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‘He killed her to cut his losses’ BRIAN MALLEY MURDER TRIAL BEGINS IN RED DEER

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF The financial advisor believed to be responsible for the bombing death of a young Innisfail quadriplegic single mother did so to cut his losses after repeatedly paying her out of his own pocket the Crown alleges.

Brian Andrew Malley, 57, of Innisfail is on trial, facing a first degree murder charge in the Nov. 25,

2011 death of Victoria Shachtay.

Shachtay, 23, was killed while opening a box inside of a Christmas bag that was left on her door step that morning. According to Canada Post, they did not deliver a package to that address that day.

Shachtay became confined to a wheelchair as the result of a 2004 crash. She received a settlement in 2007 and she invested $575,000 of that with Malley.

Crown prosecutor Anders Quist said that settlement, along with a $200,000 loan became the main investment Malley managed in his role as a financial advi-

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Within four years the money had evaporated.

Quist said Malley continued making payments to Shachtay out of his own pocket and even went into debt to make the payments from credit cards and overdraft from his account. Quist said Malley made payments totalling $44,000 to Shachtay.

“He killed her to cut his losses,” said Quist.

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SHOOTER HAD LENGTHY CRIMINAL RECORD

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — The wife of an RCMP officer shot in the head at a casino north of Edmonton broke down Monday as she spoke of saying goodbye to her gravely injured husband.

“We’re saying our goodbyes today and then from there, he’ll be in a better place,” Shelly MacInnisWynn said at an evening news conference.

“Today’s the day we say goodbye to Dave.”

Const. David Wynn has been in hospital since he was gunned down early Saturday morning and was not expected to survive.

She thanked the RCMP, the city of St. Albert and people in Nova Scotia, where Wynn worked as a paramedic before joining the Mounties.

Wynn’s sister, Dawn Sephton, thanked the medical teams at two Edmonton hospitals for the care they gave her little brother.

“As a family I would ask you to continue to support and respect the RCMP and the phenomenal job that they do in the service of all Canadians,” Sephton said.

The 42-year-old father of three was one of two officers shot at the Apex Casino in St. Albert as they investigated a stolen pickup truck.

The other officer, auxiliary Const. Derek Bond, was shot in the arm and torso.

The family’s statement came as court and parole board documents revealed the violent criminal background of the shooter, who was found dead in a home not far from the scene.

The documents show that Shawn Rehn, 34, had a long history of assaults, weapons convictions, breakins and drug use that stretched back to his teenage years in the mid 1990s.

“You are a dangerous person who has demonstrated blatant disregard toward the criminal justice system as well as lack of respect to the public in general,” the Parole Board of Canada said when it denied Shawn Rehn day parole in 2006.

“Your crimes are continuous and increasing in seriousness and often resulted in serious psychological, emotional and financial harm to victims.”

Six years later, before Rehn left jail on statutory release on different charges, the board said that his “reintegration potential is assessed as low.”

He was rearrested in July 2013 with a fellow parolee who had convictions for armed robbery. Police searched Rehn’s car and found a crack pipe, pellet pistol and knives.

The parole board rebuked Rehn for ignoring bans on having firearms.

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Committee to create broad-based safety strategy

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF A “Made in Red Deer” approach to safety in the city took a step forward on Monday.

Seven members from the education, policing, aboriginal and legal communities were named to the new Community Safety Ad Hoc Committee.

The committee will create a broad-based safety strategy, recommend a funding model and a structure for ongoing governance for Red Deer over two years.

Coun. Ken Johnston, who will sit as a council representative, said the issue of community safety is a very high priority for council.

Johnston said the committee will address public safety from a combination of crime prevention, enforcement, corrections, education and other perspectives.

Johnston said safe communities across Canada now require a tremendous amount of collaboration.

“I think we took a tremendous step forward today,” said Johnston. “I think we took a step forward

UTILITY BILLS RISING A2 as a city and as a community we have taken an essential step forward in what I think is a major, major issue.”

Johnston said there are some sectors including health and the justice system that he would like to see added to the committee. There is room for up to four additional members.

Some applications came in from those who work with agencies that may deal with safety in the community.

“We made the decision that none of them will be on the governance committee but they will be definite resources to this committee,” said Coun. Lynne Mulder, who was on the nomination committee. “We will ask that they play a meaningful role in this committee.”

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Central Albertans to pay more for collection, treatment of wastewater

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Residents in six Central Alberta communities will see their utility bills rise significantly over the next three to five years.

Elaine Vincent, Red Deer’s Director of Development Services, said communities in the south region will now have to pay their share for treatment and collection of wastewater.

The City of Red Deer has a contract with the South Regional Wastewater Commission to provide services to communities such as Innisfail, Bowden, Olds, Mountain View County, Red Deer County and Penhold.

“We had not allocated the plant costs appropriately to the commission,” said Vincent. “This fixes this.

We will allocate a portion of the plant costs to them.”

In order to avoid too much of a rate shock, administration recommended a 14.3 per cent rate increase to the customers over the next three to five years to bring the rate in line. The rate will rise to 80 cents per cubic metre in 2015 from 70 cents per cubic metre in 2014.

Over the last few weeks, the city has met with the South Regional Wastewater Commission. Vincent said the city has heard from communities that are not happy with the increase.

“We have offered to meet with them to explain the rationale,” said Vincent. “I know they are working with a rate reviewer to review how we calculated our rates to make sure that it makes sense for them.”

Council gave first reading of the utility bylaw that sets the rates for the regional and city customers on Monday.

On the city side, the average household utility bill in Red Deer way rise by a $1.75 to $100.70 per month from $99.05 in 2014.

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MALLEY: A lot of circumstantial evidence Malley’s Court of Queen’s Bench trial began Monday in Red Deer. A jury of eight women and five men were selected from a pool of 1,000 last week. Justice Kirk Sisson said they would have 13 jurors would hear the trial, in case of unforeseen circumstances he wanted an extra juror. When the Crown and defence counsel, Bob Aloneissi, close their cases only 12 jurors will deliberate.

Malley, dressed in a suit and tie, sat alongside Aloneissi and listened intently as the trial began.

Quist outlined his case saying there is no direct evidence, but a lot of circumstantial evidence that fits together to form the puzzle of the case against Malley.

A 6-inch galvanized steel pipe, two-inches in diameter, was filled with smokeless gunpowder, a battery, electric wire, two lightbulbs – one with its exterior removed – and a light switch were used to create the bomb. The switch was then attached to the box so that when it was opened the bomb would explode.

Malley has admitted to purchasing all the items.

Fragments of the bomb tore through Shachtay’s apartment, breaking through the drywall, destroying a window and sending debris across the street.

Aloneissi opened by proclaiming his client’s innocence and saying that financial hardship was not the reason Shachtay was killed.

In the moments leading up to Shachtay opening the box she spoke with her step father. Aloneissi said the step father warned Shachtay to not open the package.

“That disturbing comment will haunt you,” Aloneissi told the jury.

Aloneissi said Malley was also a home-builder and a hunter and all the items he is accused of using to make a bomb are standard items a home-builder and hunter would have, explaining the gunpowder as an item he needs to make shotgun shells.

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RCMP searching for man who robbed Scotiabank on 67th Street Red Deer RCMP are searching for a man who robbed the Scotiabank at the corner of 67th Street and Gaetz Avenue on Monday afternoon.

Shortly before 2:45 p.m., the suspect entered the bank, demanded money from an employee, and left with an undisclosed amount of money.

No weapon was produced and no one was injured.

Police said the dye pack inserted into the money According to his counsel, Malley did not have motive to kill Shachtay, instead he gave her some of his money to help when she went broke.

The trial resumes this morning in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

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Jared Oakes and Phoeb Llamas, hold up a collection bin as Allyson Loma-Ang and Dom Robinson make a deposit of socks to the cause on Monday. The Grade 8 leadership students along with their classmates at St. Francis of Assisi Middle School in Red Deer are collecting socks for the Safe Harbour Society from Jan. 12-23.

SHOOTING: Rehn facing 30 charges the day he died “When you are in possession of weapons, the public is at serious risk of harm from you, as your past offending demonstrates,” wrote the board the following September.

RCMP Commissioner Bob Paulson remarked on Rehn’s criminal history, particularly a series of overlapping firearms bans. Paulson said 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 on the weekend.

When four Mounties were gunned down by a cophating criminal in Mayerthorpe, Alta., in 2005, the Alberta Crown did a formal review of the shooter’s prosecution history to determine if anything could have been done better.

That review found that while James Roszko had been charged with more than 40 crimes and been flagged as a potential dangerous offender, he did not meet the standard for indefinite detention.

A spokesperson with Alberta’s Justice Department declined comment on the Rehn case Monday.

The former pipefitter and oilsands worker’s criminal record, made public Monday by Alberta Justice, details a lengthy list of 57 convictions, starting in April 1999 when he was ordered jailed for two months for theft and break and enter.

In the years that followed, when Rehn wasn’t serving time, he was racking up convictions in Edmonton, Calgary and the smaller communities of Evansburg and Drumheller.

They were for assault, assault with a weapon, drug possession and possession of prohibited firearms.

He obstructed a peace officer, escaped lawful cus-

deployed and they believe the suspect’s hands and possibly his face will be stained with red dye.

The suspect drove away in a black Nissan truck and was last seen southbound on Gaetz Avenue.

The suspect was described as Caucasian, medium height and build, with short hair and a brown moustache and beard. He wore a brown or black cap.

Anyone with information that may help police identify the suspect is asked to call Red Deer RCMP at 403-343-5575. To remain anonymous, call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477, or report it online at www. tipsubmit.com. tody and drove while disqualified.

He also was convicted for breaking and entering, theft and possession of stolen property.

Parole Board Of Canada documents show Rehn served two federal jail terms as an adult.

The first was a two-year sentence for possession of stolen property and driving while disqualified.

The second was for three years on charges including escaping custody and possession of a loaded prohibited weapon.

Collectively, he was sentenced to serve more than 12 years in custody, but it’s not clear how much of that time he actually spent behind bars.

On the day he died, he was still facing 30 charges for four separate offences, including fraud, resisting a peace officer, escaping lawful custody, possessing a prohibited firearm, failing to appear in court, failing to stop for police, dangerous driving and multiple charges of breaching bail conditions.

STRATEGY: Look at programs already in place Mayor Tara Veer said the committee will look at the safety issues that the community is faced with a multi-sector perspective. Veer said one of the committee’s first initiatives will be to meet with key stakeholders to paint a clear picture of the existing programs in place in the community and identify the gaps.

The members include Bettylyn Baker, Karyn Barber, Serge Gingras, Dawn-Rai Kitt, Walt McKay, Donna Stinson and Tyler Heppell.

“There will come a time when this committee will die a natural death,” said Johnston. “The importance will be to hand off that governance structure to a totally community-based organization and not have the need for council representation or whatever.”

In 2015 the committee will focus on building a strategy to engage the community to contribute to the plan. It will develop the criteria for organizations to apply for funding opportunities to align with the vision and goals.

The committee will meet monthly. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

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Oilpatch country feeling the pinch

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — If low oil prices stick around much longer, the operations manager at Lac La Biche Transport Ltd. says he may have to lay off workers.

Kevin Warawa says business is down by about a quarter compared with the same time a year ago and oilsands operators that hire his company to haul equipment in northeastern Alberta are pushing for rates to be cut by 20 to 25 per cent.

“Some of them cancelled projects completely.

Some of the other customers said that they won’t be getting back to production until probably the third quarter at least,” he said from Lac La Biche, Alta., about 200 kilometres northeast of Edmonton.

So far, the company hasn’t had to let go of any of the roughly 130 workers it employs this time of year, usually the busiest for the oilpatch. But if things keep up, “there will be guys going home,” said Warawa.

These aren’t the massive truck-and-shovel mining operations north of Fort McMurray, Alta., that tend to come to mind when one thinks of the oilsands.

To the south of what is typically seen as the oilsands epicentre, communities are expecting some pain from sub-US$50-a-barrel oil, but they’re taking the challenges in stride.

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COUNCIL: Proposal for crime map quashed The city went through a value-for-money audit a couple years ago.

Vincent said residents are getting value for money on those utilities.

“When you take a look at those percentage increases on an annual basis, costs are increasing but when it comes to you as an end user you are only seeing that dollar value translated,” said Vincent. “We think it’s good value for money. The overall percentage amount was one per cent.”

Anyone wishing to provide input on the proposed regional utility rates are asked to submit written comments to Legislative Services on the second floor of City Hall.

In other council news: ● A proposal for a map pinpointing the crime in Red Deer was squashed before it even hit the council floor.

“It was a new aspect for council to deal with,” said Mayor Tara Veer. “The members of council expressed more interest for more information. So we may very well see that motion come forward at another time.”

Coun. Buck Buchanan’s raised the need for crime mapping in city and brought forward a notice of motion on the issue.

But he was unable to defend or advocate for the project because he left the meeting as required under the Municipal Government Act if a councillor is in a conflict of interest.

The way the original motion was worded Buchanan would have been in a conflict because he sits on the Central Alberta Crime Prevention board.

In the motion, Buchanan asked the city to work with RCMP and the Central Alberta Crime Prevention Centre to develop a crime mapping system.

In these parts, crude is extracted by pumping steam through wells. Projects are normally built in smaller, more bite-sized chunks compared with their mining counterparts. Workers live in communities like Lac La Biche, Bonnyville and Cold Lake — all within a five-hour drive of Fort McMurray.

Companies active in the area include Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. (TSX:CNQ), MEG Energy Corp. (TSX:MEG), Cenovus Energy Inc. (TSX:CVE) and Imperial Oil Ltd. (TSX:IMO).

Canadian Natural said earlier this month it was deferring its $1.45-billion Kirby North project near Lac La Biche. MEG has chopped its 2015 budget by three quarters.

Meanwhile, Cenovus plans to spend up to $1.6 billion at its nearby Foster Creek and Christina Lake developments this year, but is holding off on developing longer-term projects elsewhere in northern Alberta. Imperial has massive oilsands operations near Cold Lake, with its 40,000-barrel-per-day Nabiye expansion in the process of ramping up.

Warawa has been in the business 30 years and even though “it hurts,” he knows the doldrums won’t last forever.

“It’ll always come back. The money they’ve spent is too great. They just can’t shut it down and walk away from it.”

Ron Briscoe, president of the Lac La Biche and

District Chamber of Commerce, said he’s noticed a shift in mood.

“I think, up until the last couple of weeks, people were holding their breath,” he said. “It’s now kind of turned over to being worried.”

The area has a sizable “shadow population” — temporary residents who come to the region for work and live in hotels and camps. The 2013 municipal census found this group made up about 26 per cent of the county’s population of 12,000.

“They’re the same people eating at our local restaurants and shopping at our local clothing stores,” said Briscoe.

“If the price of oil stays low long enough for the oilpatch to slow down and those shadow population residents move away. That means fewer customers for local businesses, lower profits and then some hard decisions have to be made by our local retail business about cutting costs, streamlining staff or closing altogether.”

Teri Moghrabi manages a sporting goods store in Lac La Biche. Sales are OK so far, but he wouldn’t be surprised to see a slowdown if oilpatch jobs are cut.

“Once people start feeling that pinch, we’ll feel it,” he says. “When we come to that point, we’ll feel it, because everything we sell here, nothing’s a necessity. Everything we have here, the majority of it is luxury items.”

● The Red Deer Emergency Services Station 3 may be relocate to a site just west of Notre Dame High School on the northeast corner of 30th Avenue and Lees Street.

Council gave first reading to an area structure plan amendment that will pave the way for relocation of the fire station to the proposed site from the existing location on 4340 32nd St. as part of the growth strategy in the city. Council also authorized $8.8 million in borrowing for the relocation of Station 3 and Station 4 to Timberlands from 30 Davison Drive. The locations are expected to operational in mid-2016. ● Council voted to borrow roughly $110 million for a number of community projects. Some big borrowing items includes $20 million to build and enhance facilities for the 2019 Canada Winter Games.

New builds and upgrades will include work at the River Bend Golf and Recreation Area to host biathlon and cross country skiing and at the Canyon Ski Hill for freestyle ski and snowboarding. A short track speed skating oval will be built at Great Chief Park and a long track speed skating and squash courts will be built at Red Deer College’s planned health, wellness and sport centre.

In June 2014, council approved a $26 million capital budget for the national sporting competition, of which $6 million is expected to come from the federal and provincial governments.

Council authorized the city to borrow roughly $31 million to replace the Red Deer Arena, build the North Red Deer Regional Community Centre and expand the downtown RCMP detachment.

The 2015 Capital budget allocated $8.8 million for detailed design and construction of the north Red Deer community centre. The recommended site is at the corner of 77th Street and Taylor Drive, near Glendale School.

A total of $334,000 was approved in the 2011 budget for the concept design and site preparation.

A total of $21.5 million was also approved to replace the 1950s-built Red Deer Arena. Recent engineering assessment of the roof structure and beams identified that significant repair is needed if the building is to continue to operate. There’s an interim monitoring system in place to monitor the existing truss system and the structure.

As part of this capital project, the combined parking lots for the Red Deer Arena, Kinex, Parks Amenities Shop, Pidherney Centre Curling Rink and Skate Board Park will need to be resurfaced in 2018.

It has been 30 years since the parking lots were resurfaced.

The downtown RCMP detachment is facing a space crunch. Council approved $1 million to develop the second floor of the building. The plain clothes unit will move up to the second floor.

The city will fund the three projects from the capital project reserve ($334,000), the recreation amenity fund ($450,000) and debenture ($31.8 million) The Taylor Drive linkage and the south east sector transportation improvements will require $16.1 million in borrowing. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

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Living on table scraps There’s poverty and there’s poverty, so the saying goes. When do-gooders talk about poverty in a place like Red Deer as a root cause of family breakdown, depression, drug addiction, crime and homelessness, do-nothings suggest the “poverty line” here is way too arbitrary.

Here’s a widely-held public perception: Even street people in Red Deer get food to eat and GREG shelter (most of NEIMAN the time), with money left over for drugs and a cellphone. Go ahead, tell me I’m wrong.

As if living one missed paycheque away from being homeless doesn’t count.

If you want to see real poverty, we’re told, look around the world.

Oxfam International has looked around the world and what they see relates to Red Deer.

If you ask 48,643 people in 44 nations around the world, as the Pew Research Centre has done, you will find

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what people in developed nations fear most: economic inequality.

Not climate change, not religious hatred and terrorism — economic inequality.

Those people have the data on their side. Oxfam recently released a report — conveniently before the next meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland — that the globe now resembles Edwardian England.

That was the time of Downton Abbey, when the rich were very rich indeed, and everyone else lived on their table scraps.

According to Oxfam, the top one per cent of the world’s richest people (those with assets over US$2.7 million) hold just under half the wealth of the entire world. Oxfam projects that next year, it will probably be more than half.

A year ago, 85 people held as much wealth as the bottom 50 per cent of humanity combined. Today, says Oxfam, it only takes 80 of the world’s wealthiest people to do that.

Looking at GDP per capita through history, researchers at the University of Warwick once calculated that 13th century peasants in Europe got to keep just over $2,000 a year, in today’s prices. GDP per capita is less than $2,000 per year in 26 countries of the world.

Yes, there is poor and there is poor.

Just as there is rich and there is rich.

But how does that relate to Red Deer?

I can’t give you figures dollar-fordollar, but I can say that Oxfam rated income inequality highest in the United States. Economically and socially, are we really that much different here?

Remember how I said people in developed nations fear income inequality more than anything else? That’s mostly in Europe, and particularly in countries like Spain and Greece, which are facing real social turmoil that stems out of income inequality.

Here, as Franklin Roosevelt said, the only thing we have to fear is fear itself. But that was said just as the New Deal was embarking.

The era since then until now has been the longest period of social wellbeing in North America in a century.

The era following the Second World War, more or less until 2000, was the era of greatest economic equality since North America became widely settled.

Incomes were stable and relatively equal for generations. In the 1950s and up, it became easy to think that in order to be poor, there had to be something wrong with you.

But in the last decade or so, when wealth became more concentrated in the hands of a few, North America’s sense of well-being has declined.

The middle class, which set the val-

ues on which we base our view of society, has shrunk both in numbers and in power. Being middle class today is less attainable than it has been since the 1930s, and once you get there, you find it’s less wealthy than you thought.

We know now that there’s not always something wrong with the poor.

That would be just too many of us now.

Rather, people are starting to think maybe there’s something wrong with the rich. Like the useless fops in Downton Abbey, surrounded by low-paid servants who did everything for them.

Thus, I believe, the fear that the Pew pollsters discovered.

Civic leaders in Red Deer are rightly concerned with the effects of poverty here, even if it’s not like poverty in Africa, even if there are shelters, soup kitchens and food banks.

Families who are promised that hard work will produce success are finding that promise is rather hollow.

More and more, success is inherited, and enjoyed by people who really do not work much at all — not the way poor people must.

The rich in rich nations say losing their wealth is their greatest fear. But losing some of their share of wealth may be the salvation from their fears.

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If hockey parents could see themselves I have found that I have time on my hands since having a injury, and I have always loved watching people. To me it is very interesting to just sit and watch the way people react in public and really how others react to people.

I found myself at an event watching the hockey parents (I am one myself), and when you sit back and watch, OMG. It gave me a insight about how I must look to others: we all cheer like our kids are playing for the Stanley Cup, and yell at the officials even though they are doing their jobs. And yell louder when they miss something — to be fair I don’t know how they can catch what they do.

But the most interesting things happen after the games, when the parents are sitting around waiting for their kids to come out of the change rooms. The comments about the other team and the way they played — wow — some off-the-cuff comments made me blush and I know as a parent if my kid talked like that it would be not be good. But it was funny to watch the parents talk and the expressions on the faces listening to each other, and the look on some that really looked like they wanted to tell the other person to shut up.

We live in a society that some people like to be the centre of attention and some don’t. I wonder sometimes if parents really stop and think about what they are like in public, and maybe they should before they judge others.

I wonder where I will go next to watch people.

Donna McIntyre Red Deer

Gender revolution brewing in political backrooms When federal votes are counted in 2015, our next prime minister will be a man.

But pull back the curtain.

For the first time in history, the three major federal campaigns in this country are being run by women and this might be the biggest leap forward in gender politics in recent memory.

We have endlessly dissected the number of women running provinces, leading parties, in cabinet, as candidates.

But never before have we had a trio of women calling the TIM shots in the race for the counHARPER try’s biggest political prize.

Conservative Jenni Byrne, New Democrat Anne McGrath and Liberal Katie Telford are three of the most powerful women in the country.

And the leader of the fourth federal party, the Green Party, is led by a woman, Elizabeth May. It doesn’t necessarily mean we are going to see a different tone in 2015. But when you have three women making the decisions, recruiting the candidates and setting priorities, it should be reasonable to assume that their presence will ultimately bring more women on board as candidates.

Reasonable, but there is scant evidence of that so far in 2015. Approximately two of every three federal candidates nominated are men.

Byrne has been there before. She guided Stephen Harper to his 2011 Conservative majority and offi-

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cially left his staff to move back to the party to look for a repeat earlier this month.

She is also notorious for her aversion to media attention and typically declined to talk to us.

She feeds on a reputation as a ruthless backroom operator comfortably well-versed in the dark arts of dashing political hopes and identifying the soft underbelly of opponents.

According to Paul Wells, in his book The Longer I’m Prime Minister, Byrne’s zeal for delivering bad news and enforcing tough calls stood her in good stead with Harper shortly after she was installed as a senior adviser to the prime minister’s chief of staff, Ian Brodie.

The 37-year-old Byrne was a Reformer back to her university days in Ottawa and her longtime loyalty to the prime minister is highly valued by Harper.

McGrath and Telford, by contrast, are well-known in Ottawa circles and are the antidotes to Byrne’s dark, Darth Vader persona.

But make no mistake, all three are cool under pressure, single mindedly efficient and able to deliver tough edicts.

“I’ve done it many times,” McGrath says.

“I take no pleasure in it. When you have to tell someone to step aside or they can’t run, anyone can tell you how hard that is. I prefer not to do it, but I am totally prepared to do it if I have to.’’

McGrath was Jack Layton’s chief of staff and was a familiar face to television viewers in the wake of the Opposition leader’s death. Before returning to helm Tom Mulcair’s campaign, she was a regular on TV political panels and is accessible to the parliamentary press gallery.

She turns 57 this week and is the only one of the

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trio to run for office. She also ran for the leadership of the Alberta NDP, but has a wealth of public service experience.

She was a teacher, but has held senior positions at Oxfam, the Canadian Mental Health Association, the Elizabeth Fry Society, the National Action Committee on the Status of Women and the Canadian Union of Public Employees.

“One of the remarkable things about this is that it is so significant,” she says of this power trio. “I mean, how could it have taken so long?’’

Telford, 36, ran Justin Trudeau’s leadership campaign and is a specialist in training candidates and volunteers, data analysis and organization.

She, like the leader and others in Trudeau’s inner circle, has a young child at home. Her roots are at Ontario’s legislature, but she was also deputy chief of staff to one-time Liberal leader Stéphane Dion.

Trudeau once told journalist Susan Delacourt that he purposely chose Telford as his campaign chair to push back against those who counselled against her appointment.

“She constantly fights against people who don’t take her seriously, who belittle her, who say they can do a better job and not just men, not just older men, but everyone. And it’s been a great reminder to me of the challenges that we’re still facing in changing politics as a culture.”

All three will retreat further into their backrooms as the campaign approaches, but their work will be on view every day. We’ll likely see a typical political slugfest this year. But history has already been made.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — Luka Rocco Magnotta is appealing his conviction in the first-degree murder of Jun Lin and wants a new trial.

Documents made public by the Quebec Court of Appeal on Monday outline several reasons for Magnotta’s attempt to have the five convictions annulled, including the one for killing Lin. The appeal centres primarily on a number of instances in which the defence suggests the judge erred in the case.

After a lengthy trial, jurors deliberated for eight days before finding Magnotta guilty on Dec. 23 of premeditated murder and four other charges in Lin’s slaying in May 2012.

The first-degree murder conviction carried a sentence of life imprisonment with no chance of parole for 25 years.

Magnotta, 32, was also given the maximum sentences on the four other charges.

The documents filed by Toronto-based lawyer Luc Leclair state Quebec Superior Court Justice Guy Cournoyer erred in a number of instances. “The verdicts are unreasonable and unsupported by the evidence and the instructions,� one of two motions filed by Leclair read.

One motion is a direct appeal of the convictions based on questions of law and could take many months to be heard.

In it, the defence argues Cournoyer erred by: � including an instruction to the jury on motive that confused the issue of intent, planning and deliberation, all while failing to tell them motive had to refer specifically to Lin’s murder. � failing to instruct jurors on a limited use of “bad character� evidence relating to Magnotta. � limiting the number of subjects to be covered in surrebuttal — rebuttal to the Crown’s own expert rebuttal witness. � and allowing the jury to discuss the case from the onset instead of waiting until after closing submissions and final instructions were complete.

Leclair also argues Cournoyer erred in instructions he provided on the Section 16 mental disorder defence Magnotta employed.

In the second motion, Magnotta is seeking leave to appeal on questions of “mixed fact and law� which will require the authorization of the province’s highest court to go forward.

A spokesman for Quebec’s director of criminal and penal prosecutions says the appeal doesn’t come as a shock. “For the moment it’s not a surprise for us because the accused was convicted of first-degree murder, so it’s usual that the accused appeals that kind of infraction and that kind of conviction,� Jean-Pascal Boucher said in an interview.

The appeal is likely months away as transcripts need to be filed and the prosecution must also submit its reply to the appeal.

Canadian soldiers forced to defend themselves in firefight

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Canadian troops exchanged fire with Islamic State extremists during a recent battlefield planning exercise in Iraq, the military revealed on Monday.

It also acknowledged its soldiers have helped Kurdish forces by directing coalition air strikes.

The officer in charge of the elite special forces, which has been advising local forces in northern Iraq since September, denied that these events represent an escalation of Canada’s involvement. “The situation is a lot more nuanced than just saying, if you exchange fire with a belligerent force then all of sudden it’s a combat mission,� said Brig.-Gen. Michael Rouleau, commander of special operations command. “Our ability to bring airpower is one of things we can add value to the Iraqi forces with. Moreover, we always deploy with the inherent right to self- defence. So, we have the right to be able to defend ourselves, if we’re fired upon.�

He equated it to the sometimes intense firefights involving Canadian peacekeepers during the Balkans mission in the 1990s.

The special forces have, since the end of November, directed 13 air strikes in Iraq, guiding aircraft

belonging to the U.S.-led coalition — including a contingent of Canadian CF-18s — to their targets.

That involves being close to the fighting and using sophisticated laser pointers to mark the target for precision-guided bombs.

The briefing Monday at National Defence headquarters peeled back some of the layers of secrecy that have surrounded the special forces mission, which has been almost totally overshadowed by the bombing campaign.

Rouleau acknowledged that Canadian troops have helped Kurdish peshmerga forces plan operations and have visited the largely static First World Warlike front to see the situation first-hand.

It was during one of those visits that Canadian soldiers, accompanied by Iraqi forces, came under mortar and machine-gun fire. Rouleau says the Canadians used sniper fire and “neutralized� the enemy positions without taking any casualties.

The special forces troops have also been providing classroom weapons instruction, including the use of mortars and rocket-propelled grenades They also have a small unit of medics and doctors who not only teach battlefield first aid, but have helped treat casualties.

About 80 per cent of the time, the troops are well behind the front line, said Rouleau, who added that he still categorizes the mission as “low risk.�

“For the moment, we won’t talk about the legal problem invoked by the appellant,� Boucher said. “We will have to do that in our factum.�

A prosecutor specializing in appeals will likely take on the case, Boucher said. “They are specialists in that kind of case so we’ll see in the next few weeks who will be the prosecutor in this fight in front of the Quebec Court of Appeal,� he said.

The appeal documents were dated last Thursday and include a notice that a hearing will take place in Montreal on Feb. 18.

Leclair denied to comment further when reached by telephone.

Magnotta admitted to killing and dismembering Lin but was seeking to be found not criminally responsible by way of mental disorder.

Psychiatrists who testified for the defence said he was in a psychotic state the night of the killing and couldn’t tell right from wrong.

The Crown countered the crime was planned and deliberate and that Magnotta’s behaviour and actions were incompatible with those of someone supposedly suffering from a disease of the mind.

The jury heard testimony about the gruesome details of Lin’s death and that many of Magnotta’s actions were caught on surveillance video or in images taken by the accused himself.

They also heard about Magnotta’s upbringing and delved into medical files that showed he was diagnosed with schizophrenia in 2001.

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Charlie Angus, the party’s access to information and ethics critic, also wants information commissioner Suzanne Legault to look into whether other federal agencies are doing the same thing.

The Toronto Star reported last month that the federal revenue agency had destroyed all text message records of its employees and stopped electronically saving such messages.

The newspaper cited documents released under the Access to Information Act that said Shared Services Canada — the federal organization responsible for information technology services — had wiped the records last August.

The revenue agency told the Star it considered the messages transitory, and had instructed the computer services organization to destroy them and to stop logging its employees’ instant messages, including regular texts, BlackBerry messages and PINs. In Monday’s letter to Legault, Angus said the agency did not verify whether it had a process to determine if any of the records were of business value.

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Dentistry student blew whistle: lawyer HALIFAX — A member of a Facebook group accused of posting hateful comments about female members of Dalhousie University’s dentistry school blew the whistle on the classmates who made the remarks but has been treated unfairly by the school, the man’s lawyer said Monday.

Bruce MacIntosh is representing Ryan Millet, a fourth-year dentistry student and one of the 13 members of the now defunct Class of DDS 2015 Gentlemen on Facebook group.

MacIntosh said in a statement provided to The Canadian Press that Millet took a stand against posts he deemed offensive and encouraged other group members to remove them, but was sanctioned by Dalhousie University soon after the comments came to light in December.

“Like his 12 classmates, Ryan has been publicly pilloried and secretly convicted, without due process or the right to be heard,” MacIntosh said.

“He is neither hateful nor disrespectful towards

his female classmates. He does not defend the unacceptable comments that were made on Facebook. ...

He was the one who blew the whistle on those comments.”

MacIntosh contends that Millet, a married father of three young children, took a “vocal stand” against misogynistic posts on the Facebook page. He said he forced the removal of some Facebook entries he found disrespectful, but offered no other details. MacIntosh said his client also informed a woman in the posts about them and faculty was notified.

Millet will go before a disciplinary hearing Tuesday to argue for the return of his clinic privileges that were suspended after the posts went public.

MacIntosh said one of the female class members who was targeted in a “hateful Facebook poll” will also provide the committee with a letter in support of Millet.

According to the CBC, members of the Facebook group voted on which woman they’d like to have “hate” sex with and joked about using chloroform on women. The CBC said in another post, a woman is shown in a bikini with a caption that says, “Bang until stress is relieved or unconscious (girl).”

Baird says Palestinians made mistake pursuing Israel at court

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Victims are blaming Dejaeger for a wide variety of lingering physical and mental scars.

One man says that whenever he smells damp wood, he’s back in a room with his tormentor.

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VANCOUVER — The Crown is asking for a dangerous offender designation for a B.C. man who plied two teenaged girls with booze and drugs and was eventually convicted of killing them.

Martin Tremblay was convicted of criminal negligence causing the deaths of 17-year-old Martha Jackson and 16-year-old Kayla Lalonde, who died in March 2010 after partying at Tremblay’s home.

Crown lawyer Michaela Donnelly says Tremblay has demonstrated a pattern of grooming vulnerable young girls, who are almost always aboriginal, and providing them with alcohol and drugs.

She says Tremblay has an extensive criminal record, including convictions for sexual assaults that occurred in 2001.

Donnelly says Tremblay is aggressive towards young girls and unconcerned about the risk his behaviour poses to him.

She says Tremblay has demonstrated that his chances to be treated are low and that he would pose a danger to the public if released.

Sentencing hearing starts in Iqaluit for Arctic priest guilty of sex abuse IQALUIT, Nunavut — A sentencing hearing for a defrocked priest convicted of dozens of horrific sex crimes against Inuit children has started under heavy security.

Observers at the hearing for Eric Dejaeger must pass through a metal detector and have their bags searched if they want to enter the courtroom, a highly unusual move for Iqaluit courts.

Victim impacts statements are expected to take two days.

Dejaeger was convicted on 32 counts of various child sex-abuse crimes ranging from indecent assault to bestiality dating back to the 1970s and ’80s in

Former Bloc Quebecois MP Michel Guimond dies from heart failure MONTREAL — Former Bloc Quebecois MP Michel Guimond has died of heart failure at the age of 61.

Party officials say he died this morning while exercising at home.

Guimond held the riding of Montmorency-Charlevoix-Haute-Cote-Nord between 1993 and 2011.

Guimond was a lawyer by training who resumed practising after his defeat in the 2011 general election.

He ran unsuccessfully for the Parti Quebecois in last April’s provincial election and became chief of staff last year for Democratie Quebec, a municipal party in Quebec City.

Judge now writing report on military sexual misconduct claims OTTAWA — An external review by a former Supreme Court of Canada justice into allegations of sexual misconduct in the military has been completed.

A spokeswoman for National Defence says retired justice Marie Deschamps is now writing a report, which is expected to be released in the spring.

Marie-Helene Brisson says Deschamps visited bases and met military members across the country in a review that was ordered following published reports last spring in Maclean’s and L’actualite magazines, which claimed sexual assaults had reached epidemic levels in the military.

The stories contained interviews with several victims and examined a decade of statistics documenting reported attacks.

The reports said military police get as many as 200 complaints of sexual assault each year and many more cases go unreported by victims who fear the potential consequences.

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Canada is reaffirming its unequivocal support of Israel’s bid to block a Palestinian attempt to pursue war-crimes charges against the Jewish state at the International Criminal Court.

The Palestinians “made a huge mistake” by going to the ICC, an United Nations institution that Canada played a lead role in creating in the 1990s, Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird said Monday in Jerusalem.

Prior to meeting Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon as part of his five-day visit to the region, Baird said the Palestinians crossed a “red line,” and that he “communicated that in no uncertain terms” to Palestinian leaders a day earlier.

Baird’s spokesman Adam Hodge said Canada is “considering a number of options in response to ... the purported Palestinian accession to the ICC.” Canada has told the prosecutor that “the Palestinians are not a state” and should not be allowed to join the court.

“We intend to communicate further views to the prosecutor in due course,” Hodge said.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thanked Baird personally for the Canadian support.

“You know that it’s a travesty of justice to haul Israel to the dock in The Hague, and you know that the entire system of international law could unravel because of this travesty,” Netanyahu said.

“I thank you for your support and for your moral leadership, and I pledge this to you: Israel will not have its hand tied by a politicized ICC.” Before shaking hands with Netanyahu, Baird replied: “Canada doesn’t stand behind Israel; we stand shoulder-to-shoulder with it.”

New Democrat foreign affairs critic Paul Dewar objected to Canada taking action to block the Palestinians at the ICC. “We are part of the ICC. The ICC should be independent. It is very important as a judicial institution that it be able to take in information and make decisions independently,” said Dewar.

“If a red line is actually people going to the International Criminal Court ... we’ve gone a far way from where we started years ago, supporting the institution, creating the institution.”

One Canadian official, not authorized to discuss the matter and speaking on condition of anonymity, said Baird and Netanyahu met for almost an hour and discussed a range of issues, including “the Palestinian Authority’s misguided attempt to accede to the Rome Statute.”

The Rome Statute is the international treaty that led to the creation of the International Criminal Court.

The Facebook page has been taken down.

The 13 students who were part of the Facebook group have been ordered to attend classes apart from the class and are suspended from clinical duties, which could affect their ability to graduate.

Dalhousie University has announced an independent task force will look into what happened and a restorative justice process will hear from those involved. Fourteen women and all of the 13 men in the group, except Millet, will take part in the restorative justice process.

But MacIntosh criticized the way the school handled the matter, saying the students were pushed into accepting it without due diligence and a proper investigation by Dalhousie University to identify which members were active on the site.

“No one stopped to interview the victims, or the alleged perpetrators, to determine which students were truly culpable,” he said.

“Instead, a cloak of unprofessional misconduct was conveniently cast over all Facebook members.

Then, both perpetrators and victims alike were prematurely enticed into a restorative justice system which started with acceptance of guilt.”

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Musil focused on success SECOND-YEAR REBEL WANTS TO PLAY HIS BEST AT CHL TOP PROSPECTS GAME and make the most of your opportunity.

This game has the top 40 players in the Canadian Hockey League in my age group, so for sure it will be an exciting time.”

Adam Musil knows he Musil is convinced his has to find a happy medium performance in the Top between stress and tranProspects contest as a memquility before he hits the ber of Team Cherry will ice for Thursday’s CHL Top either boost or hinder his Prospects Game in Niagara draft ranking.

Falls, Ont. “There’s going to be a “The pressure will obvilot of scouts and GMs from ously be there, but you just every (NHL) team and you have to put it in the back of want to play your game and your mind and focus on the play it the way you play it game,” the Red Deer Rebels best,” he said. second-year forward said “You just want to show Monday, in reference to the what you can do while playcontest featuring the CHL’s Adam Musil ing with and against your 40 top-ranked players for peers.” this year’s NHL entry draft.

The six-foot-three, “You have to focus on the little things that make you successful 208-pound centre from Delta, B.C.,

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who turns 18 on March 26, is enjoying a productive sophomore season with 11 goals and 28 points in 40 games. He’s convinced, however, that he can be better.

“Up and down,” he said, in reference to his overall performance. “You have to be more consistent as a player.

If you want to be a good player in this league you have to bring it every night.

You can’t take any nights off and that’s what I need to work on — being more consistent.”

While he’s not exactly satisfied with his personal game to this point, Musil is happy with the Rebels’ overall performance.

“The season is going good that way.

The team is playing great and team success will equal individual success,” he said. “The last seven games we’re 6-0-1, so we want to win every game for the rest of the year. That’s our goal and

we’re going to try and accomplish it.”

Musil just recently returned to the Rebels lineup after being absent six games with a hip injury and didn’t look like he’d missed a single minute during his first game back.

“I wanted to make sure my hip was 100 per cent because it can come back any time and be a serious injury,” he said.

“I wanted to make sure it’s 100 per cent and I feel that way now. I feel great out there now.”

The Rebels are idle until Saturday when they face the Vancouver Giants at the Centrium.

Red Deer has three home games next week — Tuesday, Friday and Saturday versus Kelowna, Edmonton and Prince Albert — then hits the road for contests Feb. 4, 6 and 7 against Kamloops, Vancouver and Victoria. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

Peterman looking forward to full-time duty RED DEER CURLER EXCITED TO BE PLAYING SECOND FOR NEDOHIN RINK AT ALBERTA SCOTTIES

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR From part-time to full-time duty.

Red Deer’s Jocelyn Peterman will be tossing second stones for Heather Nedohin in the Alberta Scotties women’s curling championship Wednesday to Sunday at the Lacombe Arena after sharing the position with Jessica Mair for most of the season.

“I joined the team in August and we had a five-man team going for the first part of the season. We’re just a fourman team now,” said Peterman, who skipped a Red Deer foursome to the 2012 Canadian junior women’s championship.

With Mair unable to commit to the rink on a consistent basis, Nedohin approached Peterman in August with the intent of bringing an insurance player on board. Peterman was only too happy to accept the offer.

“I went to all of the events and we kind of traded off for the first half of the season,” said Peterman, 21. “But Jessica had too many work commitments to continue (into and through this week’s provincials).”

The Nedohin crew has yet to take top honours in a World Curling Tour or Grand Slam event, but have qualified for the playoffs in four of five ‘spiels while earnings $35,250, good for sixth place on the money list.

“We’ve been pretty successful. We haven’t won this year but hopefully that will change this week,” said Peter-

Photo by the Canadian Curling Association/Michael Burns

Second Jocelyn Peterman (front) and lead Laine Peters sweep a rock during the women’s semifinal of the Canada Cup event at Camrose in early December. man, a fourth-year kinesiology student at the University of Calgary. “I’m looking forward to playing so close to home.

Hopefully we get some good crowds.”

Nedohin has been one of Alberta’s most successful female curlers since the mid ‘90s and has made six appearances in the Scotties Tournament of Hearts Canadian championship, winning in 1998 at Regina and three years

ago at the Centrium. She finished third in both of her appearances in the women’s worlds and skipped her junior squad to the women’s title in the 1996 world juniors in Red Deer.

“This is an awesome opportunity for me and it’s been very exciting playing with this team,” said Peterman. “I’ve learned a lot so far while playing a new position, so it’s been a really good

experience.”

Peterman skipped her junior women’s foursome for several years. Her job was to call the game while frontenders Rebecca Konschuh and Kristine Anderson took care of sweeping duties.

“I never swept much until this year, but I’m enjoying it,” she said. “I played with the same girls in juniors for a long time so it’s been different getting used to new teammates, but it’s been really good.”

The Nedohin foursome, which qualified for the provincials via the Canadian Team Ranking System, have drawn a bye in Wednesday’s 9:30 a.m. opening draw and will face the winner of the game between Nicky Kaufman of Edmonton and Delia DeJong of Grande Prairie in the evening draw, set for 6:30 p.m.

Also competing in the Alberta Scotties are rinks skipped by Chelsea Carey, who won last year’s Manitoba title, Tiffany Game, Karynn Flory and defending champion Val Sweeting, all of Edmonton, Teryn Hamilton, Crystal Webster and Shannon Kleibrink of Calgary, Casey Scheidegger of Lethbridge and Deanne Nichol of Peace River.

Brittany Tran, who played third for Peterman’s junior team, is tossing lead rocks for Scheidegger, while Konschuh is Webster’s lead and Amy Janko of Red Deer is DeJong’s third.

The Alberta Scotties concludes Sunday with the championship final slated for 2 p.m. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

Lowry leads balanced Raptors to win over Bucks

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Toronto Raptors guard Kyle Lowry, left, shoots against Milwaukee Bucks guard Brandon Knight, right, during the first half of an NBA game Monday, in Milwaukee.

Raptors 92 Bucks 89 MILWAUKEE — Terrence Ross finished what he failed to start Monday night.

Kyle Lowry scored 18 points and was one of six Toronto players to reach double figures in the Raptors’ 92-89 victory over the Milwaukee Bucks.

Ross, who did not start for just the second time in the last 104 games after he was held scoreless for the only time this season in a 95-93 loss against New Orleans on Sunday, scored his team’s final two baskets to end up with 16 points.

“That’s how I started off in the league, so I’m used to it,” Ross said.

Added Toronto coach Dwane Casey: “He played well. He came off the bench relaxed and with a lot of confidence. I thought when he came in in the first half, he got us jumpstarted. I don’t know if it’s going to be a permanent thing, but I like the way he came in and played, especially on the defensive end.”

Milwaukee (21-20), playing for the first time since beating New York 95-79 on Thursday in London, got 20 points, five rebounds, five assists and four steals from Brandon Knight.

The Bucks, whose biggest loss this

season was 124-82 at Toronto on Nov. 21, also got 14 points and a team-high seven rebounds from Ersan Ilyasova.

O.J. Mayo scored 13.

With the shot clock running down, Ross hit a baseline jumper from the right side to give Toronto a 90-87 lead with 26.4 seconds to go.

After Knight drove down the court for a layup, Ross was able to sneak behind the defence for a breakaway dunk and a 92-89 lead with 15.9 seconds left.

The Atlantic Division leaders (2714) went on to win for the third time in 10 games.

“I don’t know what happened with the defence, but I kind of just got out in front of them,” said Ross, who shot 7 of 12 from the floor.

Knight then missed a 3-pointer, but Lowry helped Milwaukee’s chances by missing two free throws with 5.8 seconds to play.

Ilyasova grabbed the rebound and passed to Mayo, who dribbled past midcourt into Toronto traffic and lost control of the ball to Lou Williams. Toronto was then able to run out the clock. “(Knight’s miss) was a wide-open shot,” Milwaukee coach Jason Kidd said. “That’s all you can ask for. As a team, we had a great look and had one of our best shooters shooting the ball. Unfortunately it just didn’t go in.”

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TIP-INS Raptors: Toronto has won its last six against Milwaukee after losing 10 straight to the Bucks. ... The Raptors snapped a season-high, three-game losing streak on the road. Five of the team’s next seven games are away from home.

Bucks: Kenyon Martin was signed to a second 10-day contract. ... Milwaukee is 6-2 against Atlantic Division opponents, with both losses to Toronto. ... This was the team’s first home game on a Monday this season.

YOUNG BUCK Giannis Antetokounmpo (20 years, 44 days) became the youngest Bucks player to reach 1,000 career points, surpassing Brandon Jennings (20 years, 170 days).

Honouring MLK Casey was asked to reflect on Martin Luther King Jr. before the game and said it is amazing what the NBA represents. “Whether it is gender, race, creed or nationality, the NBA represents all of those,” he said. “The league has done a great job with diversity, and that is what Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. talked about and preached. He preached opportunity, and this league is about opportunity.”

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Canadian men sweep podium FREESTYLE SKIING WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS KREISCHBERG, Austria — The Alex Bilodeau era is over, but a sweep of a world championship podium led by Mikael Kingsbury shows that Canada has not lost a step in freestyle skiing.

Kingsbury, of Deux-Montagnes, Que., won the dual moguls competition with a victory over Philippe Marquis of Quebec City on Monday while Marc-Antoine Gagnon of Terrebonne, Que., took the bronze medal.

Bilodeau, the gold medallist at the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver and the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, Russia, has retired to pursue a career in accounting.

“It hasn’t changed much since Alex isn’t there as far as growing and going forward,” Kingsbury said on a conference call. “ Alex was an amazing athlete and it was great to share all those moments with him.

“But it didn’t change my approach to competition. I was doing very well when he was there and I still have the same winning formula. It’s working well so far. But, for sure, we miss Alex on tour. He was pretty much always on the podium with us.”

In women’s dual moguls, Olympic champion Justine Dufour-Lapointe of Montreal took silver after losing 29-6 in the final to American veteran Hannah Kearney. Her older sister Chloe Dufour-Lapointe was fourth.

For the men, it was the first medals sweep by one country since Finland did it in individual moguls in 1999.

“The three of us were very hungry for a medal,” said Kingsbury. “There’s a bit of luck in that, in duals, you never know who you’re going to go against.

“I could have got Marc or Phil in the first round. But we had a good qualification round and we skied well. It’s teamwork. We always train together and we push each other. The sweep was very close and we did it. It was pretty crazy.”

The 22-year-old said a member of

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Canada’s Mikael Kingsbury competes to win the freestyle skiing dual moguls men’s event at the Freestyle Ski and Snowboard World Championships in Kreischberg, Austria, Monday. the U.S. team promised to shave a Maple Leaf into his hair if Canada swept the podium.

“I can’t wait to see that,” said Kingsbury.

Kingsbury has been at or near the top of his sport, winning three World Cup overall titles, even while Bilodeau was active. But he was second to the Rosemere, Que., skier in dual moguls at the 2011 and 2013 world championships. He also lost to Bilodeau in the individual moguls at the Sochi Olympics.

Getting on a world championship podium was a breakthrough for his teammates.

Gagnon, who finished fourth in Sochi, beat American Sho Kashima for the bronze medal.

Kingsbury defeated Marquis, who was ninth at the 2014 Games, by 20-15.

Kingsbury bounced back from losing his individual moguls title on Sunday, when he was upset in the final by Anthony Benna of France.

It was the opposite for 20-year-old Justine Dufour-Lapointe, who won the individual moguls on Sunday only to lose the duals final after making a mistake on an icy patch on her first run.

“To win the world championship is one of the best feelings an athlete can have,” she said. “Today, I really wanted to give everything I had to win another title, but I finished second. I made an error, but it was a great weekend.”

Yulia Galysheva of Kazakhstan edged defending champion Chloe

Dufour-Lapointe 18-17 for the bronze medal. The 23-year-old Chloe DufourLapointe lost to her sister Justine in the semifinals.

It was Kearney’s 10th medal and fourth gold at a major championship.

She won the world title in moguls in 2005 and two years ago, but it was her first triumph in dual moguls.

“I’ve never won the dual world championships, it means a lot to me,” Kearney said. “Ten years ago, I won my first world championship gold medal.

To stay at the top for ten years, I’ve got to thank my trainers, my coaches, for helping me achieve that.”

The next medal events of the freestyle skiing and snowboard worlds are the slopestyle finals for both disciplines on Wednesday.

Top seeds advance to second round at Aussie Open TENNIS

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MELBOURNE, Australia — Stan Wawrinka began the defence of his Australian Open title with a 6-1, 6-4, 6-2 win over Marsel Ilhan on Tuesday, taking less than 1 ½ hours to breeze through the first round.

Wawrinka was barely tested against the No. 100-ranked Ilhan, striking 34 winners and saving the only two break points he faced.

In a breakthrough 2014 season, Wawrinka claimed his first Grand Slam title, reached a career-high ranking of No. 3 and helped Roger Federer win the Davis Cup for Switzerland for the first time.

He warmed up for the season-opening major by successfully defending his title at the Chennai Open.

“It’s great, bringing me a lot of memories from last year,” Wawrinka said of his return to Rod Laver Arena. “It was great to come back here feeling happy, happy with my game.”

Two other men widely considered to be in the next generation of major winners advanced in straight sets, with No. 5 Kei Nishikori beating Nicolas Almagro 6-4, 7-6 (1), 6-2 and No. 8 Milos Raonic firing 30 aces in a 7-6 (3), 7-6 (3), 6-3 win against qualifier Illya Marchenko.

No. 12 Feliciano Lopez struggled past American wild-card entry Denis Kudla 3-6, 6-2, 4-6, 6-2, 10-8, No. 18 Gilles Simon beat Robin Haase 6-1, 6-3, 6-4 and No. 19 John Isner beat Taiwanese qualifier Jimmy Wang 7-6 (5), 6-4,

MELBOURNE, Australia — Canadian Milos Raonic finished a 7-6 (3), 7-6(3), 6-3 victory over Ukraine’s Illya Marchenko with an ace on Tuesday in the first round of the Australian Open.

Raonic, from Thornhill, Ont., who lost the Brisbane final this month to Roger Federer, fired 28 untouchable serves, his best at 228 km/h.

“I’m very happy with how I played,” said Raonic. “I competed well and managed to get through.

“I’m hoping 2015 can be my year.

I’ve put in a lot of work and I believe I can do win a Grand Slam title. I’ve come here to play.”

He will face Donald Young of the United States in the second round of the Grand Slam tournament. Young beat Tim Puetz of Germany, 6-4, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 to advance from the first

round. Raonic beat Young twice last season, first in Washington, D.C., and then indoors in Basel, Switzerland.

Raonic concluded Tuesday’s match with his trademark stinging serve, joining Monday winner Eugenie Bouchard of Westmount, Que., in the second round in straight sets.

Vancouver’s Vasek Pospisil played later Tuesday, facing American Sam Querrey in the first round.

Eugenie Bouchard powered into the second round of the Australian Open on Monday as the seventh-seeded Canadian star defeated German Anna-Lena Friedsam 6-2, 6-4.

The Genie Army of fans, which came together informally at the event a year ago, was back out in force, cheering on the Westmount, Que., native throughout the 78-minute match.

“The Genie Army started here last year, I’m happy they are still alive and strong,” she said after breaking her 98th-ranked opponent four times and hitting 20 winners along the way.

“The first match of a Grand Slam is

never easy, I’m happy to get through,” she said. “I’m so happy to be back in Melbourne. The support here is crazy.”

Bouchard broke twice per set in a routine performance against a player who beat her in an entry-level event in 2012.

“I was happy to start strong,” said Bouchard. “Conditions were tough, it was a bit windy and she’s a good player. I was happy to stay solid, but there are still a lot of things to improve.”

Bouchard will next face Kiki Bertens of the Netherlands, who defeated Australian Daria Gavrilova 7-5 (10-8), 5-7, 6-2.

Melbourne was the venue for Bouchard’s breakthrough in 2014, when she reached the final four and duplicated the showing at the French Open before playing in the Wimbledon final.

At the All England Club last year, Bouchard became the first Canadian, male or female, to reach a Grand Slam final.

6-4. No. 16 Fabio Fognini lost in four sets to Alejando Gonzalez.

Nishikori, returning to Grand Slam action for the first time since his run to the U.S. Open final, dropped his opening service game but recovered the break quickly and weathered a difficult opening match against Almagro.

Nishikori is coming off a big year in 2014, when he became the first Asian man to reach a Grand Slam singles final. He’s determined to go one better and win a major.

“Yeah for sure that was one of my best results in my career that gave me a lot of confidence,” the Japanese star

said.

“I beat a lot of top 10 players.”

Two-time champion Victoria Azarenka continued her comeback from a foot injury with a convincing 6-3, 6-2 win over Sloane Stephens and will next have to play U.S. Open finalist Caroline Wozniacki, who beat 18-yearold Taylor Townsend 7-6 (1), 6-2.

No. 11 Dominika Cibulkova, a finalist here last year, opened with a 3-6, 6-3, 6-1 comeback win against Kirsten Flipkens.

Limited to just nine tournaments last year, Azarenka’s ranking has fallen to No. 44 and she is unseeded at a

Grand Slam for the first time since the 2007 U.S. Open.

Her Australian Open history with Stephens included the semifinals in 2013, when Azarenka controversially took an extended injury timeout at a critical point late in the match.

“Sloane is a very tricky opponent.

It’s a great first round for me to really test my game,” Azarenka said. “I’m happy with what I did today.”

2011 U.S. Open champion Sam Stosur opened with a 6-4, 6-1 victory against Monica Niculescu, and No. 19 Alize Cornet had a 6-3, 6-2 win over Zhang Shuai.

Canadians off to good start as Raonic and Bouchard advance

Nationals close to signing Scherzer to record deal

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Sure seems as if Max Scherzer and his wife now will be able to afford to buy themselves at least one of those nonstick baking sheets they were hoping to receive as a wedding gift.

Or even a few million of ’em.

The 2013 AL Cy Young Award winner will become the highest-paid right-handed pitcher in major league history after agreeing to a $210 million, seven-year contract with the Washington Nationals that includes a record $50 million signing bonus.

A person familiar with the negotiations outlined the terms to The Associated Press on Monday, speaking on condition of anonymity because the deal hadn’t been announced. It creates a formidable rotation for the Nationals — who could try to boost the rest of their roster by trading one of their other starters.

Washington is now the 4-1 favourite to win the World Series, down from 6-1 odds when the off-season started.

MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL Scherzer’s signing bonus tops the previous high of $30 million for any player, given by the Cubs to pitcher Jon Lester this off-season. Scherzer plans to establish residency in Florida, which would shield his signing bonus from D.C. income tax, the person familiar with the negotiations said.

The person said the pitcher is scheduled to take a physical Tuesday, one of the steps needed for the deal to be finalized.

Scherzer, who spent the past five seasons with the Detroit Tigers before becoming a free agent, will receive the money from the Nationals spread out over 14 years, which lowers its present-day value.

Still, Scherzer did quite well for himself. Indeed, he and his bride — they were married in November 2013 — won’t have to depend on their friends to finish filling the requests on their bridal registry at Crate & Barrel, including the pair of $19.95 baking sheets that no one gave them.

The 30-year-old right-hander’s contract is the second-largest for a pitcher, behind only Los Angeles Dodgers lefty Clayton Kershaw’s $215 million, seven-year deal that runs from 2014-20. The previous high for a righty was the $180 million, seven-year agreement from 2013-19 signed by Justin Verlander, another Cy Young Award winner for the Tigers.

Scherzer turned down an offer from Detroit last March that would have paid him $144 million from 2015-20, an average of $24

million per year.

The Nationals will lose what would have been the 27th pick in June’s amateur draft, while the Tigers will gain an extra pick after the first round.

All in all, for the Nationals, it’s a surprising move to upgrade an already imposing rotation after a relatively quiet off-season for the NL East champions.

Scherzer was 18-5 with a 3.15 ERA in 2014, a year after going 21-3 with a 2.90 ERA and being voted the best pitcher in the American League. He now joins a club whose starting staff in 2014 included Stephen Strasburg, Jordan Zimmermann, Doug Fister — Scherzer’s former teammate with the Tigers — Gio Gonzalez, and Tanner Roark.

That group already was considered among the best — if not the best — rotation in the majors. The question now is what move could come next for the Nationals, who might pursue a trade.

Zimmermann went 14-5 with a 2.66 ERA and 182 strikeouts in 199 2-3 innings in 2014, and he threw the first no-hitter in Nationals history on the last day of the regular season. But he can enter free agency after next season.

Last season, Strasburg was 14-11 with a 3.14 ERA and 242 strikeouts in 215 innings; Fister was 16-6 with a 2.41 ERA; Gonzalez went 10-10 with a 3.57 ERA, and Roark went 15-10 with a 2.85 ERA in 198 2-3 innings.

Gonzalez, third in NL Cy Young Award voting in 2012, is the only left-hander in the bunch.

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Depth no magic formula for winning A FEW STARS CAN TRUMP A DEEP BENCH IN TODAY’S NHL Arguably the greatest contribution of hockey’s analytics revolution is its ability to subject long-standing articles of faith to cold hard logic.

Articles of faith have their appeal because if you say something often enough without thinking about it much, it eventually feels true. Occasionally, even those who traffic in pure reason fall into that trap.

One example of this is the cult of depth. Whether you’re listening to young analytics bloggers or old-time commentators, eventually you’ll hear someone talk about how in today’s NHL teams have to be deep in order to win.

Pundits of all stripes routinely laud the Blackhawks and Kings for their remarkable depth and abuse the Penguins for imagining some hanger-on wingers and a bunch of spare parts are enough as long as they have Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin.

The language of old-time hockey grit, determination, momentum, - may be different from what the new guard’s peddling - weak bottom six, possession, unsustainability, mean reversion - but the argument’s the same: deep teams win, shallow ones don’t, and if you don’t already know whether a team’s deep or thin, you must be an idiot.

No doubt everyone would love to have lots of great players. I’ve certainly played video games where I get an NHL all-star team and my nephew gets the Kazakh national team (and still beats me).

But in the real world teams have to make trade-offs. For example, they need to ask whether two top-50 scorers are as good as one guy in the top five?

Or how much they value an elite shutdown defenceman like San Jose’s MarcEdouard Vlasic vs. a one-dimensional forward like Phil Kessel of the Leafs.

Despite the conventional wisdom (or maybe because of it) nobody’s analyzed whether more depth means more winning. In fact, most commentators don’t even bother to define what they mean by “depth.”

One way of thinking about whether or not a team is deep is to look at ice time. Presumably coaches with deeper rosters are willing to allocate ice time more evenly and the best players

18:09 per game. In fact, during 5-on-5 close play, Stepan is seventh, averaging 7:29 per game.

But once you start looking at all of a team’s forwards, you’re very quickly into a jumble of indistinguishable numbers.

For example, if Carolina’s Eric Staal (first on the team) logs 9:17 vs. Zach Boychuk’s 6:19 (12th), is that a big difference or a little one?

To figure that out, we looked at a common statistical measure called standard deviation, which measures the spread in ice time among each team’s top 12 forwards. All things being equal, we’d expect deeper teams to have a lower standard deviation (i.e. less of a spread in ice time between their top 12).

The table at right shows each team’s ranking by that measure of depth, as well as its points percentage (total points earned as a percentage of total points available).

There were some surprises for sure.

For example, the Blackhawks rely heavily on their top guys when the game’s close. When measured by the standard deviation of their top 12 forwards’ ice time, Chicago ranks 21st in the league, a fact that suggests coach Joel Quenneville doesn’t think as highly of players who aren’t named Kane, Toews, Sharp or Hossa as others might. More important, when we looked at the correlation between standard deviation and points percentage, it was positive, meaning teams that were relatively “thinner” did better.

The correlation was admittedly small (0.06), meaning the relationship wasn’t strong, but it does mean being “top heavy” doesn’t necessarily hurt if your top guys really are that good.

Not only is “depth” hard to define, it may not be a necessary ingredient to win either.

The Department of Hockey Analytics employs advanced statistical methods and innovative approaches to better understand the game of hockey. Its three founders are Ian Cooper, a lawyer, former player agent and Wharton Business School graduate; Phil Curry, a professor of economics at the University of Waterloo; and IJay Palansky, a litigator in Washington, D.C., former high-stakes professional poker player and Harvard Law School graduate.

get more minutes. There are two problems with this. First, some players log minutes because they’re just that good, while others play because their teammates are just that bad.

Take a guess (no cheating) who leads all NHL forwards in average time on ice (21:15). Penguins sniper Sidney Crosby?

Ducks forward Ryan Getzlaf? Washington’s Alex Ovechkin?

Nope. It’s Ryan Nugent-Hopkins of the Edmonton Oilers.

That’s right - fans who used to watch a one-two punch of Wayne Gretzky and Mark Messier can now cheer for NugentHopkins and whichever third- or fourthline centre the Oilers allow to play the second.

The fact that the guy logging the most minutes in the league sits 93rd among forwards in total points says more about how truly bad the Oilers are than how good he is.

But looking at overall ice time can be misleading in other ways.

A team that’s playing from behind is more likely to gamble; one that regularly trounces opponents will roll four lines late in the game. Which is why advanced stats are tracked in all sorts of different situations.

If we’re talking about depth, the most important one is 5-on-5 close play, meaning the game is within one goal during the first two periods or tied in the third.

After all, if a coach is willing to throw guys out in close games, that suggests he trusts them.

Looking at ice time in those situations can yield new insights. For example, you might conclude the Rangers’ “go-to guy” is Derek Stepan, who leads the team’s forwards with an average of

Flyers not thinking of tanking for McDavid GM HEXTALL SAYS TEAM WON’T ENTERTAIN POSSIBILITY OF JOINING MCDAVID DERBY

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — A veteran of six playoff runs and a Stanley Cup winner, Vincent Lecavalier doesn’t buy the tanking philosphy.

“I don’t think it comes to mind in this business, in this game,” the Philadelphia Flyers forward said. “You don’t try to lose games. I don’t think anybody’s trying to do that, any GM’s trying to do that, any organization’s trying to do that.”

One thing’s for sure: Flyers general manager Ron Hextall isn’t trying to do that. It may be a lost season in Philadelphia, but getting into the derby for projected No. 1 pick Connor McDavid or No. 2 Jack Eichel isn’t in the organization’s plans.

“We’re not going that direction,” Hextall said on the weekend in Buffalo. “You can’t sit and say, ‘OK, we’ll not win any games and we’ll get McDavid or Eichel.’ It’s not the way it works. ... You don’t dictate necessarily where you finish because you owe it to your fans, you owe it to hockey, to try to win every game.”

Hextall talked about the organizational “credibility” and that the Flyers don’t stand for bottoming out. They’ve finished with the fewest points in the NHL only once in the past 19 seasons and made the playoffs 17 other times.

Through Sunday’s games, the Flyers found themselves 11 points out of the final wild-card spot in the Eastern Conference.

“It is a lot, but it’s been done before,” all-star Jakub Voracek said Saturday when the deficit was 13 points.

“We’ve just got to find that consistency and be patient with it.”

Consistency has been hard to find

this season, the first in a long time without No. 1 defenceman Kimmo Timonen, whose career may be over because of blood clots. Voracek leads the league in scoring and linemate Claude Giroux is fifth, but injuries to goaltender Steve Mason and others have stunted the team’s progress.

But as the Buffalo Sabres and Edmonton Oilers lead the race for the top pick in June’s draft, the Flyers also aren’t bad enough to give themselves a good chance at landing McDavid. If they remain the seventh-worst team, they’d have a 6.5 per cent chance of drafting first.

If the standings hold as they are, the Sabres would have a 20 per cent chance, the Oilers 13.5, the Carolina Hurricanes 11.5, Arizona Coyotes 9.5, New Jersey Devils 8.5 and Columbus Blue Jackets 7.5.

“I think it’s a better system,” Hextall said. “I don’t think teams should be directly paid for ineptness. If we finish last, should we have the first pick in the draft? No, I don’t think we should. I think we should have a chance at it.

“If Carolina or Buffalo or (Arizona) or any other team ... that’s towards the bottom right now finishes last, they shouldn’t have a direct line to the first pick.”

The NHL adjusted the odds this season to make it less of a direct line. In previous seasons the team with the fewest points had a 25 per cent chance of picking first, though the 2006-07 Flyers lost that lottery - and Patrick Kane - to the Chicago Blackhawks.

Beginning next season, the first three spots will be up for grabs in the lottery. But for now, whoever is last knows it will wind up with either McDavid or Eichel.

That’s an intriguing idea for the

teams at the very bottom of the standings like the Sabres, Oilers, Hurricanes and Coyotes. If nothing else, it’s a silver lining for a lot of losing.

Buffalo goes into the all-star break having lost 11 in a row in regulation, a franchise record. Sunday night the Sabres blew a 3-0 lead at the Detroit Red Wings to lose 6-4.

“There are going to be certain nights when world-class athletes are going to out-skill us and we believe that’s what happened tonight,” coach Ted Nolan told reporters at Joe Louis Arena.

The Sabres have little in the way of world-class talent, and that’s by design.

They weren’t supposed to contend this year and the hope was to land a franchise-changing player with a top draft pick.

That’s the direction the Coyotes seem to be heading, too, after trading their best (but backup) goaltender this season, Devan Dubnyk, to the Minnesota Wild. Arizona will likely ride it out with Mike Smith and his .887 save percentage after calling up Mike Lee from the ECHL to fill Dubnyk’s spot.

“Our problem is we haven’t played the game, the players that we’ve assembled, we expected to get out of them,” president and CEO Anthony LeBlanc said during a recent radio appearance.

LeBlanc cautioned that the Coyotes weren’t going to make any knee-jerk decisions, even after Andrew Barro-

way purchased 51 per cent of the team.

Steady as she goes still means Arizona is in the hunt for McDavid.

The same goes for the Hurricanes, who visit the Toronto Maple Leafs on Monday night with a 5-2-1 record in 2015. Carolina has a rookie GM in Ron Francis and a rookie coach in Bill Peters and some winning will do more to build the confidence of young players than it will hurt the long-term future.

“I think it’s a healthier lineup than we had,” captain Eric Staal said. “You never want to use that as an excuse, but we had a tough time getting healthy at the beginning of the year. You get in a hole, you go on a tough West trip, it’s tough to get going. Now we’re feeling confident in our roles and where everybody fits in our lineup and we’re starting to see some better play.”

The Flyers, given their recent track record, entered the season with higher expectations than the Hurricanes, who are headed toward their sixth straight year out of the playoffs. Each team, though, could be selling at the March 2 trade deadline.

“We have to be cognizant of the future,” Hextall said. “We’re not going to give up a draft pick to make us a playoff team. If we can’t do it with the guys we’ve got, we’re not mortgaging our future to try and sneak into the playoffs.”

And not mortgaging the credibility of the present for McDavid.

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She advanced there by beating Maja Gragovic 2-0 (6-4, 6-0) in her lone match on Friday. On Saturday, she beat No. 4 Jia Yi Tan 6-0 (6-2, 6-4) and No. 2 Neetika Sud 2-1 (6-1, 4-6, 6-2) to set up the showdown with Jacobs.

Simonova is now the No. 6 ranked player in the province.

There is one tournament left to qualify for nationals with the top four in each division going to the national championships with the U18s in Toronto April 6-11 and the U14s in Vancouver April 6-12.

Robinson is next playing at a tournament at the Tennis Academy in Calgary on Feb. 5-8.

The Red Deer Tennis Club is hosting the U12 and U16 provincials from Feb. 19-22 where Simonova, ranked No. 3 in U16, will compete.

The U14 provincials go Feb. 26 to March 1 at the Saville Sports Centre in Edmonton.

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Red Deer tennis players Michael Robinson, 13, and Tereza Simonova, 15, moved one step closer to qualifying for the Indoor National Tennis Championships with their performance at the second of three qualifying tournaments this past weekend at the Tennis Academy in Calgary.

Robinson went into the tournament as the No. 3 seed in U14 boys and won the event, beating No. 1 seed Matush Polakovic 2-0 (6-4, 6-3) in the final.

He opened the draw on Friday with a 2-0 (6-0, 6-1) win over Julien PierceLord and then beat William Atkins 2-0 (6-2, 6-1) in the evening.

On Saturday he beat No. 6 Joshua Christopher-Saban 2-0 (6-0, 6-3) to send him to Sunday’s semifinal, where he beat No. 2 Jun Makita 2-1 (3-6, 6-2, 6-2).

The win bumped him up to No. 2 in the provincial standings.

Simonova went into the U18 girls draw unranked, but made it all of the way to the final before falling 2-0 (6-4,

SCOREBOARD Local Sports Today

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

Wednesday

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

Thursday

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

Friday

● 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., Collicutt Centre. ● Midget AA hockey: Red Deer Indy Graphics at Red Deer Elks, 8:30 p.m., Arena.

Saturday

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

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

● 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.

Sunday ● 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.

Indianapolis 24, Denver 13 Conference Championships Sunday, Jan. 18 Seattle 28, Green Bay 22, OT New England 45, Indianapolis 7 Pro Bowl Sunday, Jan. 25 At Glendale, Ariz.

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

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

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

28 24 16 12

14 18 24 29

National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB Toronto 27 14 .659 — Brooklyn 17 24 .415 10 Boston 13 26 .333 13 Philadelphia 8 33 .195 19 New York 6 36 .143 21 1/2 Southeast Division W L Pct GB Atlanta 34 8 .810 — Washington 29 13 .690 5 Miami 18 22 .450 15 Charlotte 17 25 .405 17 Orlando 15 29 .341 20 Central Division W L Pct GB Chicago 27 16 .628 — Cleveland 22 20 .524 4 1/2 Milwaukee 21 20 .512 5 Detroit 16 26 .381 10 1/2 Indiana 15 28 .349 12

L.A. Clippers Phoenix Sacramento L.A. Lakers

WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct GB Memphis 29 12 .707 — Houston 29 13 .690 1/2 Dallas 29 13 .690 1/2 San Antonio 26 16 .619 3 1/2 New Orleans 20 21 .488 9 Northwest Division W L Pct GB Portland 30 11 .732 — Oklahoma City 20 20 .500 9 1/2 Denver 18 23 .439 12 Utah 14 27 .341 16 Minnesota 7 33 .175 22 1/2 Pacific Division W L Pct GB Golden State 33 6 .846 —

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

San Antonio at Denver, 7 p.m.

.667 .571 .400 .293

6 1/2 10 1/2 17 1/2 22

Sunday’s Games New Orleans 95, Toronto 93 Oklahoma City 127, Orlando 99 San Antonio 89, Utah 69 Monday’s Games Washington 111, Philadelphia 76 Charlotte 105, Minnesota 80 Atlanta 93, Detroit 82 L.A. Clippers 102, Boston 93 Golden State 122, Denver 79 Dallas 103, Memphis 95 Houston 110, Indiana 98 New York 99, New Orleans 92 Cleveland 108, Chicago 94 Toronto 92, Milwaukee 89 Sacramento at Portland, late L.A. Lakers at Phoenix, late

Wednesday’s Games New York at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

Miami at Charlotte, 5 p.m.

Utah at Cleveland, 5 p.m.

Indiana at Atlanta, 5:30 p.m.

Orlando at Detroit, 5:30 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at New Orleans, 6 p.m.

Toronto at Memphis, 6 p.m.

Dallas at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

Oklahoma City at Washington, 6 p.m.

Portland at Phoenix, 7 p.m.

Brooklyn at Sacramento, 8 p.m.

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

Bowling Monday 55+: Don Knowler 301 high singles; Knowler 790 high triple.

Monday mixed: Travis Thompson 288’ Kramer Thompson 689.

Tuesday mixed: Kalie Miller 310; Miller 762.

Wednesday 55+: April Cunningham 297; Michael Dartnell 709.

Thursday morning ladies: Linda Nikoleychuk 256; Nikoleychuk 622.

Thursday afternoon Special Olympics: Anthony Kubasek 246; Kubasek 438.

Thursday mixed: Bonnie Clermont 315; Graham Witherspoon 742.

Monday scratch: Gene Ziebarth 348; Ziebarth 1173.

Sunday fun: Landon Flaman 291; Flaman 727.

Youth Bowling of Canada Bumpers: Caiden Hort 74.

Bowlassaurus: Rylee Ehret 99.

Peewees: Sylis Gray 126; Gray 232 (two games).

Bantams: Jenson Wudkevich 211; Karys Zirk 472.

Juniors: Colten Nicholas 271; Brody Kopec 648.

Seniors: Jessica Achtemichuk 321; Brenda Innes 786.

Transactions Monday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL American League HOUSTON ASTROS — Traded OF Dexter Fowler to the Chicago Cubs for INF Luis Valbuena and RHP Dan Straily.

TEXAS RANGERS — Acquired RHP Yovani Gallardo and cash considerations from Milwaukee for RHP Corey Knebel, INF Luis Sardinas and RHP Marcos Diplan.

National League CHICAGO CUBS — Agreed to terms with RHP Daniel Bard on a minor league contract.

LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Agreed to terms with LHP Erik Bedard on a minor league contract.

SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS — Agreed to terms with OF Nori Aoki on a one-year contract.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS — Signed F James Michael McAdoo to a 10-day contract.

FOOTBALL National Football League CHICAGO BEARS — Named Jeff Rodgers special teams co-ordinator.

DENVER BRONCOS — Named Gary Kubiak coach and signed him to a four-year contract.

OAKLAND RAIDERS — Named Bill Musgrave of-

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

GA 149 142 150 169 158 194

Pt 70 56 47 42 39 27

GF 174 163 184 140 144 114

GA 126 145 147 126 163 185

Pt 62 58 53 50 45 26

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

GA 114 150 189 140 170

Pt 71 53 42 40 38

GA 112 155 134 124 137

Pt 60 53 50 49 46

Medicine Hat Red Deer Calgary Edmonton Kootenay Lethbridge

Everett Portland Spokane Seattle Tri-City

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

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

GF 151 161 134 119 127

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.

fensive co-ordinator.

PHILADELPHIA EAGLES — Named Cory Undlin defensive backs coach and Justin Peelle tight ends caoch. Announced defensive backs coach John Lovett and tight ends coach Ted Williams will move to the pro scouting department.

Canadian Football League CALGARY STAMPEDERS — Re-signed QB Drew Tate. Released DL Shawn Lemon.

MONTREAL ALOUETTES — Named Kavis Reed special teams co-ordinator.

HOCKEY National Hockey League NHL — Suspended Chicago F Daniel Carcillo six games for cross-checking Winnipeg F Mathieu Perreault during a Jan. 16 game.

LOS ANGELES KINGS — Activated D Robyn Regehr from injured reserve. Placed G Martin Jones on injured reserve, retroactive to Jan. 14.

NASHVILLE PREDATORS — Reassigned F Viktor Stalberg to Milwaukee (AHL).

LACROSSE EDMONTON RUSH — Traded F Corey Small to Vancouver for first-round picks in the 2016 and 2019 NLL entry drafts.

SOCCER Major League Soccer TORONTO FC — Signed F Sebastian Giovinco, effective July 1.

RED DEER OILMEN’S BONSPIEL The Hydrotesters rink skipped by Rick Fobes came out on top at the 2015 Red Deer Oilmen’s Bonspiel at the Pidherney Curling Centre on the weekend, winning the A Event.

The rink also included third Cliff Fobes, second Shawn Fobes and lead Clint Fobes.

The B Event went to the Electrogas Monitors rink with skip Brent Leptich, third Wayne Bateman, second Greg Engman and lead Blaine Ringham.

The C Event was won by the Guardian Rink of skip Stan Gervais, third Bryan Blaylock, second Brandon Lyle and lead Rob Holland The Western One rink skipped by Scott Cruickshank with third James Pearce, second Richard Glass and lead Darryl Srethun won the D Event.

The E event went to the Rapid Rod/Grant PTS rink of skip Duncan Chisholm, third Jim Smith, second Justin Chisholm and lead Robin Brittner.

Red Deer Rebels Scoring GP G Gay 45 22 Bleackley 44 22 Sheen 45 12 Johnson 46 18 Cote 46 7 Kopeck 46 14 Maxwell 46 14 Feser 46 10 Musil 40 11 Polei 46 15 Pawlenchuk 46 8 Fleury 37 2 Nell 46 7 Strand 38 4 Doetzel 46 1 Nogier 44 2 de Wit 43 2 Adamson 38 3 Bobyk 17 2 Toth 38 0 Grman 19 0 Burman 14 0 Mahura 20 0 Goaltenders MP GA Toth 2201 107 Burman 588 29

A Pts PIM 27 49 8 21 43 45 31 43 47 19 37 30 28 35 28 19 33 19 19 33 27 19 29 47 17 28 41 5 20 60 12 20 15 14 16 43 7 14 18 9 13 25 12 13 41 10 12 48 8 10 17 4 7 6 5 7 25 4 4 4 2 2 26 1 1 0 1 1 12

+/25 9 -12 17 20 6 3 1 -3 -11 2 -1 -17 0 7 -24 0 -16 9 — -2 — -7

SO GAA Svs Sv% 1 2.92 940 .898 0 2.96 236 .891 G 17 35 14 38 20 28 27 26 21 20 27 24 29 22 20 18 14 20 27 20 19 15 25 24

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

16 22 9 16 19 18 17 16 12 11

29 21 34 26 22 23 24 25 29 30

National Hockey League EASTERN CONFERENCE GP W L OT Pts N.Y. Islanders 46 31 14 1 63 Tampa Bay 47 29 14 4 62 Detroit 46 26 11 9 61 Pittsburgh 44 26 12 6 58 Montreal 44 28 13 3 59 N.Y. Rangers 43 26 13 4 56 Washington 45 24 13 8 56 Boston 46 24 16 6 54 Florida 44 20 14 10 50 Toronto 47 22 22 3 47 Ottawa 44 18 18 8 44 Columbus 44 20 21 3 43 Philadelphia 47 18 22 7 43 New Jersey 46 16 22 8 40 Carolina 46 16 25 5 37 Buffalo 47 14 30 3 31

45 43 43 42 41 41 41 41 41 41

GF 151 152 134 134 121 131 133 121 107 139 120 113 127 102 98 89

GA 129 126 115 111 105 104 115 117 122 146 122 138 144 132 120 167

WESTERN CONFERENCE GP W L OT Pts GF GA Anaheim 46 30 10 6 66 133 121 Nashville 44 30 10 4 64 136 102 St. Louis 46 29 13 4 62 148 111 Vancouver 44 26 15 3 55 123 110 Chicago 45 28 15 2 58 139 105 San Jose 46 24 16 6 54 125 125 Winnipeg 47 25 14 8 58 131 117 Calgary 45 24 18 3 51 131 118 Los Angeles 45 20 14 11 51 126 120 Dallas 45 21 17 7 49 143 148 Colorado 47 19 18 10 48 122 135 Minnesota 45 20 20 5 45 124 132 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.

Monday’s Games N.Y. Islanders 7, Philadelphia 4 Carolina 4, Toronto 1 Vancouver 2, Florida 1 St. Louis 3, Colorado 1 Columbus 3, Minnesota 1 Calgary at Los Angeles, late New Jersey at San Jose, late

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 Jake Debrusk, SC Chase Witala, PG

Travis Brown, Vic Conner Bleackley, RD Joe Hicketts, Vic Carson Stadnyk, Eve Adam Brooks, Reg Chase Lang, CAL Coda Gordon, SC Rihards Bukarts, Bra Peter Quenneville, Bra Ivan Provorov, Bra

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

Thursday’s games Kootenay at Edmonton, 11:30 a.m.

Friday, January 23 Moose Jaw at Regina, 6 p.m.

Prince Albert at Brandon, 6:30 p.m.

Vancouver at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.

Swift Current at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Prince George at Medicine Hat, 7:30 p.m.

Spokane at Portland, 8 p.m.

Everett at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

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

Kamloops at Victoria, 8:30 p.m.

Basketball

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Hockey

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Pts 73 65 64 60 58 56 56 56 56 55 54 53 52 52 52 51 51 49 47 47 47 47 46 45

Tuesday’s Games Ottawa at N.Y. Rangers, 3 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.

Wednesday’s Games Toronto at Ottawa, 5 p.m.

Chicago at Pittsburgh, 6 p.m.

Columbus at Winnipeg, 7 p.m.

Boston at Colorado, 8 p.m.

Calgary at Anaheim, 8 p.m.

Los Angeles at San Jose, 8:30 p.m.

Monday’s summary Blues 3, Avalanche 1 First Period 1. St. Louis, Gunnarsson 2 (Schwartz, Stastny) 8:06.

2. Colorado, Duchene 13 (unassisted) 13:02.

Penalties — Oshie StL (hooking) 3:26, Landeskog Col (slashing) 19:28.

Second Period 3. St. Louis, Schwartz 16 (Steen) :32 (pp).

4. St. Louis, Oshie 13 (Backes, Steen) 10:40.

Penalties — Barrie Col (delay of game) 3:43.

Third Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Cole StL (holding) 8:03, Lehtera StL (high-sticking) 16:43.

Shots on goal Colorado 8 5 5 — 18 St. Louis 13 14 3 — 30 Goal — Colorado: Varlamov (L, 11-10-6); St. Louis: Elliott (W, 13-5-2).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Colorado: 0-3; St. Louis: 1-2.

3. Columbus, Wisniewski 5 (Foligno, Hartnell) 5:35 (pp).

4. Columbus, Hartnell 10 (Wisniewski) 16:57.

Penalties — Haula Minn (tripping) 5:25.

Shots on goal Columbus 5 9 9 — 23 Minnesota 5 12 9 — 26 Goal — Columbus: Bobrovsky (W, 16-14-2); Minnesota: Dubnyk (L, 11-6-2).

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

Hurricanes 4, Maple Leafs 1 First Period 1. Carolina, Malone 3 (Dwyer, McClement) 7:06.

2. Carolina, Lindholm 9 (Sekera) 7:47.

Penalties — Gardiner Tor (holding) 5:01, Malone Car (fighting) 8:24, Clarkson Tor (fighting) 8:24, Bellemore Car (interference) 13:22, Tlusty Car (highsticking) 18:18.

Second Period 3. Carolina, E. Staal 14 (Jo. Staal, Tlusty) :48.

Penalties — Winnik Tor (tripping) 8:31, Phaneuf Tor (unsportsmanlike conduct) 11:19, Bellemore Car (unsportsmanlike conduct) 11:19, Kadri Tor (goaltender interference) 12:21.

Third Period 4. Toronto, Kadri 12 (Rielly, Franson) 14:49 (pp).

5. Carolina, E. Staal 15 (Jo. Staal, Rask) 18:26 (en).

Penalties — Phaneuf Tor (fighting) 6:14, E. Staal Car (fighting) 6:14, E. Staal Car (roughing) 6:14, Gleason Car (holding) 12:57, Franson Tor (misconduct) 18:26.

Shots on goal Carolina 11 10 11 — 32 Toronto 9 10 16 — 35 Goal — Carolina: Khudobin (W, 5-8-2); Toronto: Bernier (L, 16-14-3).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Carolina: 0-3; Toronto: 1-4.

Canucks 2, Panthers 1 First Period 1. Vancouver, Vrbata 18 (D. Sedin, H. Sedin) 3:25.

2. Vancouver, Horvat 3 (Hansen, Hamhuis) 8:03.

Penalties — Barkov Fla (high-sticking) 4:44, Higgins Vcr (tripping) 8:52, Bolland Fla (hooking) 12:10, Hansen Vcr (cross-checking) 17:59.

Second Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Huberdeau Fla (slashing) 8:51, Hansen Vcr (high-sticking) 8:51, Hansen Vcr (roughing) 8:51, Dorsett Vcr (roughing) 14:08, Mackenzie Fla (roughing) 14:08.

Third Period 3. Florida, Pirri 4 (Bolland) 17:28.

Penalties — Sbisa Vcr (roughing) 6:40.

Shots on goal Vancouver 13 9 1 — 23 Florida 6 8 10 — 24 Goal — Vancouver: Miller (W, 23-9-1); Florida: Luongo (L, 17-10-8).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Vancouver: 0-3; Florida: 0-4.

Islanders 7, Flyers 4 First Period 1. NY Islanders, Grabner 4 (Kulemin, Boychuk) 1:32.

2. NY Islanders, Kulemin 10 (Boychuk, Grabner) 8:06.

Penalties — Voracek Pha (boarding) 4:35, De Haan NYI (tripping) 15:48.

Second Period 3. NY Islanders, Kulemin 11 (unassisted) 4:53 (sh).

4. Philadelphia, Streit 7 (B. Schenn, Voracek) 9:07 (pp).

5. NY Islanders, Bailey 8 (Leddy, Strome) 11:49.

6. Philadelphia, Del Zotto 3 (Voracek, B. Schenn) 15:12.

7. NY Islanders, Tavares 21 (Nielsen) 19:52 (pp).

Penalties — Nelson NYI (holding) 3:05, Cizikas NYI (high-sticking) 8:17, Couturier Pha (hooking) 9:44, MacDonald Pha (tripping) 16:25, Voracek Pha (hooking) 19:04.

Third Period 8. Philadelphia, Giroux 15 (unassisted) :49.

9. NY Islanders, Leddy 7 (Tavares, Okposo) 5:45.

10. Philadelphia, VandeVelde 5 (L. Schenn) 17:36.

11. NY Islanders, Lee 13 (unassisted) 18:57 (en).

Penalties — None.

Shots on goal Philadelphia 14 7 8 — 29 NY Islanders 9 20 12 — 41 Goal — Philadelphia: Zepp (L, 3-2-0); NY Islanders: Halak (W, 25-9-0).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Philadelphia: 1-3; NY Islanders: 1-4.

NHL Scoring Leaders G 17 28 15 19 14 14 21 17 24 14 26 20 28 19 17 17 14 25 18 14

A 36 24 36 31 35 35 27 31 23 32 18 24 15 24 26 26 29 16 23 27

Pts 53 52 51 50 49 49 48 48 47 46 44 44 43 43 43 43 43 41 41 41

Blue Jackets 3, Wild 1 First Period 1. Columbus, Dubinsky 3 (Wisniewski, Connauton) 7:57.

2. Minnesota, Parise 17 (Koivu, Pominville) 18:43 (pp).

Penalties — Prout Clb (hooking) 18:22.

Second Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Hartnell Clb (high-sticking) 0:37, Haula Minn (hooking) 12:00, Savard Clb (high-sticking) 15:41.

Third Period

Jakub Voracek, Pha Tyler Seguin, Dal Sidney Crosby, Pgh Evgeni Malkin, Pgh Claude Giroux, Pha Ryan Getzlaf, Ana Patrick Kane, Chi Tyler Johnson, TB Vladimir Tarasenko, StL Nicklas Backstrom, Wash Steven Stamkos, TB John Tavares, NYI Rick Nash, NYR Phil Kessel, Tor Nikita Kucherov, TB Ryan Johansen, Clb Kyle Okposo, NYI Alex Ovechkin, Wash Nick Foligno, Clb Henrik Zetterberg, Det

Men First Round Milos Raonic (8), Canada, def. Illya Marchenko, Ukraine, 7-6 (3), 7-6 (3), 6-3.

John Isner (19), United States, def. Jimmy Wang, Taiwan, 7-6 (5), 6-4, 6-4.

Gilles Simon (18), France, def. Robin Haase, Neth-

erlands, 6-1, 6-3, 6-4.

Kei Nishikori (5), Japan, def. Nicolas Almagro, Spain, 6-4, 7-6 (1), 6-2.

Alejandro Gonzalez, Colombia, def. Fabio Fognini (16), Italy, 4-6, 6-2, 6-3, 6-4.

Stan Wawrinka (4), Switzerland, def. Marsel Ilhan, Turkey, 6-1, 6-4, 6-2.

Tennis Australian Open Tuesday At Melbourne Park Melbourne, Australia Purse: $32.9 million (Grand Slam) Surface: Hard-Outdoor Singles

TRACK AND FIELD

MEN’S BASKETBALL

Emre Baragar and Sarah McDonald put up a strong showing for the Red Deer Titans Track and Field Club this past weekend in Edmonton at the Golden Bear Preview meet.

Baragar finished third overall in the boys tyke division, with a second place finish in the 60-metre dash (11.18 seconds), a third place finish in the shot put (4.22 metres) and sixth place finishes in the high jump (.85 metres) and the long jump (2.60 metres).

McDonald finished ninth overall in the peewee girls competition with an eighth place finish in the high jump (0.90 metres), ninth in the 150-metre dash (26.43 seconds), 10th in the 60 metre dash (10.97 sec) and 600-metre (2:31.19), 11th in the shotput (3.89 meters) and 15th in the long jump (2.68 metres).

Up next is the Golden Bear meet this weekend at the Butterdome in Edmonton once again.

Nick Duske netted 13 points and Dustin Schaber added 10 to lead the Alken Basin Drillers to a 62-57 Central Alberta Senior Men’s Basketball Association win over Henry’s Eavestroughing Sunday.

Darren Andrews and Thomas Bennett each scored 14 points in a losing cause. Schaber and Andrews were selected as their respective teams’ player of the game.

In another contest, Brent Higgins dropped in 15 points and Andre Touchette contributed 13 as Triple A Batteries rolled past the Silver Spurs 84-54.

Adam Bullock led the Silver Spurs with 20 points, while Nelson Lacourse had eight. Zacy Barry was named as the Triple A player of the game, with Josh Matthies taking similar honours for the Spurs.

Meanwhile, Ray Teskey poured in 20 points and Neil Fitzsimmons and Dan Jackson hit for 18 and 11 respectively as the Orangemen sprinted past the Monstars 89-75.

Eric Dortman and Ryan Wachter each scored 15 in a losing cause. Jackson and Joey Rowan were selected as the players of the game.

RINGETTE The U19AA Central Alberta Sting made it all of the way to the semifinal of the Calgary Esso Golden Ring Tournament on the weekend before getting tripped up by eventual champion Calgary in overtime.

Gillian Dreger scored twice for the local ringette team in the 5-4 overtime defeat while Kristin Demale and Emily Renneberg scored once each.

The Sting won the crossover quarter-final 4-2 over the Saskatoon Blazers on Saturday as Brenna Parent, Shae-Lynn Baxter, Dreger and Demale each scored once.

The Sting advanced there after rolling through the round robin with a 2-1 record.

They opened the tournament with a 6-5 loss to the Lower Mainland Thunder from Vancouver, blowing a 5-1 lead. Renneberg and Demale both scored twice in the loss while Emma West scored once.

Goaltender Grace Romansky stopped all 22 shots she faced in the second game in posting a 7-0 win over the Zone 5 Grit. Dreger led the

offence with two goals and three assists while Baxter had two goals with Kenzie Lindholm, Kelita Kanngiesser and West scoring once each.

In Saturday’s early game, they beat the Regina Bandits 7-3 as Baxter and Dreger both scored twice and Ashlynn Morrison, Kanngiesser and West once each ● The U16AA Central Alberta Sting finished the tournament 2-2, dropping their first two games 4-9 to the Calgary Hype and 6-4 to the Zone 5 Pack.

The Sting bounced back with a 10-8 win over the Eastman Flames out of Manitoba as McKenna Causey scored three goals, Sydney Cherniak and Sara Kelly each scored twice and Emily LeMasurier, Reese Pollitt and Kailyn Smalley once each.

The Sting ended the tournament on a high with a 7-6 win over the Regina Stingers with Cherniak scoring four goals, Causey twice and Smalley once.

The U16AA Sting are now off to Guelph, Ont., at the end of January for a tournament while they prepare for AA provincials in St. Albert at the end of February.

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With development of Queens Business Park west of Hwy 3 proceeding quickly, the city has prepared an industrial area structure plan for the next phase of the park.

Proposed plan to be presented next week

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Plans for the next phase of Queens Business Park will come under public scrutiny a week from today.

The City of Red Deer will present its proposed Queens Business Park NE35 & SE35 Industrial Area Structure Plan at an open house on Jan. 27. The plan, which covers approximately 310 acres south of Hwy 11A and west of Range Road 281, would create large areas of light industrial land, including some designated for use as an eco-industrial park.

Dayna Facca, a planner with the City of Red Deer, said the area represents the final two quarter sections of the city’s West QE2 Major Area Structure Plan. That plan covers eight quarter sections, with much of the first six quarters already sold to developers.

The proposed NE35 & SE35 Industrial Area Structure Plan includes 182 acres of light industrial land and 22.5 acres of eco-industrial land, as well as municipal and environmental reserve areas. The latter component includes an existing natural wetland in the northeast corner of the plan area.

Attendees at the open house will be able to ask questions and comment on the plan, with their feedback to be incorporated into a report. It will then be presented to Red Deer’s municipal planning com-

mission and city council.

If council gives first reading to the plan, a subsequent public hearing will be held before final adoption is considered.

“If all goes well, I’d say April,” said Facca of the timelines within which the plan could be approved by council. Once adopted, it would set the stage for future rezoning, subdivision and development.

By the time grading, servicing, rezoning and subdivision are complete, it would probably be 2016 before building permits would be issued for lots on the land, said Facca.

The previous phase of Queens Business Park included an eco-industrial park overlay as well. It allows for environmentally-sustainable features, such as alternative energy facilities and the opportunity for businesses to use the waste materials or byproducts of others.

It also specifies environmentally friendly design elements that must or can be used, including building materials, landscaping, recycling and pedestrian connectivity.

Next Tuesday’s open house will run from 4 to 7 p.m. in Activity Room 2 at G.H. Dawe Community Centre.

TORONTO — Laid off retail workers, including more than 17,000 hit by Target’s decision to pull out of Canada, face grim job prospects as they dust off their resumes and start looking for work, according to labour experts.

“I suspect they are feeling some anger and some very genuine fear,” said Brock University labour expert Kendra Coulter, noting that many retail sector staff work only part-time hours.

“Many of them will not be eligible for employment insurance and are facing a very scary future.”

Target Corp. (NYSE:TGT) announced last week it would close all 133 locations in Canada less than two years after the U.S. discount retail giant made its foray north of the border by taking over former Zellers locations.

Angella MacEwen, the senior economist at the Canadian Labour Congress, says it could take between six months to a year for the employees to find replacement work, particularly given the cyclical slowdown in the retail sector during the post-holiday season.

“January and February is not a great time to be looking for work and, with a whole bunch of people at the same time flooding the labour market, there are a lot of people who are going to be out of luck,” MacEwen said.

Workers affected by Target’s exodus from Canada are likely to struggle to pay the bills while they look for their next job, MacEwen said.

“These are minimum wage jobs, and a lot of Canadians in that position are living paycheque to paycheque and can’t really go six months without regular pay,” she said. “It’s looking like it’s going to be a significant struggle for these workers and their communities although, over time, they will be reabsorbed. They will be able to find work eventually.”

Target is not the only retailer to close stores and lay off workers in Canada recently. Clothing retailer Mexx declared bankruptcy last month and will be closing all of its stores, including 170 in Canada. The company employs 2,800 people worldwide. Meanwhile, Sony plans to close its 14 remaining Canadian locations, a move that will affect 90 employees.

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The oilfield-services giant announced on Friday that it is eliminating 9,000 jobs in response to falling oil prices. The company, which has extensive facilities in McKenzie Industrial Business Park just south of the city, offers wireline services, coiled tubing services, pressure pumping services, testing services and completion services from Red Deer.

Stephen Harris, Schlumberger’s corporate communications manager for North America, said in an email to the Advocate that the company is not disclosing details about job cuts in specific geographic regions.

“Reductions are currently ongoing and we anticipate completion sometime during Q1 2015,” he said.

Based in Houston and Paris, Schlumberger had a global workforce of approximately 120,000.

Loonie advances ahead of BoC interest rate announcement TORONTO — The Canadian dollar closed higher Monday amid falling commodity prices while traders awaited the latest word on interest rates Wednesday from the Bank of Canada.

The loonie added 0.14 of a cent to 83.7 cents US. U.S. financial markets were closed for the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.

The Canadian central bank is universally expected to leave its key rate at one per cent, where it has been since September 2010.

It has been widely believed that the Bank of Canada could move to raise rates later in the year after the U.S. Federal Reserve starts hiking its own rates away from near zero.

However, there are questions about impact of the slide in crude oil prices on the Canadian economy and how this could affect central bank thinking about when rates should start to rise.

“The bank (is) poised to deliver its rate decision and revised forecasts with tectonic shifts in some of its underlying assumptions — notably a 4.5 per cent decline in the value of the Canadian dollar and a 40 per cent drop in oil prices since forecasts were last prepared in October,” observed Mark Chandler, head of Canadian FIC strategy at RBC Dominion Securities.

“The BoC is on record as saying the net impact will be bad for Canada.”

Oil has plunged 55 per cent from the highs of June 2014 and is down 40 per cent just since the end of November after Saudi Arabia-led OPEC refused to cut production levels to support prices.

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A record number of sold signs went up across Central Alberta in 2014.

Record year for residential realty

BY ADVOCATE STAFF Local Realtors closed a record number of residential deals in 2014.

The Central Alberta Realtors Association has confirmed that the 5,496 Multiple Listing Service home sales completed last year was the highest tally ever for the region. The figure topped the 2013 total by 12.3 per cent, and marked just the third time that residential sales in Central Alberta exceeded 5,000 in a year.

The average price of the homes sold in 2014 was $313,510, up 5.1 per cent from the previous year.

However, supply could be limited going forward.

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The year ended with 1,753 active residential listings, which was down 10.8 per cent from 12 months earlier and the lowest inventory level since December 2007.

It equated to enough homes to sustain the current rate of demand for just seven months.

2013 finished on a strong note, with 249 homes sold in December. That was up nearly 30 per cent over the same month in 2013, and marked the second busiest December ever.

The average price in December was $310,947, up 10.9 per cent from the same month in 2013. There were 322 new residential listings — up 39.4 per cent from a year earlier.

Across Alberta, year-over-year sales activity for December slipped 2.2 per cent.

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Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 120.81 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 13.03 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 18.60 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 59.92 MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto stock market closed little changed Monday as traders avoided energy stocks amid another forecast that suggested oil prices will stay low for an extended period.

The S&P/TSX composite index edged up 3.09 points to 14,312.5 while U.S. markets were shuttered for the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.

The Canadian dollar advanced 0.14 of a cent to 83.7 cents US ahead of the Bank of Canada’s announcement on interest rates on Wednesday.

The TSX energy sector declined 1.6 per cent and oil prices fell in electronic trading in New York after JPMorgan Chase became the latest financial institution to slash its oil price forecast for 2015.

The bank said Monday that Brent crude — a global benchmark for oil — will average out at US$49 a barrel, well down from its previous forecast of $82 a barrel. JPMorgan Chase expects to see a U-shaped recovery in oil prices, rising to $90 a barrel in 2019.

“We’ve seen five years into this recovery it’s been a demand story. We’re now starting to see the supply side come into it, which has obviously pushed prices lower,” said Craig Fehr, Canadian markets specialist at Edward Jones in St. Louis.

“One of the continuing challenges for investors is to find or feel out this new equilibrium price for oil.”

Late Monday afternoon, the February crude oil contract in New York dropped $1.17 to US$47.52.

Oil has plunged 55 per cent from the highs of June 2014 and is down 40 per cent just since the end of November after OPEC refused to cut production levels to support prices.

Meanwhile, oilpatch companies continue to react to the collapse in oil prices.

CanElson Drilling Inc. (TSX:CDI) shares gave back 17

Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 19.45 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.69 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86.77 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 33.70 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 14.21 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 17.30 First Quantum Minerals . 13.40 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 28.67 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 8.75 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 4.31 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . 18.27 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 41.72 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.15 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 14.41 Energy Arc Resources . . . . . . . . 22.38 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 21.95 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 56.56 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.53 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 38.65 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 34.41 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . . 7.96 Canyon Services Group. . 7.26 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 23.80 CWC Well Services . . . 0.4050 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 15.70 Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 1.36 cents or 4.3 per cent to C$3.78 as the company said it will reduce its quarterly dividend by 50 per cent to three cents and reduce its capital budget by 80 per cent to $12.9 million The base metals sector led advancers, up 0.8 per cent even as copper fell amid speculation about how the Chinese economy fared in the latest quarter. China is expected to report Tuesday that economic growth slowed to an annual 7.2 per cent rate from 7.3 per cent in the prior quarter.

Fehr said there is the potential for a lower number, but the end result is the same.

“If it is seven, 7.1, 7.2, it’s kind of splitting hairs — the result is the Chinese economy continues to slow down its growth rate and that’s probably not a trend that is going to subside or reverse any time soon.”

The gain in the metals sector followed a 15 per cent plunge last week after copper at one point fell below US$2.50 a pound and the World Bank revised downward its economic growth forecast. On Monday, the March copper contract in New York was down four cents in electronic trading to US$2.57 a pound.

The gold sector rose 0.5 per cent while the February bullion contract added 30 cents to US$1,277.20 an ounce.

Goldcorp Inc. (TSX:G) has offered to buy full control of Probe Mines Ltd. (TSXV:PRB) and its Borden gold project near Chapleau, Ont., in a friendly, all-stock takeover valued at $526 million.

Goldcorp currently owns about 9.3 per cent of Probe. Its shares were up 18 cents to $28.67 while Probe was up 50.6 per cent at $5.06.

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

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 14,312.50, up 3.09 points Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq — closed in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day

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Schmidt back on Agrium board of directors CALGARY — Agrium Inc. (TSX:AGU) said Monday that Mayo Schmidt, a former head of the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool and its successor, Viterra Corp., has rejoined the company’s board of directors.

Schmidt resigned from the board late last year in anticipation of taking a job as chief executive of Louis Dreyfus Commodities.

However, a final agreement was never reached and Louis Dreyfus said earlier this month that both sides had agreed “not to proceed with the engagement” following a more detailed analysis of the terms and conditions of the appointment.

Schmidt has been appointed as a member of the audit committee and the human resources and compensation committee at Agrium.

Under his leadership, Schmidt led Viterra’s evolution from a regional cooperative into a publicly traded international agribusiness until his departure in 2012.

Viterra was later purchased and taken private by Swiss commodities giant Glencore, while parts of the business were sold to Agrium and Richardson International.

Schmidt joined the board of Agrium in 2013.

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Currencies: Cdn — 83.70 cents US, up 0.14 of a cent Pound — C$1.8059, down 0.81 of a cent Euro — C$1.3869, up 0.25 of a cent Euro — US$1.1608, up 0.40 of a cent Oil futures: US$48.69 per barrel, up $2.44 Closed in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day (February contract) Gold futures: US$1,276.90 per oz., up $12.10 Closed in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day (February contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: Closed in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day Friday: $22.154 oz., up 90.2 cents; $712.25 kg., up $29 ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: March ’15 $0.90 lower $449.70; May ’15 $2.50 lower $443.90; July ’15 $3.50 lower $437.10; Nov ’15 $1.20 lower $425.40; Jan. ’16 $1.40 lower $427.60; March ’16 $1.40 lower $431.70; May ’16 $1.50 lower $436.40; July ’16 $1.50 lower $437.90; Nov. ’16 $1.50 lower $437.90; March ’17 $1.50 lower $437.90.

Barley (Western): March ’15 $4.00 lower $195.00; May ’15 $4.00 lower $197.00; July ’15 $4.00 lower $199.00; Oct. ’15 unchanged $190.00; Dec. ’15 unchanged $190.00; March ’16 unchanged $190.00; May ’16 unchanged $190.00; July ’16 unchanged $190.00; Oct. ’16 unchanged $190.00; March ’17 unchanged $190.00.

Monday’s estimated volume of trade: 394,560 tonnes of canola; 1,000 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 394,560.

be president of the company’s consumer business unit.

The appointment of Dirk Woessner, who has been responsible for the equivalent of C$25 billion in sales at Deutsche Telecom, becomes effective April 6. At Rogers, Woessner will be responsible for product development and sales operations for the company’s consumer business, which includes its national wireless network and cable TV distribution services in Ontario, New Brunswick and Newfoundland.

It also has an extensive media business, including ownership of the Toronto Blue Jays and Canadian broadcast rights to NHL games. He’ll report to chief executive Guy Laurence, who headed Vodaphone UK until he was hired for the top position at Rogers in late 2013.

Newfoundland says it won’t participate in trade talks ST. JOHN’S, N.L. — Newfoundland and Labrador says it is suspending its participation in all new trade talks because of its dispute with Ottawa over a promised federal-provincial fisheries fund. The provincial government says the federal government has failed to honour its commitment to provide $280 million in exchange for the province relinquishing minimum processing requirements for fish plants as part of a free trade deal with Europe.

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Ottawa threatens to use rare law in Buy American dispute with U.S.

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The federal government is threatening to throw a wrench into Alaska’s plans to build on Canadian turf exclusively with American steel and iron.

International Trade Minister Ed Fast said Canada took a rare step Monday when it signed a legal order to block the state of Alaska from imposing the protectionist Buy American policy on a project to construct a new ferry terminal on the British Columbia coastline.

“We have been clear: the application of protectionist Buy America provisions on Canadian soil is unacceptable and an affront to Canadian sovereignty,” Fast said in a statement after the Canadian government signed the order under the Foreign Extraterritorial Measures Act. The law opens the door for Canadian authorities to prevent anyone in Canada from complying with the Buy American provisions in the project.

The federal government signed the order on the grounds it hurts the country’s interests after Alaska rejected its demands to ditch its restrictions in Prince Rupert.

The Alaska Marine Highway has operated the ferry terminal since 1963; the project’s call for tenders is to close this week. The tendering document states the roughly US$15 million project must only use U.S. iron and steel, as per Buy American legislation.

If the process moves forward with the Buy American policy, the Canadian government could exercise the order against the winning contractor and any violations could lead to police investigations.

“Buy America provisions deny both countries’ companies and communities the clear benefits that arise from our integrated supply chain and our commitment to freer and more open trade,” Fast said.

Alaska Gov. Bill Walker said he has been in communication with Gary Doer, Canada’s ambassador to the U.S. “I think we’ll get through this,” Walker said. “It’s a little bit of a bump in the road, as far as that project, but ’Buy America’ is there for a reason,

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — Criticism of a proposed mine by an environmental group and allegations of defamation by the project’s owner have landed both parties in British Columbia Supreme Court.

Taseko Mines Ltd. (TSX:TKO) launched the lawsuit after the Wilderness Committee made claims during a 2012 public comment period that the New Prosperity mine could destroy Fish Lake. The proposed gold and copper mine, 125 kilometres southwest of Williams Lake, was undergoing a federal environmental assessment when the statements were made.

Taseko lawyer Roger McConachie told court on Monday the company’s civil complaint is based on five articles published by the non-profit organization, which were emailed to supporters and posted online starting in January 2012.

“You will hear submissions related to corporate entitlement to have its reputation protected by a defamation lawsuit,” said McConachie, noting he expects to spend weeks presenting evidence.

The material involves libellous descriptions of the proposed project, a letter-writing tool that encouraged re-publication of the organization’s claims and statements the company was pursuing a lawsuit with the purpose of silencing public debate, McConachie argued. Some of the statements appeared on Facebook.

He said the onus is on the defendant to prove the truth of its statements and that law presumes defamation allegations are false. He said Taseko’s argument is not that the Wilderness Committee’s statements are unlawful because they are literal or legal innuendo, but because they create meaning that a person without special knowledge would infer.

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The previously delayed bid opening for the project was pushed back again last week, from this coming Wednesday to Friday. Walker said he wasn’t sure if it would get pushed back again.

In November, an official for the Alaska Marine Highway said the Prince Rupert contract had to comply with Buy American provisions because the funding came from the U.S. Federal Highway Administration.

Fast said he had been calling on the state to seek a waiver that would remove the protectionist barrier.

“We remain committed to working with our U.S. partners to resolve this unacceptable situation,” he said.

A spokesman in Fast’s office says the only other time the federal government used the Foreign Extraterritorial Measures Act was in 1992, after the U.S. tried to restrict trade between Cuba and U.S.-owned subsidiaries based in Canada.

The Prince Rupert dispute comes after another Buy American controversy — over a bridge in Morrison, Colo.

In October, the U.S. government reversed a decision that would have forced the small town of Morrison to dismantle a bridge constructed with a small amount of American steel manufactured in a Canadian plant.

The new ferry terminal in B.C. was part of an agreement in a 50-year lease, signed in 2013, between the Prince Rupert Port Authority and the Alaska Department of Highways, which operates the ferry between Prince Rupert and Alaska. An economist for the United Steelworkers union criticized Fast’s approach Monday, accusing him of “doing nothing” to encourage the use of Canadian steel in Prince Rupert or for any other project.

“If the whole terminal were built with Chinese steel, the Conservative government wouldn’t bat an eye,” Erin Weir, who is running for the NDP in Saskatchewan, wrote in an email.

“Simply removing ’Buy America’ requirements would enable the project to use steel from offshore.”

Weir suggested the government maintain procurement preferences for domestic steel, but that it negotiate a “Buy North American” policy between Canada and the U.S.

Mining firm takes on B.C. environmental group in defamation battle

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Fight like Mike COMMUNITY RALLIES TO HELP FAMILY OF YOUNG SYLVAN BOY DIAGNOSED WITH CANCER

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF Central Alberta is rallying to help a young hockey player recently diagnosed with leukemia.

Michael Arthur, 10, of the Sylvan Lake area, was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia on Jan. 8.

By Jan. 13, more than $5,000 had been raised through youcaring.com, less than a day after his condition was posted.

As of Monday, more than $24,000 had been raised, not including donations made to a trust account set up for Michael and his family at ATB Financial — No. 926-00376516400.

“It’s been amazing the support from the community and the hockey community. People who don’t even know Michael, coming in with $1,000 donations and $100 donations,” said Sarah Brouilette, manager of Michael’s hockey team, the Atom AA Sylvan Lake Lakers.

She said over the weekend, Michael’s team played two Red Deer teams who presented the Lakers with cards of well wishes and one of the teams raised $1,500 from a collection of donations from parents.

She said Michael, who is captain of the Lakers, started experiencing flu-like symptoms over the Christmas holidays.

He began chemotherapy on Jan. 10.

Michael, a Grade 5 student at Steffie Woima El-

ementary School, will receive four rounds of chemotherapy that will keep him in Alberta Children’s Hospital in Calgary for six months.

Brouilette said Michael is a natural leader.

“He’s always reliable. He’s always uplifting for the other kids and supportive.”

To show their support and raise money for their captain, his 15 teammates will be shaving their heads or dying their hair orange on Jan. 28 at 5:30 p.m. at the Sylvan Lake Multiplex.

On March 28, a three-on-three hockey tournament will be held to raise money for the family, with events through the day and evening. Details are still being finalized.

Information on some items already up for auction can be found at www.facebook.com/ groups/1375570196075937.

Brouilette said Michael’s parents, Dave and Heather Arthur, have a room at Ronald McDonald House in Calgary and the money raised will help them, and their older son Steven, spend as much time with Michael as possible.

“Both the parents want to be able to support him, be there every day, as much as they can. We want to ease any kind of stress or financial worries.”

The family intends to use any money they don’t need to pay it forward to help others, she said.

For more information, visit www.youcaring.com/ medical-fundraiser/fight-like-mike/290393#. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

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Michael Arthur, captain of the Sylvan Lake Lakers Atom AA team, has been diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia.

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Shelter in Place program launched Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

With the sun shining and the temperature above the freezing mark on Monday, Bower Ponds was a great place to be for those seeking some exercise. For the rest of the week and through the weekend, sunny skies are expected and the daytime highs are forecast to be well above the seasonable norms for this time of year.

Bearchell seeks PC nod in Olds LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF An Olds town councillor is seeking the Alberta Tory nomination for the Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills riding now held by floor-crossing former Wildrose Party member Bruce Rowe.

Wade Bearchell said he wasn’t motivated to run for the riding’s Progressive Conservative nomination because of Rowe’s controversial switch from being an Opposition party member to government MLA. “I was about 90 per cent there already,” said Bearchell, golf pro/manager at the Olds Golf Club. “I felt it’s my time. I’m ready to do this. And since I announced it, I’ve had tremendous support from people and the community.”

Rowe could not be reached for comment on Monday. But Bearchell said Rowe has not officially stated he wants to run in the next provincial election, rumoured to be this spring.

If he does, Bearchell acknowledged public anger against Rowe’s party switch could go in his favour if

the two men have to face-off for the party nomination. “There was certainly that sentiment here in Olds, where I live ... (people were wondering) does it benefit anybody but Bruce?”

Bearchell was also unimpressed when Rowe became one of nine Wildrose MLAs, including party leader Danielle Smith, to cross the floor to join the Progressive Conservative caucus in December. The MLA’s decision to join the same government he had only days before been criticizing raises questions, said Bearchell.

“It’s hard to be critical of a party on issues and then choose not to be critical. ... But I don’t dwell on it.

People can vote according to their conscience. ... It didn’t affect my decision whether to run or not,” he maintained.

Bearchell, a married father of two teenaged sons, believes he would bring a lot of knowledge and experience to the Tory candidacy. He’s managed the golf club for a decade and served on the Olds town council for more than four years.

“People have suggested I’ve been

good at doing the job,” said the aspiring provincial politician, who believes he’s been open minded about various political platforms in the past and has never blindly followed one party.

Bearchell was not a fan of former Alberta Tory leader Alison Redford, but was very impressed by new PC leader Jim Prentice when he heard him speak at an Alberta Urban Municipalities Association conference last fall.

“I think he will be the next great leader of Alberta,” he said, adding this is one of the reasons he wants to run for the PCs. “I have a reputation as a straight shooter and I work hard to get things done as business person and as town councillor,” said Bearchell, who feels would use the same approach as MLA. “You need to be at the table advocating issues for all people in the constituency.”

The riding’s PC association is expected to choose the Tory representative for the next election by the end of the first week of March. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

The City of Red Deer wants everyone to know how to stay safe if they’re required to shelter in place during a train derailment or industrial accident.

As part of a new public awareness campaign, a 44-second Shelter in Place video on the city’s website explains the basics, along with information on the website. An information insert will also be coming out with city utility bills this month.

Karen Mann, city emergency management co-ordinator, said for years the city has encouraged residents to do things like prepare a 72-hour emergency kit and have a family emergency plan.

“We wanted to take the opportunity to provide some additional messaging that’s more related to one specific hazard,” Mann said on Monday.

“There wasn’t really any event or reason we chose now to do this campaign. It’s just good information for Red Deer residents to have.”

Shelter in Place is a safety protocol that emergency personnel might invoke when outside air poses a health risk, typically from a chemical release.

If directed to Shelter in Place, residents should: ● Go inside or stay inside. ● Close windows and doors. ● Turn off the furnace or air conditioning to reduce air intake. ● Wait for further direction, including by monitoring social media, local radio and reddeer.ca.

In a situation where Shelter in Place is called for, emergency officials may instruct residents through local media, bullhorn/ loudspeaker, mobile signage and/or the Alberta Emergency Alert system.

To watch the Shelter in Place instructional video visit www.reddeer.ca/cityservices/ambulance-fire-and-emergencies/ emergency-preparedness-and-public-safety/preparing-for-an-emergency/shelter-inplace.

It’s a gas, gas, gas RED DEER’S SPANDY ANDY IS AGAIN A DANCING INTERNET SENSATION Spandy Andy is dancing in his Speedos again — this time to celebrate low gas prices.

In yet another viral video — this time on Facebook — Red Deer’s celebrity street dancer and YouTube-er can be seen gyrating beside a gas pump.

The 15-second clip of him dancing to the song Gasolina by Daddy Yankee, while filling up in Fort Myers, Fla., has received more than eight million views since he uploaded it to his Facebook page.

Spandy Andy Rimer was on vacation in Florida, where he got excited about low gas prices and decided to make another exuberant video.

“I decided to try out Facebook vid-

eos this year,” said Rimer, who has over 11 million views on his You Tube videos, including a popular one of him dancing in sparkly Speedos on a beach in Australia.

“I figured people would be able to relate to being excited about the lower gas prices, but I didn’t expect this kind of reaction,” said the dancer, who is never shy of exposure.

Spandy Andy also put a longer version of the video, shot at different gas stations, on his YouTube channel. It can be viewed at http://www.youtube. com/SpandyAndy.

See his short Facebook viral video at: https://www.facebook.com/video. php?v=10153511298299447

Photo by Advocate news services

Red Deer dancer Spandy Andy (Rimer) is once again drawing millions of viewers to a video, this time about the low price of gas.

Carolyn Martindale, City Editor, 403-314-4326 Fax 403-341-6560 E-mail editorial@reddeeradvocate.com

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BRIEFS Man killed near Castor in rollover A 19-year-old man died following a single vehicle rollover early Monday morning near Castor.

Coronation RCMP are seeking witnesses to the rollover, which was reported at 3:45 a.m. on Monday near the intersection of Hwy 12 and Hwy 36.

The man was pronounced dead at the scene. Police say the man, who has not yet been named, is from the Castor area.

Coronation RCMP, Castor Fire and Castor EMS responded to the collision. A traffic analyst is investigating the collision.

Anyone with information is asked to call Coronation RCMP at 403-578-3666.

Unresponsive baby revived, goes home A baby treated by paramedics at the Collicutt Centre on Saturday afternoon is in good health and back home with parents.

An ambulance was called to the recreation centre in south Red Deer after a mother became alarmed by her nine-month-old baby’s unresponsive behaviour in the change room. The child and mother had previously been in the pool.

City of Red Deer recreation superintendent Barb McKee said the incident got a lot of public notice because it happen around the front desk. Centre staff provided first aid and administered oxygen to the baby before the paramedics came.

The child was taken to Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre, treated and released the same day. The baby returned to Sherwood Park with family members.

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Two of the six Belgian draft horses at Heritage Ranch in Red Deer patrol the corral prior to the evening sleigh and wagon rides. The Belgians and two Clydesdale heavy horses work the ranch through summer and winter months. In winter, customers can participate in a number of activities, including night light tours where participants can view the over 20,000 lights along the forest trails, winter romance and dining packages and corporate and public tours of the park.

Gravel pit open house Jan. 28

Power of a Girl conference Feb. 7, 8 Soroptimist International of Central Alberta is planning to show a little girl power.

The organization is holding its fourth annual mother daughter conference called Power of a Girl on Feb. 7 and 8 at the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre’s Dana Soltes Auditorium.

The first day is aimed at girls aged 10 to 13 and the second day is for girls aged 14 to 16, along with their moms or other female adults over 18.

The conference will feature presentations on self esteem, bullying, suicide awareness, drug addiction, and life skills, among other topics. Dare to Care Alberta is providing keynote speakers.

The conference costs $20 per adult. The girls get in free. The conference runs 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. both days.

To register, call Bonnie Vestrum at 403-704-0625.

A proposed gravel pit will be the topic of an open house on Jan. 28 in Clearwater County.

The proposed Smith Gravel Pit is to be a joint project of Clearwater County and Lacombe County.

The two counties will share the material extracted for municipal infrastructure projects.

The open house will be at the Hardindell Hall from 4 to 8 p.m. at 384089 Highway 752 in Clearwater County.

The open house will outline the proposed project and allow feedback.

The engineering firm WSP Canada has been retained by both counties to develop the gravel pit at NE-31-37-8-5.

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Red Deer City RCMP have issued a warrant for Brent Robert Cameron after he failed to appear in court.

Cameron, 26, failed to appear in Red Deer provincial court on Friday for the final day of a three-day trial. he was in court on charges related to the death of 18-year-old Paul Bertin after a fatal pedestrian-vehicle collision on Oct. 6, 2012.

Cameron turned himself in to RCMP the next day and was charged with Brent Cameron failing to remain at the scene of a fatal collision and mischief for reporting his vehicle stolen after the collision.

Cameron is originally from St. John’s, N.B., and police believe he may have left Alberta and returned to New Brunswick.

RCMP do not believe he poses a danger to the public, but citizens are advised not to approach him if he is seen. Instead, they are asked contact Red Deer RCMP immediately at 403-343-5575 or report to your local detachment if you see him in another province.

Cameron is described as: Caucasian, 1.8 metres (six feet) tall, about 80 to 85 kg (180 to 190 pounds), with blond hair and blue eyes.

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People worthy of nomination may include those involved in victims’ services, youth justice committees, restorative justice and crime prevention.

Nomination categories include leadership, innovation, service enhancement, community mobilization, partnership and collaboration.

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Mom’s sweet sleep Grandparents want still out of reach to help, not butt in, with new baby

An open letter to my well-rested family: Now before I set in on the ramblings of my sleep-deprived ways, I will start off by telling you all that I love you.

I love you son — who to this day continues to disrupt my good night’s sleep by listlessly collapsing over my legs at all hours of the night. I’m not even entirely sure if you are awake when you do this. I think it could be some strange sleepwalking pattern developed solely to annoy me and threaten the very thought of your mother getting a good night’s sleep.

How naive of me to have boasted upon your arrival to this world of your great sleep patterns. How inexperienced I was when I told the others that I preferred the ‘family bed’ theory as I felt it was important for bonding purposes. How innocent and wistful these ideas once were.

Six long sleepless years later, I see the error of my ways.

At two, I could still see the cuteness in it. My baby boy still needs his Mama.

“How sweet,” I would coo to my friends while ingesting copious amounts of caffeine to merely get through the day.

At four, I was beginning to get a tad worried.

And now at six-years-old, I’ve begun to question the normalcy of it all, but am too occupied with the girl child’s sleeping habits to deal with any one problem head on.

Which brings me to you, daughter — oh, how I love you. I love the way you refuse to go to sleep until I have kissed every single stuffed animal you own good night. All 53 of them.

And then after that ordeal you still proceed to tell me you are too bored to go to sleep. I’m sorry to be the one to break it to you babe, but I think you are using that word in the wrong con-

text. But that’s another story.

Furthermore, there are the late-night lamp runs I have begun to concede to. This is when, at all hours of night, you wake and realize you are in darkness … aside from the LINDSAY LED nightlight I BROWN have plugged in an arm’s reach ME PLUS THREE away from your bed (that also just happens to shine into my bedroom and directly into my line of sight).

Upon realizing this sort of darkness, you begin to scream bloody murder, awaking me from the half sleep state that all mothers permanently reside in once acquiring their offspring. I awake with a start but nanoseconds later understand it is just your nightly routine you are yelping about and stumble towards your room to turn on your secondary light source.

I would like to finish there but I must add your unusually early wakeup routine.

It seems that just as your nightly lighting issues end, I find you standing directly beside me breathing heavily upon my face whispering, “Mama …

Mama, I hangry. …”

I should have never taught you that word. I thought it would be funny coming from a little kid. In reality, it is just annoying. I get it, you are so hungry you’re angry and need your cereal now!

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Question: How can grandparents help new parents without wearing out their welcome? I’m excited to play an active and positive role in my grandchild’s life, but I want to be careful to respect appropriate boundaries with my son and daughter-in-law.

Jim: As a grandparent, you can have a profound impact on the lives and outlook of your children and grandchildren. The value of the perspective you’ve gained after raising your own kids can’t be overstated. It’s an incredible gift to help grown children see their offspring through the eyes of a hopelessly love-struck grandparent, rather than viewing them as a source of nonstop responsibility.

Perhaps the greatest gift you have to offer is the gift of your time. New parents need a break every once in a while. This is particularly important for single moms, but it applies in the case of married couples as well. You might suggest a specific time (“How about if I come over Wednesday night around 6 p.m., so you can get out for a couple of hours?”), rather than something vague (“Let me know if I can help”). Or you can extend an open invitation to them to call you whenever they feel they’ve reached the end of their rope.

By the way, here’s an important piece of advice about giving advice: If you aren’t in complete agreement with the way your grown children are raising your grandchildren, be very careful about the way you broach that subject, especially with a daughter-inlaw or son-in-law.

Remember: As parents, they have the final say and responsibility for

the way their children are brought up, and your duty in nearly every situation is to abide by their decisions. The exception, of course, is if an irresponsible parent’s behavior or neglect is exposing a JIM child to harm.

DALY Otherwise, offer advice only if asked, and work at building a relationship in which you can compare notes and share the benefits of your parenting experience.

Question: I’m dating a young lady and we’re getting fairly serious. My issue is that my parents divorced when I was a teenager. I saw what they went through, and I’m still trying to get over my own hurt feelings regarding their divorce -- and my fear of marriage in general. I don’t want to lose her, and neither of us can wait forever. What can I do to move on in my own relationship?

Dr. Greg Smalley, vice-president, Family Ministries: I commend you for recognizing that you’re carrying “baggage” from your parents’ divorce, and especially for being proactive about dealing with it. Let’s break this down into three key pieces.

FOCUS ON FAMILY

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Loneliness and self-esteem dramatically linked Motivational speaker and best-selling author Steve Goodier has told the story of an older lady sitting alone on a park bench outside a seniors complex when a man about her age walked over and sat down next to her.

“Are you a new resident here?” she asked.

“New to the home,” replied the man.

“But I’ve lived in this town before.”

“I’ve lived here for years,” said the woman. “I don’t recall seeing you.”

“That’s because I’ve been in prison for the past 20 years.”

“My goodness,” replied the woman.

“What did you do?”

“I was convicted of killing my wife,” he confessed.

“Oh, I see,” the startled woman exclaimed.

“For what it’s worth, I didn’t do it.”

Silence hung between the couple.

Both watched the pigeons bobbing up and down on the sidewalk looking for handouts. After a couple minutes, the

women ventured a question.

“So,” she hesitated, “you’re single then?”

We all feel lonely at times and we’ve all looked for way to appease that loneliness — to release MURRAY ourselves FUHRER from its grip.

And we all know how loneliness feels: a deep emptiness and longing that seems to emanate from deep within and colours everything we experience.

Loneliness comes in many forms and varying degrees. We may simply have a vague feeling that something is missing, or feel a deep and profound

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sense of deprivation. There’s the type of loneliness we feel if far removed (geographically) from those we love, or the agonizing type of loneliness we experience when someone we care deeply about has died. We might also feel emotionally isolated from people when we have difficulty relating to or connecting with them.

Let me say that loneliness and being alone are not the same. Each of us seeks solitude at times when we choose purposefully to be alone. I enjoy being alone, especially when I’m writing. For me, it’s a time to deeply ponder my views and form (I hope) well-considered opinions. When I feel lonely, I usually feel alone, apart and sad. Again, all of us feel lonely at times. That’s completely natural. It’s when we feel trapped by our loneliness that it becomes an issue.

Low self-esteem can have a dramatic effect on our feeling of loneliness.

If we don’t feel worthy, we probably don’t feel we have much to share — nothing of value to bring to the table.

This can make it tough to build new relationships or maintain existing ones.

Retreating into ourselves might seem

to be a better option than embarrassing ourselves or feeling worthless.

For many people, loneliness is a passive state.

These people do little about their loneliness beyond hoping that it will eventually — like winter — go away on its own. Sometimes loneliness will lift naturally, but when it doesn’t, we need to own this state-of-being and take action.

Here are three reasons why passively enduring loneliness is seldom a good idea: ● If you’re already feeling unworthy, non-participating is only going to make things worse. ● When you’re feeling down and out, your internal communication is likely to be negative. ● When you retreat from the world, it’s easy to get stuck in a repetitive cycle of fear and rejection. Fear creates anxiety which further erodes selfesteem.

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School districts serving students dinner

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES — Many of the students at Kingsley Elementary School in a low-income neighbourhood of Los Angeles eat breakfast and lunch provided by the school. For the nearly 100 enrolled in the after-school program, another meal is served: supper.

The nation’s second largest school district is doubling the number of students served dinner, with an eye toward eventually offering it at every school. It’s a growing trend: Nationwide, the number of students served dinner or an after-school snack soared to nearly 1 million last year.

“When kids are hungry, they don’t pay attention,” said Bennett Kayser, a member of the Los Angeles Unified School District board, which was announcing the expansion Thursday.

“This is something that should have started years ago.”

Thirteen states and the District of Columbia began offering students dinner as part of a pilot program expanded to all states after the 2010 passage of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act. Schools where at least half the stu-

dents are low-income and qualify for free or reduced-price lunch are reimbursed for each supper by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, at a rate often significantly higher than the cost of the meal.

In the 2014 fiscal year, 104 million suppers were served to students, up from about 19 million in 2009. Participation is still lower than in the nation’s long-running breakfast and lunch programs, which serve more than 12 million and 31 million students, respectively.

The introduction of dinner to school routines is unique in that it could take the place of what many consider a near-sacred ritual: The family dinner.

Proponents say that since many students stay on campus until the early evening hours, it makes sense to provide an additional meal. In the case of the neediest students, they might not get anything to eat after class other than what is offered at school.

Research on family dinners has shown a plethora of benefits: Greater academic achievement, less delinquency, and better family relations.

Yet the research also presents a chicken-and-egg type question: Do children

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FUHRER: Reflect when alone ● Admit you’re lonely. As with most things in life we wish to change, acceptance is the first step. Write about it in a journal. This is a favourite of mine.

When you write about it, you may discover your feelings of loneliness are also connected to feelings of sadness, anger, frustration or betrayal. ● Never discount the role pride can play in loneliness. Is there an unresolved issue that you’ve been avoiding? An unfulfilled or unavowed expectation? An unspoken apology? As you begin to see the connections you’ll begin to see ways to move through the maze. ● Reach out to others. If you’re missing family members or friends who live a great distance away, call them on the phone, write them a letter, compose an email or Skype using a webcam. If they’re within driving distance, plan a weekend road trip. If you’re missing someone who has died, try speaking to an understanding friend. If the friend knew the individual who died, you can express your grief and share your memories. Find things to smile and laugh about. ● Notice self-defeating thoughts.

This suggestion ties directly to selfesteem and awareness. You may be unconsciously feeding your loneliness by indulging in negative thoughts and self-talk. What is it that you’re saying to yourself? What is it that you’ve cho-

sen to believe as true about yourself and the current situation? The better your self-esteem, the more able you’ll be to do some serious self-assessment and more willing to own the causes and outcomes.

I appreciate this observation, also from Goodier, who writes, “Have you noticed that in English the word ‘listen’ contains the same letters as the word ‘silent’? In order to listen deeply, we must be silent — alone. And in our quiet aloneness, we can hear what can be heard no other way.”

I remember reading once that loneliness gives us time to listen to who we are. Perhaps, during time of loneliness, we are best able to reflect on what’s important to us, ponder what’s missing in our life and discern what beliefs or expectations have gone unfulfilled.

Murray Fuhrer is a self-esteem expert and facilitator. His recent book is entitled Extreme Esteem: The Four Factors. For more information on self-esteem, check the Extreme Esteem website at www.extremeesteem.ca.

DALY: Deal with you first First, deal with YOU. You need to realistically address your own “junk” and work on becoming a healthy person, regardless of whether you’re in a relationship or not. That may well involve professional counseling to process your past hurts; you can start with our licensed staff counselors by calling

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When kids are hungry, they don’t pay attention.

— Betty Kayser Los Angeles Unified School District board member reap those benefits because they have dinner with their families, or do the same families that have dinner together display other traits that account for higher achievement?

More recent research indicates while family dinners can be linked to fewer symptoms of depression, most of the other benefits seem to decrease when demographic and other environmental factors are taken into account.

At a time when many families have

855-771-HELP (4357). I’d also recommend the resources available through Focus’ faith-based online community for young single adults, Boundless.org.

Second, deal with HER. Let her know what’s going on with you — talk about the hesitation, fear and emotional walls you’re working on overcoming (it’s about your parents’ divorce, not your present relationship). Tell her what she can do to support you. The more you include her and provide honest information, the stronger your connection can become.

Finally, deal with the RELATIONSHIP. When the time is right, get good premarital counseling. Eighty percent of couples who get at least 6 to 8 hours of quality premarital counseling stay together. That’s how you work toward “divorce-proofing” your own marriage before it starts!

Jim Daly is a husband and father, an author, and president of Focus on the Family and host of the Focus on the Family radio program. Catch up with him at www.jimdalyblog.com or at www.facebook.com/DalyFocus.

BROWN: A sleepdeprived mom Oh … and there is your brother laying atop my now deadweight legs.

hectic schedules, dinner at school could provide some relief, said Rachel Dunifon, a policy professor at Cornell University.

“If these meals help alleviate stress, it could actually be good and open up more time for families,” she said.

LAUSD currently serves supper to 75,000 students and plans to expand the program to about 150,000 over the next two years. School officials estimate it will generate $16.6 million in revenue, which will go toward expanding the program.

Other large, urban districts with dinner programs include Philadelphia and District of Columbia public schools.

Wayne Grasela, senior vice-president for food services, said the School District of Philadelphia now serves 4,500 dinners each day.

At Kingsley Elementary School, several students said the roasted sunflower seeds, cheese sticks and, depending on the day, sandwiches, salads and chicken they are served function more like a snack than a meal. Some eat another meal at home.

But for others, it’s one of the few things they eat after class.

Oh glorious mornings!

Finally, Husband, I love you, too. I love that in the unusual circumstance you come down with a flu bug, every ache and pain that sullies your body during the night becomes a verbal gasp of sheer anguish. But your being sick is a very remote occurrence so I shouldn’t complain about that.

How about the fact that when we first met, you were the lightest sleeper I had ever come across. You would wake from someone opening the fridge door or sometimes you just wouldn’t sleep at all.

But almost as if the eerie hand of magic was in tow, you now seem to be able to sleep through almost anything.

Small children’s cries in the middle of the night? “What? You were up 15 times with them? Wow sorry hun, I didn’t even hear a thing.”

Some shenanigan-wielding hoodlum comes a knocking on the front door at 3 a.m. in the morning? “Oh hunny, you shouldn’t answer the door at that time it could be dangerous. Next time wake me up.” Sorry to break it to you bud but you weren’t moving no matter how much I elbowed you.

So there it is, some incoherent ramblings of a sleep deprived Mom. I wish I had a memorable line to end this article with but instead I think I will take this time to steal a nap.

Lindsay Brown is a Sylvan Lake mother of two and freelance columnist.

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Times Have Indeed Changed Teeth-Wise Dear Dr. D: My elderly mother is in a nursing home, and seems to be losing teeth far too frequently. I'm concerned about her survival. She has lost 3 teeth this year. What could be causing it?

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You haven't provided enough information for a clinical diagnosis here. Firstly, how old is she? How long has she lived in this institution?

What type of mobility does he enjoy, or lack? If she has just recently moved in, the damage to her teeth certainly started a significant time ago.

I've seen patients whose teeth have been virtually ignored for months and that alone doesn't cause them to fall out. She likely has severe gum disease (periodontitis) which is common in over 50% of adults. For those over 35, perio disease is a major cause of tooth failure. For those under 35, accidents, athletics, fights, and trauma top the charts.

The age issue is germane here. One hundred years ago half the adults in North America had no teeth left. Today, only about 10% of those over 65 are edentulous (toothless) so you can see we have made some strides here! The fact is that you don't need teeth to survive. There are many living to a ripe old age where soft food like pasta, although it may be lacking some nutrients, is the rule of the day. I tell patients that teeth are a lifestyle choice – NOT a condition for survival. In Great Britain, it was assumed dentures would be such a natural part of adult life that brides often received a full set of dentures for wedding gifts just to save them the trouble later on!

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Your mother has age working against her dental health. Undoubtedly, there is also a maintenance issue in the nursing home. Very few of them are able to maintain an excellent dental standard, regardless of the fees they command. The chore of brushing properly often ends up in the hands of the family members. If she is mobile enough (as in walking or wheelchair) I suggest you have her checked out by a dentist you trust. He or she will be able to give you a good idea why her teeth are failing, and what steps you and she must take to preserve or regain whatever dental health is possible.

We can help. Call us for a free consultation. Also, remember to call our 1-800 'Ask the Dentist Hotline' at 1-800-970-9212 with any questions you would like us to address in future columns.

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People often don't value something until it is gone. In the carefree 20's and 30's, most patients enjoy good dental health. In their 40's and 50's they encounter root canals and crowns to repair damage. Many patients investigate dental implants in their 60's. Some patients we've seen have had implants in their 80's as well. The Baby Boomers are a generation not used to the word 'NO' when it comes to looking and feeling their best.

Their teeth are no exception, and meekly accepting full dentures as an alternative is not an attractive idea to them, regardless of investment required. They are fueling the dental implant industry because they are not used to make compromises.

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Moving at the pace of life FILMMAKER INARRITU EXPLORES EGO AND ART IN ‘BIRDMAN’

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BRIEF Amazon Studios expanding from TV series to produce new movies SEATTLE — Amazon Studios is branching out from television series to movies, announcing plans to begin producing and acquiring original movies for theatrical release and, within weeks, video streaming.

Just five years after its launch, Amazon Studios says it will begin producing motion pictures this year and aims to release a dozen original “prestige movies” annually.

Independent filmmaker Ted Hope will oversee creative development for the new unit, Amazon Original Movies. Hope co-founded and ran Good Machine, a production company be-

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This photo released by Twentieth Century Fox shows Michael Keaton, left, as Riggan in a scene from the film, ‘Birdman,’ directed by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu. be manipulated in post-production — to be thoroughly addressed ahead of time. Instead of multiple takes, there were multiple rehearsals.

“I needed a meticulous exploration of every word, every step, every movement, every look of actors to define where that camera will be and where it will come,” Inarritu said. “So we got (the cast) together with much more time to explore dramatic objectives and to understand what the characters wanted, needed and how they will get it.”

The long rehearsal period allowed the actors to “own” their characters and their words, he said. Once shooting began, it was like “an endless spaghetti that cannot be cut.”

The Mexico-born director’s past credits include more serious-toned

fare such as 21 Grams, Amores Perros and the Oscar-nominated Babel, but he was moved to explore the human condition of ego through a comedic lens.

“I wanted to approach with some humour — not irony, not cynicism — but just literally try to see those tragic facts of life, of our lovely and pathetic reality as human beings,” he said.

He wanted to explore the fight within the self over ego — Who am I? Who should I be? — as it relates to the classic debate about art: whether prestige or popularity matters more.

Now, with nine Oscar nominations, is Inarritu concerned his ego could sprout wings?

The 51-year-old said he tries to resist allowing industry recognition to make him feel like a winner or loser, but is grateful for the support and

hopes it brings more viewers to Birdman. Just making the film feels like a victory to him.

“The moment you present something and create catharsis in the people, you have done something that has an effect emotionally, and that’s artistic already, no matter if the people consider it good or not,” he said. “That is something that is not easy, and I feel proud about that.”

Then, Riggan’s voice, or maybe Birdman’s, creeps in.

“At the same time, the delusional ambition of artists thinking that we have an impact that will change the soul of humanity and transcend time and eternity, it’s an intellectual masturbation that I find tragic and comic at the same time,” Inarritu said. “It’s, you know, Who cares?”

hind some Academy Award-nominated films, including Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and Eat Drink Man Woman.

Amazon Original Movies will focus on unique stories, characters and voices from “top and up-and-coming creators,” according to the company. Once movies have hit theatres, they’ll debut on Amazon Prime Instant Video within 4 to 8 weeks.

ters. We’ve always been outspoken, and this seems like the perfect opportunity.”

TLC released back-to-back hits, including Creep, Waterfalls and No Scrubs.

Their Grammy-winning sophomore album, CrazySexyCool, sold more than 10 million units. The group once filed for

bankruptcy in 1996, despite having two multiplatinum albums.

T-Boz and Rozanda “Chilli” Thomas have already begun the writing phase and production of their fifth album, expecting to release it in May when their tour starts. The group is hoping to collect at least $150,000.

TLC looks to fund final album through Kickstarter ATLANTA — Grammy-winning R&B group TLC is depending on fans to fund the release of their final album through a Kickstarter campaign.

The group, which currently consists of T-Boz and Chilli, launched the campaign on Monday. It’s been nearly 13 years since their last album, 3D, which was released seven months after the death of Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes in 2002.

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Those sweeping takes — the subject of much discussion this Oscar season — are intended to mimic the way people see the world, he says: “We open our eyes and go with a Steadicam all day, and we can’t escape.”

“When we get up, there are no edits,” the filmmaker said. “The only time our perspective is edited or cut is when we tell stories — fiction — or experience a memory from our lives. But in reality, our lives are — absolutely, all the time — only linear. They move in only one direction.”

Inarritu felt he had to capture that sense of movement and bring viewers inside the characters’ perspectives to express such a personal, internal notion as ego. His creative storytelling and esthetic, where the whole film appears to be one continuous shot with no edits, led to nine Academy Awards nominations Thursday, including best director and best picture — a heady experience for even the most in-check ego.

Birdman stars best actor contender Michael Keaton as Riggan Thompson, a once-popular action star trying to prove his artistic merit by mounting a Broadway play.

Emma Stone is his insightful, dispassionate daughter; Ed Norton his cocky stage colleague. Both Stone and Norton earned supporting actor nods for their roles.

Emmanuel Lubezki, nominated for his thrilling cinematography, carries viewers through the action: up stairs, down hallways and through windows.

He called the photography “an experiment that thankfully turned out well.”

So how’d they do it? Inarritu won’t say exactly.

“I would prefer to have the rabbit in the hat,” he said, but added the approach inspired the actors and made him “more honest” as a filmmaker.

What we do know is those fluid, single-camera shots required pacing and tone — elements that would typically

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Then, as she put it, she becomes “just Gabby” again.

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“Before all this, I was just a simple girl, no makeup, no hair, no heels, just a normal girl finishing my education,” Isler said in an interview with The Associated Press. “This just changed my life. This made me feel confidently beautiful. ... Now I’m happy with myself every day. I learned to be happy. I grew up in every way, as a daughter, as a sister, as a girlfriend, as a friend. It transformed my life.”

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try’s flag with intense pride, even as her nation continues to battle over economy and politics. Being an example for women in her country was a top priority during her time as Miss Universe, and once it ends Isler plans to step up her efforts by combating a massive problem with teen pregnancy in her homeland.

“During my reign, I discovered myself,” Isler said.

“I want to continue doing a lot of things related to humanitarian efforts, so one of my new chapters will be maybe becoming a spokesperson for different organizations, but my first one is my baby — starting my own foundation in Venezuela that can help create awareness and bring education and family values to young girls and

young women.”

Choking levels of inflation and shortages of basic goods are part of the norm in Venezuela, where beauty pageants are big business and a source of national pride.

“With all that’s happening in Venezuela, to have a chance to be a good-news person for my country I feel so satisifed,” Isler said. “I did as much as I can — not just to represent the Miss Universe organization but also my country.”

There is symmetry to her reign ending South Florida, which has a massive Latin population and is the place that Isler says will be her second home.

The Miss Universe pageant itself will be at Florida International University in Miami on Jan. 25, but many of the

preliminary events leading up to the big night will be in the nearby suburb of Doral, Florida — which has an enormous Venezuelan population.

“I was dreaming to give my crown in Venezuela,” Isler said.

“But to have this opportunity to end this reign and close a chapter in my life around the Venezuelan community, this Latin environment, this Latin energy, I couldn’t ask for a better place.”

When asked if one day stood out among all others during her reign, Isler didn’t hesitate. She quickly chose Sept. 3, the day she went to the Vatican, heard Pope Francis speak about the role of women in the church and received a blessing from the pontiff.

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MasterChef What’s in the mystery box?

The 12 young chefs still in the competition ponder that question in the new episode “Junior Edition: Grandad Gordon!” Another of their challenges isn’t as much a mystery, since they have to use ingredients that improve with age in recipes. The hour also answers another question: What is the “most dangerous protein”? Gordon Ramsay is the host and one of the judges.

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Movie: The Wrestler A top movie-comeback story of recent times has been Mickey Rourke, who had a terrific ride on the film-award circuit as the title character of director and co-writer Darren Aronofsky’s drama. Mirroring many of the actor’s own experiences, Rourke’s roughed-up alter ego wants a new lease on his personal and professional lives. His path to redemption involves his estranged daughter (Evan Rachel Wood) and a stripper (Marisa Tomei).

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IRELAND Mildred 1930 - 2015 Mildred Joy Ireland (nee Keast) passed away at the Red Deer Hospice, after a short illness, on Friday, January 9, 2015 at the age of 84 years. Joy was born on April 10, 1930 at Stettler, Alberta.

She was the oldest child of Clarence and Margery Keast.

Joy lived with her parents and her two brothers, Allan and Rod, on the family farm in the Hackett District south of Botha. Joy loved horses.

Her parents later owned and operated the Hackett General Store where Joy helped out.

She started school at Model, a small country school southeast of Stettler, and completed her high school in Gadsby, Big Valley and Edmonton.

Joy married William Ireland in April of 1971. Bill and Joy farmed east of Red Deer. In later years they wintered in Yuma.

Joy loved to travel and continued travelling after Bill’s death. She broke her hip in the Kruger National Park in South Africa but once healed continued with tours and Mystery Trips. Joy will be remembered for her humour and her photography.

Joy was an accomplished photographer.

She won awards for her pictures and left behind a legacy of photos. She had a keen eye for the perfect picture and seldom passed a flower without snapping a shot. Joy loved to tell jokes and entertained others with her quick wit. Joy is survived by her step son, Terry (Judy) Ireland of Sylvan Lake, her step daughter, Patricia (David) Othen of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, step grandchildren, Jason Ireland of Calgary, Kristina (Mike) Poulsen of Sylvan Lake, Nicole Ireland of Calgary, step great grandchildren, Trent and Brady Poulsen and her many cousins and friends. Joy was predeceased by her husband, Bill Ireland and her brothers, Allan and Rod Keast. A Memorial Service will be held at Parkland Funeral Home and Crematorium, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer, Alberta on Saturday, January 24, 2015 at 11:00 a.m. If desired, Memorial Donations in Mildred’s honor may be made directly to the Red Deer Hospice at www.reddeerhospice.com or to a charity of the donor’s choice. Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com.

Arrangements in care of Maryann Hansen, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer.

403.340.4040.

Obituaries

POIRÉ Jean-Guy Feb. 4, 1933 - Jan. 16, 2015 On January 16, 2015, at the age of 81 years, Guy (born in Ste Marie de Beauce, Quebec) passed away peacefully at Bethany Collegeside, Red Deer, in the presence of several of the wonderful care staff there. Guy is predeceased by his loving wife, Barbara (nee Brooks, April 14, 2013), his parents: Leopold (October 21,1989) and Alice (June 24, 1977), and brothers: Daniel (March 4, 1951) and Daniel (August 22, 1964). Our loving father, grandfather, brother, uncle and friend is survived by his only son, Mark (Wendy) in Sidney, BC, and treasured grandsons: Sean Colin and James Edward.

Guy will be dearly missed by his extended family including sisters: Gisele and Celine (Denis Simpson), and brothers: Gilles (Joyce) and Simon, as well as sister-in-law, Kay Brooks, and many nephews, nieces and friends. Guy and Barbara were married on April 17, 1954 at the Catholic Chapel at CFB Penhold.

They were married for almost 59 years. They were soulmates and very much in love. Quite often, they would go on spontaneous drives in the car, going wherever the roads would lead, to discover new places and experiences.

Guy served in the RCAF from 1951 to 1975 while being stationed in Edmonton, Winnipeg, Ottawa, Trenton and Victoria. He loved sports and participated in many, including: boxing, hockey, fastball, badminton and squash. He was a proud Montreal Canadians (Habs) fan and could be frequently seen in his sacred red Habs jacket with the logo. While in Victoria and after retiring from the RCAF, he worked at St. Michael’s University and Sears Canada. In 1982, Guy and Barbara moved back to Alberta, living in Red Deer, Edmonton and then Red Deer again.

While in Edmonton, he worked 10 years at Alberta Public Safety Services. His faith sustained him through the good and not so good times.

Guy wished for a private service, which will be held at a later date. In lieu of flowers, donations may be sent to the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Alberta, 202, 5913-50 Avenue, Red Deer, AB, T4N 4C4.

Thanks are also extended to the compassionate and loving staff at Bethany Collegeside in Red Deer.

Guy will be missed by all.

Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com.

Arrangements entrusted to EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL 4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer.

Phone (403) 347-2222

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WHAT’S HAPPENING

NEUFELD Lorna June (Bos) 1926 - 2015 Lorna (Bos) Neufeld of Lacombe passed away peacefully with her family by her side at the Lacombe Community Health Center on Thursday, January 15, 2015, at the age of 88 years. Lorna was born in Innisfail, AB. June 25, 1926, eldest of 3 children, and the only daughter of William and Viola Pendergast.

The family later moved to Lacombe where Lorna worked at Vickerson’s Drug Store, now the home of Upper Level Clothing. In Lacombe, she met and later married her soul-mate, Ralph Bos. Together they had 11 children who were raised on a farm west of Lacombe in the Spruceville District. Lorna was a hard working, caring Mother with unconditional love for her children, and later for her grandchildren and great grand-children. She loved gardening and flowers, camping, and always enjoyed visiting with anyone who stopped in. She loved people! After tragedy took her husband, Ralph, in 1977, Lorna learned how to drive (at age 51!), and joined the work world to support the 4 children still at home. She worked at Stedman’s and Home Hardware in Lacombe for a few years. Lorna then married Henry (Hank) Neufeld in August of 1980. With this marriage, she gained 4 step-children. After fire destroyed their home on the farm, they moved to Lacombe where she resided until her passing.

Lorna’s life changed dramatically when she was diagnosed with dementia a number of years ago. A special thanks goes out to the wonderful care-givers at Royal Oak - Memory Care Unit. She will always be remembered for her love of people, especially children; for her kindness and generosity; for her big smile and wonderful hugs; but most of all for her unwavering faith in God. She was an inspiration to all who had the privilege to know and love her. Lorna will be lovingly remembered by her husband of nearly 35 years, Hank, her children; Lorie Kamps (Bill) of Lacombe, Don Bos (Maxine) of Cranbrook, B.C., Nola Stigings (Bruce) of Innisfail, Gordon (Butch) Bos (Debbie Fletcher) of Crossfield, Yvonne (Midge) Stolte (Allan) of Blackfalds, Howie Bos(Rochelle) of Lacombe, Brenda Richman (Mark Visscher) of Lacombe, Bruce Bos (Brenda Thompson) of Sylvan Lake, and Lisa Hunt (Dorrin) of Stettler, 26 Grandchildren, 40 Great Grandchildren, 12 Step Great Grandchildren, her Stepchildren; Wendy Neufeld of Calgary, Nola Neufeld of Red Deer, Craig Neufeld of Calgary, and Robert Antila of Ontario, 8 Step Grandchildren, 1 Step Great Grandchild, Sisters-in-law; (Phyllis and Doris Pendergast, Paula Bos) and Brother-in law (Gerrit Meindersma), numerous nieces and nephews. Lorna was pre-deceased by her first husband Ralph Bos, 3 year old daughter Leona, still-born baby Keith, step-daughter Melody, 3 grand-children, 1 step grandchild. She was also pre-deceased by her brothers; Ken and Bill Pendergast, step-sisters; Verna Jardine, Lena Bennett, Iris Dobson and Hazel Buckler, and their husbands. A Celebration of Lorna’s life will be held Wednesday, January 21, 2015 at 2:00 p.m. at Woodynook Christian Reformed Church, Woodynook Road, West of Lacombe. Donations in her memory can be made to the Gideons, Children’s Make a Wish Foundation, or to your charity of choice. Condolences may be made by visiting www.wilsonsfuneralchapel.ca WILSON’S FUNERAL CHAPEL & CREMATORIUM serving Central Alberta with locations in Lacombe and Rimbey in charge of arrangements.

Phone: 403.782.3366 or 403.843.3388 “A Caring Family, Caring for Families”

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OPHTHALMIC TECHNICIAN req’d for Ophthalmology office. Job training is provided but qualifications and previous experience an asset.

Starting wages $14/hr.

Please fax resume to 403-342-2024..

Only those considered will be contacted.

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

JUNIOR OIL AND GAS OPERATOR

in our Stettler Field.

Applicants need to be mechanically inclined, motivated to work hard and learn quickly.

CLASSIFICATIONS Associated industry experience eg. instrumen700-920 tation or facilities construction experience would be an asset but is Caregivers/ not necessarily required.

Aides This position offers a diverse and challenging FT child caregiver in Red work environment with Deer. HS grad w/ First Aid competitive pay, attractive & CPR. Supervise and benefits and the ability to care for 1 yr old. $10.66/hr, grow within the organiza44hrs/wk. Live-in optional. tion. Applicants must live pret_lady@yahoo.ca or be willing to relocate to within a 20 minute FT CHILDCARE help in commute of the work Penhold HS grad place location (Stettler). supervise in absence of Please Submit Resume’s parents, meal prep., Attention Human housekeep, $10.66/hr; Resources 44hrs/wk. Exp. an asset Email: payroll@ genedith200@yahoo.com bearspawpet.com FT Live-in caregiver for 2 Fax: (403) 258-3197 kids age 5 and a baby. Mail: Suite 5309, 333 96th Must have completed high Ave NE Calgary, Alberta T3R 1H1 school and min. 2 yrs.

You can sell your guitar exper. Housekeeping req. for a song...

Will work 44 hrs./wk, 8.8 hrs./day. Starting wage of or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you! $10.75/hr. Room & board provided. email resume to LOCAL SERVICE CO. jmrossouw@yahoo.ca in Red Deer REQ’S EXP. FULL-TIME IN-HOME VACUUM TRUCK caregiver for employer OPERATOR ejabagat at 36 Jamieson Must have Class 3 licence Ave., Red Deer for four w/air & all oilfield tickets. children: newborn, 20 mo.

Fax resume w/drivers old, 3 yrs. old and 9 years abstract to 403-886-4475 old. Duties; bathe, dress, RED DEER based hot shot feed and meal prep. and company looking for exp’d some light housekeeping. driver, 15/6 rotation, $10.20/hour; 44 hours per wk, company benefits, benefits pkg. Compl. of high Fax resume & school, and 1 to 2 yrs. exp. current abstract Call (403) 986-4154 or to 403-342-2152 e-mail jabagate@yahoo.com

jobs

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

403-505-7846

Card Of Thanks STENVIG Edward Stenvig and family would like to express our sincere gratitude to all who sent cards, flowers, phone call, food and visits. Also thank you to those who supported the Calgary Celiac Group. This was Fay’s passion to help with diets and information. Fay will be sadly missed by family and friends.

KLASSEN Jennifer Ruth Klassen of Red Deer passed away at the Red Deer Hospice on January 15, 2015 at the age of 68 years. Jennifer is survived by her daughter Pam Tamashiro of Red Deer and sons Kevin Lattery and Rocky (Cheryl) Lattery of Lacombe; 4 grandchildren Cashman Kiara, Rinelle and Renica; six brothers and sisters: Marilyn (Jim), Lyle, Ian, Tanya (Delbert), Dana (Karoline) and Gina (Doug); other family and friends.

Graveside services will be held at Lake View Cemetery at 10:00 AM on Wednesday, January 21, 2015 and a memorial service will be held at Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd, #40 Holmes Street, Red Deer, Alberta at 2:00 PM, Wednesday, January 21, 2015. Memorial donations may be made to the Red Deer Hospice, or Women’s Shelter c/o Stettler Funeral Home, Box 1780, Stettler, AB, T0C 2L0.

Sympathies may be forwarded to the family by signing the guestbook at www.stettlerfuneralhome.com STETTLER FUNERAL HOME 403-742-3422, entrusted with the care and funeral arrangements.

Dental

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BOWER DENTAL CENTRE is currently seeking a registered dental assistant who is a member of CADA. We are looking for a multi-talented person who will work chairside and reception as needed.

Please e-mail your resume to marina@bowerdental.com or drop off at BDC.

Farm Work

755

F/T AND P/T JOB AVAIL. ON DAIRY FARM, WEST OF BLACKFALDS., Email: wildroseholsteins @cciwireless.ca

Medical

790

F/T & P/T Pharmacist and Pharmacy Technician positions req’d.

Apply w/resume to: Highland Green Value Drug Mart, Red Deer

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309-3300

P/T MEDICAL RECEPTIONIST/ Office Assistant. Friendly, energetic, and ability to work independently. Fax resume to 403-340-3349

Clerical

SERVICE RIG

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

must have all necessary valid tickets for the position being applied for.

Bearspaw offers a very competitive salary and benefits package along with a steady work schedule.

Please submit resumes: Attn: Human Resources Email: payroll@bearspawpet.com Fax: (403) 252-9719 or Mail to: Suite 5309, 333-96 Ave. NE Calgary, AB T3K 0S3

TREELINE WELL SERVICES

Has Opening for all positions! Immediately.

All applicants must have current H2S, Class 5 with Q Endorsement,and First Aid. We offer competitive wages & excellent benefits.

Please include 2 work reference names and numbers.

Please fax resume to: 403-264-6725 Or email to: tannis@treelinewell.com No phone calls please. www.treelinewell.com Start your career!

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ACCOUNTING POSITION

Red Deer company requires three quarter to full time experienced accounting person that will learn company structure and daily duties including payroll, payables, bank reconciliations, lease managements and be able to complete monthly ¿nancial reporting to owners. Accounting experience required to prepare Year end ¿nancials for accountants.

Competitive wages and bene¿ts plan.

Hours Àexible.

Please submit cover letter, resume and references to: Box 300F c/o Red Deer Advocate 2950 Bremner Ave., Red Deer T4R 1M9

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Sales & Distributors

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GREGG DISTRIBUTORS LP

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ADULT EDUCATION AND TRAINING

We are looking for

OUTSIDE SALES REPRESENTATIVES Quality Control/ Safety Coordinator

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

Restaurant/ Hotel

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EAST 40TH PUB REQ’S P/T / F/T COOK Apply in person with resume 3811 40th Ave.

JJAM Management (1987) Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s Requires to work at these Red Deer, AB locations: 5111 22 St. 37444 HWY 2 S 37543 HWY 2N 700 3020 22 St. FOOD ATTENDANT Req’d permanent shift weekend day and evening both full and part time.

16 Vacancies, $10.25/hr. + benefits. Start ASAP. Job description www.timhortons.com Education and experience not req’d.

Apply in person or fax resume to: 403-314-1303

in Red Deer due to our growth & expansion.

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

Trades

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Needing experienced ceramic tile floor installers and labourers for job in Edson, room and board provided. Also need labourers for local jobs.

Contact Lance 403-352-6296 SMALL RURAL MEAT SHOP in central AB looking for F/T meat cutter. 8-5, no weekends.

Knowledge of cutting hanging carcasses needed. Rental house avail. within walking distance of meat shop at a very reasonable rate with paid utils. 403-843-4383 jkcmeats@hotmail.ca

Truckers/ Drivers

860

CENTRAL AB based trucking company requires

Owner Operators & Contract Drivers

in AB. Home the odd night.

Weekends off. Late model tractor pref. 403-586-4558

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

ROOM ATTENDANTS. Exp. preferred. Also BREAKFAST ROOM ATTENDANTS, early morning shifts, flexibility req’d. Only serious inquiries apply.

Drop off resume at: 6853 - 66 St. Red Deer or fax 403-342-4433

F/T Permanent Truck Driver Required for Rocky Fast Express (1790810 AB Ltd.) in Red Deer, AB Straight truck: 4600kg+w/2 axles and van Need class 5 DL + 2 yrs exp. $25 per hr/ with OPEN availability Duties: pick up/deliver freight, pre-trip truck inspection, communication with customers. Physically demanding position. Time management skills required. Apply at: 8004 Edgar Industrial Green, Red Deer, T4P3S2 Call: 403.845.2230 Fax: 587.997.7719

F/T TRUCK drivers req’d.

Minimum Class 5 with air and clean abstract. Exp. (formerly Sam’s Cafe) is preferred. In person to Key now taking applications for Towing 4083-78 St. Cres.

Full Time/Part time COOK, Red Deer.

Bring resume to HALLCON is seeking 7101 Gaetz Ave. Red Deer qualified drivers to between 2-4 pm. transport rail crews throughout Red Deer area.

Drivers are ideally based out of RED DEER. No overnight stays required.

This position is an on call position. Employees are responsible for taking THE RUSTY PELICAN is trips during the period now accepting resumes for they have designated 4 F/T Exp’d themselves available to do LINE COOKS at all stations. MUST HAVE: so. Transportation is done in Hallcon company vehicles. Vehicles are • 2 yrs. relevant exp., completion of High extensively & consistently maintained ensuring School, be reliable, self motivated, work optimal safety for drivers well under limited and clients. Drivers must supervision in fast possess valid Class 1, 2, or 4 license, with clean paced environment. driver abstract. Assisted licensing upgrade to Salary is $14 - $18./hr. 40 achieve a class 4 is hr. wk. dependant on exp. available. Pay is based at a rate of $16.00. Earning 733644 Ab Ltd. potential is based on O/A The Rusty Pelican your availability, as our operation runs on a 24/7 Location of employment: on call basis. Both full time 4105 2079 - 50 Ave. and part time employees Red Deer, AB T4R 1Z4 are welcome. Semiemail: retired, retired, full time, bennett2014.bkkp@ part time employees are gmail.com welcome. Forward or Call 403-347-1414 resumes & current driver or Fax to: 403-347-1161 abstract: Shane Flack Only candidates selected asmabnorth@gmail.com. for an interview will be contacted.

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Looking for a New and Challenging Career in the Real Estate industry? We offer hands on training by a top producer. For a confidential interview call: Carol Clark, Coldwell Banker OnTrack Realty, 403-350-4919.

Restaurant/ Hotel

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880

GREENHOUSE WORKER wanted at Meadowbrook Greenhouses, Penhold.

3 Full Time Seasonal Positions. No Exp, training provided. Starting Feb 2015. $10.20/hr, 44 hrs, 5 days per week, 3 month period. Fax resume to 403-886-2252.

WINTER START

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Children's Items

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TOYS, books, game, more. Boxful for $20 403-314-9603

Red Deer Rocky Mtn. House Rimbey Caroline Castor Sylvan Lake Innisfail Stettler Ponoka Lacombe

Clothing

Gov’t of Alberta Funding may be available.

403-340-1930 www.academicexpress.ca

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LADIES chocolate brown suede coat w/hood, very good cond, $15 403-314-9603

Electronics

1605

Plant Laborer

for our Kuusamo facility.

The plant is located 4-5 kilometers west of Sylvan Lake on Hwy 11.

This is an entry level position working mainly outdoors that can lead into the Plant Operator positions. Duties will include assistance of Plant Operators in the transfer of chemicals, movement of product within the plant, truck and rail car loading/unloading, and chemical blending as well as housekeeping and light maintenance. We are looking for hard working, flexible, safety conscious people with equipment experience, some basic mechanical abilities, driver’s license, and own transportation. We offer an excellent benefits plan and a company matching RRSP savings plan.

Please forward your resume via email to the address attached. Please have ‘Plant Laborer’ in the subject line. Drug and alcohol policy in effect and pre-employee testing.

Inquiries regarding careers with CFR should be directed to hr@cfrchemicals.com Fax: 346-2299

EquipmentHeavy

1630

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

Firewood

1660

Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514

1730

Stereos TV's, VCRs

STEREO, JVC, mini hi fi am/fm radio, single cassette, single CD player 4 speakers $40 403-342-4898

1750

Jewellery

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

LOGS

Semi loads of pine, spruce, tamarack, poplar.

Price depends on location.

Lil Mule Logging 403-318-4346

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3 SEATER couch and chair, dark blue, good cond, $200 403-782-5323

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TO GIVE AWAY LUPUS Courier magazines from Lupus Society, 40 hard/ soft cover books, 403-347-9357 TV/VCR/DVD combination, inclds. 20 movies, mostly childrens movies, $50 for all 403-314-9603

Call Today (403) 347-6676

To deliver the CENTRAL AB LIFE 1 day a week in: INNISFAIL Penhold Olds Sylvan Lake Please call Debbie for details 403-314-4307 CARRIERS NEEDED FOR FLYERS, FRIDAY FORWARD & EXPRESS

3 days per week, no weekends

WEST PARK

3 bdrm., 2 bath, 4 appls., large fenced yard, $1550/mo. $1000. d.d.

Newly reno’d Avail Feb . 1.

403-304-5337

1 day a week in: LACOMBE BLACKFALDS

Please call Rick for details 403-314-4303

ADULT Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the

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

RED DEER ADVOCATE Monday through Saturday.

Delivery to be done before 6:30 am.

Reliable vehicle needed.

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

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

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

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)

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

As part of our service team, you will be dispatched in response to service concerns to deliver newspapers and flyers to customers or carriers.

A delivery vehicle provided by company!

Work 3 to 4 shifts a week.

Hours of shifts are morning shifts of Monday through Friday 5:00 AM to 9:00 AM. Saturday starting at 7 AM. Wednesday to Friday Shifts starting at 1 PM. *All Shifts based on 4 hours and likely to run longer.

Please apply with resume to: qmacaulay@reddeeradvocate.com or call 403-314-4302 and speak with Grant.

We thank all applicants for their interest; however only selected candidates will be contacted.

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

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

DOWNTOWN AREA South East Downtown and Parkvale area $289.00 mo.

Dixon Cres.

Dunlop St., Dixon Ave. & Close $107.00/mo Dunning Cres. Cl., and Depalme St. GRANDVIEW AREA 4700 Blks. of 43 & 43A Ave. and 3 blks. of 47 St. also 4400 Blks. of 40A Ave. and 41 Ave. and 1 Blk. each of 46 and 47 Streets area $73.00/mo.

TIMBERSTONE AREA Trimble Cl. Traptow Cl. Tallman Cl. Teasdale Dr. Truant Cres. & area $224.00/mo. also Timberstone Way, 2 blks. of Timothy Drive and Trumph Pl. $97.00/mo For More Information Call Jamie at the Red Deer Advocate 403-314-4306

DEER PARK AREA Dixon Cres. $72./mo.

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

GRANDVIEW AREA 3900 & 4200 Blocks of 43 Ave. area and 4000 & 4200 Blocks of 41 and 42 Ave. $66./mo TIMBERSTONE AREA For More Information Call Jamie at the Red Deer Advocate 403-314-4306

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Iverson Close Isbister Close

To Advertise Your Business or Service Here

MORRISROE AREA

Call Classifieds 403-309-3300

McKenzie St. / Marion Cres.

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

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SYLVAN LAKE: fully furnished, inclds dishes, bedding, 50” tv, utils.

Avail. Feb. 1. $1250.

403-880-0210.

To deliver the

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

INGLEWOOD AREA

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

MOUNTVIEW

3 bdrm. house, main floor, 5 appls., fenced yard, large deck, rent $1500 incl. all utils. $900 s.d. Avail. now or Feb 1. 403-304-5337

Advocate Opportunities

DEER PARK AREA CARRIERS REQUIRED

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TRAVEL ALBERTA Alberta offers SOMETHING for everyone.

Make your travel plans now.

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

Bell St.

FULL TIME and PART TIME SHIFTS AVAILABLE

Travel Packages

3020

Houses/ Duplexes

CENTRAL AB LIFE & LACOMBE EXPRESS

$266.00/MO.

BOWER AREA

GASOLINE ALLEY LOCATION

NOMA Super GT snow racer, new cond, $50; 403-348-6449

CLASSIFICATIONS

FOR RENT • 3000-3200 WANTED • 3250-3390

CARRIERS REQUIRED

DEERPARK AREA Deschner Close, Dubois Cres., Doherty Close, Duston St. and area. $327.00/mo.

ROSEDALE AREA Ramage Cres, Ramage Close and Ralston Cres. area $295.00/mo.

For More information, please call Jamie 403-314-4306

On-site work experience Unit Clerk Specialty curriculum Under one-year full Diploma program Planning for a Successful Career Seminar Nationally recognized Medical Assisting First Aid / CPR Training Professional Certificate Hospital Scrubs included Train with Industry experts Perfect graduate job placement rate reported last year

ANDERS AREA

Now Hiring

1860

Sporting Goods

Monday through Saturday.

Delivery to be done before 6:30 am.

Reliable vehicle needed.

Medical Office Assistant / Unit Clerk

Advocate Opportunities

HEADBOARD, for queen bed, 60” wide, $35; 3 Clean wool accent matching 3x5 oval carpets from SEARS, $35 for all 3; and David Winter Collector’s houses in original boxes, $15/ea.

403-352-8811 Tired of Standing?

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Looking for a new pet?

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Classes Starting Soon!

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Looking for a place to live?

Take a tour through the CLASSIFIEDS

37 TABLETS for dogs with liver disease, 225 mg, w/milk thistle, exp. May, 2015, vet cost $106, asking $50. 403-227-2976

ADULT Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the

ENROLL TODAY!

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2 QUEEN FAUX MINK BLANKETS AND 2 queen quilts, mix and match $25/ea. or 2 for $40; rocker and recliner chair, exc. shape $60/ea. or both for $100 403-348-6449

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Pets & Supplies

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

Now Offering Hotter, Cleaner BC Birch. All Types. P.U. / Delivery. Lyle 403-783-2275

Household Furnishings

1760

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SANAA, Yemen — Yemen’s U.S.-backed leadership came under serious threat Monday as government troops clashed with Shiite rebels near the presidential palace and a key military base in what one official called “a step toward a coup.”

The militants seized control of state media in fierce fighting that marked the biggest challenge yet to President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi by the rebels, known as Houthis, who swept down from their northern strongholds last year and captured the capital in September.

The violence threatened to undermine efforts by the U.S. and its allies to battle al-Qaida’s Yemeni affiliate, which claimed responsibility for the attack on a Paris satirical magazine this month and which Washington has long viewed as the global network’s most dangerous branch.

The Houthis and forces loyal to Hadi have been in a tense standoff for months and the two sides traded blame for the outbreak of violence Monday. Witnesses said heavy machine-gun fire could be heard as artillery shells struck around the presidential palace.

Civilians in the area fled as columns of black smoke rose over the palace and sirens wailed throughout the city.

Hadi, whose government has ceded control over nearly the entire capital, doesn’t live at the palace, and extra soldiers and tanks deployed around his private residence, which is nearby.

As fighting escalated Monday, the convoys of Yemen’s prime minister and a top official affiliated with the Houthis came under fire, and rebel fighters took over Yemen state television and its official SABA news agency, Information Minister Nadia Sakkaf said.

“This is a step toward a coup and it is targeting the state’s legitimacy,” Sakkaf told The Associated Press.

Cease-fire negotiations continued throughout the day by a presidential committee that included the interior and defence ministers, a presidential aide and a tribal sheik close to the Houthis. By the end of the day, a tenuous truce appeared to be holding.

The announcement of a cease-fire came after witnesses said the rebels had seized control of strategic hills that overlook both the palace and the military camp south of it.

There was no government confirmation of the loss of territory.

At least nine people were killed in the fighting and 67 were injured, Yemen’s deputy health minister, Nasser Baoum, told the AP. Yemen’s Western and international allies, including the U.S and Saudi Arabia, called for steps to implement and consolidate the cease-fire, expressing their support for Hadi.

“We reject the use of violence by those who seek to overturn Yemen’s political transition for their own interests, and fully support President Hadi as the legitimately-mandated president,” a statement

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On Monday, ports where longshoremen typically would be busy loading and unloading containers from massive ocean-going ships were unusually quiet. Operators of terminals at ports including at the massive Los Angeles-Long Beach complex ordered crews that were far smaller than normal, saying they needed to organize dockside yards already congested with containers of goods — not work at normal capacity to add more containers. As a result, cranes sat idle and companies that want their ships unloaded and released back onto the ocean had to wait.

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The Houthis blamed Hadi for the escalation in hostilities, saying he reneged on a U.N.-sponsored agreement with the group in September that promised better representation on a committee to oversee the drafting of a new constitution. According to the agreement, Hadi was to appoint new members within 15 days to the 85-member national committee.

Hisham Al-Omeisy, a Yemeni activist who lives near the presidential palace, said the fighting began just after 6 a.m., with a shell hitting a hill controlled by the Houthis. The militants responded with heavy artillery fire, he said.

Al-Omeisy said he saw two bodies in civilian clothes just outside his house, but couldn’t tell if the dead were civilians or Houthis, who do not wear uniforms.

“Later, I thought it was all quiet and I left my house. But a shell landed right near me,” he told the AP. Khaled al-Radhi, a 35-year-old military contractor who also lives nearby, said after hours of intense shelling, the Houthis seized control of a strategic hill that overlooks both the palace and a key military

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State and federal officials said preliminary tests Monday indicated that at least some oil entered the supply for the city of 5,300 people. They stressed they are shipping drinking water as a precaution and do not know yet whether there is any public health threat to residents. They will perform further tests to determine that.

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Bridger spokesman Bill Salvin said Monday that the company is confident that no more than 1,200 barrels — or 50,000 gallons — of oil spilled during the hour-long breach.

“Oil has made it into the river,” Salvin said. “We do not know how much at this point.”

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Bridger Pipeline crews were still working Monday to determine exactly where the breach occurred.

If it happened on the bank, some of the oil may be trapped in the soil near the river.

“If it happened underneath the river, then it’s all in the river,” Peronard said.

Initial water samples taken at the Glendive water treatment facility showed no sign of oil or gas contamination, said Peronard and Dave Parker, spokesman for Gov. Steve Bullock.

Glendive’s intake station draws water from 14 feet beneath the river surface, while most of the oil was expected to be floating, Peronard said.

Some Glendive-area residents had reported an odour in their water and those reports are being investigated, officials said.

Bullock planned to visit the spill site Monday afternoon, Parker said.

The Poplar Pipeline system runs from Canada to Baker, Montana, and carries crude oil from the Bakken oil producing region in Montana and North Dakota. It remained shut down Monday while crews planned to pump out any remaining oil from the section of the pipeline where the breach occurred.

The pipeline receives oil at the Poplar Station in Roosevelt County, Fisher and Richey Stations in Richland County and at Glendive in Dawson County, all in Montana. It was last inspected in 2012, Salvin said, and is at least 8 feet below the Yellowstone River bed where it crosses the river near Glendive.

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The Houthis are seen by their critics as a proxy of Shiite Iran and are believed to be allied with former President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who ruled the country for more than three decades before he was ousted in 2012 after Arab Spring protests. While the militants deny any Iran link, their slogan, “Death to Israel, Death to America!” is a variation of a popular Iranian slogan often chanted by Shiite militants in Iraq.

The latest spasm of violence appears to be linked to the Houthis’ rejection of a draft constitution that would divide the country into six federal regions.

On Saturday, the rebel militiamen kidnapped one of Hadi’s top aides, Ahmed bin Mubarak, to disrupt a meeting on the charter. The U.S., Saudi Arabia and other backers of the Yemeni leadership have called for his immediate release.

In a statement Monday, a Houthi spokesman, Mohammed Abdel-Salam, said the charter should only state that Yemen will be a federal state without specifying the number of regions. “Let the wise men of this people agree later on the regions and how to form them and their details,” he said.

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DONETSK, Ukraine — Russian-backed rebels and Ukrainian government troops fought pitched battles Monday for control of Donetsk airport, while residential areas nearby were caught in intensive crossfire.

The airport, reduced to a wreck by months of heavy fighting, has been the epicenter of hostilities due to its symbolic importance and strategic location on the edge of the main rebel-controlled city.

The airport has become a symbol of Ukrainian combat valour and its loss would be a major blow to national pride.

The rebels say they have fully seized the airport in recent fighting, but Ukrainian officials reject the claim. They say Ukrainian troops are still holding out in the wreckage of the new terminal, a steel-andglass showcase for the UEFA Euro 2012 soccer championship hosted by Ukraine.

Three Ukrainian servicemen were killed and 66 wounded in the previous 24 hours, military spokesman Andriy Lysenko told reporters, but he would not say how many of those casualties occurred at the airport.

On Monday, the rebels blew up part of the new terminal, wounding many Ukrainian troops with debris, Yuriy Biryukov, an adviser to Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, wrote on his Facebook account.

He said some wounded soldiers were evacuated from the airport but did not say how many troops remained.

It was impossible independently to determine whose forces were currently in control of various sections of the airport.

In the long term, the government fears the separatists could use the airport to expand their control over eastern Ukraine, bypassing border controls and creating an air supply route with Russia.

The separatists increased the stakes last week by successfully taking over large sections of the airport before the Ukrainians unleashed a counter-offensive.

“All attempts of the Ukrainian army to take the airport and to get revenge for the defeat of the last year... have failed,” rebel leader Alexander Zakharchenko told reporters Monday in Donetsk. He accused Ukraine of using rocket and artillery fire with an intensity that rebel forces had “never experienced before.”

Lysenko, however, said the weekend fighting had returned control over the airport to the military.

The city of Donetsk was shaken by heavy artillery fire over the weekend as the airport battle raged. On Monday, a shell hit the city’s Central Clinical Hospi-

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Alexander, 35, looks through a broken window of his flat, hit by Ukrainian Army Artillery, in the Voroshilovsky area, center of Donetsk, Ukraine, on Sunday. The separatist stronghold, Donetsk, was shaken by intense outgoing and incoming artillery fire as a bitter battle raged for control over the city’s airport. tal No. 3, blowing out windows but causing no deaths.

All the patients were evacuated to other hospitals.

Sporadic explosions were also heard Monday from the direction of the airport.

Lysenko said according to September’s cease-fire deal in September, the airport was to be left under Ukrainian government control. Russia and the separatists dispute this.

The U.N. estimates more than 4,700 people have been killed in the fighting in eastern Ukraine since April.

Ukraine and the West have accused Russia of helping the rebels in the east with troops and weapons. Moscow has denied the charge, but acknowledged that some Russians have joined the insurgents.

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EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said the 28-nation bloc plans to deploy security attaches with certain delegations to promote better anti-terror contacts with authorities in countries in the Middle East, the Gulf and North Africa.

The EU also wants to help certain countries build the capacity to combat terrorism and improve inter-cultural understanding with Muslims, in part by developing Arabic language skills.

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Some ministers emphasized the importance of working with Muslim countries, rather than blaming them for the problem of foreign fighters.

Muslim nations “will continue to be in the front line, and we have to work closely with them to protect both those countries and the European Union countries,” British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said.

Mogherini and some ministers also urged the European parliament to move forward on sharing airline passenger information between EU countries.

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Suicide, sibling molestation lead to distraught family Dear Annie: My wife and I are in our late 70s and we raised four children. We lost our second son to suicide when he was seven. He suffered from major depression.

A few years ago, our daughter wrote us, saying that her eldest brother had sexually molested her when she was very young. She said we knew about it and covered it up.

We knew nothing about it and were very upset. I confronted our son, now 42, and he admitted to it and was so sorry for what he did all those years ago.

He also said he is not the MITCHELL same person he was then. & SUGAR I told our daughter that her brother admitted everything and felt terrible about it and that I hope at some point, he will tell her directly how sorry he is. Since he became an adult, this son is the kindest person and has the closest relationship with us of all our children.

Last week, our youngest son and his family came to visit. It turns out that his eldest brother also had molested him when they were children.

But he never appeared as devastated as his sister, and moved on.

What are we supposed to do at this stage of our lives? Do you think our eldest son could have been molested at an early age and then acted out like this on his siblings? We found out later that there was a pedophile priest in our local parish.

Our son has never admitted to any molestation when he was a boy and we are afraid to ask him.

Any advice? — Distraught Dear Distraught: This is a terribly disturbing situation, but please don’t hide from it.

Your son has already admitted the abuse. He needs to apologize to both of his siblings and ask for forgiveness. We are glad that he has changed for the better, but that doesn’t help his sister or brother come to terms with what happened. We

strongly urge you to get into family counseling and work through this. All of you would benefit, including your eldest son.

Dear Annie: You recently published a letter from a woman who was complaining that her husband recently developed anxiety about traveling in a car.

This onset of anxiety, particularly in midlife or later, could be a symptom of Parkinson’s disease.

If the anxiety is accompanied by terrible nightmares (including yelling, punching and kicking) and/or by constipation that seems to develop where it didn’t exist before, Parkinson’s could well be the reason.

I watched these symptoms develop and didn’t understand why — until the twitching started in one thumb.

Then a neurologist confirmed that these symptoms were, indeed, indications that Parkinson’s was at work. Her husband should get to a neurologist now. — Wish We Knew Dear Wish: Thank you for giving us the opportunity to mention some of the symptoms of Parkinson’s. Parkinson’s is a progressive and chronic neurological disease that interferes with the body chemicals that control movement and mood. It usually begins with mild symptoms that advance slowly, so they are often ignored.

Symptoms include tremors or shaking in any part of the body when it’s at rest, changes in handwriting, loss of smell, trouble sleeping, muscle tension and rigidity, changes or difficulty in walking, constipation, a muffled voice, feeling dizzy on a regular basis and depression. If you are experiencing any of these things, even in a very mild form, please talk to your doctor about Parkinson’s.

Dear Annie: This is in response to “Getting It Off My Chest,” whose major peeve is that family never comes to visit: If you buy the plane tickets, you will have plenty of company. — G. Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@comcast.net, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

ANNIE ANNIE

HOROSCOPES Tuesday, Jan. 20

house of dreams, aspirations, and gifts from the king. This is truly a beautiful CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS New Start welcoming in new individuDATE: Buzz Aldrin, 85; Bill als that might remind you of Maher, 59; Melissa Rivers, past friends in your life. Ac47 cept their offerings, lessons or blessings.

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: TAURUS (April 20-May Today, we have Sun moving 20): The wonderful New into Aquarius and this will Start will happen within welcome in a New Moon in your 10th house of mother, Aquarius. After yesterday’s your career, and how othbeginning of Mars and Nepers see you. There will be a tune’s sydonic cycle, anylot of excitement with this thing is possible with this new surge of energy for you.

New Start. So truly dream Allow for greater opportubig, take time alone to renities to open up, once you flect and truly set out your understand the steps you LARISA MAIRA intentions towards a very have already taken.

OZOLINS prosperous new start for GEMINI (May 21-June you now. An adventurous 20): This New Start in new start is promised!

Aquarius will happen for HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If you in the 9th house. This, today is your birthday, then of course, will have you wild this year will prove to be the New Start with excitement or at least making a that you have been looking forward to. joke about it. Let others observe their This year will offer you the opportu- limitations. It is not for you to accept nity to truly make your dreams a real- their vision, only yours. Shine now, you ity. You will have time to review and know your path forward. rethink how you want to present yourCANCER (June 21-July 22): The New self in the process of creating the real- Start in Aquarius will happen for you ity you desire. It is a time to rethink in the 8th house of legacies, taxes, your relationships in your life. Work harder spouse’s resources, occult knowledge, this year! and deeper connections with others in ARIES (March 21-April 19): The New your life. Sounds very positive, but be Start today will occur within your 11th keen to acknowledge your own limita-

SUN SIGNS

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BEAR RECOVERING WELL

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This photo provided by the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife shows a young bear at the Wildlife Health Services Lab in Corvallis, Ore., that fell from a tree earlier this month in southern Oregon. Veterinarians are appealing to accredited zoos across the continent to rehabilitate the scrawny but otherwise healthy young bear. The female black bear weighed at slightly more than 13 pounds when it was found upside down in blackberry bushes. Biologists say that at nine to 12 months old, it should have weighed 40 to 60 pounds going into winter.

tions with health and work.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The New Start today will happen in the 7th house of others in your life, romantic or business relationships. This will be a welcomed new beginning towards greater prosperity and abundance. First, understand your limits. Structure more fun and romance into your life.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The New Start will occur for you in the house of health, work, and daily activities. This will truly shake up your life and offer you new and exciting things to do. Be discerning with all that you set out to do today. Accepting limitations will allow you to surpass them.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): A New Start in the house of fun, children, and entertainment sounds like a wonderful time ahead for you! New friends will be made, perhaps a child or your children will welcome in a fresh beginning as well. Rethink your objectives in those areas of life now.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The New Start today will highlight your family, home environment and yourself at a soul level. Understand that you have all the resources needed to achieve greater heights. So, decide now what you want to achieve. Review these goals with family and within yourself today.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You have given it some serious consider-

ation and now you will welcome in the New Start with how you communicate with others and whose opinion you allow into your future visions. Focus on the practical and work hard to live up to your own standards.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): There is no doubt that you will be given favours by the higher ups, those of this earth or not, but it is for you to remain humble and focus on greater achievement. You are typically very down to earth and hardworking. Luck is on your side. Keep up the hard work!

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): This is truly a wonderful new start for you with the New Moon in your sign. No doubt, you will be able to work towards your aspirations and create the reality that you desire.

Focus on the positive and tangible results. Once they are completed, more can be achieved.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): The wonderful New Moon in Aquarius will touch your 12th house, the subconscious and universal truth area of your chart. This will no doubt help you manifest your reality in the way you desire.

Focus on the positives, especially in relation to work. Watch miracles happen!

Larisa Maira Ozolins is an internationally syndicated astrologer and columnist.

Her column appears daily in the Advocate.

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