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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Alberta’s justice minister has ordered a review into how the Crown handled a career criminal who ended up gunning down two Mounties on the weekend.

Jonathan Denis RCMP OFFICER MOURNED A2 called for the review as court records showed it was an Edmonton police officer standing in for the Crown who consented to Shawn Rehn’s release at his last bail hearing.

RCMP also said Wednesday they will do their own internal review of their interactions with Rehn.

The 34-year-old had a lengthy criminal history, had skipped bail and was wanted on warrants when he shot two officers at a casino in St. Albert, just north of Edmonton, on Saturday.

He was found dead later that day of an apparent suicide in a rural home not far from the casino.

Const. David Wynn, 42, never regained consciousness after he was shot in the head and died in hospital Wednesday. Auxiliary Const. Derek Bond, 49, faces a long recovery at home after he was shot in the arm and torso.

Denis called the shooting “tragic, unfortunate and needless.”

“The pain caused by this tragedy to the officers, their families and colleagues and the community as a whole is nothing short of profound,” he said. “The multiple agencies that are involved are asking a question: Could this incident have been prevented?

That’s a question that I ask as well.”

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Skip Tiffany Game of the Crestwood Curling Club shouts to teammates Jennifer Van Wieren and Melissa Pierce during the opening game of the Women’s Provincial Curling Championships at the Lacombe Arena on Wednesday. The 2015 Jiffy Lube Alberta Scotties Tournament of Hearts runs through the weekend with 12 teams from across the province competing. Please see related story on page B1.

BRIAN MALLEY MURDER TRIAL

Caregiver warned Shachtay not to open gift bag left at her door

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Crime reduction strategy working downtown: Tod

BY MARY-ANN BARR ADVOCATE STAFF Red Deer’s chief of police is confident that new strategies to combat problems related to crime in downtown Red Deer are making a difference.

RCMP Supt. Scott Tod said on Wednesday that he measures that belief on two things: complaints from the public and businesses are decreasing, and marginalized citizens are telling officers that things are better.

One of the first things he was made aware of when he arrived in Red Deer nine months ago was concern about downtown Red Deer.

“There was some lead-up time for myself being new here to not just listen to those complaints but to find out what had we done in the past and make sure that our resourcing and our own internal structure was aligned to start addressing that.

“I made some changes and restructured a few units and gave them a different mandate. That takes some time but I think the community response team, with the support of the uniformed members, and ALERT, and my plainclothes members, collectively have had a positive impact downtown.”

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On Nov. 24, 2011, the day before the bombing, Punongbayan took a bus at 4 a.m. to Calgary to get her permanent residency.

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Moments before a wheelchair-bound Innisfail mother was killed in an explosion, her caregiver warned her to not open the Christmas present disguising the bomb.

Marlene Punongbayan, a trained physiotherapist and careigver for Victoria Shachtay, testified Wednesday in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench. She warned Shachtay, 23 at the time of her death, not to open a gift bag left on the door step of their Innisfail apartment on the morning of Nov. 25, 2011.

“Don’t open the gift, we don’t know where it came from,” Punongbayan said. “Vicky said ‘no it’s fine.’”

That’s when Shachtay opened the bag and the bomb went off. She died instantly.

Punongbayan was cleaning the kitchen sink adjacent to the dining room table where Shachtay opened the present.

She was facing the sink when she heard the explosion. She turned around and saw Shachtay bleeding.

She grabbed her cell phone and ran outside, screaming for help.

Just a day earlier the two celebrated as Punongbayan became a permanent resident.

Shachtay was killed in an explosion. Brian Malley, 57, of Innisfail is on trial in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench facing a first degree murder charge.

Malley was Shachtay’s financial advisor. As a result of the crash that confined Shachtay to a wheelchair, she received a settlement in 2007. The Crown said she invested $575,000 from the settlement and a $200,000 loan with Malley. By 2011, that money had dried up. Prosecutor Anders Quist said Malley was paying Shachtay out of his own pocket, totalling $44,000 before she was killed.

Punongbayan came to Canada in 2007 and was

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Arens stands trial on drug charges

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BY ADVOCATE STAFF A Central Alberta man charged with possession of drugs for the purpose of trafficking was on trial in Red Deer provincial court on Wednesday.

Rodney Ross Arens, 37, was also on trial for obstructing and resisting police, possession of stolen property and two counts of drug possession.

He pleaded guilty to care and control of a vehicle while impaired, resisting police, and two breaches of court orders.

Other charges were withdrawn.

In Wednesday’s testimony, the court heard Sylvan Lake RCMP were called at about 9:30 a.m. on Dec. 21, 2013 to deal with a possible impaired man at a Fas Gas station.

Officers found Arens slumped forward in the driver’s seat of a truck that was parked and running.

Officers had to wake Arens up. When asked to empty his pockets, Arens pulled out a small, hard white substance wrapped in plastic which he then popped into his mouth.

An officer held onto Arens throat so he couldn’t swallow the object suspected of being crack cocaine.

He eventually spit it out and the object was collected as evidence.

During a search of the truck police found what was later confirmed to be crack cocaine, powder cocaine, and marijuana.

Some of the cocaine was found inside a prescription bottle in Arens’ name.

A BB gun with pellets, an electronic scale, and other drug paraphernalia were also found in the truck.

Arens had $264 in cash on him when he was arrested.

A drug expert with the RCMP said the items found were consistent with drug trafficking.

The trial before Judge John Holmes will continue at a date yet to be scheduled.

Arens intends to testify at his trial.

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DOWNTOWN: Prevention also part of the puzzle Tod said Red Deer City RCMP increased enforcement, visibility and interaction in the downtown.

“It’s a crime reduction strategy initiated specific to the downtown core to address the needs that were made very clear to me by the community, by business owners and mayor and council and the city manager, upon my arrival.

“The result has been that I’m certainly not getting as many downtown businesses and even just citizen complaints about what’s going on downtown.

I haven’t been getting nearly as many as when I arrived in May.” He also said “officers — who are downtown regularly and involved in this strategy — are hearing from the people downtown, those who are marginalized people, that things are a lot quieter downtown and that a lot of the troublemakers have decided to move on and are not in the downtown core as often or prevalently.

“Part of our role downtown is to protect those (marginalized) people too. They’re very easy victims.”

But the problems haven’t gone away by any means, he said.

“It’s quieter in terms of the drug dealing out in the open. Some of the violence and some of the people who are involved in that aren’t being seen be-

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Alberta economy, austerity will start at the top.

“We can’t expect people in the public sector to tighten their belts unless they see the premier, his office, and the people that work with him in government tightening their belts,” Prentice told reporters Wednesday during an announcement at the Edmonton International Airport.

He declined to be more specific and wouldn’t say if the austerity will include cuts to MLA salaries.

“We’ll deal with that in the days ahead,” he said.

The base pay is about $156,000 for Alberta government and opposition members, $234,000 for cabinet ministers, and $240,000 for the premier.

Members of Prentice’s cabinet and government

are currently canvassing Albertans on solutions to the collapsing oil prices that have siphoned billions of dollars from the treasury.

The premier has said all options are on the table when it comes to cutting expenditures or raising revenue.

He is seeking a short-term solution to the multibillion-dollar oil losses, and is promising long-term fixes to wean Alberta off relying on volatile oil prices to fund day-to-day expenses.

He says some of his changes will be reflected in the next budget, to be unveiled sometime in March.

Also Wednesday, he reiterated that public sector workers must help out in tough times.

cause there’s been too much attention paid to them downtown.

“Certainly when you undertake these initiatives and these strategies there always will be displacement. That’s part of our job is to be alive to that ... so we’re directed to where they’re going and sustain the presence and the enforcement and the relationshipbuilding as these people displace and move on.”

He said enforcement is only one piece of the city’s strategy for the downtown core to be a healthy community.

“We need to also partner up for prevention and also look at what services are provided in what parts of the city. But those are city initiatives and it’s their decisions to make. We can only inform them as to what we’re seeing and what we’re doing and look for opportunities to partner with them.”

Council recently approved budgeting for six more police officers, plus support staff.

“We have an idea of where we are going to allocate the majority of those resources but things could change by the time those positions actually arrive and I don’t know when that will happen. Its a very complex staffing process. There could be a change of priorities within our community at that time. I have to ... remain flexible to be able to resource our staffing levels to address those too,” Tod said. barr@reddeeradvocate.com

at her uncle’s house as she did not have school on Nov. 24 or 25, 2011.

The next morning, Punongbayan got up at 6:30 a.m. and went through her normal morning routine.

Getting Shachtay out of bed and letting the dogs out.

As she let the dogs out the front door she noticed a Christmas gift bag on the door step. Shachtay told her to bring it inside and Punongbayan put it on top of the freezer near the door.

The two then went over to Shachtay’s step-father’s house, where they had once lived, and Shachtay had a shower. This was not unusual as her step father’s shower was wheelchair accessible.

While Punongbayan got the shower ready for Shachtay, she over heard a conversation between Shachtay and her step-father. He warned Shachtay to not open the gift bag and to call the police.

The next morning at 3 a.m., Punongbayan awoke remembering a small detail about the gift bag. Remembering a note attached to the bag, she wrote down what she remembered the contents of that note to be. Specifically the misspelling of Shachtay’s first name as Vicktoria.

Punongbayan received her last paycheque from Shachtay on Nov. 15, 2011. She said Shachtay had to call Malley to ensure there were sufficient funds to cover the payment. Under cross examination from defence counsel Bob Aloneissi, Punongbayan said the phone call and conversation was not out of the ordinary.

She also testified, there was never any animosity between Shachtay and Malley and when Punongbayan learned Malley had been arrested she was shocked.

The trial continues Thursday in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

MALLEY: Caregiver recalled detail about the bag Upon her return to her home the two celebrated by getting pizza. Shachtay’s daughter had slept over

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Wynn remembered as great police officer MOUNTIE WAS BEING PROACTIVE WHEN HE WAS FATALLY SHOT IN CASINO

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS ST. ALBERT — RCMP say an officer who died Wednesday was being proactive in a stolen truck investigation when he and another officer were shot inside a casino.

Const. David Matthew Wynn should be remembered as a great police officer and citizen, RCMP Assistant Commissioner Marlin Degrand told reporters after it was announced that the 42-year-old had died in hospital.

Degrand said Wynn was taking the initiative during the slow early morning hours last Saturday, checking out vehicle licence plates in the parking lot of the Apex Casino in St. Albert, a bedroom community north of Edmonton.

A search revealed a plate didn’t match the heavyduty pickup truck it was on, but Wynn “didn’t leave it at that,” said Degrand.

Unable to see the vehicle identification number on the dashboard of the tall truck, Wynn “actually went into the casino, retrieved a chair and went back outside.”

He climbed on the chair to record the number, then discovered the truck was stolen.

Degrand said two other officers had joined Wynn outside to help Const. Derek Bond, an auxiliary officer, then went inside the casino with Wynn to review security video footage.

The pair found a suspect on the video and, as they were walking through the casino, spotted the man and went to speak with him.

It was “a random crossing of paths,” said Degrand.

“They have very brief words. The suspect then immediately bolted on them.”

Wynn and Bond chased down the man, unaware he was armed, said Degrand.

“This individual, as he’s running away, reached into his beltline and produced a (hidden) handgun, which would not in any way have been visible to our officers as they were behind him.”

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REVIEW: Rehn a violent criminal “I think at times like this, it is important to act on the facts, and that is why I have directed the review of the Crown’s actions.”

A similar review was ordered when James Roszko gunned down four Mounties in Mayerthorpe, Alta., almost 10 years ago.

Documents show Rehn was a violent criminal, in and out of jail over the past 15 years, with a list of 57 convictions for crimes including assaults, break-ins and drug use.

In 2006, the Parole Board of Canada denied him day parole, calling him “a dangerous person who has demonstrated blatant disregard toward the criminal justice system as well as lack of respect to the public in general.”

After his statutory release, court records show his girlfriend was granted an emergency protection order in 2009. She testified that Rehn used drugs and was often violent — that he had choked her and ripped out her hair. She said he once forced her and their baby girl to sleep in a room with a loaded gun because he was paranoid.

He was most recently in court last September dealing with more than a dozen charges in Edmonton and nearby Redwater, Alta., including possession of a weapon, escaping custody and breaching court conditions.

A transcript shows the charges stemmed from a stolen motorcycle police found Rehn riding in a Walmart parking lot. Officers said he attempted to flee and when they finally caught up to him, they found a spring-loaded knife in his pocket.

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Const. David Matthew Wynn is shown in this undated family handout photo.

The suspect immediately turned and fired, Degrand said. The first shot struck Bond in the right arm and torso.

Wynn then had a very brief moment of contact with the suspect, but a second bullet struck him in the head. The suspect then ran off.

Wynn wasn’t able to return fire.

Shawn Rehn, a career criminal wanted on warrants, was found dead in an apparent suicide later in the day at an acreage home not far from the casino.

Bond was released from hospital later that day, but Wynn never regained consciousness.

He is survived by his wife, Shelly, and three sons Matthew, Nathan and Alexander.

Wynn served as a paramedic in Bridgewater, N.S., before he became a Mountie in 2009 and was posted to St. Albert.

Besides his regular duties, he had been a resource officer at Keenooshayo Elementary School for five years. His main duty was to provide drug education for Grade 6 students, but he was frequently in the school speaking with students and parents, and appeared annually in red serge for the Remembrance Day assembly.

An Edmonton police officer consented to a defence lawyer’s request for bail. A justice of the peace agreed and Rehn was freed after paying $4,500.

A transcript of the hearing mentioned how Rehn was wanted on outstanding warrants and was prohibited from possessing weapons, but makes no mention of his numerous past convictions or his two federal stints behind bars.

A spokeswoman with Alberta Justice said it’s common for police, after making arrests, to make bail decisions before a justice of the peace when a Crown prosecutor isn’t present.

Edmonton police did not return a request to com-

ment.

Two months later, three warrants for his arrest were issued when he failed to appear in court. In January, 11 days before he shot the RCMP officers, another warrant was issued for Rehn on a series of driving-related charges.

RCMP Commissioner Bob Paulson, commenting on the shooting on Sunday, was one of the first to question why Rehn was still on the streets. He said he had never seen such a complex criminal record.

Assistant Commissioner Marlin Degrand said Wednesday that the RCMP review will start with Rehn’s earliest dealings with police.

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Tory optimism cooling ECONOMIC UNCERTAINTY, WAR, STALLED PIPELINES MEAN ELECTION HOPES ARE DIMMING Stephen Harper may still seek to control the message, but so far in 2015, he has been unable to control events.

As the prime minister surveyed this election year from afar, he and party strategists thought they had a winning hand.

They may yet, but the Conservatives will have to play the cards they’ve been dealt, not the TIM cards they expected to draw.

HARPER Harper is steering his reelection bid over a landscape now littered with economic uncertainty, war, stalled pipeline projects, a huge trade deal that is more boast than reality, a chill in relations with our neighbour, and a Liberal leader who stubbornly refuses to go away.

Initially, it must have looked good on paper.

A balanced budget with money to spend on promised tax breaks that were pledged four long years ago.

Canada as energy superpower, bitumen flowing to the U.S. Gulf Coast and to West Coast ports for export to Asia.

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ropean Union, the largest trade deal ever signed, creating jobs and markets for Canadian manufacturers.

Instead, the winter is shaping up much differently.

Letting politics, not economic reality, shape budget-making has left the government no room to manoeuvre — re-election took precedence over sound fiscal management.

Finance Minister Joe Oliver looks like he’s merely buying time, hoping that a few clicks of his heels will get oil prices up and extricate himself from this box.

But in the meantime, the government appeared to be uncharacteristically losing its message control.

When Employment Minister Jason Kenney spoke on weekend political shows of extending an operating spending freeze and exercising restraint without dipping into a $3-billion contingency fund, a senior government official popped up in The Canadian Press to counter Harper’s most powerful minister, saying there were no cuts planned and the contingency fund could be in play.

The problem with this is that Kenney doesn’t go off message.

He spoke for caucus last winter when the income-splitting scheme was in question after some blunt comments about its value by the late finance minister, Jim Flaherty.

A promise is a promise, Kenney said, and some sort of income-splitting

plan would be a centrepiece of the 2015 campaign, and it was.

He strategically defended Nigel Wright on the eve of the party’s convention in Calgary and the demonizing of the prime minister’s former chief of staff was largely halted.

He was the first government member to speak out against Rob Ford during the former Toronto mayor’s darkest days and was said to be off message.

Except he was right and others in caucus agreed.

Other senior Conservatives scrambled Tuesday to assure that Kenney and Oliver were on the same page and terminology Kenney used on the weekend may have been misinterpreted by some.

Party sources said there is no fight within cabinet and there is broad support for buying time by pushing the budget into April.

But clearly, the Harper government is feeling its way, not taking the confident pre-election strides it had hoped.

Similarly, Harper could not have reasonably foreseen that both the Keystone XL and the Northern Gateway pipelines he and Oliver championed would be on life support heading into an election.

He could not have foreseen the indifference to bilateral issues shown by U.S. President Barack Obama, or the environmental and aboriginal opposition to the Northern Gateway project on the West Coast.

He did not move the European trade deal quickly enough, although, at any rate, he did not get the domestic bang he sought.

Now provincial discontent, led by Newfoundland, threatens to deliver severe damage to a wobbly deal.

Nor could Harper have foreseen the rise of the Islamic State.

No prime minister relishes sending Canadians into combat and the risks of such a strategy in an election year are high.

The revelation that Canadian special forces have been involved in a firefight with Islamic State militants has upped the ante of what had been sold as largely risk-free air and advisory effort in northern Iraq.

It has also led to speculation that Harper will agree to a deeper commitment for Canadian forces when, as expected, their mandate is extended in April.

He has laid the groundwork for such a move, but any prime minister seeking re-election would prefer to celebrate past military successes under his leadership, not the unpredictable day-today confrontation this could become.

There are suddenly no aces in the prime minister’s hand.

If he pulls this one out, it would be a testament to his ability to bluff rather than stack the deck.

Tim Harper is a syndicated Toronto Star national affairs writer. He can be reached at tharper@thestar.ca.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Thanks for great support for Flags of Remembrance This past Oct. 25 saw 116 Veterans Voices of Canada/Flags of Remembrance flags raised on Hwy 11 near Sylvan Lake.

It was an amazingly successful initiative to give honour, tribute and remembrance to our almost 116,000 Canadian war dead and unknown missing in action.

On Nov. 14, the flags came down and on Nov. 15, a ceremony was conducted at H.J. Cody High School in Sylvan Lake, where Veterans Voices of Canada presented the sponsored Honour Plaques and flags to their sponsors. It was very emotional to see the effect the flags had while they were flying, as well as the emotion that came forth during the closing ceremony.

Apologies if we miss anyone here, there are so many to thank! Special thanks to sponsors Blue Grass Sod Farm who allowed us the use of their field, Rona Lakeside Building Centre, The Paint Stop Sylvan Lake who sponsored our flag poles.

Thanks to Greenwave Laser Engravers Blackfalds for sponsoring and building the Honour Plaques, Sir Lancelot Signs Sylvan Lake for sponsoring all of our signage and Rob Hislop Photography Edmonton and Sherry Scodopole for being our official/non official photographers. We also would like to thank the Royal Canadian Legion Branch No. 212 Sylvan Lake Colour Party, the Red Deer Legion Pipe Band, the Innisfail Legion Pipe Band, trumpeters Todd Gow and Les Vidok, guitarist Rick Moore, 126 Red Deer Canadian Sea Cadets Corps, Fortis Alberta, as well as those MLAs, MPs and senators across Canada who supplied the flags for this initiative, several who sponsored Honour Plaques. They would be MLAs Steve Young, Rod Fox, Kerry Towle, Dave Hancock, Gene Zwozdesky, Mary Anne Jablonski, Bridget Pastor, Janice Sarich, and Ken Lemke. Thank you to MPs Blaine Calkins, MP, Leon Benoit, Laurie Hawn, and Earl Dreeshan. Thank you also goes to Senators Scott Tannas, Terry Mercer, Fabian Manning, Michel Rivard, Anne Cools and Douglas H. Black.

Thank you to those businesses from the Central Alberta area, as well as all individuals from across Canada who sponsored Honour Plaques and flags.

Also, a huge thank you to my Veterans Voices of Canada team, who include Daryn Blondheim, Eric and Doris Ptolemy, Deb Purkiss, Erin Taylor, Carolyn Vidok, plus the many, many more amazing volunteers.

Without the assistance of these and many more amazing people and businesses, the Veterans Voices of Canada/Flags of Remembrance could not have been as big a success as it was. We met and spoke to many people who either knew a military hero, had a military hero in their family or just wanted to be there at the Flags of Remembrance location to feel what the Honour Plaques and flags represented.

You will again see another amazing year for Veterans of Voices of Canada and Flags of Remembrance, and hope that you all be a part of this tribute in 2015.

This all said, it will be bigger and better this year.

We are now accepting sponsorship requests from those of you, business or individuals, who would like to help us honour a hero or donate to this cause.

If you would like to secure an Honour Plaque and honour your hero for our next Flags of Remembrance, please send your email to db@vetvoicecan.

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CANADA BRIEF Winnipeg teacher accused of racist Facebook postings on unpaid leave WINNIPEG — A Winnipeg high school teacher who’s being accused of making racist comments on his Facebook page is now on unpaid leave.

Brad Badiuk had been on paid leave from Kelvington high school since the Facebook postings became public on Dec. 8.

The comments, posted under Badiuk’s account, accused First Nations people of being lazy and seeking free money from non-aboriginals.

Some of the comments were directed specifically at Nepinak and suggested he wanted to “get his hands” on other people’s money.

The Winnipeg School Division has not publicly identified the teacher or the teacher’s school.

School board chairman Mark Wasyliw said Wednesday that an internal investigation “progressed to the point where a decision was made that the staff member would no longer be on paid leave.”

Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs Grand Chief Derek Nepinak filed a lawsuit against Badiuk earlier this month alleging defamation against an entire race of people.

The Manitoba Teachers’ Society would not comment Wednesday on the change from paid to unpaid leave.

Man at centre of dangerous chemicals probe arrested

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — A 42-year-old man at the centre of a dangerous chemicals investigation in Nova Scotia was quietly arrested at a Ottawa hotel Wednesday as police tried to determine what the hazardous material was intended for.

The RCMP issued a Canada-wide warrant for the suspect after a “large quantity” of chemicals were discovered inside two homes in the Halifax area, Cpl. Greg Church said, though he declined to specify how many were found.

The suspect was arrested without incident at the Chimo Hotel and taken into custody after Ottawa police found his vehicle, Church said. He has not been charged.

The Mounties in Nova Scotia, who are handling the investigation, declined to name the man under arrest. But the manager of the man’s ex-wife said police told her the suspect’s identity.

Nick Furris said Shannon Miller, a former Olympic gymnast for the U.S., was told by police that her ex-husband, Christopher Phillips, was arrested in the incident.

“Upon hearing the recent news surrounding Christopher Phillips, my prayers immediately go to the safety of those

B.C dog walker awaits sentence for canine deaths SURREY, B.C. — A Vancouver-area dog walker who admitted to killing six dogs by leaving them in a hot truck will be sentenced next week.

Emma Paulsen appeared in a Surrey, B.C., court on Wednesday for a sentencing hearing after pleading guilty last November to animal cruelty and mischief.

The Crown is calling for three to six months in jail, a $10,000 fine, a lifetime ban from looking after animals, and a 10-year ban on living with any animals.

The defence is asking the judge to impose a conditional sentence to be served in the community so Paulsen can continue to work.

around him,” Miller said in a statement.

“I’m thankful that the brave men and women of the Ottawa police department and other law enforcement agencies were able to apprehend him and defuse the situation.”

Church said some of the chemicals found in Halifax were labelled and confirmed to be “volatile and dangerous,” while other chemicals have yet to be identified. He said a chemist will be brought in to help with the police investigation.

An explosive disposals unit, forensic identification experts and hazardous material crews were also enlisted to help with the investigation in Halifax, where evacuations in the communities of Cole Harbour and Grand Desert were ordered Tuesday as a result of the chemicals discovery. The evacuation of four homes within a 250-metre radius of a cottage in Grand Desert remained in effect Wednesday night.

David Croft, a resident of Grand Desert, watched as hazardous material teams worked near the small red cottage where chemicals were discovered.

Croft said people in the area found the man who came and went from the residence to be unfriendly.

“I don’t consider this person my neighbour. I don’t know him,” Croft said. “I only

spoke to him once in the past so I can’t really know much about him, but I know he wasn’t very friendly.”

He said families in the area were concerned to hear there were still chemicals in the residence as of Wednesday evening.

“It’s a concern for our neighbours and family for anything like this to take place.

Nobody wants to think this is in their backyard.”

RCMP investigators from Nova Scotia are travelling to Ottawa to interview the suspect, Church said.

In Ottawa, police said they found no hazardous materials following an overnight evacuation of the Chimo Hotel in the city’s east end and there were no concerns for public safety.

Const. Chuck Benoit of the Ottawa police said there’s no information suggesting there was a threat to national security or a connection to terrorism.

Benoit said the Ottawa police investigation began Tuesday at about 10:15 p.m. and a perimeter was established around the eight-storey hotel, describing their involvement in the investigation as “complex.”

He said guests had to be evacuated from the hotel quietly and officers had to be careful not to alert the suspect, who was checked in to a room on the sixth floor.

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Richard Atwell says he has apologized to his wife for having an extramarital affair and he welcomes an investigation by British Columbia’s privacy watchdog into his claims that spyware was installed on his work computer without his consent.

Atwell says he’s faced a personal and political onslaught in recent weeks, but with the support of his family and the public he will get through this trying period.

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Baird declines invite for special Syria meeting

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird plans to take a pass on this week’s high-level meeting, chaired by his Norwegian counterpart, on the future of Syria at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland.

However, Baird will attend separate sessions Thursday on the crisis in Ukraine and a meeting focused on the instability being caused by militants in Iraq and Syria.

The details are contained in a copy of Baird’s updated itinerary obtained by The Canadian Press.

Baird was among two dozen international figures invited to what was billed as a make-or-break discussion Friday on Syria, along with representatives from Iraq, Jordan, France, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Egypt and the League of Arab States.

Also on the guest list is Iran’s foreign minister.

Canada has severed relations with Iran, a country that’s often a target for criticism from Baird.

Syria’s nearly four years of civil strife has displaced nearly half its population, or 9.5 million people, and has left an estimated 220,000 dead.

“We are thus at a possible ‘make-or-break’ moment for the future viability of Syria as a state, with serious consequences for Syrians, the region and the world,” says a separate confidential memo about Friday’s Syria meeting, obtained by The Canadian Press.

Baird’s itinerary says he will have roundtable discussions with some unnamed chief executives while the Norway-led talks on Syria are taking place.

Baird’s spokesman Adam Hodge said there is “little to be gained” by reading into the details of the minister’s itinerary.

“As is the case every year, the agenda at the World Economic Forum is fluid and changes hour to hour, depending on the shifting schedules of many people,” Hodge said in an email.

“What meetings were confirmed yesterday may not happen today.”

He did not offer specific details of Baird’s plans.

Liberal foreign affairs critic Marc Garneau said Baird should go to the Syria meeting on Friday because Syria represents the most pressing international crisis.

“Canada, through Minister Baird, should have agreed to be at the table. There is no excuse for not doing so.”

The minister’s updated itinerary indicated he would be at two meetings on Thursday to discuss two serious global security issues: the ongoing unrest in Ukraine and threats posed by Islamic militants in Syria and Iraq.

Crown wants 25 years for sex-abusing former priest

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS IQALUIT, Nunavut — Prosecutors have asked an Arctic court to sentence a defrocked priest convicted of sexually abusing dozens of Inuit children to 25 years in prison. “(Eric Dejaeger) appears to have no insight into why he offended and he didn’t stop until he got caught,” said head Crown prosecutor Doug Curliss.

But defence lawyer Malcolm Kempt argued that a 12-year sentence would be enough. “(The Crown’s proposal) would be heavy-handed and inappropriate,” he said before court adjourned for the day, maintaining that 25 years far exceeds sentences given to other multiple child sex abusers.

Thursday’s hearing is expected to begin with Dejaeger himself addressing the court.

The former Oblate missionary is facing sentencing on 32 counts of sexual abuse committed when he was stationed in Igloolik, Nunavut, between 1978 and 1982.

Final sentencing arguments before Justice Robert Kilpatrick were made Wednesday after two days of victim impact statements. In deeply emotional testimony, witnesses from Igloolik told how they’ve been left with permanent mental and physical scars.

One man said that the smell of moldy wood takes him back to the mission’s boiler room where Dejaeger raped him. A woman told court she blames Dejaeger for the scars that have been diagnosed on her womb.

Many spoke of lingering anger and depression and of attempts to flee those feelings through booze and drugs.

Dejaeger blighted his victims’ lives, said Curliss.

“They look back and think, ’If this hadn’t happened to me, what would I have been?”’

But Kempt said Curliss’ request was far out of line. He pointed out Graham James, the minor hockey coach who abused numerous young players, originally got 3 ½ years before he was convicted of more offences.

“I had difficulty finding anything close to what the Crown wants,” he said.

Kempt said Dejaeger suffers from heart problems and is being treated for cancer. He pointed out his client has tried to co-operate and waived his preliminary hearing.

About 25 people attended the sentencing arguments in an Iqaluit courtroom, Nunavut’s largest.

Curliss’s remarks were punctuated by muffled weeping. At least twice, victims left court in tears.

In Igloolik, a live satellite link allowed more victims and community members to watch the proceedings at the local government building.

The Nunavut government has made extra mentalhealth workers available to people in court and in Igloolik to help with the mental stress.

If the Crown’s recommendation is accepted, the 67-year-old Dejaeger would face 17 years in jail after credit for time served in remand is subtracted. The defence recommendation would mean the most De-

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Eric Dejaeger leaves an Iqaluit, Nunavut courtroom Jan. 20, 2011. Prosecutors are asking an Arctic court to send a defrocked priest convicted of sexually abusing dozens of Inuit children to jail for 25 years. jaeger would serve would be four years.

Kilpatrick was expected to reserve his decision.

Dejaeger’s victims include 12 boys and 10 girls.

Most were between the ages of eight and 12, although they could have been as young as four and as old as 18. Dejaeger also abused a dog in front of two children.

Many testified at trial that Dejaeger used his position to trap them into sex, threatening them with hellfire or separation from their families if they told.

Sometimes he dangled food in front of hungry children as a lure.

He is to appear in Edmonton on Friday on four separate sex-related charges.

Dejaeger has already served a five-year sentence on 11 counts of assaulting children in Baker Lake, Nunavut, where he was posted after Igloolik.

It was in 1995, after he had served that sentence, that he learned RCMP were about to charge him for his activities in Igloolik. Before his court date arrived, he fled to his native Belgium.

Oblate officials have acknowledged that they knew Dejaeger was about to depart. They have also said that Canadian justice officials suggested that the easiest thing was for him to simply leave Canada, where he had become a citizen. They have said Dejaeger was told he wouldn’t be bothered if he stayed away.

For 16 years, he lived quietly in homes maintained by the Oblates despite an international warrant for his arrest. Eventually, journalists revealed that Dejaeger was living illegally in Belgium. He was returned to Canada in 2011. pay $44 million.

The B.C. Securities Commission ruled last year that Rashida Samji took about $100 million from investors, telling them their money would earn interest in a trust account while also helping a winery.

But the commission concluded there was no winery and Samji never deposited the money into the account.

The commission has now fined Samji $33 million and has ordered her to pay the commission $11 million to compensate investors for money that was not paid out.

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Crown defends issuing arrest warrant for hockey great Guy Lafleur in 2008 MONTREAL — The Crown maintains the warrant issued for the arrest of former hockey great Guy Lafleur in 2008 was justified considering the seriousness of the crime.

Prosecutor Lise Archambault told Lafleur’s civil trial today while there have not been many criminal cases involving contradictory testimony, it was still a very serious criminal offence in her opinion.

The Montreal Canadiens legend is seeking $2.16 million in a civil suit against the Crown and Montreal police for an arrest he calls unjustified and exaggerated.

He was arrested and found guilty in 2009 of giving contradictory testimony at his son’s bail hearing on sex charges.

The conviction was overturned on appeal a year later.

Archambault told the court today she didn’t insist on the warrant, but acted on a police request for one.

Former notary in B.C. ordered to pay $44 million over ponzi scheme VANCOUVER — A former notary who allegedly defrauded 200 investors in a ponzi scheme has been ordered by British Columbia securities regulators to

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Rebel moves undermine hopes for peace deal

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Islamic extremists vow more massacres

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau has claimed responsibility for the mass killings in the northeast Nigerian town of Baga and threatened more violence.

As many as 2,000 civilians were killed and 3,700 homes and business were destroyed in the Jan. 3 attack on the town near Nigeria’s border with Cameroon, said Amnesty International.

The leader of Nigeria’s Islamic extremists took responsibility for the killings in a video posted on YouTube Tuesday, the same day International Criminal Court prosecutor Fatou Bensouda said she is examining the allegations of mass killings and will prosecute those most responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Nigeria.

“We are the ones who fought the people of Baga, and we have killed them with such a killing as He (Allah) commanded us in his book,” Shekau says, according to a translation from Arabic provided by SITE Intelligence Group.

The video shows weapons supposedly captured from a key military base at Baga.

“This is just the beginning of the killings. What you’ve just witnessed is a tip of the iceberg. More deaths are coming,” said Shekau in the local Hausa language.

“This will mark the end of politics and democracy in Nigeria,” he warned as the country gears up for critical Feb. 14 presidential elections.

The attack on Baga has sparked international outrage not seen since Boko Haram kidnapped nearly 300 girls from a boarding school in April last year.

Nigeria’s demoralized and ill-equipped military has failed to rescue the 219 who remain in captivity.

Neighbouring Cameroon has had more success in combating Boko Haram, this month retaking a seized military base and this week winning freedom for scores of abducted women and children. On Wednesday the secretary general of the Economic Community of Central Africa States met with Cameroon President Paul Biya and said the regional body would assist Cameroon in fighting Boko Haram, saying it is important to “wipe out the terrorist organization.”

In neighbouring Niger, regional foreign ministers Wednesday were negotiating how to establish a multinational force to fight the extremists.

Shekau taunts them in the video, saying “I’m ready” for any attacks.

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Houthi Shiite Yemeni hold their weapons during clashes in near the presidential palace in Sanaa, Yemen, Monday.

Rebels, president strike deal to end standoff

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

YEMEN

SANAA, Yemen — Shiite rebels holding Yemen’s president captive in his home reached a deal with the U.S.-backed leader Wednesday to end a violent standoff in the capital, the country’s state news agency reported.

The agreement promised to give the rebel Houthi movement more say in the affairs of the Arab world’s poorest country in exchange for the group removing its fighters from President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi’s home, the SABA news agency said.

However, the late-night deal left unanswered who really controls the country and how much power is still held by Hadi, a key ally in U.S. efforts to battle Yemen’s local al-Qaida branch.

In the deal, the Houthis also agreed to release a top aide to Hadi that they had kidnapped in recent days.

SABA said the agreement included a clause that would answer the rebels’ demands to amend the constitution and expand their representation in the parliament and in state institutions. It also included promises to ensure better representation for Yemen’s southerners as well, the deal said.

The agreement also calls on Hadi to shake up a commission tasked with writing a draft constitution to ensure bigger representation for the Houthis.

The draft constitution has proposed a federation

of six regions, something the Houthis reject. The agreement reached Wednesday night also ensures that Yemen would be a federal state, but doesn’t mention the six region proposal, saying controversial issues will be further discussed.

The agreement, while addressing the immediate Houthi takeover and security concerns in the capital, leaves the contentious political issues unresolved.

The Houthis, who took control of the capital in September, say they only want an equal share of power, while critics say that they prefer presence of Hadi as a symbolic leader while they keep a grip on power. Critics also say the Houthis are backed by Shiite power Iran, something they deny.

The increasingly weakened leadership and power vacuum are setting stage for al-Qaida in Yemen, which claimed the recent attack on the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo and failed assaults on the U.S. homeland, to grow more powerful in the chaos.

Aides to Hadi said earlier Wednesday that he was “captive” in his home. Soon after the agreement Wednesday night, there was no visible change in Houthi deployment outside Hadi’s house.

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MOSCOW — Separatist forces deployed more arms and manpower Wednesday to an emerging flashpoint in eastern Ukraine, undermining hopes for a new peace initiative taking shape.

Responding to the developments, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko cut short a visit to the economic summit in Davos, Switzerland, where he courted European support in the worsening crisis.

The events unfolded ahead of a meeting of the foreign ministers of Ukraine, Russia, France and Germany that began in Berlin and was aimed at laying the groundwork for a long-lasting settlement.

In advance of the talks, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov proposed both sides in the conflict pull their heavy weapons back from a previously agreed-upon dividing line to help defuse hostilities.

Lavrov’s remarks were greeted with cautious approval by his Ukrainian counterpart, Pavlo Klimkin.

“Russia needs to confirm (peace deals) through deed not word,” Klimkin said on his Twitter account.

While Lavrov urged measures to contain the unfolding unrest, he said nothing about the rebels surrendering territory they acquired in violation of a peace deal concluded in September in Minsk, Belarus. Ukraine says separatist forces that are backed

by Russia have overstepped agreed-upon front-line boundaries between the warring sides by 500 square kilometres (190 square miles).

A fresh separatist advance is under way in an area northwest of Luhansk, the second-largest rebelheld city. The fighting is centred on two checkpoints along a strategic highway.

Ukraine’s Defence Ministry said one of those positions, Checkpoint 31, had been abandoned but that operations were underway to retake it.

The separatist forces appear well-poised to take the upper hand, however.

An Associated Press reporter saw nine Gvozdika self-propelled howitzers and six anti-tank cannons moving near the town of Perevalsk around midday.

A rebel militiaman with the convoy who declined to give his name said the armament was heading in the direction of Checkpoint 31.

Along the same road, the AP saw four Grad multiple rocket launchers accompanied by four trucks carrying ammunition and 15 pristine-looking tanks, also heading toward the checkpoint.

Ukraine and the West accuse Russia of providing material support to the separatists, which Moscow denies. The sheer amount of sophisticated heavy weaponry in the hands of the insurgents, however, is widely seen as overwhelming evidence of direct involvement by Russia.

Speaking during a visit to Kyiv, U.S. Army Europe commander Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges said the quantity of Russian equipment being provided to separatists had doubled between the September cease-fire deal and December.

“It is very clear from the capabilities that the proxies (rebels) have used against Ukrainian security forces, the type of artillery, modern equipment, the amount of ammunition that has been used,” Hodges said. “It is irrefutable that they are getting direct support from Russia.”

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‘I couldn’t have asked for better team’ REBECCA KONSHUH ENJOYED HER TIME WITH PETERMAN’S WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIP WINNING TEAM BUT IS LOOKING TO GROW WITH A NEW WOMEN’S RINK

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR LACOMBE — With the exception of Kristine Anderson, it’s reunion week for the members of Jocelyn Peterman’s 2012 Canadian junior women’s curling championship rink.

Anderson is not curling this winter due to employment commitments, but the other three players — including the skip — from the junior powerhouse are competing in the Alberta Scotties women’s championship at the Lacombe Arena, albeit with three different teams.

Peterman is tossing second stones for Heather Nedohin of Edmonton, former junior third Brittany Tran holds down the lead position for Casey Scheidegger’s Lethbridge crew, and Rebecca Konschuh, Peterman’s former second, is the lead for Crystal Webster and her Calgary foursome.

The former junior quartet entertained the notion of sticking together for their first ascent into full-time women’s curling, but eventually went their separate ways.

“We talked among ourselves and when Kris (Anderson) decided not to curl we thought that just to grow ourselves as players we’d move on,” Konschuh said Wednesday morning, following the opening draw of the Alberta Scotties.

“Crystal gave me a call and I thought it would be a great opportunity to see how the ladies game works.”

Konschuh, who is in her final year of a business — with a major in sports and recreation — program at Mount Royal University in Calgary, joined the Peterman crew in 2009 and enjoyed a long and successful run with the team that ended just last year.

“I couldn’t have asked for a better team. We all got along and we were friends on and off the ice,” said Konschuh, 21. “It was just a great environment to be in and that’s probably why I’m still curling today.”

Konschuh, who hails from Sundre,

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Playing on Crystal Webster’s Glencoe Club team, Rebecca Konschuh sweeps in a teammates shot during the opening day of the Women’s Provincial Curling Championships at the Lacombe Arena on Wednesday. hooked up with the Peterman rink almost by accident.

“They were playing in the juvenile provincials in 2009 and their second hurt her leg and I was in the spare pool,” she remembered.

“They picked me up as a spare and from there I kind of integrated myself onto the team. It just worked out that I got to join them for the rest of the journey.”

The trip from Sundre to Red Deer to attend practice sessions was one hour in length, which as Konschuh admitted, was hardly a major trip.

“And then we were all in Calgary the last couple of years, so we were still close,” she added.

Konschuh has detected a major difference between the junior women’s and women’s game.

“The curlers are a lot more consistent at this level,” she said. “In juniors you can expect the odd miss, but the ladies are spot on every time.”

Quinn emerging star for Queens volleyball To play the libero position in vol- push a ball up to the front court, and leyball is to play in the shadows, both I think she maybe didn’t always have figuratively and literally. that in her previous two years, now They are the stay-at-home defence- she seems to have gotten that concept men of the sport, generally only no- of elite training and it’s really helped ticed when something goes wrong, her out.” but are nonetheless essential to their She has started for most of her team’s success. three years at the school, but she has But Red Deer College emerged as arguably the top Queen Maddi Quinn, 21, is libero in the province this emerging from the back row season. In a year where they position as perhaps the proare replacing two of the top gram’s biggest star. powers in the country — The third year veteran Brooke Sutter and Amber has provided a calming efAdolf — they have struggled fect and covered up many at times to replace that ofof the misgivings that come fence, putting more presfrom an inexperienced sure on the defensive playgroup in transition and is a ers and the passing game. big reason the Queens (15-1; “She really has a good 46-7) are still the No. 1 team eye for reading the play and in the Canadian Colleges knowing where the ball is JOSH Athletic Association rankgoing to end up,” said WalALDRICH ings. ton. “Maddi is fairly tall in “It’s been fun because comparison to other libeI’m a older I have to now be ros and is really long, she’s more of a role as a leader got long arms and is able to and take charge instead of really cover the floor well. following the other leaders,” she said.

That physicality from her and that Heading into this weekend’s series ability to read really allows her to go with the Ambrose University College and dig anything she wants.”

Lions (1-15; 7-46), Quinn is second in Quinn learned much from last year’s the Alberta Colleges Athletic Asso- national championship, lessons she ciation in digs per set at 4.5. This past has applied to this weekend alone she had 49 digs in sev- year and has incoren sets in their 3-0 (25-19, 25-14, 25-12) porated into her and 3-1 (25-22, 26-28, 25-13, 25-18) wins leadership. over the Olds College Broncos en route “I remember in to being named Boston Pizza RDC Ath- our quarter-finals lete of the week. last year, I had to It isn’t the sexiest of volleyball stats pass the ball at 14or even a true measure of what a libe- 13 for (Capilano ro does, especially one like Quinn who University) and brings a level of athleticism not of- it was the scariten seen at the position. The five-foot- est thing in my seven defender has the innate ability life,” she said. “So Maddi Quinn to get to balls that other liberos just I learned how to can’t. Then her passing to setter Bron- deal with pressure wyn Hawkes has been spot on for most more and what we need to do for this of the year. year.”

But this is not by fluke.

Quinn is a product of Red Deer’s She put in the work this off-sea- Notre Dame High School and is folson to get better, strengthening her lowing in her older sister Mackenzie legs and her arms in an effort not be Quinn’s footsteps at RDC. Mackenzie pushed off the ball by strong attacks. was a two-year starter at power for the “It’s really helped out with her pass- Queens and before moving on to Mount ing,” said Queens head coach Talbot Royal University for two seasons.

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The Webster foursome, also consisting of third Jessie Kaufman and second Geri-Lynn Ramsay, sits 42nd on the World Curling Tour women’s money list with earnings of $6,700.

“It’s been great. We’re a new team so we’ve had a lot of growth we’ve had to go through,” said Konschuh.

“But it’s definitely being going up and up since the first ‘spiel of the season and we’re excited to be here.

We came out strong today, which was good.”

With the likes of defending champion Val Sweeting of Edmonton, former champions Nedohin and Shannon Kleibrink of Calgary and 2014 Manitoba champ Chelsea Carey, now of Edmonton, competing this week, Webster’s team faces a tough road to Sunday’s 2 p.m. final.

“We see some of these top teams on the Tour every now and then,” said Konschuh. “They’re all good so you just have to come out and play your game,

make shots and hope for the best.

“Just enjoy the week. There’s only one winner in the end so you just have to enjoy what you have and go from there.”

The Webster foursome roared past Karryn Flory’s Edmonton rink 10-3 in Wednesday’s morning draw, scoring five in the third end top break the game open. In other opening-draw contests, Tiffany Game of Edmonton downed Teryn Hamilton of Calgary 9-5, Scheidegger thumped Deanna Nichol of Peace River 8-2 and Nicky Kaufman of Edmonton was a 6-4 winner over Delia DeJong of Grande Prairie.

Webster fell 5-4 to Carey in the evening draw, while Scheidegger improved to 2-0 with an 7-6 win over Kleibrink, Sweeting edged Game 6-5 and Nedohin defeated Kaufman 9-4.

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Stampeders’ Hufnagel named CFL’s coach of the year enjoy it.”

Calgary defensive back/linebacker Keon Raymond was proud to see his WINNIPEG — John Hufnagel is head coach honoured. Raymond, a CFL about to take a well-deserved vacation. Players’ Association rep, on hand as The Calgary Stampeders head part of the league’s annual meetings.

“I’m extremely happy for coach coach/GM followed up his team’s 2014 Grey Cup championship by be- Huf,” Raymond said. “For him over ing named the CFL’s coach of the year the last couple of years to be coming so close and for him to win, and not Wednesday.

“I have to go to work (Thursday) but just to win, but to have the season that the day after I’m heading on a plane to we’ve had.

“Words can’t express how important go across the ocean for a week so I’ll be sipping a mai tai,” he said of his Ha- he is to our team, our organization. A lot of people on the outside see him as waiian holiday.

Hufnagel, 63, earned his second An- the Grinch, per se, but honestly he’s a coach that I wouldn’t nis Stukus Trophy mind watching my after leading Calgary ‘I ALWAYS SAY TO kids. I mean, he probto a CFL-best 15-3 regably won’t hear them ular-season record.

THE PLAYERS, I TRY a lot of times breakThe franchise then TO BE COMPLETELY ing stuff (Hufnagel claimed its seventh championship with a HONEST BECAUSE I’M has a hearing impairbut he’s such 20-16 Grey Cup victory NOT SMART ENOUGH ment), a players’ coach beover the Hamilton Ticause he played, he ger-Cats at B.C. Place TO REMEMBER THE understands the situStadium.

LIE I TOLD THEM ations we go through Tom Higgins of the as players.”

YESTERDAY.’ Montreal Alouettes For example, Rayand Chris Jones of the —JOHN HUFNAGEL mond said Hufnagel Edmonton Eskimos ON BEING UP FRONT WITH HIS PLAYERS supported a company were the finalists. that approached the Hufnagel received 43 first-place votes on the 65 ballots cast Stampeders to try to help players preby members of the Football Reporters pare for careers after football. Hufnagel wants similar programs across the of Canada.

Hufnagel’s first coach-of-the-year league.

“He sees you as a human first, then award came in ’08 when he led Calgary to a Grey Cup title in his first season a player,” Raymond said.

“He understands the man, then the back with the club.

The Stampeders lost the 100th Grey player.

“So when you can get a coach who Cup game to the Toronto Argonauts in understands the aspects of what you 2012.

Hufnagel has one more season to try bring to the table and who you are, you and claim a third Annis Stukus Tro- want to lay it out on the line for him.”

Hufnagel said he tries to be up front phy. He’ll return to the sidelines in 2015 then hand the coaching reins over with his players.

“I always say to the players, I try to to offensive co-ordinator Dave Dickenson and focus on his GM duties. On be completely honest because I’m not Wednesday, Hufnagel said there was smart enough to remember the lie I no temptation for him to go out on top told them yesterday,” he said.

Hufnagel joins Wally Buono (1992after winning the championship.

“This whole thing was an agreement ’93) as the only Calgary coaches to reput in place last year to keep Dave in ceive the award on multiple occasions.

Besides Buono and Hufnagel, the the building,” Hufnagel said. “In fact, Dave told me right after the Grey Cup other Stampeders coaches to capture game, he said, ’Now don’t do anything the honour include Jerry Williams (1967), Jack Gotta (1978) and Higgins stupid.’

“We have a plan and we will follow (’05). through with that plan. I enjoy coaching and so I have one more year to Please see CFL on Page B2

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Flames’ can’t break streak in Anaheim LOSE FOR THE 20TH CONSECUTIVE TIME FOR FOURTH LONGEST TWO-TEAM SERIES LOSING STREAK IN NHL HISTORY

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Ducks 6 Flames 3 ANAHEIM, Calif. — Ben Lovejoy had a goal and an assist, Frederik Andersen made 30 saves, and the Anaheim Ducks headed into the AllStar break on a five-game winning streak with a 6-3 victory over the Calgary Flames on Wednesday night.

Kyle Palmieri and Patrick Maroon scored in a threegoal first period for the NHLleading Ducks, who beat the Flames in Anaheim for the 20th consecutive time since Jan. 19, 2004.

Calgary has won at Honda Center just once in this century.

Ryan Getzlaf, Tim Jackman and Ryan Kesler also scored as Anaheim (31-10-6) opened a three-point lead on Nashville atop the overall standings entering the break.

Mikael Backlund, Sean Monahan and Joe Colborne scored as the Flames’ fourgame winning streak ended in

the finale of a five-game Pacific Division trip.

Calgary rookie Joni Ortio yielded four goals on 11 shots before getting yanked midway through the second period. Ortio came up from the minors before this trip and promptly won four straight games before flopping in the finale, allowing Jonas Hiller to finish against his longtime Anaheim teammates.

Calgary’s losing streak in Anaheim is tied for the fourthlongest in a two-team series in NHL history. The Flames’ five-game, road-winning streak also ended after the Ducks jumped to an early 4-0 lead and hung on.

The Ducks are 17-4-1 since Dec. 1.

After Palmieri put Anaheim ahead in the opening minutes off a sharp pass from Matt Beleskey, Maroon tipped home Lovejoy’s shot for his second goal in three games.

Two minutes later, Lovejoy’s long shot appeared to deflect off Kris Russell on the way past Ortio for the low-

scoring defenceman’s first goal of the season.

Shortly after Jackman’s goal chased Ortio midway through the second period, Backlund scored on a loose puck in the slot.

Getzlaf and fellow All-Star captain Marc Giordano had to be separated after Getzlaf tripped over Giordano’s outstretched leg in the second period, falling on his head. Getzlaf scored his 15th goal in the slot moments later.

Kesler added an empty-netter in the final minute.

NOTES: Anaheim D Clayton Stoner was a late scratch with a lower-body injury. Colby Robak played for the first time since Dec. 19, earning his first point in a Ducks uniform on Getzlaf’s goal. ... Maroon and Lovejoy scored against the Flames for the first time in their respective careers. ... Lovejoy hadn’t scored two points in one period since Jan. 3, 2014, when he scored two goals in three minutes against Edmonton.

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Anaheim Ducks goalie Frederik Andersen, right, stops a shot as Calgary Flames’ Josh Jooris watches during the first period of an NHL game, Wednesday in Anaheim, Calif.

Bouchard, Pospisil advance to third round at Australian Open opening game of the second set and losing the lead a game later.

“I lost my focus a bit, that’s unacceptable,” said the 20-year-old. “I’ll make sure it won’t happen again. I can be hard on myself, I’m a perfectionist.”

“It’s fun to play here at night, it’s a special atmosphere,” added Bouchard. “I’m glad I was finally able to hold my serve — and hold my serve at the end.”

Bouchard, who broke through to the semifinals in Melbourne and Paris last season before playing in the Wimbledon final, is now 7-1 in Australia.

Bouchard will play in the third round against France’s Caroline Garcia, who beat Swiss player Stefanie Voegele 6-3, 6-4, coached by her own former mentor Nathalie Tauziat.

“I worked with Nathalie a little bit, I guess that’s how the tennis world is,” said the Canadian. “It’s a small world.

“It’s kind of musical chairs in terms of coaching. I’m sure it won’t be the last time in my career. It won’t really bother me. I’m not playing against the coach, I’m playing against the player.

“I’m not going to worry about it.

I’m still friendly with Nathalie, so it’s all good.”

In men’s doubles, the 13th-seeded duo of Vancouver’s Vasek Pospisil and Austria’s Julian Knowle

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MELBOURNE, Australia — Canadian Eugenie Bouchard crushed Kiki Bertens of the Netherlands 6-0, 6-3 on Wednesday to reach the third round of the Australian Open for a second straight year.

The seventh seed from Westmount, Que., needed just 54 minutes to defeat the 72nd-ranked Bertens in their first career meeting.

Bouchard rolled through the opening set in just 23 minutes against an opponent who is now 0-5 versus top-10 opponents.

Two of Bertens’ three game wins came on breaks of Bouchard’s serve, including when the Canadian was first serving for the match.

Bouchard finished with six breaks of serve and 20 winners as she won a second consecutive match on the Margaret Court showcase arena.

“I think I put pressure on her a lot and I think probably forced her to make some errors,” said Bouchard. “I was happy with the way I was able to step in and control the points, whether I did the winner or she did the error.”

“In the end I think that’s how I want to play. Just need to stay a bit more focused at the end to try to close it out. More on my terms.”

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RDC: Early impact Maddi plans to make the same jump next season to the Canada West Universities Athletic Association program where she will continue working on her degree in psychology. The Cougars are a former ACAC power and are in their second season at the Canadian Interuniversity Sport level. Quinn should get the opportunity to make an impact early “They did real good in their first year (in Canada West), but now they have a lot of rookies on their team, so I think they wanted me to bring in a lot of experience and leadership,” said Quinn.

It all puts a little more focus on the goal of repeating last year’s success this year for Quinn, but she likes how the team is rounding into form in the second half of the campaign.

“I think we’re improving a lot,” she said. “We have real big hitters at the

opened with a 7-6 (3), 3-6, 7-6 (4) victory over Germany’s Jan-Lennard Struff and Dominic Thiem of Austria.

Pospisil won the Wimbledon doubles title last summer with American Jack Sock, who is still recovering from hip surgery.

Pospisil struggled with injuries in his singles match on the way to a 6-7 (3), 7-6 (4), 6-3, 6-4 defeat of Italy’s Paolo Lorenzi on Thursday to reach the third round of the Australian Open for a second consecutive year.

Vancouver’s Pospisil, ranked 60th, duplicated his best Grand Slam showing with the win, which took just over three and a half hours. He had won a five-setter on Tuesday and then played doubles a day later in a full program at the first major of the season.

Pospisil advanced with 22 aces despite getting treatment on court at various times for leg and back issues.

He next faces Spain’s Guillermo Garcia-Lopez, who defeated Alejandro Gonzalez of Colombia 6-1, 6-3, 6-3.

Pospisil finished almost level on stats, with 66 winners and 64 unforced errors. He broke Lorenzi on four of ten occasions.

Pospisil set the winning example for eighth-seeded Milos Raonic of Thornhill, Ont., who played in the second round later against American Donald Young.

front and so I think once we get our passing and our set down we’ll be hard to beat.”

Standing in their way this weekend is a classic trap game against Ambrose. The Lions have won just one match this season and only seven sets and the Queens will follow this match up with a bye week. Walton is doing his best to ensure they do not take them too lightly, especially with the return of their star right-side hitter Ashtyn McKenzie to complement the duo of Jordan Denham and Brooklyn Dyck.

“Their record’s not as good as I think they can be,” said Walton. “I think they’re a bit of a sleeper team and they have enough experience on the left side and right side to give them an opportunity to build a lot of momentum.”

They play on Friday at Red Deer College at 6 p.m. with the men to follow and then in Calgary om Saturday at the same time. ● The RDC Queens (5-5-4) hockey team hosts the SAIT Trojans (7-6-1) tonight at 7 p.m. at the Red Deer Arena and then plays the rematch on Friday in Calgary at 7 p.m. If the Queens win both games or take three of four points

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOENIX — Like sandlot players when they were kids, Hall of Famers Cris Carter and Michael Irvin chose sides on Wednesday night.

This time, they were drafting some of the best football players in the NFL for Team Carter and Team Irvin, the Pro Bowl matchup on Sunday.

Quarterback Andrew Luck of Indianapolis went No. 1 to Team Carter. Irvin chose Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo as No. 2.

They were the only two quarterbacks left from the original Pro Bowl roster. The other six bowed out.

The NFL scrapped its AFC vs. NFC format and went to the current system a year ago. The game is being played for one year in Glendale, Arizona, site of next week’s Super Bowl, and will return to Hawaii next season.

Not everyone loves the new format.

“I think there was something about coming out here and saying ’I’m from the AFC and this is my team,”’ New York Jets centre Nick Mangold said. “Now that it’s not, I’d be the first to say I’m not a fan of how they do it.”

Luck didn’t exactly offer a ringing endorsement.

“It’s interesting,” he said. “I’ve only done it a couple of times. Like anything, there’s some good and some bad. It’s all right.”

Both teams went with wide receivers with their next two picks. Cincinnati’s A.J. Green was picked No. 3 by Carter. Odell Beckham Jr. of the New York Giants was No. 4 to Irvin. Kansas City running back Jamaal Charles was selected No. 5

by Team Carter. Team Irvin went with Dallas offensive tackle Tyron Smith at No. 6.

Wide receiver Antonio Brown of Pittsburgh and defensive end J.J. Watt of Houston already had been named co-captains for Team Carter.

Dallas running back DeMarco Murray and Cleveland cornerback Joe Haden are co-captains for Team Irvin.

in the two games, they will jump over the Trojans into second place in the ACAC. ● The RDC Kings (9-10-0-1) men’s hockey team has their work cut out for them this weekend, playing the second place NAIT Ooks (16-3-0-1). They are in Edmonton on Friday at 7 p.m. and then host the Ooks on Saturday at 7 p.m. at the Penhold Multiplex. jaldrich@reddeeradvocate.com

CFL: Become a joke Higgins, the former CFL director of officiating and a two-time coach of the year winner, led Montreal to a 9-9 record and second spot in the East Division in his first season with the club.

That’s an impressive feat considering the Alouettes opened the season 1-7.

“Now it’s become a joke,” Higgins said of Montreal’s early struggles.

“When we were 1-7, it’s difficult to lose that many games because it seems like it’s over a three-month period of time you haven’t had any success. “(My wife) Sharon and I, I continued to tell her, ’We didn’t sign up for this.

This isn’t what I went to Montreal for.’

But life’s a journey, so is each and every season. You’re going to have ups, you’re going to have downs.

“We just happened to have a whole bunch of downs and all of sudden it turned because all of a sudden there were some athletes that were injured that came back and we were able to make a change in some certain positions, so it was such a rewarding year.”

Edmonton posted a 12-6 record — second-best in the CFL — under Jones, its first-year head coach, after registering a 4-14 mark in 2013. But the Eskimos couldn’t solve the Stampeders, losing all three regular-season games and the West Division final to their provincial rivals.

Jones credited his coaches and players for turning the team around.

“Unfortunately, winning and losing are both contagious,” Jones said.

“Sometimes you get on a string where you’re not playing well or you’re losing a game or two and people lose confidence. I think that’s just human nature.

“So to have them come back and this year play as hard as they played, it’s a tribute to them.”

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Team Canada’s Connor McDavid skates with the trophy following his team’s gold medal victory over Team Russia at the IIHF World Junior Championship in Toronto on Jan. 5, 2015. Connor McDavid keeps reliving the final seconds of winning world junior gold for Canada. Lawson Crouse remembers it like it was yesterday.

Prospects game shows off top players beyond McDavid and Eichel

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McDavid, Crouse still reliving joy of winning world junior gold for Canada ST. CATHARINES, Ont. — Connor McDavid keeps reliving the final seconds of winning world junior gold for Canada. Lawson Crouse remembers it like it was yesterday.

More than two weeks after ending the nation’s gold-medal drought at the world junior championship, McDavid and Crouse are still glowing about it.

“You say you want to move on and stuff like that. You got to,” McDavid said Tuesday before practice for the CHL Top Prospects game.

“But it’s hard to say you don’t miss it. I miss it so much. I think it was two weeks (Monday) or whatever. I was talking with some of the guys yesterday and I miss it a lot. I miss that feeling and that energy and that buzz.”

The buzz of Air Canada Centre, loud with almost every fan wearing red-and-white, was intoxicating. It has taken time for McDavid to move past that night and the biggest accomplishment of his hockey-playing life.

“It’s pretty common to have a little bit of a letdown after world juniors,” McDavid said. “Your game is so ramped up and everything is riding on a single play and everything like that. Then you come back to the OHL, which is still great hockey and all that, but it’s not the world juniors.”

A letdown by McDavid’s definition doesn’t seem to be so bad. The projected No. 1 pick in June’s NHL draft had at least a point per game since going back to the Erie Otters, a total of five goals and four assists in five games.

McDavid, who has 60 points in 23 games, called four points in two games an “all right weekend.”

Crouse, who’s also expected to be a top-10 pick, also had some difficulty mentally adjusting when

he returned to the OHL’s Kingston Frontenacs.

“I went back and I tried to do too much, and I sat down with Coach (Paul MacFarland) and I told him that,” Crouse said. “He just said, ’Well, just do the things that got you there.’ After two games I kind of got back to my normal self.”

Crouse has four goals and three assists in six games. Don’t call it a letdown.

“It’s not necessarily a letdown, but it’s a different style,” he said.

“You’re playing with the top guys and then you go back and you kind of have to adapt to getting back to what got you there and doing the things well.”

McDavid and Crouse were at their best at the world juniors, as Canada went undefeated to win gold. Crouse said he learned from each teammate and opponent to improve his game.

“Just the level of play and how much you have to execute things to a tee,” Crouse said. “You have to compete every shift. I feel like I do that well. Obviously I just try to build off that game in and game out.”

McDavid picked up a big lesson, too, about what pressure situations are like.

“Just that experience of playing in the big games and winning and all that,” McDavid said. “To have that experience under my belt and some of those big-game moments and stuff like that, it’s good to take back with you.”

With 11 points in seven games, McDavid tied for the tournament lead in scoring. A few months ago he said it was up to this world junior team to restore the belief of Canadian hockey fans, but in the aftermath of doing that he didn’t feel a weight come off his shoulders.

“People asked me if it was relief that I was feeling, but it was nothing but joy,” McDavid said. “It’s not thinking, ’Oh we finally did it,’ or whatever. It’s just you’re so happy to finally have a dream come true and live that with those 22 guys and the staff and all that.”

ST. CATHARINES, Ont. — Connor McDavid and Jack Eichel should go first and second in the NHL draft. Beyond that, there’s plenty left to sort out in the next five months.

Next up in the process of jockeying for draft position is Thursday night’s CHL top prospects game. Forty of the top draft-eligible players will be on the ice at Meridian Centre in St. Catharines with hundreds of scouts watching carefully.

“I heard something like there’s over 250 scouts are going to be here,” McDavid said. “It’s the best-on-best. It’s the best draft eligibles against the best draft eligibles. It’ll be a good test, and it’ll be a good game and it will be a good kind of measuring stick for scouts to see.”

McDavid doesn’t need any more measuring. But a handful of potential top10 picks will be under the microscope against each other.

Winger Lawson Crouse of the OHL’s Kingston Frontenacs is fourth among North American skaters on NHL Central Scouting’s latest rankings, Dylan Strome of the Erie Otters is fifth and Mitchell Marner of the London Knights is seventh.

Boston College defenceman Noah Hanifin is favoured to be the third pick after McDavid and Eichel, but former NHL executive Craig Button believes Strome and Marner may be better.

They can show it Thursday.

“I think that’s kind of what this game is made for: to show the scouts that you can compete against the best and that you can be the best,” Marner said. “You really want to show that you can be higher in the rankings than you are listed.

That’s a big part.”

One of the biggest competitions is between Crouse, Strome and Marner.

Crouse was a big fourth-line winger for gold-medal-winning Canada at the world juniors, while Strome and Marner weren’t invited.

Marner (90 points on 34 goals and 56 assists) and Strome (80 points on 28 goals and 52 assists) lead the OHL in scoring.

Strome has been developing well with McDavid as a teammate and helped the Otters when McDavid was injured.

“You see how many points he has and all that and all the stuff he goes on the ice, he does so well,” McDavid said of Strome. “He’s just a great player and you guys are going to see that Thursday.”

Even though he could be a top-five pick, Crouse said there are a lot of critics of his game and he’s “trying to prove them all wrong.”

“I think my skill is underestimated,” Crouse said. “People don’t realize that I do have good hands and I can bury the puck. I’ve scored a couple of nice goals this year and it proves to myself that I

can score and I can do other things than just throw the body and play defence.”

Everyone knows what Marner can do offensively. He’s only five-foot-eleven, but his production is bigger than he expected.

“My goal at the start of this year was to try and finish with 90 points or a little higher, and I’m already at that plateau,” Marner said. “I’m just trying to get to more open areas and I’m trusting my teammates more with the puck than I was at the start of the year.”

An all-star game takes these players out of their comfort zone. McDavid, who’s on the team coached by Bobby Orr, and Strome, on the team coached by Don Cherry, will be opponents after building chemistry and a friendship in Erie.

Strome is ready for the challenge and the spotlight.

“Obviously you’ve probably never played with a lot of guys on your team,” he said. “But at the same you’ve just got to have fun and stay focused and try not to worry too much about the media. That’s always going to be there and you’ve just got to kind of block everything out. It’s just a hockey game, so I’m going to try to have fun.”

Team Cherry captain Anthony Beauvillier of the Shawinigan Cataractes said one key is not caving to the pressure of the situation.

“Just play the game as you can play on your regular team and everything’s going to be fine,” Beauvillier said.

Competition is the name of this game, beyond the top five or 10 picks. The top-ranked goaltender on NHL Central Scouting’s list, Mackenzie Blackwood of the Barrie Colts, is out with illness, so Michael McNiven, Samuel Montembeault, Nick McBride and Liam Herbst get to show why they should be drafted higher.

The same goes for players like defenceman Brandon Carlo of the WHL’s Tri-City Americans. Carlo is 16th among North American skaters but won’t try to do too much to stand out from the crowd in St. Catharines.

“I want to show (scouts) who I am,” Carlo said. “I want to go out there and play a simple game, a hard-nosed defenceman like I am. I don’t want to try and doing anything drastic offensively or anything like that. I just want to go out there and do what I do.”

Of course plenty of eyes will be on McDavid because it’s impossible to ignore his talent. Those watching include his teammates and opponents.

“I knew he was an incredible player, and by playing with him (at the world juniors), you just realize that he takes it to a whole new level each and every game,” Crouse said. “I was fortunate enough to get to watch him play, and the things that he does just blows my mind. His speed and his skill is incredible.”

Whatever the Leafs’ problems, this is Shanahan’s show DON’T WORRY TOO MUCH ABOUT GENERAL MANAGER DAVE NONIS’S ROLE IN ANY FIXES, BECAUSE THE PRESENT AND FUTURE BELONG SOLELY TO THE PRESIDENT

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And that’s the trick. Don’t worry too much about general manager Dave Nonis’s role in any fixes, because the present and future are president Brendan Shanahan’s show. Sending Phaneuf to Los Angeles for a declining 30-year-old who has had trouble staying in shape would be blowing it up, in a way. So would trading for Eric Staal, whose blatant staredown of Phaneuf Monday would make for something to talk about, here. It just wouldn’t help.

And this front office knows that. Blowing it up isn’t one red button: it’s a piano with a lot of keys to choose from, and you have to play a concerto over years. This team isn’t three trades away; this team might not be five trades away. This team can’t depend on trades to fix itself; the draft has be a part of it, if you want sustainable success. That means a cool head amid the tumult, patience, the willingness to go backwards, the ability to sell pain to Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment, and a new CEO. Shanahan has three of those. We’ll see if he can get four.

And then comes the work. Shanahan has never done this, and assistant GM Kyle Dubas and personnel director Mark Hunter have never done this, not in the NHL. We’ll see what they have.

But they know what they have to do, so try to calm down. Take a deep breath. Hold your fire, because if things haven’t started really changing by the time summer winds down, you may still need it.

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Blow it up. Burn it down. Push the van into the Me, I miss the days where people could make river, drop the crate into the sea. Set the charges and signs on bedsheets and hang them from the upper light the fuse and watch it all explode and burn and deck. I’d like to see what Toronto’s bedsheet signs send streaking shards of blue and white across the would say. hard white light of a cold, bleak, bright winter sky.

Of course, in their last seven games since Randy It’s so easy to say, blow it up. It’s cathartic. It Carlyle was fired, Toronto has basically the same sounds like burning down the casino for the insur- 5-on-5 Corsi — shot attempts for and against, a simance money: just layer the place in gasoline and ple if not comprehensive metric — as Winnipeg, the light a match and walk away in slow motion, rich as a struggling Blackhawks, and Montreal. It’s in the lowpharaoh. In the case of the Toronto Maer-middle class district, just barely in the ple Leafs, blow it up, and then you won’t bottom half, and a small sample size. have to watch it get hemmed in its own But it beats the cellar storm drain zone for weeks on end, or alternatively, they’ve been occupying for the best part of go a week wandering in some strange several seasons. Being the Leafs, of course, scoreless desert, and adding boring to they have scored five goals in those seven the list of sins. Blow it up makes it sound games, and thanks to that plus a goaltender like shooting out your TV, and right now, who is sinking into average territory, they understandably, Toronto wishes it was lost six. They tried to break Corsi by winfat Elvis. ning when it was terrible, and now they’re The fact of it will be harder, and it trying to break Corsi by losing when it’s means patience. Yes, patience is far less not. interesting than a big red glowing selfThe defensive habits are better, indisdestruct button, but that’s where they putably. Interim coach Peter Horachek BRUCE are. The Toronto Maple Leafs are in one nailed it Monday night when asked if ToARTHUR of their annual abysses just now, and evronto would loosen up and run-and-gun eryone is now coming around to the conagain when he said, that’s not how the best clusion that some people had arrived at teams play. And still, after seven games some time ago. This is not a good hockey people are losing their minds, as if a bad team. It does not have the makings of a contender. seven games has never happened before in Toronto.

Its best-case is mediocrity, and its current reality is Look, it’s been clear for some time, and it’s clear a familiar and awful place. Don’t bother saying this now: The choice lies somewhere between blowing team was better under former coach Randy Carlyle, part of this team up and blowing the whole thing skyplease. It was doomed then, and it’s doomed now. It high. This isn’t new. Given the crisis, absurd rumours just looks different, that’s all. are swirling. Trading Dion Phaneuf for Mike Rich“I think it’s been worse than this,” said centre ards sounds like the kind of thing that could have Nazem Kadri, when asked about the ups and downs originated with either the over the years.

Los Angeles Kings, who Maybe, but the cumulative despair is immense, need a defenceman, or an and we’ve reached a place where the police failed agent whose client is marto nail down Rob Ford, but have managed to ticket ried to an actress. Otherseveral jersey-tossing Leafs fans for being too angry. wise, it’s sheer lunacy. If There are paper bags on heads and jerseys on the you think the Leafs are ice. doing that, you think Bren-

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

Medicine Hat Red Deer Calgary Edmonton Kootenay Lethbridge

CENTRAL DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL 45 31 12 1 1 46 26 14 3 3 46 24 17 1 4 46 22 18 4 2 46 23 22 0 1 43 10 27 3 3

GF 182 163 184 140 148 114

WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF Kelowna 45 34 8 3 0 192 Victoria 47 25 19 2 1 160 Prince George 48 20 26 1 1 145 Vancouver 46 19 25 1 1 137 Kamloops 47 17 24 3 3 139 GP 46 47 44 44 46

Everett Portland Spokane Seattle Tri-City

U.S. DIVISION W L OTLSOL 30 12 3 1 25 19 0 3 23 17 3 1 22 17 2 3 22 22 0 2

GF 161 161 134 119 128

GA 149 142 150 169 158 194

Pt 70 56 47 42 39 27

GA 130 145 147 126 166 185

Pt 64 58 53 50 47 26

GA 114 150 199 152 171

Pt 71 53 42 40 40

GA 114 155 134 124 140

Pt 64 53 50 49 46

Tuesday’s results Kootenay 4 Vancouver 3 Everett 6 Prince George 1 Wednesday’s results Medicine Hat 8 Vancouver 4 Kamloops 3 Tri-City 1 Everett 4 Prince George 1 Thursday’s games Kootenay at Edmonton, 11:30 a.m.

Friday’s games 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.

Saturday’s games Moose Jaw at Saskatoon, 6:05 p.m.

Regina at Brandon, 6:30 p.m.

Prince George at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.

Vancouver at Red Deer, 7 p.m.

Swift Current at Kootenay, 7 p.m.

Calgary at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Everett at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

Kamloops at Victoria, 8:05 p.m.

Portland at Seattle, 8:05 p.m.

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

2015 CHL Top Prospects Game ST. CATHARINES, Ont. — Rosters for Thursday’s 2015 Canadian Hockey League Top Prospects

Game in St. Catharines, Ont.: TEAM (DON) CHERRY Forwards Anthony Beauvillier, Shawinigan (QMJHL); Filip Chlapik, Charlottetown (QMJHL); Jake DeBrusk, Swift Current (WHL); Graham Knott, Niagara (OHL); Mitchell Marner, London (OHL); Adam Musil, Red Deer (WHL); Daniel Sprong, Charlottetown (QMJHL); Mitchell Stephens, Saginaw (OHL); Dylan Strome, Erie (OHL); Evgeny Svechnikov, Cape Breton (QMJHL).

Yakov Trenin, Gatineau (QMJHL); Dennis Yan, Shawinigan (QMJHL).

Defencemen Rasmus Andersson, Barrie (OHL); Brandon Carlo, Tri-City (WHL); Vince Dunn, Niagara (OHL); Brendan Guhle, Prince Albert (WHL); Noah Juulsen, Everett (WHL); Matt Spencer, Peterborough (OHL).

Goaltenders Michael McNiven, Owen Sound (OHL); Samuel Montembeault, Blainville-Boisbriand (QMJHL).

Assistant Coaches Brian Kilrea, Bert O’Brien, Nick Kypreos.

TEAM (BOBBY) ORR Forwards Paul Bittner, Portland (WHL); Lawson Crouse, Kingston (OHL); Glenn Gawdin, Swift Current (WHL); Ryan Gropp, Seattle (WHL); Jansen Harkins, Prince George (WHL); Travis Konecny, Ottawa (OHL); Connor McDavid, Erie (OHL); Timo Meier, Halifax (QMJHL); Nick Merkley, Kelowna (WHL); Nathan Noel, Saint John (QMJHL).

Nicolas Roy, Chicoutimi (QMJHL); Blake Speers, Sault Ste. Marie (OHL).

Defencemen Guillaume Brisebois, Acadie-Bathurst (QMJHL); Thomas Chabot, Saint John (QMJHL); Nicolas Meloche, Baie-Comeau (QMJHL); Ryan Pilon, Brandon (WHL); Ivan Provorov, Brandon (WHL); Jeremy Roy, Sherbrooke (QMJHL).

Goaltenders Liam Herbst, Ottawa (OHL); Nick McBride, Prince Albert (WHL).

Assistant Coaches Marty Williamson, Dave Bell, Billy Burke, Doug MacLean.

National Hockey League EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts Tampa Bay 48 30 14 4 64 Detroit 47 27 11 9 63 Montreal 45 29 13 3 61 Boston 48 25 16 7 57 Florida 44 20 14 10 50 Ottawa 46 19 18 9 47 Toronto 48 22 23 3 47 Buffalo 47 14 30 3 31

GF 156 139 123 126 107 126 142 89

GA 127 119 106 121 122 128 150 167

Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts 46 31 14 1 63 46 26 12 8 60 44 27 13 4 58 46 24 13 9 57 48 19 22 7 45 45 20 22 3 43 47 17 22 8 42 46 16 25 5 37

GF 151 138 134 137 130 113 107 98

GA 129 117 106 120 146 142 134 120

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

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA

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

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

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Southeast Division W L Pct 35 8 .814 29 14 .674 18 24 .429 18 25 .419 15 30 .333

GB — 6 16 1/2 17 21

Central Division W L Pct 27 16 .628 23 20 .535 21 20 .512 17 26 .395 15 29 .341

GB — 4 5 10 12 1/2

WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct Memphis 30 12 .714 Dallas 30 13 .698 Houston 29 13 .690 San Antonio 27 16 .628 New Orleans 21 21 .500 Northwest Division W L Pct

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Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Anaheim 47 31 10 6 68 139 124 Vancouver 45 26 16 3 55 124 114 San Jose 47 24 17 6 54 127 130 Calgary 47 25 19 3 53 136 125 Los Angeles 46 20 14 12 52 127 122 Arizona 46 16 25 5 37 105 156 Edmonton 47 12 26 9 33 109 158 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Tuesday’s Games Edmonton 5, Washington 4, SO Detroit 5, Minnesota 4, SO N.Y. Rangers 3, Ottawa 2, OT Philadelphia 3, Pittsburgh 2, OT Montreal 2, Nashville 1, OT Tampa Bay 4, Vancouver 1 Chicago 6, Arizona 1 Boston 3, Dallas 1 Wednesday’s Games Chicago 3, Pittsburgh 2, SO Ottawa 4, Toronto 3 Winnipeg 4, Columbus 0 Anaheim 6, Calgary 3 Boston 2, Colorado 3, SO Los Angeles at San Jose, late All-Star break Wednesday’s summary Ducks 6, Flames 3 First Period 1. Anaheim, Palmieri 9 (Beleskey) 4:41.

2. Anaheim, Maroon 4 (Lovejoy, Fowler) 14:59.

3. Anaheim, Lovejoy 1 (Thompson) 17:04.

Penalties — Cogliano Ana (slashing) 8:58, Beleskey Ana (slashing) 11:54.

Second Period 4. Anaheim, Jackman 4 (Bourque, Thompson) 9:37.

5. Calgary, Backlund 6 (Bouma) 11:13.

6. Calgary, Monahan 15 (Gaudreau, Giordano) 19:12.

Penalties — Perry Ana (tripping) 0:38, Jones Cgy (tripping) 4:47.

Third Period 7. Anaheim, Getzlaf 15 (Perry, Robak) 9:44.

8. Calgary, Colborne 5 (Bouma, Wideman) 10:42.

9. Anaheim, Kesler 13 (Perry) 19:41 (en).

Penalties — Stajan Cgy (hooking) 6:01.

Shots on goal Calgary 10 13 10 — 33 Anaheim 8 8 11 — 27 Goal — Calgary: Ortio (L, 4-1-0); Anaheim: Andersen (W, 26-6-5).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Calgary: 0-3; Anaheim: 0-2.

2015 NHL All-Star Game Selections NEW YORK — Final players selected for the 2015 NHL all-star game Jan. 25 in Columbus, Ohio (x — voted in by fans; i — injured, will not play; r — replacement; c — team captains): Goaltenders

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

Seattle 28, Green Bay 22, OT New England 45, Indianapolis 7

NFL Playoffs 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

Atlanta Washington Miami Charlotte Orlando

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Sergei Bobrovsky, Columbus Blue Jackets; x-Corey Crawford, Chicago Blackhawks; r-Marc-Andre Fleury, Pittsburgh Penguins; r-Jaroslav Halak, New York Islanders; i-Jimmy Howard, Detroit Red Wings; Roberto Luongo, Florida Panthers; Carey Price, Montreal Canadiens; i-Pekka Rinne, Nashville Predators.

Defencemen Brent Burns, San Jose Sharks; Dustin Byfuglien, Winnipeg Jets; Drew Doughty, Los Angeles Kings; Oliver Ekman-Larsson, Arizona Coyotes; Justin Faulk, Carolina Hurricanes; Mark Giordano, Calgary Flames; Erik Johnson, Colorado Avalanche; x-Duncan Keith, Chicago Blackhawks; x-Brent Seabrook, Chicago Blackhawks; Kevin Shattenkirk, St. Louis Blues.

Ryan Suter, Minnesota Wild; Shea Weber, Nashville Predators.

Forwards Patrice Bergeron, Boston Bruins; Sidney Crosby, Pittsburgh Penguins; Patrik Elias, New Jersey Devils; c-Nick Foligno, Columbus Blue Jackets; Ryan Getzlaf, Anaheim Ducks; x-Zemgus Girgensons, Buffalo Sabres; Claude Giroux, Philadelphia Flyers; Ryan Johansen, Columbus Blue Jackets; Tyler Johnson, Tampa Bay Lightning; x-Patrick Kane, Chicago Blackhawks.

Phil Kessel, Toronto Maple Leafs; Anze Kopitar, Los Angeles Kings; Evgeni Malkin, Pittsburgh Penguins; Rick Nash, New York Rangers; Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, Edmonton Oilers; Alex Ovechkin, Washington Capitals; Bobby Ryan, Ottawa Senators; Vladimir Tarasenko, St. Louis Blues; John Tavares, New York Islanders; cx-Jonathan Toews, Chicago Blackhawks.

Tyler Seguin, Dallas Stars; Steven Stamkos, Tampa Bay Lightning; Jakub Voracek, Philadelphia Flyers; Radim Vrbata, Vancouver Canucks.

Will participate in skills competition but not allstar game Jonathan Drouin, Tampa Bay Lightning; Aaron Ekblad, Florida Panthers; Filip Forsberg, Nashville Predators; Johnny Gaudreau, Calgary Flames; Mike Hoffman, Ottawa Senators; Tanner Pearson, Los Angeles Kings.

Head Coaches Team Foligno — Darryl Sutter, Los Angeles Kings.

Team Toews — Peter Laviolette, Nashville Predators.

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

G 17 28 22 19 16 15 14 17 24 15 26 21 14 14 28 27 19 17 17 18 23 14 19

A 39 24 29 32 35 36 35 31 23 32 19 24 30 30 15 16 24 26 26 24 18 27 21

Pts 56 52 51 51 51 51 49 48 47 47 45 45 44 44 43 43 43 43 43 42 41 41 40

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EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct Toronto 27 15 .643 Brooklyn 18 24 .429 Boston 13 26 .333 Philadelphia 8 34 .190 New York 7 36 .163

Nashville St. Louis Chicago Winnipeg Colorado Dallas Minnesota

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GB — 1/2 1 3 1/2 9

Portland Oklahoma City Denver Utah Minnesota

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

31 22 18 14 7

12 20 24 28 34

.721 .524 .429 .333 .171

— 8 1/2 12 1/2 16 1/2 23

Pacific Division W L Pct 33 6 .846 28 14 .667 26 18 .591 16 26 .381 12 31 .279

GB — 6 1/2 9 1/2 18 1/2 23

Tuesday’s Games Oklahoma City 94, Miami 86 San Antonio 109, Denver 99 Wednesday’s Games New York 98, Philadelphia 91 Charlotte 78, Miami 76 Cleveland 106, Utah 92 Atlanta 110, Indiana 91 Detroit 128, Orlando 118 New Orleans 96, L.A. Lakers 80 Memphis 92, Toronto 86 Dallas 98, Minnesota 75 Oklahoma City 105, Washington 103, OT Phoenix 118, Portland 113 Brooklyn 103, Sacramento 100 Houston at Golden State, late Thursday’s Games San Antonio at Chicago, 6 p.m.

Utah at Milwaukee, 6 p.m.

Boston at Portland, 8 p.m.

Brooklyn at L.A. Clippers, 8:30 p.m.

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Baseball Major League Baseball free agent signings NEW YORK — The 69 free agents who have signed, with name, position, former club if different, and contract. The contract information was obtained

by The Associated Press from player and management sources:For players with minor league contracts, letter agreements for major league contracts are in parentheses: AMERICAN LEAGUE BALTIMORE (1) — Re-signed Delmon Young, of, to a $2.25 million, one-year contract.

BOSTON (5) — Re-signed Koji Uehara, rhp, to an $18 million, two-year contract; signed Pablo Sandoval, 3b, San Francisco, to a $95 million, five-year contract; signed Hanley Ramirez, lf, Los Angeles Dodgers, to an $88 million, four-year contract; signed Justin Masterson, rhp, St. Louis, to a $9.5 million, one-year contract; re-signed Craig Breslow, lhp, to a $2 million, one-year contract.

CHICAGO (5) — Signed Zach Duke, lhp, Milwaukee, to a $15 million, three-year contract; signed Adam LaRoche, 1b, Washington, to a $25 million, two-year contract; signed David Robertson, rhp, New York Yankees, to a $46 million, four-year contract; signed Melky Cabrera, of, Toronto, to a $42 million, three-year contract; signed Emilio Bonifacio, 2b, Atlanta, to a $4 million, one-year contract.

CLEVELAND (2) — Signed Gavin Floyd, rhp, Atlanta, to a $4 million, one-year contract; signed Scott Downs, lhp, Kansas City, to a minor league contract ($800,000).

DETROIT (3) — Re-signed Victor Martinez, dh, to a $64 million, four-year contract; signed Tom Gorzelanny, lhp, Milwaukee, to a $1 million, one-year contract; re-signed Joel Hanrahan, rhp, to a minor league contract.

HOUSTON (3) — Signed Luke Gregerson, rhp, Oakland, to an $18.5 million, four-year contract; signed Pat Neshek, rhp, St. Louis, to a $12.5 million, two-year contract; signed Jed Lowrie, ss, Oakland, to a $23 million, three-year contract; signed Colby Ramus, of, Toronto, to an $8 million, one-year contract.

KANSAS CITY (5) — Re-signed Jason Frasor, rhp, to a $1.8 million, one-year contract; re-signed Luke Hochevar, rhp, to a $10 million, two-year contract; signed Kendrys Morales, dh, Seattle, to a $17 million, two-year contract; signed Alex Rios, of, Toronto, to an $11 million, one-year contract; signed Edinson Volquez, rhp, Pittsburgh, to a $20 million, two-year contract.

MINNESOTA (3) — Signed Torii Hunter, of, Detroit, to a $10.5 million, one-year contract; signed Ervin Santana, rhp, Atlanta, to a $55 million, four-year contract; signed Tim Stauffer, rhp, San Diego, to a $2.2 million, one-year contract.

NEW YORK (5) — Re-signed Chris Young, of, to a $2.5 million, one-year contract; signed Andrew Miller, lhp, Baltimore, to a $36 million, four-year contract; re-signed Chase Headley, 3b, to a $52 million, four-year contract; re-signed Chris Capuano, lhp, to a $5 million, one-year contract; re-signed Stephen

Drew, ss, to a $5 million, one-year contract.

OAKLAND (1) — Signed Billy Butler, 1b, Kansas City, to a $30 million, three-year contract.

SEATTLE (1) — Signed Nelson Cruz, dh, Baltimore, to a $57 million, four-year contract.

TAMPA BAY (1) — Signed Asdrubal Cabrera, ss, Washington, to a $7.5 million, one-year contract.

TEXAS (2) — Re-signed Colby Lewis, rhp, to a $4 million, one-year contract; signed Kyuji Fujikawa, rhp, Chicago Cubs, to a $1.1 million, one-year contract.

TORONTO (1) — Signed Russell Martin, c, Pittsburgh, to an $82 million, five-year contract.

NATIONAL LEAGUE ATLANTA (5) — Signed Jim Johnson, rhp, Detroit, to a $1.6 million, one-year contract; signed Nick Markakis, of, Baltimore, to a $44 million, four-year contract; signed Alberto Callaspo, 3b, Oakland, to a $3 million, one-year contract; signed Jason Grilli, rhp, Los Angeles Angels, to an $8 million, two-year contract; signed A.J. Pierzynski, c, St. Louis, to a $2 million, one-year contract.

CHICAGO (5) — Signed Jason Hammel, rhp, Oakland, to a $20 million, two-year contract; signed Jon Lester, lhp, Oakland, to a $155 million, six-year contract; signed Jason Motte, rhp, St. Louis, to a $4.5 million, one-year contract; signed David Ross, c, Boston, to a $5 million, two-year contract; signed Chris Denorfia, of, Seattle, to a $2.6 million, oneyear contract.

COLORADO (1) — Signed Nick Hundley, c, Baltimore, to a $6.25 million, two-year contract.

LOS ANGELES (2) — Signed Brandon McCarthy, rhp, New York Yankees, to a $48 million, four-year contract; signed Brett Anderson, lhp, Colorado, to a $10 million, one-year contract.

MIAMI (2) — Signed Michael Morse, of, San Francisco, to a $16 million, two-year contract; signed Nick Masset, rhp, Colorado, to a minor league contract.

NEW YORK (1) — Signed Michael Cuddyer, of, Colorado, to a $21 million, two-year contract.

PHILADELPHIA (1) — Signed Aaron Harang, rhp, Atlanta, to a $5 million, one-year contract.

PITTSBURGH (2) — Signed A.J. Burnett, rhp, Philadelphia, to an $8.5 million, one-year contract; re-signed Francisco Liriano, lhp, to a $39 million, three-year contract.

ST. LOUIS (1) — Signed Mark Reynolds, 1b, Milwaukee, to a $2 million, one-year contract.

SAN DIEGO (3) — Signed Clint Barmes, ss, Pittsburgh, to a $1.5 million, one-year contract; signed Brandon Morrow, rhp, Toronto, to a $2.5 million, one-year contract; re-signed Josh Johnson, rhp, to a $1 million, one-year contract.

SAN FRANCISCO (3) — Re-signed Sergio Romo, rhp, to a $15 million, two-year contract; re-signed Jake Peavy, rhp, to a $24 million, two-year contract; signed Nori Aoki, of, Kansas City, to a $4.7 million, one-year contract.

WASHINGTON (1) — Signed Max Scherzer, rhp, Detroit, to a $210 million, seven-year contract.

Singles Men Second Round Guillermo Garcia-Lopez, Spain, def. Alejandro Gonzalez, Colombia, 6-1, 6-3, 6-3.

Steve Johnson, United States, def. Santiago Giraldo (30), Colombia, 6-3, 6-4, 6-2.

Kei Nishikori (5), Japan, def. Ivan Dodig, Croatia, 4-6, 7-5, 6-2, 7-6 (0).

John Isner (19), United States, def. Andreas HaiderMaurer, Austria, 6-4, 7-6 (4), 4-6, 6-4.

Feliciano Lopez (12), Spain, def. Adrian Mannarino, France, 4-6, 4-6, 7-6 (3), 4-0, retired.

Jarkko Nieminen, Finland, def. Matthias Bachinger, Germany, 7-6 (4), 7-5, 7-5.

Stan Wawrinka (4), Switzerland, def. Marius Copil, Romania, 7-6 (4), 7-6 (4), 6-3.

Novak Djokovic (1), Serbia, def. Andrey Kuznetsov, Russia, 6-0, 6-1, 6-4.

Vasek Pospisil, Canada, def. Paolo Lorenzi, Italy, 6-7 (3), 7-6 (4), 6-3, 6-4.

Gilles Muller, Luxembourg, def. Roberto Bautista Agut (13), Spain, 7-6 (5), 1-6, 7-5, 6-1.

Women Second Round Agnieszka Radwanska (6), Poland, def. Johanna Larsson, Sweden, 6-0, 6-1.

Venus Williams (18), United States, def. Lauren Davis, United States, 6-2, 6-3.

Garbine Muguruza (24), Spain, def. Daniela Hantuchova, Slovakia, 6-1, 1-6, 6-0.

Timea Bacsinszky, Switzerland, def. Anna Tatishvili, United States, 6-7 (5), 6-3, 6-2.

Serena Williams (1), United States, def. Vera Zvonareva, Russia, 7-5, 6-0.

Camila Giorgi, Italy, def. Tereza Smitkova, Czech

Republic, 6-1, 6-4.

Varvara Lepchenko (30), United States, def. Ajla Tomljanovic, Australia, 6-1, 7-6 (1).

Dominika Cibulkova (11), Slovakia, def. Tsvetana Pironkova, Bulgaria, 6-2, 6-0.

Doubles Men First Round Rohan Bopanna, India, and Daniel Nestor (7), Canada, def. Marcos Baghdatis, Cyprus, and Marinko Matosevic, Australia, 7-6 (2), 7-5.

Women First Round Julia Goerges and Anna-Lena Groenefeld (16), Germany, def. Maddison Inglis and Alexandra Nancarrow, Australia, 6-4, 6-1.

Andrea Hlavackova and Lucie Hradecka (9), Czech Republic, def. Lyudmyla Kichenok and Olga Savchuk, Ukraine, 6-0, 7-6 (4).

Sara Errani and Roberta Vinci (1), Italy, def. Karolina Pliskova, Czech Republic, and Anna Schmiedlova, Slovakia, 6-2, 6-0.

Caroline Garcia, France, and Katarina Srebotnik (7), Slovenia, def. Andrea Petkovic, Germany, and Magdalena Rybarikova, Slovakia, 6-4, 5-7, 6-2.

Lara Arruabarrena, Spain, and Irina-Camelia Begu, Romania, def. Yang Zhaoxuan and Ye Qiu Yu, China, 5-7, 6-4, 6-4.

Alexandra Panova, Russia, and Heather Watson, Britain, def. Annika Beck, Germany, and Shahar Peer, Israel, 2-6, 7-5, 3-1, retired.

Zarina Diyas, Kazakhstan, and Chanelle Scheepers, South Africa, def. Darija Jurak, Croatia, and Megan Moulton-Levy, United States, 4-6, 6-4, 7-6 (5).

Timea Babos, Hungary, and Kristina Mladenovic (10), France, def. Bojana Jovanovski, Serbia, and Katarzyna Piter, Poland, 6-1, 6-3.

Kiki Bertens, Netherlands, and Johanna Larsson, Sweden, def. Mirjana Lucic-Baroni, Croatia, and Lisa Raymond, United States, 7-6 (7), 6-3.

Bethanie Mattek-Sands, United States, and Lucie Safarova, Czech Republic, def. Tatjana Maria, Germany, and Raluca Olaru, Romania, 6-3, 6-2.

Today

● Curling: Alberta Scotties provincial women’s championship at Lacombe Arena, draws at 9 a.m., 2 and 6:30 p.m. ● College women’s hockey: SAIT at RDC, 7 p.m., Arena.

Friday

● Curling: Alberta Scotties provincial women’s championship at Lacombe Arena, draws at 9 a.m., 2 and 6:30 p.m. ● Midget A hockey: Tommy Gun’s Outdoor Winter Classic at Bower rinks, games at 5:45, 6:45, 7, 9:15 and 9:30 p.m. ● College volleyball: Ambrose University at RDC, women at 6 p.m., men to follow. ● AJHL: Canmore at Olds, 7 p.m. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Banff at Stettler, 7:30 p.m.; Mountainview at Three Hills, 8 p.m. ● Minor midget AAA hockey: Red Deer Aero Equipment at Red Deer North Star, 8 p.m., Arena. ● Midget AA hockey: Red Deer Indy Graphics at Red Deer Elks, 8:30 p.m., Collicutt Centre.

Saturday

● Midget A hockey: Tommy Gun’s Outdoor Winter Classic at Bower rinks, games at 7, 7:15, 9:30 and 9:45 a.m., 1:45 p.m. (skills), 5, 6:15, 7, 7:30, 9:30 and 9:45 p.m. ● Peewee AA hockey: Red Deer TBS at Red Deer Parkland, 12:30 p.m., Kinsmen A. ● Curling: Alberta Scotties provincial women’s championship at Lacombe Arena, draws at 1 and 6:30 p.m. ● Major bantam hockey: Calgary Flames at Red Deer White, 2 p.m., Arena. ● Bantam AA hockey: Airdrie at Red Deer Steel Kings, 2:30 p.m., Kinex; Okotoks at Olds, 4:45 p.m., ● Junior women’s hockey: Edmonton at Central Alberta, 3:45 p.m., Penhold Regional Multiplex. ● Minor midget AAA: Calgary Rangers at Red Deer Aero Equipment, 4:45 p.m., Arena. ● Midget AA hockey: Calgary Gold at Sylvan Lake, 5:30 p.m., Eckville; Calgary Rangers at Red Deer Indy Graphics, 7:15 p.m., Collicutt Centre; Calgary Canucks at Olds, 7:30 p.m. ● WHL: Vancouver at Red Deer, 7 p.m., Centrium. ● College men’s hockey: NAIT at RDC, 7 p.m., Penhold Regional Multiplex. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Red Deer at Stettler, 7:30 p.m.; Coaldale at Three Hills, 8 p.m.

Sunday

● Midget A hockey: Tommy Gun’s Outdoor Winter Classic at Bower rinks, games at 7 and 7:30 a.m., B final at 10 p.m., championship final at 10:15 p.m.. ● Curling: Alberta Scotties provincial women’s championship at Lacombe Arena, semifinals at 9:30 a.m., final at 2 p.m. ● 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.

Transactions Wednesday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL COMMISSIONER’S OFFICE — Suspended freeagent RHPs Carlos Artiles and Felix Bautista 72 games and free-agent C Kyle Bacak, San Diego RHP Travis Remillard (Arizona League) and Houston RHP Andrew Walter (Lancaster-Cal) 50 games, for violations of the Minor League Drug Prevention and Treatment Program.

MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL — Ratified a fiveyear labour agreement with the World Umpires Association.

American League CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Named Tommy Esmay manager of Kannapolis (SAL), Tim Esmay manager of Winston-Salem (Carolina) and Cole Armstrong manager of Great Falls (Pioneer).

HOUSTON ASTROS — Traded C Carlos Corporan to Texas for RHP Akeem Bostick.

TEXAS RANGERS — Designated RHP Gonzalez Germen for assignment.

National League CINCINNATI REDS — Agreed to terms with RHP Jason Marquis on a minor league contract.

MIAMI MARLINS — Agreed to terms with RHPs Ryan Chaffee, Vin Mazzaro and Ryan Reid; LHPs Pat Misch, Chris Narveson and Pat Urckfitz; Cs Vinny Rottino and Jhonatan Solano; INFs Reid

OLDS GRIZZLYS The Olds Grizzlys will be looking to snap a three-game Alberta Junior Hockey League losing streak when they host the Canmore Eagles Friday.

But most of all, the Grizzlys will be trying to erase the sour memories of Tuesday’s 9-2 loss to the Calgary Mustangs.

Olds held a 46-30 advantage in shots in the game at Calgary’s Father David Bauer Arena, but only Kodi Schwartz and Cale Brown could beat Mustangs netminder Ravi Dattani, who faced 26 shots in the third period.

Meanwhile, Dondre Watson fired three goals for the Mustangs, who also got two-goal performances from Jordan Xavier and Joe Mahon and singles from Vincent Paquette and Josh McCulloch. Calgary, onefor-four on the power play, led 4-0 after one period and 6-1 after 40 minutes.

Olds was zero-for-six on the power play. Jesse Gordichuk, who was charged with the loss, and Billy Gorn combined to make 21 saves in the Grizzlys net.

Brignac and Scott Sizemore; and OFs Tyler Colvin, Cole Gillespie and Kenny Wilson on minor league contracts.

MILWAUKEE BREWERS — Agreed to terms with LHP Dontrelle Willis on a minor league contract.

SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS — Designated 2B Marco Scutaro for assignment.

WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Agreed to terms with RHP Max Scherzer on a seven-year contract.

FOOTBALL National Football League CHICAGO BEARS — Named Ed Donatell defensive backs coach.

CLEVELAND BROWNS — Named John DeFilippo offensive co-ordinator.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS — Named Greg Olson offensive co-ordinator.

Canadian Football League EDMONTON ESKIMOS — Released PK/P Hugh O’Neill.

HOCKEY National Hockey League ANAHEIM DUCKS — Assigned D Mark Fistric to Norfolk (AHL).

ARIZONA COYOTES— Recalled G Mike McKenna from Portland (AHL). Assigned D Brandon Gormley and Philip Samuelsson, F Lucas Lessio and G Mike Lee to Portland.

DALLAS STARS — Reassigned D Jamie Oleksiak

and Jyrki Jokipakka to Texas (AHL).

DETROIT RED WINGS — Assigned LW Teemu Pulkkinen to Grand Rapids (AHL).

MONTREAL CANADIENS — Assigned F Christian Thomas to Hamilton (AHL).

NASHVILLE PREDATORS — Reassigned G Marek Mazanec to Milwaukee (AHL).

American Hockey League AHL — Suspended Rockford RW Ryan Hartman one game.

IOWA WILD — Assigned F Olivier Archambault to Alaska (ECHL).

ECHL CINCINNATI CYCLONES — Released G Branden Komm and Fs Michael Neal and Tom Serratore.

COLORADO EAGLES — Claimed G Daniel Spence off waivers from Utah.

EVANSVILLE ICEMEN — Released Fs Mark Anthoine and Jordan Sims.

SOCCER U.S. SOCCER — Suspended G Hope Solo from the U.S. women’s national team for 30 days for unspecified reasons.

Major League Soccer FC DALLAS — Acquired MF Kyle Bekker from Toronto FC for allocation money. Agreed to terms with MF Atiba Harris.

VANCOUVER WHITECAPS — Signed D PaModou Kah.

TOMMY GUN’S OUTDOOR WINTER CLASSIC The midget A hockey 2015 Tommy Gun’s Outdoor Winter Classic features eight teams and runs Friday through Sunday at the Bower rinks.

The competing teams will be draped in throwback jerseys from the old World Hockey Association, with the four Red Deer clubs — Prairie Bus Lines, Red Deer Lodge, CanPro and Baker Hughes — representing the Alberta Oilers, Chicago Cougars, Los Angeles Sharks and Houston Aeros, respectively.

Wearing the jerseys of the Cleveland Cavaliers, New England Whalers, Quebec Nordiques and Winnipeg Jets will be teams from Edmonton, Calgary, Swan Hills and Edson.

The action gets underway at 5:45 p.m. Friday, with additional opening-day games set for 6:45, 7, 9:15 and 9:30 p.m.

Due to unseasonably warm temperatures, Saturday’s games will be played in the morning and late afternoon/evening. Sunday’s morning games are set for 7 and 7:30 a.m., and the B-side and championship finals will go at 10 and 10:15 p.m.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL Mandy Carroll netted 12 points and Erika Pottage added 11 as the Storm edged the Big Ballers 42-41 in Red Deer Women’s Basketball League play.

Katrina Papenhuyzen led the losing side with 16 points, while Morgan Richardson and Courtney Janke each had eight.

Pottage was named player of the game for the winners, with Papenhuyzen earning similar honours in a losing cause.

RED DEER ADVOCATE Thursday, Jan. 22, 2015 B5

Rasmus excited to sign with Astros after years in Canada

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HOUSTON — Colby Rasmus never really took to living in Toronto in the 3 ½ seasons he played for the Blue Jays.

Born in Georgia and raised in Alabama, Rasmus has returned from Canada to play for the Houston Astros and couldn’t be more excited about the change.

Wearing a pullover with camouflage details and speaking with his syrupy Alabama drawl, Rasmus raved about the move.

“Everything’s bigger in Texas and I’ve always heard great things about it,” he said. “I’ve got a couple of big trucks so my big trucks will fit in the big city. In Toronto you’ve got a little-bitty garage and I had to leave my big trucks at home.

So that will definitely be fun for me.”

The free agent outfielder was introduced Wednesday, a day after he finalized an $8 million, one-year contract with the Astros. The deal followed Houston’s decision to trade last year’s starting centre fielder, Dexter Fowler, to the Chicago Cubs.

Rasmus has hit at least 18 homers in each of his last three seasons, including tying a career-best with 23 in 2012.

The lefty batter hit .225 with 40 RBIs and 21 doubles in 104 games for the Blue Jays last year.

The signing reunites him

with Houston general manager Jeff Luhnow, who selected him in the first round of the 2005 amateur draft for the St. Louis Cardinals.

“As scouting director, he was my first-ever selection, so we were sort of tied together in the St. Louis media throughout his rise through the minor leagues,” Luhnow said. “It was a good opportunity for us to reunite. It’s always nice when you have some pre-existing relationship with a player and you know a little bit about them.”

Luhnow believes Rasmus will be a nice addition to a lineup already laced with power hitters including Chris Carter, George Springer and Evan Gattis.

“He’s got speed,” Luhnow said. “He’s got power. He’s a good defender. I think he’s really going to add something to our lineup and be a really complementary piece to what we’re putting together.”

Rasmus played for the Cardinals from 2009 until he was traded to the Blue Jays in July 2011. He’s looking forward to working with Luhnow again.

“We always got along and had a good rapport with each other when I got drafted and throughout the minor leagues,” Rasmus said. “To be back with him I knew it would be a good place for me because we understand each other and he’s known me for a long time and knows how I work and things that make me tick.”

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

In this July 27, 2014 photo, Toronto Blue Jays’ Colby Rasmus scores in a baseball game against the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium in New York. Rasmus has agreed to an $8 million, one-year contract with the Houston Astros. The deal was announced Tuesday, a day after Houston dealt last year’s starting center fielder, Dexter Fowler, to the Chicago Cubs.

The 28-year-old said Houston was where he wanted to be since he became a free agent.

He had been interested in the Astros for years, since discussing what it’s like to play here with former Astros star Lance Berkman.

“I played with Lance Berkman with the Cardinals and he loved playing here,” Rasmus said. “To hear him talk about it, I thought it would be a good place for me.”

Rasmus started 80 games in centre field last season and has played both right and left field in his six-year big league career. He’s most comfortable

Tired of being left behind, Luke Donald playing Humana Challenge for first time PGA TOUR

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LA QUINTA, Calif. — Luke Donald is playing the Humana Challenge for the first time in a bid to keep pace on the West Coast swing.

The 37-year-old Englishman opened the year last week in Hawaii with a tie for 51st in the Sony Open and will play next month at Torrey Pines and Riviera.

“The last few years I played a lot in the Middle East,” said Donald, set to open play Thursday. “I think with the new wraparound schedule, I feel like in previous years (Riviera) has been kind of my first event of the year and I feel like I’m getting left behind a little bit. Some guys have played eight and nine events and I’m playing my first or second.”

He’s skipping the Match Play event April 29-May 3 in San Francisco because of a conflict with his brother’s wedding. Donald won the 2011 Match Play tournament in Arizona.

“He set his wedding date before the tournament decided to change the date,” Donald said. “He thought that it was a free week that I don’t usually play. ... I told him I would definitely be at his second wedding, but he didn’t find that too funny.”

Donald is working full-time again with instructor Pat Goss, his coach at Northwestern, after shifting to Chuck Cook last year for help with his full swing .

“It’s certainly easier to have one coach rather than split short game and full swing, and certainly it’s been fun being back with Pat,” Donald said.

No. 1 in the world for 56 weeks in 2011-12, he’s 34th now. Donald won the last of his 13 worldwide titles in November 2013 in the Dunlop Phoenix in Japan. He has five PGA Tour victories, the last in 2012.

A SOLDIER’S GAME: Chad Pfeifer, a 33-year-old teaching professional who lost his left leg in Iraq, is playing in the pro-am competition.

Pfeifer started playing golf in 2007 while rehabbing at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio.

His leg was amputated above the knee after his vehicle has hit by a roadside bomb.

“Golf saved my life,” Pfeifer said.

He’s paired with Baltimore Orioles pitcher Bud Norris.

They will play alongside PGA Tour players Scott Langley and Brendon de Jonge in the first round.

A contestant on Golf Channel’s “Big Break” series, Pfeifer is a three-time Warrior Open winner, the 2011 National Amputee champion and tied for fifth last year in the

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American Century celebrity event. He played college baseball at Northwest Nazarene in Idaho.

“I’m representing thousands of my brothers and sisters who fought and continue to fight for our country,” Pfeifer said.

He teaches at the Golf Club of Estrella in Goodyear, Arizona.

DESERT DNA: Sam Saunders played his way into the event grandfather Arnold Palmer won a record five times.

“It’s a huge accomplishment for me and just a great feeling of knowing that I have earned my spot in this field and it wasn’t given to me,” said Saunders, a PGA Tour rookie after earning his card last year on the Web.com Tour.

Playing on sponsor exemptions, Saunders missed the cuts in 2010, ’11 and ’12.

“I was glad to see I got in on my own number comfortably this week,” Saunders said. “It just gives me a feeling of belonging and knowing that I’m just out here to do my job and I’m just one of the other guys and trying to do the best I can to have a chance to win a golf tournament.”

Palmer won the inaugural tournament in 1960 and added victories in 1962, ’68, ’71 and ’73. He also won the 1959 Thunderbird Invitational in the area. PGA West’s Arnold Palmer Private Course is the host layout.

in centre field but is open to playing wherever new manager A.J. Hinch decides to put him.

“I’ll be ready to do anything that the team needs,” Rasmus said. “We’ve got a couple of other guys that can play some good centre field. So moving around and doing some things that A.J. might think will help us do that — I’m game in with that. I just want to come in and win and winning is going to be the key for us.”

The majority of Houston’s outfielders are versatile enough to play all three positions. Jake Marisnick, who

was acquired in a trade with the Marlins last season, is the most likely alternative in centre if Rasmus doesn’t get the job.

“My goal this spring was to provide A.J. and his staff with as many options as possible and backups to those options,” Luhnow said when asked if Ramus would start in centre.

“He’s got options and if one doesn’t work he can always move to another. We know that we signed Colby to be in our lineup. He certainly will be facing probably all the righties and a decent amount of lefties.”

After Scherzer’s $210 million deal, Nationals think big

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Forgive Washington Nationals owner Mark Lerner if he got swept up in the scene.

Speaking after a news conference Wednesday to announce the addition — via a $210 million, seven-year contract — of 2013 AL Cy Young Award winner Max Scherzer, Lerner was thinking big thoughts. After all, the club’s starting rotation, at least for the moment, also includes Stephen Strasburg, Jordan Zimmermann, Doug Fister and Gio Gonzalez.

“If they all stay healthy,” began Lerner, whose father, Ted, is the team’s principal owner, “I guess it’s a possibility we may give up the fewest runs in National League history during a 162-game schedule, which is amazing.”

Let the speculation begin, then. Who will start on opening day, an honour that’s gone to Strasburg the past three years? How good could this staff be?

As it is, in 2014, Washington’s starters led the majors with a 3.04 ERA. How far can those pitchers take the Nationals, who won the NL East in 2012 and again last season before bowing out in Washington’s opening playoff series each time?

And, perhaps most intriguingly, will general manager Mike Rizzo keep that group intact? Or will he wind up trading someone, perhaps Zimmermann or Fister, who can both become free agents after next season?

Until those last two questions are answered, Rizzo certainly shares Lerner’s enthusiasm for the current collection of arms.

“We’ll stack our rotation up with anybody’s in our division, our league and maybe in baseball,” Rizzo said, “and compete against them.”

Of course, things don’t always shape up on the field the way they do during the offeseason.

The terrific Atlanta Braves group that included three Hall of Famers in Greg Maddux, Tom Glavine and John Smoltz wound up with only one World Series championship. That’s one more than the Philadelphia Phillies won after assembling Roy Halladay, Cliff Lee, Cole Hamels and Roy Oswalt.

Still, if that’s the discussion connected to the Nationals now, it represents a sea change from where this franchise stood six years ago.

It was noteworthy to hear the word “winning” over and over Wednesday at Nationals Park, where the scoreboard displayed a “Welcome to D.C.” greeting for Scherzer and his wife.

This is a club that lost 100 games in both 2008 and 2009 and found it difficult to attract top talent in free agency, but the perception has changed.

“There’s no doubt about it,” Rizzo said. “We’ve got a lot of good baseball people around here. We’ve got a lot of good professionals. The selling portion of it from five years ago to today is night and day. We certainly have no problem with players wanting to be Washington Nationals.”

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Nikita Taranik, 10, ponders his next move as James Morrick moves his queen on the offensive at the Dawe Library on Monday afternoon. Players from beginners to intermediate levels are welcome to drop in at the Dawe branch of the Red Deer Public Library on Mondays from 5 to 6:30 p.m. From 5 to 6 p.m., younger players get to play against others and learn the rules, while from 6 to 6:30 p.m., adults can get some supervision playing the game. The Chess Club at the library is co-sponsored by the Alberta Chess Association. For details, call 403-341-3822.

CALENDAR THE NEXT SEVEN DAYS

Friday ● Golden Circle Senior Resource Centre celebrates Russia on Jan. 23 and 24.

Enjoy dinner and entertainment by RendezVous Music of Calgary. Tickets for either night on sale at the Golden Circle. Costs are $30 for members and $40 for non-members.

Phone 403-346-343-6074. ● Ponoka Legion weekly suppers are at 5:30 p.m. on Fridays. Cost is $13 per person.

Call 403-783-4076. ● Innisfail Public Library hours are Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Tuesday and Thursday from noon to 8 p.m., and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Phone 403-227-4407. ● Justice Film Festival will take place Jan. 23 to 25 at Margaret Parsons Theatre at Red Deer College. Free admission. Hosted

by Hearts of Women. See www.justicefilmfestival.ca for details.

Saturday ● Kids Knit (and grown-ups too!) at Red Deer Public Library Downtown Branch will be offered on Jan. 24, Feb. 7 and Dec. 21, and March 7 and 21, from 3 to 4 p.m.

Children ages nine years and up, or children under nine years accompanied by an adult, are welcome to learn to knit, or work on their own project — beginner to expert. Phone 403-346-4688. ● Frozen Sing-a-long will be offered at Timberlands Branch of Red Deer Public Library on Jan. 24 from 2 to 4 p.m. Come in costume make a craft, watch and sing with the movie Frozen. ● Library on the Go: Get that eBook will be offered from 12:30 to 2 p.m. on Jan. 24 at Red Deer Public Library Dawe Branch. ● Moebius Syndrome Awareness Day is Jan. 24. Please wear purple to show your support. See www.manyfacesofmoebiussyndrome.com ● MAGnificent Saturdays offer free art making with a professional artist from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery in downtown Red Deer. The Jan. 24 session is called Wizardly Wonders. All materials supplied. Families welcome. Phone 403-3098405. Free with admission. ● Artist Reception for Soul Summits will be held at Kerry Wood Nature Centre on Jan. 24, 2 to 4 p.m. with the artists in attendance. Phone 403-346-2010. ● Fantastic Felt Workshop goes Jan. 24, 1 to 4 p.m. at Kerry Wood Nature. Using re-purposed sweaters, make a pair of projects to bring you warmth this winter. For ages 14 and up. Please register by Jan. 22. Costs are $15 for KWNC members, and $17 for non-members. All materials provided. Basic sewing skills helpful but not required. Phone 403-346-2010.

Sunday

● Cultural Cafe on Jan. 25 presents Robbie Burns Night at Cronquist House from 6 to 8 p.m. Celebrate Scottish tradition with poetry, songs, haggis, and bagpipe music.

Register by calling 403-346-8818 or see www.immigrant-centre.ca ● The Alberta Dahlia and Gladiolus Society meeting will be held on Jan. 25, 2 p.m. at Eastview Estates Community Centre.

A slide show of the top 50 dahlias, information on soil preparation and spring planting, and information on ordering dahlia tubers and glad corms will be featured. All interested public welcome. Contact Larry at 403-3468401, or larryquintilio@gmail.com. ● Botha Old-Time Dances are held on the last Sunday of each month at Botha Community Hall, next Jan. 25, 1:30 to 5 p.m. on Sundays, with admission of $12.50. Different popular old time bands each dance. Please contribute to and enjoy a pooled luncheon of buns/sandwiches and desserts to be shared by all, served at 5 p.m. All ages and families welcome. For more information, call Doug at 403-742-3994. ● Red Deer River Naturalists — Sunday Bird Focus meets Sunday from 1 to 3 p.m. at the Kerry Wood Nature Centre to depart on excursions in central Alberta. Dates and destinations are: Jan. 25 —Kentwood Natural Area. Come prepared for a full afternoon of birding. Bring along lunch, snacks, coffee, and dress for the weather. Be prepared to carpool. To join in, confirm attendance with Judy at 403-342-4150.

Monday ● Chess Club at Red Deer Public Library Dawe Branch welcomes all levels of players from beginner to intermediate to learn chess rules and adult players from 6 to 6:30 p.m. on Jan. 26. Co-sponsored by Alberta Chess Association. Phone 403-341-3822. ● MAGsparks connects people with developmental disabilities to the Red Deer Arts community on Mondays and Wednesdays, from 1 to 3 p.m. at Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery. There is a drop-in fee of $3 or membership is available for $50. For information, contact Janet at 403-309-8405, janet.cole@ reddeer.ca. January 26 and 28 topic is Acrylic Painting — a flurry of snowflakes. ● Bargain Treasures Thrift Store in Red Deer welcomes gently used items, except large furniture, computers and monitors.

Please bring items inside the back door at 5217 Gaetz Ave. during business hours, 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, and on Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The store is run by volunteers and all proceeds stay in the community. Call 403-347-9711. ● Innisfail and District Garden Club meets the fourth Monday of each month in St. Mark’s Anglican Church Hall, next Jan. 26. Please use the back door. Meetings feature speakers, tours, films, contests, plant exchanges and more. Call Davina at 403598-9481. ● Golden Circle Senior Resource Centre card games are played on the following

days: Canasta Mondays at 1 p.m., $1; Cribbage — Tuesdays at 1:30 p.m., $2; Singles Bridge — Wednesdays at 1 p.m., $2; Partner Bridge — second and fourth Tuesday of each month at 6:30 p.m., $3; Mixed cards — first and third Friday of each month, $1; Military Whist — second and fourth Friday of each month, $2. For more information on cards please call Diane at 403-343-6074.

Tuesday ● Cosplay Creators: DIY Armour will be offered on Jan. 27, 3:30 to 5 p.m. in Waskasoo Kiwanis Meeting Room at Red Deer Public Library. Youth aged 12 to 18 are invited to learn how to create foam armour from guest host Felicia McComb, mastermind of Stealthy Cosplay. ● Tech Help Tuesdays are offered weekly from 2 to 4 p.m. on Level 2 at Red Deer Public Library Downtown Branch. Bring your device and get help using library resources from RDPL’s Digital Literacy Coordinator. ● Nu2U Thrift Store in Olds is open Tuesday to Friday from noon to 5 p.m. at 5030 51 St. The store offers furniture, home decor, housewares, antiques, collectibles, and more. Phone 403-556-3279. Profits go to community initiatives. ● Sunrise Toastmasters is held Tuesday mornings at 7:15 to 8:30 a.m. at Central Alberta Training Zone, 4828 53 St. Toastmasters improves both communication and leadership skills. Everyone welcome. Phone 403-343-0091 or see www.toastmasters.org ● Bower Place Community Association seniors’ coffee and card parties are held on the last Tuesday of each month at Bower Kin Place from 1:30 to 3 p.m. Join the fun on Jan. 27. Call Marlene at 403-343-0632.

Wednesday ● Central Alberta Photographic Society (CAPS) meets the second and fourth Wednesdays of the month at 6:45 p.m. at Golden Circle Senior Resource Centre. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. for socializing. Next meeting is Jan. 28 featuring visiting photographer Robert Berdan presenting Aurora photography techniques, landscape and wildlife on the tundra, and 360 degree photography. See www.centralalbertaphotographicsociety.com for more information. ● Red Deer Legion Old-Time Dance

with Allsorts Band is on Jan. 28 at 7 p.m.

Cost is $7, or $13.95 with buffet starting at 5 p.m. Phone 403-342-0035. ● Orientation and information session for volunteers for Red Deer Adult Literacy Program will be held on Jan. 28, 6:30 to 8 p.m. at Dawe Branch of Red Deer Public Library. Those interested in volunteering are asked to call 403-346-2533 or adultlit@rdpl. org to register. ● Stettler Art Group — Church Mice — meet every Wednesday at Stettler United Church Christian Education Wing at 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Artists are asked to bring their own art supplies and lunch. Coffee supplied. The cost is $2 per session. Sessions cease at the end of May and resume Sept. Contact Donna Lea at 403-742-5690. ● Sit and Be Fit exercise program is held on Wednesdays starting at 10:45 to 11:30 a.m. at the Golden Circle Senior Resource Centre. A $2 drop-in fee applies.

Phone 403-343-6074. ● Living Stones Church seniors luncheon and concert with Potters Clay Quartet will be offered on Jan. 28 from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the Fellowship Hall. The cost is $8 per person at the door. Phone 403-3477311. ● Red Deer College Distinguished Speaker Series has announced that Amanda Lang — who was scheduled to speak in Red Deer on Jan. 28 — has been cancelled. The college is working with Black Knight Ticket Centre to refund tickets. Contact 403-7556625, or toll-free at 1-800-661-8793. However, Perspectives: Canada in the World Welcomes Margaret Atwood, April 6 at RDC Arts Centre, Mainstage at 7:30 p.m. Tickets cost $40 or $32 for students and seniors. For each, tickets are available at www.bkticketcentre.ca or by calling 403-755-6626, 1-800661-8793.

Thursday ● Dawe Branch POP Goes the Teen Club is held Thursdays from 3:30 to 5 p.m. at Red Deer Public Library. Youth 12 years plus are invited to explore Origami Day on Jan. 29. ● Golden Circle Senior Resource Centre dance, Thursday, Jan. 29, 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. at the seniors’ centre. Dance to the music of the Allsorts Band. Admission is $7.

Phone 403-347-6165, 403-342-2875, or 403346-3896.

REGISTRATIONS LOCAL EVENTS AND ORGANIZATIONS ● Teddy Bear Sleepover will be offered at Downtown Branch of Red Deer Public Library with drop off of teddy bears and stuffed animals on Feb. 18 between 3:30 and 5:30 p.m. and pick up on Feb. 19 at 2 p.m. in the Children’s Department. Ever wondered what teddy bears do at night? Drop off your teddy bear or stuffed animal to spend the night at the library, and then pick up the stuffed animal and stay for a Teddy Bear Picnic. Call 403-346-4688 to register. First 15 accepted.

Pictures will be posted on Facebook and

Twitter. ● Cover 2 Cover Book Club will meet on Feb. 9 from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at Dawe Branch of Red Deer Public Library. February’s theme is World War II books. Contact 403-341-3822 or www.rdpl.org/services/cover2cover. ● Soulful Noize will be rocking The Hub on Ross on Feb. 6, 7 to 9 p.m. Costs are $15 per person, or $30 per family cash at the door. Phone 403-340-4869.

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Pneumonia raises risk of heart attack, stroke in older adults: study

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Seniors who develop a bout of pneumonia severe enough to require hospitalization are at higher risk of having a heart attack, stroke or dying of heart failure for years after the event, a new study suggests.

For adults 65 and older, the increased risk is highest in the first year following the infection, but remains elevated for at least a decade - which was the maximum time the researchers followed the patients.

In the first 30 days, the increased risk was substantial - four times greater than that of people of similar ages who had not been hospitalized with pneumonia.

Lead author Dr. Vicente CorralesMedina of the Ottawa Hospital said the study confirms what doctors have been seeing for years.

“There have been clinical observations of people coming to the hospital with a bad respiratory infection, a bad pneumonia and then developing a cardiovascular event such as a stroke, heart attacks or even heart failure soon after they are diagnosed with this infection,” he said.

“These observations are decades

FROM PAGE B6 ● Fireside Readers book club will meet on Feb. 18 from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at Red Deer Public Library Downtown Branch in Waskasoo Kiwanis Meeting Room. For discussion will be The Cat’s Table by Michael Ondaatje.

Phone 403-342-9110. See the blog at http:// firesidereaders.rdpl.org/. If you can’t attend meetings, read along and post your comments. ● Red Deer and District Community Foundation Nominations for 2015 Women of Excellence Awards are now being accepted until March 31 at 4 p.m. Find out more at www.reddeeranddistrictcommunityfoundaton.ca ● Spruce View Lions Annual Old-Time Fiddle Jamboree and Dance will be held on Jan. 31 at Spruce View Community Hall.

Happy Hour and beef on a bun supper at 5:30 p.m. Fiddlers perform from 7 to 9 p.m. with dance to follow. Piano accompaniment provided. Adults cost $20 in advance or $25 at the door. Fiddlers and preschoolers free.

Net proceeds to youth programs. Fiddlers are asked to preregister. Door prizes. Contact Darwin at 403-986-2004 or Neil at 403-7283798. ● Hunting Hills High School 2015 Chinese New Year Celebration — Sound of Spring Gala — will be celebrated on Feb. 18 in Gym 1. Enjoy music, singing, dancing, drama, and more by the Hunting Hills Mandarin Studies students and Chinese community, starting at 7 p.m. Admission is $5 in advance

old. But nobody has looked at it in a rigorous way to determine whether this is just a coincidence or there is really an association that would suggest an increased risk or a period of high risk for cardiovascular events after pneumonia.”

The study is published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Corrales-Medina and his co-authors looked at data from two large, longterm and ongoing studies in the United States. One followed nearly 6,000 adults 65 and older while the other tracked nearly 16,000 adults aged 45 to 64 at the time of recruitment to the study. There were 591 and 680 pneumonias respectively in the two study groups.

The researchers looked at people who had been hospitalized with pneumonia and compared them to people who had not had the infection to see if there was an elevated rate of heart disease events in the former after the pneumonia hospitalization.

For the older adults, the risk dropped after 30 days, but was still nearly double that of people who hadn’t had pneumonia at two years after the infection. And it remained in the range of 1.6 to 1.9 times higher all

the way to 10 years.

For the younger adults, the risk is also elevated but not to the same extent, and it appears to level off after two years. In the first 30 days, people hospitalized with pneumonia were almost 2.4 times more likely to have a heart attack or stroke than people who hadn’t been hospitalized with this infection.

Corrales-Medina says there is no way to tell from these data whether people who have pneumonia that isn’t severe enough to require hospitalization are also at increased risk of having a cardiovascular event.

He said it’s not known for sure why pneumonia appears to increase a person’s risk of having a heart disease event, though other infections are also thought to increase the risk.

Dr. Liam Smeeth has published a number of studies looking at the possible links between infections and increased risk of heart disease. Smeeth, who heads the department of noncommunicable diseases epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said this phenomenon has also been seen with influenza annd urinary tract infections.

He said the Corrales-Medina study was a good one, but he disagrees with

part of the interpretation of the data.

Smeeth believes the elevated risk seen in the days shortly after a pneumonia hospitalization does signify the infection increases a person’s risk of having a heart attack or stroke.

But later on, he believes the increased risk seen in the study is not a signal that the earlier bout of pneumonia continues to stress the cardiovascular system. Instead, he believes what this shows is that the people who develop pneumonia are less healthy than those who don’t, and more likely to develop cardiovascular disease.

“I don’t think pneumonia necessarily causes an increased risk of heart attacks five years later. But I think people who tend to get pneumonia tend to be at higher risk of heart attacks and strokes,” Smeeth said.

Dr. Jacob Udell, a cardiologist who has been studying the effect of influenza on heart disease risk, said the findings should make these patients and their doctors pay more attention to the potential consequences of infections like pneumonia.

“This should be a (wake-up) call and an eye-opener for anybody who thinks that these events are simply short-term things that have no long-lasting implications,” said Udell.

from the school, or $6 at the door. ● Singing Valentines by Wild Rose Harmonizers are available to serenade your loved one on Feb. 14. Four handsome men bearing a red rose will visit the recipient at home or work and perform two tender love songs. The cost is $40 in Red Deer and $45 outside Red Deer and a photo of the occasion will be included. For bookings, contact Fran at 403-347-0436, or Ralph at 403-347-9852.

Book early as limited spaced are available.

The deadline is Feb. 12. For more information visit www.harmonizers.ca. ● Lincoln Hall Society Dinner Theatre presents the musical Davy the Punk by Bob Bossin, Feb. 7 at Lincoln Hall. Doors open at 5:30 p.m., with supper by Bob Ronnie Catering from 6:30 to 8 p.m., and show at 8 p.m.

Advance tickets only available until Feb. 5 for $45. Contact Kathy at 403-782-4194. ● Heart and Stroke Foundation requires volunteers to sign up as canvassers for February Heart Month. Phone 403-342-4435. ● Volunteer Central has a new website which makes it easy for potential volunteers to find the perfect volunteer opportunity. See www.volunteercentral.ca and search communities and areas of interest to find a suitable volunteer position. Phone 403-346-3710. ● Friends Over 45 is a group for women who like to meet new friends and meets four times per month for coffees and meals at various restaurants in Central Alberta. Members may be new to the area, have recently had a lifestyle change, or just want to meet new friends. For further information contact Pat at 403-341-9606, or Heidi at 403-346-1718. ● Alzheimer Society of Alberta and

Northwest Territories Red Deer and Central Alberta office offers support groups in various communities for those who care for, or offer support to family members with Alzheimer disease and related dementia, to rejuvenate, learn new information, share experiences, and more. Phone 403-342-0448 to find out more. ● Memorial Society of Red Deer and District offers information on funeral options. An annual membership costs $25 and can be transferred to other societies in North America at little or no cost. To purchase a membership, or find out more, phone 403340-3898, or go to www.memorialsocietyrd. ca, or email to info@memorialsocietyrd.ca. ● Red Deer Aboriginal Employment Services provides assistance to Aboriginal people including resumes, cover letters, research, and job postings. For more information call 403-358-7734 or drop in to #202, 4909 48 Street, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., closed noon to 1 p.m. or see www.rdaes.com ● Parkinson Alberta Education and Support Groups are available for persons with Parkinson Disease, family members, and caregivers in Red Deer, Lacombe, Innisfail, Three Hills, Olds and Castor. See www.parkinsonalberta.ca, or phone 403-346-4463. ● Blackfalds United Church Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper takes place on Feb. 17, 5 to 7 p.m. The menu features pancakes, eggs, sausage, coffee and juice. Costs are $7 for adults, $4 for children ages six to 12 years, and free for children ages five and under. See www.blackfaldsunitedchurch.com, or phone 403-885-4780. ● Better Choices, Better Health free on-

line workshop is a series of six workshops to support those living with ongoing health conditions, such as diabetes, heart disease, arthritis, high blood pressure, obesity, chronic pain, fibromyalgia, Crohn’s disease, colitis, Celiac disease, and mental health concerns.

Up to 25 participants can sign up at https:// betterchoicesbetterhealth.ca/online/ or find information at www.albertahealthservices.ca/ bcbh.asp ● The Ladies Foursome by Norm Foster will be presented by Cow Patti Theatre Company running March 4 to 29 at Lacombe Golf and Country Club. Dinner and Brunch Theatre shows available. Shows on the following dates will support the following local charities: March 4 (chicken and ribs) — Lacombe Ringette Association; March 7 (brunch) — Friends of Alix Mac Fundraising Society; March 11 (chicken and ribs) — Lacombe Junior Golf Club Junior Golf; March 18 (chicken and ribs) — Clive Resource Centre; March 25 (chicken and ribs) — Father Lacombe Knights of Columbus; March 21 (brunch) — The Lending Cupboard. See www.cowpatti.com, of contact 403-782-3956, after hours and weekends 403-304-6329, or theatre@cowpatti.com. ● Servus Credit Union Annual Bowl for Kids in support of Big Brothers, Big Sisters of Red Deer is seeking individuals, businesses, and groups to collect pledges, bowl, and join the festivities at Heritage Bowling Centre on March 8. To get involved, or find out more see www.bbbsreddeer.ca, or call 403-342-6500.

Modern life versus your back: win the fight If you’re among the millions of North Americans with an aching back, here’s an important message from your spine: Stop hunching! Get that bowling ball out of your purse, backpack or other tote; put out that cigarette; and change positions frequently.

New research confirms that modern life habits are a major trigger for the most common kind of back pain — not the type caused by arthritis or a major disease, but back pain that’s linked to stuff you do every day that pushes, pulls, bends and torques your spine.

Do you have text neck?

A new report from the New York Spine Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine center has identified “text neck” — bending your head down to check your messages — as a major source of chronic back pain. That’s because your head weighs about 4.5 to 5.5 kg (10 to 12 pounds), a weight your spine and the muscles that support it can manage easily when you stand up straight.

Tilt about 15 degrees (the amount you might bend your neck to see if you have a text) and the load on your upper spine more than doubles. As you tilt further downward, the weight increases. It hits four times the original weight at a 30-degree tilt (about how

ting on a thick wallet in your back pocket. All of these knock your spine to one side. Lighten the purse or backpack, and keep your wallet to a quarter inch thick or less (keep bills in your front pocket and carry fewer credit cards).

Smokin’ spine pain MIKE ROIZEN & MEHMET OZ

DRS. OZ AND ROIZEN far you’d bend your neck to read the tiny print on your screen) and a whopping six times at 60 degrees (bending your neck down far enough to feel the pull in your shoulders). That’s gotta hurt, and it does.

That bend distorts the natural curve of your back, leading to inflammation and “wear, tear, degeneration and possibly surgeries.” That’s important news for America’s 58 million-plus smartphone users, who spend up to four hours a day hunched over their tiny screens. That adds up to over 1,000 hours of extra spinal stress per year!

Protect your back: Hold your phone up higher when reading and sending messages. And avoid other hazards that throw your spine off-kilter, like heavy purses and backpacks, and sit-

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A tobacco habit triples your risk for back pain, says a new study from Northwestern University.

We already knew that cigarettes boosted odds for backaches, but this report reveals just how much damage they can do — and how.

Brain scans of 160 people with back pain show that smoking strengthens the connection between two parts of the brain that convert temporary pain into chronic pain. Pain relievers dull the ache but don’t put a dent in this superhighway to agony.

What works: Kicking the butts. For smokers who quit during the study, this connection became less active and more like that of nonsmokers. That’s good news, because it means their risk for chronic pain dropped, too.

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Sitting, standing and spinal stress If you’re on your feet all day, you probably already know that prolonged standing can do a number on your spine, but so can prolonged sitting at a desk. Doing either one the wrong way puts extra pressure on your spine’s stack of discs and surrounding muscles.

Protect your back: Supportive footwear can help if you stand for much of the day. Taking brief breaks to sit or move around works, too. If your job keeps you at your desk, get up every 20 to 30 minutes, walk around and stretch for 90 seconds.

Make sure your desk chair supports your lower back and that you can keep your feet flat on the floor, with your knees at hip level or a little lower.

Use a headset instead of tucking your phone between your ear and shoulder, too.

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Looking for forgiveness after ignoring family Dear Annie: My father died a year ago. Since then, You feel guilty about your younger sister, who took I have ignored my extended family, but I’m close to on the burden of caring for Mom. And you miss Dad, my children and grandchildren. who was the buffer.

Christmas passed and I never phoned Start with your younger sister. Tell her my sick mother, even though I live 15 minyou went into a tailspin when Dad died utes away. I want to make it right, but and you deeply regret abandoning her. can’t just waltz into their lives and say, Ask what you can do now. Then go see “Here I am.” your mother. Phone or email your older My younger sister has been taking care sister. You will have to put up with their of Mom without a break. I can’t stand to anger and disappointment, but that will be around my older sister, who handles be temporary while you work on forgiveMom’s finances. She is hateful and judgness. mental and, frankly, she scares me. And You might also consider counselling to then there’s my Mother. work through some of your family issues.

We have a strained relationship. When Dear Annie: My husband and I have I was a little girl, my parents would argue been married more than 30 years, and and she’d tell my father to leave and take every year he buys me gifts that don’t reMITCHELL me with him. Only me. quire much thought. & SUGAR My Mom always treats my siblings and He gets lovely things for our daughter, their children with kid gloves, but my son-in-law and even co-workers, and I sweet, intelligent kids she treats like lepknow he puts a lot of time into the seers. lection. But the gifts he gives me always I want my family to be together like we make me want to cry. used to be. If you could print this, maybe my mother Last Christmas, I got a bug suction machine. The and sisters would see it and know that I beg their for- year before, it was an organizer for my spice cabinet. giveness. — Lost in Louisville, Ky. In all fairness, he also gives me a generous gift card Dear Louisville: Here’s what we see: You resent to one of my favourite stores, but he knows that I your mother for the favourable treatment she has don’t get there often and the cards sit in my drawer always shown your siblings and their children. You for months. Plus, it’s not really special to get a gift dislike your older sister for her overbearing attitude. card from my husband, but I am grateful.

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HOROSCOPE Thursday, Jan. 22 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Guy Fieri, 47; DJ Jazzy Jeff, 50; Diane Lane, 50 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: This is truly a lovely week. It is the week of New Beginnings and a new cycle with your intended actions. Clarify where you are heading and then, take the opportunity to make this energy tangible! Yes, discipline and structure are all needed to make your visions and dreams a reality.

That is what today will offer you.

Don’t become irritated, look ahead!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today is your birthday, this year will offer LARISA MAIRA you much more of the realities of OZOLINS life. Just expressing this makes me excited for you! Your dreams can come true. Write out what you would like to have happen and act towards those goals. It is truly a blessing to be born on this day. If you feel off, remove yourself for a bit. Psychic energy is also high this year for you.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Start the day by making plans towards your dreams and aspirations. You will know exactly what is possible and when it is possible to implement those stages. So make a longer to do list than normal today. Trust your intuition, like you have in 2014. It has not led you wrong.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): It truly is an excellent time to make long lasting relationships or contacts within your work environment or with your spouse. Just be sure to review and confirm documents or situations from the past that had to be readdressed. If not, they will end shortly.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Interactions with others will lead you to make necessary and solid changes with your aims. Perhaps you will feel that you have to learn more or that you will want to travel to expand your mind. Make the changes that you deem necessary and explore a new frontier.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): There is great opportunity to finally organize your joint bank accounts or joint ventures with work colleagues or your spouse. Do use this energy to your advantage now. Allow for greater truth to emerge as you go over past transactions or knowledge within those areas.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): With that new start with others in your life, either business or romantic, today will highlight an eerie sense of calm. This is just because you are finally seeing the truth in the reality of the situation. You know now what needs to be done to create that stability you so desire.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Today is an excellent day to get real serious, organize, and plan your daily home life.

Perhaps it is the cupboards or simply health and work out regimes. It is the best time to do this while your ruler is retrograding, as it will allow you to revisit past thoughts and make firm plans.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You know there is plenty you want to do this year in terms of fun adventures or, perhaps, starting a family. Today is an excellent day to sort through those details, understand how the ground lies, so to speak.

Start to organize and incorporate those changes within your daily life.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): This is an excellent day to get those financial plans for your house in order. Also, if you thought about starting a new diet for the New Year, today will be the day to implement those actions and goals. This is an excellent time to get real and know your limits.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): This is truly an excellent time to write that to do list. You will be keener to accomplish it all and will take the time to get it right the first time around. Clear, yet ever so creative, thinking will be the energy of the day. Rethink those aims of yours, write the plan and work it!

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): This is an excellent time to get things done with regards to your finances and updates to your diet. Take a practical approach and all will be done within a faster time frame then before. Tangible results will positively increase your financial sector. Enjoy!

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Today will offer you the ability to write a plan, a very realistic and practical one, to get your dreams and aspirations off the ground. Friends will also help you out as much as they can. Although, there will be some delays with communicating with them now.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Time to focus and reset those engines towards greater abundance on a professional and public level. This does not have to indicate only work.

Perhaps you are getting engaged now or starting a new relationship. Whatever it is, it will help you create the reality you want!

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

I dread opening gifts, and my feelings are hurt no matter how much I tell myself it doesn’t matter. To me, it’s not the size of the gifts; it’s whether he was truly thinking of me.

So how can I tell him nicely that he’d be doing me a favour by not getting me any more gifts? — Midwest Dear Midwest: Be sure that’s what you want, because if you tell him not to buy you anything, he will stop completely. And has it occurred to you that perhaps his assistant buys the other gifts, but considers yours too personal and leaves it for Mr. Clueless?

Talk to your husband about this. Teach him how to be more thoughtful. Explain what you mean. Give him concrete suggestions. But that bug suction machine made our day.

Dear Annie: “Gotta Dance” says his mom doesn’t support his desire to tap dance. She needs to recognize the benefits.

My 13-year-old son has taken dance lessons (tap, hip-hop and musical theatre) since kindergarten. It keeps his core muscles in shape when he’s not playing football and helps him gain confidence around girls, since he is the only boy in the class.

I don’t expect it to be his profession, but I hope he continues for as long as he wants. — Proud in Omaha 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.

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The state lottery has released its first scratch-nsniff “I Heart Bacon” ticket this month, which features a $1,000 grand prize.

Lottery Commission executive director Charlie McIntyre says players “will think it’s time for Saturday morning breakfast.”

To promote the ticket, the New Hampshire Lottery will be driving a “bacon truck,” handing out free applewood smoked bacon samples and tickets at stores in Keene and Durham, the state welcome centres in Hooksett, and the Verizon Wireless Arena in Manchester.

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Anglin eyes nomination as Tory

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EX-WILDROSE MLA NOW AN INDEPENDENT

BY MARY-ANN BARR ADVOCATE STAFF

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After investigating the gazebo at Rotary Recreation Park next to the Red Deer Tennis Club, this mule deer steps out into the open. Three other deer frequenting the park also took their turns going through the picnic structure in the park.

Council adopts new toolkit to help talk to citizens

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF City council and staff now have clearly defined roles and expectations when it comes to gathering input or engaging with residents.

On Monday, council endorsed four key principles in a toolkit that forms the basis of a governance process policy on public engagement for municipal staff and council. It stems from the city’s Dialogue Charter, a major work plan designed to improve community engagement and conversations.

Elaine Vincent, city director of Development Services, said council wanted to have better and more meaningful conversations with the public and to ensure the public’s input was reflected in its decision making. “We know there’s a good way to do business and we want to change the way that we are doing that,” she said. “This models that new way forward, reflecting the machinery of government needs just to be responsive to citizens.”

The key points include the principles of public engagement on core values, input and engagement zones, and roles and responsibilities in developing the public participation strategies. The report also includes tools and strategies for administration to implement the direction.

Vincent said now staff and council will have a way to look at an issue and identify whether it belongs in an input or engagement zone. As well, council will have clear roles, whether it is to listen or potentially influence the outcome when attending open houses or other public events.

“This really gives some clarity when we are at those type of functions — what needs to happen and whose role is what,” said Vincent. “Just to make sure we don’t have those boundaries crossed. It causes confusion for the public as well, as much as it does for the organization.”

Mayor Tara Veer said the plan brings transparency, consistency and a variety of options to the table when it comes to consultation, dialogue and engagement with the community. Veer said it is necessary to modernize the tools and consistently apply them because of the changing world.

It provides a consistent design process for the organization to follow when developing a specific public participation initiative, clarifies the roles of municipal staff and council, and provides checklists and tools/formats for initiatives.

Coun. Dianne Wyntjes said she is excited about the new tools but she wanted to highlight the work the city has already done to engage and consult with the public in new ways. She noted the Let’s Talk events, photo contests, Mobility Playbook and on-thestreet conversations and surveys.

“This is the formalization and taking it to another level,” said Wyntjes. “So I am really excited about that.” Wyntjes said she is looking forward to hearing staff feedback and from citizens.

Work began on the $31,000 toolkit by the city and Modus Planning, Design and Engagement Inc. in September 2014. The city will develop an implementation strategy before rolling it out completely before the end of 2015. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

MLA Joe Anglin — who walked away from his party to become an independent shortly before nine former Wildrose colleagues crossed the floor — said on Wednesday that he is now considering seeking the PC nomination for his riding.

The Wildrose members, including leader Danielle Smith, crossed to the Jim Prentice Progressive Conservatives on Dec. 17, knocking the Wildrose Party to its knees and upping the number of PC MLAs to 72 from 63. The move, coupled with the early defection of two other members and Anglin’s departure, reduced Wildrose to just five members.

On Nov. 2, Anglin, the MLA for Rimbey-Rocky Mountain House-Sundre, left the party following a major dispute over the Wildrose nomination process in his constituency. The controversial nomination process, hotly disputed by Anglin, ended up with the party accepting that Jason Nixon had won.

Now Anglin could be run again in the constituency not as an independent, but against Nixon as a Tory.

Anglin said on Wednesday some PC MLAs, have urged him to take the easy route and simply cross the floor now to the government side, and then run for the nomination in his riding.

He wouldn’t disclose who he had been talking with.

“I said no,” he said. “The voters

didn’t elect me to the PC party.”

He is getting constituency feedback on whether to seek the nomination. He he will need to decide soon.

“A whole lot of people are asking me to run for the PC nomination. Some people would like me to run independent. We discuss it.

“Criteria for me no matter what is ... I want to contribute and I want to be effective.”

He believes he has two important credentials that would help him win the nomination.

“I stay true to my principles ... and getting a private member’s bill passed as an independent ... the first one in 91 years and the second one in the history of Alberta shows that not only can I be effective and contribute, I can do it in probably the most harshest of circumstances.

“Lots of PC members don’t get their private member’s bills passed.”

Anglin’s Bill 201, the Electric Utilities (Transparency in Billing) Amendment Act, received third reading in December. It is aimed at helping consumers understand their bills and comparison shop power providers.

The date of the next provincial election has not been determined although Prentice said he wants all the nominations done before the end of winter.

If Anglin decides to seek the nomination, he will face at least one other contender: Tammy Cote, an ATB branch manager in Rocky Mountain House. barr@reddeeradvocate.com

Strong lineup to take flight

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF

ROCKY MOUNTAIN AIRSHOW

Rocky Mountain Airshow organizers are walking on clouds thanks to a top-notch lineup for their July 22 event.

For Canadian air shows, the dream team features the world-famous Snowbirds aerobatic team, the CF-18 demonstration team and the SkyHawks, the Canadian Forces’ thrilling parachute team.

“Those are what you hope to have, and we have all three of them,” said Nancy McClure, the air show’s media person.

“There are only three locations in Alberta this year that have all three, so we’re very pleased about that.”

McClure puts down their success to Rocky Mountain Airshow’s great track record and the tight relationships organizers have built with some of Canada’s top aviation acts.

Being a twilight air show

doesn’t hurt either.

“You have an opportunity for them to do some different work that you can’t do in the daytimeonly shows,” said McClure.

For instance, when the CF-18 hits the afterburners it’s always a crowd pleaser.

But at dusk, the light show from the twin engines, which can each produce 16,000 pounds of thrust in after-burner mode, is unforgettable.

“That absolutely rocks it for me,” said McClure with a laugh.

Among other acts are hometown favourites Team Rocket Aerobatics, which features Cold Lake’s Eric Hansen and Rocky Mountain House airport manager Ken Fowler.

Rocky’s show will also be among those featured in a new series that kicks off on the Discovery Channel on Monday at 8 p.m. (check local listings).

Crews filmed at the last show in 2013 to gather footage for the ongoing series on air shows. Film crews are coming back this summer to get more shots for future episodes.

Other acts for this year’s show include: ● Bud and Ross Granley: www. bgranley.wix.com/air shows ● Kent Pietsch: www.kentpietschair shows.com ● Manfred Radius glider show: www.radiusair shows.com ● Stefan Trischuk and his Pitts: www.stefantrischuk.com ● Dave Mathieson: www.superdavemx2.com ● April Zalesky Pyro Show: www.av8fx.com The air show takes place at Rocky Mountain House Airport.

Gates open at 2 p.m. and the show starts at 5:30 p.m. Tickets cost $15 in advance and $20 at the gate. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

RIMBEY GARAGE DESTROYED

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A garage and pickup truck were destroyed in an early-morning fire in Rimbey on Wednesday. Rimbey Fire Chief John Weisgerber said the call came in about 3:40 a.m. When volunteer firefighters arrived, the garage fire at 52nd Avenue and 46th Street was completely involved. A pickup parked outside was also gutted, but firefighters were able to prevent the flames from spreading to a nearby home. No one was injured in the blaze, which was fought by eight firefighters and was out by 6 a.m. The cause of the fire and a damage estimate have not yet been determined.

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

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BRIEFS West Lake break-ins investigated by police Red Deer City RCMP are investigating three residential break-ins in West Lake subdivision since Saturday.

Police ask that people be on the lookout for suspicious vehicles or behaviours in their neighbourhood and jot down any descriptions or details.

Shortly after 10 a.m. on Saturday, police were called to a break-in on Weddell Crescent where entry was gained through a garage side door. A purse and credit card were stolen. The card was used several times that day.

The missing family dog was located a short time later.

On Monday at 8:30 p.m., RCMP attended an attempted break and enter on Weddell Crescent. The suspects attempted to pry open the front door but were not successful.

On Tuesday at 2 a.m., RCMP were called to a home on Wiley Crescent where suspects gained access to the garage but not the home. Witnesses reported seeing a black Ford F250 circling the crescent in a suspicious manner around that time.

Anyone with information that might assist police in solving this or other crimes is asked to call Red Deer RCMP at 403-343-5575. Those who wish to remain anonymous can call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or report it online at www.tipsubmit.com.

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Showing off its striking plumage, a magpie flies from its perch on a spruce tree above the Red Deer River at Cronquist Business Park. detain him briefly until the RCMP officer could handcuff him.

RCMP continue to look for the second male suspect and the female suspect.

RCMP located various replica firearms, bear spray and other stolen property inside the stolen vehicle. The subsequent investigation tied this suspect to a home invasion in Red Deer on Saturday at a residence at 35th Street and 51st Avenue, which police believe was a targeted attack. Further charges have been laid and both investigations are ongoing.

“Tips from the public play an important role in locating and arresting the prolific criminals who are responsible for numerous crimes in the region,” says Sgt. Eric McKenzie of Red Deer RCMP. “Police can’t be everywhere, and we are very appreciative of citizens who play their part in helping us to arrest criminals.”

Jesse James Leckner, 24, of Red Deer faces the following charges for the Jan. 17 events: uttering threats, assault on police officer, resisting arrest, possession of stolen property over $5,000 and possession of a firearm contrary to order.

He faces the following charges for the Jan. 15 home invasion file: break and enter with intent: robbery with restricted weapon, possession of weapon for dangerous purpose, two counts of assault with weapon, forcible confinement, mischief, and possession of a firearm contrary to order.

He will appear on Monday in Red Deer provincial court.

Stabbing suspect sought after northside incident Red Deer City RCMP continue to look for witnesses to a stabbing that occurred during a fight in a north Red Deer restaurant parking lot on Monday night.

Police say a fight between four men in the parking lot of the Keg restaurant ended with one man being stabbed.

The fight broke up just before 8 p.m.

RCMP were called to the scene.

The male victim was stabbed in the left shoulder and walked through Parkland Mall before leaving in a vehicle. One of the attackers was seen running across Gaetz Avenue toward Sobeys, while the other two, described as two black men, entered the mall.

RCMP are looking for witnesses who may help them identify the assailants.

If you have information that may assist the police in this investigation, call Red Deer RCMP at 403-406-2300 and leave a message for Const. Ryan Kinney.

If you wish to remain anonymous, call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or report it online at www.tipsubmit. com.

Citizens help in arrest of man linked to home invasion Local citizens had a direct hand in helping Red Deer RCMP arrest a stolen vehicle suspect who police later learned was also a suspect in a home invasion.

On Saturday, RCMP located a vehicle that had been reported stolen a few days earlier, thanks to assistance from a witness who was able to offer the location of the vehicle and detailed descriptions of the three suspects as they exited the vehicle and entered Parkland Mall.

RCMP members patrolled the mall and when they went to arrest one male suspect, he allegedly threw coffee at a police officer and made a run for it.

But members of the public managed to

Man tried to take photo of woman in washroom Red Deer RCMP are looking for public assistance to identify a man who attempted to take a photo of a woman who was using a public washroom on Jan. 14 at the Collicutt Centre.

The man is described as Caucasian with a short groomed beard. He was wearing a dark jacket and sweater, a light-coloured tuque, blue jeans and white shoes.

Police say the incident occurred between 7:30 and 8 p.m. when a woman in

a washroom stall noticed a man’s hand holding a cellphone under the stall door. When the woman confronted the man, he claimed he was mistakenly in the wrong washroom.

He gave his name and phone number to allay her suspicions, but both turned out to be false.

The victim called security and the RCMP immediately, but the suspect left the building before he could be apprehended.

Anyone with information that may assist police is asked to call Red Deer RCMP at 403-343-5575. Anyone who wishes to remain anonymous can call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or re-

port it online at www.tipsubmit.com.

Birdwatchers welcome at two-hour Sunday walk Birdwatchers can spy on their feathered friends in the Kentwood Natural Area on Sunday.

Those interested can meet at the Kerry Wood Nature Centre at 1 p.m. and carpool to the natural area.

Dress for the weather for the one to two-hour bird walk.

For more details see www.rdrn.ca/ event/.

Police urge the public to watch for advertisements offering any of these guitars for sale

Eleven guitars stolen from Red Deer home Thieves stole 11 guitars when they broke into a Red Deer home on Tuesday.

Red Deer RCMP said the culprits kicked open the front door of a home on Grant Street sometime in the morning.

Two of the guitars taken were with their hard cases. The culprits also took some cash and an HP laptop computer.

Police are warning that if people see guitars advertised for sale similar to those in the photos, they might be purchasing stolen property. The stolen instruments are: ● Ovation Idea, acoustic/ electric, grey/black ● Epiphone Dove, acoustic, wood

finish ● Epiphone Hummingbird – Acoustic – Sunburst ● Epiphone Riviera P-93 WR, hollow body electric, cherry wine ● Epiphone SG, sunburst ● Ibanez, hollow body electric, mahogany ● American Fender Stratocaster, electric with case, sunburst ● Mexican Fender Stratocaster, electric, sunburst ● Mann, hollow body electric, wood finish ● Fender, acoustic, wood finish ● Generic, bass, gold Anyone with information that may assist the police in investigating this break and enter is asked to call Red Deer RCMP at 403-343-5575. If you wish to remain anonymous, call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or report it online at www.tipsubmit.com.

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● If possible, skip the starches and gum binders in gluten-free products by making your own gluten-free breads and baked goods at home. An easy substitute for starches and gums are nutrient-dense ingredients like ground flax seeds, eggs, applesauce and bananas.

They add texture and are great binders for gluten-free recipes. ● Ask your naturopathic doctor about specific nutrients or fibre that you might be missing in a gluten-free diet, and supplement as recommended for your age and gender.

Find out if gluten-free is right for you and how to go about this lifestyle change the healthy way.

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

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A recent backlash against the gluten-free movement has brought some of the possible pitfalls of the diet to light. Unfortunately, too often nutrientlacking ingredients like potato starch, tapioca starch, guar gum and xantham gum replace gluten in many glutenfree baked goods.

In addition, many gluten-free products have a great deal of added sugar and sweeteners, and can be low in fibre. This gives some gluten-free products have a high glycemic index, which means they convert into sugar quickly in your body.

Low fibre, high sugar and nutrient poor make for a combination that is definitely not healthy — not the direction we want any diet to go!

If you decide to go gluten-free, do it the healthy way with these simple tips: ● Find gluten-free products that are least processed and consume a well-rounded diet, including plenty of whole fruits, veggies, lean meats and healthy unsaturated fats.

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January, the start of New Year’s resolution month, sees a healthy uptick in sign-ups at gyms and specialized studios offering such things as pilates, kickboxing and yoga. But money-saving expert Andrea Woroch in California, said recent statistics show 67 per cent of people who join don’t use their memberships at all.

With the average monthly fee at $58, that means a potential waste of up to $700 a year or more, she said.

If you’re looking to kick-start, save money or can’t decide on an approach, Woroch offers these tips: Max out free trials: Finding the right gym fit is key. A great way to check out classes, instructors or an overall environment is to take advantage of freebies.

Try haggling: Think of your gym membership like buying a car, Woroch said. Nothing is set in stone, she said. Perhaps you can score a lower monthly rate or have the initiation fee waived.

Ask for the first month free, more guest passes, extra personal training sessions or child care.

Punch passes: Is there a nagging voice in your head declaring: “You’ll never keep it up!” You might get a lower monthly rate when committing

are just looking for numbers at this point,” Woroch said. “They’ve loosened up on who your people are.”

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to a two-year contract, but you’ll pay over time if you don’t go. A punch pass may be a wise choice, Woroch said.

Who is family? Family membership deals abound, but such deals aren’t always limited to actually family, Woroch said. Joining might be more fun with friends, but trust comes into play in terms of payment.

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History lessons that matter In the soon to be 49 years of these weekly columns, they have appeared for varying periods in a dozen Alberta newspapers.

I’ve always negotiated a complimentary subscription as part of the fee with the weekly newspapers to keep the column in tune with the communities and to benefit from occasional column subjects.

The headline on a story taking up half the front page of the Jan. 13, 2015, edition of The Brooks Bulletin really rattled my rafters: Family, friends celebrate Blanche Coultis’ 100th birthday.

Brooks is my BOB home town, and SCAMMELL Miss (now Ms.) Coultis was one of possibly the finest high school staffs ever assembled in any Alberta small town. Principal Frank Riddle, who taught Math 30, had a MSc., Barry Munro, Chemistry, Physics, Math 31, etc., had a BEd and a BSc., Lorin Mair, English, had a MFA from Mount Allison, where he had studied under the late, great Canadian painter, Alex Colville.

In addition to the venerable “Normal School” qualifications, Ms. Coultis held a BA from the U of A and an MA from McGill in 1949 in French Language and Literature.

In mid-1950s Alberta, few high school students hoping for university admission had the benefit of dealing with French 20 and 30 with a teacher who actually spoke the language.

The benefit to me of Ms. Coultis’s excellent instruction was sufficiently good marks in first year French at U of A that my professors talked me out of the two-year pre-law course and into the four-year Honours in French and English program.

The decision was made easier by the fact that if I continued with the five-year BA-LLB course, I would have been too young to be admitted to the bar when I graduated and would have had to article an extra year for peanuts.

Blanche Coultis was born on a homestead at Steveville, along the Red Deer River, and was vitally interested in the human and natural histories of the area.

In the mid–’50s, she took several of her students in her motor boat on a trip downriver to and through the area that was about to become Dinosaur Provincial Park, and guided us ashore up canyons with big fossil bones jutting everywhere.

At the base of every gully were shards and relics; from one of these, I kept a perfect, serrated shark’s tooth.

From that amazing day I remember pushing the boat grounded in the very shallow river, a sandstorm or several in mid-river and, always, the sound of the land eroding.

Years later, in Halifax, my ancient landlord, George Farquhar, who among several distinguished careers, had been editor of The Chronicle Herald and The Mail Star, broke his elk tooth watch fob. “How’d you like a fossilized shark’s tooth instead?” I asked.

Yet again he expressed the view that Westerners were full of … hyperbole. Back from a summer in the West for my last year of law school, I gave Mr. F. my tooth and he promised to quit hyping his Westerner stuff.

I had spent that summer working in that lower Red Deer-South Saskatchewan River Country, where elk teeth were scarcer than hen’s and it had become illegal to collect fossils from Dinosaur Park.

Now elk and their teeth are far too numerous on and in the vicinity of Canadian Forces Base Suffield and there is great reader interest for and against the efforts being made to reduce the elk numbers and protect neighbouring

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Above: The Red Deer River winds through Dinosaur Park.

Below: Winter elk on the CFB Suffield military reserve. farmers and ranchers from the damage they cause.

Official numbers have yet to be announced, but one reader says an official connected with the hunt told him they got a 90 per cent kill from the 300 hunters in November.

Frantic drawing has been going on from thousands of applications for two three-day seasons in February, each of which will have 125 licensed hunters with two cow elk tags each.

In addition, there has been a native hunt going on that is causing controversy, with other hunters claiming the natives are the only hunters apparently permitted to harvest the superb trophy bull elk on the military reserve.

Generally our natives can hunt for food on land to which they have a legal right of access without regard to most provincial game laws.

But, it seems to me, you could impose “no bulls” as a condition of granting access.

Whatever, there is a picture circulating in cyberspace of an alleged native truckful of elk antlers captioned: “Not to worry, they only hunt for food!”

Many hunters are refusing to participate, calling it “butchery” to hunt pregnant elk in February; “even cows that are not shot will abort from being chased around in this Grand Prix of road hunts,” says one reader. One problem is we are inured to butchery

in Alberta: we poison and strafe 1,000 wolves and all other wildlife in the Little Smoky River area to avoid stopping the habitat destruction that really kills our caribou.

Another problem is that we’re going

to have to kill between 1,200 and 1,600 cows just to stay even with the out-ofcontrol CFB Suffield elk herd.

Bob Scammell is an award-winning columnist who lives in Red Deer. He can be reached at bscam@telusplanet.net.

Caring for indoor plants Inside plants are never appreciated and letting in freezing air even for a as much as when the wind blows and short period of time can cause plants temperatures dip lower and lower. In- to drop leaves. door greenery helps clean The plants may be dorthe air as well as make the mant but insects seem to place feel a little more tropthrive in the dry, warm air. ical.

When watering, take time Plants react to the hours to look at the plants careof sunlight, not the inside fully, checking for insects. temperatures, and often The quicker insects are disbecome dormant during covered and dealt with, the the winter months. Green easier they are to eliminate. dormant plants still need Small bits of sticky white access to water and nutrifuzz on a plant is a tell-tale ents but at lower rates than sign that mealy bugs are when they are actively present. A large infestation growing. Be sure to check is very noticeable as it will the moisture level before appear to be dripping from watering to avoid overwathe plant.

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Male mealy bugs do not TOMLINSON Plants that like bright indamage the plant but fly direct sunlight benefit from from female to female, their being moved closer to the only function being to rewindows during the winter months but produce. will need to be moved again later when Mealy bugs often attach themthe sun’s intensity increases. selves to new growth but can be found Plants, like people, do not do well throughout a plant, attached to leaves, when placed in drafts. A door opening veins or new stems. Once attached, the

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bugs usually stay in place, feeding off of the plant’s juices. As a result leaves will turn yellow then fall to the floor.

Females can give birth to nymphs or lay eggs in the white goo. Eggs hatch in about 10 days. Nymphs start feeding immediately and within a short time become adults.

Mealy bugs can be removed with a Q-tip and rubbing alcohol. Dip the tip in the solution every time to ensure that the insects are not being spread.

Aphids are a prolific insect that leave a sticky residue behind. When a colony becomes too big for the plant available, the next generation grows wings and flies away.

Aphids are easy to identify by their small, translucent pear-shaped body.

Green aphids are common but the creatures can also be shades of white, yellow, red or brown.

In an active colony, eggs are laid along the veins of the leaves. If the conditions are not favourable, eggs are laid under bark or in old plant material where they can wait until conditions improve.

Tiny insects called spider mites frequent the bottom of leaves. They are small and can often be mistaken for leaf marks or specks of potting medium.

Like other insects, spider mites camouflage their eggs by laying them along the leaf’s vein to make them less noticeable. When a plant is badly infected with spider mites, small webs will be visible between the leaves and stems.

To prevent insects from spreading, isolate the infected plants. There are a number of insecticides on the market.

Be sure to follow the directions when using any pesticide organic or otherwise.

A liquid soap solution can be effective as it coats the insect, making them unable to move. As it does not harm the eggs, the process must be repeated regularly to catch the insects as they hatch.

Linda Tomlinson is a horticulturalist who lives near Rocky Mountain House.

She can be reached at your_garden@hotmail.com.

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BoC drops interest rate IN HOPES TO MANAGE OIL SLUMP THREAT

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Bank of Canada governor Stephen Poloz says the economy has been suffering from the effects of an “oil shock,” so he prescribed a remedy: an unexpected interest rate cut.

To deal with the impact of falling oil prices, Poloz lowered Canada’s trend setting rate Wednesday from one per cent to 0.75 per cent, a move that blindsided the vast majority of experts.

Many economists were anticipating the central bank would hold off on moving the rate until late 2015 or early 2016, with the next adjustment expected to be a hike.

But Poloz took another route Wednesday, as the central bank called the effect of plummeting crude prices “unambiguously negative” for the oil-exporting country’s economy.

“We have an oil-price shock, which will reduce the income flowing into Canada and lead probably to some increase in unemployment overall,” Poloz told a news conference after Wednesday’s rate announcement.

Until the effects of oil’s late-2014 tailspin started to trickle through, Canada appeared to be on the cusp of a promising post-recession rebound — and inching closer to a rate increase.

Still, Poloz said he remained encouraged by signs of economic life, particularly in Canada’s non-energy sector, thanks to a low loonie and robust growth in the U.S. That’s where the central banker said his ratecutting plan comes in.

Poloz’s solution aims to buffer the positives still present in the healing Canadian economy from potential damage inflicted by low oil.

The goal is to give businesses, such as manufacturers still hobbled from the 2008-09 downturn, enough time to reinvest in their operations using cheaper credit and, eventually, create jobs.

“We think that the positive trend is underneath the surface, that things are getting stronger,” Poloz said.

“I think that this is a setback, it’s an interruption if you like, in our path back to where we planned to go. It’s delaying things by perhaps as long as a year.”

He described the bank’s plan as “insurance,” a move intended to shorten that delayed recovery.

Poloz also sought to ease potential public fears when asked whether the rate cut signals he’s worried about the health of the economy. He said he wouldn’t put it quite that way.

“That doesn’t mean that there’s a really bad thing, or a drastic thing, happening here,” Poloz said of the rate reduction.

“For us, it’s a more a matter of repositioning the economy in such a way that it fires on all cylinders.”

The bank also offered assurances that the rate drop would not increase Canada’s high level of household debt.

But it did reiterate the warning that Canadians remain vulnerable to economic shocks due to near record high housing prices and debt.

The bank has blamed the accumulation of debt on the extended period of the already low interest rate of one per cent, which helped propel consumer spending.

However, Bank of Canada senior deputy governor Carolyn Wilkins said Wednesday that current conditions are unlikely to open the door for people to pile on more debt, even with the slightly lower rate.

The bank predicted the oil collapse would lead to a drop in employment and income, especially in energy-rich regions. As a result, it expects less

consumption due to a smaller amount of disposable income.

Wilkins credited the oil price climb for boosting the incomes of all Canadians by about seven per cent since 2002.

“What this oil shock does is it reverses some of those gains,” she said.

The bank’s concerns over the oil slump come as some Canadian industries reel from the sharp plunge in crude prices, which are down more than 55 per cent since June.

The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers said Wednesday that it expected oilpatch investment to total just $46 billion this year, down from $69 billion in 2014.

The decline in oil prices is also expected to shave billions of dollars from the bottom lines of federal and provincial governments.

Last week, the federal government took the rare step of delaying the budget until at least April, so it could assess the effect of tumbling crude.

In latest monetary policy report, also released Wednesday, the central bank predicted the country’s headline inflation rate to temporarily dip to one per cent — below the bank’s target range — before climbing back up to two per cent in the second half of the year.

The bank also highlighted persistent problems in Canada’s labour market, where it found longterm unemployment was still close to its “post-crisis peak.”

It said average hours worked remained low and the proportion of people who could only find parttime work was still high.

The bank predicted the pace of Canada’s economic growth — measured by the real gross domestic product — to slow to roughly 1.5 per cent in the first half of 2015 and for the output gap to widen.

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Oilpatch investment expected to drop by a third DUE TO LOW PRICES

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS FORT MCMURRAY — The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers is expecting oilpatch investment to drop by a third — or $23 billion — this year compared with 2014, while output is seen growing at a slower clip than previously predicted.

The oil and gas industry group normally releases its annual production outlook every June, but decided to provide a mid-year update on Wednesday given the “meaningful changes” that have occurred in crude oil markets, CAPP president Tim McMillan said in an interview.

Crude has been languishing below US$50 a barrel in recent weeks, less than half of where it was in mid-2014.

He cautioned the outlook is just a “snapshot in time” based on member feedback taken a few weeks ago.

The industry in Western Canada is expected to spend $46 billion this year, down from the $69 billion it shelled out last year.

Yet output is expected to grow to 3.6 million barrels a day in 2015.

That’s an increase of 150,000 barrels from last year.

A similar rate of growth is expected in 2016.

However, the rate of growth is slower than previously expected — 65,000 barrels a day lower than what CAPP had previously forecast for 2015 and 120,000 barrels a day lower than what it had predicted for 2016. Despite this, McMillan, the former Saskatchewan politician who became CAPP’s new president last fall, said new pipelines are necessary to carry Western Canadian crude to market.

CAPP expects capital spending for to drop much more steeply in conventional oil and gas than in the oilsands — 42 per cent versus 24 per cent.

“I think that is a phenomenon based on the longterm nature of investments in the oilsands,” said McMillan.

On the flip side, for conventional wells, projects are developed in a much shorter time and production declines much more sharply.

“I know that the effects here are likely being felt across the country,” McMillan said.

Among those concerned about the knock-on impacts from lower crude is Malcolm Brost, who owns a welding and sandblasting business east of Calgary.

“This might just be a hiccup,” he said while preparing to meet with customers in Fort McMurray, Alta., in the heart of the oilsands.

So far, Brost’s business hasn’t been affected, but he’s bracing for tough times.

“The second quarter might be a lot scarier than this one,” he said.

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Work on the Edmonton to Vancouver network of TESLA supercharging stations is complete. The supercharging Red Deer station located at the Sheraton Hotel is one of five stations including stations in Canmore, Golden, Revelstoke, Hope and Vancouver. Charging at the stations is free to TESLA electric car owners who pay a $2,000 charge when they buy their cars for the ability to use the supercharging stations. Here Pat Roi of Henry’s Electric in Banff finishes off the install in Red Deer on Wednesday.

Canadian Dollar plunges after interest rate chopped

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — The Canadian dollar plunged more than 1 ½ U.S. cents Wednesday after the Bank of Canada surprised markets with a quarter-point cut to its key short-term rate. The central bank also trimmed economic growth expectations for Canada because of the collapse in oil prices.

The bank had been universally expected to leave its rate unchanged at one per cent, where it had been since September 2010. However, the bank dropped the rate to 0.75 per cent and said that “the oil price shock increases both downside risks to the inflation profile and financial stability risks.”

The loonie tumbled 1.53 cents to 81.07 cents US — its lowest level since late April 2009. It was a second day of heavy losses. A combination of falling oil prices, a weak manufacturing report and an economic downgrade from the International Monetary Fund pushed the loonie down more than one U.S. cent on Tuesday.

Oil prices have plunged 55 per cent since last June amid a glut of supply and have fallen about 40 per cent just since the end of November after OPEC concluded its last meeting with a vow to leave production levels unchanged.

The Bank of Canada said it was projecting real gross domestic product growth will slow to about 1.5 per cent in the first half of this year.

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It added that the negative impact of lower oil prices “will gradually be mitigated by a stronger U.S. economy, a weaker Canadian dollar, and the bank’s monetary policy response.”

The bank added that it expects Canada’s economy to gradually strengthen in the second half of this year, with real GDP growth averaging 2.1 per cent in 2015 and 2.4 per cent in 2016.

It said that the economy is expected to return to full capacity around the end of 2016, a little later than was expected in October.

Crude oil prices were higher Wednesday ahead of the latest inventory figures from the U.S. Department of Energy. The March contract in New York gained $1.31 to US$47.78 a barrel.

Metals were mixed with March copper up two cents at US$2.61 pound, while February gold bullion faded 50 cents to US$1,293.70 an ounce.

Meanwhile, there was increasing clarity over what the European Central Bank may deliver in the form of another round of economic stimulus on Thursday.

The Wall Street Journal reported that the board of the European Central Bank is proposing a substantial program of quantitative easing, which involves a massive round of government bond purchases.

The WSJ said the bank would spend about 50 billion euros monthly on the program. Markets had been speculating the central bank would announce a program involving spending between 500 billion and 700 billion euros annually.

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Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 125.82 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 48.52 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57.53 BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . 12.25 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.65 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 62.44 Cdn. National Railway . . 83.07 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 226.96 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 41.75 Capital Power Corp . . . . 26.39 Cervus Equipment Corp 19.65 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 44.74 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 59.87 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 21.84 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 40.16 General Motors Co. . . . . 33.89 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 20.77 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.30 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 41.34 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 30.05 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 42.65 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . 10.94 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 54.00 Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 118.94 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 13.39 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 19.06 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 59.79 MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto stock market closed sharply higher Wednesday amid a surprise quarter-point rate cut by the Bank of Canada and increased confidence about what the European Central Bank may deliver in the form of another round of economic stimulus on Thursday.

The S&P/TSX composite index jumped 251.98 points to 14,560.42.

The Canadian dollar plunged 1.53 cents to 81.07 cents US after the Bank of Canada cut its key rate to 0.75 per cent from one per cent due to economic fallout from the collapse in oil prices. Markets had universally expected the bank to leave the rate unchanged from where it had been since September 2010. Oil prices have plunged 55 per cent since last June amid a glut of supply and have fallen about 40 per cent just since the end of November after OPEC concluded its last meeting with a vow to leave production levels unchanged.

The TSX was lifted by a 3.15 per cent rise in the energy sector as oil prices climbed $1.31 to US$47.78 a barrel and traders considered how a lower Canadian dollar will be a positive for some TSX sectors.

“A low dollar for energy producers is a positive,” said Stephen Carlin, vice-president Canadian equities at CIBC Asset Management, explaining that “we sell the product in U.S. dollar terms, but we have a cost base in Canada — so a lower Canadian dollar makes our cost structure cheaper on a relative basis, relative to the U.S. producer.”

The effect on other sectors varies.

“It’s modest pain for . . . the food retailers. It will cost you more to import those strawberries from California,” Carlin said.

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Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 19.36 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.48 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86.64 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 32.05 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 15.69 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 17.65 First Quantum Minerals . 14.58 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 30.17 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 9.82 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 4.38 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . 18.21 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 44.45 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.23 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 15.87 Energy Arc Resources . . . . . . . . 22.06 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 21.37 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 58.33 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.30 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 39.34 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 35.82 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . . 7.67 Canyon Services Group. . 7.12 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 24.07 CWC Well Services . . . 0.3800 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 16.44 Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 1.29 will raise costs for some of the discretionary retailers if they‘re bringing product in from the United States, although the effect is unlikely to be felt until the end of the year because typically they are six to nine months ahead of the current season.

New York indexes were higher after the Wall Street Journal reported that the board of the European Central Bank is proposing a substantial program of quantitative easing, which involves a massive round of government bond purchases.

The newspaper said the bank would spend about 50 billion euros monthly on the program.

Markets had been speculating the central bank would announce a program involving spending between 500 billion and 700 billion euros annually.

Economic growth has been tepid and there have been worries that the region could fall prey to deflationary pressures, a situation where businesses and consumers hold off on purchases in the hope that items will just get cheaper.

The Dow Jones industrials was 39.05 points higher at 17,554.28, the Nasdaq rose 12.57 points to 4,667.42 and the S&P 500 index climbed 9.57 points to 2,032.12. Elsewhere on the TSX, the base metals group gained 5.67 per cent with March copper ahead two cents at US$2.61 a pound. Most TSX sectors were higher with added support coming from industrials and financials, both ahead about 1.5 per cent.

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

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 14,560.42, up 251.98 points Dow — 17,554.28, up 39.05 points

Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 91.87 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 40.69 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.72 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 26.62 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 46.87 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 3.15 Penn West Energy . . . . . . 2.00 Pinecrest Energy Inc. . . . 0.020 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 6.39 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 36.40 Talisman Energy . . . . . . . . 9.24 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.15 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . 4.658 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 54.03 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 76.87 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 62.79 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92.57 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 28.77 Carfinco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.80 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 31.89 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 43.93 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 84.20 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 20.24 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 45.15 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.69 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 76.61 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 37.89 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50.95 S&P 500 — 2,032.12 up 9.57 points Nasdaq — 4,667.42, up 12.57 points Currencies: Cdn — 81.07 cents US, down 1.53 cents Pound — C$1.8662, up 3.15 cents Euro — C$1.4296, up 3.12 cents Euro — US$1.1590, up 0.40 of a cent Oil futures: US$47.78 per barrel, up $1.31 (March contract) Gold futures: US$1,293.70 per oz., down 50 cents (February contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $22.483 oz., up 32.9 cents $722.83 kg., up $10.58 ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: March ’15 $3.10 higher $458.80; May ’15 $2.20 higher $449.80; July ’15 $2.10 higher $443.00; Nov ’15 $3.20 higher $433.60; Jan. ’16 $3.50 higher $435.90; March ’16 $4.20 higher $440.70; May ’16 $4.20 higher $444.90; July ’16 $4.20 higher $446.40; Nov. ’16 $4.20 higher $446.40; March ’17 $4.20 higher $446.40.

Barley (Western): March ’15 unchanged $195.00; May ’15 unchanged $197.00; July ’15 unchanged $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.

Wednesday’s estimated volume of trade: 600,240 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 600,240.

Bombardier CEO won’t panic despite financial outlook WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM shares, the changes are simply part of the “challenge...to establish a longterm vision.”

Despite declining cash flow, Beaudoin closed the door to the potentially selling one of its three aerospace division sectors in an effort to replenish the company’s coffers.

“It’s not in the cards,” Beaudoin said. “Bombardier has access to US$3.8 billion in cash.”

Beaudoin says the recent bad news doesn’t put more pressure on the company vis-a-vis the objectives of the CSeries as well as the time frame in regard to the first deliveries of the new commercial aircraft.

Test flights have resumed since an engine failure grounded the CSeries between May and September and the first CS100 should be delivered in the second half of 2015, Beaudoin said, refusing to speculate on the implications of another delay.

Without commenting directly on the stock movement, the grandson of Bombardier’s founder said the company’s order backlog, which exceeds US$70 billion, including nearly half in its railway division, should help reassure investors. Beaudoin said Bombardier’s proposal to assemble Q400 turboprop aircraft in Russia remains shelved due to the economic situation, which has deteriorated rapidly in recent months due to the fall in crude oil prices.

In October 2014, Bombardier announced it was suspending negotiations with the Russian company Rostec on a proposed assembly plant valued at $3.4 billion. First announced in 2013, the timeline of the project was constantly pushed back, especially in the wake of the economic sanctions imposed on Russia in the wake of the Ukrainian crisis.

“We don’t consider for the moment that it’s the right time to start an assembly line,” Beaudoin said. “There is a good potential (and) we will continue to monitor the situation.”

Beaudoin said he planned to take advantage of his visit to Switzerland to set the record straight with clients, airlines and banks that do business with the Canadian company.

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS DAVOS, Switzerland — The head of embattled plane and train maker Bombardier (TSX:BBD.B) says there is no need to panic despite the sharp drop in the company’s share price since trimming its financial outlook and announcing 1,000 job cuts last week.

Pierre Beaudoin, speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, said he understands the concerns of analysts and investors but insisted that the Montreal-based concern is focused on the long term, with revenues from new development programs including the CSeries commercial passenger jet about to begin rolling in.

“We must be patient in our business,” Beaudoin said Wednesday. “We invest a lot before (getting) the first revenues. In any long-term projects, there are ups and downs. ” Bombardier’s shares have plunged to near a six-year low since announcing last week that development of its Learjet 85 business jet was being put on hold, resulting in the loss of 1,000 jobs in the United States and Mexico.

That raised concerns about whether it has enough cash for its key aerospace development programs — the CSeries set for delivery later this year and the Global 7000/8000 business jet.

Cash flow from its aerospace division will drop to US$800 million from prior estimates of between US$1.2 billion and US$1.6 billion, it said.

The shares lost 30 per cent of their value in less than a week and were down and additional 16 cents or 5.71 per cent at $2.64 on Wednesday in heavy trading of 23.3 million shares, the highest volume on the Toronto Stock Exchange. Several analysts say management’s credibility has taken a hit and it has run out of excuses about not being able to meet its own financial forecasts despite restructuring the aerospace division last summer and proceeding with waves of job cuts that trimmed its overall workforce by 2,900 last year. For Beaudoin, a member of the family that effectively controls the company through its multiple voting

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GRIMWOOD Jo-Ann 1959 - 2015 Jo-Ann Grimwood of Penhold, Alberta passed away peacefully surrounded by her family and friends at the Innisfail Health Centre on Sunday, January 18, 2015 at the age of 55 years. Jo-Ann was born in Rocky Mountain House, Alberta and raised in Caroline, Alberta. She moved to Three Hills, Alberta, where her daughters were born.

Then Jo-Ann went on to attend Red Deer College to start her journey as a Business Woman Entrepreneur.

She met Scott, the love of her life in 1993 and they married in 2002. She found the strength to battle her first cancer diagnosis in 2005, knowing her first grandchild, Vanor, was on the way and through the ten year battle, she was blessed with two more beautiful grandchildren, Jasper and Kailey. Jo-Ann will be lovingly remembered by her husband, Scott; her two daughters, April Reynolds (Josh) of Red Deer County and Victoria (Jim) Young of Penhold, Alberta; and her grandchildren, Kailey Misner and Vanor and Jasper Young. She will also be sadly missed by her mother, Amy; three brothers, Gordon (Emily) Hummel of Eckville, Alberta, Vanor (Carol) Hummel of Rimbey, Alberta and Ted (Lorraine) Hummel of North Dakota, United States; three sisters, Charlene Hallock of Red Deer, Yvonne (Earl) Evans of Caroline, Alberta, and Debbie (Gerald) Ennis of Peace River, Alberta, as well as numerous other family and dear friends. Jo-Ann was predeceased by her father, Ed. A Celebration of Jo-Ann’s Life will be held at the Word Life Church, south end of Taylor Drive on England Way, Red Deer, Alberta on Saturday, January 24, 2015 at 1:00 p.m. with Pastor Bryce Birmingham officiating.

If desired, Memorial Donations in Jo-Ann’s honor may be made directly to the Aspire Special Needs Resource Centre, 4826 - 47 Street, Red Deer, Alberta, T4N 1R2 or www.aspirespecialneeds.ca Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com Arrangements in care of PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer.

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KAIP Ryan Keith 1986 - 2015 It is with a heavy heart that we announce the sudden passing of our much-loved son, brother, uncle and friend, Ryan Keith Kaip. Ryan was born in Red Deer, Alberta, on January 25, 1986. He was a journeyman millwright and was a perfectionist in his trade. Ryan was a very kind and gentle soul who was always curious about what was going on in your life and the world around him. His love of literature and music was how he connected and made sense of the world. He could find humor in anything and loved to make his family and friends laugh. He will be held in loving memory by his mother, Sandi Terwin, his father, Ron (Lorraine) Kaip, stepfather, Bryan Terwin, sisters; Megan (Reuben) Vanderveen, Jessica, and Nicole Terwin, niece and nephew; Aspen and Miller Vanderveen, grandmothers; Marlene Terwin and Irene Graham, and numerous aunts, uncles, cousins and friends. Ryan was predeceased by his maternal grandparents; Keith and Kaaren Burston, and paternal grandparents; Ed Kaip and Robert Graham. A Celebration of Ryan’s Life will be held at Eventide Funeral Chapel, 4820-45 Funeral Directors Street, Red Deer, on Saturday, & Services January 24, 2015 at 1:00 p.m. If desired, memorial donations in Ryan’s honor may be made directly to a charity of your choice.

Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com Arrangements entrusted to EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL 4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer.

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STONE Mary Ann Born March 22, 1918 Molly Gauld Davidson Stone passed away peacefully in Calgary on January 19, 2015. A service to celebrate a her amazing life will be held at Memorial Presbyterian Church, Sylvan Lake on May 23, 2015 at 2 pm. In lieu of flowers, she requested that any memorial tributes be made to the donor’s choice. A full obituary will be posted prior to the service.

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FT child caregiver in Red Deer. HS grad w/ First Aid & CPR. Supervise and care for 1 yr old. $10.66/hr, 44hrs/wk. Live-in optional. pret_lady@yahoo.ca FT CHILDCARE help in Penhold HS grad supervise in absence of parents, meal prep., housekeep, $10.66/hr; 44hrs/wk. Exp. an asset genedith2004@yahoo.com

SWITZER Madison Ryann “Maddy” Madison Ryann Switzer “Maddy” of Red Deer age 15 months, died unexpectedly on January 19, 2015 at the Red Deer Regional Hospital.

Maddy was born on October 8, 2013 in Red Deer to Amy and Jon Switzer. During her short stay on this earth Maddy touched so many lives. With an infectious smile, a friendly wave “hi” and adorable “dance moves” people couldn’t help but smile. Maddy and family just returned home from a three week road trip and made many, many amazing memories. From the lights of Las Vegas to meeting Dora.

Maddy was always jovial and certainly the center of attention. Big brother, Cole loved playing, singing and dancing with his little sister.

This little girl will sure be missed by many; parents, Amy and Jon; brother, Cole; grandparents, Cindy and Richard, Kathy and Barry; aunts and uncles, Tyler, Maghan, Nick, Travis and Anne-Marie. Now Maddy is listening to “Frozen” and dancing with the angels. A Funeral Service will be held on Friday, January 23, 2015 at 1:30 p.m. at Living Stones Church, 2020 - 40 Avenue, Red Deer, Alberta. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations in Maddy’s honour may be made directly to A Better World Canada, 103, 5033 52 Street, Lacombe, AB T4L 2A6. Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.reddeerfuneralhome.com Arrangements entrusted to RED DEER FUNERAL HOME 6150 - 67 Street, Red Deer.

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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

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Full-time/Part-time, shift Ave. 2-4 pm. Mon.-Fri. Bearspaw offers a work & weekends. very competitive salary Education: Above Secondary Fax 403-347-1161 Phone calls WILL NOT be and benefits package Work Experience not along with a steady essential, training provided. accepted. Only Candidates selected for interview will work schedule.

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Red Deer company requires three quarter to full time experienced accounting person that will learn company structure and daily duties including payroll, payables, bank reconciliations, lease managements and be able to complete monthly ¿nancial reporting to owners. Accounting experience required to prepare Year end ¿nancials for accountants.

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Grahn Ernie George Nov. 29th, 1939 - Jan. 20th, 2015 Ernie Grahn passed away suddenly in Red Deer on January 20th, at the age of 75. He was the youngest of five children born to Otto and Mabel Grahn. He grew up near Pigeon Lake and met his wife Margaret in Red Deer in 1958. Ernie worked in the tire business for his entire career and was also a long time member of the Moose Lodge. He enjoyed camping, curling and many outdoor activities with his friends and family. He is survived by: his wife of 56 years, Margaret, his five sons, Rod, Grant (Colleen), Neil (Karen), Darcy (Darlene), and David, nine grandchildren, and eleven great-grandchildren.

A memorial service celebrating Ernie’s life will be held on Saturday, January 24th at 1PM at Gaetz United Church in Red Deer.

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GOODMEN transport rail crews Company’s business address: well as housekeeping and light maintenance. We are throughout Red Deer area. 45 Boyce Street, Red Deer ROOFING LTD. looking for hard working, Drivers are ideally based Requires AB T4R 1P2 out of RED DEER. No Please apply by E-mail: flexible, safety conscious people with equipment overnight stays required. Reachiesales@gmail.com SLOPED ROOFERS experience, some basic This position is an on call LABOURERS mechanical abilities, ACADEMIC Express position. Employees are & FLAT ROOFERS driver’s license, and own responsible for taking ADULT EDUCATION transportation. We offer trips during the period Valid Driver’s Licence AND TRAINING an excellent benefits plan they have designated preferred. Fax or email and a company matching info@goodmenroofing.ca themselves available to do SPRING START RRSP savings plan. so. Transportation is done or (403)341-6722 Please forward your in Hallcon company NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE! • GED Preparation resume via email to the vehicles. Vehicles are SMALL RURAL MEAT address attached. Please extensively & consistently SHOP in central AB • Women in the Trades have ‘Plant Laborer’ in the maintained ensuring looking for F/T meat subject line. Drug and Program optimal safety for drivers cutter. 8-5, no weekends. alcohol policy in effect and and clients. Drivers must Knowledge of cutting pre-employee testing. possess valid Class 1, 2, • Math and Science for hanging carcasses Inquiries regarding careers the Trades Program or 4 license, with clean needed. Rental house with CFR should be driver abstract. Assisted avail. within walking disdirected to Gov’t of Alberta Funding licensing upgrade to tance of meat shop at a hr@cfrchemicals.com may be available. achieve a class 4 is very reasonable rate with Fax: 346-2299 available. Pay is based at paid utils. 403-843-4383 403-340-1930 p a rate of $16.00. Earning jkcmeats@hotmail.ca potential is based on www.academicexpress.ca Central Alberta your availability, as our ACADEMIC Express operation runs on a 24/7 Truckers/ LIFE on call basis. Both full time ADULT EDUCATION Drivers and part time employees AND TRAINING & are welcome. Semiretired, retired, full time, Red Deer WINTER START part time employees are ADVOCATE welcome. Forward GED Preparation resumes & current driver CLASSIFIEDS abstract: Shane Flack Would you like to take the asmabnorth@gmail.com.

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Exp. Bartenders, Full knowledge of all cocktails, inventory control, must be of professional nature and be capable of working all shifts.

Apply within: 2079-50 Ave. 2-4 pm. Mon.- Fri. Fax 403-347-1161 Phone calls WILL NOT be accepted. Only candidates selected for interview will be contacted.

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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.

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.

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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

LOGS Semi loads of pine, spruce, tamarack, poplar.

Price depends on location.

Lil Mule Logging 403-318-4346

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!

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Hours of shifts are morning shifts of Monday through Friday 5:00 AM to 9:00 AM. Saturday starting at 7 AM. Wednesday to Friday Shifts starting at 1 PM. *All Shifts based on 4 hours and likely to run longer.

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

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

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

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Household Sunday January 25 11 am * Viewing 9 am Furnishings Location: Ridgewood Community Hall 3 SEATER couch and Partial List only chair, dark blue, good Yamaha Snowmobile – cond, $200 403-782-5323 Unique Baseball – CLASSIFICATIONS Waterford Chrystal – NIGHT Tables, (2) Oak, 1 FOR RENT • 3000-3200 Barbie Doll Collection – drawer & 2 doors with 2 Industrial Sewing glass top to protect from WANTED • 3250-3390 Machines – Serger’s – scratches. $70 ea.

Leather Sofa & Love – 403-352-8811 Selection of New Furniture Houses/ WANTED – Duplexes Antiques, furniture and Antiques – Misc. – Tools – estates. 342-2514 AND MUCH MORE MOUNTVIEW Complete list and 3 bdrm. house, main floor, Directions visit www.

5 appls., fenced yard, Stereos cherryhillauction.com large deck, rent $1500 incl.

Terms of Sale: Cash, TV's, VCRs all utils. $900 s.d. Avail.

Cheque, C/C, Everything now or Feb 1. 403-304-5337 must be paid for & STEREO, JVC, mini hi fi removed on sale day (NO am/fm radio, single casOlder 2 bedroom 1 bath EXCEPTIONS), 15% sette, single CD player 4 home 5820-60A St. buyer’s premium. speakers $995.00 month plus Sale subject to Additions, $40 403-342-4898 utilities- to view email Deletions, Errors and steelpper@hotmail.com Omissions.

Cherry Hill Auction & OPEN HOUSE, Sun. Jan. Appraisals Jewellery 25, 4pm-5 pm, ref’s acPhone 403-342-2514 or cepted, 321 Spruce St. 403-347-8988 Springbrook, 3 bdrm.

STERLING silver pierced earrings, never worn, 11/2 “ tastefully reno’d duplex in drop, appraised at $135, Springbrook, fenced yard Children's w/garage, pets ok, asking $100. 403-227-2976 $1250/.mo. + utils., email: Items kgrefner@shaw.ca or call 778-994-4922 Misc. for TOYS, books, game, more. Boxful for Sale SYLVAN LAKE: fully $20 403-314-9603 furnished, inclds dishes, bedding, 50” tv, utils.

2 QUEEN FAUX MINK Avail. Feb. 1. $1250.

BLANKETS AND 2 queen 403-880-0210. quilts, mix and match Clothing $25/ea. or 2 for $40; rocker WEST PARK and recliner chair, exc.

LADIES chocolate brown shape $60/ea. or both for 3 bdrm., 2 bath, 4 appls., large fenced yard, suede coat w/hood, very $100 403-348-6449 $1550/mo. $1000. d.d. good cond, $15 just reno’d, Avail Feb . 1.

HEADBOARD, for queen 403-314-9603 403-304-5337 bed, 60” wide, $35; VINTAGE wedding dress, 3 Clean wool accent XS (size 4), ivory matching 3x5 oval carpets embossed, satin brocade, from SEARS, $35 for all 3; Condos/ $200. 403-227-2976 and David Winter Townhouses Collector’s houses in original boxes, $15/ea.

SEIBEL PROPERTY Equipment403-352-8811 www.seibelprperty.com Heavy Ph: 403-304-7576 TO GIVE AWAY or 403-347-7545 LUPUS Courier magazines TRAILERS for sale or rent 6 locations in Red Deer from Lupus Society, 40 Job site, office, well site or ~ Halman Heights hard/ soft cover books, storage. Skidded or ~ Riverfront Estates 403-347-9357 wheeled. Call 347-7721. ~ Westpark TV/VCR/DVD combination, ~ Kitson Close inclds. 20 movies, mostly ~ Kyte & Kelloway Cres. childrens movies, $50 for ~ Holmes St. Firewood all 403-314-9603 S.D. $1000 Rent $1195 to $1395 AFFORDABLE 3 bdrm. townhouses, Homestead Firewood Pets & 1.5 bath, 4 & 5 appls., blinds, Spruce & Pine -Split. Firepits Supplies lrg. balconies, no dogs. avail. 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472 N/S, no utils. incl.

37 TABLETS for dogs with Avail. immed. & Feb. 1 liver disease, 225 mg, References required. w/milk thistle, exp. May, 2015, vet cost $106, Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds asking $50. 403-227-2976

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DOWNTOWN AREA South East Downtown and Parkvale area $289.00 mo.

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

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.

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We thank all applicants for their interest; however only selected candidates will be contacted.

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

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

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

To deliver the CENTRAL AB LIFE 1 day a week in: INNISFAIL Penhold Olds Sylvan Lake Please call Debbie for details 403-314-4307

INGLEWOOD AREA Isbister Close Inkster Close Isaacson Close Inglewood Dr. Isherwood Close Iverson Close MORRISROE AREA Metcalf Ave. Martin / Muldrew Close SUNNYBROOK AREA Sherwood Cres. / Stirling Close Selkirk Blvd. / Sherwood Cres.

Savoy Close / Sydney Close LANCASTER AREA Lampard Cres Lancaster Drive Long Close Lord Close Lougheed Close Lyons Close VANIER AREA Vickers Close Victor Close Viscount Drive Vincent Close Call Prodie @ 403- 314-4301 for more info **********************

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

DEER PARK AREA Dixon Cres.

Dunlop St., Dixon Ave. & Close $107.00/mo Dunning Cres. Cl., and Depalme St. Durand Cr. & Drummond Ave. $69.00/mo. also Drummond Cl. & Dowd Cl. $59.00/mo.

GRANDVIEW AREA 4400 Blks. of 40A Ave. and 41 Ave. and 1 Blk. each of 46 and 47 Streets area MOUNTVIEW AREA Between 35 St. and 39 St. and 43A Ave. and 41, Ave. area $189.00/mo.

MICHENER AREA 50A. St. between 40 Ave. & 42 A Ave, 50, 51, 51A & 52 St. between 40 Ave. & 43 Ave. and Michener Drive area. $209.00/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

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

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BRIDGER CONST. LTD. We do it all! 403-302-8550 DALE’S Home Reno’s Free estimates for all your reno needs. 403-506-4301 DOORS, windows, siding, soffit, fascia and custom cladding. Call Dean @ 403-302-9210.

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

Call James 403-341-0617

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

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HELPING HANDS Home Supports for Seniors.

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Property clean up 340-8666 GARAGE DOOR SERVICE Snow Save 50%. All yard & bobcat services, junk/tree/snow Removal removal. 403-358-1614 SNOW blowing/dump/junk SHOVELLING AND snow runs/odd jobs 403-885-5333 blowing 403-318-7625

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UN commission urges international court to prosecute Central African Republic perpetrators The United Nations commission that has accused both sides in the conflict in Central African Republic of crimes against humanity is urging the U.N. to establish an international court to prosecute perpetrators.

Law professor Philippe Alston, a commission member, warned against a proposal being considered to set up a special criminal court in the country.

He says the conflict-torn nation doesn’t have judges with the ability to hold accountable “the major political players who need to be prosecuted.”

Alston told a news conference Wednesday if a national court is approved by the U.N. and Central African Republic, it must have a majority of international judges and be well-funded.

Drone carrying methamphetamine crashes into supermarket parking lot near US-Mexico border MEXICO CITY — Police in a Mexican border city said Wednesday that a drone overloaded with illicit methamphetamine crashed into a supermarket parking lot.

Tijuana police spokesman Jorge Morrua said authorities were alerted after the drone fell Tuesday night near the San Ysidro crossing at Mexico’s border with California. Six packets of the drug, weighing more than six pounds, were taped to the six-propeller remote-controlled aircraft. Morrua said authorities are investigating where the flight originated and who was controlling it. He said it was not the first time they had seen drones used for smuggling drugs across the border. Other innovative efforts have included catapults, ultralight aircraft and tunnels.

In April, authorities in South Carolina found a drone outside the fence of a prison that had been carrying cellphones, marijuana and tobacco.

U.S. paddle boarder records up-close encounter with killer whale pod LAGUNA BEACH, Calif. — A California paddle boarder has captured his up-close encounter with an orca pod and posted the resulting video on social media.

The video, showing the whales swimming around and even underneath Rich German’s paddle board had been viewed on YouTube more than 320,000 times by Wednesday afternoon.

German says he has been out on the ocean hundreds of times and has seen plenty of marine life, but he always dreamed of seeing orcas.

On Jan. 7 that dream was fulfilled. He had heard of a pod off Laguna Beach and paddled out to a spot where a cluster of boats was circling around.

He said the orcas came right for him and he described them as friendly and interacting.

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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Mystery deepened in the gunshot death of a prosecutor who had accused Argentina’s president of covering up a terror attack with Wednesday’s revelation that a door to his apartment barely locked and the discovery of a previously unknown entry.

The locksmith who opened the back door to give investigators access to the home where Alberto Nisman was found dead said it was barely closed, raising questions about whether a killer might have entered or exited what was earlier described as a 13th-story apartment locked from the inside.

After testifying to investigators, the man who gave his name only as Walter said he was able to quickly open the door with a hook. He added, “If someone entered or not, I don’t know.”

The official news agency Telam, meanwhile, said investigators had found a third access to the home, a narrow passage holding air conditioning equipment that connects to a neighbouring apartment occupied by an unidentified foreigner. They were investigating a seemingly recent footprint and fingerprint found inside.

Initial official reports of the scene had strongly suggested suicide: a securely locked apartment and no evidence of another person involved.

Nisman, 51, was found slumped in the bathroom of his apartment Sunday night with a bullet wound in his head and a .22 calibre handgun beside his body.

Four days before, he had given a judge a 289-page report alleging President Cristina Fernandez had secretly reached a deal to prevent prosecution of former Iranian officials accused of involvement in the 1994 car bombing of the country’s largest Jewish centre.

The death, and Tuesday’s release of Nisman’s full report, caused a crisis for the government, which scrambled to promise “maximum transparency and co-operation” in the investigation into the death of a man trying to prosecute the president for covering up “crimes against humanity.”

The Ipsos polling company said 70 per cent of 414 people it questioned soon after news of the death believed it was murder.

Lead prosecutor Viviana Fein said there was no evidence of anyone else involved in the death, but said Nisman left no suicide note. A test of his hand showed no residue of gunpowder, though she said that may have been due to the small calibre of the gun. The fact that national Security Secretary Sergio

Berni quickly turned up in the apartment also fed doubts.

Fein said the gun found beside Nisman was registered to another man, Diego Lagomarsino, described by officials as a colleague of Nisman, who reportedly gave it to him on Saturday.

Nisman had spent 10 years investigating the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community centre in Buenos Aires that killed 85 people, the worst terror attack in Argentine history.

His full report accused Fernandez and Foreign Minister Hector Timerman of reaching agreement with Iran to avoid prosecution of eight Iranians, including former senior officials, charged with involvement in the bombing. He said that would open a lucrative trade in Argentine grains and meat for Iranian oil.

In the end Interpol never dropped its “red notices” for the arrest of five of the Iranians, however, and the government said trade with Iran has diminished in recent years.

Writing with passion, Nisman called it “a criminal plan to erase at a stroke the serious accusations that weigh on the Iranian fugitives ... something unprecedented and never before seen.”

The document did not appear to show direct or documentary evidence of a deal, but it did include wiretap transcripts of several people discussing such negotiations and saying the deal was approved by “la jefa” — Spanish for a female “chief” — and “at the highest level.”

Among those involved in the talks, Nisman said, was a key suspect in the bombing, Mohsen Rabbani, former cultural attache at the Iranian Embassy in Buenos Aires. The government dismissed Nisman’s allegations as “weak” and “baseless” and Fernandez on Tuesday released a long message saying Nisman’s investigation was meant “to divert, to lie, to cover up and confuse” ahead of a trial of former President Carlos Menem and other officials for a separate alleged coverup of the bombing. Nisman, however, was the prosecutor in that case as well.

Nisman was appointed to his post in 2005 by then President Nestor Kirchner, Fernandez’s late husband, after a bungled 10-year probe launched under Menem that led to a trial in which all the defendants were found innocent. Nisman won arrest orders against several Iranians, including several current and former officials, and Interpol later put five of them on its most-wanted list.

UNDERWATER EXPLORATION

Mexico’s Colima volcano spews column of ash 4,000 metres into the air MEXICO CITY — The Colima volcano in western Mexico spewed a column of ash up to 4,000 metres into the air on Wednesday.

Dramatic time lapse video captured by local media showed the moment when the volcano, known locally as the Fire Volcano, erupted, sending a large plume of ash and gases into the air. Authorities from Jalisco state civil protection agency reported that some residues had reached the nearby communities of Huescalapa, Los Mazos, Atenquique and Vista Hermosa. No evacuations have been reported.

The 3,820-metre volcano is 690 kilometres northwest of Mexico City, on the border of the states of Colima and Jalisco. It is one of the most active and potentially destructive volcanoes in Mexico.

Jamaica official says marijuana reform bill ready, should soon be introduced in Parliament KINGSTON, Jamaica — Jamaica’s Cabinet has approved a bill that would decriminalize possession of small amounts of pot and establish a legal medical marijuana industry. Justice Minister Mark Golding announced Wednesday that he expects to introduce the drug law amendments in the Senate by the end of this week.

Golding says it would establish a licensing authority to deal with the various regulations needed to cultivate, sell and distribute marijuana for “medical, scientific and therapeutic purposes.”

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This image taken from video shows diver Andrew Driver swimming over part of a 19th-century canal boat that lies on the floor of Lake Ontario’s eastern end near Oswego, N.Y. Jim Kennard, Roger Pawlowski, and Roland Steven, three underwater explorers from the Rochester area, said, Wednesday, that they discovered the two 19th-century canal boats last year while searching for shipwrecks. The sunken canal boats, located in more than 200 feet below the surface, are believed to be built in the mid-1800s when the Erie Canal was widened to accommodate larger boats.

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Kyle Gallner, left, and Bradley Cooper appear in a scene from ‘American Sniper.’ The film is based on the autobiography by Chris Kyle.

The mediocrity of American Sniper COMMENT

When the 2015 Oscar nominations were announced last week, I put “the parade of accolades for American Sniper at the top of my list of poor decisions the Academy voters made this year.

The Clint Eastwood movie, about one of the most effective snipers in American military history and his journeys from the United States to Iraq and back again, is a passion project for its star, Bradley Cooper, who optioned Chris Kyle’s memoir himself. But the connection Cooper apparently felt to the material has translated on screen to a mediocre movie that Cooper can’t elevate and an illustration of just how much fear of being seen as political can deaden a story.

Given the attempts to discredit Ava DuVernay’s Selma over questions of its historical accuracy that many commentators have treated as an excuse not to engage with her often very fine filmmaking, it seems important to me to emphasize all the ways in which American Sniper is mediocre as a movie. But in American Sniper much more so than with Selma, these questions of accuracy and politics interact with concerns about quality, specificity and dramatic tension.

There are moments when American Sniper captures the beauty of Iraq, or the odd moments when destruction produces an image that is striking rather than simply terrible. Chris (Cooper) and a Syrian Olympian named Mustafa (Sammy Sheik), who has joined the Iraqi insurgency, thread the scopes and barrels of their sniper rifles through metal latticework and stone balustrades. Chris and his colleagues make their way up beautifully tiled stairwells; in a room that has been repurposed for briefings, a military map doesn’t quiet cover an enormous mosaic; a palm tree burns like a pinwheel.

In one of the more subtle moments in the film, we see the country from the perspective of a circling drone rather than through Chris’s scope. The images come fast and vertiginous, and they lack the kind of granular architectural — not to mention human — detail that Chris and the camera capture closer to the ground. Eastwood doesn’t need to underline the difference explicitly or parse whether the use of drones or snipers is more moral or effective. He just lets the shot linger with us.

If only American Sniper had more of this sort of trust in its viewers. Instead, these moments of vision feel like lapses away from the baseline Eastwood otherwise adheres to so rigorously.

In building out the character of Mustafa, the Syrian sniper who doesn’t speak in the film, Eastwood frames him like a serial killer. We see his gaze linger on the stock of his rifle, and Eastwood’s camera captures him from behind as he ties on a head scarf, as if he’s putting on a super-villain mask. Mustafa twirls a bullet on a table while his wife watches, holding their baby. At one point, Eastwood points the camera up from the bottom of an alley and captures Mustafa leaping across the rooftops as if he’s Aladdin.

The same heavy signaling shows up when Eastwood wants us to know a veteran is having a hard time. When Chris encounters his younger brother Jeff (Keir O’Donnell) on a tarmac as both are shipping out for Iraq again, Jeff’s face is sallow and

there’s something missing from his eyes, even when Chris tries to buck him up. That same vacant look appears again on the face of a veteran Chris is headed out to help in the movie’s final scene. Eastwood manages to characterize SEALs who are enthusiastic about war in unique ways, but his cinematic vocabulary is decidedly blunter and more limited when it comes to depicting men who can’t handle war the way Chris does.

This same obviousness characterizes the dialogue, which mostly consists of characters stating subtext out loud instead of talking to each other like actual humans. “You got a gift,� Chris’s father (Ben Reed) tells him after he shoots his first buck. A few moments later, young Chris (Cole Konis) perks up in church when the pastor notes that sometimes “We don’t see the glory of His plan,� as if the first scene wasn’t enough to signal to us that Chris might be something special.

When Chris grows up, a cheating girlfriend tells him “I do this to get attention, don’t you get that?�

When Chris comes home from his final deployment, clearly reacclimating poorly to civilian life, his wife, Taya (Sienna Miller), insists “I need you to be human again.� Chris finds a role for himself in civilian life in taking veterans, especially those who have experienced grave wounds, out shooting. “Seriously, man, why do you do it?� one asks him. “We take care of each other, don’t we?� Chris tells him. This is not dialogue. These are placeholder words that tell us what dialogue is supposed to convey. But somehow, Eastwood and screenwriter Jason Hall never got around to making the switch.

Again, there are rare exceptions. When Chris meets Taya, the woman who will become his wife, she thanks him for getting her out of a bar. “I think I rescued that bar from you,� Chris jokes. Later, when Chris teases Marc Lee (Luke Grimes) about reading Punisher comics on a stakeout, Marc swipes back, “It’s a f__ graphic novel.� The best of these types of moments comes when Biggles (Jake McDorman) announces that he’s bought his girlfriend an engagement ring in Iraq. “You bought it from savages?

How do you know it’s not a blood diamond?� Chris demands to know. “You gonna tell her where you got it?� “F_ no,� Biggles tells him, loose and funny. “I’ll tell her I got that s_ from Zales.�

A movie that sounded like this in any consistent way might be vigorous and alive, but American Sniper does not, and is not.

All these filmmaking choices diminish the movie.

But so do the liberties Eastwood and Hall take with Kyle’s memoir of the same title and with the facts (when Kyle lived, the story he told and the truth could not always be counted on to be the same thing).

So do their decisions to sand down Kyle’s personality and politics, turning him safer and ultimately blander.

The central duel between Chris and Mustafa is both a source of many groan-worthy moments in American Sniper and also an invention. “While we were on the berm watching the city, we were also watching warily for an Iraqi sniper known as Mustafa,� Kyle wrote in his memoir (the movie gives Mustafa a different nationality). “From the reports we heard, Mustafa was an Olympics marksman who

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was using his skills against Americans and Iraqi police and soldiers. Several videos had been made and posted, boasting of his ability. I never saw him, but other snipers later killed an Iraqi sniper we think was him.�

Eastwood might have made better use of this subplot if the movie was the story about how Mustafa and Chris came to be hunting each other, but that would require Eastwood to devote equal time to Mustafa’s story, which he does not do. It would also require him to consider if Chris is the kind of stone cold killer the movie suggests that Mustafa is.

American Sniper might have been better off cutting Mustafa altogether and focusing more on some of the wrenching scenes where Chris has to decide whether to shoot women and young Iraqi boys. These stories are modified only slightly from Kyle’s memoir, and they are quite effective.

Eastwood and Hall also strip away most of Kyle’s politics and attitudes toward Iraqis; out on the awards season stump, Bradley Cooper has repeatedly insisted that the film is personal rather than political.

In the film, Chris uses the word “savages,� but American Sniper doesn’t make room to explore the depth of his contempt for Iraqis. He drove cars at them at high speed to see them get scared: “Their high-pitched screams, coupled with sprints in the opposite direction, had me doubled over. Cheap thrills in Iraq were priceless,� he wrote in his memoir. He bragged about stealing from their homes against orders. He compared them to American welfare recipients in their dependency and inability to handle freedom.

And Kyle saw his distaste for the people he was fighting as explicitly connected to his faith. “On the front of my arm, I had a crusader cross inked in,� he wrote. “I wanted everyone to know I was a Christian.

I had it put in in red, for blood. I hated the damn savages I’d been fighting. I always will. They’ve taken so much from me.�

American Sniper might not have been nominated for a raft of Academy Awards or cleaned up at the box office on its first weekend had the film been more liberal or more conservative. But a willingness to engage with Chris Kyle as he was almost certainly would have made American Sniper a better movie.

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Brooklyn Nine-Nine emphasizes diversity THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Stephanie Beatriz was preparing for her secondround audition for Brooklyn Nine-Nine when she heard that another Latina actress, Melissa Fumero, won a role in the sitcom.

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The Brooklyn Nine-Nine cast includes both of the actresses, along with two African-Americans and five whites.

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The veteran writers and producers, whose credits include Parks and Recreation, were mulling a joint project when they quickly settled on a New York-based police comedy.

“Police deal with people of all types: races, genders, sexualities, which allows for an unbelievable number of stories,” Goor said.

“And when you look at the NYPD itself, it’s

an incredibly diverse police force.”

Added Schur: “It seemed like the more diverse, interesting-looking group of people you had, the more fun the show would be.”

The payoff for FOX’s Brooklyn Nine-Nine so far includes a 2014 Golden Globe best comedy series trophy and solid ratings that earned it a sophomore season.

Diversity also provided more than a wealth of lively material for the show’s nine-member writing staff, which includes black, IndianAmerican and gay writers, along with Goor and Schur, both of whom are white.

“From a practical point, it meant we could open up the casting process really to anyone, which is a tremendous advantage,” Goor said.

“We could say to the casting director (Allison Jones), we want to have two male cops and two female cops of this age, and we can audition anyone.”

Word of Andy Samberg’s decision to leave Saturday Night Live came after Goor and Schur had a deal in place with Fox, and they pursued him for the role of freewheeling police Detective Jake Peralta.

Terry Crews, the NFL player turned actor, was hired shortly after to play the role of Sgt. Terry Jeffords.

Crews’ audition was so impressive that “we came up with a character named Terry, which was really a bad negotiating tactic,” Goor joked.

Andre Braugher was brought on as stern precinct Capt. Ray Holt, a move notable for the

multiple Emmy Awardwinning actor’s shift from drama to comedy. Tough black bosses are a TV staple, often limited to nothing more than barking orders, but Holt’s personal life comes into play on Brooklyn NineNine and Braugher is far from marginalized.

Other top roles went to Joe Lo Truglio, Dirk Blocker and Joel McKinnon Miller as, respectively, white detectives Boyle, Hitchcock and Scully, and Chelsea Peretti as an administrator and assistant to Holt.

Then came a rare move for a network series, with two of the three major female roles going to Fumero (Detective Amy Santiago) and Beatriz (Detective Rosa Diaz).

“Again, we were searching for the best (people),” Goor said.

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Nightwatch Dick Wolf (“Law & Order”) is among the executive producers of this new nonfiction series that follows elite teams of emergency responders as they work the dangerous overnight shift in New Orleans. In the premiere, multiple teams respond to reports of a shooting victim lying in the street, while the EMTs at a car accident scene treat a driver who won’t admit that he is (clearly) on drugs.

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Parenthood With the series finale airing next week, the penultimate episode — “We Made It Through the Night” — finds Zeek (Craig T. Nelson) reaching a pivotal decision about his health, with input from Camille (Bonnie Bedelia).

Sarah also comes to a major determination, just before Amber (Mae Whitman) develops labor pains. Adam (Peter Krause) remains firm when Crosby (Dax Shepard) opposes his business ideas. Monica Potter, Erika Christensen and Sam Jaeger also star.

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