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Who’s in the race?

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Who’s in and who’s out?

Central Alberta MLAs, if they haven’t already decided, are tossing around whether they will run again in the next provincial election — which could come sooner than later.

Red Deer North MLA Mary Anne Jablonski will make an announcement at 9:30 a.m. today at the Sheraton Hotel Red Deer about her future.

While the fifth-term Progressive Conservative MLA wanted to keep the details confidential when I spoke with her on Friday, she did say when I asked her how she MARY-ANN was feeling: “Right now I have BARR very mixed feelings about everything.” The emotion was evident.

As for the other MLAs, and not surprising given recent events in Alberta politics, at least one is still deciding what banner he will run under.

And other people, entirely new to the game, are stepping up to take their shot at provincial politics.

There’s speculation every single day now on whether Premier Jim Prentice will call an election this spring.

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Ryan Bergheim of the Red Deer Aeros battles for the puck with Gabriel Scigliano of the Calgary Whalers during a Saturday morning game at the Fifth Annual Tommy Gun’s Red Deer Midget Outdoor Winter Classic Tournament. The tournament featured eight Alberta teams, and four local teams, playing as one of the WHA teams, and a Canada Cup-themed series for local Novice teams. Games were played early in the day and late in the evening, and the skills competition was cancelled due to the warm weather conditions.

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Rural communities hope city will delay sewage rate hike

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF Central Alberta communities unhappy with wastewater bill increases are hoping to buy some more time to get the City of Red Deer to reconsider.

Penhold Mayor Dennis Cooper said they would like to see the city delay passing the parts of a utility bylaw that deal with regional sewage rates until a thorough review is done of the model used to determine costs.

Council has given first reading to a utility rate bylaw on Monday and second and third readings are set for Feb. 2.

Six communities on a regional sewer line that connects to Red Deer were shocked in December when the saw the rate increases proposed by the city.

“To say the least, the municipalities are very disappointed their models includes a profit margin and return on investment (that) we feel is high,” said Cooper, who chairs the South Red Deer Regional Wastewater Commission, which also includes Innisfail, Bowden, Olds, Mountain View County, and Red Deer County The regional sewer line project was meant to share costs fairly among all communities.

However, communities are questioning whether that is happening and have hired consultants to review the city’s math and rate models to better understand where the numbers are coming from.

A meeting has already been requested to meet with the city to go over the utility plan.

“We need to understand that rate model, have the dialogue to make sure we’re working together as Central Alberta, (that) we’re not working as the City of Red Deer versus the rural communities.”

Tom Warder, the city’s environmental services manager, the city has said it did not allocate the costs of operating the plant correctly and the new rates better reflect how costs should be shared among all customers.

Warder said a variety of costs are allocated in setting rates, including operating, collection system, capital and amortization costs.

“There’s a whole bunch of parameters to allocate various costs to the various customers.”

On review, it was determined that additional costs should have been allocated to the treatment plant.

When that was corrected, it meant a greater share of costs were to be shared by regional customers.

“What that results in is a fairly steep increase for the region,” he said, adding the plan is to phase that in over three to five years.

Warder said it is incorrect to suggest the utility rate model is producing a profit. The cost of the plant upgrades is factored into rates, as well as borrowing and depreciation costs.

Currently, six regional communities pay 70 cents per cubic metre for treatment, and the city has proposed that increase to 80 cents this year as part of a phasing in plan that will add about 10 cents the following year as well.

Treatment is only a portion of wastewater bills, which must also recover collection among other costs.

‘WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND THAT RATE MODEL, HAVE THE DIALOGUE TO MAKE SURE WE’RE WORKING TOGETHER AS CENTRAL, (THAT WE’RE NOT WORKING AS THE CITY OF RED DEER VERSUS THE RURAL COMMUNITIES.’ — DENNIS COOPER PENHOLD MAYOR AND CHAIR OF SOUTH RED DEER REGIONAL WASTERWATER COMMISION

Cooper said communities have already had to borrow millions to bankroll their share of the $139-million regional sewer line from Olds to Red Deer that is nearing completion.

Communities only want what’s fair to both parties, and do not expect the city to subsidize their sewage costs.

Cooper said communities have been told to expect rates in the $1.06 per cubic metre range within several years.

“This is huge sticker shock to communities.”

Warder said the city is continuing to talk with its regional customers.

Even if the utility bylaw is passed at the next meeting that does not stop the city from taking it back to council to change it later if a different rate plan is worked out with regional communities, he said. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

Gravel pit open house will provide insight

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF

LACOMBE AND CLEARWATER COUNTIES

An open house scheduled for this week will provide further insight to a gravel pit that will be shared

by Lacombe and Clearwater Counties.

Located near Range Road 86 and Township Road 380, the proposed 80-year pit is moving ahead in the approval process. Nick Pryce, WSP Group planning lead for Western Canada, said they have already gone through the environmental review process and are now heading to the permitting process from both counties.

“It’s going to be well screened with a two-metre high berm and landscaping on top of it,” said Pryce.

“It’s not going to be active all the time either.”

He said crushing is scheduled to occur every three years, with smaller crushing in between as needed.

The gravel will then be transported to storage locations for stockpiling.

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“Most crushing activities will happen in the fall and into the winter,” said Pryce.

Pryce said they had gone to neighbouring property owners to discuss concerns and there were some issues raised.

A nearby stream that has the potential to flood is one issue that was raised, but Pryce said they have obtained historic photos showing the flood patterns and demonstration the safety of the gravel pit in relation to flooding from the nearby waterway.

Another issue that was raised was the pit’s impact on local ground water.

“We go and make sure we don’t have an impact on them,” said Pryce. “There is a whole lot of analysis that has gone on about that through hydro-geological surveys.”

Extensive studies have been done on the water table, watershed and how the water flows through

the area.

“If anybody’s well is affected the county would come and re-drill a new well,” said Pryce.

“There are mitigation measures in place like that.”

Traffic concerns will be addressed at the open house on Wednesday, with maps showing how they expect gravel haulers to move to and from the pit.

Because the gravel pit is a joint project for Lacombe and Clearwater Counties, the two municipalities will share the extracted material 50 per cent each.

At the end of its 80-year life cycle, the plan is for the gravel pit to be reclaimed as a wetland.

The open house is scheduled for Wednesday at Hardindell Hall, 384089 Hwy 752 in Clearwater County, from 4 to 8 p.m. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

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“That’s the way it is. They served their purpose” MENIAK, MINLAW GRAIN ELEVATORS TO BE TORN DOWN

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF For 19 years, the Meniak grain elevator loomed large on a Ponoka farmer’s property, but now it is set to be torn down like so many other elevators that once dotted the prairie landscape.

Bernard Lentz retired from farming in 1997, when he sold his farm and moved in to Ponoka. But in 1978 he saved the old Meniak elevator, when he moved it onto his farm land.

With a chuckle he said everybody asks him how he feels about his old grain elevator being torn down.

“While I am disappointed, elevators are a dinosaur because there are none left,” said Lentz. “They had their time and all of a sudden they built the terminals and the elevators were disposed of.

“That’s the way it is. They (elevators) served their purpose.”

Lentz’ old grain elevator isn’t the only one set for destruction. The Mintlaw elevator, that once served more than 10,000 head of cattle between Red Deer and Blackfalds, has fallen into disrepair and plans are in motion to tear it down.

Red Bloomfield operates Heavenly Dexter Ranch, which doesn’t rely on grain fed cattle, instead they are grass-fed.

“I don’t have a use for it anymore,” said Bloomfield, adding it used to be where grain was mixed up for three different feedlots.

“I never used it myself, it was here when we bought the place and we’re not that big an operation.”

The former Mintlaw elevator is starting to deteriorate as well, which was a contributing reason for the decision to knock it over.

Bloomfield said he doesn’t expect it to come down for at least a year.

“It was either tear it down or restore it,” said Bloomfield. “It would take quite a bit to restore it. It needs siding more than anything.”

At its peak, the Meniak elevator held 30,000 bushels of grain. When Lentz sold it, he told the buyer the old shingle roof was getting bad and starting to leak.

He was about to put a tin roof on it to maintain it.

“I didn’t want to sell, but my wife and I figured we did enough of this,” said Lentz.

Lentz remembered with fondness the elevator that towered over his farm.

“It’s too bad, because that elevator became kind of part of me,” said Lentz. “I worked for five or six months getting it ready to move to our farm and set it

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RACE: Fueled even more This was fueled even more when MLA Doug Horner, former finance minister and deputy premier, announced on Thursday that he was resigning effective Jan. 31. And Fred Horne, who served as health minister, announced on Friday that he will not run again.

It may be that in the coming days we will see more resignations. This is to allow for enough time to replace and nominate new candidates before an election. Given the worsening situation of Alberta’s resource-based economy, with the price of West Texas Intermediate crude oil below US$46 a barrel on Friday (last June, it was US$105), the possibility of an election this year is on the rise.

The loss of revenue for the province is expected to result in major cuts to government spending, and Prentice, who as premier has yet to face the general electorate, will need a mandate from voters if he intends to do that because there will be pushback.

There’s even been hair-raising talk about Albertans finally seeing a sales tax.

There are 87 constituencies in Alberta and today the PCs hold 72. Wildrose was severely wounded, slashed down to five MLAs following the floor-crossing of two MLAs in November and then nine in December (including party leader Danielle Smith) to the government side. The Liberals also have five MLAs, while the New Democrats have four, and there is one independent.

Central Alberta has been right in the middle of these whirlybird politics — at the beginning of November, Wildrose MLAs in this region outnumbered PC MLAs five to two. Weeks later, they were all the same faces, but the PCs outnumbered Wildrose six

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This grain elevator formerly located in Mintlaw now sits on Reg and Kim Bloomfield’s farm north east of Blackfalds. up. I did a lot of work on it. Everything you do in your life that you do and you use it and you work with it, it becomes a part of you.

“It was a source of pride for me to run my own elevator.” mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

to one.

The PCs have set March 15 as the deadline for all their candidates to be nominated. They are far ahead of all the other parties, having 47 or 87 nomination dates set (either Feb. 21 or Feb. 28) for the next election. But it’s likely that the other parties have now rolled up their sleeves and are working hard at seeking contenders.

There are seven constituencies in Central Alberta, of which five are held by Progressive Conservative MLAs. These now include Jablonski; Red Deer South — Cal Dallas; Innisfail-Sylvan Lake — Kerry Towle; Lacombe-Ponoka — Rod Fox; and Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills — Bruce Rowe.

Towle shocked most everyone when she crossed from Wildrose to PC in late November with another MLA, from Southern Alberta. Then, Wildrosers Fox and Rowe were among the other nine who went PC in December.

Joe Anglin, MLA for Rimbey-Rocky Mountain House-Sundre, once was leader of the Alberta Green Party but was elected as a Wildrose MLA in the last election. He left the party in November, just before all the floor-crossings, to sit as an independent MLA. Rick Strankman, Drumheller-Stettler, was on vacation when all hell broke loose. He was left as the remaining Wildrose MLA in Central Alberta.

Towle has confirmed she will be seeking the PC nomination for Innisfail-Sylvan Lake. But she won’t have an easy time of it. Red Deer County Major Jim Wood, a long-standing Conservative, announced Thursday that he intends to seek the PC nomination for the constituency.

The vote will be on Feb. 28.

Dallas said he is meeting with the Red Deer South PC constituency board on Friday and expects to have an announcement after that about whether he’s going to run again. No nomination dates has been set for either Red Deer South or Red Deer North.

Strankman is running again in DrumhellerStettler for the Wildrose and has been nominated.

Joe Anglin intends to run again in his riding. But he’s not sure if he will remain an independent, or try something entirely new and seek the PC nomination.

There is already one declared PC candidate for the nomination — Tammy Cote of Rocky. The nomination vote, if needed, will be Feb. 21.

Fox is away on vacation until today and no announcements have been made about his intentions.

If he runs again, he will face at least Peter DeWit of Lacombe, who has just declared he will go after the PC nomination for Lacombe-Ponoka. No date has been set for a nomination vote.

Rowe did not return calls. If he does decide to seek the Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills PC nomination, he will face at least Wade Bearchell, an Olds town councillor, who has declared. No date has been set for a nomination.

There’s strong interest in the Drumheller-Stettler PC nomination.

No vote date has been set. So far, three people are after the nod — Greggory Jackson, Ed Mah and former PC MLA Jack Hayden, who lost to Strankman in the 2010 election.

The Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta’s nomination committee was to meet on Saturday to consider setting more dates for nominations.

As of Friday, overall, Wildrose had 17 of 87 nominations completed, including Strankman in Drumheller-Stettler and Jason Nixon for RimbeyRocky Mountain House-Sundre. Nominations opened on Wednesday for Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills and so far, Carstairs Coun. Nathan Cooper is the only one after it.

The Liberals and New Democrats have not yet announced any candidates or nomination dates for any of the seven Central Alberta constituencies.

The Alberta Party has two of 87 possible candidates nominated but neither of them are in Central Alberta. barr@reddeeradvocate

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Smith sorry she didn’t let Albertans debate her floor-crossing

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Children decked out in their Elsa and Anna costumes turned out to the the Red Deer Public Library’s Timberlands branch for an afternoon of Frozen-themed crafts, games and a viewing of the sing-along version of the newest Disney movie favourite. The event proved to be popular, with crafts disappearing well before it officially started. On Feb. 8, the downtown branch of the library will host a Frozen Princess Party from 2 to 3:30 p.m.

Former Wildrose leader Danielle Smith issued an apology to her constituents Saturday saying she should have waited to hear from Albertans before she and other caucus members crossed the floor to join the governing Progressive Conservatives.

Smith took to Facebook on Saturday to say she’s “sorry” that she “did not take more time to allow Albertans to consider and debate the idea of reunification before Wildrose MLAs joined the PC Caucus.”

She went on to state that in hindsight, “it is clear that there needed to be more engagement and discussion to prepare Albertans for this change.”

“It has not gone as expected. It has not been an easy path. It has angered a lot of people,” Smith stated in the post.

“For that I am truly sorry.”

In December, Smith led eight of her MLAs across the floor to join Premier Jim Prentice’s government, leaving just five Wildrose members to be the official Opposition. Smith told reporters in High River Saturday that she misread how angry the public was going to be after moving so quickly to join the government.

“I blame myself for that. I think I misunderstood just how angry people would be. I have to take responsibility for the fact people were surprised...it was unexpected. But in the end there were just certain factors that we had to deal with,” Smith said.

She said the move had to be approved by the government caucus and the next meeting after December wasn’t until Jan. 28.

There are still 2,000 applicants with open files under Alberta’s Disaster Recovery Program and Alberta Premier Jim Prentice said Saturday it’s time to put them to rest.

“The rebuilding of this community is an inspiration to all of us in Alberta and this is a time when Alberta needs inspiration,” said Prentice.

“It’s our intent by this summer the vast majority of the remaining claims will be resolved. Only the most difficult and complex files will remain open and even in those cases it’s our intent to get those cases closed as quickly as possible.”

Prentice said the government is adding an additional 15 temporary caseworkers to assist with file management. In addition, he says those seeking to complete repairs on their homes will be able to receive a cash advance of 90 per cent of funding they are eligible to receive.

Previously, those looking for cash up front were only eligible for 50 per cent. Once repairs have been completed, applicants can submit receipts to receive the final 10 per cent in funding. Prentice said there is no plan at this point to free up extra money for homeowners in High River’s hard hit Hamptons neighbourhood who are asking for further compensation to get rid of black mould. He said they can apply under the current relief program.

“We’re aware of the circumstances in the Hamptons with black mould. This 90 per cent rule, if you will, will work for all claimants but it will work in particular for those who are affected by black mould,” Prentice said.

“If they’ve now discovered black mould in their home there’s an opportunity, on a one-time basis, to make a decision for remediation. They’re eligible for the 90 per cent.”

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Medium and message WHY WE NEED NEW TOOLS TO TALK ABOUT OUR COMMUNITY Communication is our business, not our practice. That’s one of the quotes I’ll always remember from the old days, back when newspaper types used to gather at provincial conferences to discuss their dark trade.

The best quotes always came while at the bar, after the workshops and seminars.

The same can GREG also apply to NEIMAN politicians. (The quote, not the bar sessions.)

Perhaps even more so now, when the higher up the political ladder one goes, the more spin staff are hired to tweet to us, but not to communicate.

In that aspect, Marshall McLuhan was right: the medium is indeed the message now.

So perhaps it would be inevitable that civic government — the one closest to the voters — would develop a need to standardize the way it talks to the public. On everything from dandelions in the playgrounds to the effects

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of addiction and homelessness in the city.

Our particular city began to change its governance model two or three elections ago to include an evolving four-year plan within a system of planning outlines (our “charters”). As that came about, it became apparent that everyone in Red Deer City Hall needs to be on the same page, when voters get engaged.

So when you have all these other planning tools already, what do you do next but build a toolkit to talk about it?

Elaine Vincent, director of Development Services for Red Deer, said the City of Victoria recently developed a communications toolkit to make sure the message from City Hall gets out in a consistent way through all departments. Vincent also said the toolkit standardizes how the message from us voters travels through the City Hall maze of offices.

Vincent told me that Red Deer caught a bit of a bargain working with Victoria’s consultants to adapt the toolkit for here. There’s not a whole lot of important stuff that you can get for less than $31,000 these days.

Time will tell if wrapping talk in a package is indeed such a bargain, but I figure it’s worth trying.

Think of it this way: in an election, candidates tell us what they’re going

to do for us. They hear stuff on the campaign trail, for sure, but what they say to us is hugely filtered through the candidate’s vision. In any event, voters cast their ballots based on what the candidate says he or she will do.

After the election, their cellphones ring constantly with people telling them what to do. What happens to the vision?

Well, in Red Deer, it’s hammered out in the four-year plan. And all our phone calls and meetings get prioritized by how closely they fit into the plan, and by how broadly held the messages are from those phone calls and meetings.

Vincent says the toolkit helps both elected councillors and admin staff prioritize the message, when people call about their issues. How many people are affected? Is action required now or later? How can we guarantee the right people are hearing the message?

Vincent also says the toolkit helps staff get your message through overlapping departments, and that when staff anywhere in the city’s large organization talk to the public, they speak with a more unified voice. That’s the plan anyway. And if there’s anything our city is thoroughly engaged in right now, it’s creating plans.

So how does that affect you? If you

as a citizen want to comment on a direction the city is taking, you’ll probably need to at least be familiar with the plan. There’s plenty of information on that on the city’s website.

If you’re not right up to speed on the plan, this toolkit is supposed to make it so that councillors and city managers can all explain it to you — in the same way. The whole effort is to help get you more engaged with the direction the city is growing.

You can still call a councillor and gripe about your neighbour’s dog barking all night. You’re the taxpayer.

But from dandelion control to rebuilding our city’s core, or from traffic problems to defining what we want to be as a city in the next 20 or 30 years, this toolkit is supposed to make sure your part of the message isn’t lost in the maze at City Hall.

You’ll never get this kind of treatment from the province or the feds, for all the tax money you send them. So perhaps we shouldn’t get too snarky about the $31,000 spent on a toolkit to package how we talk.

The medium — the plan and the toolkit to explain it — has indeed become the message.

Greg Neiman is a retired Advocate editor. Follow his blog at readersadvocate. blogspot.ca or email greg.neiman.blog@ gmail.com.

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Oil prices drop as global warming rises With oil prices plunging from more than $100 a barrel last summer to below $50 now, the consequences of a petro-fuelled economy are hitting home — especially in Alberta, where experts forecast a recession.

The province’s projected budget surplus has turned into a $500-million deficit on top of a $12-billion debt, with predicted revenue losses of $11 billion or more over the next three or four years if prices stay low or continue to drop as expected. Alberta’s government is talking about service reductions, public-sector wage and job cuts and even increased or new taxes on indiDAVID viduals. TD Bank says Canada SUZUKI as a whole can expect deficits over the next few years unless Ottawa takes money from its contingency fund.

It’s absurd that a lower price on a single commodity could have such a profound economic impact, but that’s what happens when you put all your eggs in one basket and fail to plan for such contingencies.

With a population and oil-and-gas production profile similar to Alberta, Europe’s largest petroleum producer, Norway, is also feeling the impacts.

But much higher taxes on industry, majority state ownership of the country’s largest oil-and-gas company and an approximately $900-billion sovereign

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wealth fund built from oil revenues are cushioning the fall.

Some see low fuel prices as good news, but there are many downsides. With driving becoming less costly, more cars and trucks could be on the road, which is good for the auto industry but bad in terms of pollution, climate change and traffic accidents.

And because the price of oil is now lower than the cost to extract oilsands bitumen, the industry is starting to put the brakes on rapid expansion plans — bad news for workers and businesses in Fort McMurray and those heavily invested in the industry but good news for the planet.

Recent research shows most of Canada’s oilsands bitumen — as well as all Arctic oil and gas, most of Canada’s coal and some conventional oil and gas — must be left in the ground if the world is to avoid a global temperature increase of more than 2 C above pre-industrial levels, the internationally agreedupon threshold for limiting catastrophic impacts of global warming. The report, by researchers at University College London’s Institute for Sustainable Resources and published in the journal Nature, concludes a third of the world’s oil reserves, half of gas reserves and more than 80 per cent of coal reserves must not be burned before 2050.

The study also found that carbon capture and storage, touted as one way to continue exploiting and burning fossil fuels, is too new, expensive and limited to make enough of a difference by 2050.

Study co-author Paul Ekins told National Geographic that putting hundreds of billions of dollars into fossil fuel exploration and development

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is “deeply irrational” economic behaviour. “What would be ideal,” he said, would be to “use the opportunity of this fall in the oil price to start instituting a global carbon tax, which would take some of the volatility out of the prices.” Removing fossil fuel subsidies would also help.

John Stone, a Canadian scientist and lead author on the most recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, told CBC the UCL study “is another wake-up call to snap us out of our denial of climate change.”

With 2014 confirmed as the hottest year on record, and 13 of the hottest 15 years having occurred since 2000, we can’t afford to ignore the consequences.

According to researchers, the odds that natural variability is causing today’s climate change are less than one in 27 million! It’s astounding that, in the face of such overwhelming evidence from scientists worldwide, people continue to deny the problem exists or that humans are responsible and can or should do anything about it.

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CANADA BRIEF Moncton RCMP search for suspicious man reportedly carrying firearm MONCTON, N.B. — RCMP officers searched a neighbourhood in Moncton, N.B. on Sunday after receiving a report of a suspicious male walking down a street with what appeared to be a firearm.

Police searched a large area of northwest Moncton after receiving the complaint at about 11:15 a.m.

Police issued a statement Sunday evening saying they didn’t find anyone and were lifting blockades that officers put up in one neighbourhood.

Police say they’re still investigating but there were no further sightings of the man they were seeking.

For some residents it no doubt brought back memories of last June when three RCMP officers were killed and two others were wounded by a gunman who was later captured by police.

An RCMP spokeswoman, Cpl. Chantal Farah, says police have always taken reports involving firearms very seriously. However last June’s shooting rampage has created a heightened sense of awareness amongst officers in Moncton, she said.

“We’re really on our guard,” she said.

B.C. MLA Jenny Kwan to run for federal NDP seat in Vancouver East VANCOUVER — A veteran member of British Columbia’s legislature is going to try to jump to federal politics.

Jenny Kwan says she’ll attempt to get the NDP nomination for the riding of VancouverEast for this year’s federal election. The seat is coming open because high-profile New Democrat MP Libby Davies announced last month she will not run again.

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Economy takes center stage as parliament returns ‘THE GOVERNMENT’S FISCAL FLEXIBILITY HAS BEEN REDUCED, AT LEAST FOR THE SHORT TERM’ — STEPHEN HARPER

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Move over Mike Duffy and Julian Fantino.

The stars of past parliamentary theatre will be supporting players on Monday as MPs return to the House of Commons and the economy takes centre stage.

The Senate expenses scandal and the government’s treatment of armed forces veterans will continue to be fodder for opposition outrage and government discomfort.

But with an election on the horizon within nine months, expect MPs to train their sites primarily on the uncertain economy — the one issue most likely to move votes.

The Conservatives have made sound fiscal management the cornerstone of their re-election bid. Indeed, they’ve chided opposition MPs for ignoring economic issues in their pursuit of scandals.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who looked to be in campaign-mode on Sunday, cast aside doubts and made it clear he still intends to present a balanced budget and deliver on last fall’s promise of incomesplitting for families with young children, even though the collapse in oil prices has sucked billions out of the federal treasury and delayed the budget.

“The government’s fiscal flexibility has been reduced, at least for the short term,” Harper told a high school gym packed with Conservatives in Orleans, Ont., a suburb of Ottawa.

“To some, it’s a reason not to balance the budget. But to them, there is always a reason not to balance the budget. That’s how the small Trudeau deficits of the early 1970s became big deficits that went on for a quarter of a century, and ended up with the Liberals dramatically hiking taxes on everybody and massively cutting even the most essential of programs, our health care and education.”

For the government to focus on its economic record, it’s a case of “be careful what you wish for,” says NDP finance critic Nathan Cullen “The economy will certainly dominate,

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partly because the issues have grown even more serious over the Christmas break and the problems confronting the country are more significant,” says deputy Liberal leader Ralph Goodale.

“The government has a serious set of very troubling economic issues to deal with and they’re sending a message of confusion and incompetence in addressing those issues.”

The Bank of Canada contradicted the government’s rosy assessment of the situation, in Goodale’s view, with its surprise move last week to cut its trend-setting interest rate in a bid to goose the sputtering economy.

In hopes of underscoring that contradiction, the NDP is asking the chair of the Commons finance committee to invite Finance Minister Joe Oliver and Bank of Canada governor Stephen Poloz to update the committee on the state of the economy.

But the competing narratives about the government’s economic management will extend well beyond the halls of Parliament.

Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau is scheduled to offer a tough critique of the government’s economic record at a partisan rally Monday evening. NDP Leader Tom Mulcair will offer his own assessment in a major speech on Tuesday.

If it seems like non-stop campaigning between now and the election, that’s because it is.

“There will be an election overlay over almost everything,” acknowledges Goodale, adding that’s the inevitable consequence of having a fixed election date.

The election is scheduled by law for October but New Democrats and Liberals remain suspicious that Harper may try to pull the plug sooner. Goodale, for one, “wouldn’t put it past” Harper to call an election before tabling the budget, arguing that he needs a mandate to guide the country through choppy economic waters.

While there would doubtless be some blow-back, an early election call could get the vote out of the way before the start of disgraced Tory Sen. Duffy’s trial on charges of allegedly filing fraudulent expense claims. That trial is set to begin April 7.

Whether Duffy has any more bombshells to drop, after implicating Harper’s former chief of staff for paying back his dubious Senate expense claims, remains to be seen.

But Goodale says any time the Duffy matter is in the spotlight, there’s a tremendous negative, public backlash against the government.

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Prime Minister Stephen Harper waves after delivering a speech to supporters at a high school in Ottawa, Sunday. play, however, to divert the spotlight from troublesome ethical or economic issues.

The government is expected to introduce soon legislation to crack down on suspected terrorists and those who openly encourage them. Among other things, the legislation is expected to make it easier to stop suspected terrorists from boarding planes and give police greater ability to restrict their movements by lowering the threshold for obtaining a peace bond.

The legislation was promised in the aftermath of two deadly attacks on Canadians soldiers last October, one of which ended in a wild shoot-out in the halls of Parliament.

The attacks, combined with the Harper government’s decision to take part in a coalition air campaign against Islamic radicals in Iraq, helped boost the governing party’s popularity and narrow the gap with the front-running Liberals. The two parties are virtually tied, according to the most recent polls, with the NDP stalled in a distant third place.

Suspicious that Harper is playing politics with terrorism, the opposition parties intend to scrutinize the legislation closely to ensure it strikes a balance between protecting Canadians and preserving their civil liberties.

“You can’t protect freedoms while destroying those very same freedoms,” says Cullen.

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Chemicals removed from cottage in Nova Scotia, evacuation lifted HALIFAX — RCMP in Nova Scotia say all chemicals discovered at a cottage and shed in the community of Grand Desert have been removed and the evacuation order for the area has been lifted.

The Mounties say the evacuation order for Dyke Road, which was issued last Tuesday, was lifted around 5 p.m. Saturday after investigators safely sealed and removed the hazardous chemicals from the scene.

On Friday, Chief Supt.

Roland Wells said the cottage and shed were stacked floor to ceiling with chemicals, posing an “extreme fire risk” to the area due to their volatility.

Wells said there are dozens of different chemicals in various states of degradation.

A suspect, 42-year-old Christopher Burton Phillips, is facing charges of uttering threats and possessing a weapon for a dangerous purpose in connection with the investigation.

Phillips briefly appeared in court on Friday to face the allegations and the prosecution indicated it will ask for a psychiatric assessment of his fitness to stand trial.

Phillips is being held in custody until he is back in court on Thursday.

public broadcaster all the way to Parliament Hill.

Jo-Ann Roberts announced Saturday she is seeking the Green Party’s nomination in Victoria for this year’s federal election.

Roberts resigned from the CBC in December after a decade hosting Radio One’s Victoria-based “All Points West.”

Before moving to British Columbia she spent 10 years hosting CBC Radio’s morning show in Moncton, N.B. She says she wants to see a $115-million federal funding cut to the CBC restored, as well as having a parliamentary committee to examine the public broadcaster’s mandate. Roberts says environmental issues will be also be a major focus of her campaign should she win the nomination.

Municipal snow fort spat resolved MONTREAL — Yann Lefebvre’s four children can play in their family’s snow fort again — and this time, without a municipal squabble distracting them from the winter fun.

After a spat over the fort’s safety pitted Lefebvre against the city of Beaconsfield, Que., a suburb west of Montreal, the Lefebvre family got some help from neighbours and city officials Saturday afternoon to move the fort back from the street. City officials said the fort was on municipal land and earlier this month, they instructed Lefebvre to move it back at least 1.8 metres from the road.

OTTAWA — The Conservative government’s overhaul of anti-terrorism legislation will be introduced by the end of week and will make it crime to promote terrorism, Stephen Harper told party faithful on Sunday. The measures, which are also expected to give police greater ability to restrict the movements of purported extremists, will not be an assault on civil liberties, the prime minister said.

“These measures are designed to help authorities stop planned attacks, get threats off our streets, criminalize the promotion of terrorism, and prevent terrorists from travelling and recruiting others,” Harper told a campaign-style event in the Ottawaarea.

“To be clear, in doing so, we shall be safeguarding our constitutional rights of speech, of association, of religion and all the rest.”

Restricting the movement of suspects radicals can be done by lowering the threshold for obtaining a peace bond, a federal source, who asked to remain anonymous, told The Canadian Press last week.

In addition, the government wants to retool Canada’s no-fly list procedures to make it easier to stop a suspected terrorist from boarding an airplane.

An internal federal review of last fall’s deadly attacks on Canadian soldiers concluded there is a lack of suitable laws to crack down on radicals who openly encourage others to wage terrorism.

Michael Zehaf Bibeau shot Cpl. Nathan Cirillo, an honour guard at the National War Memorial, before storming Parliament’s Centre Block on Oct. 22. Zehaf Bibeau was gunned down outside the Library of Parliament.

Two days earlier, a car driven by Martin CoutureRouleau ran over and killed Warrant Officer Patrice Vincent in St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Que., near Montreal. Police later shot and killed Couture-Rouleau when he advanced on officers with a knife.

Harper repeated for the partisan crowd that violent jihadism had declared “war” on the west, but painted it as a much wider problem than just the Islamic State, which has overrun vast parts of Iraq and Syria.

“Jihadi terrorists are destabilizing large parts of the globe,” Harper said.

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Faruq Khalil Muhammad ’Isa entered the plea on Saturday in federal court in Brooklyn.

Muhammad ’Isa was arrested in Edmonton on a U.S. warrant in 2011.

An indictment accused him of helping coordinate Tunisian jihadists believed responsible for a suicide attacks that killed five American soldiers outside a U.S. base in Iraq in 2009.

The 36-year-old Muhammad ’Isa was taken to New York City on Friday.

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Rebels shake off rust from layoff HOLD OFF GIANTS TO GET WIN AFTER SEVEN DAY LAYOFF

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR Rebels 5 Giants 3 A lengthy layoff wasn’t necessarily a good thing for the Red Deer Rebels.

The Rebels, back in action for the first time in a week, weren’t at their sharpest Saturday despite posting a 5-3 Western Hockey League win over the Vancouver Giants in front of a recorded gathering of 6,124 at the Centrium.

“We played a decent game here tonight,” said Rebels GM/head coach Brent Sutter.

“You’re always a little concerned after having seven days without a game. It gets to be a long week for the kids between practices and trying different things to keep them energized and focused on their next game.

“I thought we had moments when we were good tonight and moments when we weren’t so good. Maybe more so in the second period when we got a little sloppy in our zone.”

Red Deer led 2-0 after 20 minutes on goals from Brooks Maxwell and Wyatt Johnson, then added to their lead following an early second-period turnover that led to Evan Polei’s 16th of the season, the big winger burying a pass from Jeff de Wit. Kyle Sheen made it 4-0 with a power-play marker six minutes later, beating Giants goaltender Cody Porter over the shoulder from the top of the right faceoff circle.

The goal spelled the end of the night for Porter, who stopped 12 of the 16 shots he

faced.

Payton Lee replaced Porter and held his team in the game the rest of the way, turning aside 15 of 16 shots.

Carter Popoff came out of the penalty box, broke in alone and beat Rebels netminder Rylan Toth late in the middle period, and Zane Jones cut the Rebels lead to 4-2 6:46 into the final frame.

From there, Haydn Fleury blew a power-play point shot past Lee at 12:20 to give the home side a three-goal cushion, and Popoff notched his second of the evening, connecting from directly off an offensive-zone faceoff with 4:20 remaining.

“I thought I was skating well tonight. I made some good plays and got rewarded with a goal,” said Fleury, who was named first star of the game.

“We had a good first half of the game and in the second half we were kind of sitting back on our heels,” he added.

“They started taking it to us but we bore down in the third and had a huge kill late in the game.”

Fleury was referring to the Giants’ two-man advantage that turned into a three-man edge with Lee on the bench.

Thanks in part to Toth, who finished with 28 saves, the Rebels were able to weather the late storm.

“We were under control in the third until we got into penalty trouble,” said Sutter. “The game didn’t need to be as tight as it was. It was 5-2 when we gave up a bad goal off the faceoff. Two of their players outcompeted four of ours around the net.

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“But it’s two points.”

Sutter was relieved to see the Rebels’ power play (twofor-five) come to life.

“We worked on some things this week, we changed some things,” said the Red Deer bench boss.

“I didn’t like the way our power play had been playing, I just felt we were very robotic on the power play. We needed to get more movement and get more pucks directed to net

and we did a good job of that tonight.”

“The key was just shooting pucks. That was the message all week — just keep shooting and getting guys to the net,” added Fleury.

The Rebels return to action Tuesday against the visiting Kelowna Rockets, the No. 1 team in the league.

“We know we can be better than we were tonight and we know we’ll have to be better

against Kelowna,” said Sutter.

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Sweeting secures another provincial championship

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Val Sweeting yells for a sweep while in the house as third for Chelea Carey’s rink Laura Crocker readies during action of the Alberta women’s provincial curling championship at Lacombe Arena on Sunday.

LACOMBE — After the awards presentation was completed and the final photos taken, Val Sweeting talked about her curling season to date.

And what a season. Not only is Sweeting’s Edmonton rink second on the World Curling Tour money list with earnings of $69,950, but more importantly, is the Alberta women’s champion for the second year in succession.

In some ways, Sweeting admitted, this season has been much like last, including the team’s performance in the Alberta Scotties which concluded with Sunday’s 9-7 win over Chelsea Carey of Edmonton in the provincial final at the Lacombe Arena. The Sweeting foursome will represent Alberta in the Scotties Tournament of Hearts — the Canadian championship — Feb. 14-22 at Moose Jaw. “We kind of had a similar mindset as we did last year,” said the victorious skip. “We were coming off a pretty good season as well. We knew we’d have a target on our backs this year but we just tried not to focus on that.

“We just wanted to perform well and hopefully that would translate into winning and it did. We just kind of took

it one shot at a time and stayed in it.”

Sweeting never trailed in the final after executing a soft, angle raise for two in the opening end. Carey battled back with one in each of the second and third frames, then traded singles over the next two ends.

It was in the sixth that Sweeting took control, erupting for three points and a 6-3 lead. Carey drew the foor-foot for a deuce in the seventh, but Sweeting replied with two in the eighth, drawing the small circle with her final stone.

Then came the ninth and two narrow misses for the defending champ and two perfect shots for Carey — a freeze and then a hit-and-stick for two to make it an 8-7 game heading to the 10th.

“I felt like there was a couple shots where I left them an out, definitely a couple of shots that I’d want back, for sure,” said Sweeting. “But she (Carey) also made some really good shots to set up their deuces, but overall we had control going home and that’s all you can ask for.”

Carey was never able to get a guard set up on the centre line in the 10th end, but managed to drew behind an off-centre guard and into the full eightfoot with her final stone.

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NHL all-star game gives fans goals at record pace

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Team Toews 17 Team Foligno 12 COLUMBUS, Ohio — By the time players finished scoring a record 29 goals at the NHL all-star game, they agreed that there was one loud, earpiercing negative: the cannon at Nationwide Arena.

“I hate the cannon,” Philadelphia Flyers captain Claude Giroux said.

Florida Panthers goaltender Roberto Luongo added that the cannon wasn’t his favourite part of the weekend either.

The cannon went off more times in one game in the building than ever before, marking goals by the team led

by Nick Foligno of the host Columbus Blue Jackets. Team Toews beat Team Foligno 17-12 in the mid-season exhibition featuring many of hockey’s top stars playing shinny with no hitting, no defence and no mercy for goaltenders.

“That’s all we’re really doing out there is having fun and kind of trying to show our skill at the same time,”

Chicago Blackhawks winger Patrick Kane said. “Kind of feels like summer hockey a little bit where there’s a lot of breakaways, a lot of odd-man rushes.”

And a lot of goals, breaking the record set in 2001 in Denver when North America beat the World 14-12. This one was a wide-open affair in which all but three players registered at least a point. Jakub Voracek of the Philadelphia Flyers had six points on a hat trick and three assists, tying Mario Lemieux’s 1988 record.

“I think it’s a little different, Voracek and Lemieux, right?” said Voracek, the former Blue Jackets winger who also leads the NHL in scoring at the all-star break. “Three secondary assists. I’ll take it, but I wouldn’t make a big deal out of it.”

Despite tying Lemieux, Voracek was not the most valuable player. Hometown star Ryan Johansen received that honour as part of an online fan vote.

“Joey deserved it the way he handled the weekend,” Voracek said.

“Him and Nick Foligno were under a lot of spotlight. At the skills yesterday

and the game today, they did a great job. It was well deserved.”

John Tavares of the New York Islanders became the sixth player in all-star game history with four goals, joining the elite company of Wayne Gretzky, Mario Lemieux, Vincent Damphousse, Mike Gartner and Dany Heatley. One of his four also went down as the game-winner.

“It’s pretty cool,” Tavares said. “It’s something you don’t really think about going into a game like this. You get your opportunities and just was happy to put them in.”

Most players left happy, including winning captain Jonathan Toews and fellow Canadian Olympian Patrice Bergeron of the Boston Bruins, who each finished with five points. Goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury of the Pittsburgh Penguins was less than thrilled with the proceedings.

Fleury gave up seven goals on 16 shots in the second period, which was the most scored by one team in that time in the game’s history. He heard that on television at the second inter-

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“It was so long, probably the longest 20 minutes of my career,” Fleury said in French. “We are at this game to have fun, but at one time, it was frustrating.

Normally, I’ll be quick out of the game way before giving up seven goals.”

Luongo, who started for Team Toews, said Fleury approached him at the bench early in the second period.

“He was looking for some comfort words or something from me,” Luongo said. “He wasn’t on my team, so I wasn’t going in for him. What are you going to do? It’s an all-star game.”

This was the first all-star game since 2012 in Ottawa, after the lockout forced Columbus to have its opportunity rescheduled and the Sochi Olympics left no room for the festivities. The 2015 all-star weekend might best be remembered for the unveiling of the 2016 World Cup of Hockey, but there were plenty of memorable moments from Friday night’s draft and Saturday night’s skills competition.

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Kings can’t find a way past top ranked Ooks

BY JOSH ALDRICH ADVOCATE STAFF Ooks 5 Kings 3 PENHOLD — The NAIT Ooks showed the Red Deer College Kings just how far they have to go to be among the elite in the Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference men’s hockey on Saturday.

Despite playing one of their best periods of the season, the Kings were outclassed by the Ooks in a 5-3 loss at the Penhold Regional Multiplex.

“I still think NAIT is the measuring stick in our league, they have some high-end talent,” said Kings head coach Trevor Keeper. “You look at their forward lines and there is some offensive skill that is real hard to defend against.”

John Dunbar scored twice and added an assist to lead the Ooks (18-3-0-1) offence while Sam Waterfield, Kevin Carthy and Jordan Wood also scored. goalie Kyle Birch made 33 saves for the win.

Riley Simpson replied with two goals for the Kings (9-12-0-1) while Pat Martens got the other. Kraymer Barnstable, making his second start in as many nights, made 41 saves in the loss.

Through 39 minutes it was looking like RDC was going to pull off an upset, up 3-1 in full control and playing their best hockey of the season.

But Waterfield scored at 19:38 of the second period and the Ooks took the momentum into the intermission.

In the third period RDC looked gassed and NAIT looked as fresh as they did when the puck dropped to

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SCOTTIES: Close Sweeting, though, had her four-foot weight in her back pocket and calmly drew the pot for one and the provincial title.

“We expected it to be close and they made some really good shots to keep it close,” said Sweeting, who has Lori Olson-Johns at third, Dana Ferguson at second and Rachelle Brown at lead.

“They’re a good team but we just tried to keep control and have that (final) shot for the win.

“Its been such a great season and we hope to continue on in Moose Jaw. It’s an honour to be representing Alberta after coming out of a really good competition and a really good week.

I’m so proud of the girls for pulling through.”

For Carey, the 2014 Manitoba champion who moved from Winnipeg to Edmonton last spring and formed a new team consisting of third Laura Crocker and front-enders Taylor McDonald and Jen Gates, it was just another provincial-final disappointment.

Before winning the Manitoba title last year she had lost two provincials finals and placed fourth in another Manitoba championship.

“It sucks, we (I) lost another provincial final. There’s nothing good you can say about that,” said Carey. “They’re a great team and they’ll do a great job (at the Canadians). We knew it was going to be a tough game against them. It wasn’t a very good game for us, but that happens.”

Carey could only wonder what might have been if she would have encountered better luck with two of her shots.

“It just wasn’t meant to be for us,” she said. “My rock, my guard in the first end picked or we’d probably have forced them (to one) there, and if my draw curls in six we might steal one or certainly force them to one. But it just hung and hung and it never got there. The weight was good, it just didn’t go our way, so what can you do?”

Carey advanced to the Scotties final with a 7-5 semifinal win over Heather Nedohin of Edmonton Sunday morning, putting up three two-enders in the process.

Sweeting went through the provin-

start the game.

Wood tied the game at 4:51 of the third period, then Dunbar gave the Ooks the Ooks a 4-3 lead at 11:03 and Carthy iced it at 14:11.

RDC did not have any answers for NAIT as they were caught standing around in their own zone, failed to move the man in front of the net on a few goals and failed to pick up the late man coming in on others.

It was the second game in two nights where the Kings were in the game after 40 minutes only to have the Ooks pull away in the third period. RDC was battling a rash of injuries and the flu, but the difference between the second year Kings and the loaded Ooks was obvious.

“It was a little bit of a depleted lineup and it is tough when you don’t have a full tank playing against a team like NAIT,” said Keeper.

The Ooks have three players in the top five in league scoring, led by Dunbar with 41 points (16 goals, 25 assists) in 22 games. Scott Fellnermayr (7-22-29) is third and Michael Piluso (12-15-27 in 18 games) is fifth. The Kings have one player in the top 20 in league scoring, Riley Simpson (15-10-25 in 22 games) is eighth.

“Those are real tough players to stop,” said Keeper. “I thought we matched up in a lot of ways, we just didn’t match up in the end with the high potency scoring in tight.”

NOTES — The Kings were 1-for-4 on the power play, the Ooks were 0-for-3 ...

The Kings are in Fort McMurray next weekend to play the Keyano College Huskies (11-8-1-2). jaldrich@reddeeradvocate.com cial Scotties undefeated, winning the A-event qualifier and then shading Nedohin 3-2 in the 1-2 Page playoff game Saturday evening with a single point in the 10th. Carey, who qualified out of the C event, scored three in the 10th and downed Casey Scheidegger of Lethbridge 7-4 in the 3-4 Page game.

In the C-event qualifiers Saturday afternoon, Carey beat Crystal Webster of Calgary 6-3 and Scheidegger was an 8-4 winner over Teryn Hamilton of Calgary. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

STARS: New records The game itself featured a handful of new records: most goals by a team in a game (17) and a period (seven), most combined goals in a period (11) and fastest two, three and four goals scored.

“If I was a goalie in this game, I would be ... not happy,” Zemgus Girgensons of the Buffalo Sabres said.

Goalie torment aside, it was a showcase of some of the NHL’s best players.

The effort wasn’t really there, but most players didn’t expect it.

“I was sitting on the bench getting the shakes a little bit,” Panthers rookie defenceman Aaron Ekblad said. “I was trying not to try too hard. That’s kind of like the thing to do almost. It is hard to do. I got chirped a little bit for trying too hard.”

Players’ trying or lack thereof was measured by chips in their jerseys and the puck as the NHL experimented with tracking in a game for the first time. A prototype program could show players’ shift lengths, top speeds and other things in real time.

It’s something that could be coming to the league at some point in the future but not before analyzing how it went in the all-star game and figuring out the real implications.

“We’re right in the beginning phases of this,” the NHLPA’s Mathieu Schneider said Saturday. “We’ll see what comes out of it. Fans and players are excited about it. We can work together to really enlighten a whole new group of people that haven’t really followed the game.”

For fans who tuned in just for this all-star game, it didn’t enlighten much about real hockey. But ultimately it didn’t have to.

Defending Alberta women’s champ 3-0 at Canadian junior curling championships THE CANADIAN PRESS CORNER BROOK, N.L. — Defending women’s champion Alberta improved to 3-0 at the Canadian junior curling championships with a 10-3 win over Ontario in Sunday’s afternoon draw.

The Albertans broke open a tight 3-3 game through five ends by scoring three in the sixth end, and adding stolen deuces in the seventh and eighth ends before Ontario conceded.

Alberta skip Kelsey Rocque is working with a completely different lineup than the Alberta foursome that won a gold medal for Canada at the 2014 world junior championship in Flims, Switzerland.

Rocque’s new team featuring third Danielle

Schmiemann, second Holly Jamieson and lead Jessica Iles has been working out well so far.

“I have three great girls in front of me, so I thought we had a chance here,” Rocque said. “It’s really tough to get out of Alberta, we had to beat some really great teams there. We’re really fortunate to be here. But the girls all get along fantastic and they’re all awesome players.”

Ontario skip Chelsea Brandwood and her Hamilton rink fell to 3-1 with the loss.

In the late draws, 2013 Canadian champ Corryn Brown of B.C. improved to 4-0 and leads Pool B after downing previously unbeaten Kristen Streifel (3-1) of Saskatchewan 9-3. P.E.I.’s Veronica Smith (2-2) was a 7-3 winner over Carina McKaySaturnino (1-2) of the Northwest Territories, New Brunswick’s Justine Comeau (1-2) downed Nova Scotia’s Mary Fay (12) 8-6 and Northern Ontario’s Krysta Burns (1-2) knocked off the Yukon’s Bailey Horte (1-3) 9-3.

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MELBOURNE, Australia — He upset Rafael Nadal at Wimbledon, and followed up Sunday by beating the guy who ousted Roger Federer at the Australian Open. Next up for Nick Kyrgios is a quarterfinal against Andy Murray at Melbourne Park.

It’s about to get very noisy on Rod Laver Arena.

The 19-year-old Kyrgios came back from two sets down and saved a match point to beat Andreas Seppi 5-7, 4-6, 6-3, 7-6 (5), 8-6, becoming the first Australian man to reach the last eight in the national championship since Lleyton Hewitt in 2005, and the first male teenager since Federer in 2001 to reach two Grand Slam quarterfinals.

He was on a secondary court for his night match, and his first words to a crowd that had chanted and screamed like soccer fans: “Thanks mate. Feels so good.”

Murray, a two-time Grand Slam champion and three-time Australian Open finalist, overcame racket-smashing Grigor Dimitrov 6-4, 6-7 (5), 6-3, 7-5 to secure a quarterfinals spot at his 16th consecutive major.

In a 3 ½ hour-match filled with stunning shots from both players, and which finished after midnight, Murray rallied from 2-5 down in the fourth set to close out against the 23-year-old Bulgarian who has been dubbed “Baby Fed” by those who compare his style with Federer’s.

“I did get quite lucky at the end. A few net cords went my way and that was the difference, really,” said Murray, who angrily screamed at himself after a double-fault when he was serving for the second set, and again after losing the tiebreaker.

“The momentum was switching both ways all the time. Once I got momentum I just tried to keep it going.” Dimitrov, who beat Murray at Wimbledon en route to the semifinals last year, shattered his racket by spiking it on court as he dropped his last service game.

Federer went out in the third round — the 17-time Grand Slam winner’s earliest exit at the Australian Open in 14 years — in an upset loss to Seppi, who appeared on course to reach the quarterfinals for the first time in 40 majors when he had match point in the fourth set against Kyrgios.

That’s when Kyrgios said his own experience kicked in: he’d come back from 0-2 at Wimbledon — he saved nine match points in the second round against Richard Gasquet — where he also beat then-No. 1 Nadal en route to the quarterfinals.

“It’s crazy,” he said. “When I saw I had finally won the match it was incredible — it was the best feeling I ever had. It’s just massive confidence.”

Nadal is growing in confidence in

his comeback from a long-term injury layoff, with momentum in his 7-5, 6-1, 6-4 win over towering Kevin Anderson swinging on two games at the end of the first set. Nadal fended off five break points to hold, and then broke the 2.03-meter-tall (6-foot-8) South African’s serve to trigger his winning roll.

He will next face No. 7 Tomas Berdych, who had a 6-2, 7-6 (3), 6-2 win over Bernard Tomic.

“The chance to be in the quarterfinals after a tough period of time for me is a fantastic result,” Nadal said.

“I was playing better than the days before. The way that I improved my level is not the most important thing; obviously the victory is.”

No.2-ranked Sharapova won the last eight games of her 6-3, 6-0 victory over No. 21-seeded Peng Shuai to advance to a showdown with Eugenie Bouchard.

Seventh-seeded Bouchard won nine of the first 10 games against Irina-Camelia Begu, but lost seven of the next nine. After serving a double-fault on set point to end the second, Bouchard took a short break before returning to complete a 6-1, 5-7, 6-2 win.

“I gave myself a good, long hard look in the mirror,” Bouchard said. “I said, ’Genie, this is unacceptable.’ I really kind of kicked myself in the butt a little bit.”

Bouchard made the semis or better at the first three Grand Slam tournaments last year, losing to eventual champion Sharapova in the French Open semifinals. Sharapova noted that Bouchard was the most consistent player at recent Grand Slams.

“She’s playing really well, confident tennis. So aggressive,” the five-time major winner said. “I have a tough match ahead of me, but I always look forward to that.”

French Open finalist Simona Halep beat Yanina Wickmayer 6-4, 6-2 to set up a quarterfinal against No. 10 Ekaterina Makarova, who had a 6-3, 6-2 win over Julia Goerges.

In early action Monday, Dominika Cibulkova reproduced the kind of tennis that helped her reach the final last year as she beat two-time champion Victoria Azarenka 6-2, 3-6, 6-3 in the fourth round of the Australian Open.

Under the closed roof at Rod Laver Arena, Cibulkova pounded 44 winners, including a dozen on her backhand side, and broke former No. 1-ranked Azarenka’s serve seven times Monday to reach a Grand Slam quarterfinal for the sixth time.

The No. 10-ranked Cibulkova, who lost the final here last year to the nowretired Li Na, next faces either topranked Serena Williams or Garbine Muguruza.

Azarenka, unseeded this year after her ranking slipped into the 40s following an injury-interrupted 2014, won the Australian title in 2012 and ’13 and reached the quarterfinals last year.

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SCOREBOARD Hockey

CENTRAL DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL Medicine Hat 47 33 12 1 1 Red Deer 47 27 14 3 3 Calgary 49 27 17 1 4 Kootenay 49 26 22 0 1 Edmonton 49 22 21 4 2 Lethbridge 45 11 28 3 3

GF 192 168 204 165 147 123

WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF Kelowna 47 36 8 3 0 206 Victoria 49 26 19 3 1 169 Vancouver 49 20 27 1 1 143 Kamloops 49 18 25 3 3 143 Prince George 51 20 29 1 1 155 GP 48 50 47 47 49

U.S. DIVISION W L OTLSOL 30 14 3 1 28 19 0 3 23 18 3 3 23 20 3 1 24 23 0 2

GF 167 176 124 135 139

Connor Rankin, CAL Jack Rodewald, MJ Nikita Scherbak, Eve GA 153 154 162 178 166 195

Pt 74 57 47 44 39 31

GA 134 148 149 175 141 192

Pt 68 60 59 53 50 28

GA 120 154 167 180 218

Pt 75 56 42 42 42

GA 128 164 132 142 147

Pt 64 59 52 50 50

Saturday’s results Saskatoon 6 Moose Jaw 1 Brandon 8 Regina 3 Lethbridge 7 Prince George 4 Red Deer 5 Vancouver 3 Kootenay 5 Swift Current 2 Calgary 5 Edmonton 2 Kelowna 9 Everett 3 Victoria 6 Kamloops 0 Portland 4 Seattle 3 (OT) Tri-City 2 Spokane 0 Sunday’s results Saskatoon 3 Prince Albert 0 Calgary 8 Vancouver 0 Medicine Hat 5 Edmonton 2 Kootenay 7 Prince George 4 Portland 7 Tri-City 5 Seattle 2 Spokane 0 Tuesday’s games Swift Current at Brandon, 6 p.m.

Kelowna at Red Deer, 7 p.m.

Lethbridge at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.

Wednesday’s games Saskatoon at Prince Albert, 6 p.m.

Kelowna at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Kootenay at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.

Seattle at Kamloops, 8 p.m.

Victoria at Portland, 8 p.m.

WHL Scoring Leaders Trevor Cox, MH Cole Sanford, MH Nick Merkley, Kel Rourke Chartier, Kel Oliver Bjorkstrand, Por Tim McGauley, Bra Cole Ully, Kam

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WHL EASTERN CONFERENCE EAST DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF Brandon 48 35 9 3 1 217 Regina 48 26 17 3 2 176 Swift Current 48 21 22 1 4 142 Moose Jaw 49 20 25 3 1 142 Prince Albert 47 19 27 1 0 133 Saskatoon 46 14 29 2 1 133

Everett Portland Seattle Spokane Tri-City

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A 60 32 52 24 30 32 39

Pts 80 72 68 64 61 61 61

25 22 21

34 37 38

59 59 59

Saturday’s summary Rebels 5, Giants 3 First Period 1. Red Deer, Maxwell 15 (Gay, Kopeck) 8:25.

2. Red Deer, Johnson 19 (Doetzel) 15:06.

Penalties — Jones Van (tripping) 10:28, Foster Van (checking from behind) 15:36, Bobyk RD (interference) 18:28.

Second Period 3. Red Deer, Polei 16 (De Wit, Feser) 3:58.

4. Red Deer, Sheen 13 (Pawlenchuk, Cote) 10:01 (pp).

5. Vancouver, Popoff 19 (Sward) 15:47.

Penalties — Baer Van (slashing) 9:09, Geertsen Van (fighting) 10:13, Polei RD (fighting) 10:13, Popoff Van (roughing) 13:39, Bobyk RD (roughing) 13:39.

Third Period 6. Vancouver, Jones 22 (Popoff) 6:46.

7. Red Deer, Fleury 3 (Bobyk, Maxwell) 12:20 (pp).

8. Vancouver, Popoff 20 (unassisted) 15:40.

Penalties — Thrower Van (roughing) 8:40, Feser RD (roughing) 8:40, Osipov Van (hooking) 10:33, Atwal Van (10-minute misconduct) 14:07, Sward Van (roughing) 14:07, Houck Van (roughing) 15:06, Musil RD (roughing) 15:06, Polei RD (holding) 15:35, Bobyk RD (tripping) 16:06.

Shots on goal Vancouver 7 11 13 — 31 Red Deer 11 10 11 — 32 Goal — Vancouver: Porter (L, 9-9-1); Red Deer: Toth (W, 21-11-3).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Vancouver: 0-3; Red Deer: 2-5.

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 N.Y. Islanders 46 31 14 1 63 Pittsburgh 46 26 12 8 60 N.Y. Rangers 44 27 13 4 58 Washington 46 24 13 9 57 Philadelphia 48 19 22 7 45 Columbus 45 20 22 3 43 New Jersey 47 17 22 8 42 Carolina 46 16 25 5 37

GF 151 138 134 137 130 113 107 98

GA 129 117 106 120 146 142 134 120

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts Nashville 45 30 10 5 65 St. Louis 46 29 13 4 62 Chicago 47 30 15 2 62 Winnipeg 48 26 14 8 60 Colorado 48 20 18 10 50 Dallas 46 21 18 7 49 Minnesota 46 20 20 6 46

GF 137 148 148 135 125 144 128

GA 104 111 108 117 137 151 137

Pacific Division W L OT Pts 31 10 6 68

GF 139

GA 124

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San Jose 48 25 17 6 56 131 132 Vancouver 45 26 16 3 55 124 114 Calgary 47 25 19 3 53 136 125 Los Angeles 47 20 15 12 52 129 126 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.

Tomas Berdych (7), Czech Republic, def. Bernard Tomic, Australia, 6-2, 7-6 (3), 6-2.

Nick Kyrgios, Australia, def. Andreas Seppi, Italy, 5-7, 4-6, 6-3, 7-6 (5), 8-6.

Women’s Singles Maria Sharapova (2), Russia, def. Peng Shuai (21), China, 6-3, 6-0.

Simona Halep (3), Romania, def. Yanina Wickmayer, Belgium, 6-4, 6-2.

Eugenie Bouchard (7), Canada, def. Irina-Camelia

● WHL: Kelowna at Red Deer, 7 p.m., Centrium. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Red Deer at Blackfalds, 7:30 p.m.

Thursday

Saturday’s Games No games scheduled

● College women’s hockey: Grant MacEwan at RDC, 7 p.m., Arena. ● Midget AA hockey: Sylvan Lake at Lacombe, 7:15 p.m.

Sunday’s Game Team Toews 17, Team Foligno 12 Monday’s Games No games scheduled

Friday

Sunday’s summary Team Toews 17, Team Foligno 12 First Period 1. Team Foligno, Vrbata 1 (Nugent-Hopkins) 3:09.

2. Team Toews, Getzlaf 1 (Tarasenko, Faulk) 6:33.

3. Team Toews, Voracek 1 (Toews, Ekblad) 9:51.

4. Team Foligno, Johansen 1 (Foligno, Shattenkirk) 11:05.

5. Team Toews, Bergeron 1 (Seguin, Elias) 12:17.

6. Team Foligno, Shattenkirk 1 (Nugent-Hopkins, Vrbata) 14:48.

7. Team Foligno, Johansen 2 (Ovechkin, Byfuglien) 16:24.

8. Team Toews, Tavares 1 (Bergeron, Ekblad) 19:03.

Penalties — None.

Second Period 9. Team Toews, Suter 1 (Tarasenko, Seguin) :24.

10. Team Foligno, Giroux 1 (Kane) :32.

11. Team Toews, Seguin 1 (Getzlaf, Tarasenko) 1:22.

12. Team Foligno, Stamkos 1 (Keith) 2:27.

13. Team Toews, Nash 1 (Toews, Voracek) 4:08.

14. Team Toews, Forsberg 1 (Gaudreau, Elias) 5:56.

15. Team Toews, Tavares 2 (Bergeron, Faulk) 8:16.

16. Team Toews, Voracek 2 (Toews, Ekblad) 9:22.

17. Team Foligno, Foligno 1 (Johansen, Ovechkin) 11:59.

18. Team Foligno, Stamkos 2 (Ryan) 16:35.

19. Team Toews, Tavares 3 (Bergeron) 19:00.

Penalties — None.

Third Period 20. Team Toews, Nash 2 (Giordano, Voracek) 1:29.

21. Team Foligno, Kane 1 (Giroux, Doughty) 2:15.

22. Team Toews, Tavares 4 (Bergeron, Seabrook) 6:13.

23. Team Toews, Voracek 3 (Toews, Ekblad) 7:30.

24. Team Foligno, Ryan 1 (Stamkos, EkmanLarsson) 8:23.

25. Team Toews, Seguin 2 (Tarasenko, Weber) 9:26.

26. Team Foligno, Kane 2 (Kessel, Giroux) 13:09.

27. Team Toews, Toews 1 (Suter) 14:21.

28. Team Toews, Forsberg 2 (Gaudreau, Voracek) 16:40.

29. Team Foligno, Burns 1 (Ovechkin, Johansen) 18:20.

Penalties — None.

Shots on goal Team Toews 16 16 15 — 47 Team Foligno 17 18 10 — 45 Goal (shots-saves) — Team Toews: Luongo (1713), Halak (start second, 10-6), Crawford (W, 1-0-0) (start third; 18-14); Team Foligno: Elliott (15-9), Fleury (start second, 16-9), Price (L, 0-1-0)(start third; 16-12).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Team Toews: 0-0; Team Foligno: 0-0.

Tennis Australian Open MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Results Sunday from the Australian Open at Melbourne Park (seedings in parentheses): Men’s Singles Fourth Round Rafael Nadal (3), Spain, def. Kevin Anderson (14), South Africa, 7-5, 6-1, 6-4.

Andy Murray (6), Britain, def. Grigor Dimitrov (10), Bulgaria, 6-4, 6-7 (5), 6-3, 7-5.

Tuesday

Begu, Romania, 6-1, 5-7, 6-2.

Ekaterina Makarova (10), Russia, def. Julia Goerges, Germany, 6-3, 6-2.

Results Monday from the Australian Open at Melbourne Park (seedings in parentheses): Women’s Singles Fourth Round Dominika Cibulkova (11), Slovakia, def. Victoria Azarenka, Belarus, 6-2, 3-6, 6-3.

● WHL: Edmonton at Red Deer, 7 p.m., Centrium. ● Midget AA hockey: Lacombe at Olds, 7:30 p.m.; Red Deer Indy Graphics at Sylvan Lake, 8:15 p.m. ● Midget AAA hockey: Calgary Royals at Red Deer, 8 p.m., Arena. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Red Deer at Three Hills, 8 p.m. ● Major midget girls hockey: Southeast at Red Deer, 8:15 p.m., Collicutt Centre. ● Chinook senior hockey: Bentley at Innisfail, 8:30 p.m.

Saturday

● Peewee AA hockey: Airdrie at Sylvan Lake, 11 a.m., Caroline; Lethbridge White at Red Deer TBS, 3 p.m., Kinsmen A;

Saturday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL American League CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Named Vince Coleman baserunning instructor.

MINNESOTA TWINS — Agreed to terms with LHP Brian Duensing on a one-year contract.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association LOS ANGELES CLIPPERS — Signed G Dahntay Jones to a second 10-day contract.

NEW ORLEANS PELICANS — Signed G Nate Wolters to a second 10-day contract.

FOOTBALL National Football League

CHICAGO BEARS — Named Bo Hardegree offensive assistant coach.

Canadian Football League SASKATCHEWAN ROUGHRIDERS — Acquired LB Shea Emry from Toronto for DE Ricky Foley.

HOCKEY ECHL ECHL — Suspended Florida’s Bobby Preece indefinitely pending a review and fined him an undisclosed amount for his actions in a Jan. 23 game at Gwinnett.

ELMIRA JACKALS — Announced D Matt MacKenzie was been reassigned to the team from Rochester (AHL).

Sunday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL American League DETROIT TIGERS — Agreed to terms with RHP Al Alburquerque on a one-year contract.

HOCKEY National Hockey League CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS — Placed F Kris Versteeg on the long-term injury list. Recalled F Dennis Rasmussen from Rockford (AHL).

MONTREAL CANADIENS — Recalled F Christian Thomas from Hamilton (AHL)..

ECHL ECHL — Suspended Toledo D Cody Lampl one game and fined him an undisclosed amount.

Mark McMorris wins double gold at Winter X Games, d’Artois wins superpipe

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS ASPEN, Colo. — Canadian Olympic bronze medallist Mark McMorris won the gold medal in the men’s slopestyle snowboard event Sunday at the Winter X Games.

The Regina native was fourth after the first run, but landed a second run of 96 points to claim his second gold of the 2015 X Games. He also won the big air snowboard title earlier in the week, finishing just ahead of Maxence Parrot of Bromont, Que. McMorris now has 10 career X Games medals including five gold. ”What I did on the top section made the difference,” said McMorris, 21, who also won two gold at the 2012 X Games. ”The variations I did on the first three rails with the 270’s. I’m extremely happy. This is so cool. ”I thought after 2012 I never get that feeling again, to get it back is a dream come true.”

Stale Sandbech finished second with a firstrun score of 95, while Sweden’s Sven Thorgren was third with 92.

Montreal’s Sebastien Toutant was fourth with 87.33. ”I’m just glad I’m riding with this curb because everyone is riding so well,” said McMorris. ”I was pretty nervous going into my second run and whether it could take down Stale. Everybody just rode so cool.”

Canadian Olympic bronze medallist Mark McMorris collected his second gold medal this week at the X Games on Sunday winning the men’s snowboard slopestyle competition.

Simon d’Artois exceeded even his own expectations at the 2015 Winter X Games.

The Whistler, B.C., native scored 93.00 points on his third and final run on Sunday to become Canada’s first gold medal winner in the men’s ski superpipe competition.

D’Artois, who was competing in just his second X Games, placed 14th in last year’s event after failing to qualify for the finals.

“All I wanted to do was make the finals this year, my expectations were just to ski as well as I could,” said D’Artois. “My goal is to be a consistent skier. I think it showed tonight and helped me get the gold.”

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Saturday’s Games Charlotte 76, New York 71 Milwaukee 101, Detroit 86 Memphis 101, Philadelphia 83 Utah 108, Brooklyn 73 Portland 103, Washington 96 Sunday’s Games Miami 96, Chicago 84 Cleveland 108, Oklahoma City 98 L.A. Clippers 120, Phoenix 100 New Orleans 109, Dallas 106 Atlanta 112, Minnesota 100 Indiana 106, Orlando 99 San Antonio 101, Milwaukee 95 Toronto 114, Detroit 110 Golden State 114, Boston 111 Washington 117, Denver 115, OT Houston at L.A. Lakers, late Monday’s Games Portland at Brooklyn, 5:30 p.m.

Sacramento at New York, 5:30 p.m.

Philadelphia at New Orleans, 6 p.m.

Minnesota at Oklahoma City, 6 p.m.

Orlando at Memphis, 6 p.m.

Boston at Utah, 7 p.m.

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

Football Indianapolis 24, Denver 13 Conference Championships Sunday, Jan. 18 Seattle 28, Green Bay 22, OT New England 45, Indianapolis 7

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

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

Team Irvin 32, Team Carter 28

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

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

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

Golf PGA-Humana Challenge Sunday p-PGA West, Arnold Palmer Private Course: 6,950; par 72 n-PGA West, Jack Nicklaus Private Course: 6,924; par 72 q-La Quinta Country Club: 7,060; par 72 La Quinta, Calif.

Purse: $5.7 million Final Bill Haas, $1,026,000 67p-63q-69n-67 — 266 Ch. Hoffman, $342,000 71q-63n-69p-64 — 267 Brendan Steele, $342,000 67q-68n-68p-64 — 267 Sung Joon Park, $342,000 68n-67p-67q-65 — 267 St. Wheatcroft, $342,000 65p-67q-68n-67 — 267 Matt Kuchar, $342,000 65q-64n-71p-67 — 267 Webb Simpson, $177,650 70p-66q-68n-64 — 268 Boo Weekley, $177,650 70p-66q-67n-65 — 268 Justin Thomas, $177,650 68q-63n-68p-69 — 268 Colt Knost, $136,800 71p-67q-68n-63 — 269 Fr. Molinari, $136,800 64p-71q-67n-67 — 269 Ryan Palmer, $136,800 71q-61n-68p-69 — 269

Erik Compton, $136,800 Nick Watney, $108,300 Shawn Stefani, $91,200 Lucas Glover, $91,200 Martin Laird, $91,200 Alex Cejka, $91,200 Michael Putnam, $91,200 Mark Hubbard, $66,405 James Hahn, $66,405 John Peterson, $66,405 Scott Pinckney, $66,405 Phil Mickelson, $46,170 David Lingmerth, $46,170 David Toms, $46,170 Brian Davis, $46,170 Rory Sabbatini, $46,170 Patrick Reed, $46,170 Mark Wilson, $31,091 Jason Bohn, $31,091 Pat Perez, $31,091 Scott Piercy, $31,091 George McNeill, $31,091

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Saturday’s results Minnesota 19 New England 13 Rochester 8 Toronto 6 Edmonton 16 Calgary 8 Colorado 20 Vancouver 9 Friday’s results Toronto 13 Buffalo 11 WEEK FIVE Friday, January 30 Minnesota at Buffalo, 5:30 p.m.

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Breaking out in a big way SUTTER FUND CHIEFS BREAK SLUMP WITH BIG WIN OVER ST. ALBERT

BY JOSH ALDRICH ADVOCATE STAFF Chiefs 6 Saints 2 The Red Deer Sutter Fund Chiefs broke out of their New Year doldrums in a big way on Sunday.

The Chiefs hammered the Spruce Grove Saints 6-2 in Alberta Major Midget Female Hockey League action at the Collicutt Centre, snapping a three-game losing skid in which they were shut out twice.

“We just have to keep doing what we’re doing with repetition and hard work,” said Chiefs head coach Tom Bast.

“This is the junior A of women’s hockey. It’s very competitive and every win means everything to everybody; just to create wins and create confidence and to keep being successful.

Success breeds confidence.”

Breanna Martin led the charge for the Chiefs (18-7-0-5) with two goals and an assist while Kirsten Baumgardt, Erika Marshall, Maddison Toppe and Abagael Thiessen also scored. Bailey Knapp made 18 saves for the win.

Jayme Abel and Tyra Meropoulis replied for Spruce Grove (11-14-1-2) while Courtney Beierbach made 28 saves in the loss.

Goals have been hard to come by for the Chiefs since the calendar turned over to 2015. They were given the Christmas break off in order to save themselves for what is going to be a long post-season as hosts of the Esso Cup. But they had just five goals in the first four games since returning to league play, dropping them back into the middle of the pack in the league in goals for. Their top two scorers — Thiessen and Martin —were tied for 20th in the league with 19 points each heading into Sunday.

It hasn’t just been their five-on-five offence that has struggled, their power play has also been an issue this season.

On Sunday, however, they managed to score twice with the man advantage by loading up one unit with their top players, giving Bast hope they are starting to figure it out.

“It’s funny, we just can’t score,” said Bast. “We’ve been playing reasonably well ... but we’ve just got to find a way to start scoring. If we start scoring, then our momentum, our confidence, all that stuff falls into place and away we go.”

The Chiefs back end continues to be the back bone of the team, allowing 57 goals on the season, second best in the league to the front-running Calgary

Photo by JOSH ALDRICH/Advocate staff

Red Deer Sutter Fund Chiefs forward Maddison Toppe emerges from a crowd with the puck as Spruce Grove Saints Erika Iglesias, left, and Dana McGonigal collide duirng AMMFHL action at the Collicutt Centre in Red Deer on Sunday. Red Deer won 6-2.

Fire. Their goaltending duo of Knapp and Sarah Murray have kept the Chiefs in every game while their defensive unit has been solid.

If there is an issue defensively, it has been a penchant for turning the puck over inside their own blue line that has burned them throughout the season.

“We’ve got to work on getting pucks off the half wall,” said Bast. “It’s been a real nemesis of us all year ... it’s somewhat frustrating but we are trying to get it done.”

Queens fall to Lions while Kings keep rolling

BY JOSH ALDRICH ADVOCATE STAFF Lions 3 Queens 2 Kings 3 Lions 0 The Red Deer College Queens looked like anything but the top-ranked women’s volleyball team heading into their final game before their bye, The Queens (16-2; 51-10) fell 3-2 (16-25, 24-26, 25-22, 25-20, 15-8) to the expansion Ambrose University College Lions (2-16; 10-51) on Saturday in Calgary in the biggest upset in the nation this season.

The defending Canadian Colleges Athletic Association champions struggled with consistency and allowed the previously one-win Lions to rattle them.

“It was one of those games where we couldn’t stop that wave once it got going,” said Queens head coach Talbot Walton. “By the time it rolled around to that fifth set we were in a situation where we weren’t able to generate our own points and were hoping Ambrose would lose the game, not for us to win the game.”

Kelsey Tymkow was the Queens player of the game with 22 kills and 11 digs, but they were unable to stop the Lions’ three outside hitters: Jordan Denham (15 kills), Ashtyn McKenzie (14 kills, 14 digs, three blocks) and Brooklyn Dyck (14 kills, eight digs).

The Lions showed signs of the ability to pull off this type of upset in Friday’s match at RDC, despite losing 3-0 (25-16, 25-16, 26-24). Ambrose started to build their confidence in the second set and nearly won the third before RDC rallied late to win it.

This time they were unable to rally and regain the momentum.

The Queens will have almost two full weeks to marinate in the loss as they head into their second semester bye week. It is not a situation they are used to being in and Walton hopes it will be a wake-up call for his girls.

“It’s a tough thing for everyone to deal with, coaching staff and athletes,” said Walton. “Just getting that mind set that losing is part of sports and you have to deal with it and hopefully you deal with it the right way.”

• The RDC Kings men’s volleyball team completed their straight-sets sweep of the Lions on Saturday, beating them 3-0 (25-15, 25-17, 25-14). Luke Brisbane was RDC’s player of the game with two kills, three blocks, one ace and 29 assists while Nic Dubinsky had 12 kills on 17 assists.

RDC returns to action on Feb. 6 in Medicine Hat against the Rattlers. jaldrich@reddeeradvocate.com

The Chiefs continue to prep for the Esso Cup, the female major midget national championship, which they will host from April 19-25 at the Red Deer Arena. To do so, they played in some of the top tournaments in the country, including in Wilcox, Sask., in December, in Winnipeg earlier this month and are now set for Burnaby, B.C., in February.

At these tournaments they have and will see some of the top teams in North America.

“One of my goals is to expose our girls to these tournaments, we see dif-

ferent teams,” said Bast. “Anytime you can expose your players to competition, I think it breeds success and it breeds confidence and it helps the girls understand what level of hockey can really, truly be played at this level.”

Up next for the Chiefs is a pair of home games at the Collicutt Centre, against the Medicine Hat Tigers (4-212-0) on Friday at 8:15 p.m. and on Sunday at 12:45 p.m. against the Grande Prairie Storm (12-11-2-2). jaldrich@reddeeradvocate.com

HERITAGE JUNIOR B HOCKEY The Red Deer Vipers got late goals from Kale Lapointe and Nick Glackin but dropped a 4-3 decision to the host Stettler Lightning in a Heritage Junior Hockey League game Saturday.

Reese Anheliger scored twice for the Lightning, while Ryan Strome and Jacob Bottomley also tallied for the winners. Cole deGraaf had the other Red Deer goal.

Rylan Bardick made 23 saves for the Vipers, while Simon Thieleman stopped 37 shots at the other end. Neither team connected with a man advantage.

In other Heritage League weekend play: ● The Northern Division leading Blackfalds Wranglers came out on the right side of a pair of one-goal decisions, winning 4-3 over the Thunder at Airdrie Friday and 6-5 over the host Banff Bears Sunday.

Eric Moltzahn and Wally Samson scored third-period goals to lift the Wranglers to victory at Banff. Also scoring for the visitors, three-for-12 with a man advantage, were Jeremy McIntosh, Robin Carlson, Cole Laing and Quinn Brown, while Andrew McLennan recorded three assists.

Kyle Baumgardner stopped 22 shots for the win, while Bears netminder Joel Lepper faced 48 shots. Banff was two-for-six on the power play.

At Airdrie, the Wranglers got single goals from Samson, Carlson, Brown and Trent Hermary, while winning netminder Thomas Isaman turned aside 36 shots.

Blackfalds’ power play was one-for-six. Airdrie, outshot 46-39, was one-for-seven with a man advantage. ● Stettler opened a busy weekend with a 7-5 home-ice loss to Banff Friday and closed it out with a 4-2 win over the visiting Thunder 48 hours later.

Scott Ternes recorded a hat trick in Sunday’s victory. Michael Neumeier also scored for Stettler, three-for-five on the power play.

Thielman made 25 saves for the Lightning. James Fisk and Kade Tappin combined to stop 40 shots for Airdrie, zero-for-seven while up a man.

Scoring in the loss to Banff were Logan Davidson with three, Dylan Houston and Steven Fletcher. Jordan McCallum made 32 saves for Stettler, while Lepper stopped 42 shots at the other end.

Stettler’s power play was onefor-six; Banff’s was two-for-four. ● The Three Hills Thrashers split a pair of home games, losing 3-2 to the Coaldale Copperheads Saturday, 24 hours after securing a 5-4 shootout win over the Mountainview Colts.

Russell Olson, Patrick Fougere and Luke Scheunert scored for the Thrashers in Saturday’s set-

back, while Brady Hoover made 39 saves. Three Hills was one-forfive on the power play while being outshot 44-28 by their guests, who were one-for-four with a man advantage.

On Friday, Scheunert fired three regulation-time markers for Three Hills, whose other goal was supplied by Cody Phillips. Hoover turned aside 53 shots for the winners, while Jake Carlson made 26 saves for the Colts.

Each team was one-for-four on the power play. ● The Ponoka Stampeders dropped two overtime games — 4-3 to visiting Mountainview Sunday and 5-4 to the host Cochrane Generals Saturday.

On Sunday, Chase Staideker, Nate Higgins and Tye Munro scored for the Stamps, who led 2-1 after one period and 3-1 after 40 minutes, then gave up two goals in the third.

Zane Steeves made 35 saves in a losing cause as the visitors held a 39-38 edge in shots. Ponoka was one-for-three on the power play; the Colts were one-for-six.

At Cochrane, the Stamps got goals from Higgins, Justin McKenzie, Cody Lemon and Kwyn Hiebert and led 4-2 at one point in the third period.

Outshot 42-20, Ponoka got a 37-save performance from Steeves.

The Stamps’ power play clicked on one of 19 opportunities, while the Generals were one-for-13 with a man advantage.

Innisfail wins battle of Eagles in Chinook League weekend action Innisfail prevailed 3-2 in the Chinook Hockey League’s battle of the Eagles Saturday at Stony Plain.

Joe Vandermeer and Brendan Baumgardner gave the visiting Eagles a 2-0 lead after one period and Justin Cox notched the eventual winner with a power-play goal early in the final frame. Brandon Kosolofsky and Scott Elkow scored for the host Eagles.

Travis Ziegler made 26 saves for Innisfail, one-forfour with a man advantage as opposed to zero-for-six for the hosts, while Sheldon Baerg blocked 19 shots in the Stony Plain net.

On Friday, Jeff Archibald and Chad Ziegler connected for visiting Innisfail in a 4-2 loss to the Okotoks Drillers, who got two goals from Jesse Todd and singles from Clay Howe and Adrian Foster.

The Eagles were one-for-six with a man advantage; the Drillers one-for-four.

Gerry Festa turned aside 42 shots as the winning goaltender. Chance Clark made 34 saves for Innisfail. ● The Bentley Generals travelled to Okotoks Saturday and came away with a 6-4 win over the Drillers.

Eric Schneider tallied twice for the Generals, who snapped a 4-4 tie when Brett Robertson connected at 8:47 of the third period and got an empty-net insurance goal from Kyle Sheen with 16 seconds remaining.

Curtis Austring and Keegan Desmet also scored for the visitors, while Dustin Butler made 27 saves.

Bentley was two-for-six on the power play.

Replying for the Drillers, whose power play was one-for-five, were Campbell Elynuik, Paul Kurceba, Curtis Billsten and Jesse Todd. Todd Ford turned aside 45 shots as the losing netminder.

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Raptors roll past Pistons

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Raptors 114 Pistons 110 TORONTO — DeMar DeRozan is feeling like himself again.

DeRozan scored 25 points with six rebounds and four assists as the Toronto Raptors held off a late charge by the Detroit Pistons for a 114-110 victory on Sunday.

DeRozan missed 21 games between Nov. 30 and Jan. 12 with a torn left adductor tendon. Although he’d played in six games before Sunday’s win, he finally felt 100 per cent against the Pistons. “Tonight was the first night that every time I got it in transition I pushed it up and down the court,� said DeRozan. “I was kind of intimidated doing it in a lot of games before. “Every single day I feel more comfortable and better.�

Jonas Valanciunas had 20 points and 11 rebounds for Toronto (29-15), which has now won back-to-back games. It was Valanciunas’s team-best 14th doubledouble of the season. “DeMar was going to find his legs at the right time and he did tonight,� said Raptors head coach Dwane Casey. “I thought Jonas came in and gave us a good presence inside offensively, so I was really pleased with our overall offensive production.�

All-star point guard Kyle Lowry had 11 points and eight assists for the Raptors. He addressed the soldout crowd from halfcourt before the game, thanking them for their support in voting him a starter in the NBA All-Star game. He received a standing ovation as he promised to represent Toronto and Canada to the best of his abilities.

D.J. Augustin led Detroit (17-28) with a career-high 35 points. He added eight assists and four rebounds, substituting for the injured Brandon Jennings. “When you come out early and play a lot of minutes you get more comfortable rather than coming off the bench,� said Augustin. “You get a rhythm quicker and you are able to play through that rhythm.�

Before the game Detroit confirmed that Jennings

would be out for the rest of the season with a torn Achilles tendon. He was injured in the Pistons’ 10186 loss to the Milwaukee Bucks on Saturday night.

Jennings averaged 15.7 points and 6.7 assists per game before getting hurt.

Augustin’s career performance jeopardized the Raptors victory late in the fourth quarter.

DeRozan drained two free throws with 1:58 left to play in the fourth to give Toronto a 105-99 lead.

Patrick Patterson grabbed a rebound at the other end to maintain Raptors possession. A cheer erupted from the crowd as DeRozan’s turnaround fade-away jump shot bounced around the rim and in to make it 107-99.

Kentavious Caldwell-Pope replied with a threepointer and then Amir Johnson was called for an offensive foul, giving Detroit the ball. Lowry fouled Augustin, who made both shots to reduce Toronto’s lead to 107-104.

A personal foul on Greg Monroe gave Johnson two free throws, which he made.

DeRozan grabbed a defensive rebound on the next play and was immediately fouled by Detroit’s Jodie Meeks. DeRozan sank his second free throw for a 110-104 lead. “I almost forgot how I used to get to the free-throw line� said DeRozan with a laugh. He went 8 for 10 at the line on Sunday. “It felt good. I just wanted to go out there and be aggressive.�

Augustin made a driving layup for the Pistons and on the next possession. Meeks again fouled a Raptor, this time sending Lowry to the line.

Lowry made both of his free throws as chants of “M-V-P� rained down from the stands. Lowry fouled Caldwell-Pope on a three-point shot, making it a four-point play. Caldwell-Pope’s single free throw pulled Detroit to 112-110.

Terrence Ross made two free-throws at the other end of the court to give Toronto a 114-110 lead, then grabbed a rebound off of Caldwell-Pope’s threepoint attempt to seal the win.

Valanciunas was dominant in the paint, especially in the third quarter.

His layup 1:43 into that quarter capped a 15-3 run

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Toronto Raptors forward DeMar DeRozan (10) battles for the ball against Detroit Pistons forward Andre Drummond during first half NBA action in Toronto on Sunday. and gave the Raptors a 64-53 lead, their biggest of the game to that point. He had a double-double with 16 points and 10 rebounds with 8:59 left in the third.

Augustin replied for Detroit, dropping a pullup jump shot with 5:05 remaining in the quarter to reduce the Pistons’ deficit to 75-70, forcing Toronto to call a full timeout on its next possession. That huddle seemed to settle the Raptors, who controlled play for the rest of the quarter.

Forget intensity, this Pro Bowl was all about players having fun GLENDALE, Ariz. — Few moved very fast, no one flattened a quarterback and there were no bonejarring hits in the gentle, friendly version of football played at the Pro Bowl Sunday.

Even in a game dominated by offence, J.J. Watt was the star.

The Texans defensive end intercepted pass, recovered a fumble and led the crowd in dances during commercial breaks.

Team Irvin defeated 32-28 Watt’s Team Carter, but the score is never important in the NFL’s all-star game. Everyone seemed to have a good time, particularly Watt, the game’s defensive MVP. Other memorable moments came from Saints tight end Jimmy Graham, who dunked over the crossbar twice after TD catches — this time with no penalty, and Giants rookie Odell Beckham Jr. who made a

RED DEER MINOR HOCKEY Minor midget AAA Levi Glasman and Joel Ray each contributed a goal and an assist and Shae Herbert made 48 saves as the Aero Equipment Chiefs downed the North Star Chiefs 3-1 in an all-Red Deer clash Friday.

Jarrett Brandon also scored for the winners, while Justin Paarup notched the lone North Star goal. Losing netminder Canon Whitbread made 19 saves.

On Saturday, Aero Equipment fell 5-2 to the visiting Calgary Rangers, getting goals from Glasman and Beaudoin Rider and a 20-save outing from Herbert.

The Chiefs held a 39-25 advantage in shots.

On Sunday, the North Star Chiefs got goals from Owen Cummerford, Tyrell McCubbing, McKoy Kahlert and Kobe Williams in a 7-4 loss to the visiting Calgary Blue, which held a 59-37 advantage in shots.

Justin Travis made 52 saves for the Chiefs.

Major bantam The Red Deer Rebels White clinched an Alberta Major Bantam Hockey League playoff spot despite only earning one out of four points on the weekend.

They opened the week with a 3-3 tie with the Calgary Flames on Saturday at the Red Deer Arena,

diving grab at midfield.

Graham’s second touchdown, on a 1-yard, fourthdown pass from Matt Ryan, was the winning TD with 3:10 to play.

Greg Olsen and Emmanuel Sanders also caught a pair of touchdown passes apiece. Andrew Luck was nearly perfect in his short time on the field, completing 9 of 10 for 119 yards and two scores. Matthew Stafford threw for 316 yards and two TDs and was the offensive MVP. The Pro Bowl took a one-year hiatus from Hawaii to be played in the desert to coincide with the big game. A sellout crowd of 63,225 watched at University of Phoenix Stadium as the teams moved up and down the field, often without much resistance.

If the players missed the beach, they wouldn’t let on. “It’s been fantastic,� Dallas quarterback Tony Romo said. “The turnout here at the stadium is just like an NFL game.�

Romo knew this wasn’t a real NFL game. “It’s a blast,� Stafford said. “To able to play with the best in the world is a whole lot of fun, and everybody is such good people, too. I am out here having a good time.�

The NFL scrapped the AFC vs. NFC format last year in favour of having two big-name former players draft players four days before the game. This year, the honour went to Michael Irvin and Cris Carter.

There were teammates playing against teammates.

When Green Bay’s Jordy Nelson made a pretty fingertip touchdown catch from Drew Brees for Team Carter. He celebrated with his Packers teammate Clay Matthews, who was playing for the other team.

Beckham dove to the ground and gathered in Stafford’s long pass just as the ball was about to hit the ground. When Graham caught a six-yard touchdown pass from Stafford, he soared to dunk the ball over crossbar.

getting one goal each from Landen Leipnitz, Josh Tarwell and Kaden Davidson. Justin Verveda made 25 saves for Red Deer.

On Sunday at the Arena, the Rebels White fell 2-0 to the Rocky Mountain Raiders out of Okotoks, spoiling a 28-save performance by Duncan Hughes.

The Red Deer Rebels Black earned a 4-3 win in Airdrie over the Extreme, thanks to Josh McNeil’s three-point night.

McNeil had one goal and two assists while Tristen

Hatto, Hace Paarup and Hayden Clayton also scored.

Steven Arthur made 36 saves for the win.

The Rebels Black lost 5-4 to the host Calgary Royals Sunday. Details were unavailable.

Major bantam girls Megan Benoit’s third-period goal was all the Red Deer Sutter Fund Chiefs could muster in a 6-1 loss to the Calgary Outlaws Saturday.

Chantelle Sandquist made 31 saves for the Chiefs, who were outshot 37-24.

A TOAST TO THE BEST OF THE BEST makes a difference

OLDS GRIZZLYS CANMORE — A second-period goal from Sean Richards stood up as the winner as the Olds Grizzlys edged the Canmore Eagles 3-2 in an Alberta Junior Hockey League game Saturday.

Ty Mappin and Landon Kletke scored first-period goals for the Grizzlys, who snapped a four-game losing streak. Nikolas Kosman and Adam Tisdale replied for the Eagles, who trailed 2-1 after one period and 3-1 after 40 minutes.

Olds, zero-for-three on the power play, got a 39-save performance from Jesse Gordichuk. Ryan Ferguson stopped 37 shots for Canmore, zero-for-four with a man advantage.

The Grizzlys return to action Friday against the host Drumheller Dragons. Drumheller is in Olds Saturday.

ALBERTA OPEN BOWLING Gary Baird of Blackfalds dominated the men’s singles while cruising to his third Central Alberta 5 Pin Bowlers Association Open Championship at Red Deer Riverside Bowl during the weekend.

Baird posted eight 300-point plus games with his average score of 288 a total of 375 pins better than runner-up Victor Fobert of Drayton Valley.

On the ladies side, Andrea Leavitt of Drumheller also picked up her third singles crown with a 260 average, 238 pins ahead of runner-up Shauna PirieLaisnez of Big Valley over the 20-game competition.

Both winners received Red Deer Advocate trophies, which were being presented for the 50th consecutive year.

The Central Alberta women’s team which will compete in the provincials April 1-4 at Sherwood Park is comprised of Leavitt, Pirie-Laisnez, Bonnie Clermont and Donna Hort of Red Deer, Holly Harris of Olds and Stacey Hafso of Camrose.

The men’s team members are Baird, Fobert, Greg Gigliuk of Red Deer, Gene Ziebarth of Millet, Brandon Cockburn of Leduc and Wetaskiwin’s Erik Kjos, while Terra Nystrom, Rhonda Barber and Shelby Chrest, all of Red Deer, David Philpot of Stettler, Barb Patterson of Drumheller and Karie Kreutz of Wetakiwin will represent the Central Alberta Association in the mixed team division.

Darrell Smith of Red Deer will coach the women’s team and Robert Gallaugher will handle the mixed squad. The men’s team coaching position is currently open.

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In second half, expect Ducks Haas wins Humana and Habs to cool off Challenge for second time with late birdie predictive value.

This is generally thought to be because a team’s shooting and save percentage at the midseason point are very noisy measures of its true abilities in that regard. However, it turns out that the information embedded in PDO, shrouded in noise as it may be, is different enough from the information embedded in SAC, that it is the best complement.

Regardless, the predictions generated by these variables still leave a lot of room for error. In recent years teams have produced as many as 67 points in the second half (the 2009-10 Washington Capitals), or as few as 21 (the 201011 Colorado Avalanche), and the model can only explain about 20 per cent of that variation. However, they’re still the best data (out of what we looked at) to base any predictions on. So what do they predict?

First, our model predicts the playoff teams will be the ones that held such a spot at the halfway mark. No surprise there, but what is interesting is the significant shuffling of seeding. Nashville should cool off from its torrid start (60 points in the first half), but is still predicted to clinch the best record in the league, just barely holding off Chicago.

Buffalo, meanwhile, is predicted to get the best shot at Connor McDavid in the lottery as Edmonton is predicted to recover from its disastrous first half by posting a much improved second-half record (better than five other teams, including Calgary and Toronto).

The Oilers, along with Carolina, are predicted to show the most improvement in the second half, bettering their first-half totals by 16 points each.

Edmonton will, however, still end up second-last overall while Carolina will be third-last.

The biggest drop-offs are for Anaheim (predicted to amass 12 fewer second-half points than it did in the first half) and Montreal (11 fewer). At the end of the day, however, a good takeaway from this is that second- half performance is surprisingly difficult to predict. You might think you have a good handle on your team, but chances are things won’t play out as they did in the first half. Which is just as well isn’t that why we watch?

For more information on the methodology, go to www.depthockeyanalytics.com.

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

In a transition year, Canada still aiming for two world championship medals

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KINGSTON, Ont. — Missing some of its biggest stars, the Canadian figure skating team will still head to the world championships with the podium in its sights.

Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford in pairs and Kaitlyn Weaver and Andrew Poje in ice dance headline the world championship team named Sunday at the end of the Canadian championships.

Both the pairs and ice dance teams are enjoying breakthough seasons, sweeping gold in every competition in which they’ve competed, including the Grand Prix Final in December.

“Given what we had coming out of the Final, definitely with Meagan and Eric and Kaitlyn and Andrew, (the goal is) podium,” said Mike Slipchuk, Skate Canada’s high performance director.

“And both have a great shot at gold.

Those are two realistic entries.”

Missing in action this weekend were three-time world champion Patrick Chan and Olympic and world ice dance champions Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir. All three, who were at the Rogers K-Rock Centre to watch the competition, are taking this season off to contemplate their futures.

“In a transition year, we’ve created depth,” Slipchuk said.

When and if Chan and the ice dancers return, he said “it will only make us stronger.

“Spots that were available this year might not be there next year. That changed the landscape.

And I think it makes everyone hungrier ... We’re starting to see the potential of our younger skaters. They were thrust in the spotlight this year and they handled it fine.”

Nam Nguyen, a 16-yearold from Toronto, won the men’s title in dominant fashion, giving a glimpse of a bright future in men’s skating.

“Nam, he just lit it up,” Slipchuk said.

Nguyen is improving at breakneck pace, finishing 23rd in a junior Grand Prix last season months before winning the world junior championships. He captured a bronze and a fourth-place finish in his

two senior Grand Prix events this season, and then had the performance of his career at the K-Rock Centre, opening Saturday night’s free program with a huge quad Salchow on his way to a clean program.

“The thing with Nam is he is just so calm, cool and collected, and consistent,” Slipchuk said. “He has a good sense of humour, he’s fun to be around, but when he’s on the ice, it’s all business. With the way the field is now, and everyone is so technically efficient, you’ve got to be efficient. And he just gives you that feeling that first jump is landed, he’s going clean.”

Following in Chan’s footsteps, Slipchuk said, has helped Nguyen’s development.

“We’ve always had someone everyone could develop underneqth. Jeff (Buttle) was there so Patrick had a year or two to build up. Then Patrick carried that group of men underneath him, so they could develop under him.

And now this is the result of that.

“And I think it’s that leadership, we have a great group of skaters, they’re great role models, they want to see all Canadians succeed, and you saw that with Patrick being here (in Kingston) and Tessa and Scott being here, they all came back.”

Jeremy Ten of Vancouver is the oth-

er men’s entry for the world championships. Gabrielle Daleman of Newmarket, Ont., won the women’s title in a field that was missing defending champion Kaetlyn Osmond. Alaine Chartrand of Prescott, Ont., finished second to also make the world team.

Canada’s other two world entries in pairs are Lubov Ilyushechkina and Dylan Moscovitch of Toronto, and Julianne Seguin of Longueuil, Que., and Charlie Bilodeau of Notre-Dame-duPortage, Que. Seguin and Bilodeau are still juniors, and are aiming for gold at the world junior championships.

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LA QUINTA, Calif. — Bill Haas pulled ahead with a 20-foot birdie putt on the par-4 16th and parred the final two holes for a one-stroke victory Sunday in the Humana Challenge.

Haas closed with a 5-under 67 for his sixth PGA Tour title and first since the 2013 AT&T National. He won the 2010 event at PGA West for his first tour victory.

Haas was making his first start since November. He took the long break to rest his left wrist, fractured in April when he fell down stairs at Hilton Head.

Part of a six-man tie for the lead after a par save on the par-3 15th, Haas got to 22 under with the birdie putt on 16 on the Arnold Palmer Private Course.

Haas two-putted for par from 20 feet on the par-5 18th after pulling off an awkward layup with his ball perched on the front lip of a right-side fairway bunker.

His father, Jay, won the 1998 tournament. Haas’ great uncle, 85-year-old Bob Goalby, watched the final holes.

Goalby won the 1968 Masters.

Matt Kuchar, Charley Hoffman, Brendan Steele, Steve Wheatcroft and Sung Joon Park tied for second.

Hoffman and Steele shot 64, and Park had a 65, and Kuchar and Wheatcroft shot 67.

Kuchar had a two-stroke lead with four holes to play Saturday, but bogeyed three of the last four holes in the third round to fall a stroke back.

Haas eagled the par-5 sixth for a share of the lead, setting up his 15-foot putt with a 260-yard, 5-wood from the dormant left rough with the ball below his feet.

The 32-year-old former Wake Forest player birdied the par-4 eighth, punching a low, spinning wedge from 70 yards to 8 feet, and got to 21 under with a 7-foot birdie putt on the par-5 11th.

He made a key par save on the 131-yard 15th to keep a share of the lead. Short-sided in the left bunker, he blasted to 6 feet.

Haas broke out of the tie on 16, and then missed a 10-foot birdie try on the par-3 17th with a bighorn sheep grazing nearby at the foot of the Santa Rosa Mountains.

On the par-5 18th, with water running the length of the hole on the left, his drive stopped on the top edge off the right-side bunker. Standing in the bunker with the ball in the dormant grass at nearly waist level, he choked up on an 8-iron and slashed 80 yards down the fairway. That left him 170 yards to the green and he hit safely to the middle.

Justin Thomas, Webb Simpson and Boo Weekley tied for seventh, two strokes back.

Thomas, playing alongside Haas and two-time heart transplant recipient Erik Compton in the final group, dropped out of the lead on 16 with a double bogey after hitting his approach from a bunker into the All-American Canal.

The 21-year-old former Alabama player birdied 18 for a 69.

Simpson finished with a 64, and Weekley shot 65.

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Now that we’re officially more than halfway into the season we’re starting to get a clearer picture of which teams are contenders and pretenders.

However, there is still a lot of hockey left to play, and there will be a fair bit of movement up and down the standings. So what should we expect in the second half?

In order to answer this question, we gathered data (from puckon.net and waronice.com) on midseason points, various possession metrics, goal differential and shooting and save percentages for every team after 41 games, starting with the 2007-08 season, but excluding the lockout-shortened 201213 campaign. The goal was to see which combination of these variables was best at predicting teams’ second-half point totals.

You’d certainly be excused if you thought that looking at a team’s points in the first half was the best way to predict its second-half points. After 41 games, the standings must certainly reflect a team’s true ability, right?

As it turns out, second-half performance is best predicted by two of the most commonly used variables in the analytics repertoire: Score Adjusted Corsi and PDO. For those not familiar with these concepts, Corsi is another name for shot attempts (shots on goal, missed shots, and blocked shots). “Score Adjusted” Corsi (SAC) is a stat that, as the name suggests, adjusts Corsi to account for the power of score effects.

“Score effects” describes the tendency for teams that are trailing in a game to amp up the offence and attempt significantly more shots. This matters because if you look at Corsi without any adjustments, awful teams (who are playing from behind a lot) look better than they really are and great teams (who are often defending a lead) don’t look as strong as they truly are. PDO is simpler - it is just the sum of a team’s shooting percentage and save percentage. So, for example, if the Carolina Hurricanes have a team shooting percentage of 6.1 and a save percentage of 90.8, their PDO is 96.9.

What was interesting, however, was that basing predictions on two variables did only marginally better than looking at just SAC alone. The fact that SAC is one of the best predictors of future success is a result found by almost everyone doing hockey analytics.

In general, however, predictions can usually be improved by using more information. In this particular case, what we find is that second-half points are very hard to predict, and that, to the extent we can predict them, SAC is really all you need.

Also interesting is the fact that, to the extent that a second variable can improve predictive power, PDO is the best choice. Note that, when considering PDO in isolation, it has very little

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Red Deerians got a little taste of Spring this past weekend.

As temperatures soared to a high of 6 degrees Celsius on Saturday and Sunday, residents took to the outdoors to take in the sunshine and nice weather.

Bower Ponds was one of the busier places in the city, with well over 50 people on the ice at once, while others made use of the playground. The sliding hill was popular, too, with a combination of warm daytime temperatures and cooler ones overnight creating icy tracks for sledders.

The city’s trail system was put to good use, with Red Deerians, and

sometimes their pets, walking the trails around Bower Ponds, Three Mile Bend, Heritage Ranch and Kerry Wood Nature Centre.

Outdoor rinks saw a dusting of skaters, however, the ice at some proved to be too soft to see much action.

Daytime temperatures are expected to remain above the freezing point for most of the week, before cooling overnight on Thursday.

On Friday there is a 40 per cent chance of flurries, with a high of -7 C and a low of -17 C. Saturday’s high is only expected to reach -9 C.

STORY AND PHOTOS BY ASHLEY BARRET/ADVOCATE STAFF Photos clockwise from the top: Bower Ponds was a busy place throughout the weekend with many Red Deerians turning out to enjoy the 6 degree Celsius weather. Well over 50 people were on the ice at once, with many more using the trail systems and sliding hill.

Leslie Redlick and Jordan Redlick are led across the ice at Bower Ponds by Athena Milan Snow climbs a mound of snow piled near the Bower Place rinks on Saturday morning.

Nathan Cote and Aleana Tory, 4, kick up a little bit of snow as they head down an icy sliding hill at Bower Ponds on Saturday.

Masckwacis, Rocky pharmacists join risk reduction project

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF Pharmacists in Maskwacis and Rocky Mountain House are part of a new project to identify Albertans at risk of developing heart disease and strokes to better manage their health.

Alberta Vascular Risk Reduction Community Pharmacy Project (RxEACH), launched a year ago, allows pharmacists to adapt medications, recommend treatment, make lifestyle recommendations such as diet and exercise, and send adult patients for blood work to improve their heart and blood vessel health.

“We’re interested in studying patients who have multiple chronic conditions or poorly controlled chronic conditions,” said Dr. Brenda Hemmelgarn, department head of community health sciences and a nephrologist with Alberta Health Services Calgary Zone.

AHS says 90 per cent of Albertans have at least one risk factor for cardiovascular disease, which is one of the leading causes of death and disability in North America.

Across Alberta, 110 pharmacists have used RxEACH’s online education and training program to help identify patients at high risk for vascular disease. Risk factors include diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and smoking.

ALBERTA VASCULAR RISK REDUCTION COMMUNITY PHARMACY PROJECT In Central Alberta, pharmacists at Roots & Berries Pharmacy in Maskwacis and Co-op Pharmacy in Rocky Mountain House have joined the study.

Hemmelgarn said researchers want patients from across the province, especially in rural Alberta, for the project aimed at augmenting existing care.

“It’s really looking at multidisciplinary care of these patients,” Hemmelgarn said.

“Pharmacists, just by their location, are an easy point-of-care contact for patients, so it might be easier for them to see a pharmacist and get advice from their pharmacist, in addition to their primary care physician. It’s not meant to replace any sort of service. It’s an additional form of service and care provision.”

Pharmacists at 45 pharmacies are enrolling up to 1,200 patients at high risk for heart disease or stroke, such as those with diabetes, established vascular disease, chronic kidney disease, and those who have either high blood pressure, high cholesterol, high blood sugar or who smoke.

About 500 Albertans have been enrolled so far.

Patients will be divided into two groups, with one group receiving in-depth pharmacist-based care for three months.

Those getting advanced care will have a compre-

hensive medication review, an assessment for diet and exercise, smoking cessation support and a computerized tool that calculates their risk of having a cardiovascular event in the next 10 years, and demonstrates ways of reducing their risk.

Both groups will be assessed at the end of the three months to evaluate their reduction in vascular risk. Patients who didn’t previously receive advanced care will then receive advanced care for three months.

Pharmacists will also work closely with patients and their physicians to help patients achieve their treatment targets.

Hemmelgarn said all the patient results should be in by the end of June. Analysis should be complete in the fall.

RxEACH is part of the Vascular Risk Reduction program — a comprehensive strategy by the Cardiovascular Health and Stroke Strategic Clinical Network of AHS. RxEACH is an equal partnership between the Cardiovascular Health and Stroke network, Alberta Health, the University of Alberta and the University of Calgary. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

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Fast talks free trade in Kyiv MEANWHILE FIGHTING INTENSIFIES IN EASTERN PART OF THE COUNTRY

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UKRAINE

OTTAWA — International Trade Minister Ed Fast arrived in Kyiv on Sunday for two days of meetings as fighting intensifies between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian separatists in the east of the embattled country.

Fast, who has been to Ukraine twice is the last six months, is there to talk free trade his counterpart, Aivaras Abromaviius, but also plans to announce four initiatives.

They will include greater support economic and governance reform as well as a program to promote sustainable economic growth for Ukrainian small and medium-sized farm businesses.

Canada is hoping the initiatives will “promote effective economic development to increase private sector-led

growth, investment and job creation,” according to government documents.

Negotiations towards such an agreement were given a high-level political jolt last fall during Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko’s visit to Ottawa, where he and Prime Minister Stephen Harper ordered officials to accelerate their work on the pact.

There will be a full round of face-toface talk among officials in the near future and the file is now “in high gear,” Fast said.

The minister arrived one day after 30 people were reported killed in shelling in the east Ukrainian port city of Mariupol.

The attack was blamed on Russianbacked rebels and follows the separatists’ rejection of more peace talks.

The United Nations said on Friday that 262 had been killed in the previous nine days.

Mariupol, on the Sea of Azov, is in government hands and situated along a coastal route from the Russian border to Crimea, which was annexed by President Vladimir Putin’s regime last March.

Local media reports quote the city council saying rockets were fired by rebels on Saturday using a long-range GRAD missile system. The missiles struck a multi-story building, which subsequently caught fire.

Over the weekend, Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird condemned the attack.

“This disgraceful act further demonstrates Russia’s ongoing campaign of aggression against Ukraine and its shocking willingness to sacrifice civilian lives to achieve its illegitimate

goals,” Baird said in a statement.

“We call on Russia to immediately respect the ceasefire, immediately end its support of these proxies and allow peace to return to eastern Ukraine.”

The Harper government, which handed out $314 million in economic assistance to Kyiv since the crisis began last year, sees strengthening the Ukrainian economy as a vital pillar in the strategy to resist Russian expansionism.

Canada and Ukraine already do about $322 million in trade.

The Harper government says it is looking for Canadian companies that want to invest in the agriculture and agri-food, aerospace, energy, mining and education sectors.

Fast is also expected to meet the country’s finance and agriculture ministers during his trip.

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Participants take part in HTML500, a course which teaches computer coding skills, in Vancouver, B.C. Saturday.

Hundreds attend free coding bootcamp

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — Squamish Nation member Khelsilem is fluent in his native tongue and passionately spearheading a project to revitalize indigenous languages. But he wants to turbocharge his linguistic proficiency by learning an entirely new and universal language — computer coding.

The 25-year-old from North Vancouver plans to preserve and share the Squamish and Downriver Halkomelem languages by acquiring coding skills, which he’ll use to construct a website that gives his community’s lingual traditions worldwide reach.

“Geography is the biggest challenge we have as indigenous people when it comes to revitalizing languages, there’s so many languages in Canada and it becomes really hard to co-ordinate,” he said. “Technology becomes a really big way for our people to come together in ways that we couldn’t otherwise.”

Khelsilem was among two tables of 20 laptop-laden First Nations people adding their beat to the rhythmic key tappings of 500 British Columbians who gathered over the weekend for a massive computer coding bootcamp.

The humming hive filled a cavern-

ous Vancouver conference space for “The HTML500,” the premier 2015 event in a four-city caravan teaching the ABCs of web coding.

The idea was to provide free lessons in basic coding languages, including HyperText Markup Language, known as HTML, that is standard code used in websites. Organizers hope the bootcamp prompts a mass movement towards “digital literacy.” The targeted inclusion of First Nations at the event was conceived to increase employability in Canada’s aboriginal communities, while taking advantage of the fastest growing population of young people in the country to help fill jobs skills gaps. Coding knowledge is anticipated to be a boon for remote and rural native communities that are increasingly gaining Internet connectivity, said Denise Williams, acting executive director for the First Nations Technology Council.

“It’s more accessible than a lot of institutional type careers or mainstream careers. It’s creative and it’s fun,” Williams said. “It really speaks to who we are as First Nations people in terms of creating and developing things that can support and really inspire what the future is going to look like.”

Bringing First Nations online is just

one among countless ways Canada’s economy can be revolutionized, said Jeremy Shaki, The HTML500’s creator.

“Sure, Silicon Valley is amazing and Tel Aviv is amazing, but there is no country with an entire population that knows how to code,” said Shaki, who’s the co-founder of coding education company Lighthouse Labs that put on the event with other tech partners.

“We actually think that Canada has a super strong opportunity to do that.

We have a very well-educated population and kids clambering to learn to code.”

A micro and macro vision exist for the project, he said, which will also travel to Calgary, London and Toronto over the coming weeks. On the individual level, organizers want to reduce intimidation associated with coding, empowering everyday citizens to create and put their ideas into the world over the Internet. On the grander scale, they’re striving to make a spectacle — Guinness World Records has already been contacted — in a bid for education reform. Inserting coding into Canada’s mainstream school curriculum is also a goal that’s been circulating among Vancouver tech entrepreneurs who aspire to use their expertise for positive social change.

DAVOS, Switzerland — A top official at the European Central Bank says getting the euro down was not a prime consideration of the bank’s recently announced 1.1 trillion-euro ($1.2 trillion) stimulus. Benoit Coeure, an executive board member at the ECB, told a panel at the World Economic Forum in the Swiss ski resort of Davos on Saturday that the fall in the euro since Thursday’s announcement was one of the consequences of the stimulus but “not the most important consideration.” The euro has fallen sharply since the announcement, and is at 11-year lows against the dollar. That could boost growth by making exports from the 19-country eurozone cheaper.

Coeure said it was “pretty clear” the ECB had to do something to get inflation back to target. Prices are falling modestly in the eurozone.

Coal production drops in China for first time in 14 years BEIJING — China recorded its first drop in coal production since 2000 last year, as the world’s biggest greenhouse gas emitter pulls back on its use of the fossil fuel and switches to cleaner energy sources.

According to the country’s national coal association, China produced 3.5 billion tons of coal in the first 11 months of 2014, 2.1 per cent less than the same period in 2013. The association estimates the drop for the entire year will reach 2.5 per cent.

The report, quoted by the official Xinhua News Agency on Friday, said the profits of major Chinese coal companies dropped 44 per cent in that same period to 110.5 billion yuan, or $18 billion, amid low global coal prices. In November, China pledged to stop the growth in its carbon emissions by 2030, and leaders are under pressure to fight air pollution affecting much of the country. China depends on coal for 80 per cent of its electricity supply and about two-thirds of total energy.

The country has quickly become a world leader in solar and wind energy and aims to produce 20 per cent of its electricity through non-fossil fuel sources, including nuclear, by 2030, double the current share.

Use your RRSP for a home, education Most Canadians recognize registered retirement savings plans (RRSPs) as a means to save for their retirement.

But many may not know that it can be used to help you buy your first home or go back to school.

RRSPs can be used to borrow money under the home TALBOT buyers plan BOGGS (HBP) and the lifelong learning plan to help you buy your first home or to fund studies at a qualified educational institution.

“The home buyers plan has been around for quite a long time and is a fairly popular and successful program that has been used quite extensively,” said Todd Sigurdson, a financial plan-

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ner with Investors Group in Winnipeg.

“It can be a tremendous help for people to get into the real estate market and buy their first home without depleting their retirement income.”

According to the Canadian Real Estate Association, the average price of a home in Canada now is almost $420,000.

This would require a down payment of 20 per cent, or $84,000, without mortgage insurance — a lot of money for many younger people starting out in life.

Under the plan, couples buying their first home can withdraw up to $25,000 each from their RRSPs tax-free and then repay the money over the next 15 years. Repayments do not start until the year after the withdrawal is made.

Before you can withdraw the funds you must have entered into a written agreement to buy or build a qualifying house which you must occupy no later than one year after buying or building the home.

The money withdrawn must be in your RRSP for at least 90 days before a

withdrawal can be made.

There are some exceptions to the plan’s criteria.

Existing homeowners, for example, can use the plan to purchase a more accessible home or a home for a disabled dependent relative where the individual withdrawing the funds qualifies for the disability tax credit and is buying a home that is more accessible for the individual or is better suited for the care of the individual.

Perhaps not so well known is the lifelong learning plan, under which you can borrow up to a total of $20,000 (a limit of $10,000 per year) over a maximum of four years to fund studies at a qualified educational institution for you or your spouse, but not your children.

Amounts that are withdrawn are not subject to taxes on withdrawal and at least 10 per cent of the amount borrowed must be repaid each year over a maximum period of 10 years.

You can continue to make contributions to your RRSP and deduct them from your income on your income tax

Harley Richards, Business Editor, 403-314-4337 E-mail hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

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and benefit return after you have made an LLP withdrawal.

If you do not have an RRSP, you cannot set one up and then make an LLP withdrawal immediately. The contribution has to be in the RRSP for 90 days before you can deduct it from income on your tax and benefit return.

If you withdraw more than the annual limit of $10,000, the excess will be included in your income for the year of the withdrawal but the excess does not reduce your total LLP limit of $20,000.

If you withdraw more than the total limit of $20,000 the excess will be included in your income for the year you exceed the total LLP limit.

It’s always a good idea to consult your financial professional for all the details on these plans and whether they are right for you.

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

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — The Toronto stock market will try to maintain positive momentum this week amid a raft of top-drawer economic data and earnings from the Canadian corporate sector.

Traders will take in the latest economic growth figures for both Canada and the United States while hoping for hints about the pace of interest rate hikes in the U.S. when the Federal Reserve makes its next rate announcement at mid-week.

The TSX ran ahead 470 points 3.3 or per cent last week to recoup the losses of the previous two weeks. The advance was led by a seven per cent run-up in the energy sector as oil found some temporary stability around the US$45-a-barrel mark.

The sector was also fired by the Bank of Canada’s surprise, quarterpoint cut in a key rate to 0.75 per cent, which in particular benefits resource companies with most of their cost base in Canada.

Despite the partial recovery of the much battered energy sector, some analysts say prices in the oilpatch are still too rich.

“We’re still underweight in the energy space because we actually think stock prices reflect a higher oil price than what is achievable over the medium term,” said Patrick Blais, managing director and portfolio manager, Manulife Asset Management.

There were also questions at the end of the week over whether the death of Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah would affect the kingdom’s oil output.

But analysts think Abdullah’s successor, Prince Salman, — 79-years-old and himself in poor health — is unlikely to ratchet up production.

Crude is down a good 40 per cent from the end of November when Saudi Arabia announced that it would not cut production to support prices that started falling last summer amid a global supply glut.

The drop in crude is not expected to materially affect Canada’s November GDP data, which is being released Friday. But there were other headwinds that month, leaving CIBC (TSX:CM) to forecast a slight 0.1 per cent rise in GDP, reflecting disappointing reports for manufacturing and wholesale sales.

It also noted that a major oilsands facility was down for the back half of the month.

CIBC said future GDP reports will detail how the collapse in oil prices is affecting the economy.

“Further out, the downdraft from oil will create issues for Canada as companies pare investment and as provincial governments scale back spending plans.”

In the U.S., fourth-quarter GDP is expected to come in at an annualized rate of 3.1 per cent, down from a five per cent pace in the third quarter.

Meanwhile, the Fed makes its next announcement on interest rates on Wednesday.

There has been speculation that the U.S. central bank would start moving rates upward around mid-year but there now is some doubt about the pace of rate hikes as Norway, Denmark, Japan and Norway have all cut interest rates lately while the European Central Bank announced a huge stimulus program involving quantitative easing last week.

However, Andrew Pyle, portfolio manager and wealth adviser at ScotiaMcLeod in Peterborough, Ont., said that while “that might be the thought, I don’t think that’s what is going to happen.”

He believes the Fed has come to the view that its work is over.

“If it wasn’t for the Fed and the (quantitative easing stimulus program), this multi-year experiment with zero interest rates, we would not have had the growth path that we had,” he said.

“The Fed now can basically say: ’Well our job is done (and) now the baton passes to other central banks and other governments for that matter.”’

Investors will also take in a variety of earnings next week from market heavies such as grocer Metro (TSX:MRU), tech companies CGI Group (TSX:GIB.A) and Open Text (TSX:OTC) and fertilizer giant Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan (TSX:POT).

Traders will also get a look at how tumbling crude hit oilpatch players last quarter when Canadian Oil Sands (TSX:COS) posts earnings on Thursday.

Analysts expect earnings per share of 30 cents, down from 40 cents a year ago.

Canadian National Railway (TSX:CNR) will also be closely watched. The railway is expected to post earnings per share of 96 cents, up from 68 cents. But it is the outlook that investors will be particularly interested in.

Last week, Canadian Pacific Railway (TSX:CP) beat expectations for earnings and revenue but disappointed in providing a soft outlook, reflecting lower tank car loads of crude oil.

However, CP also said it expected to see rising demand from other commodities.

Fake universities draw scrutiny of federal investigators THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN FRANCISCO — From her hometown in India in 2010, Bhanu Challa said she had no reason to doubt that Tri-Valley University was a legitimate American school where she could pursue a master’s degree. Its website featured smiling students in caps and gowns and promised a leafy campus in a San Francisco Bay Area suburb.

Months later, her hands were in cuffs as federal investigators questioned her motives for being in the U.S. Authorities told her that Tri-Valley was a sham school. It was selling documents that allowed foreigners to obtain U.S. student visas, and in some cases work in the country, while providing almost no instruction, according to federal investigators.

“I was blank, totally blank ...,” she said, recalling her shock. “I didn’t know what to do, who I could approach.”

Tri-Valley is among at least half a dozen schools shut down or raided by federal authorities in recent years over allegations of immigration fraud. Like Tri-Valley, they had obtained permission from U.S. immigration officials to admit foreign students.

But most offered little or no instruction or didn’t require all students to attend classes, instead exploiting the student visa system for profit, investigators said.

“If there’s a way to make a buck, some people will do it,” said Brian Smeltzer, chief of the Counterterrorism and

Criminal Exploitation Unit of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations.

Last year alone, Smeltzer said, his office flagged about 150 of the roughly 9,000 schools certified to accept foreign students for investigation as potential visa mills. Meltzer said many of the schools the agency investigates are in California, which has the highest number of foreign students and schools certified to accept them. New York has the second most.

Government watchdogs say the recent visa fraud cases have exposed gaps in ICE’s oversight of schools that admit foreign students — a problem the agency says is being corrected. And experts say the scams hurt the reputation of the U.S. higher education system, which currently enrolls about 900,000 foreign students.

“If anybody has any illusions there was one just bad apple, that’s not the case,” said Barmak Nassirian, director of federal policy analysis with the American Association of State Colleges and Universities. “There are plenty of them out there.”

At California Union University in Fullerton, owner Samuel Chai Cho Oh staged phoney graduation ceremonies as part of a visa scheme, according to immigration officials. He pleaded guilty to visa fraud and money laundering and was sentenced to a year in prison in 2011.

At College Prep Academy in Duluth, Georgia, president Dong Seok Yi conspired to enrol some

women with the understanding they would not attend classes, but work at bars, prosecutors alleged. He was convicted of immigration document fraud and sentenced last year to 21 months in prison. Investigators say Tri-Valley, with more than 1,000 students, many Indian nationals, was among the largest school fraud scams they have encountered. The school’s founder and president, Susan XiaoPing Su, used more than $5.6 million she made in the scam to buy commercial real estate, a Mercedes Benz and multiple homes, federal prosecutors said. She was sentenced in October to 16 years in prison after a conviction on visa fraud and other charges.

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Poles take to the streets to demand help after their Swiss-franc mortgage payments soar WARSAW, Poland — Poles who have taken out mortgages in Swiss francs are protesting in a number of cities, demanding government help after the franc soared in recent weeks, making their monthly payments significantly higher.

It’s a pressing issue in Poland, where there’s more than 500,000 outstanding Swiss-franc loans in this nation of 38 million people.

It threatens to become a serious problem for the government ahead of parliamentary elections later this year.

About 200 people gathered in front of the presidential palace in Warsaw on Saturday, and similar protests were also held in Krakow, Lodz, Gdansk and Wroclaw.

Many Poles took out such loans several years ago, lured by Swiss interest rates that were much lower than those on Polish zloty loans.

After the financial crisis, the Swissfranc loans were virtually banned.

Kia recalling nearly 87,000 of its U.S. 2014 Forte sedans because of faulty cooling fan resistor Kia Motors America is recalling nearly 87,000 of its 2014 Forte sedans because of faulty equipment that could

cause the cars to catch fire.

The recall notice issued Saturday affects Kia Fortes made from Dec. 5, 2012, through April 17, 2014.

The cooling fan resistor might overheat and melt in those vehicles, increasing the risk of a fire.

The recall is expected to begin Feb. 24.

Owners of 2014 Fortes seeking additional information may contact Kia at 1-800-333-4542, or the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Vehicle Safety Hotline at 1-888-327-4236.

Report: Thirst for craft beer fuels largest American crop of hops in 5 years YAKIMA, Wash. — A thirst for craft beer helped hop growers produce their largest crop of hops in five years.

A new report from the Hop Growers of America also shows a 10 per cent increase in acres harvested between 2013 and 2014.

The Herald-Republic (http://goo.gl/ ATOkut ) says the Yakima Valley produces about 77 per cent of the nation’s hops.

In 2014, nearly 29,000 acres of hops were harvested in Washington state, representing about three-fourths of the country’s total.

In Oregon, about 5,400 acres were harvested last year, up about 12 per cent from 2013.

Idaho also saw a 12 per cent increase in acres of hops harvested.

The country’s crop was worth about $272 million. Growers fetched an average price of $3.83 per pound, the highest since 2008.

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Contact dermatitis, the misunderstood skin problem to something like hair dye or the lavender in your skin cream, that’s it.

“Allergic is all or nothing. Once allergic, always allergic,” Skotnicki says.

Confirming the cause of a contact allergic dermatitis problem is done using a patch test, where tiny amounts of suspected allergens are taped to a person’s back, sometimes for as long as three days, Sapijaszko says. A red welt will appear if the dermatologist has figured out the correct cause.

Some discoveries mean people must make small changes in their lives.

A body wash or shampoo that contains methylisothiazolinone — an omnipresent chemical that is causing “an epidemic” of allergic dermatitis these days, Skotnicki says — can be replaced with something that doesn’t trigger a reaction. A hair colourist who becomes allergic to permanent dye can apply the product wearing a heavy-grade glove. (There’s no work-around if your head has become allergic to dye; then it’s time to embrace the grey.)

But sometimes bigger changes have to be made. People working in a profession where they cannot avoid exposure to a substance that induces contact allergic dermatitis may need to find a new job.

“If you’re a baker and you’re allergic to flour, it’s pretty hard to work,” says Sapijaszko, using a real-life example.

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TORONTO — It could come from the metal on the back of your watch face, or your belt buckle’s tendency to brush against the skin on your stomach. Or it could be the hair dye gooped onto your scalp when you go to have your roots touched up. Or the talc in the latex gloves you pull on at work.

It could even come from sitting on your sofa.

It is contact dermatitis, an irritating, sore and little understood skin problem that is suffered by many and caused by a plethora of different products and exposures.

It looks a bit like localized eczema — a scaly patch of pink or red skin on an arm where a watch would normally sit, or cracked and oozing eruptions on hands. Sometimes you might see swollen ears and a strip of angry red skin along the hairline.

The good news is the condition isn’t life threatening and is generally pretty manageable — after you figure out Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS what is triggering your skin’s reaction.

A patient who has been tested for contact dermatitis by testing with different Getting to the bottom of the problem can sometimes take Dr. House-like types of wood is shown in a handout photo. skills, with a dermatologist doing what lem and dial back the exposure.

For some people, the 10th exposure amounts to a forensic investigation of “If you have a strong soap and you may be the one that triggers the first the various items to which you are ex- wash your hands frequently or your allergic reaction. Or it could be the posed every day to try to figure out if body, you may develop contact irritant 100th or 1,000th. It doesn’t make any the culprit is your laundry detergent, dermatitis to that soap. You’re not alyour body lotion or a chemical you en- lergic to the soap. You just have to use difference. Once you become allergic counter at work. it less or less often and you’ll be fine,” “That’s what’s fun about it,” says Sapijaszko explains.

Dr. Sandy Skotnicki, a Toronto-based Contact allergic dermatitis is trickdermatologist who has a subspecialty ier. in contact dermatitis.

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More common cases involve hairdressers who develop an intolerance to hair dyes, mechanics who start reacting to preservatives in oil or nurses who develop reactions to a component of the gloves they wear at work.

Despite the wide range of causes and the fact that it’s a pretty common condition, contact dermatitis is a sort of under-the-radar ailment.

“It is a condition that is not really known to the general public. Or, for that matter, to most doctors — unless they are dermatologists,” says Dr. Mariusz Sapijaszko, an Edmontonbased dermatologist.

There are actually two types of the condition: contact irritant dermatitis and contact allergic dermatitis. The former is more common.

The names provide clues to the conditions and the differences between them. As it implies, contact means this is an external reaction to something which the skin touches.

It’s in the same ballpark as allergies to foods or things we inhale like pollens or pet dander; it is caused by an immune system response. But the portion of the immune system that kicks into action with contact dermatitis is not identical to the part that delivers the runny nose symptoms of hay fever or the anaphylactic shock induced by a shellfish allergy.

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Egypt cracks down on uprising anniversary LAUNCHES SECURITY CRACKDOWN, CLASHES LEAVE 15 DEAD ranean port city of Alexandria, said the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.

The violence underscored the continued turmoil roiling the Arab world’s most populous nation four years after the 18-day uprising that toppled autocrat Hosni Mubarak. Although small and scattered, Sunday’s violence is likely to impact on Egypt’s image as it prepares to host an international donors’ conference in March and in which President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi’s government has high hopes for the ailing economy.

It also casts a light on the multitude of challenges faced by el-Sissi, who since taking office in June has been struggling to revive the economy, battle an Islamist insurgency and deal with dissent by both Islamists loyal to Mohammed Morsi — the elected president he ousted in 2013 — and the secular and liberal groups behind the 2011 uprising.

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CAIRO — Anti-government protesters fought street battles with police in Cairo and other cities on Sunday, the fourth anniversary of the country’s 2011 uprising, as clashes left at least 15 people dead and dozens injured. Another two people died when an explosive device they were planting under a high-voltage tower in the Nile Delta exploded prematurely, according to security officials.

Most of the deaths took place in Cairo’s eastern Matariyah district — an Islamist stronghold where police used tear gas and birdshots to disperse supporters of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood group armed with firebombs and rocks. At least nine protesters and one police conscript were killed in the clashes there, the officials said.

Two other protesters and two policemen were killed elsewhere in Cairo on Sunday, and one in the Mediter-

downs by el-Sissi’s government, but show no sign of being able to overcome mutual distrust and join forces.

A career army officer, el-Sissi says his priorities are fixing the economy and battling the insurgency. He has resisted growing calls for reform, while influential media loyal to him has begun regularly maligning the 2011 revolution and its activists.

The Health Ministry said 37 people were injured in Sunday’s clashes and the Interior Ministry, which is in charge of police, said that a total of 134 protesters were arrested nationwide.

By early evening, debris covered the site of the Matariyah clashes and a cloud of tear gas hung over the area. Several cars were damaged, including one that was on fire. Another video shot there earlier on the day showed pedestrians and communal taxis caught in the crossfire between the two sides as gunshots rang out. The videos are consistent with Associated Press reporting on the clashes.

Cairo, a city of some 18 million peo-

ple, appeared mostly deserted Sunday, with many residents staying home to avoid being caught up in any turmoil. Police sealed off the city’s main squares, including Tahrir — birthplace of the 2011 uprising — and beefed up security at vital state installations.

In Downtown Cairo, el-Sissi supporters clashed with mostly young critics of the general-turned-politician in pitched street battles. Police later used tear gas and birdshots to disperse the president’s critics, who fled to side streets with riot policemen chasing after them.

The protests and stepped-up security in Cairo and elsewhere came as activists mourned the death of a female protester shot Saturday in downtown Cairo while taking part in a gathering commemorating protesters killed in the 2011 revolt.

Activists blame police for the death of Shaimaa el-Sabagh, a 32-year-old mother of one from Alexandria. The government says it is investigating the incident.

Ukraine says intercepted Boko Haram attacks biggest communications prove city in northeastern Nigeria rebels attacked city

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gei Lavrov, speaking separately with Mogherini and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, told them the Ukrainian government bore responsibility for the latest military escalation, according to statements released by his ministry.

Lavrov did not, however, directly address who had carried out the attack on Mariupol and said that it should be investigated.

Separatist leader Alexander Zakharchenko initially announced that his forces had begun an offensive on the government-controlled city of Mariupol. But after the extent of civilian casualties became known, he backtracked and blamed Ukrainian forces for Saturday’s carnage.

The rocket attack came a day after the rebels rejected a peace deal and announced they were going on a multipronged offensive against the Kyiv government in Kyiv in a bid to seize more territory. The rebel stance has upended European attempts to mediate an end to the fighting in eastern Ukraine that has cost at least 5,100 lives.

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS KIEV, Ukraine — Ukraine’s president said Sunday that intercepted radio and telephone conversations prove that Russia-backed separatists were responsible for firing the rockets that pounded the southeastern city of Mariupol and killed at least 30 people.

The attack on Mariupol, a strategically situated port city that had been relatively quiet for months, alarmed the West and looked likely further to aggravate relations with Russia.

Putting the blame squarely on Moscow, President Barack Obama said the U.S. would work with its European partners to “ratchet up the pressure on Russia.”

European Union foreign affairs chief Federica Mogherini later announced that EU foreign ministers would hold an “extraordinary” meeting in Brussels on Thursday to discuss Ukraine.

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MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — In fierce fighting Sunday that killed more than 200 combatants, Nigerian troops clashed with Islamic extremists who attacked Maiduguri, the biggest city in northeastern Nigeria, from three fronts.

At the same time the insurgents continued scorched-earth attacks on villages some 200 kilometres (125 miles) to the south in Adamawa state, slitting throats of residents, looting and burning homes and abducting dozens of trapped women and children, according to Vandu Kainu and other escaping survivors.

Adamawa state legislator Adamu Kamale appealed for troops to protect civilians in Michika, where six villages are under attack.

The multiple attacks come as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry visited Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital nearly 1,000 miles (more than 1,500 kilometres) southwest of Maiduguri, to encourage peaceful elections on Feb. 14 in Africa’s most populous country.

“This will be the largest democratic election on the continent,” Kerry said.

“Given the stakes, it’s absolutely critical that these elections be conducted peacefully — that they are credible, transparent and accountable.”

Kerry met with President Goodluck Jonathan and his chief rival candidate, former military dictator Muhammadu Buhari. Kerry told reporters afterward that he won pledges from both to refrain from violence.

He also issued a warning: Anyone responsible for inciting post-election mayhem will be barred entry to the United States, where millions of Nigerians live. Kerry promised more U.S. support in the fight against Boko Haram if the elections take place peacefully and democratically.

More than 800 people were killed in northern protests after Buhari, a Muslim northerner, lost 2011 elections to Jonathan, a Christian from the south.

Boko Haram has denounced democracy and wants to make an Islamic state of Nigeria, whose population of about 170 million is divided almost equally between Muslims in the north and Christians in the south.

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Best thing for troubled sister is to look into social services Dear Annie: I have three siblings. on his Dad’s birthday or mine. What The youngest sister, “Jess,” has always do we do? Do we respect his views on had problems. commercialism and not give him gifts?

At 13, she started taking drugs and Do we ignore it and hope he comes running away from home. She spent around? five years in prison, and He and his wife earn when she got out, my older plenty of money and can afsister offered to let Jess live ford it. But that’s beside the with her so she could get a point. It is the effort and job and go to school. caring that is lacking. — Jess was OK for about 18 Wondering months. Then she developed Dear Wondering: It is perback problems and was unfectly logical to stop buying able to work. After several presents for him, saying, disagreements with my sis“We know you don’t support ter, she moved out to live the crass commercialism of with her boyfriend, whom the holiday, so we are reshe later married. It’s been specting your beliefs and downhill from there. not purchasing any gifts for MITCHELL A few nights before you.”

Thanksgiving, Jess knocked Of course, that won’t help & SUGAR on my door with her husthe relationship, which band and their dog. Apparseems a little strained. ently, they are homeless.

This is your stepson, so Dad Neither of them can stick should handle it. to a job on a regular basis. I’m sure Has Dad told him how much it Jess suffers from some type of mental would mean to get a call or card on his illness, and now I think her husband birthday? Some kids simply don’t condoes, too. nect the dots or realize the importance I told Jess she could stay for three of remembering a loved one’s special months and then would have to leave. day. It helps to remind them. Gently.

I hope she can get some assistance Dear Annie: This is in response to to help her get back on her feet. Do you “PO’d in New York,” who said you two have any guidance for me? — Lost and “need a lobotomy” for telling readers Confused that doggie paw prints don’t belong on Dear Lost: It is compassionate of you a sympathy card. to take in your sister and her family, Annie, I have had pets, mostly cats, but she needs more help than you can since I was 6 years old. I have a pet give her. cemetery in my backyard where five of The best thing you can do for Jess is my beloved cats are buried. I have two to look into local social services that pet rescue cats whom I love with all my will help her and her husband with heart. They are a part of my family. But mental health counseling, job training I would never, ever sign their names and housing. or put their paw prints on a sympathy Please contact the National Alli- card. ance on Mental Illness (nami.org), the In fact, I would be terribly upset if U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban De- someone sent me a sympathy card with velopment homeless assistance (hud. their animal’s names and paw prints gov/homeless) and the National Coali- on it. tion for the Homeless (nationalhomeI just had to let you know that not less. org). every animal lover agrees with “PO’d.”

Dear Annie: My 29-year-old stepson — A Cat Lover in Connecticut refuses to give gifts to family members Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy at Christmas.

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Dancing genitals video for children’s show not progressive enough for some Swedes

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS STOCKHOLM — In socially liberal Sweden, an educational video for children featuring dancing genitals has become an online hit — and even drawn criticism for not being progres-

sive enough.

The one-minute animated video by public broadcaster SVT, promoting a television series about the human body, has been seen by more than 4 million YouTube viewers.

Producers say many parents found it a great way to explain about private parts to children, though some called it inappropriate for a program aimed at children aged 3-6.

Programming director Peter Bargee said Thursday the clip also drew “unexpected” criticism from some Swedes, who said portraying the penis with a moustache and the vagina with long eyelashes reinforced gender stereotypes.

Bargee said the video was meant to be fun and not a “statement on gender politics.”

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THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Inspiration will come from acToday is the day to learn to cepting more responsibility compromise. This is the first for your happiness and voice square right in this world. after the New VIRGO (Aug. LARISA MAIRA Moon in Aquar23-Sept. 22): OZOLINS ius. Our ability Your perspective to become more is definitely startconscious of our ing to shift today, interactions truly yet you are still starts now. You will be chal- wondering if it will stick. Trust lenged to make the changes your instincts, be around that you put off around the those you care about and let new start on January 20th. go of the rest. Do something Surround yourself with those new today that your future you love, step into the posi- self will thank you for. Soon, tive. Psychic energy is high, you will be feeling blessed! connect with it!

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If 22): Although today will be today is your birthday, this good and you’ll feel connectyear is about finding the time ed to others, you’ll still sense to pursue those dreams of something eerie and will not yours. Get out there with be able to put your finger on those who share the same what it is. It almost seems aspirations as you and shine. like Deja Vu when you are Learn to include your soul expressing yourself. It’s a urges, your true self, into ev- good day to observe and eryday encounters. It will def- then change things up! initely be a year whereby you SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. will be surrounded by love 21): It is a good day to comand those individuals that promise with family and with you absolutely love. Make those within your home enpositives changes! vironment. If you are noticing ARIES (March 21-April any repeats in discussions 19): Get out and socialize to- or issues, then today is the day. Those interactions will day to do something about be beneficial for you in many it. You will be more in touch ways and you might meet with others’ feelings, so it will someone who you have a help with finding peace. soul connection with. You SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22are highly sensitive to others’ Dec. 21): Notice what confeelings now, so do pause versations you are involved and reflect before you share with today. Do they seem what’s on your mind. familiar to you? By the day’s TAURUS (April 20-May end, you will be feeling more 20): Today is an excellent like yourself, but during the day to compromise with for- day, you will notice that you eign clients or mentors, like are truly picking up on some your boss. Again, Mercury is deep insight. It will be a very retrograde in that house of inspiring day! career and what others see CAPRICORN (Dec. 22you doing in the public. Just Jan. 19): You will be inspired be careful, but allow for some to look at those energies, mishaps now. perhaps with individuals withGEMINI (May 21-June in working relationships. See 20): It is a great day to learn where patterns are reoccurto compromise with others in ring now and finally underyour life. You will be at the stand why. Use your keen peak of over-analyzing ev- insight to break free from erything. So get out there the mould that has held you and socialize with others, talk back. it out! Make those changes, AQUARIUS (Jan. 20challenge yourself to step for- Feb. 18): Today is a very inward and follow your intuition spiring day. You might not and inner voice now! be fully aware that those you CANCER (June 21-July interact with today hold a kar22): You will feel the pull from mic bond with you, but they closer individuals in your life do. There is telepathic comto make some progress to- munication with the angelic wards your true aspirations realms. Listen and take in and dreams now. Perhaps, that knowledge. Psychic enit is simply an outing with ergy is high, trust it! friends that triggers a masPISCES (Feb. 19-March sive realization. You’ll start to 20): After the new start for notice the karma within rela- you letting go of patterns that tionships now. you have that trip you up at LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): times, you will be able to take You will feel challenged by action today towards remov-

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BUSY MEDICAL OFFICE requires a Prescreening Technician. Experience not necessary, job training is provided but qualifications will be considered. Starting wages $14/hr. Please fax resume to 403-342-2024.

F/T & P/T Pharmacist and Pharmacy Technician positions req’d.

Apply w/resume to: Highland Green Value Drug Mart, Red Deer Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much!

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Full Time Cleaners required for day’s at Nova Joffre Site.

ST $15.00 Per Hr. Must be able to pass drug & alcohol testing & fit test.

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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 FULL-TIME IN-HOME caregiver for employer ejabagat at 36 Jamieson Ave., Red Deer for four children: newborn, 20 mo. old, 3 yrs. old and 9 years old. Duties; bathe, dress, feed and meal prep. and some light housekeeping. $10.20/hour; 44 hours per wk, benefits pkg. Compl. of high school, and 1 to 2 yrs. exp.

Call (403) 986-4154 or e-mail jabagate@yahoo.com FULL-TIME in-home caregiver for two children, aged 4 months and 3 years, $10.20/hr., 44 hrs./wk., room and board provided, must have at least one year exp. Duties: bathe, dress, feed, meal prep., and light housekeeping duties. e-mail resume to: xyrilq@yahoo.com

But still the empty chair Reminds us of the face, the smile, Of one who once sat there.

Miss you lots.

Justin and family, Kristine and family, and the dogs.

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

JUNIOR OIL AND GAS OPERATOR in our Stettler Field.

Applicants need to be mechanically inclined, motivated to work hard and learn quickly.

Associated industry experience eg. instrumentation or facilities construction experience would be an asset but is not necessarily required.

This position offers a diverse and challenging work environment with competitive pay, attractive benefits and the ability to grow within the organization. Applicants must live or be willing to relocate to within a 20 minute commute of the work place location (Stettler).

Please Submit Resume’s Attention Human Resources Email: payroll@ bearspawpet.com Fax: (403) 258-3197 Mail: Suite 5309, 333 96th Ave NE Calgary, Alberta T3R 1H1

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must have all necessary valid tickets for the position being applied for.

Bearspaw offers a very competitive salary and benefits package along with a steady work schedule.

Please submit resumes: Attn: Human Resources Email: payroll@bearspawpet.com Fax: (403) 252-9719 or Mail to: Suite 5309, 333-96 Ave. NE Calgary, AB T3K 0S3

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Town of Trochu, Director of Operations: this is a working supervisory position and reports to the CAO. RESPONSIBILITIES include the management and supervision of public works, water treatment/ distribution, waste water collection/ treatment, solid waste collection and recreation facilities.

QUALIFICATIONS: Minimum grade twelve, valid Class 3 Alberta Motor Vehicle Operators License, 3 years’ experience related supervisory role, well -developed record keeping, reporting and planning skills. Level I Water and Wastewater certificates are an asset.

Combination experience/education may be considered. Submit resume, including references and salary expectations. secretary@ town.trochu.ab.ca (403) 442-3085. More detailed job description at: www.town.trochu.ab.ca

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Daily the Advocate publishes advertisements from companies, corporations and associations from across Canada seeking personnel for long term placements.

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CENTRAL AB based 2 yrs. relevant exp., trucking company requires completion of High Owner Operators School, be reliable, self motivated, work & Contract Drivers well under limited in AB. Home the odd night. supervision in fast Weekends off. Late model tractor pref. 403-586-4558 paced environment.

THE RUSTY PELICAN is now accepting resumes for WELL EXPERIENCED

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LUCKY’S LOUNGE located in Jackpot Casino, requires Waitress’s Fri. - Sun. Please apply in person at 4950 47 Ave. No phone calls please RAMADA INN & SUITES req’s.

ROOM ATTENDANTS. Exp. preferred. Also BREAKFAST ROOM ATTENDANTS, early morning shifts, flexibility req’d. Only serious inquiries apply.

Drop off resume at: 6853 - 66 St. Red Deer or fax 403-342-4433 Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY

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Salary is $14 - $18./hr. 40 hr. wk. dependant on exp.

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SMALL RURAL MEAT SHOP in central AB looking for F/T meat cutter. 8-5, no weekends.

Knowledge of cutting hanging carcasses needed. Rental house avail. within walking distance of meat shop at a very reasonable rate with paid utils. 403-843-4383 jkcmeats@hotmail.ca

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PARTS PERSON required for rapidly expanding HD Parts Supply Store. Must be able to work unsupervised in a fast paced environment. Have experience in the heavy truck/trailer industry. Must possess strong customer service skills.

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

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

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Must hold a current ACADEMIC Express ProServe Certificate and ADULT EDUCATION be fully exp. in wine AND TRAINING service. Professional appearance is a definite SPRING START requirement.

Must have Ref’s & Exp. • • GED Preparation Apply within: 2079-50 Ave. 2-4 pm. Mon.-Fri. • Fax 403-347-1161 Phone • Women in the Trades calls WILL NOT be Program accepted. Only candidates • selected for an interview • Math and Science for will be contact. the Trades Program

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Mature professional familiar with maitre d’ capabilities. Would be an asset to have a current ProServe Certificate and familiar with wine service.

Professional appearance is a definite requirement.

Must have Ref’s & Exp. Apply within: 2079-50 Ave. 2-4 pm. Mon.-Fri. Fax 403-347-1161 Phone calls WILL NOT be accepted. Only candidates selected for an interview will be contact.

SERVICE RIG Locally based, home every night! Qualified applicants

THE RUSTY PELICAN is now accepting resumes for 4 F/T Exp’d LINE COOKS at all stations. MUST HAVE:

F/T Permanent Truck Driver Required for Rocky Fast Express (1790810 AB Ltd.) in Red Deer, AB 733644 Ab Ltd. Straight truck: 4600kg+w/2 O/A The Rusty Pelican axles and van Need class 5 DL + 2 yrs Location of employment: exp. $25 per hr/ with 4105 2079 - 50 Ave. OPEN availability Red Deer, AB T4R 1Z4 Duties: pick up/deliver email: freight, pre-trip truck bennett2014.bkkp@ inspection, communication gmail.com with customers. Physically or Call 403-347-1414 demanding position. Time or Fax to: 403-347-1161 management skills Only candidates selected required. Apply at: 8004 for an interview will be Edgar Industrial Green, contacted.

Red Deer, T4P3S2 THE RUSTY PELICAN is Call: 403.845.2230 Fax: 587.997.7719 now accepting resumes for Exp. Bartenders, F/T TRUCK drivers req’d.

Full knowledge of all Minimum Class 5 with air cocktails, inventory control, and clean abstract. Exp. must be of professional preferred. In person to Key nature and be capable of Towing 4083-78 St. Cres. working all shifts.

Red Deer.

Apply within: 2079-50 HALLCON is seeking Ave. 2-4 pm. Mon.- Fri. qualified drivers to Fax 403-347-1161 Phone transport rail crews calls WILL NOT be accepted. Only candidates throughout Red Deer area.

Drivers are ideally based selected for interview will out of RED DEER. No be contacted. overnight stays required.

THE RUSTY PELICAN is This position is an on call now accepting resumes for position. Employees are responsible for taking F/T DISHWASHER trips during the period Must maintain work they have designated station to sanitary measures and be capable themselves available to do so. Transportation is done of working all shifts. in Hallcon company Apply within: 2079-50 vehicles. Vehicles are Ave. 2-4 pm. Mon.-Fri. extensively & consistently Fax 403-347-1161 Phone maintained ensuring calls WILL NOT be optimal safety for drivers accepted. Only Candidates and clients. Drivers must selected for interview will possess valid Class 1, 2, be contacted. or 4 license, with clean driver abstract. Assisted licensing upgrade to Sales & achieve a class 4 is Distributors available. Pay is based at a rate of $16.00. Earning FREE JEWELLERY potential is based on Searching for energetic your availability, as our and dedicated sales operation runs on a 24/7 professionals looking for a on call basis. Both full time career that offers fun, and part time employees challenges and generous are welcome. Semirewards. Jewellery retired, retired, full time, experience is an asset. part time employees are There is management welcome. Forward potential. Please apply in resumes & current driver store Monday-Friday until abstract: Shane Flack 5:0 0 PM or email asmabnorth@gmail.com. info@clowesjewellers.com

Bearspaw Petroleum Ltd is seeking a FLOORHAND

(formerly Sam’s Cafe) is now taking applications for Full Time/Part time COOK, Bring resume to 7101 Gaetz Ave. Red Deer between 2-4 pm.

TANKMASTER RENTALS req’s Exp’d Class 1 Fluid Haulers for Central Alberta. Oilfield tickets req’d. Competitive salary and job bonuses. Resume to terry@tankmaster.ca or fax 403-340-8818

EAST SIDE MARIO’S HIRING FOR ALL POSITIONS Full Time & Part Time.

Apply after 2 p.m. Ask for the manager on duty.

Have current Safety JJAM Management (1987) certificates including H2S Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s Be prepared to work in Requires to work at these remote locations for Red Deer, AB locations: extended periods of time 5111 22 St. Must be physically fit 37444 HWY 2 S Competitive wages, benefits 37543 HWY 2N and RRSP offered 700 3020 22 St. Please email resume with FOOD ATTENDANT current driver’s abstract to: Req’d permanent shift jbecker@colterenergy.ca weekend day and evening both full and part time.

LOCAL SERVICE CO. 16 Vacancies, $10.25/hr. + in Red Deer REQ’S EXP. benefits. Start ASAP. VACUUM TRUCK Job description OPERATOR www.timhortons.com Must have Class 3 licence Education and experience w/air & all oilfield tickets. not req’d.

Fax resume w/drivers Apply in person or fax abstract to 403-886-4475 resume to: 403-314-1303

Professionals

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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

Farm Work

A silent thought, a secret tear, Keeps his memory ever dear.

Time takes away the edge of grief, But memory turns back every leaf.

Lovingly remembered, Donna _______________________

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COLTER ENERGY LP IS NOW HIRING

We are seeking highly motivated, energetic, dedicated, friendly applicants to join our team.

Please submit resume to • Shallyn at Impact, 4939B-51 Street, Rocky • Mountain House, Email:sanda23@telus.net or phone 403-845-0664 • •

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

403-505-7846

TERNES Terry Joseph April 6, 1945 - Jan. 26, 2014

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CROZMAN Leonard Aug. 5, 1930 - Jan. 16, 2015 Leonard Crozman of Red Deer passed away peacefully in his sleep at the Red Deer Regional Hospital on Friday, January 16, 2015 at the age of 84 years. Leonard was born in Moncton, New Brunswick on August 5, 1930. He was predeceased by his wife, Lorraine.

Leonard is survived by his children; Ronald, Colleen, and Thomas (Penny), grandchildren; Mackenzie, Triskan, Keenan, and Bridget, who will always keep him in their hearts. Len was a longtime member of the Foresters and Moose Lodge, and enjoyed volunteering for the many groups at The Red Deer Bingo Centre. A Memorial Tea will be held at the Moose Lodge, Red Deer, AB, on Thursday, January 29, 2015 at 1:00 p.m. Memorial donations in Leonard’s honor may be made directly to the Red Deer Food Bank, 7429 49 Avenue, Red Deer, AB, T4P 1N2 or to the Red Deer Regional Health Foundation, 3942 50A Avenue, Red Deer, AB, T4N 4E7. Special thank you to the staff on Unit 33.

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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VINTAGE wedding dress, XS (size 4), ivory embossed, satin brocade, $200. 403-227-2976

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DREAM CAST with 4 games, $80; WII with games, $100; and CD stand, $20. 403-782-3847

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TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, office, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.

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GREENHOUSE WORKER Firewood wanted at Meadowbrook Greenhouses, Penhold.

AFFORDABLE 3 Full Time Seasonal Homestead Firewood Positions. No Exp, training Spruce & Pine -Split. Firepits provided. Starting Feb avail. 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472 2015. $10.20/hr, 44 hrs, 5 days per week, 3 month FIREWOOD, Spruce & Pine. North of Costco period. Fax resume to 403-346-7178, 392-7754 403-886-2252.

Sunterra Meats in Trochu, 45 minutes South East of Red Deer is looking for enthusiastic, hard working individuals to join their team at their processing plant. Experience in the meat industry a definite asset. Training provided.

Starting wage $14.00 per hour, increases based on skill and experience.

Benefit package, travel allowance and a signing bonus. For more information, contact Trish at 403-442-4202 or trish.hyshka@sunterra.ca

LOGS Semi loads of pine, spruce, tamarack, poplar.

Price depends on location.

Lil Mule Logging 403-318-4346 Now Offering Hotter, Cleaner BC Birch. All Types. P.U. / Delivery. Lyle 403-783-2275

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NIGHT Tables, (2) Oak, 1 drawer & 2 doors with glass top to protect from scratches. $70 ea.

403-352-8811

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Plant Laborer for our Kuusamo facility.

The plant is located 4-5 kilometers west of Sylvan Lake on Hwy 11.

This is an entry level position working mainly outdoors that can lead into the Plant Operator positions. Duties will include assistance of Plant Operators in the transfer of chemicals, movement of product within the plant, truck and rail car loading/unloading, and chemical blending as well as housekeeping and light maintenance. We are looking for hard working, flexible, safety conscious people with equipment experience, some basic mechanical abilities, driver’s license, and own transportation. We offer an excellent benefits plan and a company matching RRSP savings plan.

Please forward your resume via email to the address attached. Please have ‘Plant Laborer’ in the subject line. Drug and alcohol policy in effect and pre-employee testing.

Inquiries regarding careers with CFR should be directed to hr@cfrchemicals.com Fax: 346-2299

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403-352-8811 TWO blankets, electric kettle, 2 Corningware casserole dishes, small picture, $20. 403-342-4898

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BRADFORD exchange plate, 1995, limited edition, winter solstice, plate no.

3140B, comes with certificate of authenticity, beautifully framed, $40.

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BOWER 1/2 DUPLEX, Feb 1. 403-347-0163 Looking for a new pet?

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MOUNTVIEW 3 bdrm. house, main floor, 5 appls., fenced yard, large deck, rent $1500 incl. all utils. $900 s.d. Avail. now or Feb 1. 403-304-5337 Central Alberta’s Largest Car Lot in Classifieds

Older 2 bedroom 1 bath home 5820-60A St. $995.00 month plus utilities- to view email steelpper@hotmail.com Tired of Standing?

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GLENDALE reno’d 2 bdrm. apartments, avail. immed, ~ Kitson Close rent $875 403-596-6000 ~ Kyte & Kelloway Cres.

LARGE, 1 & 2 BDRM. ~ Holmes St. SUITES. 25+, adults only S.D. $1000 n/s, no pets 403-346-7111 Rent $1195 to $1395 3 bdrm. townhouses, Classifieds...costs so little 1.5 bath, 4 & 5 appls., blinds, Saves you so much! lrg. balconies, no dogs.

N/S, no utils. incl.

Avail. immed. & Feb. 1 References required.

SOUTHWOOD PARK 3110-47TH Avenue, 2 & 3 bdrm. townhouses, generously sized, 1 1/2 baths, fenced yards, full bsmts. 403-347-7473, Sorry no pets. www.greatapartments.ca

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3 BDRM. 4 appls. no pets. $1100/mo. 403-343-6609

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2 BDRM. N/S, no pets. $850 rent/d.d.

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MORRISROE AREA:

Adult Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the RED DEER ADVOCATE With only 64 papers, approximately: $350.00/mo.

CARRIERS REQUIRED To deliver the CENTRAL AB LIFE 1 day a week in: INNISFAIL Penhold Olds Sylvan Lake Please call Debbie for details 403-314-4307

NOW RENTING 1 & 2 BDRM. APT’S. 2936 50th AVE. Red Deer Newer bldg. secure entry w/onsite manager, 5 appls., incl. heat & hot water, washer/dryer hookup, infloor heating, a/c., car plug ins & balconies.

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DO YOU: - Want extra income - Know the city well - Possess a clean, valid drivers license - Have a friendly attitude - Enjoy customer service - Want part-time work (12 to 22 hrs/week) As part of our service team, you will be dispatched in response to service concerns to deliver newspapers and flyers to customers or carriers.

A delivery vehicle provided by company!

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Japan stunned by new Islamic State video PURPORTEDLY SHOWS ONE OF TWO ISLAMIC STATE HOSTAGES HAS BEEN KILLED

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TOKYO — From the prime minister to ordinary people, Japanese were shocked Sunday at a video purportedly showing one of two Japanese hostages of the extremist Islamic State group had been killed.

With attention focused on efforts to save the other hostage, some also criticized Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s drive for a more assertive Japan as responsible for the hostage crisis.

A sombre Abe appeared on public broadcaster NHK early Sunday demanding the militants release 47-year-old journalist Kenji Goto unharmed.

He said the video was likely authentic, although he added that the government was still reviewing it. He offered condolences to the family and friends of Haruna Yukawa, a 42-year-old adventurer taken hostage in Syria last year.

Abe declined to comment on the message in the video, which demanded a prisoner exchange for Goto.

He said only that the government was still working on the situation and reiterated that Japan condemns terrorism.

“I am left speechless,” he said. “We strongly and totally criticize such acts.”

Yukawa’s father, Shoichi, told reporters he hoped “deep in his heart” that the news of his son’s killing was not true.

“If I am ever reunited with him, I just want to give him a big hug,” he said.

President Barack Obama condemned what he called “the brutal murder” of Yukawa and offered condolences to Abe. Obama’s statement didn’t say how the U.S. knew Yukawa was dead.

“The U.S. intelligence community has no reason to doubt

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An anti-Prime Minister Shinzo Abe protester attends a rally with a sign in front of Abe’s official residence in Tokyo Sunday. From prime minister to ordinary people, Japanese responded with shock Sunday at a video purportedly showing one of two Japanese hostages of the extremist Islamic State group had been killed. With national attention focusing on efforts to save the other hostage, 47-year-old journalist Kenji Goto, some also criticized Abe’s drive for a more assertive Japan as responsible for the hostage crisis. the authenticity of the video,” said Brian Hale, spokesman for the U.S. director of national intelligence.

On a visit to India, Obama said the United States will stand “shoulder to shoulder” with Japan and called for the immediate release of Goto.

French President Francois Hollande also said condemned the killing and praised Japan’s “determined engagement in the fight against international terrorism.”

The United Nations Security Council issued a statement that “deplored the apparent

murder” of Yukawa, declaring that the Islamic State group “must be defeated and that the intolerance, violence and hatred it espouses must be stamped out.”

The Associated Press could not verify the contents of the video message, which was removed from websites soon after it appeared and varied greatly from previous videos released by the Islamic State group, which now holds a third of both Syria and Iraq.

Criticism of Abe has touched on his push for an expanded role for Japan’s troops

— one that has remained strictly confined to self-defence under the pacifist constitution written after the nation’s defeat in World War II. About 100 protesters, some of them holding placards that read, “I’m Kenji” and “Free Goto,” demonstrated late Sunday in front of the prime minister’s residence, demanding Abe save Goto.

Demonstrator Kenji Kunitomi, 66, blamed Abe as bringing the hostage crisis on himself.

“This happened when Prime Minister Abe was visiting Israel,” he said. “I think

there’s a side to this, where they may have taken it as a form of provocation, possibly a big one.”

While in the Middle East, Abe announced $200 million in humanitarian aid to the nations fighting the militants.

The Islamic State group addressed Abe and demanded the same amount of money as ransom for the two hostages.

Jun Hori, an independent journalist, bemoaned Abe’s directly mentioning the Islamic State in announcing the aid.

Reflecting widely held sentiments here, Hori believes Japan, restricted by its constitution, has held a slightly different position from the U.S. and Europe on the Middle East, and had up to now fared better at avoiding Western-style terrorist attacks.

“Japan has its own path of peaceful diplomacy that it should take,” Hori said.

Goto’s mother, Junko Ishido, was skeptical about the voice on the video claiming to be her son’s.

“I’m petrified,” Ishido told NHK. “He has children. I’m praying he will return soon, and that’s all I want.”

Yukawa was captured last summer, and Goto is thought to have been seized in late October after going to Syria to try to rescue Yukawa.

Kent Calder, director of the Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies at SAIS/Johns Hopkins University in Washington, said the “communalistic” and conformist aspects of Japanese society makes events like the hostage crisis particularly emotionally disturbing for its people.

“That trauma is compounded by the fact that I don’t think most Japanese saw this coming,” he said in an email.

“Many will realize out of this that they too are a part of global society, rather than an isolated island nation.”

Obama says U.S. Radical Greek party wins election, continues to pursue threatening renewed market turmoil terrorists inside Yemen despite political vacuum

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW DELHI — President Barack Obama defended his counterterrorism strategy in tumultuous Yemen Sunday, saying efforts to root out a dangerous al-Qaida affiliate there would not be affected by the political vacuum in the country.

The U.S. campaign against al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula is heavily dependent on using drone strikes to take out terror targets. Obama has held up that approach as a model for the military mission against the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria, which relies on airstrikes instead of U.S. ground troops.

Obama, who is travelling in India, said that approach “is not neat and it is not simple, but it is the best option we have.”

“The alternative would be massive U.S. deployments in perpetuity, which would create its own blowback and cause probably more problems than it would potentially solve,” Obama said during a joint media appearance with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

The president said that while he was concerned about the fragility of Yemen’s central government following the resignation last week of the U.S.-backed president and Cabinet, the country “has never been a perfect democracy or an island of stability.”

The instability in Yemen has raised concerns among some lawmakers about Obama’s broader anti-terror strategy. Republican Sen. John

McCain and Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein told CBS’ “Face the Nation” that more special operations forces may be need in countries battling extremists.

McCain, the new chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, accused the administration of being “delusional” in thinking that its strategy in the Middle East was working and said Iran was “on the march.” The Shiite rebels, known as Houthis, who now control Yemen’s capital of Sanaa are widely believed to be backed by Iran, though they deny having any support from the Islamic republic.

“We need more boots on the ground,” said McCain, R-Ariz.

“I know that’s a tough thing to say, and a tough thing for Americans to swallow. But it doesn’t mean the 82nd Airborne. It means forward air controllers. It means special forces, it means intelligence, and it means other capabilities.”

Feinstein, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said she agreed that more special operations forces are necessary. She also said the U.S. needs more human intelligence in the region instead of relying so heavily on intelligence gathered by technical means.

The California Democrat said that while Americans “don’t want another war,” she believes it is time “to look more deeply and broadly into what we’re doing and how we’re going it.” She said the U.S. must also do more to protect U.S. partners in the region, including Israel, Jordan and Saudi Arabia.

ATHENS, Greece — A radical left-wing party vowing to end Greece’s painful austerity program won a historic victory in Sunday’s parliamentary elections, setting the stage for a showdown with the country’s international creditors that could shake the eurozone.

Alexis Tsipras, leader of the communist-rooted Syriza party, immediately promised to end the “five years of humiliation and pain” that Greece has endured since an international bailout saved it from bankruptcy in 2010.

With 80 per cent of polling stations counted, Syriza had 36 per cent versus 28 per cent for Prime Minister Antonis Samaras’ conservatives.

It remained to be seen whether Syriza had enough seats to govern outright or would have to seek support from other parties. That might not become clear until Monday morning or even later, when all the votes are counted.

If Tsipras, 40, can put together a government, he will be Greece’s youngest prime minister in 150 years.

The prospect of an antibailout government coming to power in Greece has sent jitters through the financial world, reviving fears of a Greek bankruptcy that could reverberate across the eurozone.

“The sovereign Greek people today have given a clear, strong, indisputable mandate.

Greece has turned a page.

Greece is leaving behind the destructive austerity, fear and authoritarianism. It is leaving behind five years of humiliation and pain,” Tsipras told a crowd of rapturous flag-waving supporters.

He won on promises to demand debt forgiveness and renegotiate the terms of Greece’s 240 billion-euro ($270 billion) bailout, which has kept the debt-ridden country afloat since mid-2010.

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Leader of Syriza left-wing party Alexis Tsipras speaks to his supporters outside Athens University Headquarters in Athens, Sunday. Anti-bailout Syriza, led by the 40-year-old Alexis Tsipras, won Sunday’s snap general election, but it was unclear whether he would have enough seats in parliament to form a government alone, or whether he would need the support of a smaller party.

To qualify for the cash, Greece has had to impose deep and bitterly resented cuts in public spending, wages and pensions, along with public sector layoffs and repeated tax increases.

Its progress in reforms is reviewed by inspectors from the International Monetary Fund, European Commission and European Central Bank, collectively known as the troika, before each installment of bailout funds can be released.

Tsipras pronounced the troika and its regular debt inspections “a thing of the past.”

“The verdict of the Greek people ends, beyond any doubt, the vicious circle of austerity in our country,” he said.

Greece’s creditors insist the country must abide by previous commitments to continue receiving support.

The election results will

be the main topic at Monday’s meeting of eurozone finance ministers. Belgium’s minister, Johan Van Overtveldt, said there is room for some flexibility, but not much.

“We can talk modalities, we can talk debt restructuring, but the cornerstone that Greece must respect the rules of monetary union — that must stay as it is,” Van Overtveldt told VRT network.

Samaras conceded defeat, saying he had received a country “on the brink of disaster” when he took over in 2012 and was close to ushering it out of the crisis.

“I was asked to hold live coals in my hands and I did,” he said.

“Most gave us no prospect of lasting out and we did. We got the country out of deficits and recession ... and set the foundations for growth and a final exit from the crisis.”

Rocky Mountain National Park celebrates 100th anniversary

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK, Colo. — Rocky Mountain National Park has had its ups and downs during the past century. In the 1940s, gas rationing cut attendance, and the park is still trying to recover from devastating floods in 2013.

On Monday, the park marks its 100th anniversary, celebrating a record number of visitors

last year who were enjoying one of the nation’s crown jewels.

For Colorado historian Tom Noel, Rocky Mountain National Park is the state’s best brand.

“It epitomizes the image of Colorado,” Noel said. “Mountains are everywhere, from our license plates to our publicrelations materials.”

Park attractions include many miles of hiking trails, and the 14,260-foot

(4.346-meter)-high Longs Peak challenges even the best climbers year-round, sometimes requiring helicopter rescues.

Not everyone was in favour of the park. Local citizens like Freelan Oscar Stanley, who opened the legendary Stanley Hotel in 1909, were pitted against powerful proponents of timber, mining, hunting and grazing.

A six-year fight required six bills presented to Congress

and five revisions of those bills, the Denver Post reported Sunday.

The leader of the successful campaign was Enos Mills, a writer and nature guide, who moved to Colorado because of its clear air that helped him cope with health problems.

In 1889, Mills travelled to California to see the Pacific Ocean, and on a beach in San Francisco, he ran into the famous naturalist John Muir, who later became a role model

and encouraged Mills to follow his dream of creating Rocky Mountain National Park.

Excitement accelerated in 1907, when Stanley brought his famous Stanley Steamers to town. They met travellers at the train station in Loveland and whisked them up to Estes Park much faster than the laborious stagecoach journey up Big Thompson Canyon.

The park was finally established on Jan. 26, 1915, by President Woodrow Wilson.

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In this image released by Warner Bros. Pictures, Kyle Gallner, left, and Bradley Cooper appear in a scene from American Sniper. The film is based on the autobiography by Chris Kyle.

American Sniper hits the mark at box office BEATS OUT BOY NEXT DOOR, MORTDECAI

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES — American Sniper hit the mark with moviegoers again.

The military drama starring Bradley Cooper as Navy SEAL marksman Chris Kyle topped the box office for a second weekend in a row with $64.4 million in first place, according to studio estimates Sunday.

American Sniper is up for six Academy Awards, including best picture and best actor for Cooper.

The total haul for the Warner Bros. film now stands at $200.1 million.

“We’ve never quite seen anything like this at this time of year,” said Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst at box-office tracker Rentrak.

“American Sniper is helping to propel the box office, which is already 9.3 per cent ahead of the same time last year.”

The film, directed by Clint Eastwood, already broke box-office records when it expanded to wide release last weekend, easily surpassing Avatar to

become the biggest January opening for a movie and immediately becoming the top grosser among best-picture Oscar nominees.

In a distant second place, the saucy Universal thriller The Boy Next Door featuring Jennifer Lopez as a teacher who engages in an affair with a younger man played by Ryan Guzman, debuted with $15 million.

The weekend’s other major new releases weren’t even in the neighbourhood of The Boy Next Door.

The animated fantasy Strange Magic from Luscasfilm and Disney flopped in seventh place with $5.5 million.

Lionsgate’s Johnny Depp dud Mortdecai tanked in ninth place with $4.1 million.

The eccentric heist comedy, which also stars Gwyneth Paltrow, marks another box-office bomb for Depp, following the leading man’s disappointing Transcendence, The Lone Ranger, Dark Shadows and The Rum Diary.

“I think he chooses projects that appeal to him,” Dergarabedian said. “I’ve always appreciated Johnny Depp for

marching to the beat of his own drum, but he still needs to get audiences in the door.

Sometimes, if you go too far afield, that’s reflected in the numbers.”

Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theatres, according to Rentrak.

Where available, the latest international numbers are also included.

Final domestic figures will be released Monday.

1. American Sniper, $64.4 million.

2. The Boy Next Door, $15 million.

3. Paddington, $12.4 million.

4. The Wedding Ringer, $11.6 million.

5. Taken 3, $7.6 million.

6. The Imitation Game, $7.1 million.

7. Strange Magic, $5.5 million.

8. Selma, $5.5 million.

9. Mortdecai, $4.1 million.

10. Into the Woods, $3.9 million.

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The conversation continues as they join a reporter at HBO to publicize their first TV series, Togetherness, whose third of eight episodes runs Sunday at 9:30 p.m.

EST. Togetherness is well worth catching up with. Funny, painful and (for a certain demo) all too relatable, it exudes the singular voice of this hydra-headed duo whose many hats include writing, producing, directing and, in Mark’s case, headlining.

He plays Brett, a sound engineer and family man who has hit a wall in both his career and marriage. His wife, Michelle (played

by Melanie Lynskey), feels impris-

oned as a stay-at-home mom. Adding to the ferment is her sister Tina (Amanda Peet), a wayward hottie who lands in their Los Angeles home after splitting from Houston. Rounding out this domestic quartet is Mark’s best friend, Alex (Steve Zissis), an out-of-work actor seeking refuge on the couple’s couch.

“The more messed up we made them, the more it gave us to love, and root for, in them,” says Mark.

“They are trying very hard to be good people, spouses and parents, and to support each other — but then they feel like, ’I need to get the (heck) out of here! I need some space!’ That’s how Jay and I sometimes perceive our lives.”

The Duplass brothers grew up in New Orleans and, from childhood, made films.

Early on, they were bewitched

by John Cassavetes and his brooding cinema-verite style, says Mark, “but we also loved Dumb and Dumber. We see the seriousness and gravity in things. But we also

giggle. That combination of the sad and the funny is what we do.”

After struggling through their 20s, they scored in 2005 with “The Puffy Chair,” which they jointly wrote, directed and produced, with Mark as its protagonist. It was followed by such films as Cyrus, starring John C. Reilly, Jonah Hill and Marisa Tomei, and Jeff Who Lives at Home, starring Jason Segel and Ed Helms.

Then this fraternal order (Mark now is 38, Jay is 41) took on middle-age angst.

“By then, each of us was married with two small kids,” says Jay, “and everyone was like, ’You have it all: a beautiful family, a career, a wonderful house.’ But in our minds was, ’I’m sleep-deprived. I don’t have two seconds to myself. My life is dominated by a tiny little being that wakes up every two hours.”’

“All we wanted,” Mark says, “was to be sleeping on someone’s couch, then wake up and binge on Netflix.”

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Did a member of the precinct kill a murder witness before the questioning could happen? Gordon (Ben McKenzie) suspects so, prompting him to go to an old friend for help, in the new episode “Welcome Back, Jim Gordon.” Fish Mooney (Jada Pinkett Smith) isn’t happy when Oswald Cobblepot (Robin Lord Taylor) gets his hands on a possession she treasures. Morena Baccarin (“Homeland”) and Carol Kane continue their guest roles.

6 p.m. on WDIV; 9 p.m. on KHQ

The Celebrity Apprentice New York’s famed Circle Line of boat tours gives the contestants their initial challenge in the new episode “It’s Like a Booze Cruise With Knowledge.” They have to devise an original tour of the Big Apple, and there’s plenty of intrigue since one project manager is an apparent target of teammates. Then, an empty stage has to be made into a lavish showcase for many of the features of the Trump (yes, as in “Donald Trump”) National Doral Miami Resort.

7 p.m. on WUHF; 10 p.m. on CITV, KAYU, GBL, GBLBC

Sleepy Hollow Some people don’t have the best memories of their babysitters — and that includes Nick Hawley (guest star Matt Barr), who has to relive them in the new episode “Kali Yuga.” The woman who minded him was particularly sinister, and Ichabod, Abbie and Jenny (Tom Mison, Nicole Beharie, Lyndie Greenwood) support him as he faces her down. Captain Irving (Orlando Jones) tries to get used to his new condition. Katia Winter and John Noble also star.

7 p.m. on WWJ, CITY; 10 p.m. on CKEM, KREM

Scorpion The members of the team don’t like seeing similar skills used for criminal purposes, so they have a strong reaction when one of several escaped cons is a hacker in “Father’s Day.” The person in question was forced to help the others commit a billion-dollar theft online. Paige (Katharine McPhee) is concerned about Ralph’s (Riley B. Smith) feelings when his father suddenly reappears. Guest stars include Keith David (“Enlisted”).

8 p.m. on CBXT, CBRT

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Strange Empire As Slotter (Aaron Poole) hires his own private army of militia men to secure his power in Janestown, a determined Kat (Cara Gee) searches for weapons for her side to use and makes a plan to take back the camp in a new episode called “End Days.”

Melissa Farman and Tattiawna Jones also star.

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Don’t expect to find Meryl Streep or Anne Hathaway among the guest stars, but the new episode “The Devil Wears Whalebone” find the dapper Detective Murdoch (Yannick Bisson) discovering that the fashion world can be, quite literally, murder, after a model is killed during a protest at a designer corset show. Kari Matchett (“Covert Affairs”) guest stars.

9 p.m. on CBXT, CBRT

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