once again shift back to Central Canada if conditions persist.

The potential reversal, however, begs a question: Can the hobbled region pick up the slack from Western Canada?

Experts believe leaner, more-specialized companies like Perry’s PlasTech Fabrications will play a big part in any Central Canada revival.

But Perry says the changing conditions have actually created fresh challenges for his 18-year-old outfit, which employs eight people and sells finished goods domestically and as far away as China.

Despite his recent success, the company has yet to see the benefits of lower crude translate into cheaper prices for freight and the petroleum-filled plastic it uses in its products.

On top of that, as a net importer of raw materials from the U.S., the lower dollar has actually hurt its bottom line. “It’s kind of a mixed bag, really,� said Perry, who compared the delay to gas station pump prices that are slow to follow changes in world crude prices. “The way I look at it is, if there’s any

benefits, they have yet to trickle down.

It’s almost like everyone’s holding on to that gain — and milking it as long as they can.�

He credits the growth of his company, which saw sales increase by 25 per cent compared to a year ago, to constantly staying on top of things like structural costs.

It was that kind of diligence that helped Plas-Tech endure the difficult times, he said.

Looking at the big picture, experts believe Ontario stands to benefit from Western Canada’s losses, but it remains to be seen how soon a full-blown resurgence could arrive.

The head of Canada’s biggest industry and trade association said Ontario manufacturers, as a whole, have already seen improvements in production and sales.

Jayson Myers, the president and chief executive of Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters, said in some cases auto-parts companies have had trouble keeping up with the growth. “There’s no reason in the world why Ontario manufacturing sales cannot exceed where we were back before the recession,� Myers said.

However, he believes Ontario’s industrial landscape will be different than before.

Many of the huge, mass-producing facilities of yesteryear will be replaced with operations that produce highervalue goods, like customized bar fridges and furniture, he said. “It’s not going to be business as usual and it is going to require companies to focus more on very specialized products and to do things that nobody else can do,� said Myers. “The money today is made in design, engineering, innovation and customer service, not necessarily made in the manufacturing itself.�

North America’s manufacturing industry was decimated in the 2000s by China’s emergence as a low-cost alternative.

The Canadian manufacturing sector was hit hard by an extended period of a high loonie and then by the 2008-09 financial and economic crisis, which slowed demand from the U.S. and other parts of the world.

Bank CEOs say their Caribbean operations stand to benefit from cheaper oil

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — A combination of lower oil prices and cost-cutting is poised to help improve the Caribbean operations of some of Canada’s biggest banks, a region where they have struggled for years.

While they brace for loan losses and lower revenues in Western Canada due the plunge in oil, the big banks say the Caribbean is set to benefit from the decline. “They’re one of the biggest beneficiaries of cheaper oil, so there are some positives finally starting to creep in to the economic outlook of the region from that perspective,� Royal Bank of Canada chief executive David McKay said during a banking conference last week.

The Caribbean economy has been in a slump since the global financial crisis caused a slowdown in the region’s vital tourism industry. That has hurt the profits of several Canadian banks

that have operations in the region.

The Royal Bank (TSX:RY) announced last year it is exiting its Caribbean wealth management business, after selling its Jamaican operations at a loss.

Meanwhile, CIBC (TSX:CM) took a $420-million charge on its Caribbean operations in the second quarter of last year, plus an additional $123 million in loan losses.

The Bank of Nova Scotia (TSX:BNS) has been operating in the Caribbean for more than a century and, of the three lenders, has the largest customer base in the region. The lender plans to close some of the roughly 370 branches it operates in the Caribbean — “to be congruent with the economic reality,� chief executive Brian Porter told the banking conference.

Last year Scotiabank took $83 million in loan loss provisions related to its Caribbean hospitality portfolio. But with oil prices declining, Porter says Scotiabank’s Caribbean operations are about to turn a corner.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — The Toronto stock market is likely in for more volatility and selling pressure this week as resource stocks react to falling oil and copper prices amid growing unease about the strength of the fourth-quarter earnings reporting season.

Investors are also focused on the European Central Bank, which is widely expected to launch its own stimulus program of quantitative easing this week. “There’s a lot of things going on right now. “And I think that because of this you‘re getting to a point where people really don’t know what to do,� said Colin Cieszynski, chief market strategist at CMC Markets.

Also, the battered Canadian dollar could see further declines depending on what the Bank of Canada has to say next week about interest rates and economic conditions.

North American markets continued to register losses last week with the TSX losing 76 points or 0.5 per cent on top of a 2.5 per cent drop the previous week. The Dow industrials fell 225 points or 1.27 per cent.

But the base metals sector underwent a severe mauling, losing a good 15 per cent just last week as copper prices went into full retreat, falling below US$2.50 a pound in the worst performance since the 2008 financial crisis.

The slide came amid weak trade data from China and a cut in the World Bank’s estimate for global growth this year.

Energy stocks were neutral as oil seemed to find some support around the US$45 a barrel level last week.

Prices have plunged almost 40 per cent since the end of November after the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries ruled out production cuts to support prices.

Overall, prices are down about 55 per cent from the highs of June 2014 amid a huge supply/ demand imbalance.

But even with prices showing some stability last week, Cieszynski thinks it would be a big mistake to think that the worst is over for the energy sector and wonders how long it will take for investors to realize that prices won’t be bouncing substantially higher. “You think this is like the collapse in the mid80s, which was the last time they had a real oil price war and, with that one, oil stayed down for 10 years except for five

months,� he noted.

Meanwhile, the U.S. fourth-quarter earnings season gains momentum this week and Bob Gorman, chief portfolio strategist at TD Waterhouse, doesn’t think that market analysts fully appreciate how the U.S. dollar will impact earnings.

And that could be problematic as the sharp rise of the U.S. dollar significantly affects foreign earnings translated back into U.S. dollars.

The greenback has surged in recent months as the Federal Reserve ended its third round of quantitative easing at the end of October.

Also, the currency has made great headway against the euro because of overall economic malaise in the eurozone and the growing probability the ECB will launch a QE program on Thursday, which would involve buying up large amounts of bonds. “The fourth-quarter earnings are going to be a dash of cold water,� said Gorman, who noted that analysts had earlier been forecasting year-overyear earnings growth for S&P 500 companies in the neighbourhood of 10 per cent. “I think this earnings season may see some more choppiness than you have generally seen because the pattern has been, going into quarterly earnings, the market is worried, sells off, earnings come out, there are positive surprises, the market goes up. I’m not so sure you see that this quarter.

For the year, I think (earnings growth) is probably plus five to six per cent and that’s in line with the historical norms.�

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Flu shot offers modest protection this year

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO - This year’s flu vaccine is offering limited protection in the United States against the virus responsible for a major wave of illness currently crashing over North America, a new report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control suggests.

A corresponding assessment of how effective the vaccine is in Canada this winter is still in the works.

But there is good reason to believe the Canadian estimates will be at least as bad when they are published, probably later this month, experts say.

The study calculated how much protection the vaccine offered against getting sick enough to require medical care. (Most people who catch the flu tough it out without seeing a doctor, making them impossible to study.)

It found that so far this year the vaccine is, on average, lowering that risk by 23 per cent, across all age groups and all the types of circulating flu viruses.

When the scientists look specifically at H3N2 viruses - far and away the most dominant virus type so far this winter the protection was 22 per cent.

That’s not spectacular, but when the data were broken down by age groups, the picture was worse.

The study suggested the vaccine is cutting the risk for children aged six months to 17 years of age by 26 per cent. But for adults 18 to 49, the protection was only 12 per cent and for adults 50 and older, it was 14 per cent.

“It is a disappointing result,” said Dr. Edward Belongia, an influenza expert at Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation in Marshfield, Wisc., and one of the authors of the study, which was a collaboration between CDC scientists and researchers in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Texas, Washington and Wisconsin.

“We do need a better vaccine. We know that. But it’s not zero. And this disease can be so severe that people should take whatever protection they can get.”

The study was published Thursday in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, a rapid-release journal published by the CDC. Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Diseases Research and Policy at the University of

Minnesota, said the poor performance of this year’s vaccine is further proof a better influenza vaccine is needed.

“This should be another clarion call for why we need new and better flu vaccines. Twenty per cent clearly is better than zero, but it’s a long way from what we need and must eventually have,” said Osterholm, who has long championed the need for completely revamped flu vaccines.

The low level of protection is being attributed to the fact that most of the H3N2 viruses in circulation are not a good match for the one in this year’s vaccine.

Because flu vaccine takes months to make, experts select the strains for the following winter’s shot in February each year.

If a virus mutates - drifts, in the language of influenza - after production starts, sub-optimal protection can result.

The CDC report said that about twothirds of the H3N2 viruses seen this year in the U.S. were not well matched to the vaccine virus.

“It’s a pretty unusual year when we get this much drift in the predominant virus and therefore this low a vaccine effectiveness,” said Dr. Joseph Bresee, head of the epidemiology and prevention branch of CDC’s Influenza Division.

Bresee said vaccine effectiveness of about 50 to 60 per cent is more the ballpark for flu.

“And so year in and year out, obviously we think it’s very wise for folks to get the vaccine. This year obviously we’re disappointed with the vaccine effectiveness but most years we get vaccine effectiveness that is much higher.”

Canada is seeing a higher percentage of H3N2 drift viruses this season than the U.S. is.

Dr. Danuta Skowronski, a leading Canadian flu researcher, said where the figure in the U.S. is about 68 per cent, in Canada nearly all - 98 per cent - of the H3N2 viruses are different from the vaccine virus.

And as it is in the U.S., H3N2 is responsible for virtually all the flu activity currently being seen in Canada. (That could change as the season progresses. Influenza B viruses often surge late in the season.)

Skowronski, who is with the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control,

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This year’s influenza vaccine is offering limited protection in the U.S. according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. Canadian estimates are expected to be similar. is working with colleagues from across the country to generate vaccine effectiveness estimates for Canada for this season.

“I would qualify these findings as showing little or no protection,” Skowronski said of the U.S. data.

“And I don’t think we should expect the Canadian estimates to be higher, given that we have a greater proportion of drift variants (viruses).”

She said this year’s poor showing is part of an ongoing pattern of problems with H3N2 viruses.

For starters, this family of influenza A viruses don’t grow well in eggs, which is the way most influenza vaccine is produced. As they adapt to eggs, the viruses acquire mutations that actually undermine the vaccine’s effectiveness. That can produce a double whammy when the target shifts, as it has with this year’s drifted H3N2 viruses.

All this matters because H3N2 is the nastiest of the human flu viruses currently in circulation. These viruses cause severe disease in the elderly; years where H3N2 is dominant are

years when there are higher rates of influenza hospitalization and deaths.

Flu scientists who work on vaccines often talk about universal flu vaccines, a type of flu shot that would protect against all or at least many different types of flu. The goal is to develop a vaccine that one might take once in a lifetime - or perhaps every 10 or 20 years, if protection needed to be boosted from time to time.

Researchers working to find a universal vaccine claim from time to time that the science is progressing to the point where one might be possible in five to 10 years.

In fact, researchers at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York reported progress on a universal flu vaccine earlier this week.

But others are skeptical, having heard these claims many times before.

And it’s unclear what motivation exists for manufacturers to shift from a vaccine they sell year after year to one that might last a lifetime, especially given that developing, testing and licensing a universal flu vaccine would cost hundreds of millions of dollars.

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it fully out in the open, to come out of the closet, Harron recalled in a 1977 CBC interview.

The Farquharson character debuted on CBC’s The Big Review, but went on to make regular appearances on the U.S. variety show Hee Haw. But Harron’s most celebrated work was accomplished behind the scenes when he helped create the musical version of Anne of Green Gables, the Lucy Maud Montgomery classic about a red-haired orphan living on Prince Edward Island.

Harron joined forces with Norman and Elaine Campbell and Mavor Moore to turn the beloved novel into a CBC television production in 1955.

Harron told the Canadian Press that he didn’t have to dig deep for inspiration when Norman Campbell approached him about a collaboration.

“I said I’d been reading a book to my kids called Anne of Green Gables and it seems to me that this little girl has such an imagination that the only way you can really realize it would be in song,” Harron recalled in a 2014 interview.

Nine years later, the team adapted the television version into one for the stage. The play has been performed for more than 50 consecutive years at the Charlottetown Festival, a fact Harron sees as a stroke of good fortune.

“To have a theatre that will do it every year, that’s luck,” he said.

Cormier said her grandfather was drawn to projects about strong Canadian women, adding he also collaborated on a musical about artist Emily Carr entitled The Wonder of it All. Cormier said Harron enjoyed capturing a “celebration of the female mind,” adding his patriotism was also a driving artistic force.

“Canada is constantly riddled with being perceived as America’s little sibling, but we’ve had some really unique, really beautiful products. He really wanted . . . to bring that alive.”

Harron’s career also included a fiveyear stint as host of CBC Radio’s Morningside, the show later helmed by Peter Gzowski. In recent years Harron lent his talents to a campaign to persuade other seniors to consider using canes and walkers to help keep them steady on their feet. He used his Charlie alterego in a postcard campaign showing him using a cane, scooter and walker, urging other seniors to “Get over bein’ an old fogey! Get a handle on life.”

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Romance was revealed as a spectrum of emotions at the impassioned Red Deer Symphony Orchestra concert Saturday night at the Red Deer College Arts Centre.

The wistfulness of Jean Sibelius’ Valse Triste, the lavishness fun of Sinfornia Concertante by Johann Christian Bach and the exquisite emotiveness of FréLANA déric Chopin’s MICHELIN Piano Concerto No. 2 all provided different definitions for amourous music.

The show-stopper was the Chopin piece, superbly played by guest pianist Mikolaj Warszynski and a full orchestra.

Chopin’s masterpiece puts the piano front and centre, giving the orchestra musicians backseat roles — except for when Chopin’s explosive, emotional melodies require a bigger musical punch than the piano can provide.

Then the whole orchestra leapt in to take the composition to a bigger, more booming place.

If it was a movie, you’d see fireworks.

Warszynski, born, like Chopin, in Poland and raised in Edmonton, is a fluid player who beautifully captured the lilting concerto, which starts with a shimmering, sweeping first movement.

Parts of the delicate melody were so rippling, the pianist’s hands appeared to glide over the keys. Occasionally more powerful strokes were demanded, like musical exclamation points.

And Warszynski had the deliberate touch needed to stir larger emotional waves.

The former instructor at the University of Montreal, who now teaches piano in South Korea, has performed as a soloist around the world. And

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Warszynski, knows his Chopin, having toured Poland playing piano recitals for the Chopin Society of Warsaw and played a Chopin Series with the Baltic Philharmonic orchestra.

He played the concerto’s reflective second movement with a gentle touch, making it sound like a beautiful chimera.

The orchestral performance rose to an expressive climax several times during the last movement, a playful mazurka, only to have the melody pulled back each time by the piano, or a horn.

Finally, after a series of false endings, the sentimental concerto ended elegantly. And the appreciative audience rewarded Warszynski and orchestra for the breathtaking performance with a standing ovation.

Earlier in the concert, A pareddown orchestra of 25 mostly string players (with a few horns, woodwinds players and a percussionist) played a strange Sibelius waltz.

While called sad (triste), but it’s more like wistful, said music director Claude Lapalme, who noted there was no appropriate French word for this emotion.

But few waltzes sound anything like this Finnish one. It’s otherworldly strains were accomplished by clamping mutes on the strings of some instruments. The ghostly, low-key tune was used in a play about death, written by Sibelius’s brother-in-law. Unsurprisingly, it ended like a quiet sigh.

In contrast, the lively concertante

by Johann Sebastian Bach’s youngest son, Johann Christian Bach sounded like a decorative Mozart piece — especially its Rococo first movement and the final minuet.

This too makes sense, since the younger Bach was Mozart’s music teacher, said Lapalme, who noted his influence on the younger composer.

The concertante made its Canadian premiere on Saturday with the RDSO, and spotlighted some of the orchestra’s very fine musicians through a series of small instrumental solos throughout — including for the flute clarinet, horns and bassoon.

The delightful performance captured the high-spirited fun of romance, with all its hearts, flowers and curlicues. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

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TORONTO — Don Harron, who entertained generations of Canadians with his comic alter ego Charlie Farquharson and helped bring the Canadian classic novel Anne of Green Gables from the page to the stage, has died.

He was 90.

Harron’s eldest daughter Martha said her father died on Saturday morning surrounded by family at his Toronto home after choosing not to seek treatment for cancer.

The wit and humour that landed him roles on CBC radio programs and television variety shows such as Hee Haw continued to define her father to the very end, Martha Harron said.

“He was still sharp. He was still capable of being funny even though his voice was barely above a whisper,” she said in a telephone interview from Toronto. “It’s horribly sad, but it’s beautiful too.”

Harron was born in Toronto in 1924 and, according to his own accounts in past interviews, got his start in show business at an early age.

Harron said he began his career as a cartoonist drawing caricatures of people at banquets in the 30s before landing an audition for CBC radio.

Harron’s granddaughter, freelance journalist Zoe Cormier, said Harron’s intellectual passions nearly led him down a very different career path than the one that made him famous.

His passion for philosophy won him scholastic awards at the University of Toronto, she said, adding his confidence in both academic and entertainment arenas foreshadowed the range of roles he would take on during his performing career.

“He’s one of the few people that I would describe as a true polymath,” Cormier said. “Anything he ever put his hand to he excelled at.”

Harron’s acting career saw him take on roles on stages from London to Stratford, Ont., but the character for which he’s best remembered stemmed from a very different type of experience. Charlie Farquharson, a fictitious folksy story teller from Parry Sound, Ont. who poked fun at almost anything Canadian, became a cult classic that lasted decades. Harron said a stint working on an Ontario farm inspired him to create the character in 1952.

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Cosby’s return to NBC unlikely says top exec RAPE ALLEGATIONS PUT STAR’S FUTURE WITH NETWORK IN JEOPARDY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES — Bill Cosby’s attorney said Friday that the comedian was not at the Playboy Mansion on the night a model accuses him of drugging and sexually abusing her.

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claims the comedian drugged and accosted her in a bedroom of the mansion, attorney Martin D. Singer wrote in a statement.

Singer said he would present evidence to authorities detailing Cosby’s whereabouts before, during and after the Playboy Mansion event.

Goins met with Los Angeles police detectives on Wednesday and her attorney said the incident took place during an event in August 2008.

While many of the abuse claims levelled against Cosby fall outside civil and criminal statutes of limitations, Goins’ allegations may fall within the time period that Cosby could be charged.

Goins’ attorney Spencer Kuvin said Wednes-

day that the alleged abuse occurred during an event called “Midsummer’s Night Dream Party” on Aug. 9, 2008, at the mansion. Goins does not know what happened while she was blacked out but Kuvin has said she awoke to find herself naked and Cosby over her.

“Mr. Cosby was in New York on that date,” Singer wrote. “We will be providing documentary evidence to the appropriate authorities which conclusively establishes Mr. Cosby’s whereabouts on August 9th and for the preceding and succeeding days.”

In response to Singer’s statement, Kuvin questioned whether Cosby was at the mansion that summer.

“We look forward to seeing this alleged proof,” Kuvin wrote in an email.

Los Angeles prosecutors will make the final determination on whether Cosby will face criminal charges based on Goins’ allegations.

Goins is at least the second woman to meet with Los Angeles police detectives to recount accusations against Cosby.

Prosecutors rejected filing charges against Cosby based on allegations by Judy Huth, a Riverside County resident who is suing the comedian, alleging he abused her in the early 1970s when she was 15 years old.

More than 15 women have accused Cosby of drugging them and sex-

ual abuse, which has led to the cancellation of the comedian’s projects at NBC and Netflix.

He continues to perform stand-up comedy shows and has two performances scheduled for Saturday in Denver.

Singer has denied some but not all of the allegations against Cosby, and the comedian joked about the scandal at a recent show in Canada.

On Friday, NBC Entertainment Chairman Bob Greenblatt closed the door on the network collaborating with Cosby on any future projects, noting the number of accusers who have come forward.

Although none of the accusations against Cosby have been proven in court.

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SPECHT Leonhard Wilhelm Leonhard Wilhelm Specht, Sr. passed away peacefully in Lacombe on Wednesday, January 14, 2015 after a courageous battle with cancer. He was born in Höxter, Germany on July 10, 1942 to Karl and Elisabeth Specht. He was married to Annette Köster in January of 1970 and received his Master’s Degree in Engineering from the University of Hannover later that year. In 1981, Leo and his family immigrated to Canada and settled near Lacombe, Alberta, where he spent the rest of his life as a proud and successful farmer. His first care was always his family; especially his grandchildren had a special place in his heart. He loved gardening and woodworking; knew the deer and moose in his back yard by name, and was a leading member of the Knights of Columbus in Lacombe. He is survived by his wife of 45 years, Annette Specht; his mother-in-law Elisabeth Köster; his siblings, Magdalene Wiesemann, Agathe Specht, Hildegard Specht, Ewald Specht, Elisabeth Risse, and Bernhard Specht; and his children, Leonhard (Miranda) Specht, Julia (Adrien) Rouget, Elisabeth Specht, Katharina Specht and Carmen Specht; and his beloved grandchildren, Karl Specht, Grace Specht, Sophia Rouget, Stephan Rouget, and Amelie Rouget.

He is predeceased by his parents, Karl and Elisabeth Specht, and his siblings, Karl Specht, Wigbert Specht and Maria Specht. A Funeral Mass will be held at St. Stephen’s Catholic Church, 5128 53 Street, Lacombe, AB, on Tuesday, January 20, 2015 at 11:00 a.m. If desired, donations can be made to the Knights of Columbus, Chapter #8969. Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com.

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HALLCON is seeking qualified drivers to transport rail crews throughout Red Deer area.

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

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DO YOU: - Want extra income - Know the city well - Possess a clean, valid drivers license - Have a friendly attitude - Enjoy customer service - Want part-time work (12 to 22 hrs/week) As part of our service team, you will be dispatched in response to service concerns to deliver newspapers and flyers to customers or carriers.

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Hours of shifts are morning shifts of Monday through Friday 5:00 AM to 9:00 AM. Saturday starting at 7 AM. Wednesday to Friday Shifts starting at 1 PM. *All Shifts based on 4 hours and likely to run longer.

Please apply with resume to: qmacaulay@reddeeradvocate.com or call 403-314-4302 and speak with Grant.

We thank all applicants for their interest; however only selected candidates will be contacted.

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

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Terror suspects released in France POLICE EXTEND QUESTIONING OF NINE ROUNDED UP AFTER TERROR ATTACKS

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PARIS — French police have released three female suspects from questioning, but will keep nine other people in custody as part of an antiterror investigation connected to last week’s attacks in Paris that have put Europe on high alert, officials said Sunday.

Amid the heightened European vigilance, a far-right rally in Germany planned for Monday was cancelled over a terrorism threat, Italy said it had expelled nine suspected jihadis since late December and Britain’s home secretary called for new action to fight anti-Semitism in the wake of the Paris attacks.

Authorities in Belgium, meanwhile, asked Greek counterparts to extradite a man detained in Greece a day earlier in connection with a probe of a suspected plot to kill police in Belgium.

On Thursday, Belgian police led a vast anti-terrorism sweep in and around Brussels and in eastern Verviers, which left two suspects dead. Authorities cited an imminent threat.

Police in at least four European countries arrested dozens of suspects in recent days in an anti-terrorism crackdown sparked by last week’s bloody rampage in and around Paris.

Brothers Said and Cherif Kouachi and their friend, Amedy Coulibaly, killed 17 people at the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, a kosher grocery and elsewhere.

In Paris, prosecutor’s office spokesman Denis Fauriat said nine suspects among a total 12 rounded up on Friday were facing extended interrogations for the next two days, a step allowed under tough French anti-terror laws enacted largely after bombings and other terrorism years ago in France.

The nine — eight men and a woman — were being held in a probe centring on possible logistical support given to Coulibaly. Belgian authorities say there was no apparent link between the foiled plot in Belgium and the ter-

ror attacks in Paris.

Fallout from the Paris attacks has spread. Demonstrations in support of the slain Charlie Hebdo journalists have been held in countries from the United States to Brazil, and violent protests against the magazine’s depictions of the Prophet Muhammad have taken place in Niger, Pakistan and Algeria — countries with large Muslim populations.

Niger’s president said Saturday that at least 10 people were killed in violent protests in the West African nation over Charlie Hebdo’s depiction of the Prophet Muhammad. The satirical weekly has long antagonized Muslims with its depictions of the prophet, and its cover cartoon published Wednesday depicted Muhammad holding a “Je Suis Charlie” — I am Charlie — sign.

Europe too was eager to head off any possible violence.

French authorities banned an anti-Islamist demonstration in Paris planned on Sunday, ruling that it might disrupt public order. In Germany, a rally by a group calling itself PEGIDA, or Patriotic Europeans against the Islamization of the West, was called off because of a terrorist threat against one of its organizers. The group has been holding weekly rallies in the eastern city of Dresden.

Organizers of the banned Paris rally instead held a news conference in a location that was kept secret until a few hours before it began. Renaud Camus, who has tapped into fears about Muslims in Europe, said Pegida represents a “great hope rising in the east.”

Melanie Dittmer, a Pegida activist from Duesseldorf who organizes the movement in western Germany, was among those present for the news conference. Wearing a bulletproof vest, Dittmer said she had been personally attacked and that organizing the group’s rallies had become “physically dangerous.”

In Britain, Home Secretary Theresa May urged new action to fight antiSemitism amid fears in the Jewish community after the Paris attacks.

Black House members vow federal reform after deadly police shootings

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FERGUSON, Mo. — Leading black members of Congress took to a church pulpit in Ferguson, Missouri, on Sunday to trace a direct link from slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy to the fight for criminal justice reform after recent fatal police shootings across the U.S. Rep. William Lacy Clay Jr. spoke to parishioners at Wellspring United Methodist Church, just blocks from where violent protests broke out after a white Ferguson police officer shot an unarmed black man, 18-year-old Michael Brown, and again after a grand jury declined to indict the officer.

“We need to be outraged when local law enforcement and the justice system repeatedly allow young, unarmed black men to encounter police and then wind up dead with no consequences,” the St. Louis Democrat said.

“Not just in Ferguson, but over and over again across this country.”

Clay was joined by eight members of the Congressional Black Caucus at the service a day after several caucus members met with young protesters, many of whom have been critical of older elected officials and an earlier generation of activists.

On Sunday, Clay sharply criticized St. Louis County Prosecutor Bob McCulloch’s handling of the grand jury that investigated Brown’s shooting. He cited an anonymous jury member’s lawsuit seeking to publicly speak out about the grand jury proceedings, which aren’t public. He also noted legal and ethical complaints filed over the prosecutor’s actions, including al-

lowing witnesses whose testimony had been discredited to testify before the grand jury.

But he expressed faith in two federal civil rights investigations examining Brown’s death and broader police practices in Ferguson — invoking King’s efforts a half-century ago that led to federal intervention in state and local civil rights cases.

He also quoted King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail.”

“We are faced with the obvious failure of local officials, who are either unable, or unwilling, to provide equal justice under the law,” he said. “So once again, our community looks toward the federal government to make the promises enshrined in the Constitution finally ring true.”

Caucus chairman Rep. G.K. Butterfield, a North Carolina Democrat, said the group planned to push for broad reforms, such as expanded police use of body cameras and independent investigations of fatal police shootings.

He called the prolonged protests over recent police killings of unarmed blacks — including Brown; Eric Garner in New York City and 12-year-old Tamir Rice in Cleveland — a “turning point in race relations.” Garner died after being put in a chokehold by a white police officer when he was stopped for allegedly selling loose untaxed cigarettes, while Rice was shot in a park while holding a toy pellet gun.

Protests have been ongoing in and around the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson since Brown’s fatal shooting in August, though protesters have largely shifted their focus to changing laws in Washington and Missouri.

Mall in central Florida reopens after shooting that left 2 dead

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MELBOURNE, Fla. — A shopping mall in central Florida reopened Sunday, a day after a shooting in its food court that left two people dead, including the gunman, and one injured.

Melbourne Square Mall reopened for normal business hours at noon.

Police said 57-year-old Jose GarciaRodriguez of Palm Bay shot his wife and Leonardo Coppola before turning the gun on himself in the mall’s food court shortly before the mall opened Saturday morning.

Idanerys Garcia-Rodriguez, who worked at the mall, survived and was hospitalized in good condition. Police said the 33-year-old woman was the intended victim in the shooting that apparently stemmed from a domestic

violence incident.

Coppola, 36, of West Melbourne, owned a restaurant in the food court.

He was shot as he tried to move Idanerys Garcia-Rodriguez out of harm’s way, police said Sunday.

The mall was closed while police investigated. On Sunday, Florida Today reported, a half-dozen flower bouquets and several white candles were displayed on the counter of a closed pizza restaurant in the food court.

Neighbours of the couple, who have two daughters, said they had seemed close.

“They would walk hand-in-hand all the time,” Raymond Jacobs, who lives across the street from the couple’s home, told Florida Today.

Nick Csercse, who lives next-door, said Jose Garcia-Rodriguez was often chatty about his wife.

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

A Belgian para-commando patrols near the office of the prime minister in Brussels, on Saturday. Security around Belgium has been stepped up after thirteen people were detained in Belgium in an anti-terror sweep following a firefight in Verviers, Belgium, in which two suspected terrorists were killed.

Meanwhile, Italian Interior Minister Angelino Alfano told five Tunisians and citizens from Turkey, Egypt, Morocco and Pakistan were among the expulsions of nine suspected jihadis since late last month. He vowed more expulsions in a heightened crackdown on terrorism.

President Francois Hollande said France was “waging war” on terrorism and it showed on the streets of Paris and elsewhere, where 122,000 police and well-armed troops have been deployed to protect the country. In the wake of the thwarted plot against police, Belgian authorities have also de-

ployed troops for enhanced counterterrorism security.

The Kouachi brothers were buried over the weekend in secretive ceremonies and in anonymous graves in a bid to prevent their tombs from being turned into shrines for radicals. Said Kouachi was buried in Reims in eastern France, and his younger brother Cherif was buried in the northwest Paris suburb of Gennevillers, city officials said.

There has been no word on burial plans for Coulibaly, who killed five people before he was killed by police Jan. 9.

’Flash-freezing’ makes Northeast U.S. roads treacherous ICY ROADS BLAMED IN AT LEAST 4 DEATHS

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Rain “flash-freezing” on roads and sidewalks left an icy glaze under feet and tires across much of the northeastern U.S. on Sunday, causing crashes that claimed at least five lives.

A crash involving 30 to 50 vehicles on an interstate highway outside Philadelphia killed one person, and two others died in a crash involving multiple vehicles on a nearby interstate highway, police said. In northeastern Pennsylvania, a man was killed after his car overturned on an icy road and he was thrown from it and hit by a commercial vehicle. In Connecticut, police cited slippery conditions in a crash that killed an 88-year-old woman who struck a utility pole in New Haven.

“This is the worst type of winter precipitation to combat, because it can freeze instantly and it doesn’t need to be the whole pavement for vehicles crossing it to have problems,” Pennsylvania Department of Transportation spokesman Eugene Blaum said.

Freezing rain and snow was expect-

ed in interior parts of the northeastern New England states, but the temperature was expected to rise into the 40s and 50s Fahrenheit (above 5 degrees Celsius) along the coast and change the precipitation to plain rain in time for the evening AFC Championship Game between the New England Patriots and Indianapolis Colts.

On the West Coast, high winds left tens of thousands of customers without power in the Seattle area, but power companies promised Seahawks fans they’d do their best to restore power before the NFC title game against the Green Bay Packers.

In eastern Oregon, highway officials partially reopened an interstate highway Sunday after a massive crash blamed on black ice Saturday closed more than 160 miles (257kilometres) of eastbound lanes.

Rain was expected in western Oregon Sunday and Monday, but not as much as fell on Saturday, when 1.8 inches (4.57 centimetres) of rain in Portland sent some untreated sewage into the Willamette River.

Dozens of spinouts and accidents were reported from northern New Jersey to southern New Hampshire on Sunday and treacherous conditions forced the closure of the New York State Thruway from Newburgh to New York City during the morning.

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1943 — Princess Margriet is born to Crown Princess Juliana of the Netherlands in a room in the Ottawa Civic hospital that has been declared to be Dutch territory. The Dutch royal family live in Ottawa as exiles during the Second World War. Juliana will be-

come Queen of the Netherlands in 1948.

1989 — Canadian Airlines International acquires Alberta-based Wardair, Canada’s third largest carrier, for $250 million.

1982 — Statistics Canada announces a 1981 inflation rate of 12.5 per cent.

1942 — A German submarine torpedoes the Canadian ship Lady Hawkins, as U-boats ravage shipping along the Atlantic coast.

1649 — The first executioner in Canada, a pardoned criminal, performs his first assignment in Quebec, on a 16-year-old girl found guilty of theft.

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Ukraine vows to reassert control over east ARMY UNLEASHES COUNTEROFFENSIVE AGAINST RUSSIAN-BACKED SEPARATIST FIGHTERS KIEV, Ukraine — Ukraine’s president vowed Sunday to reassert government control over eastern regions as the army unleashed a counter-offensive against Russian-backed separatist fighters vying for command over the airport in the city of Donetsk.

The separatist stronghold was shaken by intense outgoing and incoming artillery fire over the weekend as a bitter battle rages for the air terminal and surrounding areas.

Streets in Donetsk, which was home to 1 million people before unrest erupted in spring, were completely deserted Sunday and the windows of apartments in the centre were rattled by incessant rocket and mortar fire.

The warring sides exchanged rocket fire along several points in the roughly 350-kilometre (220-mile) front line.

Regional authorities loyal to the government said two children, aged 7 and 16, were killed when a rebel shell hit their home in Vuhlehirsk, a town 75 kilometres (45 miles) northeast of Donetsk.

A little further west, in the rebelcontrolled city of Horlivka, two were killed and another 16 injured as a result of rocket attacks, city council secretary Oleg Gurbanov said in a statement.

President Petro Poroshenko told a crowd of several thousand gathered in the centre of the capital, Kyiv, that Ukraine wouldn’t “give up an inch” of its land to Russian-backed separatists.

Hundreds of people, including Poroshenko, held up signs reading “Je Suis Volnovakha,” referring to the 13 people killed when a passenger bus was shelled in the eastern town of that name. The message was an echo of the “Je Suis Charlie” tribute adopted after the terrorist attacks in Paris.

The separatists upped the ante last week by successfully taking over large sections of Donetsk airport, where Ukrainian troops remained despite coming under rocket attacks for months on end. Both sides have in-

curred losses in the close-quarter combat.

The rebels’ progress has sparked a desperate Ukrainian fight-back supported by a hasty reinforcement of troops and heavy armoury.

Yuriy Biryukov, an adviser to Poroshenko, said on his Facebook account Sunday that Ukrainian troops had received orders to unleash heavy shelling of known rebel positions.

“Today we will show just how much we can smash their teeth in,” Biryukov wrote from a location near the fighting.

Separatist statements indicate Ukrainian forces may have attempted to burst into Donetsk itself, the first such effort since the unrest started in the spring.

The self-declared Donetsk People’s Republic breakaway government said its forces had repelled a Ukrainian advance toward a bridge leading from the airport into the centre.

Ukrainian military spokesman Andriy Lysenko said Sunday that four servicemen were killed in the previous day’s clashes.

The office of the General Staff said separately that three troops had been killed in the airport alone.

A new truce agreed in early December unraveled one week into the new year despite concerted international efforts to forge a lasting settlement.

High-level peace talks expected to take place in Kazakhstan last Thursday were postponed indefinitely.

The U.S. has accused separatists of occupying territory beyond the line of contact agreed upon after a muchviolated cease-fire deal in September.

Russia, which has been unambiguous in its diplomatic support of the separatist stance, has accused the Ukrainians of weakening the prospects of that cease-fire deal reached in the Belarusian capital, Minsk.

In a sharply worded statement on Sunday, the Russian Foreign Ministry called for an urgent cease-fire.

The ministry said Russian President Vladimir Putin sent Poroshenko a message last week about the necessity for both sides to respect the cease-fire

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Ukrainian people hold flags during a rally at Independence Square in Kiev, Ukraine, in solidarity with the victims of a rocket attack this week that claimed 13 lives on a highway near the eastern town of Volnovakha, on Sunday. Ukraine’s government accuses Russian-backed separatists of launching the rocket attack, which hit a passenger bus, but the rebels have rejected that charge. and pull heavy artillery back from the line of contact.

Russia was “ready to use its influence on the separatist fighters to convince them to accept this version,” the statement said.

Instead, the Ukrainian forces renewed their shelling of Donetsk, the statement said.

A spokesman for the U.N. secretary-general said Ban Ki-moon was “alarmed by the severe escalation of fighting” around the airport and urged an immediate end to hostilities.

In the largest single loss of civilian lives so far this year, 13 people

were killed after a bus parked at an army checkpoint near the town of Volnovakha was hit by a shell Tuesday.

Ukrainians swiftly accused separatists, who denied responsibility.

A fact-finding team from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe said Friday evening that the shells had been fired from a “northnortheastern direction.”

The Ukrainians said that assessment confirmed their suspicions as the area in question is under rebel control. Russia’s Foreign Ministry insisted the OSCE report undermined Kyiv’s claims, but didn’t explain how.

Teens on crime spree in U.S. south captured in Florida

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Two teenage sweethearts suspected in a crime spree of stolen vehicles and pilfered checks across the U.S. South have been taken into custody in Florida, authorities said Sunday.

Eighteen-year-old Dalton Hayes and his 13-year-old girlfriend, Cheyenne Phillips, from Kentucky, were arrested without incident about 12:10 a.m. Sunday in Panama City Beach, according to authorities in both states. The two had eluded police in multiple states while raising concern about their increasingly bold behaviour.

“I spoke to Dalton and he was very scared, and he wanted to come home,” said Norman Chaffins, the sheriff of Grayson County, Kentucky, where the teens live. “He wanted me to come bring him home.”

Chaffins said the teens were getting by on some cash found in a truck stolen in Georgia.

Authorities said the U.S. Marshal’s Service and Panama City Beach Police discovered Hayes and Phillips asleep in a 2001 Toyota Tundra that was stolen in Georgia. Officers surrounded the vehicle, and both Hayes and Phillips were taken into custody.

Chaffins told The Associated Press that the teens should be extradited back to Kentucky by the end of the week.

In Kentucky, the two teens will face the same charges, including burglary, theft, criminal trespassing and criminal mischief, Chaffins said. Phillips will face charges in juvenile court, because she is a minor.

According to Bay County jail records, Hayes was held Sunday on a charge of custodial interference. He is scheduled for a first court appearance on Monday morning.

A Florida Department of Children & Familes spokeswoman said Phillips was not in the state’s custody, but had been “taken to a safe location” until arrangements are made to return her to her family.

Chaffins said he was relieved the crime spree ended peacefully.

“I think me and the family and many other law enforcement agencies were not getting a good feeling about how this was going to turn out,” Chaffins said.

Hayes and Phillips began their run from the law and their families earlier this month when they vanished from their small hometown in western Kentucky. Authorities believe their travels took them to South Carolina and Georgia.

Hayes’ mother, Tammy Martin, had urged her son and his companion to surrender and “face the consequences.”

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I limit visits to once a year because he never fails to make snide comments to me when he is sure my daughter cannot hear him. Once, I asked him what his intentions were toward my daughter, and he said never to question his authority.

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Annie’s Snippet (credit Martin Luther King Jr.): “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.�

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